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. Please note that the school shop will be closed Monday and Thursday afternoon, but open in the mornings as usual. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 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.