Dear Parents,
In today's Assembly Year 6 spoke about the importance of opening your lives and hearts to Christ and experiencing the joy, peace, mercy and love that he brings. This Sunday marks the end of the Liturgical year, with Advent marking the start of the beginning of the next. It's a time to celebrate the Kingdom of God and to reflect, ready to start the next year refreshed. Year 6 sang and performed the important message beautifully.
We visited this theme of reflection and celebration earlier in the week with Upper Trans C's Liturgy themed around Ourselves. The children spoke about how we are all different, with our own gifts and talents, but made in the image of God. It is wonderful to celebrate our differences and to bring them together as the St Bernard's Prep community, because we are greater than the sum of our parts.
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Spotlight on Success
This week the spotlight on success goes to Jayan in Year 6 who was the only person to get full marks in the Primary Maths Challenge. A brilliant achievement, and a well-deserved accolade for a young person who embodies all the best qualities of a St Bernard's Prep child - hardworking and kind - congratulations Jayan.
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Pyjama Appeal and The Baby Bank
On Monday morning Miss Druce dropped off 50 Christmas gift bags, boxes of nappies and £1000 to local charity, The Baby Bank. Huge congratulations to the Early Years Team and children for raising an incredible £1530! Thank you so much to everyone who donated so generously. It is so nice to support local families.
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Primary Maths Challenge
Every year we enter a National competition called The Primary Maths Challenge. The test paper is designed to encourage the children to use their Maths skill to solve problems with logical reasoning, rather than formal mathematical knowledge. Our Year 6 children did incredibly well and were awarded 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 4 Bronze certificates. Well done!
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Eco Council and Cop26
Our Eco Council were delighted to receive more than 60 entries to our poster competition! Lots of fantastic ideas and designs -it was very difficult to choose.
Overall Winner - Well done to Himani- her eye-catching design was carefully designed and summed up the aims of Cop26 really well.
Congratulation to our other winners: Myra, Avani D, Christina, Arbaaz, Aryaman, Vihaan P and Shariya.
Thank you to everyone who entered.
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The Eco Council were overwhelmed with entries to their poster competition. So many beautiful entries - well done. Congratulations to the winner, Himani. Her lovely design captured the aims of Cop26 really well.#ecocouncil #cop26 #stbernardsprep #environmentalprotection https://t.co/nAxewQUH5E5 hours ago Follow |
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Reminders and dates for your diary:
Thursday 25th Nov – Donations of sweets & drinks for FOPS (further details will be sent via ParentMail)
Thursday 2nd Dec – whole school trip to Jack in the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal Windsor 12.45-4.30pm
Friday 3rd Dec – Lower school (PEY-Y2) Santa party 2-3.30pm
Tuesday 7th Dec – Christmas Bazaar, please contact your class rep if you are able to help on the day
Friday 10th Dec – Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day (all donations made via ParentMail will go to our chosen charity Mission Together)
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Christmas Charity - Mission Together
Mission Together is the Catholic Church’s official children’s charity for overseas mission. They are a charity which helps children around the world follow the example of Jesus: praying and sharing to support all God’s children, everywhere, regardless of background or belief. Money raised through Mission Together funds children’s projects in 157 countries. In 2020 alone, children in England and Wales helped support 20,000 children overseas! It is all about children helping children. Please do support our chosen charity if you can.
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Geography Inter-House Challenge
Next week our House Captains - Jayan, Anisha, Shariya, Jagat, Aleena, Daniel, Vihaan and Ayannah are coordinating an inter-house Geography Challenge on all the capital cities of the World. Get revising!
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Mrs Verma's Big Ideas for Curious Minds
Geography
As a school we love to stretch and challenge our children, to enrich their education beyond the curriculum. Every week I will be sharing with you some discussion topics, new vocabulary, Maths riddles and book recommendations, that will infect our children with a love of learning. These will all be posted in the Parent Portal section of our website as well.
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Word of the week - ineffable (adj) - Too great to be described in words
The vast white wilderness stretched out before them, it's ineffable size and emptiness filling each of the explorers with a sense of apprehension and exhilaration.
From Latin, ineffabilis, meaning unutterable; ineffable means that something is so powerful that is renders the viewer speechless.
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The World This Week - Earthquake in Scotland
People in the west of Scotland have been shaken by an earthquake in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The earthquake, with a magnitude of 3.3, according to British Geological Survey (BGS), happened just before 02:00.
BGS said its epicentre was at Achnamara west of Lochgilphead in Argyll and Bute.
More than 30 people have reported feeling the tremor, from as far away as Edinburgh and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland.
The survey recorded the quake at a depth of 12km below the Earth's surface.
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Calling all bookworms - Geography
Our World: First Book of Geography by Sue Lowell Gallion
A beautiful, nostalgic-feeling book that will delight our younger readers and help introduce them to the idea of geography and differing environments for the first time.
Adventures Around The Globe by The Lonely Planet
A great book for keeping young travellers entertained on the move, with fun facts, sticker scenes, colouring pages and puzzles, as well as a 3D model of the globe to make and decorate.
Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps by Tim Marshall
This new children’s version of an adult Sunday Times bestseller is a fascinating read on Geopolitics for our older children. Pitched perfectly for eight to eleven-year-olds, this book will make younger readers look at maps in a whole new way.
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“As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. When we destroy our forests, ravage our soil and pollute our seas, we betray that noble calling.”- Pope Francis.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs A Verma
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