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Vol. 34 Issue No. 23 • 31st March 2017

House Public Speaking Competition

MONDAY9.00am10.00am

Staff Training DaySchool Shop Open (10.00am - 12.30pm)

TUESDAY

2.30pmTerm StartsSports Procedures Meeting (staff only)

THURSDAY8.50am

5.00pm7.30pm

Prep School Council, Sports Council and Food Committee ElectionsUK Junior Maths Challenge for some Years 7 and 8 pupilsYear 8 Pupil/Parent Counsels FYMS Committee Meeting

FRIDAY9.15am

2.00pm

Open Morning for Prospective ParentsGCSE PE Practical Exam

Diary for the First Week of Summer Term

Clubs Next TermAll school clubs and coaches are running in the first week of next term except:

Tuesday: Athletics, Years 5 - 6 Tennis (due to the Sports Procedures Meeting).

Yateley Manor AwardsCongratulations to the following senior pupils who have achieved their Yateley Manor Awards:Bronze Jasper Burton, Harvey Rice, Gavin Simpson

Happy Easter

The finals of the House General Knowledge Competitions took place, in front of an audience of Years 3 to 8, on Friday afternoon with the semi final matches having taken place earlier in the week.

Both the senior and junior events were exciting and fiercely contested. The honours were shared between Stanley who won the senior event (by one question), and School who won the junior competition. Congratulations to all eight teams for a great competition, and in particular to: Maisie Jenssen, Nathan Brown,

Alex Main, Guy Miller, Holly Davies, Kyle Ramkissoon, Matty Knowles and Tom Garlinge

General Knowledge Competitions

We wish all our children, parents and staff a very happy Easter and a restful holiday. We look forward to seeing everyone in the Summer term which starts for staff on Monday 24th April and for children on Tuesday 25th April.

Friday morning was an opportunity for our public speakers to compete in the annual House Public Speaking competition.

House teams consisted of three members who each spoke on their chosen topic for two minutes before facing two questions: one from the panel of three judges and one from the floor.

Speakers were judged on the content of their speech, the clarity of their presentation, engagement with the audience, ability to think on their feet and answer questions and their timing (they were penalised for going too much under or over the two minute mark). As well as teams competing for the House Shield, a prize was awarded for the best individual speaker.

Judges had a very tough job but in the end the winning house was Fyson (Christian Denny, Jodie Saunders and Ria Bose) and the top four individual speakers were

1. Dibra Thapa Magar 2. Jodie Saunders3. Freya Upton 4. Christian Denny Continued on page 5.

Junior General Knowledge

1st School

2nd Fyson

3rd Kingsley and Stanley

Senior General Knowledge

1st Stanley

2nd School

3rd Fyson and Kingsley

Progress Prizes Year 3 Jack Cantelo

Year 4 Ben Mullaney

Year 5 Charlie Ellis

Year 6 Joshua Donne

Year 7 Matty Knowles

Year 8 Alex Yates

Citizen Prizes Year 3 Max Ballentine

Year 4 James Harvey

Year 5 Flora Fergie-Woods

Year 6 Zoe Munday

Year 7 Sam Rowe

Year 8 Katie Hall

The Taylor Cup for most improved Sports Girl Poppy Everest

The Anderson Cup for most improved Sports Boy Ronnie Calver

U13 Boy Basketball Player of the Year Yaseen Subhan

U13 Girl Basketball Player of the Year Jodie Saunders

U11 Boy Basketball Player of the Year Alex Padbury

U11 Girl Basketball Player of the Year Katie Hancock

Sports Awards

Chess AwardsThe David Lee Senior Chess Cup Isabella Rose Fordham

The Junior Chess Cup Alex Main

Effort Prize Reading PrizeRJAV Laila Ikram Kayan Sachdev

RSB Zak BajwaGrace Gorvin

Maniska Khadka

1PT Edward HardingBarbara Maseda Villalon

Harry Sables

1STJ Sonny AlexanderPhoebe Ayton-Judd

Sirisha Main

2AH Alisha IkramHenry Parker

Caspar Waine

2VMN Jessica MacDougallSophie Thomas

Isla BryantLeon Towell

Pre-Prep Prizes

Colours

House Points and BonusesThis Week Overall for

The TermBonuses House Points Overall

Fyson 2nd = 2nd 2nd = 3rd

Kingsley 2nd = 3rd = 2nd = 4th

School 1st 1st 1st 2nd

Stanley 4th 3rd = 4th 1st

Bonus Point Winner: School House Point Winner: SchoolOverall Winner: School

M:Tech Tracks of the TermThe M:Tech Tracks of the Term were awarded to: Josh Dennison and Jamie Yates

Senior Basketball: Oliver Banham, Katherine Cairney, Jodie Saunders, Harrison Smith

Junior Basketball: Arthur Bole, Sam Fussey, Katie Hancock, Mia Ingram, Adam Maybury, Arabella Newman, Alex Padbury, Poppy Treacher

Senior Cross Country: Tobias Chapman, Leah Jennings, Jodie Saunders, Alex Yates

Junior Cross Country: Arthur Bole, Ethan Howells, Mia Ingram, Thomas Plummer-Colom, Lochran Rowan, Thomas Shephard

Senior Drama: Christian Denny, Maddy Hall, Alex Yates

Junior Drama: Stanley Beeson, Zara Clement-Jones, Ronnie Kazhdan, Liliane Goyon-Thorne, Ayla Sables, Arabella Newman, Poppy Treacher

Senior Music: Katherine Cairney, Holly Davies, Katie Hall, Maddy Hall, Freya Upton

Junior Music: Stanley Beeson, Joshua Chapman, Zara Clement-Jones, Lexi Cox, Isabella Rose Fordham, Jarosan Gobiranjan, Katie Hancock, Liliane Goyon-Thorne, Zahra Hussain, Zoe Munday, Arabella Newman, Sunay Patel, Ayla Sables, Poppy Treacher

Senior Netball: Katherine Cairney, Holly Davies, Maddy Hall, Leah Jennings, Jodie Saunders, Dibra Thapa-Magar, Freya Upton

Junior Netball: Maya Attale, Ria Bose, Liliane Goyon-Thorne, Katie Hancock, Mia Ingram, Ronnie Kazhdan, Zoe Munday, Ayla Sables, Poppy Treacher

Senior Rugby: Oliver Banham, Tobias Chapman, Finlay Cherry, Tom Houghton, Ewan Johns, Harrison Smith

Junior Rugby: Lenny Berdat, Arthur Bole, Sam Fussey, Adam Maybury, Alex Padbury, Lochran Rowan, Edward Shoesmith, Thomas Shephard

Congratulations to ...

Happy Birthday to ...All the children whose birthdays fall during the Easter holidays or in the first week of next term: Anthony Charlesworth 13, Finlay Cherry 13, Christian Denny 13, Zoe Doxey 5, Bella Hall 9, Katie Hall 13, Maddy Hall 13, Edward Harding 6, Oboni Hasan 8, Jack Holland 7, Victoria Hoskins 6, Edward Houghton 11, Zahra Hussain 11, Ronnie Kazhdan 11, Lola Keep 10, Oliver Keetch 8, Alistair Murray 10, Lucas Neville 6, Arabella Newman 11, Oliver Parker 9, Connor Plummer-Colom 12, Leo Ramkissoon 10, William Randall 7, Harvey Rice 12, Stefano Rossi 6, Harry Saunders 11, George Smee 5, Jasper Wisbey 6

FYMSKatie Hancock (6BCS) who has been selected for the Hampshire County U11 Cricket Development Squad. Katie plays for Odiham and Greywell Cricket Club and only started playing cricket last summer.

William Moore (5AER) who took part in the Bracknell Athletics Open Meeting and won two medals; a gold in the U11 150m sprint and silver in the U11 75m sprint.

Olivia Baker (3GJR) and Gaku Mori (4SS) who both passed their Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Piano Prep Tests.

May Fair Programme Design Competition

Children are invited to design the front cover of this year’s May Fair programme. Designs should depict something that you enjoy about the Fair and should fit in the square on the entry form. Drawings should be bold so that they can be photocopied and can be coloured in. Please do not use paints.

There will be two winners, one from Pre-Prep and one from Prep. Please remember to put your name and class on the entry form and hand it to School Reception by Friday 28th April. Instruction and entry forms can be downloaded here.

May Fair

Grade 1 Sam Reader

Grade 2 Harry Ayton-Judd, Max Ballentine, Luca Cella Walker, Joshua Dennison, Henry Gillam, Jasmine Kitto, Morgan Mitchell, Ben Mullaney, Oliver Parker, Daniel Pearce, Miles Raven, Daniel Shek, Joe Spradbery, Fred Terry

Grade 4 Oliver Waddington

Grade 5 Alex Corbett, Sian Louw, Benjie Marshall, William Mitchell, Nathan Ollington, Albert Pearce, Harry Saunders, Jamie Yates

Grade 7 Daniel Corfield

Grade 8 William Apsey, Edward Long, Peter Savory

M Tech Grade Certificates

After competing alongside 63,000 children across the globe and successfully answering a variety of multiple choice problems, Joshua Chapman and Arthur Bole joined the top 3% highest scores in the Primary Maths Challenge and were invited to take part in the Bonus Round.

The Bonus Round took place in February and the results have just arrived. Both pupils did extremely well with Arthur even winning a Primary Mathematics Challenge Bronze Badge, a first for Yateley Manor!

Here is an example of a question pupils had to answer during the Bonus Round:

This year Gareth is seven times the age of his son Herbie. In six years’ time Gareth will be four times as old as Herbie. What is the difference between Gareth’s and Herbie’s ages this year?

No calculators allowed!

Very well done to both boys and, if you think you know the answer, please let us know!

Maths Success for Arthur and Joshua

Plans are well underway for our Annual May Fair on Saturday 20th May. This event is FYMS’ biggest fundraiser and is enjoyed by parents, staff, family and friends. There is always plenty to entertain all members of the family with stalls, bouncy castles, BBQ, candy floss, a plant stall and much more.

The May Fair cannot run without the help and support of staff and parents and there are lots of ways you can help. If you are able to volunteer to help run a stall, bake a (nut free) cake for the Tea Tent or donate plant pots or hanging baskets for the plant stall please email fyms@mail.com. Look out for flyers and information via school bags.

Summer BallHave you booked your table for the FYMS Summer Ball to be held on Saturday 1st July 2017 on the Headmaster’s lawn. An excellent outside caterer has planned a delicious meal and there will also be a cheese table, a variety of entertainment and, of course, a fully stocked bar! Don’t miss out, get your booking in soon.

Booking forms can be downloaded here.

House Competition ResultsHeadmaster’s CommendationsScience – Planet Poster: Sofia Aumonier, Dominic Rolt, Daniel Corfield, William White, Lola Keep, Max Maylin, Freya Whitley, Charlie Ellis, Chloe Cooper, Jamie Sheffield

DT – Stephenson’s Rocket: Sofia Aumonier, Bethan Williams, Eden Berdat, Eesha Kaur, Katie Saunders, Maxine Edwards, Madeleine Perryman, James Macdonald

Science – Musical Instrument: William Apsey, Henry Benton, Lillian Scarr, Maxine Edwards, William Moore, Jamie Sheffield, William White, Jasmine Kitto, Alistair Murray

DT – Presentation: Isla Spradbery

Superb Effort and Progress in Sport: Ronnie Calver, Finlay Cherry, Sadie Kitto Bakianyor Bakia, Tom Houghton, Oliver Keetch, Arabella Newman, Poppy Treacher, Maxine Edwards, Maisie Jenssen, Chloe Cooper, Jemima Harrison, Honor Middleton

Clay Lizard: Edward Coles, Olivia Baker, Christopher Doxey, Sophia Calver, Oboni Hasan, Finley Binks

Terracotta Army Armour Design: Sankarshan Komanduri, George Jacobs, Arthur Holden, Kailan Patel

Creative Writing – The Piano: Matthew Daines, Rhys Davies

DT – Paper Engineering Challenge: Chloe Holden, Maxine Edwards, Sophie Etherington, Lola Keep

Summer Uniform

30 Stars: Jessica Fussey, Thea MacDougall

25 Stars: Lily Moore, Magnus Tyrrell, Emily Goodby, Jessica MacDougall, Sofia Davies

20 Stars: Anya Sachdev, Henry Parker, Jayden Berdat, Alex Samut, Archie Sables, Oliver Thornton, Leon Towell, William Randall, Rohit Praveen

15 Stars: Alisha Ikram

Pre-Prep Awards

Fyson Kingsley Stanley School

Cross Country 2nd 4th 3rd 1st

Netball 1st 3rd 2nd 4th

Rugby 4th 3rd 2nd 1st

Boys Hockey 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

A few reminders about summer uniform:

Summer uniform for girls is the regulation summer dress with white socks.

Boys may wear grey shorts and grey short socks. If they would like to be in short sleeves then they will need to wear proper short sleeved shirts. Long sleeves rolled up are not acceptable, so children wearing long sleeves will have to keep them rolled down. Boys are also expected to wear their ties in school unless given specific permission by the class teacher to take them off; they are allowed to take them off when outside at break times.

Blazers should be worn as usual unless children have permission to take them off.

Pupils should not wear sports socks when in uniform .

Summer uniform is not compulsory until the second half of the summer term but may be worn earlier.

Our assumption is that children stay at Yateley Manor until the end of Year 8. The usual term’s notice (ie before Tuesday 25th April) is required if this is not the case.

Notice

Headmaster’s LetterA letter from the Headmaster, regarding fees for the academic year 2017 - 2018 was sent home by email this week. If you have not received a letter please ask Reception for a hard copy.

What Will You Choose for Lunch?

Available Daily

Breakfast: (8.00-8.20am) A choice of: fruit juice, cereal, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, beans, toast & marmalade, tea, coffee or milk. Breakfast Vouchers may be purchase from Reception in advance in books of 10 at the price of £2.50 each for full English breakfast and £1.30 each for Continental. Breakfast may also be paid for in cash on the day for £3.00 and £1.50 respectively. As well as our daily menu, we have an extensive salad bar with various protein items, composite salads and hot jacket potatoes. Fresh bread, fresh fruit and yoghurts are always available.

Tuesday

Chicken Goujons Cheese and onion pasties (v)

Potato wedges, baked beans and sweetcorn

Spotted dick and custard

Wednesday

Beef MeatballsMacaroni cheese (v)

pasta shapes, cucumber sticks, mixed salad and garlic bread

Flapjack and custard

Thursday

Roast Gammon Vegetarian burgers (v)

Roast potatoes, broccoli, carrots, apple sauce and gravy

Pear crumble and custard

FridayBattered Fish or Fishcakes

Roasted vegetable wraps (v) Diced sweet potatoes, mushy peas. baked beans and lemon wedges

Chocolate cornflake or Krispie Cake and Custard

Next week’s fixture listWednesday 2.30pm Rounders v Dolphin and Daneshill, U13, U12/U11 & U11A Home, U10A, U10B & U10C Away at Dolphin

(coach leaves 1.30pm & returns 4.45pm)2.30pm Cricket v Lanesborough 1st XI & U11A Home, U11B Away (coach leaves1.40pm & returns 6.15pm)

Thursday 2.00pm GCSE PE Practical Examination4.35pm Chess House Matches - Round 1

BOYS Gold Silver Bronze

Year 3 Harry Phillips Lucas Longworth Luca Norris

Year 4 Alex Purslow Matthew Daines Guy Miller

Year 5 Nathan Brown William Moore Henry Benton

Year 6 Edward Shoesmith Arthur Bole Ethan Howells

Years 7 & 8 Tobias Chapman Alex Yates Connor Dyason

Cross Country Results

GIRLS Gold Silver Bronze

Year 3 Megan Burroughs Ashley Mitchell Sarah Aizawa

Year 4 Poppy Everest Daisy Roberts Eleni Malandrinos

Year 5 Sofia Aumonier Lauren Gostelow Maisie Rice

Year 6 Mia Ingram Maya Attale Liliane Goyon-Thorne

Years 7 & 8 Skye-Abigail Louw Jodie Saunders Sadie Kitto

It was an exciting morning full of interesting and thought-provoking speeches on a range of fascinating subjects. The children spoke with poise and confidence in front of a large audience; one that was an especially daunting audience as it was made up of their peers! All the speakers deserve many congratulations!

Below is a list of all twelve speakers and their chosen titles.

Sam Ballentine Is social media slowing or growing children’s development?

Ria Bose New technology and how it affects us

Ella Cox Should every child own a mobile phone?

Christian Denny Is the school system outdated?

Sarah Findell Is homework useful?

Maddy Hall Is Brexit the best opportunity for Britain?

Sam Rowe Wait times in A+E

Jodie Saunders Will robots destroy our future?

Gavin Simpson The only way to save the rhino is to mutilate it.

Dibra Thapa-Magar Why online education is equally beneficial to the traditional classroom mode of learning

Freya Upton The value of the sugar tax

Alex Yates Why is sleep important?

Please note that boys do not need to have their own cricket equipment for the cricket season. The school will provide all that is necessary. Many boys, however, do like their own equipment and this is up to parents.

The school white polo shirt is required for lessons and can be used for cricket, athletics and tennis. Trainers can be used for cricket matches, but must be mainly white. Proper cricket shoes are ideal but not compulsory.

Boys who are in an A or B team for cricket must wear the school cricket shirt for matches which is available from the school shop. White cricket trousers are also needed for A and B matches. No club kit is allowed in school matches. School cricket jumpers and cricket hats are also available from the school shop.

Cricket Equipment House Public Speaking Continued

Early Years Holiday Care will run during the Easter holidays: 3rd and 7th April (5 days) 10th and 13th April (4 days). It is closed week commencing 18th April. Full information and booking forms are available from School Reception or can be downloaded from the school website.

Early Years Holiday CareThe Easter Activity Weeks for children from Year 1 upwards will be as follows.

3rd - 7th April: Multi-Activity 10th - 13th April: Sports Plus (4 days)18th - 21st April Cricket (4 days)18th - 21st April Multi-Activity (4 days)

Full information and booking forms can be collected from School Reception or downloaded from the school website.

Easter Activity WeeksBasketball Mia Ingram, Alex Padbury, Arthur Bole, Katie Hancock, Cameron Ward and Matthew Daines have all been asked, as top twenty U11 basketball players in the South of England, to trials in Winchester this weekend. From the top twenty a team of ten wil represent the South in the Nationals. Good luck to them all.

The Pre-Prep Easter Egg Raffle raised a total of £218.00 which will go to the School’s Charities of the Year, The Rainbow Children’s Trust and Starburst.

Thank you to all the Pre-Prep children who bought raffle tickets. We hope that the winners enjoy their Easter Eggs!

Pre-Prep Easter Egg Raffle

Thank you to the Doxey Family (Christopher 3HJ and Zoe RSB) for their donation of Lego for the Learning Support Department.

Thank You To ...

The pupil fee invoices were sent by email this week. If, for any reason, you have not received your account, please send an email to finance@yateleymanor.com.

Pupil Fee Invoices

School Shop NewsPlease note that the School Shop will be open on the day before the start of the Summer term, Monday 24th April between 10.00am and 12.30pm.

Chess Masterclass will start next term on Tuesday 25th April for Group A.

If you have not already returned your letter to Simon Head confirming your participation please do so by the first day of next term.

The rota for the rest of the term will be sent home in the first week of next term.

Chess Masterclass

Horse RidingThe first horse riding session will take place on Wednesday 26th April. Please do not forget to bring your kit on the second day back .

Yateley Manor YouTubeHave you visited our new YouTube Channel yet? Our Year 3 pupils have begun a series of great mini interviews and two are now on YouTube. The first is a chat with Alex Danson when she visited us and the second is with author and father of Reception pupils Lily and James, Martin Norbury. We are looking forward to seeing who will be the subject of their next interview! Check our channel here.

We would like to invite children in Years 4 to 7 to enter the Minimus 2017 Mythology competition.

The theme for Years 4 and 5 pupils is the Greek myth of Odysseus and the Cyclops.

The theme for Years 6 and 7 pupils is the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone.

Children can choose to illustrate it using either:

1) Art eg. drawing, collage, painting, mosaic, craftwork etc. or

2) Creative writing (in English) eg. poem, play script, prose, retelling of the story in the 1st person, diary or journal….

Entries have to be the work of one pupil only. If your child would like to take part, get busy over the Easter holidays as entries need to be brought in to Mrs Butler on the first day of next term, Tuesday 25th April.

For an idea of what to do, feel free to have a look at past winners’ work at http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/MiniMyth/MiniMyth_intro.htm

Minimus 2017 Mythology Competition

Hopefully, next term will bring us some warmer weather. During sunny weather we strongly recommend that all pupils take measures to protect themselves against exposure to the strong rays of the sun. Hats should be worn for sport or play and a good spread of colourless sun cream should be applied before the children come to school. Children may bring their own sunscreen to school in a named bottle inside a clear plastic bag. For children in Nursery to Year 4 these should be handed to their form tutor. Children in Years 5 to 8 should give them to Matron.

The school shop stocks a variety of hats. Please note that pupils will not be allowed in to school wearing the brightly coloured zinc sun cream favoured by cricketers!

Sun Safety

Events This WeekIt has been a busy week around school with lots of different events taking place. Below is a taster of them.

Year 5 Trip to British Wildlife Centre

Years 7 & 8 Performing and Creative Arts EveningInter-House Netballl

Years 3 & 4 Options play Pre-Prep Easter Egg Hunt

Masterchef Easter Cakes

Lost PropertyEdgar Brown (5SKP) has lost his named red school coat. If you have seen it please let Edgar or Mr Daines know. Thank you.