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INAMOS Yateley Manor’s Weekly Newsletter • www.yateleymanor.com

Your Child • Their Journey • Our FocusVol. 34 Issue No. 17 • 3rd February 2017

After school clubs and coaches are running next week except:Tuesday: Open Hockey (due to parents’ evening)

Thursday: Badminton (due to rugby tournament)

MONDAY

8.50amYear 2 Parents Invited to LunchYears 5 and 8 Parents Coffee Morning

TUESDAY

8.50am

2.00pm

4.30pm4.30pm

Year 2 Parents to LunchNursery and Reception Parents’ Coffee MorningSpell It Challenge for Four Year 4 children Year 3 Parents’ EveningYear 4 Parents’ Evening

THURSDAY

8.50am

11.30am1.00pm

Year 2 Parents to Lunch Years 1 and 4 Parents’ Coffee MorningSports CouncilLadies Lunch (senior pupils and staff )

FRIDAY8.50am

7.30pm

Year 8 Assembly (parents invited)FYMS Quiz Night

More Scholarship NewsWe are delighted to announce another four scholarship successes.

Academic Scholarships have been awarded to Dibra Thapa Magar for Queen Anne’s, Caversham, to Arthur Bole for LVS, Ascot and to Joe Seth for Salesian College.

On the performing arts front, Lenny Berdat has been offered a Music Scholarship to Reading Bluecoat School.

Many congratulations to all four pupils.

This brings our number of scholarships so far this year to nine.

Robert Upton’s latest blog can be found on the School website. The following is a taster:

Society is becoming increasingly captivated by the allure of Instagram, iPhone-captured moments uploaded to Facebook and viral pictures. We seem to have had a rewiring of late, one that has seen our cultural references becoming increasingly visually based. Society is apparently buoyant with heart or globe emojis, Instagram wellness shots and a multitude of Adele memes (for the less technology-savvy person, such as me, a “meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme”)

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

Fabulous Netball Results

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

Good Luck to ...Our U11 and U9 chess teams who are taking part in the EPSCA Regional Competiton on Saturday at Twickenham Prep School.

Good luck also to all our children who are taking part on Tuesday in the IAPS regional Swimming competition.

This Wednesday was a fabulous day for our netball teams.

Our girls entered two tournaments and won them both. On their way to victory in the Thorngrove Netball Tournament our U13 5-a-side team scored 24 goals in their six matches and allowed just two goals to be scored against them. The U11A won the prestigious Wellington College Tournament scoring a massive 70 goals during their eight matches.

Five other netball teams also played matches on Wednesday, two of them in triangular events. The girls won all these matches too so not one game was lost or drawn during the whole afternoon. Very well done girls.

Full reports on both tournament and all the other games can be found in this week’s Sports Inamos.

Bonuses House Points Overall

Fyson 3rd 3rd = 3rd

Kingsley 4th 3rd = 4th

School 1st 2nd 2nd

Stanley 2nd 1st 1st

House Points and Bonuses

Bonus Point Winner: School

House Point Winner: Stanley

Overall Winner: Stanley

25 Star Certificate: Jessica Fussey

20 Star Certificate: Thea MacDougall, Magnus Tyrrell, Sofia Davies

15 Star Certificate: Daniel Corbett, Lily Moore, Sophie Thomas

Reception Stars of the Week

For listening carefully, following instructions accurately and helping others if they were unsure.: Eta Chick

For trying super hard at everything all week: Alfred Parker

Pre-Prep Awards

Headmaster’s Commendations

Year 7 to Centre of the CellOn Thursday Year 7 travelled to visit the ‘Centre of the Cell’ at Queen Mary’s University, London. After an exciting train journey and navigating through the underground they arrived for their pod session. The pod is an interactive games lab teaching the children all about cells and diseases based on the research that is being carried out in the laboratories that the cell is suspended above.

After their pod session the children had an exclusive tour of the underground labs where life saving research is being carried out on a wide range of conditions from eczema to HIV. They visited different workspaces, controlled environment rooms, and peeked through the portal windows into the containment level 3 areas. They heard about the ways experiments are kept fair, valid, and safe for the scientists who work there. For the staff it was great being back in the environments in they had which explored science prior to their ‘call’ to education, but more importantly seeing the looks of interest and inspiration on the pupils faces.To round off the day the group moved into the Barts Medical School for a show all about Snot, Sick and Scabs! Did you know there is nothing better to have up your nose than snot as it is perfect for catching microbes and preventing infection? Did you know that vomit is one of our body’s methods of preventing infection by microbes that are so resilient that our stomach acid is no match for them? Or that picking scabs is not only impolite but biologically counter intuitive? Find a Year 7 pupil for more fascinating details!

Pre-Prep will be celebrating World Book Day during the week commencing 27th February.

During the week Reception and Year 1 will enjoy a drama workshop on The Rainbow Fish and some of their work that week will be based on the book. Children are therefore invited to come to school on Friday 3rd March in rainbow colours or dressed as any character from a book.

Year 2’s drama workshop will be on the Prince and the Pauper so they may come to school on Friday 3rd March dressed as a prince or princess, a pauper or any book character. Nursery will also be having a drama workshop on pirates and they are invited to come dressed as a pirate or book character.

Pre-Prep’s Book Week - Dressing Up Day

Charity Dressing Up DayOur annual charity of the year dressing up day will take place after half term on Tuesday 7th March. In support of the Years 5 to 8 production of the Amazing Adventures of Superstan we would like everyone to come to school on that day dressed as their superhero.In exchange we ask for a donation of £2 which will go to the Yateley Manor charities of the year, the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and Starburst.

Yateley Manor now has an Instagram account. To follow us search for yateleymanorschool in Instagram, click the icon at the bottom on the new website’s home page or follow this link. Keep up to date too with Twitter and Facebook .

Yateley Manor Instagram

Maths Problem Solving: Daniel Corbett

Congratulations to ...

Happy Birthday

Flora Fergie-Woods (5SKP) who played in her first tournament for Farnham Roller Hockey Club.

The team played in the Southern Counties Development League and were unbeaten.

Tobias Chapman 13Tanishka Desai 10Lara Dobson 8Harry Phillips 8Lochran Rowan 11Saida Suleymanova 12Hayden Tan 5Fergus Thomson 10Alba Wisbey 8

Friends of Yateley Manor School (FYMS)FYMS are delighted to invite you to the FYMS Summer Ball which will take place on the Headmaster’s Lawn on 1st July 2017. The ball is always a fabulous night out with a delicious meal and great music. It is a perfect excuse to dress up for a night out with friends. Why not book a table for 10 with friends or book just for yourself and let FYMS place you on a table.

An information sheet and booking form was sent home at the end of last week. Alternatively download the booking form here.

Florence Nightingale Visits Year 2

What Will You Choose for Lunch Next Term?

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

Chicken FajitasVegetarian Fajitas (v)

Rice, cheese, salsa, sour cream

Ginger shortbread or yoghurt

Tuesday

Jacket Potatoes with a Choice of Fillings Aubergine Chilli (v) Chilli, cheese, beans

Lime and blueberry cake and custard

Wednesday

Beef Lasagne Butternut and Sage Macaroni (v)Vegetable sticks and garlic bread

Brownie

Thursday

Chicken Breast (Nursery) and Chicken Drumsticks Roasted vegetable pasties (v)

Roast potatoes and medley of vegetables

Sticky toffee pudding and custard

FridayBattered Fish or Salmon en Croute

Quesadillas (v)Potato wedges, pea and beans

Toast and marmalade tart and custard

Early CollectionParents are reminded that if they need to collect their child during the school day for any reason they should arrange to meet them in School Reception. Children should then be signed out so that, should the fire alarm go, we have a record of who is in school at any time

Our series of coffee mornings continues next week. We are delighted to invite parents to join us for coffee in the new Hub at 8.50am as follows:

Monday 6th February Years 5 and 8

Tuesday 7th February Nursery and Reception

Thursday 9th February Years 1 and 4

Parent Coffee Mornings in the Hub Continue

Year 2 were very excited to be visited by Florence Nightingale who told them all about her life and her work. The children acted out being Victorian nurses who travelled to the Crimea to work in Scutari

After half term, on 6th March, our School Photographer will be visiting us to take year or tutor group photos. As he is only in for one day please try to avoid having any medical appointments on that day as it would be a shame for the children to miss it.

Tutor Group Photos

Hospital. They had a very busy morning scrubbing the wards, cleaning windows, empting chamber pots, winding bandages and tending the wounded soldiers. As well as having great fun the children learnt a lot too.

Next week’s fixture listSaturday 9.15am EPSCA Chess Regional Qualifyng Competition U11A, U11B, U9A & U9B, Twickenham Prep School

9.30am Queen Anne’s, Caversham U10 Netball Tournament (meet Mrs Ellis at Queen Anne’s at 9.00am)

Sunday 9.00am NSEA ShowJumping Hampshire Qualifier, Moreton Equestrian Centre, Dorset

Monday 11.30am Bradfield U10 Boys’ Hockey Festival (coach leaves 10.30am & returns 5.30pm)4.45pm Basketball v Holme Grange U11 Home

Tuesday 2.00pm IAPS Regional Swimming Gala, Crosfields School (coach leaves 1.20pm & returns 5.00pm)

Wednesday 2.30pm Netball v Daneshill U13/U12 Away (coach leaves 1.40pm & returns 4.30pm)2.30pm Netball v Eagle House U11A, U11B, U10A, U10B & U10C Home 2.30pm Rugby v Tywford 1st XII, U10A, U10B & U10C Home, U11A, U11B, U9A & U9B Away (coach leaves 1.20pm & returns 5.00pm)

Thursday 2.00pm Alton Convent U9 Rugby Tournament U9A (coach leaves 1.00pm & returns 5.00pm)

Saturday 1.00pm Chess Scholarship Day

Children in Years 5 to 8, who are not in the A or B teams for rounders or cricket, are being offered the opportunity to take part in a sailing option on Wednesday afternoons throughout the Summer Term.

The option will take place at Horseshoe Lake and leads to a national level qualification. All equipment and instruction is provided. The cost last year was £175 for the term and it is likely to be similar this year. If you are interested contact Kevin Cluett in the Sports Department for more details.

Summer Term Sailing

Yateley Manor Weather StationSports Carousel

Sports MatchesFor the first time in three weeks the weather allowed us to play rugby matches and the boys made up for missed time with several teams involved in triangular matches against Farleigh and Highfield.

Our U13 basketball team were in action on Monday as were our swimmers who took part in the Years 5 to 8 house swimming gala.

As mentioned on the front page our netball teams were unbeaten on Wednesday with the girls winning two tournaments and all their other matches.

Reports on all these matches can be found by clicking here. Reports on this Thursday’s basketball will be in next week’s INAMOS.

Following the success of the Sports Carousel over the past few years the Sports Department have organised another excellent carousel for children in Years 5 to 8.

For three weeks after half term children will take part in a range of exciting and challenging sports. This year Kevin Cluett surveyed families about which sports children would like to try and consequently he has included some new options this year.

Children will be able to choose one from each of the following groups of activities:

Group 1: Trampolining with a coach at Bracknell Leisure Centre, skiing at John Nike Centre or ice skating/broomball at John Nike Centre. All will travel by coach.

Group 2: Fitness room and squash/racket ball at Frogmore Leisure Centre, canoeing, rowing or paddle boarding at Horseshoe Lake or golf at Blackwater Valley Golf Centre. All groups will be walking.

Group 3: Triathlon, Choi Kwan Do (with instructors) or hand ball. All on site.

This is a great chance for children to try out something different and perhaps find a sport or activity that they would like to continue with.

The Geography Department has recently taken delivery of the Yateley Manor digital weather station. Situated on the roof of the Learning Support Department, the equipment includes a rain gauge, anemometer (wind speed measurer), wind vane to measure wind direction, indoor and outdoor thermometer and barometer.

The equipment ‘talks’ to a digital display situated in the Geography classroom, Cook, and each day the children can record the information.

It will be interesting to follow the weather at Yateley Manor through the year.

Ethan Howells (6LA) has lost his named tracksuit trousers. Please check your child’s to make sure they have not picked up the wrong pair by mistake. If you have seen them please let Ethan or Mr Daines know. Thank you.

Lost Property