A great start to Trinity term! Activities were quickly underway with the launch of the Fiver Challenge competition to our budding Year 6 entrepreneurs, Year 4 hearing all about their Hilltop Residential camp n
ext week, a very successful Year 6 visit to Peterborough Cathedral, Year 7 and 8 competing in the Maths Challenge and Year 8 Tigers and Panthers cooking up a storm in their Cookery Masterclass. We also introduced our new Habit of Mind for this half term: “Applying past knowledge to new situations”. We all learn from experience. When in a new and complicated problem, we will often use experience from our past. We call on our store of knowledge and experience to help explain or solve each new challenge. A useful thinking disposition as we head towards our final term of learning.
"To remember is to understand. I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child."
Anna Quindlen
Finally, I cannot conclude without referring to our amazing new library. It quite simply sparkles and shines with the feedback from the 
pupils exceeding expectations. When asked what extra addition they would like came the response: a fish tank. I am sure that would be fully supported by Sydney the resident cat! When you are next at School, please pop your head in and have a look.
Mrs Sue Knox
Headmistress
Timetable Change Next Thursday
Due to pupils missing two Monday’s because of INSET and Bank Holiday, next Thursday, 4th May, the School will be teaching Monday timetabled lessons however, after-school activities will remain as Thursday. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Prep Office.
Library Renovation
At Wellingborough Prep School we recognise the huge benefits of children developing a lifelong love of reading and with this in mind; I am delighted to tell you about the complete refurbishment of the library, which took place during the Easter break. The new space is relaxing, modern, and inspirational. The new colour scheme is stylish yet comfortable and appealing to all ages. We have also rearranged the area and installed new lighting, to make the space more usable, and purchased a number of new seats and pods to promote reading. Students were given class tours on Tuesday so they could, get to know and, enjoy the new layout. Their comments included the words, ‘surprising’, ‘fun’, ‘bright’, ‘colourful’ and ‘jazzy’. They also made excellent suggestions for other things we could add.
Year 6 RS trip to Peterborough Cathedral
Imaginative and creative juices were in overdrive on Thursday as Year 6 spent a day immersed in the atmosphere, art, architecture and spiritual ambience of Peterborough Cathedral exploring how symbolism permeates every aspect of Cathedral life. They were guided to, a
nd looked for, symbols of Love, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Peace, Sacrifice and Trinity, and created tissue-paper stained glass windows on one of these themes. A valuable and memorable day for everyone, for which our grateful thanks go to the Education Department of Peterborough Cathedral, including Mark Short, a retired teacher whose father is an OW!
Mrs Owen
Deputy Head - Curriculum
Parent Talk ’Your child’s Online World’
During the day on Tuesday 9th May, all of our pupils will be spoken to about keeping safe online, an issue which is at the forefront of both school and society in today's world. There will also be a parent talk on 'Your Child's Online World' taking place in the Prep School Hall from 5pm-6pm. We welcome all parents to this informative talk.
Cookery Masterclasses
Year 8 Tigers were excited to be the first Club to attend the Year 8 Cookery class. Having learnt about how the kitchen works effectively to feed everyone in the Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior School, it was time to learn to cook a variety of main courses and desserts in preparation for the Gala Dinner. All the pupils produced beautifully presented dishes which were delicious. Many congratulations to our budding young chefs and thank you to Chartwells for a superb evening. The Gala Dinner is on Friday, 12th May and we look forward to sampling the delights of their hard work in a few weeks.
Form Period
This week all pupils set themselves goals to be achieved by the end of the Trinity Term. Have a chat with your child to see what their goals are and how they are going to work towards achieving these over the next few weeks. All pupils were encouraged to set a personal and an academic goal.
Healthy Eating
All pupils were spoken to this week about our drive as a Prep School to promote healthy eating from this term. As a reminder our new initiatives are:
- 'Fruit Friday' where the only snack pupils are allowed to bring in is fruit - the more exotic the better!
- Cake sales for charity, when the pupils will be encouraged to bring in fruit items such as fruit smoothies to sell.
- A weekly 'Healthy Recipe' from our Head Boy and Head Girl – see below
Healthy Recipe
To view this week’s healthy recipe, chosen by the Head Boy and Girl, for a low-fat breakfast muffin bursting with fruits please click here.
Mrs Petrie
Deputy Head - Pastoral
Chapel Choir
Chapel Choir will be singing at the Senior School and Prep School Evensongs on Thursday 4th and Thursday 11th May. Choristers should meet at Chapel straight after school on both days. The services begin at 4.30pm and should finish by 5.15pm.
Music Achievement
Congratulations to Olie Crossman (Y4) who successfully passed his Grade One drum exam with a Merit.
Music Lesson Timetables
To view next week’s timetables of individual lessons, which are also displayed just inside the main entrance to the music department, click here.
Mr Leutfeld
Head of Music
Achievements
Nicole Mukhtar performed at the Royal Albert Hall with her Dance School on 22 April.
On Saturday afternoon Isabelle Thomas, her pony Duke and myself travelled to Bury Farm Equestrian for the NSEA County Championships. Izzy and Duke competed in the warm up classes in preparation for the championship classes t
he following day. On Sunday Izzy was joined by Keira Stoute and Lauren Church for the 90cm Championship class. The first round was in the outdoor arena where all 3 girls and their ponies produced lovely clear rounds. The second round was in the indoor arena, all three rode good rounds with the team finishing on 15 faults putting them into 12th place out of 30 teams. In the afternoon a very tired Izzy and Duke competed in the 1m individually going clear in the first round and 8 faults in the second round. Hopefully we will have a team of 4 next year which will give us a much better chance as the top 3 scores count, the vast majority of schools had 4 riders in each team.
Charley Knight (Y7) and Lili Howe (Y6) were selected to perform at the Castle Theatre this week in Dance the Night Away with Pasha from Strictly Come Dancing. In addition, Lili was recently awarded 7 first places and 3 aggregate awards at the Northampton Festival of Dance.
Sports Announcements
Welcome back!
The sports department would like to welcome everyone back for the summer term and yet another very busy couple of months ahead. There have been a couple of changes in the setup of teams for this term and they are as follows:-
Year 5 & 6 Boys' Cricket are combining for this term and will be known as Colts A, B, C, D & Warriors
Year 5 & 6 Girls’ Cricket are also combining and will be known as Fillies blue, red, green, orange and pink (for the first half of this term)
Year 7 & 8 Girls’ Cricket are combining and will be known as U12/13 A, B, C, D
Year 7 & 8 Boys’ Cricket are combining and will be known as Prep School 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc
As you will see from the calendar there is a lot of sport throughout the term with weekly cricket, tennis and athletics events Years 4 to 8. We look forward to your continued support!
Sports Fixtures Week Commencing 1st May 2017
Tuesday 2nd May
Boys’ Tennis
U13/12 v CCS – Home – 4.15 start
Wednesday 3rd May
Boys’ Cricket
1st, 3rd, Colts A, Colts C v King’s Ely – Away – 2.45 start
2nd, 4th, Colts B, Colts D v King’s Ely – Home – 2.30 start
Girls’ Cricket
U13/12A, B, C & D v King’s Ely – Home – 2.30 start
Fillies Blue, Red, Green v King’s Ely – Away – 2.45 start
Thursday 4th May
Girls’ Tennis
U13/12 v NHS – Home – 4.15 start
Saturday 6th May
Boys’ and Girls’ Tennis
U11/10 Laxton Junior Tennis Tournament at Oundle School – 0930 start
Girls’ Cricket Clothing
All girls will be required to wear their maroon top, skort, tracksuits and games socks for all practices and matches.
Mr Irvine
Head of Sport and Extra-Curricular
Country of the Day
To continually improve location knowledge in the Prep School, here is a daily challenge from 6LW. Your focus for each day is to locate the country on a map! If that is too easy, there are some extension questions too…
Daily challenge:
Tuesday 2nd May - Finland
Wednesday 3rd May - Djibouti
Thursday 4th May - Bangladesh
Friday 5th May - Fiji
Extension questions:
1. What is the capital city of this country?
2. What does the flag look like?
3. How many people live in this country?
4. What are the most notable features of this country?
Dr Fordham
Head of Geography
Wind in the Willows Read Through
All cast must attend the read through on Tuesday 2nd May at 16.10 in the Senior School Hall.
Keith Hargreaves
Cripps’ Housemaster, Teacher of Drama and Librarian
Wellingborough Cancer Support
Ladies Fashion Show
Wednesday, 10th May
Senior School Hall, Wellingborough School
7pm for 7.30pm start
Tickets £7 to include glass of wine, available from Ruth Bowe rbowe@wellingboroughschool.org. All ex high street fashion at 50% discount inc. Wallis, M&S, Top Shop, Next.
Information to Parents
To view copies of letters sent by Clarioncall and weekly team sheets please click here to be redirected to Parents Login. If you do not know the login details please email prep-office@wellingboroughschool.org.