Autumn Term 2012
NEWSLETTER
24 October 2012
Dear Parents
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your generosity. The amount of food,
toiletries and clothing that you brought in for Harvest Festival was quite
astonishing. Your donations were gratefully collected on Friday afternoon
by the London and Slough Run and will be distributed to those most in need
over the coming weeks.
As the girls start their half term break, I would like to thank them for being
such a delight. They have worked hard and overcome difficulties, both social
and academic. I continue to be very proud of them all.
It has been a pleasure to see so many of you at the Parents‘ Evenings held so
far this term. Please do contact me, however, if there are any unresolved
issues or if you simply wish to discuss your daughter‘s education at any
juncture.
On Tuesday 6th November, we will be holding our first Parent Partners‘
meeting of the year. The theme of Extra Curricular Activities is one we are
revisiting after a few years, as it is such an important part of Maltman‘s. The
Parent Partners have already been selected at random and contacted. I am
conscious, however, that there may be many of you who have thoughts on
this subject and I would love to think that you have all had an opportunity to
communicate these to me prior to the meeting.
As you know, I am very keen to listen to everyone within the Maltman‘s
Community as we strive to provide the best possible experience for the girls.
I would therefore invite you to send any thoughts on our Extra Curricular
provision by email to [email protected] or to write them down and
leave them with the School Office. As always, we will feed back to you all the
salient points of the meeting in due course.
I wish you all an excellent break,
Joanna Pardon
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Diary Dates
Thursday 25 October
Half Term
Monday 5 November
Back to School
Y6 Assessments
Tuesday 6 November
Y6 Assessments
Parent Partners Evening (7-8pm)
Thursday 8 November
5D & 5I Parents’ Evening
(5.30-8.15pm)
Friday 9 November
4J Class Assembly (8.45-9.15)
Saturday 10 November
Dee Harris—Photo Shoot
Sunday 11 November
Remembrance Sunday @
Gerrards Cross Memorial Centre
Monday 12 —Thursday 15
November
Book Fair Week
Tuesday 13 November
5S & 5W Parents’ Evening
(4.30-7.15pm)
Wednesday 14 November
5S Geography Field Trip to
Gerrards Cross
Friday 16 November
5D Class Assembly (8.45-9.15am)
Saturday 17 November
FOMG Christmas Fair
Monday 19 — Tuesday 20
November
Music Exams
Thursday 22 Novenber
6A & 6S Parents’ Evening
(4.30-7.15pm)
Bronte Fundraising
This year Bronte House
will be responsible for
selling the poppies to
raise money for the
Royal British
Legion. Poppies will be
on sale at break times
Monday November 5th –
Friday November 9th 2012. We hope that you will support
this worthy cause.
Thank you
Mrs Dyson
House Mistress
‗Baking for Bella‘ Cake Sale – Friday 2 November @ 3pm
Emma Bracken (6A) and her friends are holding a Cake
Sale at Emma‘s home on Friday 2 November at 3pm in
memory of our dear friend Bella Pritchard. Everyone is
welcome to come along and support. Please bring cakes
(labelled for nut allergy purposes) and buy as many as
you can!
Emma is raising money for two worthy causes, Wexham
Park Hospital and Child Bereavement UK both of whom
have supported the Pritchards and who do such amazing
work to support families in such tragic times.
Please do come laden with cakes and support two very
worthy causes!
Address:
Foxlea Manor
Dorney Wood Road
Burnham Beeches
SL1 8PS
(for details/directions call Sarah on 07879 550240)
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The Manor Netball Tournament 2012
On Wednesday 10th October, the U11 Netball Squad travelled to The Manor
School for their annual Netball Tournament. There were 16 schools present, and
in the first round there were 4 pools. Our team played some brilliant netball to
win all their games, putting them in the quarter finals. The girls won this match as
well as their exciting semi-finals match against The Manor ‘A’ team where they
were 1 goal down at half time but managed to pull the score back for a win of 4-3
goals. In the final, we were playing High March. It was a fast and furious match
which we just lost out on! With a final score of 5-6 goals in this tense final, the
U11’s came overall Silver Medallists out of the 16 schools. A huge well done to
the girls for their well-earned success!!
D Simmons/E Harrington
Chamber Choir will now be having an additional rehearsal every
MONDAY at 8am, starting immediately after Half Term.
Senior Choir: Members of Senior Choir have now received their Young
Voices CDs with all of the songs they need to learn for the event. A letter
will be going out with ticket details and further information shortly.
Please find the lyrics at www.youngvoices.co.uk. Happy singing!
Postcards
If you are going anywhere interesting over the half term
break please send Mrs Lee a postcard for the Geography
‗Where in the World have we been?‘ board. Try to describe what is
different about where you are compared to South Buckinghamshire.
Kind regards
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The Berkhamsted Netball Tournament 2012
On Saturday the U10 & U11 Netball Squads participated in the annual Netball
Tournament at Berkhamsted Prep. School. Both teams played all the other
schools in their age group over the morning.
The U10 squad started well winning their first game against Berkhamsted
U9’s, and then went on to be successful in 3 other matches playing excellent
netball against Haberdashers’ Aske’s, BPS U10 ‘B’ and BPS U10 ‘A’ teams.
They lost a game 2-3 goals to Beechwood school, who went on to win the
tournament. The final placing was not easy as we had equal points with them
as well as equal goals for and against. The 2 teams were equal so the organisers went to the match score which Beechwood had won! So they took 1 st position and we were the Silver Medalists!! The girls behaved very sportingly
even though they were disappointed to have come so close to winning. The
squad really did Maltman’s proud, and the standard of their play was complimented by others. Well done, girls!!
D Simmons
The U11 team also had a good start defeating Haberdashers’ Aske’s and going on to have wins against Beechwood Park and High March. In total they
won 3 matches and lost 3. The highlight was the match against High March as
the team made amends for the defeat by High March in the final at the Manor
Tournament last week, this time winning 5-2 with some very determined play.
Well done to all the squad!
Miss E Harrington
PE Teacher
To all Nursery and Reception Parents
You may remember a few weeks ago the Bucks Advertiser visited the girls to photograph them for their ―First Day at School‖ feature. The pictures will be featured in this
week‘s Bucks Advertiser together with details of how you can buy your own copies.
Regards, Mrs Barr
Head of Early Years
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KNITTING
Maia Briggs was the first to neatly complete her lovely key ring
character in kitting club this week!
Well done Maia Soon there will be many more!
Mrs J Bennett
Head of CDT
P.S. Many thanks for the wool sent in - keep clearing the odd
shelf.. and a special thanks to Miss Jones who kindly gave us
a large bag of wool last term
Watching Ballet
November 6 and 7 will be watching lessons for Ballet. Please
arrive in time for the start of your daughters lesson if you wish
to watch. Please note places are limited to one adult per pupil.
We hope to be able to offer a watching lesson termly in the future.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Remembrance Sunday 11 November
The Royal British Legion helps to ensure that:
"If we are to maintain our peace and freedom,
we must always remember"
This year Mrs Pardon accompanied by a few
girls from year 6 will lay a wreath on behalf of
our school community at Gerrards Cross Memorial Centre, East Common from 10.30am.
We would be delighted if other girls attending
the service with their families would like to wear
their smart Maltman‘s winter uniform.
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Resources on the Maltman‘s Green Website
You no doubt visit the school website from time to time to keep up-to-date with our news
articles, newsletters and photo galleries. However, here is a reminder of just some of the
other resources which you may find particularly useful on a day-to-day basis:
Parents‘ Area
Noticeboard
General Information – Parents‘ Handbook, Parents‘ Diary, Term Dates
Curriculum outlines for each year group for current and previous terms
Dedicated FOMG area, with letters and calendar of dates
School policies
Public Area
Dates
Term Dates
Calendar of Events – this webpage contains current information on all forthcoming events, with the facility to download relevant dates into your personal
calendar on Outlook
Fixtures – with up-to-the minute information as in the Calendar of Events
School Info
Catering and Food
School menus - downloadable weekly lunch menus
Please note that a number of our website pages – such as the Calendar of Events and the
School menus - also feature RSS feeds. As an RSS subscriber, you can receive an automatic feed to your computer or smartphone when there are any updates to the information.
Finally, please don‘t forget that if you accidentally delete a ParentMail from your mailbox
or need to update your email or mobile contact data, you can access your account by following the ―Parent Login‖ link at www.parentmail.co.uk. If you no longer have a note of
ADA Car Park
When using the ADA car-park all parking bays have footpaths available to ensure pedestrians have a safe route to walk into school.
All pupils and parents are requested not to walk on the roadways or behind parked cars
for their own safety.
Thank you
Mr M Irving
Bursar
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Malty‘s Favourites
Helena Ullyatt
1M
For your very interesting summer Eco challenge project
Head Mistress Commendations
Chloe Colfer
6S
For your very well written ‗Dear Mother‘ letter
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Recent Events
(to find out more, click on relevant links)
Year 1 visit the Chiltern Open Air Museum
Year 4 Aluminium Recycling
Maltman's Old Girls sing in "Songs of Praise" Event
African Drumming with Year 5
Uncovering 2D Shapes with Year 1
The Early Years Explore Autumn
Year 2 visit Hampton Court Palace
Harvest Festival
Nursery Harvest Festival
Sports Fixtures
(To find out more about any of our sports fixtures, click on the link below:)