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EY Fun Time

Computing

Y10&13 Robot Ex-

hibition P2

Sports at NDS

Surrey Athletics &

weekly round up

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Music Board

Upcoming events

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Reading Matters

Prep & Senior

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Drama

Senior Inter-house

drama festival

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Early Years

News, FoND &

Diary Dates

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The Week @NotreDameCobham

Feast Day

Last Friday, the entire school celebrated the Feast Day of St Jeanne de Lestonnac, foundress of the Order of the Company of Mary Our Lady. Mass followed the theme

of ‘Love in Action’ with everyone joining in a joyous celebration of her life and the legacy she has left us today. Choirs, musicians, servers, readers, ministers - everyone played their part in making the Mass special with Fr John concelebrating with Fr Mervyn who asked us about how we feel when we are told what to do and reminded us that even adults sometimes need guiding to ‘do the right thing’. The benefits of modern technology and the hard work of the IT department meant we had projection in the hall for the first time and this enabled us to watch a

reflective video after communion. It featured people helping others so we could challenge ourselves as to where we can make a difference. After Mass there was an opportunity to all eat together with the prep and senior classes paired up to play together. A huge thanks to Anthony and the maintenance team and Mandy and her catering staff for all the work they put into preparing the hall, grounds and delicious BBQ.

This week marks the canonisation of St Jeanne de Lestonnac, when the church recognised her as a saint and affirmed her legacy of which we are a part. A woman of her time with a message just a relevant now as we follow in her footsteps and play our part in continuing her work. She encouraged her Sisters to always lend a helping hand and we do the same as a school today. Not in theory but in practice. Helping others when we can, however we can. Looking outside of ourselves and putting others first. Helping in the small things and making a difference in big ways too. Being a friend to everyone – whether it’s someone we know or whether it’s someone that we’ve never met before. Looking for ways to help, every day. Be devoted to one another in love. Rm 12.10

Mrs Harrison, Chaplain

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Robot Exhibition This week, ICT students in

Year 10 and 13 visited the Robot exhibition at the Science Museum, London. The exhibition traced the 500 year history to make machines mirror humanity. It showcased cutting-edge technology such as a robot called ‘Pepper’. This robot is designed to tell magical stories and socially interact with children. The exhibition was a fascinating insight into both the impacts and the consequences of robots in society providing interactive examples of the potential uses of robots in different sectors. For example, ‘Miraikan’ is a newsreader robot and ‘Kaspar’ is a robot designed to help children with autism. Overall the show was an engaging and thought-provoking experience.

Mrs Archer

Languages—Follow us on twitter: @NDS_LANGUAGES Y10 enjoyed having a Spanish conversation during their Skype session with Argentinian Students.

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Farmyard FunTime Yesterday Early Years were treated to a morning of Fun Time which included a visit to the mini farm, art and crafts and a sing-a-long session. We were delighted so many people came along and hope they enjoyed it as much as Miss D’Aprano and Mrs King!

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Touch Typing Courses Summer 2017

Learn how touch typing helps those with or without learning difficulties

www.verityping.co.uk/touch-typing-for-dyslexics-and-others.html

Courses take place at Sunbury on Thames. Near Junction 1. M3. London end.

Our Summer touch typing courses start on July 25th. There are four courses of four mornings. 9.30am-12.30pm

Dates: July 25th - 28th Aug.1st - 4th Aug.15th- 18th Aug. 22nd - 25th All Tuesday - Friday

Details of all the courses are on the website www.verityping.co.uk or call Jane on 020 8568 4633. jane@verityping.co.uk

Mrs Ha Completes the Moonwalk!

I just wanted to say an enormous thank you to everyone who donated to my fundraising page. Your donations and well wishes made such a huge difference in the early hours of the morning when the cold and tiredness were really setting in! We started at 11pm and we finished at 8am. It took 9 hours to walk 26.2 miles and it was an amazing experience. As a result of your incredible kindness I was able to raise over £1000 and £4 million had been raised for Breast Cancer by all those doing the Moonwalk before the event even took place. I was really overwhelmed by the number of staff who donated and by all the lovely messages I received-it was a reminder of what a special place we work in and what a tremendous sense of community we have!

If you would still like to donate to this amazing charity, Mrs Ha’s donation page is as follows:

https://moonwalklondon2017.everydayhero.com/uk/ellie-12

Thank you again,

An incredibly grateful and tired Moonwalker!

Mrs Ha

ND Girls Compete in the Finals of the Surrey County Athletics Championships

Congratulations to Poppy P who is the U13 hurdles bronze medalist

Anna G

qualified for the 300m finals and came 5th in the county with a new PB of 44.44.

Lulu W also reached the final of the 1500 m and came 7th!

Daisy P also qualified for the 800m U13 finals despite being U11 age group!

Hockey Finals for Freya

Congratulations to Freya A - who was selected to play in the England hockey league national finals!

School News FEAST DAY MASS

Last Friday the school celebrated the Feast Day of St Jeanne de Lestonnac, the foundress of the Sisters of the Company of Mary our Lady. The whole school Mass, held in the sports hall, was a great event with the pupils performing a range of choral music and Hymns featuring both the Junior and Senior choirs. Special mention to Roisin M who sang a special solo in the Alleluia, Darcey A with her lovely solo leading of the Kyrie movement and the girls performed beautifully throughout the service, accompanied by Mrs Shaw, Miss D’Aprano, Mr Sweeney and Mr Black.

Prep News Year 1 Music Workshop with Glenesk School

On the afternoon of Tuesday 6th June, Glenesk Year 1 pupils will be joining our own Year 1 girls for an afternoon of musical activities at Notre Dame.

The afternoon will culminate in a performance by the pupils in the theatre. Year 1 parents are welcome to attend this special event.

Please join us at 3.00pm in the theatre. The performance will start promptly at 3.10pm and finish at 3.30pm. Please park in Car Park 1 and we will then dismiss as normal from the playground after the girls have returned to class to collect their belongings.

Senior News Summer Concerts

The senior school concert for this year is on Wednesday 5th July 2017. The evening entitled ‘Music for a Summer Evening’ will begin at 7.00pm with Pimms on the lawn followed by the music concert in the Chapel starting at 7:30pm. The concert will feature music by the chamber choir, Notre Dame Singers, senior school orchestra and selected soloists and will run for just over an hour. Please try to keep the date free in your diaries and I look forward to seeing you then.

Summer Soirees

These are less formal concerts and are often run by one or more of our visiting instrumental teachers. A full timetable to follow next week.

Music Certificates

Congratulations to the girls photographed below on receiving their examination certificates:

Mr Black

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Faith and Music Assemblies

These are an opportunity for girls to perform for the school and their parents in a faith setting connected with our Floricer themes. Girls will hear more about how this is going to happen in their lessons with Mrs Shaw. Assemblies are at 9am when the chapel doors open to parents but girls will need to be in the chapel with their instruments at 8:30am.

Year 3’s Faith and Music Assembly will be taking place on Friday 9 June.

6M’s Faith and Music Assembly will be taking place on Friday 16 June.

Year 6 Chamber Groups

Chamber groups are rehearsing at the following times:

Chamber Quintet: Monday activities break in the music room

Pop Group: Tuesday activities break, in the Summer House

Chamber Choir: Wednesday after school in the music room until 4:45pm

Drum Duo: Wednesday after school in the summer house

Piano Duo: Friday morning break alternating with activities break in the Music Room

These groups will be preparing for the ceremony of achievement along with Year 6 Djembe Club and Percussion club.

Mrs Shaw

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LAMDA—Prep

Dear Parents,

I was delighted by the tremendous results achieved by the LAMDA girls. They all put in a lot of time and effort to gain amazing marks—eighteen Distinctions and ten Merits. Many girls scored in the high nineties and Darcey A scored a perfect 100%. Huge congratulations to Darcey and all the girls.

The LAMDA girls from Prep 4-6 are now working towards their Acting exam taking place on 14th June. For this, they will have to learn dramatic extracts and prepare theory. It would be a great help if you would encourage your daughter to go over her work regularly.

All the LAMDA girls will be involved in the LAMDA Showcase which will take place on the 27th June. The years 5 and 6 girls will perform after school and the year 3 and 4s will perform in the morning. More details on this will follow.

Mrs C Wighton

DANCE It’s May and the Maypole is out again, the

girls have been having great fun making lovely patterns and shapes and getting in to lots of tangles!!

PRIVATE BALLET GIRLS REMINDER

Ballet Presentation Thursday 25th May 5.00pm

Please remember all your ballet uniform, ballet shoes, tights, character shoes and skirts, hair brush etc

3.30pm-4.15pm: Years 1 & 2 to aftercare

From 4.00pm : Years 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 10 to Junior Hall

Please bring a healthy snack to have after school.

Coffee and refreshments in the dining hall from 4.00pm

Mrs Thomas

Senior Inter House Drama

Congratulations to all four houses on an excellent drama festival! Judges Tom Kelly & Chris Hehir declared the cast and crew of Lestonnac as the overall winning house with their performance of The Willow Pattern.

Best new comer - Sade H

Best Actress Ariana R

Miss Graham

READING MATTERS @NDS_LIBRARY

Prep Library News This Week in the Library…

Reception

The girls in Reception class love their weekly visit to the library and spend some time deliberating over the books and chatting about them together before they make up their minds on which to take home. Book chat starts at a very young age at Notre Dame!

Chatterbooks

This week at our Chatterbooks meeting the girls had a look at the Summer Reading Challenge website and each of them now has their own personal log-in to allow them to enter book reviews. These reviews will help library users to choose the books they will read as part of the challenge during the school holidays. We also had a go at making our own bookmarks with a large range of designs on display from wise owls to dragons and from puppies to monsters. Well done girls.

Author visit to our Younger Pupils

We are delighted that Tracey Corderoy who has written over 40 children’s books will be visiting Notre Dame on Tuesday 13th June to work with the children from Butterflies class up to Year 3. Tracey will be providing storytelling sessions and craft making so it should be a lovely day for everyone.

There will be the opportunity to purchase copies of Tracey’s books for signing on the day. Further details regarding this will be sent to the parents of all children involved in the event in the next few days.

Mrs Thompson

Senior Library News 2017 SHORTLIST FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL

This year is believed to be the strongest year for nominations, due partly to the fact that many of the books tackle issues that would not have previously been addressed in children’s literature. As highlighted below - the shortlist brings a wide range of stories – from the funny and fantastical to tragic and difficult stories that will challenge readers.

Books in contention for the Carnegie includes Frank Cottrell Boyce’s Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth (8+) which has been described as ‘out of this world funny’; Philip Reeve’s epic fantasy Railhead (12+) which is set in a whimsical future world where sentient trains crisscross the universe and Wolf Hollow (10+) by Lauren Wolk which is set in 1940s rural America and has shades of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The Bone Sparrow (11+) is Zana Fraillon’s acclaimed novel about refugees: ‘Simply and innocently told from a child’s perspective this important and timely novel brings to like the risks people are willing to take to make their voices heard and the resilience of the human spirit.’ Carnegie For older readers we have The Stars as Oktober Bend (13+) by Glenda Millard which is a tale of two damaged people who find redemption and love, and The Smell of Other People’s Houses (13+) by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock which is ‘an exciting tapestry of four rites of passage stories told across four different seasons against the backdrop of Alaskan life and landscapes’. Carnegie Salt to the Sea (13+) by Ruth Sepetys is based on the true story from the Second World War when the German ship the Wilhelm Gustloff sank in port with over 9000 civilians on board. It follows the journey of a group of people trekking across Germany, desperate to escape the war-ravaged land. Finally we have Beck (16+) written by Mal Peet and finished by Meg Rosoff, following his death in 2015. It is a coming-of-age story about a mixed-race boy in America during the 1900s. The winner will be announced on Monday 19th June and further information can be found at http://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk.

We have copies of all of the short-listed books in the Library and they are also being given out as Library prizes.

Book Awards Well done to Isabelle P and Caitlin

P (Year 9) who have both completed

their reading passports and received

Book Awards.

Mrs Finch

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Rounders

U14 v St Teresa’s Both teams had very close losses v St Teresa's U14A lost 3.5—7.5 and U14B lost 6.5—7

Rain affected some of our fixtures this week!

Senior Fixtures Calendar

Mrs Marsh

U11A- C Rounders v Downsend

Well done to the U11 girls who had more close rounders matches this week against Downsend School. The girls played great rounders but were unable to secure the wins. Players of the Match were Darcey, Daisy, Emily and Juliette. The Year 6 girls have one for more match next Tuesday against Halstead.

Surrey Tennis League Matches

Well done to Steph, Alexia, Darcey and Hannah S who played in a tough game against Putney on Tuesday. Their next games will be on Tuesday 23rd May against Rowan and Thursday 25th May against Wimbledon.

U8 and B v Downsend

Good luck to the Year 3 girls who have their second rounders match today, being played at ND against Downsend School.

Clubs Next Week

Year 3 and 4 Rounders- CANCELLED on Monday 22nd May

Year 5 and 6 Rounders – CANCELLED on Tuesday 23rd May

Fixtures Next Week 22nd- 25th May

Monday 22nd- U8-U11 Tennis Festival v CLFS AWAY 4:30pm

Tuesday 23rd – U10 Surrey League Tennis v Rowan @ Oaken Lane 4:15pm

Tuesday 23rd – U11 A-C Rounders v Halstead 4:15pm @ ND

Wednesday 24th- District Athletics @ Guildford Spectrum 9:15am- 2:45pm

Thursday 25th – U9, U10 and U11 Surrey League Tennis v Wimbledon @ ND 4:15pm

Prep Fixtures Calendar

Mrs Purgavie

Swimming

Gala Report – Notre Dame v St Hilary’s Year 2 & 3

Last Thursday Notre Dame hosted a gala against St Hilary’s for Year 2 and Year 3. Some of the Year 2 girls were very nervous as it was their first school gala against another school.

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Notre Dame started very well coming 1st and 2nd in the first two races. Then for the next six races the points were split evenly as we finished 1st and 4th in each race. Again the relays proved to be the turning point as all the girls were involved and we managed to finish 1st and 3rd in all the relay events.

The final score was Notre Dame 74 – St Hilary’s 56

The following girls all set a new personal best (PB) time:-

Year 3 - Sabrina (BK), Mia Lily (BR and FC), Megan (FC and FC again), Lexi (FC), Anouk (FC and FC again), Serena (FC), Rachel (FC) and Molly (FC) – All the year 3 team set new records, that is impressive. Swimmer of the night for Year 3 was Mia Lily and special mention to Megan.

Year 2 – Grace P (BR), Michelle (FC), Ella (FC), Valentina (BK and FC), and Grace C (BR and FC). The Year 2 swimmer of the night was Valentina – amazing BK time. Special mention to Grace C.

Many thanks to Mrs Smith and to Darcey and Emily for all your help at the Gala – You did a great job.

I am really looking forward to seeing how the year two girls progress next year, feeling very excited!

Mrs Jones

DATES FOR THE DIARY

EARLY YEARS (NDEY) Follow us on twitter: @NotreDame_EY Reception have been coming up with creative ways to measure periods of time using the sand timers. It brought out our competitive side!

20 May FoND Spring Movie Night (Year 1-6) Prep

25 May Y13 Celebration Day & start of study leave ND6 Prep Dance & Ballet demonstration 5—6.30pm Prep

26 May FoND Mufti Day—Circus Theme—Whole School A Level drama theatre trip 7.30—10pm ND6

29 May—2 June HALF TERM School

3 June FoND Bikeability 8.45am—3pm Prep

5—9 June Senior Exam Week Snr 6 June Nursery Sports Day 10—11am NDEY Y1 Music Workshop with Glenesk: parents welcome 3pm Prep

7—8 June Year 4 Camp Out Prep 8 June Year 1 to Guildford Museum Prep

9 June 3P & 3S Faith & Music Assembly 9—9.30am Prep

12 Jun Y12 Higher Education Day ND6

13-16 June German residential trip Senior 13 June Prep Author Visit Prep

14 June Y6 French Trip Information Meeting 4-5pm Prep (Y5)

15 June Whole school open evening & art exhibition 4.30—6.30pm School 16 June 6MP Faith & Music Assembly 9—9.30am Prep 16-19 June Y12 Geography Fieldtrip ND6

17 June Summer Fete School

19 June Y7 Natural History Museum Snr Y5 PGL Trip Parent Meeting 4—5pm Prep (Y4)

20 June Y7 Theology Trip Snr

21 June Y7 Dover Castle History Trip Snr

22 June Y5&6 Performance of Alice in Wonderland to Parents 7pm Prep

23-26 June Year 7, 8 , 9 & 10 PGL Trip Snr 23 June 3P & 3S Class Assembly 9—9.30am Prep

26 June Prep Sports Day Prep

29 June Prep First Holy Communion Mass (10:30) & Lunch Prep Lower School Play Performance 7—9pm Snr

5 July Year 6 Ceremony of Achievement 11—1.30pm Prep

7 July Senior Prize Giving 10.30—12.30pm Snr Daddy/Daughter Campout from 3pm Prep

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Spring Movie Night

We are looking forward to

seeing you all tomorrow for

our Spring Movie Night!

Summer Fete

Circus Mufti Day!

Friday 26th May

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ND BakeOff Congratulations to Miss Caverhill winner of Prep Bake Off for last week with her delicious cheese-cake. It was extremely close; we had to wait until the last person voted to have a clear winner. A huge thank you to both Miss Caverhill and Mrs Gawander for their delicious sweet and savoury bakes, they compli-mented each other perfectly.