An independent school for boys and girls

aged 3-11 years

Issue 19

4th March 2016

e-Letter

Headmaster’s Welcome

Farnham Royal

Dair House School

On Monday 29th February, Years 1 and 2 visited The Royal Festival Hall to watch The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform the Bright Sparks Concert 'Crazy Creatures'. We loved riding our horses to Rossini's ‘William Tell Overture’ and participating in actions and songs that told the stories of poor Scratch the cat and his

pesky flea and a duck who gets lost and ends up at the North Pole partying with polar bears! It was amazing to hear the full force of a live orchestra and hopefully it has inspired the children to learn to play an instrument.

Year 3 Visit the Roald Dahl Museum

We went to the South Bank Centre. We went in the minibus. Me and Gabriella were partners on the minibus. We played jokers and all sorts. After 90 minutes we met a lady who gave us a tour around Roald Dahl’s world. First we went into a room where there were trees on boxes and a special TV. Next we went to a classroom like Roald Dahl’s. Roald Dahl did not like writing at all but in his letters he wrote he liked school. Next we went where Roald Dahl crashed his plane. Finally we talked about how he crashed the plane. My favourite part was the part when we went into the playground.

Rosalind Chatterjee

Key Stage 1 Bright Sparks

Dear Parents

I felt it important to take a moment to celebrate our wonderful PTA. As you are no doubt aware, the latest PTA event—the Winter Ball—raised over £13,000 towards Fort Dair! This is the latest in an impressive list of achievements of the Dair House PTA.

In my eight years as Head here, I have been extremely fortunate to have worked with highly dedicated and energetic PTA committees with dynamic and creative Chairs, Treasurers and Secretaries.

The PTA organises many wonderful events which we all enjoy, from Family Fun Day in September through to Camp Out Night in July. They help with match teas, potential parents and the second hand uniform shop. They meet in school every half term and outside of school in between times.

As we look forward to the forthcoming Dads’ Curry Night and the building of Fort Dair, I think I should say thank you to all of our excellent PTA committees who have contributed to making Dair House such an enjoyable school for us all.

Best wishes, TCW

JB

World Book Day on Thursday was a spectacular success. We enjoyed a wonderful assembly by Year 5, followed by the inimitable Mrs Ford as Super Worm. We also learnt it was the 19th World Book Day.

Everyone dressed up in super costumes as their favourite book characters.

On Tuesday 29th February we were lucky enough to be visited by Disney Teaching Artists from the Lion King who delivered a ‘Rhythm of the Pridelands’ workshop to the choir. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning how to move and dance like animals from the show and were inspired by the wonderful singing of the teaching artists. By the end of the workshop they could sing in Zulu and had mastered some of the real choreography and singing from the opening ‘The Circle of Life’.

The workshop truly whet our appetites and on Wednesday we set off on a trip to the Lyceum Theatre to watch the real Lion King and see the choreography and music in action that we had learnt the previous day. The whole show was awe inspiring and with wonderful seats, we felt like we were in the Savannah as the puppets and wonderful animal costumes passed right by our shoulders.

The choir all behaved impeccably for the two days and have been a real credit to the school. In fact I received a fantastic email from the Disney Education department saying that both Amy and Felicity our teachers for the workshops had contacted her to say that ‘they were made to feel so welcome and that Dair House school had a wonderful caring and nurturing feeling about it and that the pupils were enthusiastic, confident and well behaved’

I can’t wait to put everything we’ve learnt this week into our choir rehearsal!

JB

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An independent school for boys and girls

aged 3-11 years

Dair House School Bishop’s Blake

Beaconsfield Road

Farnham Royal SL2 3BY

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Work of the Week

This week’s sport

Reminders for next week

The Kindness Cup

Tuesday 8th March Form Parents’ Coffee Morning, 8.50am

Reception Educational visit to La Cantina, 9.45am—12.15pm

Y3/4 Football v St Bernard’s, away Y3/4 Netball v Long Close, home

Netball v St Mary’s, home

Wednesday 9th March Y5/6 Netball v Chesham Prep, home

Thursday 10th March Y3 Assembly, 8.50am

French Verse Speaking Festival Parents’ Evening, 5.30pm-8.30pm

No clubs or after school care (except Speech and Drama)

Friday 11th March Prefects’ Lunch, 12.30pm

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SF

JF

Two Year 4 teams represented Dair House at the Gayhurst netball tournament on Tuesday. It is a lovely tournament with lots of games and new teams all playing five minutes each way. Both of our teams did well with some super goals from Roshni, Lowri and Grace. Special mention goes to

Rosalind in Year 3 for a particularly super shot. The girls organised themselves well, changing positions for each game and I saw some lovely passing. We need to keep working at spreading out and getting free, but it was wonderful to see such improvement from the girls. Our first team won the Bowl Competition. Well done all of you.

Netball Tournament, Gayhurst

Football v Thorpe House

It was brilliant to see how well our fencers have developed since we first started fighting Davenies! Our captain, Georgia, started in Year 3 when she scored lovely, delicate hits; now she has developed into a seriously

aggressive swordsperson and the boys at Davenies quickly learnt respect for our girl! Ajai, as our next most senior member, is also a super serious fighter. Our gallant Year 4 quartet: Jack, Jeremy, William and Grace were unphased about fighting the Year 5 and 6 boys and again the improvement was clear to see. Nick and Alec, who were enjoying their first taste of a match, were wonderful as our the judges.

Fencing v Davenies

This week the Kindness Cup was awarded to Sumair Gupta in Reception for being very helpful when he offered

to put away the toys.

Two teams played a thrilling football match against Thorpe House on Tuesday. Josh was captain of the B team and

he played extremely well, scoring our only goal. For the A team, we saw some very good passing and striking from Luke and Liam. Our midfielders, Jack and Tim played some super football and there was also the usual fantastic goalkeeping from Jai.

Well done to the following children who received Work of the Week :

All of Year 3 for creating sweets for Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

Grace Bull in 4SF for her detailed patchwork bag.

All of Year 4 for their pop-up books in DT.

Thomas Haywood in Year 5 for his geography research.

Maddy Sterling and Kiera Wise in Year 5 for their excellent sketches.

Georgia Bielec in Year 6 for her clay Greek columns.