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Your Child • Their Journey • Our FocusVol. 35 Issue No. 7 • 20th October 2017

TUESDAY 31st October4.30pm Theatre Trip to see Matilda

MONDAY 6th November

9.00am

Year 8 & Year 6 Examinations Week (Mon, Tue, Thur)Pre-Prep and Year 3 Drama Workshops

TUESDAY 7th November5.00pm Years 3 & 4 Parents’ Evenings

WEDNESDAY 8th November9.00am9.00am

FYMS Bags to School CollectionYear 8 Trial French Speaking Exams (boys)

THURSDAY 9th November9.20am

5.00pm

Year 8 Trial French Speaking Exams (girls)Years 3 & 4 Parents’ Evening

FRIDAY 10th November10.45am Remembrance Assembly

Half Term Is Here!

Millie wins National Silver Rosette

After School Clubs for the week after half term

Diary During and After Half Term

We wish all our pupils, staff and parents a very restful half term. We look forward to seeing everyone refreshed on Monday 6th November.

All after school clubs and coaches are running as usual except:

Tuesday: Basketball (due to basketball match), Open Chess (due to chess match) NB Chess Masterclass (5.30pm - 7.00pm will run as usual)

Friday: Open Chess (due to chess match)

Can Children Learn Without Thinking? Robert Upton’s latest blog can be found on the School website. The following is a taster:

Thinking. Have you ever stopped and thought what thinking is? It is the capacity to reflect, reason and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge and insights. It is what makes us human and has enabled us to communicate, create, build, advance and become civilized. It encompasses so much of a child’s daily activities, such as observing, remembering, questioning, judging, innovating, arguing, deciding and acting.

To read the rest of this article and the Headmaster’s other blog posts visit the website.

House Song Competition

Millie Day and her pony Casper rode as part of the England Schools Show Jumping Team in the NSEA School Show Jumping Nations Cup Competition at Addington Manor. Millie and Capser got a fantastic fast clear round to help the England Schools team take second place, just one second behind the winners Scotland! Well done Millie and Casper.

The half term finished in style with an excellent House Song competition. The theme of the competition was ‘weather’ and the event started with each house presenting an instrumental ensemble group. Afterwards the massed voices of the children from Years 3 to 8 in each house sang a rousing song conducted by a member of the house. Each of the houses sang really well and the children clearly thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The final result was a tie between Kingsley and Fyson. A huge thank you to Kevin Cluett for compereing the event and to our Assistant Bursar, Clare Garner, who as judge gave excellent feedback for the children. It was lovely to see such great team spirit within the houses.

Headmaster’s Commendations

House Points and Bonuses

Bonus Point Winner: Kingsley House Point Winner: FysonOverall Winner: Kingsley

Reception Stars of the Week

For being a super star with ‘big numbers’ when weighing the ingredients for our apple crumble: Ethan Roberts

For always being so polite and well mannered: Madiba Elhaggagi

For learning lots of new sounds in phonics this half term: Bertie Taylor

Pre-Prep Awards

Excellent Progress in Sport: Bethany Bell, Sarah Aizawa, Ella MacDougall, Maddy Gough, Sam Graham, Oliver Rowan, Charlie Ellis, Cameron Ward, Joe SpradberyTechnical Assisance at Open Morning: Peter WasherDT - Contemporary Furniture: Lauren Gostelow, Bethan WilliamsDT - Turbine: Eleni Malandrinos Ella TyrrellEnglish - Entertaining Resolution and Ending to Bill’s New Frock: Edith Scarr

Photos in time for Christmas

This week At Half Term

Bonuses House Points Overall Average

Fyson 4th 1st 4th 2nd

Kingsley 1st 2nd 1st 1st

School 2nd 4th 2nd 4th

Stanley 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd

Winter Uniform Reminder

In their Citizenship Time, Year 8 will be discussing their role as citizens within school and within the local community.

To support this learning, after half term, they will be welcoming some young people who have experienced homelessness. They will talk about their experiences and how they are trying to move forward. These young people are being supported by the local charity, Step-by-Step, and will share their experiences as part of their work to return to independence. They do not charge for the visit.

To show their appreciation for the visit Year 8 will be holding a cake sale in aid of the charity on Monday 13th November. Donations of cakes would be very welcome on the morning. Please hand them into Matron. Children in Year 3 upwards may buy a cake during morning break. They will be priced at 50p each. Please remember that cakes brought in should be nut free.

Year 8 Charity Break

FysonHouse Captain: Connor DyasonHouse Sports Captains: Queralt Garrigos & Harvey RiceHouse Council Chairperson: Caitlin WattheyHouse Charity Captains: Queralt GarrigosHouse Cultural Captain: Yaseen Subhan

SchoolHouse Captain: Skye-Abigail LouwHouse Sports Captains: Sadie Kitto & Connor Plummer-ColomHouse Council Chairperson: Sam BallentineHouse Charity Captains: Peter Washer & Mateo Johnson-RodriguezHouse Cultural Captain: Maddy Gough

KingsleyHouse Captain: Sam RoweHouse Sports Captains: Arthur Bole & Katie HancockHouse Council Chairperson: Sarah FindellHouse Charity Captain: Jasper BurtonHouse Cultural Captain: Sarah Findell

StanleyHouse Captain: Jonathan McFallHouse Sports Captains: Gavin Simpson & Ella CoxHouse Council Chairperson: Matt KnowlesHouse Charity Captain: Ella CoxHouse Cultural Captain: Saida Suleymanova

School and House Appointments

Olivia!

A reminder that when we return after half term, all children should be in their full winter school uniform.

The individual and sibling group photograph proof packs will be sent home with children on the Monday after half term. Proofs for sibling photographs will be given to the eldest child.

Once again this year there are two photographs and several pack options from which you can choose. Orders can be placed on-line using the unique user name and password found on the proof pack.

Alternatively complete the order form in the pack and return it with your payment to School Reception by Tuesday 14th November. Cheques should be made payable to PPI Ltd. Photographs ordered by 14th November will be returned to school in early December.

Congratulations to the 58 children from Years 5 to 8 who auditioned for Olivia! The production has now been cast and children should have collected their scripts on Friday.

Rehearsals begin on Monday 6th November, when a rehearsal schedule will be given out for Monday and Friday club times up to Christmas.

Congratulations to Sam Rowe who has been appointed Library Assistant.

FYMS Corner

Happy BirthdayHappy Birthday to the following children whose birthdays fall during half term or our first week back at school: Tolu Adebiyi 6, Olivia Baker 9Agbor Echi Bakia 8, Sofia Davies 8 Millie Day 11, Aaryav Jagarlamudi 4 Maisie Lee 5Eva McLoughlin 10Evie Newman 7James Norbury 6Lily Norbury 6 Matthew O’Donoghue 11Daniel Pearce 10Maisie Rice 11, Archie Sables 8 Joe Spradbery 9, Isabella Stockdale 7

The School will, as usual, be supporting this year’s Poppy appeal in the week after half term. Poppies will be available to buy every day at break and lunch times.

Children from Year 1 upwards will take part in a Remembrance Day Assembly and a two minute silence on Friday 10th November.

Poppy Appeal

Christmas Fayre The countdown for the FYMS annual Christmas Fayre on Sunday 3rd December has begun. There is still room for more stalls so if you would like to have a stall at the Fayre or know someone else who might please contact Nikki Subhan at nikki_subhan@yahoo.co.ukWhile parents shop during the Fayre there will be plenty of acivities to entertain the children including face painting, cookie decorating, craft table and splat the santa. Santa will also be waiting in his grotto to greet children. To help get shoppers into the spirit of Christmas, the School choirs will be singing Carols and other festive songs during the afternoon. There will be hot drinks, mulled wine, cakes and mince pies on sale.

Helpers: To enable FYMS to run all these activities they would be very grateful for help with either setting up, manning an activity or clearing up afterwards (or all three!). Even if you are only able to help for an hour every little helps. Please complete and submit the form that can be found here if you are able to help.

FYMS would also be grateful for donations of cakes for the Fayre. These can be dropped off before the Fayre on Friday 1st December or on the morning of the Fayre. Gluten free options are always gratefully received and, of course, please NO nuts! Again please email Nikki Subhan nikki_subhan@yahoo.co.uk

FYMS Harrods Shopping Trip: If you would like to join FYMS for some relaxing Christmas shopping in Knightsbridge on Monday 20th November please complete the booking form. The luxury coach will leave school at 9.00am and return by 4.20pm.

Northbrook Wrap: A reminder that orders for Christmas wrapping paper and accessories should be placed by the first Friday after half term, Friday 10th November.

Ultimate Plum Puddings: Don’t forget to order your Christmas pudding or one of their delicious alternative puddings. Order forms were sent home last week. Alternatively download one here.

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What Will You Choose for Lunch Next Week?

Available Daily

Breakfast: (8.00-8.20am) A choice of: fruit juice, cereal, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, beans, toast & marmalade, tea, coffee or milk. Breakfast Vouchers may be purchase from Reception in advance in books of 10 at the price of £2.50 each for full English breakfast and £1.30 each for Continental. Breakfast may also be paid for in cash on the day for £3.00 and £1.50 respectively. As well as our daily menu, we have an extensive salad bar with various protein items, composite salads and hot jacket potatoes. Fresh bread, fresh fruit and yoghurts are always available.

Monday

Ginger Chicken Biryani or Chicken Curry Vegetable Biryani or Vegetable Curry (v)

rice, peas, sweetcorn and mango chutney

Steamed lemon and ginger suet pudding

Tuesday

Roast Pork Sweet potato Quesadillas (v)

Roast potatoes, vegetable medley and gravy

Fruit salad or jelly

Wednesday

Spaghetti BologneseSpinach and corgette lasagne (v)

garlic bread

Banoffee Pie

Thursday

Sticky Korean Drumsticks Tomato ricotta and sage torte (v)

Roast potatoes and medley of vegetables

Chocolate and lime sponge

FridayPizza Selection or Prawn and Salmon Burgers

Vegetarian pizza (v) Potato wedges and mixed salad

Orange and coriander cake

FYMS are organising another textile collection with Bag2School. Donation bags were sent home this week with each child. These can be filled with any unwanted textiles such as adults’ and children’s clothing, shoes (tied together please), hats, belts, handbags and soft toys.

Bags should be returned to school between 8.00am and 8.50am on Wednesday 8th November and will be collected by Bag2School that day.

Please do not bring filled bags in before that date.

After half term it will be dark when clubs finish at 5.25pm. We would therefore ask that parents collect all Prep children from outside Manor Court. Please do not ask your child to cross the car park to reach you. When you do cross the car park please use the raised crossing points.

Car Park Reminders

Bag 2 School

Andrew Kirby (6AER) who took part in the U12 Hampshire Junior Chess Congress and despite being only U11 Andrew finished second. Very well done Andrew.

Fixture List for After Half TermTuesday 7th November

4.20pm Basketball v Pappelwick U12 Away ( coach leaves 4.15pm & returns 6.30pm)4.30pm National Schools U19 Chess Competition A team v B team Home

Wednesday 8th 10.00am IAPS U13 Hockey Tournament, Tonbridge School (coach leaves 7.20am & returns approx 6.30pm)2.30pm Hockey v St Neot’s U11A, U11B & U11C Home at Eversley (coach leaves 1.45pm & returns 4.15pm), U10A & U10B Away (coach leaves 1.45pm & returns 4.15pm)2.30pm Football v St Piran’s U11A, U11B, U11C & U11D Home, U10A, U10B, U10C & U10D Away (coach leaves 1.30pm & returns 5.00pm)

Thursday 9th 2.30pm Football v Crosfields and Hall Grove U8A & U8B Away at Hall Grove (coach leaves 1.20pm & returns 3.45pm)

Friday 10th 4.35pm National Schools U19 Chess Competition A & B v Tormead Home

Are you Rugby Ready?This Week’s MatchesThis week we hosted a swimming gala against three other local prep schools. On Wednesday the boys played football against Lanesborough and the girls hockey against St Piran’s.

Match reports for all of this week’s games can be found here.

Year 5 will be taking part in a Victorian Day at school on Thursday 23rd November. To help them to get into character we would like them to come to school in simple Victorian costume. A letter giving simple costume ideas was sent home with the children on Friday.

Year 5 will be visited by professional actor, Chris Connaughton, who through performing extracts from Charles Dickens’ novels will help the children understand what life could be like for a child in Victorian Britain. The children will then use their drama skills to put together a Victorian scene.

Year 5 Parents are invited to come to the Studio at the end of the day to see what the children have achieved. We are looking forward to an exciting and stimulating day of history and drama.

Year 5 Victorian Day

The next event in our series of maths workshops is for parents of children in Years 3 and 4. It will take place on Tuesday 14th November, starting at 4.45pm, and will last approximately 45 minutes.

The aim of these workshops is to discuss how to better support your child at home and suggest ideas for keeping maths interesting and relevant to everyday life.

If you would like to attend this meetings please complete and submit the form using this link or email Penny Charles.

Maths Workshops for Parents of Children in Years 3 & 4

Rugby starts a couple of weeks after half term.

Under the laws of the game, all players must wear approved footwear which includes boots fitted with rugby safety studs, moulded blades or blades (except Adidas metal tipped blades). Removable rugby safety studs are obtainable from the school shop (50p each or £5.50 for a bag of 12) and all good sports shops. Please get some soon. NB This does not apply to Years 1 and 2 as they will be playing touch rugby and will play in their trainers. It is recommended by RFU that mouth guards be worn as well. Children without a gum shield will not be able to represent the school in any teams and will only have limited access to elements of training sessions. Therefore all boys from Year 3 upwards should have a gum shield.

Sports Stars of the Month

Year 6 and Year 8 pupils were given their exam revision guide booklets this week. Please check that your child brings their copy home. A few spares will be available from School Reception.

Year 6 and Year 8 Revision Guide Booklet

Jasper Burton: for improvement in football, working his way from the D team to the first XI and a superb attitude in sports lessons.

Sophie Etherington: for her constant enthusiastic approach and commitment to sport and her impressive contribution to the U11A teams’ successes this and last season.

We will soon be sending home a data sheet containing the contact information we currently hold for families. We would be grateful, once in receipt of this, if you could check and update the information and return it to Tanja Weddell. The school directory will be published soon afterwards.

School Directory

As part of our run-up to Christmas, we are again supporting the Salvation Army’s Christmas Present Appeal which distributes gifts to disadvantaged children within the local community. As usual, we will be collecting shoe boxes filled with gifts and would be grateful for donations. Here are some guidelines to help you create a gift box:

• Please wrap your shoe box in festive paper, remembering to wrap the box and the lid separately so that the box can still be opened.

• Decide on the age and gender of the recipient

• Fill the box with appropriate gifts. Ideally they should be filled with items that children would like to receive. This might include:

• Toys: soft toy, ball, finger puppet, jigsaw, yo-yo, building blocks, small musical instrument, trucks, cars or dolls

• Stationery: pens, pencils, note book, felt pens, pencil sharpener, rubber, paints, colouring book, puzzle book, chalk, pencil case, stickers

• Toiletries: bubble bath, soap, body lotion, novelty toothbrush, hair clips

• Other Items: Sweets, chocolate (please a small amount only in each box), hat, cap, necklaces, bangles, gloves, scarf, sunglasses

• Please do not include: war related items, (toy guns, knives etc), sharp or fragile objects, medicines or vitamins.

• Please include a donation of at least £1 in an envelope in the box to cover distribution costs and to help the Salvation Army provide food for needy families at Christmas.

• Secure the lid with a rubber band and attach a label with the age and gender of the suggested recipient

• Gift boxes for adults would also be very warmly received.

• Deliver to School Reception by Friday 1st December as a representative from the Salvation Army will collect all gifts in the following week.

With your help, hopefully we can collect even more boxes than we did last year and help children who are less fortunate than our pupils to have an enjoyable Christmas.

Thank you very much for your support with this appeal.

Christmas Present Appeal

We are holding our annual competition to design the Yateley Manor Christmas card 2017.

Children’s designs should be A5 in size, portrait or landscape, and should, of course, have a Christmas theme. We ask that the pictures are the children’s own work. They may be done in any 2D media (paint, crayon, felt pen etc).

Designs, with the artist’s name and tutor group on the back, should be handed to form tutors on the first Friday after half term, Friday 10th November.

One design from Pre-Prep and one from Year 3 upwards will be chosen.

This is of course an optional competition for the children but we are looking forward to seeing lots of great works of art.

Christmas Card Competition

You may have noticed a new addition to our front office – a scarecrow called Timothy!

He is part of the Yateley Scarecrow Hunt organised by St. Peter’s Church for the half term holiday. If you would like to find the other scarecrows you will need to purchase a map from either Café 46 or Discoveries, the charity shop next to the church.

There will be prizes! For more details click on the link to the poster. Good luck!

Yateley Scarecrow Hunt

On Monday, we were delighted to welcome author Caroline Lawrence at Yateley Manor to talk to children in Years 4 to 8. As well as describing her job and background as a successful writer, she shared tips on how to write a good story and told the children all about her series of Roman Mysteries of which many are already avid readers. After a question and answer and book signing sessions, Caroline joined a

group of children for lunch.

Caroline kindly invited all children to email her (carolinelawrence@me.com) if they had burning questions they had not had time to ask her. Her talk was very well received and she kept her large audience spell-bound with her tales for an hour and a quarter. Thank you Caroline and vale!

Children Enjoy Author’s Visit

On Tuesday 21st November October Robert Upton together with Keith Murrall will be speaking and giving advice on how to choose your child’s next school. They will also answer questions from the floor.

The meeting, which will start at 7.00pm and will last for approximately an hour, is aimed particularly at those with children in Years 4 and 5, but is open to all parents . Parents in the past have found this meeting very useful as they begin to consider options for education after Yateley Manor.

If you would like to attend the meeting please complete and submit the form using this link or email Penny Charles.

Choosing Your Child’s Next School Talk

On Thursday 12 October 2017 Sam Ballentine, Sadie Kitto, Jonathan McFall and Sam Rowe represented the school at the annual Two Person Debating Competition Day hosted by Sherfield School (5 schools and 10 teams in total).

The teams had four structured round robin debates each. After a mere 20 minutes to prepare they had to propose or oppose a motion to an opposing team. Pupils had to think logically, to empathise, to construct persuasive arguments and to be articulate and convincing. They were marked on their content, strategy and style. Both teams won their first three debates and Sam and Sadie qualified for the semi-final by virtue of points.

Unfortunately, time ran short and the semi-final was cancelled. This left our two teams four and fifth on the day. Although this was a little disappointing, both teams learnt a huge amount about public speaking and have made an excellent start to the debating season!

Sherfield Public Speaking Competition

On Tuesday Year 5 went for a walk to discover more about Yateley’s Victorian past. They went to what was the old village school and looked at the plaque on the building saying when it had been built. The children were surprised to see that Yateley was spelt differently then: Yately – with no second ‘e’!

The group then walked to look at some houses that had been built in 1862 and sketched some of the features of the buildings. They will

use this information in the coming weeks to add to their understanding of what life was like in Victorian Britain.

Year 5’s Historic Walk Around Yateley

Years 7 and 8 see The Wipers TimesLillian Scarr (6MJB) has lost her named, red school coat. During half term please check your coat to ensure you have the correct one. If you have seen Lillian’s coat please email penny@yateleymanor.com.

Lucas Neville (2AH) has lost his named tennis racket which has a cover on it.

If you have seen it please leave a message in School Reception or email penny@yateleymanor.com.

Thank you.

A reminder for children to check their classroom equipment during half term to make sure that they start next half term fully equipped with pen, pencils, rubbers, ruler and glue etc. Thank you.

Classroom Equipment

Children in Year 7 and 8 visited the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford to watch the First World War play, The Wipers Times written by Ian Hislop. The play was funny, poignant and very moving as it re-told the real story of soldiers trying to keep morale up by publishing a newspaper in the trenches.Senior children study the First World War in a cross curricular approach. As well as examining the history of the war, they also study war poetry in English and war paintings in art. In March the children will be visiting the area around Ypres to see the World War I battlefields and cemeteries to get a first-hand view of what happened there 100 years ago.

Lost Property