From the Headmaster

Issue Number 578 17th Nov 2017

Dear Parents,

The poignancy and sense of occasion once again

emanated from the three very specific services in which

the school was involved during the period

Remembrance. The school were outstanding in their

adherence to the two minutes’ silence on Friday (the

singing and brass playing being exemplary). The

Chamber Choir performed at the National Memorial

Arboretum on Sunday, in front of gathered thousands

and Sky cameras. It brought tears to the eyes of many of

the veterans; all was very moving and thought

provoking.

Similarly, to be able to pay our respects to the fallen of

the Parish of Foremarke with Ingleby on Sunday

evening at St. Saviour’s was also a fine tribute, again

supported by the Chamber Choir and our brass players.

All reminded us of the ultimate sacrifice so many have

paid and of what really matters in life; the love of our

children, families and the peace and respect of our

society and community.

God Bless the peace keepers and peace makers.

Sporting Success

Last Sunday the Chamber Choir performed at the

National Arboretum Memorial, for the full story

visit www.foremarke.org.uk/news

National Arboretum Memorial

Boys‟ 1st X1 have reached the Burton & District Cup

Final next Tuesday.

Well done to the Girl‟s Hockey 1st for their Bronze

success at the National IAPS U13 this Tuesday.

National IAPS U13 success, congratulations to the boys

achieving Silver in the competition last weekend.

Turn to page 5 and 6 for the full sports news.

We wish all of our boarders and

their families a lovely Exeat

weekend.

Boarding News and Notices

NEWS

Remembrance Sunday

Our boarders at the National Memorial Arbore-

tum…see our boarding news pages for the full

story. www.foremarke.org.uk/news

Burdett House

Burdett have had fun with our jigsaws and new

games this week. Connect 4 has been popular and

Mrs Hill‟s defeat at the hands of William meant

everyone won a „lucky dip‟ treat!

Ren had the starring (and slightly scary) role in

this week‟s assembly on the theme of „Trust‟ and

we are very pleased to report that he is still alive

to tell the tale!

NOTICES

Exeat

Exeat begins at 12.35pm this Friday. The boarding

houses reopen on Sunday from 6.30pm. A polite

reminder that children should not return to

school earlier than this time. Thank you for your

cooperation.

Lent term trips

A letter has been sent out to all parents this week

with details of the Lent term trips. Please return

the booking form to Mrs Hill by Friday 1st Decem-

ber if you would like your child to attend any of

the trips. Thank you.

Boarder of the Week

George

For being hard working , committed and for hav-

ing a great sense of humour. JH

Pre-Prep News

Dates For The Diary

Saturday 25th November – Christmas Fayre 12pm-

4pm

Tuesday 28th and Thursday 30th November –

Parents‟ Evenings (No Activities on these dates)

Friday 8th December 9:30am – Pre-Prep Christmas

Production

Saturday 9th December 11am – Pre-Prep Christmas

Production

Monday 11th December 9:15am – Christmas in the

Nursery

Thursday 14th December – Year One and Year

Two to Chatsworth

Learning Objectives

Reception

Literacy

To learn the digraphs oi,ue,er,ar.

Numeracy

To learn about 3D shapes, what they look like and

why they are different to 2D shapes.

Year One

English

To plan a Space story using a storyboard.

To introduce the digraph „ch.‟

Mathematics

To say the number that is 1, 2 or 3 less; counting back from a given number, using a number line.

Year Two

English

To recognise and use varied sentence openings in

their independent written work.

Mathematics

To write multiplication and division number sen-

tences, using pictorial representations including

arrays.

“Be Gentle” A Golden Rule Golden Leaves are awarded to children who follow the

'Golden Rules' particularly well. Congratulations to:-

Nursery Reception

Livi Corbett Ocean Astara-Ibbotson

Oliver Hunt Harriet Sloane

Bea Merlin

Marni Toor

Year 1 Year 2

Leon Barak Wilf Lytle

Daniel Lunn Madison Mosley-Nix

Verity Ingham Libby Gowar

Annie Pitts Scarlett Devey Smith

Notice: Prep Diaries

Please note that Prep Diaries were printed at the

start of the term, so event dates are subject to

change, in particular some clubs/activities. We do

try to avoid this happening, however, sometimes

this is unavoidable. Please do check the diaries/

book bags for letters and notes notifying you of

changes. Changes are also displayed on notice-

boards around the Pre-Prep. The website

calendar provides up-to-date information on all

school events. Thank you.

PLAYTIME STARS AWARD

Year One

Reception Fun

In Reception this half term we have been looking

at celebrations and started the topic with Bonfire

Night. We enjoyed learning about the reasons

for this special time and loved making splatter

pictures, firework cookies and paper rockets.

This week we celebrated our form friends, Lilly

the rabbit and Ollie the owl‟s birthdays. We

enjoyed organising a birthday party for them and

made party hats, cards and even a yummy cake

for them. It was great fun!

Lower School News

Year 4 PSHE

In anticipation of Friendship Friday, Year 4 have

been thinking about what friendship is and what

makes a good friend. They have also been re-

calling examples of friendship shown to them and

thinking about how they could be a better friend

to others.

„A good friend helps to encourage you to „have a

go‟ at something you are unsure about.‟ – Lily-

Anne Miller, 4B

„I remember when my friend gave up their free

time to help me find my lost jumper.‟ – Zoë Mac-

kenzie, 4B

“A true friend is someone that you can always

rely on.” Felix Merlin 4H

“All my friends are kind to me but I remember

this one time when one of my friends helped me

during a hockey match, even though she was on

the other team!” Tess Gowar 4H

„A good friend is someone who helps you. When

I fell over and bumped my head, my friend took

me to surgery.‟ Alfie Pitts, 4O

„When I was new to this school, my friend came

up to me and asked me if I wanted to play be-

cause I didn‟t know anyone.‟ Olivia Clancy, 4O

Welly Wednesday

Our Wednesday playtimes in the woods are a

much looked forward to weekly event and it is

lovely to see such creative play.

Year 3 DT

Y e a r 3 h a v e

thoroughly enjoyed

making their wooden

photo frames in

D e s i g n a n d

Technology. They

have been inspired by

the Memphis Design,

i n c o r p o r a t i n g

geometric shapes and

bold colours in their work. Academic Stars were

awarded to those who produced exceptional

photo frames and those who demonstrated

accurate use of tools and machinery.

Lower School Book Fair

Thank you to all who have supported our book

fair last week. A considerable amount has been

raised and allows us to order some new books

for the Lower School Library.

Sports News

Foremarke‟s 1st XI reached the final of the Burton

& District Cup with a sensational performance at

John Taylor on Wednesday that saw them record

a 7-1 victory. It was arguably the performance of the season so

far as they booked a place in the final, which takes

place on Tuesday 21st November at Burton Albion‟s Training Ground with a 3.15pm kick off.

Burton‟s training ground is situated next to the car

park behind the Pirelli Stadium, Princess Way,

Burton on Trent. IC

Boys’ 1st XI Reach The Burton &

District Cup Final

Foremarke‟s footballers produced an amazing performance to reach the final of the National

IAPS in Taunton last weekend.

After winning the regional qualifying tournament

in style at Summer Fields last month the boys

produced some stunning football at Taunton

against the best football schools in the country.

Our U13s remained unbeaten in the group

stages and scoring more goals, conceding less

and earning more points than anyone else in the

14 team national tournament.

They saw off the challenge of St. Christopher‟s

in the semi-final and met reigning champions

Westbrook Hay in the final.

It was goalless at full time and the boys were

denied victory in a sudden death penalty

shootout but can be suitably proud of their

efforts and performance levels.

It is the first time in a decade they have reached

the last two of the National IAPS football finals

having previously reached the semi-final on three

occasions and they played at a fantastic standard

with some wonderful skill on display.

Second in the country boys – well done you are

a credit to the school. IC

National IAPS Football Success

Foremarke Football League Week 5

Player of the tournament

Leo

Winning Team: Wolfsburg.

Back left to right, Otter, James, Kirill, Manav

Front row from the left, Jack, Jacob.

Sports Notices and News

Huge congratulations to the 1st Hockey team who

were quite outstanding on Tuesday at the IAPS

National Finals at Repton. We topped our group

comfortably and went through to the cup quarter

finals against Framlingham. We played a super

game of hockey qualifying for the semis. Our

opponents were Millfield and truly this ought to

have been the final - what a game! It was a

fantastic standard and at full time there was no

break through for either team. We went onto

golden goal, Millfield pressured us and gained a

penalty corner. The pressure so early on in the extra time was immense. Millfield converted

superbly putting them through to the final. The

game really was a worthy final match. We picked

ourselves up and set ourselves up for the bronze

medal match. The girls were quite superb and

dominated the game winning 4-0. Well done to all

and a huge thank you to staff and parents who

came down to support us.

We wish our 2nd team all the best for their IAPS

National Finals next week at Ipswich School.

SM

Bronze for the 1st Girls’ Hockey

2017 Cricket Equipment Now Available

Saturday 9th December 2017

12:15pm onwards in the Sports Hall.

Leading brands available including , Gray

Nicolls, Kookaburra, Gunn & Moore,, Masuri

helmets and Salix

Foremarke and Repton Director of Cricket

Howard Dytham, and his company Clean Hit are

again teaming up with the school to bring you top

quality cricket kit for next season.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday 9th

December or for more information please contact

Clean Hit Cricket at:

Mobile – 07771 718998

Email: - sales@cleanhitcricket.co.uk

Team of the Week

Girls’ Hockey 1st

Well done to the Girls 1st for a fantastic

performance at the IAPS U13 competition.

Academic Stars Miss Bushby has seen some fantastic work

over the last week and is pleased to announce the following Academic Stars!

3C Theo Birkin English

Matilda Lees D&T

George Odell English

Kasturi Sinha English

Lucy Sisson D&T

Alfie Smith English

3M Sophia Langley D&T

Martha Lytle D&T

Lydia Morris D&T

3F Hattie Beacham English

4O Hannah Casey English

Olivia Clancy English

Zara Evans English

Alfie Pitts English

5SG Raphael Barak Science, Geography

Zoe Barkey English, Geography

Clara Coulborn Science, Geography

Robert Jones Geography

Eva Lubega Geography

Lulu Millard English

Emma Morrison Science

Kate Wylie English

5ES Asha Cooper Maths

Max German Maths

Izzy Hambleton English

Freddie Moseley English

Martha Wong Science, French

5JC Poppy Blount English, Maths

Abigail Edwards French

Hattie Lees English

Greg Morris French

Tabitha Morley Science, French

Effie Moseley French

Amily Sinka French

6RN Charlie Coleston-Shields Latin

Ben Hidderley French, Latin

Oliver Hughes Science

Jacob Ingleston-Orme French, Latin

Angus Maronge French, Latin

William Morrison French, Latin

Amanpreet Thandi Maths, French

N‟Sira Wills-Diawara French

6NW Lily Clancy French

Louis Trafford French

6AE Amelia Hall French

Isobel Orpin Maths, Science,

Ophelia Wenham French x 2

Henry Wood Science

7IC Kamila Chaibi Maths

Louis Watson Maths, Latin x 2

Kseniia Yakutina Science

7FL Rory Donegan French

Elena Komova RS, Latin

7KC Ava Marriott RS

Ramani Mattu English

Angel Shen French, Latin

Polly Sisson French

7GW Rufus Coulborn Latin

Marisa Lucas Science, French,

Geography

7JD Artem Malyshev Geography

Lemuel Melchizadeck RS, Latin

7PR Elisabeth Fraser French

Thomas Taylor Science, RS, Latin

8SO Finn Flanagan English

Liam Leahy Maths, RS

8GK Alex Gabriel Science, French, RS

Florence Thomas Geography

8SD Gabriel Fong History

Jessica Liu History, Art

8RA Archie Hidderley Maths x 2, Science

8ST William Groves Maths, Latin

CHANGE OF DATE –

FOREMARKE CONCERT BAND

The Band are performing at the Repton Band

Concert on

WEDNESDAY 13TH DECEMBER AT

7.30PM

(NOT on Thursday 14th as per the Calendar)

Music Notice

As per the House tradition the four School

Houses will once again be present at the Christ-

mas Fayre. Each House will run a stall to raise as

much money for charity as they can. This is the

one event where the Houses all work together

rather than competing against each other so

please feel free to donate to any stall.

Tedder will run a cake stall and we are asking for

cakes to be donated just before the Fayre, Mount-

batten are running a sweet stall and any donations

from now would be very welcome, similarly books for the Alexander stall and small wrapped

„lucky dip‟ type prizes for the Wavell stall.

Book donations can be left under the stairs in the

Quad building, sweets, cakes and prizes can be

taken to the office for collection.

Many thanks for your support. The children will

vote on the charities we are supporting this year

in assembly after exeat. The nominations are all

charities that have some connection with the

children so please donate and make this a

successful and life changing event. Many thanks JC.

Help Required For Christmas Fayre

Monday

4:15–5:00 pm Act 1 Scenes 5, 6 &

Harry, Alessandra, Jacques, Leyton, Henry, Joe,

Kate, Esther, Tom, Hatti

5:00-6:00 pm Wedding Dance

Tuesday

4:15–5:00 pm Act 1 Scene 3

James, Archie, Jacob, Harry, Joe, Henry, Kate,

Rebecca, Esther, Hatti, Tom, Alessandra

5:00–6:00 pm Fight Dance

Play prep available in JW‟s room, 5-6 pm.

Drama, Week 11 Rehearsals

Thursday 23rd November

Upper School Concert, Theatre, 6:30pm

Featuring: Orchestra, String Ensemble, Saxophone

Ensemble, Clarinet Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Con-

cert Band, Flute Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz

Band.

Friday 1st December

Concert at St Wystan‟s Church , Repton 12pm to

12:45pm

Featuring the Chamber Choir, String Chamber Music,

Brass and Flute Ensembles along with soloists.

Tickets are priced at £5 which includes a light lunch. If

attendees do not wish to stay for lunch there is the

opportunity to give a donation. All proceeds go to the

Church. Tickets available from Sue Parker

sparker@foremarke.org.uk

Friday 8th December

Foremarke Past , Present and Future, 400 Hall,

Repton 7pm.

A celebration of our musical talent from previous

years and including some of our youngest musicians.

Featuring the Orchestra, Boys‟ Choir, Brass

Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Training Band, Chamber

Music, Chamber Choir and soloists, including Old

Foremarkians.

Tickets available from the School Office and Repton

School Lodge, adults £10, under 14‟s free.

Wednesday 13th December

Repton Band Concert in Pears School , 7.30pm.

Featuring the Foremarke Hall Concert Band

Tickets available from The Lodge , Repton School

Upcoming Music Events

Lost Property

Named kilt belonging to Lydia

Morris (3M)

Named white and blue sport T-

shirt belonging to Sophia Langley

(3M)

Well Done Theo!

Huge congratulations to Theo Sanders from the

Nursery. Theo set up his very own Poppy Shop

in order to raise money for the Royal British Le-

gion. Thank you to those of you who visited

Theo‟s shop in the Pre-Prep last week. Theo had

already taken his shop on tour and the visits to

Pre-Prep boosted the overall total raised to near-

ly £200. This is a massive achievement for any-

one, but for a three year old, this is amaz-

ing! Well done, Theo. You are a superstar! KC

Notice From The

Medical Centre

Please note that the annual nasal „flu vaccina-

tions for years 3 & 4 are due to take place on

Thursday 23rd November

Have a great Exeat

weekend everyone!