WELCOME BACK AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! - Broomwood Hall

WEEKS 1 & 2 · MONDAY 9 JANUARY 2012
WELCOME BACK AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dear Parents 9 January 2012
I am delighted to welcome you back and I do hope that you have had an enjoyable Christmas and New
Year break. The school is up and ready for us and I am happy to report that all of the staff are back refreshed for
another term; it is a pleasure to be able to work alongside such an enthusiastic team. We welcome some new faces
to the Upper School; Mrs Kathryn Atkinson joins us as Head of Sport and Mrs Fiona Hicks-Beach joins us to assist
in The Library. We are also very excited to welcome Miss Jane Bailey, Miss Maddy Watchirs Connolly, Miss Sophie
Hutchinson and Miss Eloise Smail who will be assisting the teachers this term. I hope the photos below will enable you
to recognise them around the school and please do make them welcome. Can I remind you that the assistants are
available for babysitting and that their mobile telephone numbers will be on the website as soon as possible.
The beginning of this term is of course largely dedicated to the 11+ day and boarding exams, some 13+ entry
exams, particularly to day schools as well as scholarship attempts. Some of our girls have already had two days of
testing and the term has not even begun! Good luck to all those girls taking exams, and to their parents who have to
sit and wait on the sidelines. I do think this is often the harder role. There will be parent-teacher interviews for Class
5, 7 and 8; these will be subject based interviews and you will have the opportunity to talk to all of your daughter’s
teachers, and I would recommend counting on spending about an hour here. There will only be one night per year
group, so please make a note of it as soon as possible. There will also be an information evening on secondary
schools for all Class 5 parents; this will be held on Tuesday 24 January at 7pm. On a lighter note we can look forward
to Class 6’s play of ‘Oklahoma’ and Class 4’s rendition of ‘Jerusalem Joy’. Both these productions promise to be
fabulous; do check the website and the term dates for the key information.
February sees the return of our French pen-pals from the Ecole Dupanloup in the suburbs of Paris. All of our
Class 6 girls may go home at 4.00 that week in order to show their French friends the sites, and have a chance to get
to know them better before the return visit in June to Paris. In sport, I know that the hockey teams are looking forward
to some exciting matches including a fair few Saturday matches – do look out for these. Nearly 30 girls are off to Serre
Chevalier at the end of term for our increasingly popular ski trip – the school will certainly feel quiet without them.
On a boring note, Wandsworth Council are undertaking some major road works along various parts of
Nightingale Lane starting from Thursday 26 January. They say it could go on for 26 weeks so please be patient when
negotiating dropping off and collection – it could be a testing time!
Here’s to a very happy new term for all of us.
Kathryn Atkinson Fiona Hicks-Beach Jane Bailey Maddy Watchirs Connolly Eloise Smail
Sophie Hutchinson
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CHURCH CORNER
Thursday 13 January: Our fi rst service of the term will be
held at St Luke’s at 8.45. All are welcome to attend, and
coffee will be served from 8.30.
Thursday 20 January: Class 7N: “Joshua” at St Luke’s at
8.45. Please join us for coffee from 8.30.
Prayer Meetings: These take pace on 18 January
and 29 February at 40 Thurleigh Road from 8.30am.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
PA DATES FOR THE DIARY
Tuesday 18 January: PA Meeting at 8.45 in the Hall at 74
Nightingale Lane.
Tuesday 31 January: Ethiopia Talk at 7pm – Hall, 74NL
Thursday 2 February: Cake sale at the Upper School.
Tuesday 21 February: PA Meeting at 8.45 at No. 50.
Thursday 16 March: The Broomwood Hall PA Party will
be held at Wandsworth Civic Centre starting at 7.00.
Parents’ Association
THE LOOFY SHOP
The Loofy School uniform shop at 68NL (020-8673 2441)
will be open at the following times this term:
Mondays 8.00 - 10.00
Thursdays 3.00 - 6.00
Second-hand uniform is available at the termly sales run
by the Parents Association.
Caroline Mackinnon – Loofy Shop
DRAMA THIS TERM
This term Class 6 will be putting on a musical production of
“Oklahoma” on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 March in
the Hall at 74NL.
Natalie Keane – Head of Drama
JERUSALEM JOY
On the last day of term, Thursday 22 March, Class 4
will perform their version of “Jerusalem Joy” in St Luke’s
Church at 8.30. A costume meeting for Jerusalem Joy will
be held on Friday 3 February at 8.25 in the Dining Hall.
We look forward to seeing you on these dates.
Natalie Owen – Class 4 Coordinator
SCHOOL WEBSITE GOES MOBILE
We have set up a separate Mobile Phone website for our
current parents. If you search for our website on your
smartphone or iPad you will be directed automatically to
this site where you will fi nd contacts & location information,
notices, the calendar for two weeks, term dates, the latest
newsletter, lunch details, sports fi xtures & directions,
uniform, babysitting gaps info, etc. If you require other
information from our standard website, you will be able to
click directly to our main website from this application. We
do hope you will fi nd this helpful.
Communications Department
US SWIMMING
Class 5S swimming lessons will continue at Latchmere
Leisure Centre on Monday 16 January. Swim Squad will
continue as usual from next Tuesday at Tooting Leisure
Centre. Please ensure that girls have the correct kit.
Kathryn Atkinson – Head of Sport
WHAT’S ON – WEEKS 1 & 2
Tuesday 10 January
2.00 * New children in to meet teachers
Wednesday 11 January
Hilary Term begins
Music lessons start from today
8.05-8.20 Arrival time
12.35 Music theory (& every Wednesday)
5.00 Class 4 fi nish (every day except Friday)
5.20 Class 5-8 fi nish (every day except Friday)
Thursday 12 January
P/T lists to go up for Class 8 parents to sign
8.00 Chamber Choir practice (& every Thursday)
8.45 * Church Service – St Luke’s Church
11.05 Junior Choir (& every Thursday)
1.05 Recorder Ensemble (& every Thursday)
Friday 13 January
12.35 Maths Surgery (& every Friday)
1.05 Orchestra (& every Friday)
3.20 School fi nishes (& every Friday)
After-school clubs (including karate) start this week
Monday 16 January
11.05 Senior Flute Ensemble (& every Monday)
12.35 Chamber Choir (& every Monday)
12.35 Guitar Ensemble (& every Monday)
1.05 Junior Flute Ensemble (& every Monday)
1.05 String Ensemble (& every Monday)
3.55 Swimming (Class 5S)
6.30 * Class 8 Parent Teacher Evening
Tuesday 17 January
8.10 Senior Strings (& every Tuesday)
8.45 * PA meeting (Garrads Road)
11.05 Show Choir (& every Tuesday)
12.35 Senior Strings (& every Tuesday)
1.05 Jazz Band (& every Tuesday)
3.10 * Hockey: Class 8 A B C1 D2 -v- Streatham High
(SCHS)
Wednesday 18 January
8.30 * Parents’ Prayer Meeting – 40 Thurleigh Road
4.30 * JAPS Swim Gala (Class 4-6) at JAPS
Thursday 19 January
8.45 * Church Service: Class 7N
10.00 TfL talk for Class 6
Friday 20 January
1.40 * Hockey: Class 4 A B C1 C2 -v- Newton Prep
(NP)
Saturday 21 January
9.30 * Hockey: Class 6 A B C1 C2 D1 -v- Thomas’
Clapham (Wandle Rec)
11.00 * Hockey: Class 8 A B -v- Thomas’ Clapham
(Wandle Rec)
LOOKING FORWARD
Tuesday 24 January
2.30 * Second-hand uniform sale
7.00 * Class 5 Senior Schools Information Evening
Friday 27 January
1.00-3.00 * Cross-site Music Masterclass
Saturday 28 January
9.30 * Hockey: Class 4 A B C1 C2 D1 -v- Thomas’s
Clapham
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