Newsletter Friday, 18 January 2019

Back into the swing of things! We are all back into the swing of things at Copthorne, with Christmas and the New Year a distant memory. Year 7 & 8 exams are on the horizon, as is their wonderful trip to Nice later this term. More Year 6 & 7 children have been sitting ISEB Pre-tests this week and good luck to all those sitting entry tests at Lingfield tomorrow! There has been a bit of a science theme going on this week, with a select group of Copthorne Year 6 children representing the school very well at the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Day at College. They had to design and build a solar power car – see report later in the newsletter. Many children thoroughly enjoyed the Astro Disco this afternoon, (thanks to DJ Heas and sound engineer MB) and I hope that parents are still purchasing their tickets (via our website) for the Astro Ball on Saturday, 9 February as this promises to be super event.

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The Astro Ball - 9 February 2019 Its not too late to buy your Astro Ball tickets! However we are getting close to the point where we need to tell the hotel our final numbers, so please do go to the website and buy your tickets! Don’t worry if you haven’t got a full table ... we will sort it out so that year groups are together. It’s sure to be a great night … so dust off your dancing shoes and come along for some fun, frivolity and fabulous fare with your fine friends! Jones v Swadling Mr Jones & Mrs Swadling were helped along the way this morning by Matthias O-B! Together with his dad, Matthias cycled 3 kilometres which Mrs Swadling is gratefully adding to her total (she needs a little help methinks!) Jaunty Jones is rapidly approaching the Scottish Grand Total - £20,129.16 border (nearly his halfway point) while Slowcoach Swadling has at last completed the Dorset coastline and Important Links is trundling through Devon heading The 200 Club - Parent Lottery Club! for the border with Cornwall … yay! www.copthorneprep.co.uk/astro-appeal/200club EasyFundraising - Another way to do your shopping! www.copthorneprep.co.uk/astro-appeal/easy-fundraising JustGiving - Online donation service www.justgiving.com/fundraising/copthorneprepschool Astro Ball www.copthorneprep.co.uk/information/astro-appeal/ball Triathlon www.copthorneprep.co.uk/information/astro-appeal/the-triathlon/ School News School Uniform As the weather is due to turn cold and wintery over the next several weeks, please can you make sure that your child/ren have the school black coat in school. If your child/ren wear a winter hat, it must be the school beanie. Please may we also remind you that gloves that are worn at school must be black. Please make sure that the school uniform is in good condition ie no holes in cardigans and jumpers, ties are not chewed and shoes are cleaned and polished. It is also important that the girls sports uniform is not too short. The uniform guidelines can be found in the uniform handbook which is in the Parents Zone. Please note the shop will be closed from 29 January to 6 February.

Chess News Copthorne Prep fielded two of the youngest teams, each of three players, in the highly competitive Southern semi- final of the ECF National Schools Girls’ Tournament held at St Catherine’s, Bramley on Sunday, 13 January. Our squad comprised Sorcha C, Niamh G, Ann T, Amelie R, Natalie V-H and Jasmine O. There were great performances all round with Jasmine and Ann in particular playing disciplined controlled chess and it was both notable and commendable that Copthorne girls were often the last of the 168 players to leave the playing hall. Jasmine partnered with Sorcha and Ann and scored a very respectable 6/15 resulting in a mid-table finish, whilst Amelie partnered with Niamh and Natalie and placed 6th overall with 10½ points out of 15, winning the Top Under-9 team gold medal, and qualifying for the Final due to be held on the 6/7 April 2019. Copthorne Prep was the highest performing school in Sussex and this was an outstanding performance from a young squad who we did not expect to qualify for the finals until next year. The result bodes well for our ambitious stretch target of Copthorne Girls winning the ECF National Schools title in 2021. Taking into account the Northern UK semi-final, this competition is the largest girls' tournament in the world. Fantastic result girls but our thanks also extend to the parents without whom these extracurricular team events would not be possible. Chess news from the weekend just gone. Apart from the fantastic result from the Copthorne Girls' squad on Sunday, Amelie also captained the U9 Sussex squad of 18 players in an inter-county match against Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire held in Twyford on Saturday. Amelie was one of only two Sussex players to win all their games - an extremely difficult thing to do when you are playing on any of the top three boards. Amelie was also only one of two girls in the squad which is an imbalance I am seeking to address going forward. Sussex finished second but Amelie was still grinding her opponent down (from the winners Berkshire) whilst the trophies had already been given out and most people had left. Amelie had a reasonable performance in the LJCC U10 Majors standard-play event in late December with 3/6 and whilst it was not strong enough to win Top Girl (there were over a hundred players in her section), it was good experience for her as an U9. She can try again as an U10 in December.

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Hall of Fame Congratulations to Sienna who won Club Swimmer of the Year at her swimming club. A huge honour in a club where swimmers range from 8 - 30 years old. As well as winning all distances in every stroke in her age goup at the recent swimming championship (in total 10 gold medals!), Sienna also won the trophy to be age Group Champion! An amazing season after hours and hours of training. Well done Sienna! Nursery & Pre-Prep

STARS OF THE WEEK Congratulations to ... RJB Advit Settling in very well and enjoying his first swimming lesson! RJD Anna Great partner work in RWI, and independent writing RJB Willow 1CF Priyan 1HL Jack Working hard on his 'Three Little Pigs' story RJD Kian 2EPS Avyanna 1CF Suman An excellent first two weeks at Copthorne! 1HL Jack 2DP Aarav 2EPS Max K Persevering with mastery problem solving and good thinking Mrs Swadling particularly liked the chattiness 2DP Callum Taking on new challenges in Maths. at the Good Manners Table this week!

Babysitting Josiah has lost his black coat. Do remember that Miss Molly Heasman is often available for baby-sitting. Her It is named number is 07815 918079. The new Gap Students may also be able to help “Ngabirano”. If once they have settled in! found, please can you return to Beth or Mrs Barham's classroom The Nursery Year 1 Pippins class have been using We have all now their handprints to make chicken painted pictures of pictures this week. We talked our homes and have about how the paint felt on our enjoyed finding hands and all agreed it was cold! similarities and Next week we start our ‘wild differences between animal’ topic and are looking them. We are forward to making our ‘rumble in beginning to learn the jungle’ display. about the properties of various materials such Acorns class have been as metal, plastic, glass, pretending to be soldiers, and what each might marching around to Grand Old be best used for in our homes. Duke of York! We have used our photographs to make our own We have listened to and re-written in our own words the soldiers, painted hills and used story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and have decorated our felt tip pens to colour horses. We work with ‘straw’, have had a lot of fun hiding in the tent in the role play area and ‘sticks’ or ‘bricks’. creating our own dens. They will shortly be seen in our Oaks class had great fun in Forest Schools this week: they split into classrooms. 4 teams and had to go on a hunt for toy superheroes, some had climbed up trees! Afterwards the children made their superhero a We used natural items ‘super den’ using natural materials found in the woods. found in the woods to print a picture using Each week on a table in the classroom will be ‘finger gym’ a mallet, muslin and activities to encourage development of the children’s fine motor lots of muscle! skills in preparation to hold and write with a pencil correctly. This week, the children had a challenge to ‘release the superheroes’ which involved threading (then rethreading) wool through small holes on a picture. At Francis Court, the residents and children used Lego to create buildings for their superheroes to fly over. They also modelled characters out of play dough. Year 2 The children have been busy learning about the Polar Regions and how they differ. When describing the Arctic, the children thought of some lovely adjectives and wove them into their descriptive writing. During DT children worked in groups to design a Polar Region and are looking forward to building it next week. The story of Shackleton Reception and his expedition Reception embarked upon a trip around the school grounds using is encouraging the only their senses. We discovered that we could hear the children children to find out playing using our ears, we could see steam coming from the about the Antarctic and swimming pool using our eyes and we could smell something not what the conditions are very nice near the bins using our noses. We were fascinated by the like in this very isolated roughness of the theatre wall, and loved tasting our fruit surprise continent. It felt almost when we got back to the classroom! as cold as Antarctica this week, and the In Maths we focussed on symmetry and made beautiful butterflies children carried out using paint. We also learned to count in 2’s this week but found it an investigation with rather tricky. ‘ice hands’ to discover Forest School was a hit as always! Mr Lloyd divided us in teams to where the coldest make our own hot air balloons with string, fabric and egg cartons. location was in the Pre- We then had the opportunity to fly them off the climbing tower Prep …. definitely not to see which team’s was most aerodynamic. Great fun and lots under Beth’s desk! of laughter! The Prep School

What’s happening next week? Good Manners Table Congratulations to the Years 3 & 4 children who sat Monday, 21 January on the Good Manners Table today! Taekwondo starts this week 6.00pm - Boys Hockey v Cumnor House 3CC Nathaniel 4KB Louis 3RG Max 4TC Sachin Tuesday, 22 January 4AH Harrison Year 6 Maths Challenge - Eagle House Wednesday, 23 January See SOCS for Sport events Effort Star Awards Thursday, 24 January Congratulations to the following Year 3 & 4 children who have been awarded their bronze, silver, gold, Don’t forget the Drama Club Rehearsals - Mary Poppins (please see rehearsal schedule in Parents Zone) diamond and platinum awards! most up-to-date Bronze Awards Friday, 25 Janaury calendar is on the Aaradhana S, Levahana P Parents’ Zone Year 4 Roman Day Inter Schools Cross Country U13, U11, U9 @Geat Walstead Persuasive Writing in Year 4 In English this week Year 4 CITIZENSHIP HOUSE TOTALS having been Points are now based on Citizenship Stars! learning about the white witch from Narnia and her enchanted Turkish delight! All of the pupils were lucky Newton Rendall Workman Sale enough to 94 93 81 75 sample some Turkish delight direct from Narnia itself, and using their senses (smelling, tasting, touching and looking at the Turkish delight) and a variety of persuasive Boarding News techniques they came up with their own persuasive posters persuading people to try it! Week 3 – Tues 22 Jan – Quiz Night (All ages) Test your general knowledge and pop culture at Mr Glaysher’s quiz night. Prize to be won! (Spaces available) Lego Club Week 4 – Thurs 31 Jan – Copthorne Champions League! (All ages) We made our Mr Ansboro will be hosting our very own boarding football competition. own town, (Boys' dorms are FULL) complete with Week 5 – Mon 4 Feb – Pool Party (All ages) giant tree house, The ever popular pool party returns to the boarding house. dog grooming Book in early for this one. (Spaces available) parlour and Week 7 – Wed 27 Feb – Ready. Steady. Cook. (All ages) haunted house Miss P will put your Home Ec. skills to the test. Will it be Green Peppers or Red Tomatoes? (Spaces available) Week 8 – Tues 5 Mar – Pool Party (All ages) If you missed out first time round, here is another chance to Shin Pads and Gum Shields book a place for the pool party. (Spaces available) All boys and girls should have shin pads and a gum Week 9 – Thurs 14 Mar – Copthorne Cinema (All ages) shield in their Games bag throughout the year from Mr Gallagher’s popular cinema night is back. The newest DVD now on. release and popcorn in our theatre! (ALL DORMS ARE FULL!) We are looking to introduce more boys’ hockey Week 10 – Thurs 21 Mar – Capture the Flag in the Woods (All ages) and girls’ football for all age groups. It is necessary The fans’ favourite game will take place in the woods this time to wear shin pads to play both of these sports round for some added excitement. (Boys' dorms are FULL) competitively and we would hate for your child to miss out due to not having them as part of their kit. To book your place, email [email protected] There may be occasions when they play these sports “out of season” so keeping them in their bag at all times will increase their chances of participation. All items can be purchased in the School Shop. Science in Science in Year 4 Year 6 Year 4TB and AH Year 6 have been in the Science Lab studying Adaptation investigating reversible and Classification. and irreversible We’ve learned changes. about Vertebrates They tried chocolate, and Invertebrates honey, butter and jelly and how these to test the temperature two groups can be and time it took to melt classified into even and if the process could more sub-groups. be reversed. In order to fully understand how classification keys work, we decided to start with something we know...sweets! This worked a treat and we Some interesting created these amazing classification keys to sort our ‘specimens’... questions were asked before we ate them! and some surprising results found! Success at Ardingly Lifecoach News This week, 8 year 6 Year 7 Personality Profiling Project is currently looking at students attended “Me at my NOT best”... i.e. me at my worst, my most the STEM day at unattractive, when I like myself least (and possibly others Ardingly College. do too!)……..”Catchy little upbeat coaching session” you Our students were must be thinking? part of two out of the three winning Using the idea of ‘strengths overused can become a teams. One team weakness’, and the concept of ‘blind-spots’ (what others won the Velocity know about you, but you don’t), students look at their award for the fastest ‘lead style’ and imagine ‘how’ they are when they are ‘not Solar car built from scratch, and the other the Aesthetics award for at their best’. the best designed car. The students learned about trigonometry, For students this age, introducing the idea that they construction and renewable energy, and thoroughly enjoyed their might think/feel they are ‘at their best’ (….maybe even experience. Well done to all who took part. ‘on-fire’!) it can be a revelation that other personality styles might beg to differ. For example, a more extrovert style might feel they are doing really well by upbeat Forest School in Year 3 talking, talking, talking, but an introvert style might 3CC took part in forest school’s ‘Great Copthorne Bake Off’. After just want some peace and quiet. It is a question of finding suitable wood perspective. and starting a fire the children then baked Through a discussion of all of this, the intention is that bread on the end of students start to appreciate that: sticks. Apparently it • No one is perfect. It is our imperfections that was the best bread make us so interesting, valuable and individual. they’ve ever tasted! and • We are all different and that is a good thing. thoroughly enjoyed their • What seems ok to me might be problematic for experience. Well done to someone else – it is a question of perspective and all who took part. different personality preferences. We can learn to be sensitive of others in our relationships (at work, at home, at school, in sport etc). Hearing Dogs for the Deaf Year 4 were fortunate enough to have a visit from Sue and Ian • Not being at our best is ok, so long as we try to Robertson and their dog Jaz today. Sue has been profoundly deaf manage ourselves and learn from these moments. since birth and has in • We can change behaviour patterns once we the last 8 years had Jaz are aware. as her Hearing Dog for • Being aware and noticing – self awareness – is the Deaf. They gave a extremely useful. We can set goals to achieve this. very interesting talk and a demonstration on Jaz’s As usual, your children continue to inspire me, make skills and Yr 4 asked me laugh and make me quite emotional at times, as we some very thoughtful navigate these topics, on a one-2-one basis. questions. Jaz was given some doggy treats for coming to Copthorne! Classified

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