Newsletter Friday, 14 June 2019
"Thank you for taking my daughter to Wales and giving her such an incredible opportunity. When she came home she seemed 5 years older! She had the time of her life and has not stopped talking about it since. She returned full of confidence and a belief that she can do anything." (Year 7 mum)
Confidence – Opportunity – Potential Year 7 pushed themselves to the limit in Snowdonia participating in some really adventurous and challenging activities last week; Year 8 showed resilience and grit as they coped with some inclement weather in France after half term; they have also just enjoyed competing in the Copthorne “Bake-off” challenge, judged by professional chefs, with the cakes, scones and sandwiches shared with their parents; Year 6 children are cycling their way towards passing Bikeability awards (the HM failed his cycling proficiency test when he was 11!); children swam well at Ardingly despite not having trained in the school pool for several weeks (it is now open again!); Emi W came first in the IAPS National Under 12 Butterfly final and Katie F was second in the U11 Breaststroke event, held at the National Aquatic Centre in London. Our young chess players were magnificent in the UKI Championships, with the girls team victorious and the boys in second place; our wonderful “Carnival Float” committee were out in force last weekend preparing for tomorrows Horley Carnival; “Moving up“ morning enabled children from Oaks to Year 3 to spend time meeting their new teachers and classmates from September; sadly, Year 2 Rock pooling, Wednesdays sport and Thursday night Year 5 camping have all fallen foul of the weather, BUT the last two weeks have helped to develop children’s confidence, provide them with a wide range of opportunities, and has helped them realise their potential. This is what Copthorne is all about! Have a good weekend.
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Effingham Lane, Copthorne, West Sussex RH10 3HR | 01342 712311 | www.copthorneprep.co.uk School News Meningitis Charity Swimming Pool News The work on the swimming pool is now completed & Everest Trip and swimming lessons will resume next week. On 4 September 2019, James Noble Thank you for bearing with us. (a former Copthorne pupil) will be undertaking a "once in a lifetime" fourteen day trek to Everest Base Camp as a member of Loughborough University, in order to highlight awareness and raise funds for Meningitis Research Foundation. As many of you may or may not be aware, meningitis is a life-threatening disease that mainly affects babies, young children, teenagers, and young adults and James needs to raise £2190 to undertake this trek and help this great charity combat this deadly disease. Therefore, if you would like to help contribute to this great cause, you can do so via this link: https://lsu-everest-2019.everydayhero.com/uk/james- everest-base-camp-trek-2019/wizard/share?fbclid=IwAR0NQhOqkC0j0nG7Y AJaNWLoSK-WmA6_Vxl3LPVK0VmaA5b_hOGDFVyCQR4 James is hoping to come back to Copthorne once he returns from Everest to tell the children more about his adventures and also if any of the older children would like to find out more about university life at Loughborough, or life at Reigate Grammar School. We will be be holding a non-uniform day on Friday 21 June to support James and the Meningitis Charity.
Non Uniform Day - Friday 21 June Quiz Night As well as raising money for the Meningitis Charity, we are We are pleased that the tables are filling up! It will be a great also asking you to bring in a bottle for the adult tombolla. night - if you haven't told us you are coming, please let us know Can you help us ... we are also looking for more china and asap! There will be chilli during the quiz and a disco afterwards. books for the stalls on the Family Day (Sunday, 30 June). Entry form can be found later in this newsletter or on the school website under events.
We Need Your Help! We are looking for the following Don’t forget to ask items for the Family Fun Day Stalls! your friends and Bottles of alcohol for Adult Tombola family if they would Nearly New Books like to sell their Old or Broken China Sweets for the Sweet Stall wares at the car boot sale! Fri 28 June or Sun 30 June Cakes, biscuits, cup cakes, tray bakes etc for our Cake Stall Copthorne Prep Family Fun Day & Car Boot Sale Sunday 30 June Lastly, can you help 12 noon - 4.00pm on the day with running the stalls?
for more information, please email [email protected] Nursery & Pre-Prep
Wow ... what a result! Very many congratulations to the latest group of Copthorne Chess Champions! For the first time in the cup's history, our U7 team won the Sussex Junior Chess Cup, AND a Copthorne player - Adi - came 1st equal! Playing under tournament conditions, the standard of chess was extremely high and the behaviour and concentration excellent. Very well done indeed to Adi, Avyanna, Aarav, Rohan, William and Aiyana and a big thank you to Mr Tuck for his excellent coaching! Moving Up Day!
STARS OF THE WEEK Congratulations to ... 2DP Aiyana Working really well in a team and helping others 2JS Adi Always trying extremely hard and lovely presentation of work 2 DP Keir 1 HL Jasmine 1CF1 Fleur Beautiful, fluent reading; a pleasure to listen to! 2JS Olivia RJD Sophie 1HL Ava Super story writing 1CF Max RJB Phoebe RJD Charlie Being more independent in the mornings! RJB Josiah Enthusiasm with reading and practising ‘little and often’! Well done to the children who sat with Mrs Swadling at the Good Manners Table.
Missing Uniform Next Week Mahi and Zeel are missing their cardigans Saturday, 15 June and Josiah is missing his jumper. Pre-Prep Float @ Horley Carnival Please can we ask you to check your child's Thursday, 18 June school uniform in case any of these items (and 10.30am - EYFS Sports Day maybe others) have snuck into kit bags! 12.00 noon - Barbecue 1.3pm - Years 1 & 2 Sports Day Word of the Week Year 1 Next week it is SWAGGER: to strut or stride; how you walk when We have had a very exciting time this week as it was time to you are feeling on top of the world! harvest our potatoes! Both classes were rather flabbergasted at the number of potatoes we found under the ground in Kiss and Drop the soil. Mrs Frith’s class found rather more that Mrs Lock’s, As mentioned in the last Newsletter, we are having a week of almost double in fact and Mrs Frith won the heaviest crop encouraging all children to Kiss & Drop next week. There will too: 705g as opposed to 610g! However Mrs Lock’s class be extra staff out in the car parks wearing High Vis jackets and are convinced that their potatoes were tastier and Ava liked hopefully we will have lots of children swaggering into school! them too! In Maths we have been looking at odd and even numbers and finding patterns when we count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We have read the story about the Rainbow Fish and discussed how to be kind to others. We have written the story and look forward to decorating some fish soon.
The Nursery This week in Pippins class we have been making some very special presents for our daddies. All of the children enjoyed painting and colouring and baking in preparation for Father’s Day this week and we wish all of our Daddies a very happy and enjoyable day! Acorns class have been carrying on with our summer theme despite the weather! We have created some stripy bumblebees and had fun decorating buckets and spades using sand. We have also been busy creating a special something for our Daddies so keep an eye out in our book bags. There has been great excitement in Oaks with butterflies emerging! The children were very concerned to get their care Year 2 right so we gave them sugared water and little pieces of fruit in Sadly the unprecedented weather meant our trip to the their net. They have now been freed into the woods to find their RNLI and Rottingdean had to be postponed. (We are own food and enjoy their freedom! hoping to reinstate this trip in the penultimate week of term). Instead we spent the day dong seaside art activities At Francis Court the children and residents decorated some lovely and being ‘Secret Squirrels’, using the time to make chicks to link with the ‘ch’ sound. Lots of sequins were used to something for Sunday! help ‘bling’ the chicks up a little! We have been working on our puppets and some are now The children all had a wonderful time on Thursday in their new finished, as well as writing a new Punch and Judy routine, classes. They felt very grown up eating their lunch in the dining which we will enact once we have finished our puppets. hall and were very excited telling us all about their new classrooms and teachers, so much so that they were a little disappointed to In Maths this week we have been consolidating our come back to Nursery in the afternoon! understanding and knowledge of the 3 times table and multiplication in general, looking at arrays and patterns Reception created in number. Although the weather has been atrocious, the children helped to set up the ice cream parlour ready for summer role play. In literacy we have all worked very hard to create a surprise for our fathers! We have worked on writing 2 digit numbers, securing our knowledge and understanding of place value. We have been learning our songs ready for the Pre Prep summer concert on Wednesday 3 July, and thoroughly enjoying a new challenge in PE this week, bouncing along on space hoppers for our sports day event next week. The Prep School
School Trophies Please can you return to School Office any trophies that your children might have won last year on Speech Day. If possible, it would be great if you can have your child's name engraved on it/them as there will be new winners announced on Speech Day. There are many which have still not been returned!
Next Week Citizenship House Stars Saturday, 15 June Pre-Prep Float @ Horley Carnival Monday, 17 June Junior County Athletics Finals @ Hurst Tennis v Ashdown House Tuesday, 18 June Newton Rendall Workman Sale The most up-to-date Year 5 Crime Busting at Reigate Grammar 225 235 279 213 calendar is on the Sussex Primary Chess Cup Finals Parents' Zone A, B & D teams @ Brighton College Staff Cricket v Cottemsore (a) Gum Shield Fittings Wednesday, 19 June Guardian Pro will once again be providing our school gum Guardian Pro Mouth Guard Fitting shields for the next academic year 2019-20. Sports fixtures (please see SOCS) They will be coming in to take impressions on Thursday, 20 June Wednesday 19 June from 9.00am. Year 6 Maths Challenge @ Worth This is open for all boys and girls currently in Year 2 Year 7 & 8 Young Musician of the Year to Year 7. The cost per gum shield is £40 with a second order priced at £28. Friday, 21June Class Reps Meeting If you require a gum shield for your child please send Sussex Prep School County Athletics Final @ K2 an e-mail to [email protected] IAPS Swimming Championship Finals Following the Regional heats held earlier in the year, we had three qualifiers for the National Finals held at the London Aquatics Centre on the 8th June. The times achieved meant that we were well placed to achieve success but history has proved that it’s how you perform on the day that counts not where you are placed going in to Finals. The day didn’t start particularly well when the coach back from France was delayed and Emily didn’t arrive back in time to make it to London before her event. Success now rested with Emi and Katie who to their credit performed really well in the heats with Emi qualifying for the final of the U12 Butterfly in 1st place and Katie in the U11 Breaststroke in 3rd. Both girls held their nerve to again perform really well in the Finals. Emi’s event only lasts for 15 seconds so a good start is essential. Fortunately she achieved that and together with a strong swim meant that she was placed 1st in a time of 14.47. Katie had an even tougher job with the girl in 1st place 3 seconds faster than the rest of the field going in to the final. Again, Katie performed really well putting in an excellent turn and a very strong second length. Whilst she wasn’t able to make up the three second difference, she was able to secure a very creditable 2nd place in a time of 38.40 Well done to both girls for their performances on the day and for their contribution to school swimming throughout the year. Boarding News This week the boarders had a fantastic opportunity to undertake an activity they haven’t done before. We welcomed Craig Burgess (Head of Sport at Cumnor House), to deliver some forest archery skills. The boarders were all excited to get the opportunity to fire jelly bows, horseback bows and longbows. We were all taught the basics in a short 1-1 session, but then progressed on to speed shoots, target shoots and some shots at a polystyrene deer. All of the boarders picked up the basics very quickly and some scoring some fantastic shots. Including Bryan hitting the centre yellow of the target! Overall the boarders loved their experience and this is something we will certainly look to do again in the future.
It is Bikeability Week! Despite the rain, Year 6 were being put through their paces working towards their National Standard Level 1 Certificate with Surrey County Council keeping a close eye on the children and teaching them the rules of the road to keep themselves and others safe!
Norweigan Forest Cats Year 5 presentations started with Marcus talking about his 2 cats, Sundance and Cassidy. They are Norwegian Forest Cats and are only 2 years old so will grow even bigger, up to 9kg! Forest School in Year 3 Year 3 have been having some great sessions in forest schools over the past couple of weeks. Their problem solving skills were put to the test as they had to work in teams to get each member of the class through the holes of the spider’s web. The following week the children have been making bows and arrows using string and wood. Lots of smiles and fun had by all.
Geography Field Trip for Year 7 The Year 7 pupils fresh from getting rained on in Snowdonia, set off to Birling Gap in East Sussex hoping for better weather on Monday to collect data for their Geography CE Fieldwork task. Sadly they were to be disappointed, but at least it was only with the weather! They braved the rain (and dodged it at times in the National Trust (NT) Education Centre) to collect Longshore Drift and coastal erosion data, whilst gaining an understanding of why the NT have chosen a policy of ‘Managed Retreat’ for this famous coastal erosion hotspot. Students will prepare for the task over the coming weeks and write up the study over their summer break, perhaps taking the chance to visit the site in better weather!
Life Coaching News Here we are – session 6 of 6……..the final life coach session for each year 7. This session focuses attention on the Moving Up Day following things: Year 3 had a fabulous morning in Year 4! #movingupday • Evaluating the year – what went well? • What would I change/do differently • What am I ACTUALLY going to DO? • How do I plan to be better in Year 8? Students are doing this in small groups, moving around a wheel on the floor which has suggested topics….like health, learning, friendships, hobbies, school, etc. The children worked together and got a chance to ‘be a coach’ – asking good questions, listening and responding (appropriately) and encouraging their peers to think about themselves and what they want. I have witnessed some great questioning and coaching from the year 7’s! Very well done! Year 8 Enrichment Programme Following their final examinations which took place before half term, Year 8 have begun their Enrichment Programme. It is designed specifically to enrich their learning, free from the constraints of the examination syllabi; a period where there is time to explore and expand their knowledge beyond normal expectations. This is achieved through a series of activities and challenges, most intellectual, some physical but all with the aim of developing new skills and equipping the children to be able to face the challenges of moving to their new schools and beyond. This week they have solved a murder, baked and baked and worked as a team!
Team Building Today Year 8 went over to Holmbush Solving a Murder Farm to take part in Airsoft and Archery Year 8 have solved the Coptwig murder as part of their Enrichment programme. using a mixture of forensic techniques, in- Plenty of pellets were fired between the cluding foot print analysis, fingerprinting, 8MA and 8AA but not sure which class chromatography, and flame tests. Evi- won and in the Archery Liban was our very dence was produced and motives worked own Robin Hood. out. The murderer is now languishing in Tomorrow (Friday) sees them go on The Crawley jail! Leavers Walk and on Monday they are off to the Houses of Parliament.
It's a Bake Off! What a climax to the first Copthorne Prep School Bake off - the standards were very high, presentation wonderful and much was learnt whilst having a great time cooking. Parents enjoyed the tea party tasting the yummy sandwiches, scones and carefully designed cakes. Whilst everyone worked really hard to create a masterpiece, the winners were Emily (1st), Jake (2nd) and Macey (3rd). Judges Karen and Adam sent a lovely message to all of Year 8 - "the standard was very high and we could see how hard they worked, well done to everyone". Chess News Update
It has been a busy final six weeks of the chess season and there is plenty of Copthorne success on which to report. Following the success of Niamh G at the Hampshire Delancey Megafinal in Winchester on Sunday 28 April, Copthorne fielded a further 15 players at the Sussex Megafinal held on Saturday May 11 in Hassocks. There were many, many terrific performances so well done to Avyanna S (2nd, 4.5/6), Adi G (2nd, 5/6), George T (4th, 4.5/6), Daniel A-D (3.5/6), Aran S (3.5/6), Sorcha C (3/6), Taran S (4th, 4.5/6), Amelie R (6/6 and Delancey Suprema), Ann T (=3rd, 3.5/6), Natalie V-H (=3rd, 3.5/6), Arun G (3rd, 5/6), Rex R (4/6), Rafe C (4/6) and Daniel V-H (3.5/6). It was also pleasing to see Amelie's sister and Copthorne alumnus Sophie win the U12 Suprema title. Despite there being 400 players in attendance from across the county, Copthorne Prep dominated the tournament and an astonishing 94% of our players will compete in the Southern Gigafinal, due to be held in July in Esher. The final Grand Prix event of the Sussex Junior Chess season was held at a warm and sunny Worthing College on 18 May. Copthorne fielded 12 players of whom 8 competed in the U11 Minors (George T, Ann T, Adi G, Daniel V-H, Goshan A, Niamh G, Daniel A-D and Natalie V-H) whilst 4 competed in the U11 Majors. The results on the day did not go entirely to plan or grading but that is the nature of chess sometimes. Despite this, George and Ann T both scored 3/6 and Ann was awarded an Arbiter's Award to boot. Adi G scored a wonderful 3/5 before being reluctantly escorted out of the venue due to the need to attend a birthday party, a clear sign that Adi is enjoying his chess at the moment. The results in the U11 Majors were more in line with expectations despite Amelie snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Round 5 by losing against the eventual winner. Amelie's 2nd place finish was some consolation and Taran had a well earned 3rd place finish so both should be looking for promotion early next season. On 21 May, Copthorne A (the youngest team as usual) travel to Windlesham School to participate in the finals of the prestigious Butler Cup Championships, an U14 event. Looking very smart in their school uniforms, if somewhat diminutive in comparison to most of their competitors, Copthorne A acquitted themselves admirably coming a very respectable 2nd in the Butler Plate. Sunday 9 June saw our U7 team comprising Aarav B, Adi G, Aiyana F, Avyanna S, Rohan B and William C make their way to Great Walstead School to participate in the Sussex Junior Chess U7 Championships. Whilst Copthorne have had great success previously at this event, expectations were exceeded with Adi sharing first place with 5/5 and Avyanna S finishing a creditable 7th. Most importantly, however, Copthorne Prep won the Top School Team trophy for the first time ever squeezing Ardingly into second place and laving the rest in their wake. (see photograph in the Pre-Prep section of the newsletter) Our Copthorne Boys and Girls Prep teams meanwhile headed North to Sandown Park to participate in the UK and Ireland Individual and Team Championships. This very large event involved many hundreds of players and large squads from some of the top schools in the country. Copthorne were not there to make up numbers, however, as our Boys' team were reigning champions and our Girls' team were 2nd last year and won the tournament in 2017. Our Boys' squad were represented by Aran S, Daniel A-D, George T, Goshan A. Moiz A, Jamie L, Taran S, Arun G, Rex R and Daniel V-H. Our Girls' team, a small but determined unit, comprised Niamh G, Amelie R, Ann T and Natalie V-H. There were so many outstanding performances at this tournament it would be unfair to pick out any particular individuals. It was notable, however, that prizes were given to all children scoring 11 points or more out of possible 15, and 11 of our 14 players achieved that and in may cases better. The Boys' tournament was touch and go throughout with Copthorne vying for first place with 2017 winners St Pauls throughout the competition with Aldro and Tiffin not too far behind. After a nail-biting period of score tallying, Copthorne Prep Boys scored 51/60 finishing 2nd just one point behind St Pauls. The Girls competition was particularly strong this year with Guildford High School, Sutton High School, St Catherine's and Lady Eleanor Holles fielding formidable teams. All of our Girls scored heavily with Amelie winning the U9 title with 5/5 during which Ann was unlucky to have to play Amelie in Round 4 which meant a loss of points in that round was inevitable whatever the result. The Girls' final score was 53/60 regaining their title from 2017 and finishing a full two points higher than second place school Sutton High. Well done to every single one of our chess players for their enthusiasm, commitment and many achievements over the past 12 months. Remember to practice from time to time over the summer. Quiz Night Booking Form Friday, 28 June 2019
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