Charity Mufti Day Introduction

EWELL CASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL Spring Term Review 2018 INTRODUCTION 6 about engineering. She explained talents of children across the whole the potential career paths that school, the house swimming gala, the children could take towards in which every child in Years 3-6 an engineering role. KS1 children took part, and Year 4’s spectacular performed a wonderful version of performance of ‘Puss in Boots’. ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with great There is no let up here at Ewell Castle singing and some super character School, even in the last few days acting! Year 3 also took to the stage of term. The Easter bunny made with their rainforest themed words a pre-Easter visit to the children at and music and brought their topic to Chessington Lodge and the PSFA life with their own poems, songs and organised an exciting treasure hunt musical performances. for Glyn House children. The children and staff are very grateful to you for Our new Family Classroom Visit all your hard work in adding even Afternoon was a great success and more fun to our school days. the children were excited about As ever, it has been a busy term with showing off their books and favourite I wish you all a restful and happy the children achieving a great deal pieces of work. It was lovely to have holiday. Stay safe, be kind to each both in and out of the classroom. so many parents and family members other and don’t eat too much On behalf of the children across the join us for the afternoon, so please chocolate! Prep School, the School Council do come to the next one scheduled chose to support the NSPCC as their Ms Sian Bradshaw for the Summer Term. chosen charity. Emma Le Maitre from Head of Preparatory School the NSPCC delivered an informative The theme for book week was, assembly prior to the children’s ‘What’s behind the curtain…a fund raising activities, which raised doorway to another world’ and £332. One pupil also wanted to raise the children took their inspiration CHARITY MUFTI awareness of the charity ‘Beat’, from the book ‘Leon and the Place which supports young people with Between’, which led to some truly DAY eating disorders. With the support magnificent writing. The author, During the academic year 2017- of the children at Glyn House, we Annabel Claridge and illustrator, Paul 2018, the children at Ewell Castle managed to raise £228.50. Our Geraghty also spoke to the children Prep School have chosen to sport’s relief mufti day was also very about writing and illustrating. Paul support the NSPCC. We kicked successful and we will be able to Geraghty was kind enough to leave this off in style with a charity advise you of the final amount raised us with a couple of his illustrations mufti day as well as having next term. Thank you to everyone which we have had framed and will Emma, a representative from the who has supported our fund raising be on display soon. Activities for the NSPCC, to talk to the children efforts. week were somewhat interrupted about the fantastic work the by the snowy weather and so our There have been numerous charity does. Between now and Chinese New Year workshops and opportunities for the children to July, we are holding year group costume parade were postponed be inspired to try new things. At charity events as well as a whole until the following week. The children the beginning of the term, the school sponsored event (to be really used their imaginations and children were able to take part in a decided!) later in the summer. created some amazing costumes, photography competition judged at Emma will return in the summer with your help, parents, thank you! a hugely entertaining evening, by to help us run some events as Paul Goldstein. Sarah Faulkner, an We have rounded off the term with well as collect our hard earned old school friend of Ms Garrod who several big events: the whole school money! is now an air traffic controller, visited musical production of ‘Guys and Miss K Garrod the school and spoke to Years 5 and Dolls’, which demonstrated the huge www.ewellcastle.co.uk @EwellCastleUK WINTER BALL This year’s Winter Ball took place on Saturday 13th January 2018 at Glenmore House, Surbiton. Thank you to everyone who donated a raffle prize or auction lot, bought a Winter Ball raffle ticket and or bought a ticket to the Winter Ball and to those who successfully bid for an auction lot. We raised nearly £6,000 for performing arts at Ewell Castle School. Thank you very much, your support and generosity is really appreciated. ‘A WILD NIGHT GLYN HOUSE CLASSROOM VISIT OUT’ WITH PAUL The Family Classroom Visit on 30th January was a great success. GOLDSTEIN Thank you to all the parents who We were delighted to host “A Wild dropped in at Glyn House to be Night Out with Paul Goldstein: shown their child’s work. Tales & Images from the Poles to the Plains” on Tuesday 23rd January. Paul is one of the UK’s most respected wildlife photographers and he kindly offered to share some incredible stories and photographs from his travels. The evening also included a pupil photography competition for pupils aged 5 to 18 where he was impressed by the high quality of the pupil photo entries. Thank you to everyone who made donations during the evening; all monies raised went to Paul Goldstein’s chosen wildlife charity. 2 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE WOLF Years 1 and 2 put on a wonderful two superb performances for family show earlier this term, ‘Little Red and friends. One of the highlights of Riding Hood and The Wolf’. The the show was the song ‘Butterflies performance included all the and Bees’ which was sung traditional characters from the fairy simultaneously by both year groups tale as well as some unfamiliar with the ‘Good Animals’ trying to ones including the ‘Good Animals’ stop Little Red Riding Hood from played by Year 1, the naughty straying off the path and the ‘Bad ‘Bad Animals’ from Year 2 and Animals’ trying to persuade her into extremely proud of the children; the Secret League Of Pigs! The the woods. Little Red Riding Hood, a lovely end to the first half of the children worked incredibly hard to played by Mia, was of course enticed spring term. learn songs, lines and actions and into the woods where she met the Mrs L Patel their hard work was rewarded by Big Bad Wolf! All the staff were BOOK WEEK WORLD THINKING DAY We celebrated World Thinking Day this year with many of the children coming to school in their Guide/Scout uniforms. World Thinking Day is celebrated annually on 22 February by all Girl Guides, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts internationally. It is a day when they think about Guiding and Scouting worldwide and its global impact. 22nd February was chosen as it was the birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Lord Robert On Monday 26th February the Prep started reading her books already! Baden-Powell and of Lady Olave School began their celebration of On Tuesday 27th February, Paul Baden-Powell, his wife and Book Week! Geraghty visited Early Years, Pre-prep World Chief Guide. This year, our theme was ‘What’s and Prep year groups. A whirlwind behind the curtain… a doorway to of inspiration! The children were a magic world’. This gave all the spellbound as they watched him children the opportunity to use their create illustrations for his books, and imagination to express their ideas in we are lucky enough to have two words and pictures. large illustrations to keep and display in our school. The tips he gave the During the week, we were very lucky children for starting their drawings to receive visits from two authors, who and illustrations have already inspired came to inspire us in our reading and many of our budding artists! writing. The children had a wonderful week of On Monday 26th February, we were inspiration and imagination. Tumbling very lucky to work with Annabel acrobats at Glyn House, and magic Claridge, author of the ‘Bo the Poodle’ Worlds at Chessington Lodge! series of history-based books. She explained how she researched the Let’s keep opening those magic doors facts for her work, and told us the as we lose ourselves in our reading! story of how the idea for her stories Mrs T Blakeman came about. Many of our pupils have 3 GLYN HOUSE BOOK WEEK ART 4 PRIORY COURT VISIT THE JUNIOR CITIZENSHIP EVENT 2018 On Monday 5th March, Year 6 went on a school trip to Epsom Racecourse for the Junior Citizenship Event. The Junior Citizenship is for kids to learn safety tips for when they get older such as Electric Safety, Lifeguard Patrol, What to do if there was a fire, Healthy Eating, Railway Safety and What to do if someone tries to take you away by promising things to you. Firstly, my group went to the UK Power Networks.They told us about the dangers of power cables and pylons and how powerful the shocks can be. Next we went to the RNLI (Royal We had another successful trip to Old People’s Home for Four Year National Life Boat Institute). They Priory Court Care Home in Ewell with Olds”, the aim of our visits is to taught us about the dangers in Y3 on 28th February. The children build relationships between the two and near the sea and how they loved learning how to play ‘shove generations & bring fun & laughter to went out to the River Thames ha’penny’ with the residents.

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