SG Messenger
Friday, 27th January 2017 No. 18
www.springgroveschool.co.uk
Head of Marketing and Admissions
After undertaking a countrywide search for the new post
of Head of Marketing and Admissions, I am delighted to
announce that I have appointed Chris Townend to the
role. Chris is currently Director of Admissions and Marketing at Dover College, having previously worked as Marketing & Engagement Director at Hereford Cathedral
School, as well as Marketing Director at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester. An Associate of the Chartered
Institute of Marketing, Chris was educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys and has a degree from the University
of Wales. Married with three children, he spent time as a
Marketing and Events Executive for the Worcester WarriMusic Practice Focus Week
ors before moving into education. I am delighted to have
such a strategic thinker in this position and believe it will With the help of violin teacher, Mrs Jarman and our
aid us hugely in our onward development and vision for Music prefect, Emmeline Liddle, we delivered an imSpring Grove. Chris will be joining SG on 1st February.
portant Monday morning assembly message about
the way to practise your instrument. I am delighted
that our focus week has encouraged the pupils to
become more independent in their endeavour and
practice habits—I heard
that one young pianist was
regularly getting himself up
at 5.30am which might of
course have upset those
who wished to sleep! Thursday's informal concert featured soloists from Chaucer
and Austen and a lively version of Grieg’s “In the Hall
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of the Mountain King”.
SG Connect
Answers to the last Connect Question: FA Cup Giant Killers (Colchester, Wrexham, Lincoln, Hereford, Sutton)
This week’s tricky challenge:
Solve the five cryptic clues then find what connects the answers…
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
18th Letter.
An open area of grassy or arable land.
A representative of the faith that has the Torah as its foundational text.
The home of Coca Cola, Levis and Churchill’s mother.
Dioceses.
Connection: ___________________________________
Email your answer to [email protected] . The first correct answer wins a Spring Grove pen!
SG MENSA CHALLENGE
Last week’s answer: 5.30pm
2 questions his week:
1. Rearrange the following to give two sevenletter words:
ADENPPS
2.
In December, 17 scarves sold at £8 each.
The January sale began and a further 85
scarves sold. Over the two months, the
average amount paid for each scarf was
£6.
Next Friday, we welcome Rachel Van Hoven from
Porchlight who will talk to the children and parents in our morning assembly about the work of
the Canterbury-based charity which supports the
homeless. We have regularly made donations to
the charity, especially at Christmas time when our
carol singing efforts help to raise money.
http://www.porchlight.org.uk/
What was the sale price?
We have been singing for Porchlight on the streets
of Canterbury for the past few years.
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Our children in Years 1 to 6 are now using Mathletics, which is described as “the next generation in
learning” as it helps students enjoy maths and achieve great results.
About Mathletics
Mathletics is a web-based programme which integrates home and school learning via the internet. It is
syllabus-based from Nursery to Year 12 and is currently used by 100,000 students every day. Mathletics was founded in Australia and is now well-established in Canada, USA, UK, South Africa and New
Zealand so that thousands of students in schools around the world are accessing the site every day!
Your child has 24-hour access to Mathletics by using a unique user name and password. We recommend that you spend time looking at the programme with your child so that you can gain the greatest
understanding of how Mathletics will benefit your child.
Benefits of Mathletics
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Children love Mathletics!
Children are engaged and motivated to learn.
Mathletics is adaptive which means that it responds to the individual child’s strengths and weaknesses.
Children instantly know if they are on the right track and can work through the curriculum at
their own pace.
Animated support guides children through concepts at their own pace which is like having a personal maths tutor 24 hours a day!
Live Mathletics fosters a stimulating and exciting online learning community
To view Mathletics:
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Visit www.mathletics.ca
Ensure pop-ups are enabled
Select sign-in and enter your child’s details
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My Details (Student to complete):
Username......................................................................
Password.......................................................................
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PTA News
Running Wild at The Marlowe
The Marlowe will be showing the family performance ‘RunningWild’ to find out more about the
show please click here
The PTA has secured 60 tickets at the family discount rate of £17.57 per seat in stall rows Q & R on
31st May for the matinee at 2pm.
If you would like to reserve tickets please let Ken
Lutz know at [email protected] . Monies can
be dropped off in a sealed envelope through Mrs
Read or through bank transfer no later than
15th March. Unfortunately no refunds can be given
after that date.
Assembly Coffee Rota
Many thanks to our PTA reps and volunteers for manning the tea & coffee station on the following assembly dates. Please check the rota below for your date:
3rd February – Janette Makin
10th February – Lydia Rimmer
24th February – Alicja Street
3rd March – Sarah Martin
10th March – Clare Speight
17th March – TBC
24th March – TBC
Come Dine With Me – PTA Style
FULLY BOOKED!
Future Events to keep an eye out for during the coming term:
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Come Dine with the PTA (see details above)
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Nursery and Teddies Coffee Morning Fundraiser (all proceeds to Nursery and Teddies!)
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Quiz Night: You don't have to be a Brainiac to
have fun!
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D.I.S.C.O: Strike a Pose there's nothing to it!
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The Easter Bunny will make his yearly return to
SG!
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Discounted tickets to ‘Running wild’ at The
Marlowe (see below)
Our PTA Chairman’s invitation to chase away those
winter blues has been eagerly accepted with all
places for the first ‘Come Dine with Me’ event now
fully booked. If you’re feeling brave and fancy flexing your culinary muscles, why not email us to host
a subsequent evening. We will post the invitation
and the (gentle) follow up ‘dining critique’ in the
Messenger. As a reminder, guests will be asked to
make a donation to the PTA (suggested £10 per
head) to enjoy a meal which their host will prepare
within a tight budget of just £5.00 per head - beverages will also be provided. Sense of humour and
adventure are a must! All profit goes to the SG PTA.
To host a fun evening with good food and great
company, email: [email protected]
Keeping in touch
Uniform Sale
Watch this space!
If you have any concerns, comments of ideas
that you think the PTA should know about
you can talk to your class rep or alternatively
email us at:
[email protected] and we will
get back to you as soon as possible. Don’t forget that all parents are welcome to attend
any of the regular PTA meetings.
We will be holding a uniform sale in the near
future (date TBC). In the meantime if you need
an item of uniform urgently, please speak to
Mrs Rimmer to sort something out until the
sale takes place.
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Assembly Special on Friday, 10th February
Prep 4 will be leading our assembly on the final day of this half
of term and will be joined by a special guest. Parents are
warmly invited to attend.
During the week leading up to half
term, we shall be focusing on wellbeing amongst children. This is a
hot topic in schools and for very
good reasons-as there has never
been so much reported stress
amongst the young. We shall be
welcoming to our assembly on Friday 10th February, Imogen Davis
who runs the charity, Place2Be.
See https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-story/childrens-mentalhealth-week/ for more information.
Saxon Assembly…
Preps 3C and 3J gave us an entertaining history lesson including the departure of the Romans in 410AD, the arrival of the Saxons and their influence on our culture. We even heard a Saxon rap, strangely reminiscent of John Barnes at Italia ‘90 (a competition which of course ended
in a sort of Saxon triumph: West Germany 1 Argentina 0).
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Headmaster’s Scholar of the Week
Spring Term Week 3 (20th January)
This week’s award goes to:
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Toby Doswell in recognition of an excellent Little Red Riding Hood story.
Sport
U11 A&B Netball v King’s Rochester
A Team, Match Reporter - Cherrie Martin
On Wednesday, the U11 A Team played a netball match against King’s Rochester.
The first quarter ended with a score of 1-0 to us. The goal was scored by Rosa. In the second quarter we tried really hard
to win but the quarter ended 1-2 to them. The third quarter began and again we played well with some great passes. The
other team were just too good and the score was 2-5 to King’s Rochester. Mrs Brogan-Jones gave us another encouraging
team talk and the 4th quarter began. Alas. We lost 3-6. The man of the Match was Daisy. Well played SG.
B Team, Match Reporter - Anna Makin
As Tiana Brown, who was match reporter for the B Team was unwell today, Anna Makin bravely stepped in and gave a
brief recount of the match.
U9 A&B Netball v Junior King’s
Match Reporter - Elvie Kingham
Spring Grove played Junior King’s away. We were a few players short with illness. We played both teams for 8 minutes.
We had a confident start in attack and in defence. In the A Team Emmy scored three goals and Anna scored one. We
were still strong in defence and we were not tiring. Alice, Celina and Emily were great in attack.
After the first quarter, we had a swap around; I was goal shooter and scored 2 goals. Then we played the a team again.
We swapped around but I stayed as goal shooter. Phoebe was goal attack, Emmy changed to wing attack and did amazing
passes to Phoebe and I surprised myself and the team by scoring 4 more goals!
For the last quarter, we played the B team again. Phoebe scored a spectacular goal and I popped another 2 in but I could
not have done it without Emmy, Alice, Celina, Anna, Emily and Phoebe.
First Match - 4-0 to SG; Second Match - 2-0 to SG; Third Match - 4-1 to SG; Final Match 3-0 to SG
Thank you to Miss Drury and Miss Lawrence for taking us. I was lady of the match. And last but not least, three cheers to
the first Under 9 math of the season!!!
U8 & U9 Rugby v Russell House
U9 Team, Match Reporter - Noah Rendo-Castro
On Thursday, Spring Grove Under 9 boys played a tag rugby match against Russell House. They got off to a great start
with the first try! We went on the counter attack with a super try from Josh. Then Barney scored our second try followed
by Charlie with another. At the end, Russell House came back at us with one more try but luckily the final whistle blew
leaving SG glorious at 3-2. Man of the Match was Barney. We enjoyed a lovely match tea including chocolate chip cookies and returned home. Thank you to Mr Smith and Mr Russell for their support.
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SG EXTRA
PLEASE COME AND JOIN IN WITH OUR ACTIVITIES IN SG EXTRA THIS TERM
After children have made and eaten their tea which they really enjoy doing, we will continue with our planned activities (time permitting.) All children are made very welcome. It is a relaxed, fun atmosphere for the end of the school day. 4.30pm - 6.00pm
It would be most helpful if children could be booked in with the office on the days they are wishing to attend.
On the Friday of every month we will continue with our cooking activities. It makes a very enjoyable finish to the week for the children
and something they can enjoy over the weekend. Children wishing to join us need to be able to stay until 5.45 on a Friday and children must be booked in by the Wednesday please as we need to ensure that there are sufficient ingredients to cater for all children.
WEEK BEGINNING 30th JANUARY
WEEK BEGINNING 6th FEBRUARY
Monday 30th
Popsicle Craft
Monday 6th
Free Choice
Tuesday 31st
Free Choice
Tuesday 7th
Clay Work**
Wednesday 1st
Clay Work** (CHILDREN NEEED TO Wednesday 8th
BE BOOKED IN FOR
TOMORROW AND TUESDAY 7th FEB TO CONTINUE CRAFT)
Lemonade Marshmallow Fondant
Thursday 2nd
Clay Work**
Thursday 9th
Board Games
Friday 3rd
Marshmallow Chocolate Biscuits
Friday 10th
Pick 'n' Mix pizza
COME AND ENJOY!
WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO WELCOME NEW CHILDREN ALONG WITH THE ESTABLISHED CHILDREN
Yet more practice required….
We focused on times tables at the start of term, last week we attended to our music and
LAMDA practice and now we concentrate on improving our spelling…
In addition to weekly spellings, Prep 5s and 6s should examine the lists found in their
back of their school homework diaries. If we can match the friendly but intense competition that we witnessed in the House Tables Competition earlier this month, then this
Wednesday’s House Spelling Contest should be a terrific and thrilling humdinger!
Interesting thoughts on spelling…
Is there another word for synonym?
Whose idea was it to have an s in lisp?
Why has monosyllabic got 5 syllables?
Why is it so hard to remember the spelling of mnemonic?
Why is ‘big’ smaller than ‘little’?
Why is ‘abbreviation’ such a long word?
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Diary
Monday 30th January - Friday 3rd February
CONGRATULATIONS
Monday
30th
Headmaster’s Stars
Austen: Sophia Boulden, Charlie Beaugie, Bea Wagstaff, Piers Morrissey, Georgina Wagstaff
Chaucer: Sophie Braga-Sullivan, Alexander Starr, Elvie Kingham, Rosa Bowden, Cherrie Martin
Conrad: Eleanor Jones, Anna Makin, Robin Cobb, Joseph Evans, James O’Mahoney
Dickens: Thomas Borg, Edward McNair, Madeleine
Delaney, Luca Toma, Daisy Morris
Tuesday
31st
Wednesday House Spelling Competition
1st
Café de L’Ecole
U11 A&B Netball v Ashford (A)
U10 & U11 Rugby v Wellesley and
Lorenden (A)
Qualifying Round - IAPS Swimming at
King’s Recreation Centre, Canterbury
Swimming Award: Edward Courtenay-Snipp - Level 3,
Swimming & Diving Awards: Rosalind, isobel and
Eleanor Jones
British Judo medal: Josh Desmet
Thursday
2nd
Friday
3rd
Prep 5 & 6 to Wildwood
AGM 4.00pm and Governors’ Meeting
5.00pm
Headmaster’s Assembly:
Rachel van Hoven—Porchlight
Happy Birthday…
Isla Pickard and Mrs Cox
Jelly the Giraffe
Congratulations to
CONRAD HOUSE for
Well done the Greens! Brilliant!
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Spelling Focus Week
Lost Property
Piers Morrissey
Oscar Toombs
Chaucer 584 Stars
2.
Austen 577
3.
Conrad 549
4.
Dickens 481
Anya Opie
Joseph Evans
Arun Juan
Isabella Lutz
tops
Daisy Morris
Abigail Beale
Form 3’s Prayer of the Week: A traditional
Celtic prayer used in the Prep 3 Saxon Assembly…
Tracksuit Bottoms
Games top and Dickens house
t-shirt
School Coat
School Coat
Navy Jumper
2 navy cardigans and 2 Games
Size 5, white football boots
Games Top
WANTED FOR NURSERY
Dear Lord,
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your
face;
The rains fall soft upon your fields and
until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his
hand.
Amen.
We have a fantastic mud
kitchen in our garden but
need an old kettle , toaster and
microwave . If you are about
to replace these at home
nursery would be grateful to
receive your unwanted items.
Contact: Mrs Clarke
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