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EDITION <strong>2016</strong><br />
Ideas for<br />
Fresh Starts<br />
What makes<br />
the perfect<br />
child portrait<br />
Amelia Freer<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> Recipe<br />
Top revision<br />
techniques<br />
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EDITION <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Ideas for<br />
Fresh Starts<br />
What makes<br />
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child portrait<br />
Amelia Freer<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> Recipe<br />
Top revision<br />
techniques<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
Education<br />
Fashion<br />
Food & Drink<br />
Gifts<br />
Health & Beauty<br />
Holidays & Rental<br />
Interiors<br />
Photography<br />
Property<br />
Services<br />
FEATURES<br />
Looking for a new start<br />
KLC School of Design<br />
P7<br />
Top revision tips<br />
from Christopher Lloyd<br />
P9<br />
Children’s aspirations<br />
with Kidzania<br />
P10<br />
Recipe from<br />
Amelia Freer<br />
P13<br />
Dust off your dreams<br />
with Maria Hind<br />
P17<br />
Family friendly Italy<br />
P21<br />
Win a masterclass with<br />
Desmond Haynes<br />
P24<br />
Let’s help others<br />
P25<br />
What makes the<br />
perfect child portrait<br />
P31<br />
welcome<br />
Dear Parents<br />
A warm welcome to our <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2016</strong> edition!<br />
Like many of you, we’ve had a busy term. With more schools<br />
enrolling and many new registered members – our reach is<br />
extensive. We now have over 23,000 regular parent visitors from<br />
over 175 different schools which means your free parent notices<br />
are being seen by an ever-increasing audience.<br />
In our <strong>Spring</strong> edition, we are focussing on fresh starts and<br />
healthy new beginnings! We have invaluable advice from life<br />
coaches, property experts, travel connoisseurs and culinary<br />
geniuses.<br />
Next term we are delighted to be running an exciting Cricket<br />
Campaign with the West Indian legend Desmond Haynes. For<br />
more details and the chance for your school to win a once in a<br />
lifetime cricketing master class from Desmond Haynes himself<br />
please go to page 24.<br />
Alongside this there is a comprehensive directory of useful<br />
businesses and services, all of which have helped raise funds<br />
directly for our enrolled schools. We’d like to take this<br />
opportunity to thank all our advertisers, schools and parents for<br />
their continued support.<br />
If you have not registered, visit www.schoolnotices.co.uk to<br />
benefit from our exclusive member offers and to gain access<br />
to our fantastic Easter activities list. We have something for<br />
everyone.<br />
We hope you enjoy this edition and wish you and your families<br />
a very happy Easter.<br />
With best wishes<br />
The School Notices Team<br />
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<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>Edition</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Editor: Katie Wiggin, katie@schoolnotices.co.uk. Advertising team: info@schoolnotices.<br />
co.uk. Designed by Reid Creative, helen@reidcreative.co.uk. Printed by London Print,<br />
jonsharpe@londonprint.com.<br />
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EDUCATION<br />
Boarding and Day School for girls 11 to 18<br />
STRONGER TOGETHER<br />
LOOKING FOR A<br />
NEW START - HOW<br />
ABOUT INTERIOR OR<br />
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Today most schools understand the benefits<br />
of teaching creative problem solving and<br />
encouraging imagination in their students.<br />
But this wasn’t always the case. Were you<br />
ever told that art wasn’t a serious subject, or<br />
advised to take a career path which was secure<br />
and away from the creative sector? Did you<br />
excel in art and design or graphics and textiles,<br />
but suppressed your creativity in favour of a<br />
sensible job? Maybe now is the right time<br />
in your life to do something about it and be<br />
creative?<br />
Here at KLC School of Design, career<br />
changers made up over 60% of our student<br />
body in the September 2015 intake. We<br />
had mature students from a huge variety of<br />
backgrounds – including marketing, finance,<br />
healthcare and recruitment – all of whom<br />
had taken the bold decision to embrace their<br />
inherent creativity, follow their passion and<br />
retrain as a designer.<br />
Maybe with your kids back at school or<br />
moving onto senior education, now is the<br />
time for you to do something positive and<br />
life changing. Going back to the classroom<br />
can bring up all sorts of conflicting emotions,<br />
but at KLC we put our trainees’ needs at<br />
the very heart of the school, with a range<br />
of interior and garden design qualification<br />
courses and study methods to suit everyone.<br />
Not to mention our unrivalled Careers Service<br />
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REVISING FOR exams can be stressful and<br />
tiring. But guess what? Your brain works best<br />
when it is relaxed and fresh. So here are a few<br />
of my top tips for making sure your brain is<br />
in the fittest shape possible for the upcoming<br />
exam season.<br />
SCREENS: Do not use a screen-based<br />
computer or mobile phone for at least two<br />
hours before you are due to go to sleep. I’m<br />
sorry to say that means no screens after 8pm.<br />
All kinds of research suggests that the blue<br />
light from all emitting screens disrupts normal<br />
sleep patterns and this can impair cognitive<br />
performance.<br />
VISUALISATION: If you have long names<br />
or lists of dates, quotes or other things you<br />
need to remember then try to make an<br />
unlikely visual connection with<br />
the word, date or quote. The more<br />
unlikely and the more visual the<br />
connection the more easily your<br />
brain will be able to recall the<br />
fact. This is the system used in<br />
ancient Greece called mnemonics<br />
and for many people it can work<br />
brilliantly. For example, if you<br />
needed to remember the name<br />
of an astronomer called Edwin<br />
Hubble you might associate him<br />
with a balloon which is in the shape of a<br />
bubble which rhymes with Hubble.<br />
CONTEXT: Your brain works best with<br />
broad perspectives rather than just a bundle<br />
of disjointed fragments of facts. Try to<br />
understand the reasons behind things rather<br />
than just the facts that explain them. Always<br />
ask WHY not just WHAT - this deeper level<br />
of understanding will make the information<br />
you want to learn stick much better in your<br />
mind.<br />
Christopher Lloyd has launched a new<br />
‘What on Earth?’ wallbook this month called<br />
The Wallbook Timeline of British History,<br />
developed in conjunction with the National<br />
Trust. A 2 metre timeline, containing over<br />
1,000 captions and illustrations, takes readers<br />
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From the dinosaurs, to the<br />
Battle of Hastings, Henry<br />
VIII’s Reformation, Oliver<br />
Cromwell’s Civil War, George<br />
Stephenson’s Rocket, the<br />
invention of the internet by<br />
Sir Tim Berners-Lee…and<br />
beyond! A fantastic supportive<br />
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FASHION<br />
EDUCATION<br />
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Imagine a 75,000sq.ft child-size city where<br />
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KidZania London to broaden horizons so that<br />
children can explore, aspire and begin to write<br />
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clear need for what KidZania provides: learning<br />
by doing within the context of careers<br />
awareness and raising aspirations.<br />
As a teacher and someone who has been involved<br />
with children’s education all my life,<br />
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At KidZania the grown-ups are there to be<br />
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KidZania provides children and their parents,<br />
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and as we know...<br />
“EXPERIENCE IS<br />
EVERYTHING!”<br />
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FOOD & DRINK<br />
Cookery Demonstrations<br />
with Cherie<br />
Time saving, flavour packed ideas<br />
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RECIPE FROM AMELIA FREER<br />
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Heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a medium<br />
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Pour in the stock, bring to the boil, then<br />
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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
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To celebrate, during April, we are offering School<br />
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ENVIRON | JANE IREDALE | HD BROWS | CND SHELLAC<br />
Dust off your dreams for <strong>2016</strong><br />
We all have dreams. Many<br />
of us have left them behind or<br />
given up believing that we have<br />
any chance of fulfilling them<br />
now. Once, we had exciting<br />
plans for our future, visions of<br />
what our lives would look like<br />
and how we could make a difference<br />
or grow, whether in our<br />
professional lives, in our relationships<br />
or simply in attaining<br />
personal goals.<br />
Yet for many of us, day-to-day<br />
responsibilities pushed these<br />
dreams to the back of our<br />
minds and we have forgotten what they were<br />
about or how they felt.<br />
When I started training as a coach the first<br />
question I was asked was not “What do you<br />
do?” but “What is your dream?” I was taken<br />
aback momentarily and then I saw one of my<br />
dreams clearly in front of me, as familiar as<br />
it was 20 years ago, and I honestly<br />
didn’t know why I hadn’t<br />
pursued it.<br />
Well, I do know why. Life got<br />
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and bigger and time passed as<br />
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at that moment I had let myself<br />
down and I wanted to do something<br />
about it. I felt I owed it<br />
to myself.<br />
To improve or develop a particular<br />
area of one’s life, it is<br />
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the attention it needs, to make it your priority.<br />
This focus will create the opportunity for<br />
change. It’s not always what is urgent that<br />
should be at the top of our lists, but what is<br />
important to us. By reprioritising our lives,<br />
it is possible to reignite those long-forgotten<br />
dreams. It is never too late...!<br />
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FAMILY JOURNEYS THROUGHOUT<br />
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My family went to Italy last summer and<br />
we had a fantastic time. Our guide in Rome<br />
made it easy to imagine what it was like in<br />
ancient times. One of my favourite activities<br />
was taking a Segway around the Borghese<br />
Gardens and into the centre of Rome.<br />
We learned how to use swords<br />
like real gladiators and had a<br />
tournament which was great fun<br />
We all loved the Gladiator School. They<br />
worked us really hard and even made my Mum<br />
do press-ups in the dirt! The assault course<br />
was no walk in the park either but it made us<br />
laugh a lot. We learned how to use swords like<br />
real gladiators and had a tournament which<br />
was great fun. They even gave us all gladiator<br />
names - my Dad’s was Maximus Fallovicus!<br />
We flew in a helicopter to Pompeii which was<br />
awesome and our day there was one of our<br />
highlights. It was very sad though because<br />
we could see where the people died when<br />
Vesuvius erupted in AD79 and covered<br />
Pompeii in ash. We saw the casts of bodies<br />
lying in the streets and you could still see some<br />
They made my<br />
Mum do pressups<br />
in the dirt<br />
of their expressions<br />
as they tried to<br />
escape. One of the<br />
coolest things we<br />
saw was a doorstep mosaic of a huge dog,<br />
like an ancient ‘beware the dog’ sign! There<br />
was also the AD79 fast food restaurant with<br />
all the cooking pots lying around. I will never<br />
forget it because our guide was amazing and<br />
made it feel like we had gone back in time.<br />
These are only a few of the things that we<br />
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CHARITY CRICKET CAMPAIGN<br />
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A MASTERCLASS<br />
with Desmond Haynes<br />
Tommy Arnott, Oscar Bearman, Jonno Balding.<br />
Raising money for Face Value at Great Ormond Street Hospital.<br />
LET’S HELP OTHERS<br />
Donate your used cricket kit... and help<br />
underprivileged children pursue their dreams!<br />
School Notices are delighted to support Desmond<br />
Haynes in his capacity as Minister for Sport and<br />
his Charitable Foundation in Barbados. We are<br />
inviting our enrolled schools to collect<br />
Bring your unwanted cricket<br />
kit into school by<br />
Monday 6th June <strong>2016</strong><br />
All participating schools<br />
will receive a signed bat<br />
by Desmond Haynes<br />
and donate any old or outgrown children’s cricket<br />
kit which will then be sent out to under privileged<br />
children in the West Indies to help pursue their<br />
cricketing dreams.<br />
One lucky school<br />
(picked out of a hat)<br />
will win a masterclass<br />
with Desmond Haynes<br />
(Summer 2017)<br />
In a career spanning 20 years, amassing over 26,000 first class runs, Desmond Haynes was one of<br />
the World’s finest opening batsman for the fearsome West Indies team of the 80’s and 90’s.<br />
Here at School Notices we love to hear about<br />
our enrolled schools’ charitable causes and<br />
initiatives. We have amazing parents and<br />
children who all go out of their way to help<br />
raise awareness of their particular causes.<br />
Very often, these fund raising ventures<br />
originate from a personal involvement, in turn<br />
making them even more meaningful. Nothing<br />
touches us more than when children choose to<br />
do something to help others who they know<br />
are suffering.<br />
This term we are delighted to outline some of<br />
the many wonderful and inspiring charitable<br />
events that are taking place amongst our<br />
enrolled schools.<br />
Oscar Bearman aged<br />
9 (Cheam School) was<br />
born with Crouzon<br />
Syndrome which stops<br />
his scull growing properly<br />
thereby affecting not<br />
only his appearance, but also his breathing,<br />
hearing and eyesight, and most importantly<br />
the pressure on his brain. In May, Oscar is<br />
undergoing a gruelling and risky operation to<br />
stretch his scull. He will be in Great Ormond<br />
Street Hospital for 6 weeks, and then getting<br />
better for another 6 months. Under their<br />
own initiative the boys in Oscar’s class have<br />
organized a 5 mile sponsored walk to raise<br />
money for ‘Face Value’ for Great Ormond<br />
Street. If you would like to support this<br />
wonderful walk please visit, www.justgiving.<br />
com/awalkforoscar.<br />
Olivia Alderson, a mother at<br />
Moulsford Preparatory School,<br />
was diagnosed with breast cancer<br />
6 ½ years ago. As she continues to<br />
fight the disease she has also been<br />
raising money for Action against Cancer with<br />
the help of fellow mothers. ‘Walk with Me<br />
<strong>2016</strong>’ is a 26-mile walk along the Ridgeway<br />
in Oxfordshire, starting and finishing at<br />
Moulsford School. If you would like to take<br />
part or donate to this invaluable charity please<br />
visit www.walkwithme<strong>2016</strong>.com.<br />
Inspired by our enrolled schools’ enthusiasm<br />
to help others, we are delighted to announce<br />
our own charitable campaign to help under<br />
privileged kids in the West Indies to pursue<br />
their cricketing dreams. Please see opposite<br />
for more details about this exciting venture.<br />
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