Ashdell Easter 2016 Newsletter [480598]

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Spring Edion 3 March 2016

The Ashdell News

Charity and Fundraising

Our girls are always keen to help others who

are less fortunate than themselves. Some of our

girls recently held a ‘Smoothie’ and ‘Bun sale’

for Bluebell Wood. Between them they raised a

fantasc £ 197.40 !! Well done girls ( and par-

ents!) and THANK YOU to girls, parents and

sta for purchasing the delicious oerings!

Dates for the Diary

April

Fri 15th P4 Diving

Tues 19th

P1 & P2 Hathersage Trip

Fri 22nd P4 Diving

P2 Assembly

Sat 23rd Ashdell Gala Open Day

1pm-3pm All Welcome

Frid 29th P4 Diving

May

Mon 2nd P3/P4 Residenal Trip to

Scarborough

Fri 6th P3/P4 Return from Residenal

trip in Scarborough

Mon 23rd P1/P2 Center Parcs Trip

Thur 26th P1/P2 return from CP Trip

Fri 27th Half term (school ends at 12

noon)

June

Mon 6th School starts

Tues 7th Sports Day

HAPPY EASTER * * HAPPY EASTER * HAPPY EASTER * HAPPY EASTER *

PP2 enjoyed a fantas-

c day at the Tropical

Buery House,

North Anston. The

day began with a

guided tour around

the rainforest and

the girls were able to

hold dierent ani-

mals, including

snakes. The rest of

the day was full of amazing animal encounters. Girls learnt

amazing facts about meerkats, watched parrots perform

clever tricks and listened to very noisy, squawking birds. One

of the highlights of the day was seeing a lemur jump on Mrs

Jackson's back! Thank you to the animals, the Buery House

and the girls for a brilliant day.

PP2 went Tropical in North Anston

Naonal KS2 Prep School General Knowledge Quiz

Championship 2015

For the third year in a row, Ashdell

hosted a very excing general

knowledge quiz. We had two

teams consisng of one girl from

P1-P4. Joining us at Ashdell were

teams from Birkdale Prep School, Derby Prep, Sheeld

High School, S.Anselms Prep and Ranby House School. A

total of 11 teams took part over the course of the aer-

noon. There were some very dicult quesons this year

and we were pleased that our girls managed very re-

spectable 4th and 10th places in the compeon. The

overall winners were Birkdale and we wish them lots of

good luck in their next round!



Hi-Ya ! Maral Arts cercates

Congratulaons to Thea K for receiv-

ing the rst ever maral arts cer-

cate to be presented to an Ashdell

girl. Thea can certainly ‘ Pack a

Punch’ according to her maral arts teacher!-so

watch out guys!

Fly away with PP1

During this term, Pre-Prep 1 visited Runway Visitor

Park, Altrincham. We had a great day even though

the weather was cold and a lile bit snowy! We start-

ed our visit with a walk around the park to watch the

planes take o and land. We saw the giant Emirates

Airbus land from Dubai. The pilots waved to us as theplane taxied back to the airport. We went on the

bendy bus and saw a giant model of the whole air-

port - it's huge!! We went on the Monarch DC10 and

learned about dierent jobs around the airport. Then

it was lunchme, hooray!! The sun was shining when

we had our lunch and we were able to see the planes

take o and land as we were eang. A really fun day

out!

Snowdrops and PP1 Visit to the Farm

We are delighted to have

Madam Baker and Mrs Pooley

back aer their recent surger-

ies and short spells in

hospital. Both have been

through it but we are reallyhappy to see them back and

‘almost’ ghng t. Thank you so much to all

the Ashdell teaching sta for stepping in and

helping cover their classes, it has been very

much appreciated. Mrs Camm can now come

back out of the classrooms and return to her

oce and carry on with the ‘day job’ of running

the school!

It’s good to have you back !

Our Friday aernoon

Snowdrops and PP1 girls

enjoyed a very short visit to a working farm this

term. The farm is owned by Ella’s ( P4) family in

Stocksbridge . They all enjoyed meeng the new

lambs and even had the chance to feed them!

Thank you Mr and Mrs Payne, and Grandma Payne

for showing us around and introducing us to all the

animals.

Ashdell School is proud to be supporting The Sick Children’s Trust as their chosen

charity this year.

http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/index.html



We had a fabulous week incorporang World Book Day here at Ashdell with many acvies taking place

each day. We started with an inter -house quiz tesng our vast knowledge of childrens literature, then

we had a compeon to design a new character for our own book. Congratulaons to the winning au-

thors and illustrators - Gemma, Isabel, Asha, Grace, Thea, Scarle and Molly. We were lucky enough to

receive a visit from the childrens author Susan Wilkins who read us her wonderful story about Ale! We

were very inspired to write our own stories which you are welcome to come and read, these will be up in

the Balfour Hall aer the Easter holiday. Finally we had a great me dressing up as characters from our

favourite books, can you recognise the animals we became? What a busy week!!!!

World Book Day



TWITTER @Ashdellprep

‘In our Easter Bonnets, with all the frills upon it ‘/Easter Concert

Our Pre-Prep girls looked absolutely amazing in their EasterBonnets, there were some amazing creations in the parade,hats with ears, hats with eggs, hats with lights, hats with flow-

ers , hats with chocolates, hats with lights, flowers AND choco-lates! Well done Pre-Prep, you certainly brought Spring intoschool with you this morning.Our winners this year were: PP3 Winner : Eve

Runner up: Heer

PP2 Winner: Bella ARunners up: Isabella and Alana

PP1 Winner: Maddison

Runner up: Lily

Well done girls!

The Easter concert was full of colour and music, with a performance by our cheerleading cluband our P4 band. The girls have been practising hard and we are sure you will all agree they puton a great show!



Prep 3 have been studying and working incredi-bly hard on a unit of work based on ‘The WillowPattern’ Story. The girls had an opportunity totransfer their designs and make their own WillowPattern plate on a recent visit to Planet Pot. They

learned all about the methods used for makingthis beautiful design and used specialised tools tocreate their own plates. The girls really enjoyedtheir morning at Planet Pot and can’t wait to seewhat their plates will look like once they have beenfired and glazed! - Watch this space for the endresults!

Planet Pot

THANK YOU !

Ashdell went from RED TO GREEN forthe morning to raise money for

‘ The Sick Children’s Trust’. Once again thank

you so much for your contributions we raised afurther…£125.00....for our charity.

Wear it Green day !

http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/index.html



STEMM Week ( Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine)

Ashdell's inaugural STEMM Week focussing on

the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering,

Maths and Medicine., got o to a ‘cracking start’

with a Chick Day in Pre -Prep and the annual

Prep Inter-House Science Quiz (of which Porter

were eventually crowned champion sciensts).

We then moved into Tuesday ready for a new challenge- and what a day it was! Dr Hughes (Molly in

PP2's Dad) came to introduce our Engineering Day in assembly and talked about his role as an innovang

engineer. The girls then split up into their respecve groups.

Pre -Prep built rubber-band racers ready to carry an egg, Prep 1 & 2 designed and con-

structed bridges on which Pre -Preps cars could travel and Prep 3 & 4 began work on a

pair of 'Lightning Racers' - cars big enough for Pre Prep to ride in.



STEMM Week in Pictures

We then were extremely lucky to have a group of our parents come to visit us to explain about how their

careers in STEMM were used in the wider world. Many thanks to Dr Bodle, Dr Buxton, Dr Flowers, Profes-

sor Harrity, Dr Hughes, Mr Kirby and Ms Pearson for giving up their me to do so!

Our nal day saw a celebraon assembly of all

that we had done and also a pair of guest lectur-

ers for an interacve talk with the girls: ProfessorMowbray talked on light in the world around us

whilst Dr Shepherd talked to Pre Prep about bac-

teria. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the week and

have learned so much that they didn't know at

the start !

The Italian club girls, one of our manyenrichment clubs had a special end of termtreat from their teacher Sally. The girls wentalong to an Italian kitchen to learn how tomake fresh pasta, pizza and sample some Ital-ian delicacies. They all had a great day out.Grazie Sally !

The Italian Club …….not just talking Italian, but cooking it too!



Sports news

Netball v SHS U11

What a great aernoon of sport!

Six P4 girls and 2 P3 girls played

in the tournament. A special

thanks to the P3 girls as without

these girls we could have had to

withdraw from the tournament. The girls played re-ally well and improved throughout the whole aer-

noon. We progressed to the playos along with 7

other teams out of 18. Sadly we couldn’t manage

and hold on to our winning streak and we lost our

last two games. Well done to all the girls, especially

Chloe and Molly who were awarded girls of the tour-

nament

Queen Margaret’s Netball Tournament

A fantasc tournament as al-

ways, our girls always enjoy thisevent. It is a chance for the girls

to meet new girls

and really experi-

ence what a compeve netball tour-

nament is like. We had two teams

and as always we showed true grit,

determinaon and progression

throughout the day. We progressed

to the Plate and the Bowl compeons in the aer-

noon. We came 2nd in the Plate. 5 of our girls then

entered the cross country event and out of 53 run-ners:

Grace –23rd

Robyn– 24th

Hannah –28th

Freya– 38th

Naima– 41st

U9 Netball v Sheeld High School

We had 2 P2 teams against SHS. It was a fantasc

aernoon of netball for everyone and something

that really impressed Mrs Cooke was the quality ofplay from our girls. Four months ago the girls were

just geng to grips with posions, passing, shoong

and team work and when we played SHS back in No-

vember at mes we looked like frightened rabbits.

Ashdell girls really stepped up a gear with the reds

winning both of their games and the yellow team

despite losing both their matches worked well as a

team and never gave up. Well done to our two cap-

tains, Nancy and Thea for encouraging your teams.

For the Red team Mrs Cooke chose Jasmine for

some fantasc Shoong and for the yellow team shechose Maia for being resilient and showing real pro-

gress in her understanding of the rules and defend-

ing well.

Well played everyone!

School School Policies

Summer uniform

The school maintains a very large number ofpolicies and documents relang to the safety and wellbe-

ing of the girls and the ecient running of the school in-

cluding: Health & Safety, Equality of Opportunity, Safe-

guarding, An-Bullying, Policies on Teaching and Learning,

Dealing with Grievances and Complaints, etc. Parents are

advised that copies of these polices are kept in both sta

rooms and in the administraon oce and are available on

request. Some polices are also available to view on the

school website. We had no formal complaints in the last

academic year 2014/15.

Aer the holiday girls will be allowed to wear the summer

uniform if the weather permits. The summer dresses are

available from John Lewis online. ( CODE: 53910208) with

the ‘e back’ opon. The Pre Prep girls should wear whiteankle socks with summer dresses and the Prep girls white

knee length socks, both with black shoes( not ballerina type

shoes please). Prep 3 & 4 girls have the opon of wearing

the grey skirt with the white and grey short sleeved blouse

(available from the school uniform shop) and white knee

length socks instead of summer dresses if they wish.

Have an ‘eggscing ‘Easter Break, where ever you are

spending it, take care, stay safe and see you all in

three weeks ready to do it all over again!

SUMMER TERM STARTS: TUESDAY 12th April

Cross Country City Championships.

There was a much bigger turn out

for February’s cross country run as

it was the City Championships. Our

girls did really well in their year

group races, especially as it was in

Graves Park, which as you know is not at! Welldone girls!

Y3/4– out of 121 runners

Eleanor—22nd, Laura B– 48th, Ava—55th, Nancy—64th

Sophie –89th

Yr 5/6—out of 137 runners

Robyn—52nd, Hannah– 85th

Relay Cross Country

Our P1 cross country relay team

nished an amazing 8th out of

25 teams at a recent relay cross

country run in Hillsborough park.Our girls just get beer and beer! Well done to Hannah

and Robyn who had to join up with non Ashdell runners to

make a team, and made a very respectable 28th out of 35.

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