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Snack and Chat

Our wellbeing session called 'Snack and Chat' is back! It gives the children an opportunity to play games, and have a snack and a chat about anything that might be worrying them. 

Rugby vs Long Close

Our rugby teams returned to the pitches this week to play against Long Close School. All of the teams played exceptionally well. In total we played five matches, winning four and losing one, and overall we racked up 48 tries!

The overall result were:

U9 Bulls: Won 10-8   Player of the Match – Saffi 

U9 Lions/Bears: Won 8-7 Player of the Match - Kaiden 

U11 Bulls: Won 12-9  Player of the Match – Vihaan

U11 Bears: Lost 10-11 Player of the Match – Rehan

U11 Lions: Won 8-6   Player of the Match – Nayan

Hockey vs Long Close

Our girls were excited to get back out onto the hockey pitch and play their first competitive match in over 18 months. It was a great start to the season with three wins out of four games. Well done to everyone who participated.

U9 St Bernard's Prep: Lost 0-3  Player of the Match - Ellie

U9 St Bernard's Saints: Won 3-0  Player of the Match - Navami 

U11 St Bernard's Prep: Won 7-1 - Player of the Match - Okuse

U11 St Bernard's Saints: Won 7-0 - Player of the Match - Ayannah

Shining a spotlight on success

Congratulations to Devam who was awarded a runner-up prize in the 9+ category of the Henley Literary Festival Creative Writing Competition. A fantastic achievement, well done. The competition centred around a piece of creative writing that was inspired by a picture of a castle. "I really enjoyed taking part and I won a signed copy of a book by the illustrator Chris Riddell.  I wrote about a girl who discovered a new world within the castle, but fell into a fountain. The piece finished on a cliff hanger." Devam

Well done also to Ciarán in Year 1, who received a medal from St Peter's Iver FC for 'Always trying and never giving up', and to Vamika in Year 4 who achieved a Distinction in Grade 2 and 3 Vocal exams from the Academy of South Indian Music.

Early Years 

This week in Nursery we have been busy learning about colour mixing. The children have enjoyed various messy activities using paint, shaving foam and watercolours. In phonics we have continued Phase One sounds and towards the end of the week enjoyed rhyming games and our ‘silly soup’ song.

Early Years 2 have been learning the story of ‘Owl Babies’ they have enjoyed researching about nocturnal animals, and had an owl information day. The classroom is decorated in lots of beautiful owls that they have been busy creating using different media.

Our World

"From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us."

Pope Francis