LANCING PREP WORTHING Weekly Briefing 1 March 2019

www.lancingpepworthingcalendar.org.uk World Book Day 2019 The Week Ahead … In celebration of World Book Day on Thursday 7 March, we would like all children from Nursery to Year 6 Bikeability Week Year 5 to come to school dressed as their Tuesday 5 March favourite character - from a book they have read. 8CE Mock Exams begin. End 8 March. Dressing up is fun, but it is very important that we 14.00 Girls’ Netball: U8 and U9 v Great Ballard, focus on the books in the hope that we will Away. Return 16.15 encourage our children to be adventurous in their reading choices and learn from each other. To 15.00 Year 5 and 6 Boys’ and Girls’ Cross that end, all children should bring in their favourite Country, . Return 16.45 book from home to share with the class. The Wednesday 6 March teachers will do the same! 14.30 Girls’ Netball: U12/13 v Great Ballard, Children in Year 6 have Bikeability next week, so Home. Pick up 16.00 should come into school in their PE kit as normal 14.30 Girls’ Netball: U10 and U11 v Seaford all week. College, Away. Return 16.45 Children in Year 7 & 8 have a trip to Lancing 14.30 Boys’ Hockey: U13 v U11A and U11B, College on this day, to see a musical theatre . Return 16.00 production of Legally Blonde. Therefore, we ask that they come to school dressed in their Thursday 7 March school uniform. They should, however, come World Book Day prepared to talk about their favourite character from a novel which they have read recently. 12.00-14.30 Concours d’Art Oratoire (Year 7 MFL Speaking Competition), Lancing College LPWA Notices 14.30-17.00 Years 7 and 8 to watch Legally Blonde Matinee at Lancing College Curry & Quiz Night – Tonight. Don’t forget your tickets. Doors open at 7pm. Curry will be served 14.45 Girls’ Netball: U8 and U9 v Shoreham at 7.30pm and Quiz straight after. College, Home. Pick up 16.00 unless in Netball Club Friday 15 March – Uniform Sale 3pm to 5pm in 15.00 Boys’ Hockey: U9A and U9B v Dorset the Hall. Come along and bag a bargain. Don’t House, Away. Return 17.00 forget after Easter it’s Summer Uniform! Friday 8 March Friday 22 March – Pre-Prep and Prep Parties. Invites will be coming home with your 14.00 Girls’ Netball: U10 Tournament, child next week. Please return these to the office Handcross Park School. Return 17.15 by 15 March.

Annie Rehearsals - 5 March Mother’s Day Gift – A note will be coming home

This week we will be rehearsing the scene 1, 2 & 3. with your child next week.

We therefore need the following students: SECRETARY – WE NEED YOU, well, we need a secretary. The role would take up less than half Piper S, Izzy B, Emma S, Nerea K-M, Ava W, Bethan E, an hour a week, unless you would like to be more Amelie K-M, Amelia G, Sophia B, Isaac R, Louis B, involved with the group. Pippa S, Grace T, Phillip C, Riley T, Eddie B, Zain B Look out for “The Circus is coming to Lancing Any students who would like a copy of the backing Prep Hove” at the end of March. Tickets will be music should bring in a blank CD or pen drive to Mrs available soon. Goodson.

Lancing Prep Worthing News Bulletin #8

A Lancing College Preparatory School 1 March 2019 Reception pupils encounter LPW Pupils shine at Worthing Arts & exotic beasts in the classroom! Music Festival Phil from Jaws and Claws a female bearded dragon who Winnie and Lola, the two large came to visit with a wide range liked to eat locusts, Tina, a tenrec tortoises. The children were also of animals for the children to see from Madagascar who looks like lucky enough to meet Lucy the and touch. Sadly the snake was a tiny hedgehog but is actually a scorpion who stayed in her box in the process of shedding his member of the elephant family while we looked at her! skin which makes him grumpy and Graham, a tiger salamander, Some of the children were when handled so he wasn’t who can regrow his limbs if they a little hesitant to touch the allowed to visit. However, the get damaged. Buster, a tree animals at first but quickly children did meet Jenny the frog, climbed up the side of the gained confidence. The children hissing cockroach, Dave the cupboard and sat on Esmee’s impressed Phil with their Giant African Land Snail, Eddie, head and the children loved knowledge of reptiles.

Our pupils have worked very hard with our visiting Drama teacher, Mrs Howard, to prepare for this year’s competition. Well done to Izzy B who was placed first in the Solo Verse 10 Years category and third in the Prepared Prose Reading Year 3 investigate category, which puts her second mummification overall in her age group and Historians from Museum qualifies her for the finals day on visited Year 3 to talk about some of 3 March. We wish Izzy all the very the ancient artefacts in the museum. best of luck! These included jewellery and other In the Solo Verse 5 Years items, which the ancient Egyptians competition, Vivian B took first believed would have been taken place, with Olivia H and William B into the afterlife by those who in joint third place. were buried. They also explained Grace Craig and Piper S were the mummification process and thrilled to be placed first in the the children had the chance to Improvision Duologue 12 Years extract ‘organs’ from a doll and put competition. Third place was them into canopic jars. They then gained by Amelie K-M and Amelia bandaged the mummy and placed it G. into its sarcophagus. It was a great experience and complemented our Ancient Egypt topic brilliantly.

Year 4 take on a Maths Challenge On Thursday, John, Martha, Imogen and Oliver from Year 4 went to Christ’s Hospital for a Maths Challenge. They had a great afternoon completing mathematical challenges using dice, tangrams, dominoes and number riddles. With 38 schools represented, they didn’t make the top 3 places Grace T took third place in the but they still performed brilliantly; Speaking Your Own Poem 11 persevering and collaborating Years and Under. through some extremely Well done to everyone who challenging problems. entered; they all acquitted

House Points Update themselves well and were a Saxons 416 Normans 349 Celts 286 Britons 265 credit to the school. We are so proud of them all. Saxons are top of the leaderboard this week with Normans in second position. Celts and Britons will be looking to improve their scores next week. Pre-Prep Head Teacher Awards Sports Snapshot

Week ending 15 02 19 Reception Damian for being kind and helpful Esmee for her platypus drawing and writing Francesca for her labelled drawing of a platypus Jasper for investigating in maths Peaches for working on her target Year 1 Dylan for thoughtful behaviour Felix for enthusiasm with reading and writing William for brilliant spoken poetry Year 2 Bella for super grammar work Freddie for always giving 100% effort in all his work Sophia for amazing ‘Delving Deeper’ work

Week ending 01 03 19 Reception Boys’ First B Team in goal scoring move against Dorset House Amalie for her fantastic alien picture Boys’ Hockey v Dorset House 27 02 19 Dylan for excellent reading First A Lost 3-4 Eithne for participating during carpet time First B won 11-0 Ethan for his exciting astronaut role play Colts Red Team V Lost 0-2 PoM Eddie B Hattie for excellent reading Colts Blue Team V Won 4-3 PoM Oscar G Year 1 Boys’ Football v Windlesham 27 02 19 Charlotte for increased confidence Year 3 Won 2-0 PoM Regan C Cooper for trying so hard with his number formation Year 4 Lost 2-3 PoM Zach P Felix for trying new foods at lunchtime Boys’ Football v Sion 13 02-19 Olivia for increased confidence Colts Red Team Won 2-0 PoM Joseph M Year 2 Colts Blue Team Lost 0-2 PoM Jonah M Harry for excellent life cycle work in Science Boys’ Hockey v 13 02 19 Sam for comparing modern homes with 17th century homes First A Won 6-2 PoM Will T Sophia A for her work in doubling at home First B Drew 2-2 PoM Teddy E

Prep Head Teacher Awards

Week ending 15 02 19 Year 3 Gus C for writing a wonderful thank you letter to a visitor Mikaaeel M for writing a wonderful thank you letter to a visitor Ruby H for writing a wonderful thank you letter to a visitor Year 6 for being a resourceful learner and crafting an interesting Ava W and detailed letter to her French penfriend for being a resourceful learner and crafting an interesting Izzy B and detailed letter to her French penfriend and for being a ‘Resourceful Ranger’ extraordinaire in crafting and an imaginative newspaper report for being a resourceful learner and crafting an interesting Will O’B and detailed letter to his French penfriend

Boys’ Colts Blue Team mounting an attack against Dorset House LPW Swimming News Our swimmers took part in the recent IAPS competition and special con- Our U11 netballers spent a sunny afternoon at the Lancing College Net- gratulations go to Sophia B who competed in her first county swimming ball Tournament where they enjoyed a competitive round of matches! gala and achieved two PBs in the 200m freestyle and 100m backstroke. She was placed 5th and 4th respectively in her age group.

Sophia B with older brother Ben IAPS swimmers

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