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Autumn Term 2015

Newsletter 25 September 2015

Dear Parents It is an absolute pleasure to be back in school after the summer holiday. There is nothing as heart-warming as welcoming the girls back with their smiles, enthusiasm and sheer zest for life. Year 6 have been models of calm and control as they faced the 11+ Bucks transfer test earlier in the month. This is now behind them and many are well into their preparations for Independent School entrance. Well done girls for showing such maturity and retaining your sense of humour, an excellent start. It is also a relief to start a year without a building compound on site. This will be a year of consolidation in terms of use of facilities and a strong focus on making sure we provide the best possible environment for the girls. A crucial element of this is our pastoral care which provides the backdrop for great learning opportunities. You will have received my letter outlining our plans for this area and I welcome any feedback as always. We have also launched our ‘Maltman’s Mindsets’, which are the result of whole staff consultation and much thought. Mr Hammond will be writing to you about our Mindsets. I am thrilled that perseverance has been chosen as our first focus. Ability, knowledge and skills are worthless without perseverance. Inevitable risk-taking links to perseverance as the girls strive to do their best. I never cease to be amazed at the energy our girls put in to all they do and am proud of them. I wish you a happy and productive term.

Joanna Pardon

Diary Dates

Mon 28 Sep 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Years 3-6 Author Visit and Workshop

Tue 29 Sep 9.15am - 3.00pm Year 1 Outing to the Chiltern Open Air Museum

Wed 30 Sep - Fri 2 Oct

Year 5 Residential to Hatfield House with The Bushcraft Company

Thu 1 Oct 2.40pm - 3.50pm 6D Geog Outing to Chalfont St. Peter 5.00pm - 7.00pm Nursery Parents Evening

Fri 2 Oct 8.45am - 9.15am 4C Class Assembly 8.50am - 10.20am 6H Geog Outing to Chalfont St. Peter 2.40pm - 3.50pm 6M Geog Outing to Chalfont St. Peter

Tue 6 Oct 9.00am - 3.00pm Year 2 Outing to St Paul's Cathedral 2.40pm - 3.50pm 6I Geog Outing to Chalfont St. Peter

Wed 7 Oct 4.30pm - 6.30pm Reception - Y3 Parents Evening 4.30pm - 7.00pm Nursery Parents Evening

Thu 8 Oct 4.30pm - 7.15pm 4C & 4J Parents Evening

Fri 9 Oct 8.45am - 9.15am 4J Class Assembly

Tue 13 Oct 4.30pm - 7.15pm 4L & 4M Parents Evening 5.30pm - 8.00pm Nursery Parents Evening 6.00pm - 8.00pm Reception - Y3 Parents Evening

Wed 14 Oct - Thu 15 Oct Year 6 School Exams (Maths, English & Science)

Mon 19 Oct - Tue 20 Oct Year 5 Study Skills Sessions

Tue 20 Oct 10.00am - 12.00pm

Open Morning for Prospective Parents

Wed 21 Oct Break up for Half Term

11.15am - 12.00pm Early Years Harvest Singing Nursery & Reception, Pupils & Parents 2.00pm Harvest Festival for Year 1-6 Pupils

Mon 2 Nov Return to School

Autumn Term 2015 NEWSLETTER 25 September 2015

Autumn Term 2015

Girls’ Achievements Outside of School Please email [email protected] with your news items and photographs

Ballet Success Congratulations to Sophie Schulten (4L) who has been accepted into the London Junior Ballet after a successful audition. London Junior Ballet was founded in 1989 to offer non-syllabus classical ballet classes for talented and ambitious students aged between 8 and 16. Well done Sophie!

Update on Fundraising Early Years and Junior School Thanks you so much to everyone in Early Years and the Junior School for raising money for the charity RP Fighting Blindness at the end of last year. We are pleased to announce that we raised a very impressive £2041.75, which the charity were delighted to receive. Many thanks again for your generous donations! Miss B Ellens Head of Junior School

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Just a reminder, all girls in Year 4 should be bringing their recorders to Music lessons (single class lesson NOT shared Singing lesson), along with their homework diary to record which pages to practise between lessons. If your daughter has lost her recorder OR Recorder Magic Book and needs a replacement, please let me know in writing. Please ensure recorder pouches are clearly named on the OUTSIDE as well as the recorder itself. Miss Guy Head of Music

Lost Property

Label it….Don’t Lose it!

We have a very good Lost Property system in school whereby Year 6 girls retrieve and return items of lost property to their rightful owners. However, we need your help. For the system to work properly, all items of clothing & equipment must be clearly named. Unnamed items cannot be returned but will be kept in Sick Bay for half a term and there after donated to the school second hand shop. Thank you in advance. Matron


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We are moving with the times…. a Maltman’s Green Twitter account has been set up and is in its early stages. If you use Twitter please follow us for up to date information and news. We can be found @MaltmansGreen. If you are new to Twitter and require a little help with finding us please email marketing@maltmansgreen for further assistance. Watch this space… as we will shortly be launching our Facebook and Instagram pages too.

Mums in Touch Coffee Morning Friday 3 October, after drop off Mums in Touch, is a group of Christian mums at Maltman’s who meet once every half term over coffee. The next get together is Friday

morning on 3 October after drop off at: Winoma, 36 Orchehill Avenue, Gerrards Cross, SL9 8QJ. We would love to welcome mums new and old! It is very informal, younger children are welcome. If you would like to join us or would like to know more please contact Rebecca Ford [email protected]. If you are unable to join us due to work or other commitments but would like to be on our email list and keep up to date on what we're doing then please let Rebecca know.


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Mr Hammond’s Challenge IV

A new term means a new challenge from Mr Hammond. This term,

creative writing is the focus. But be warned: there is a strict word

limit. Mr Hammond is looking forward to receiving entries from

Maltman’s girls of any age, before Monday 30th November.

In 99 words or fewer, write a story with the title “Surprise”.

This is called a piece of “flash fiction”. Your story could include the word “surprise”, or it could be the theme of the

story, or a surprise could happen in the story. You will not have enough words for everything you want to write, so do not

worry. Mr Hammond’s tip: be creative in your use of punctuation to save words. Please present your answers to Mr Hammond at any stage in the Autumn

Term, but no later than 4:15pm on Monday 30th November 2015.


Autumn Term 2015

Home Access Login

Dear Parents I am writing to remind you of an exciting development with regards to Espresso (Discovery Education). Maltman’s Green School have subscribed to this facility for a few years now and the girls use it in lessons. This year, our subscription includes home access so I am sending the details should you wish to use this amazing resource from your own devices. You can access Espresso and Espresso Coding from the same log in. Girls are very welcome to practise the coding that they are doing in school, but I would request that they don’t move ahead of the section they are using in class at this stage, please. You can log in to Discovery Education (at the top right of the page) using the details below:

URL: www.discoveryeducation.co.uk

Username: student32522

Password: mgs123

Please be aware that:

you may find that you need to remove the cookies from Internet Explorer (for IE 11 go to ‘tools’/’safety’/’delete browsing history’ and check the box ‘cookies and website data’ then ‘delete’).

I also received a security message due to the fact that the Discovery Education security certificate has not yet been migrated to a Discovery Education domain and so some security settings will flag this as a potential threat. Discovery Education are working to resolve this matter but please be assured that there is no security risk associated with any Discovery Education websites and you can accept the certificate.

I hope that you enjoy using this resource.

Mrs Inshaw

Head of Computing

http://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/


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ABRSM Music Exams

Many congratulations to all girls who sat their ABRSM Music Examinations in the summer term. I am thrilled to announce the following set of amazing results.

V Guy, Head of Music

PREP Philippa Coghill – Cello Sienna Drummond – Piano Lucy Evans – Piano Elodie Martin – Piano & Violin Serena Sharma – Cello Skye Shields – Piano Jessica Sutton – Guitar Alexandra Van Allen - Singing Ksenia Vasyukova - Piano Gabriella White - Violin Jenna Whitefoord - Piano GRADE 1 Victoria Daley – Piano (Merit) Matilda Davis – Flute (Distinction) Anya Desai – Piano (Merit) Evie Easterbrook – Alto Saxophone (Distinction) Lara Fox-Hill – Singing (Merit) Jemma Gill – Singing (Pass) Alexandra Gola – Piano (Merit) Sarah Greenhalgh – Singing (Merit) Sophia Guerreiro – Piano (Merit) Poppy Hinds – Flute (Distinction) Lara Martin – Violin (Merit) …. continued over the page….


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GRADE 1 (continued) Maya Patel – Piano (Merit) Olivia Rowan – Singing (Pass) Saffron Reiss Schroff – Singing (Merit) Isla Scott – Flute (Pass) Molly Sendall – Singing (Pass) Amie Tasou – Piano (Merit) Aanya Visavadia – Singing (Distinction) Amber Whitefoord – Flute (Merit) Jenna Whitefoord – Singing (Merit) GRADE 2 Anaya Basra – Alto Saxophone (Pass) Eleanor Brogden – Singing (Merit) Lucy Canney – Clarinet (Merit) Francesca Coghill – Trumpet (Pass) Amy Davis – Singing (Merit) Charlotte Day – Cello (Merit) Jane Emmins – Cello (Merit) Emma Gregson – Singing (Pass) Isabella Janssen – Singing (Pass) Lucy O’Neill – Trumpet (Pass) Eloise Taylor – Violin (Pass) Aanya Visavadia – Violin (Distinction) GRADE 3 Eleanor Brogden – Violin (Pass) Ella Rose Taylor – Singing (Pass) GRADE 4 Isabella Amitrano – Singing (Pass) Inge Du Toit – Singing (Distinction) Emma Hobson – Singing (Distinction) Rebecca Nash-Steer – Trumpet (Merit) Amelia Pope – Singing (Pass) Sophie Soin – Singing (Merit) GRADE 5 Anna Cleary – Trumpet (Pass) Jane Emmins – Singing (Pass) Carys Timpson – Cello (Distinction)


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Maltman’s Mindset

As you know, this year marks the launch of

Maltman’s Mindset, a project we are very

excited about. The term started off with an

assembly based around the Aesop’s fable,

the Tortoise and the Hare, to familiarise the

girls with the first mindset. The school is

buzzing with the word, and we are very pleased with the girls enthusiasm: we hope

your daughter has been talking about perseverance at home and would appreciate any

discussion you can have with her on this topic. We are currently developing a way in

which to advertise Maltman’s Mindset to parents when they are on-site and will keep

you updated.

The competition to design the symbol for perseverance has

closed. However, to win the chance to develop the school

symbol for collaboration (the mindset for next half-term), your

daughter should design (by hand or on the computer) a poster

on a piece of plain A4 paper that she thinks best represents this

mindset. The word “collaboration” must be visible on the poster.

The competition is open to all years from Nursery to Year 6 and

entries should be handed in to Mr Hammond's office no later

than Monday 12th October at 4pm. Please ensure that all

entries are named on the back of the piece of paper. Results will be announced as

soon as possible after this date.

For updates on how the project is progressing, parents can follow @MaltmansGreen

and @hammondteacher on Twitter (please note your daughter must not have a

Twitter account). If you have any suggestions or ideas on how Maltman’s Mindset

could develop, please contact Mr Hammond through the school office as usual.


Autumn Term 2015

Speech & Drama LAMDA 2015 Examinations Having worked hard to learn their lines and practise their conversational skills, the Year 3 and 4 Speech and Drama students are celebrating the results of their LAMDA exams, which took place in the Summer Term. The LAMDA Communication exams were in Speaking Verse and Prose, with Year 4 girls performing two poems off by heart and Year 3 girls performing a poem and discussing a favourite book. Congratulations to all the girls, who showed great dedication in preparing their performances. Mrs Johnson

Jemma Gill Georgia Masters Kavan Gill

Suhavni Matharu Emma Servaes Aamani Seth

Eloisa Gould Trudie Thorpe Poppy Currill

Zahra Maroof Alyssa Martins da Silva Serena Sharma

Thea Meakins Sarah Greenhalgh Lily Cheek

Sofia Guerreiro Kaajai Basra Amber Bravo-Faraday

Lily Tack Louisa Molloy Lara Fox-Hill

Francesca Coghill Aneka Patel Helen Szostak

Carmen Tinsley Fiona Waida Acada Lue-Fong

Maddison Bloom Rebecca Telford Izzy Bach

Ruby Dudderidge Aanya Visavadia Amelia Etheridge

Priya Gill Nikita Banwait Sienna Drummond

Alexandra Van Allen Anya Desai Molly Sendall

Kushi Belur Lucy Evans Laila Pervez

Matilda Davis Lucy Mckenny Scarlett Russell

Maya Tiwana Tallulah Jones Jessica Sutton

Victoria Court Beatrice Tucker Alice Aarons

Lauren Merchant Anusha Khan Olivia Penny

Carys Timpson Emma Cunliffe Eleanor Brogden

Amber Dean Molly Buckland Theadora Chhabra

Charlotte Day Arabella Durkin Arya Gill

Tirnan Gillard Alexandra Gola Zara Holligan

Anoushka Quinn-Harkin Sophie Schulten Kareena Sidhu

Claudia Spight Millie Clappen Olivia Davidson

Martha Ford Daisy Green-wright Thea Hancocks

Inayah Khan Skye Killbourn Anaya Lally

Niamh Morrisroe Jasmine Sidu Gabriella White


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We have some new Form Captains and Form Vice-Captains for the AutumnTerm.

Congratulations to the following girls who were voted to represent them by their classmates:

Form Captain Vice-Captain

4C Shaina Nathwani Arabella Durkin

4J Skye Killbourn Eloise Taylor

4L Sophie Schulten Emma Servaes

4M Neha Purbhoo Jemma Gill

5F Aneka Patel Evie Easterbrook

5H Aanya Visavadia Acada Lue-Fong

5M Matilda Davis Nikita Banwait

5W Lauren Marchant Keira Fearn

6D Jaya Mehta Millie Seidel

6H Erin Murphy Smriti Chotai

6I Hana Saada Grace Short

6M Melissa Castaneda Daya Gill

6M Maya Patel Amie Tasou

We also have some New House Captains and Vice-Captains:

House Captain Vice-Captain

Aylward Grace Short Lucy O’Neill

Bronte Claudia Mowat Amelie Czekalowska

Johnson Olivia Greenhalgh Isla Criss

Pankhurst Ella Harvey-Older Tara Sadleir

And not forgetting…. School Councillors:

Form School Council Member Deputy

4C Gabriella White

4J Lara Hughes Phelix Butler

4L Charlotte Day Suhavni Matharu

4M Thea Meakin

5F Jessie Sutton

5H Eva Vladimirov

5M Jessie Frost

5W Kushi Belur

6D Isla Criss Harriet Gillam

6H Erin Murphy

6I Eesha Prasad Rhia Patrick

6M Zara Saada


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Headmistress’ Commendation Amber Dean 5F For a fantastic summer holiday diary Rosie Allchurch 3A For your interesting summer holiday diary Isabella Goutkin-Smith 4L For a fantastic summer holiday project

My Trip to Wycombe Abbey by Fiona 4W I received a letter from Wycombe Abbey saying that I was invited to a Poetry Masterclass and Celebration Lunch and Prize-giving with an accompanying teacher (Mrs Wirth) on Friday, 18th September.

The day started with Mrs Wirth and I standing in a grand room in Wycombe Abbey having refreshments (tea, water and a choice of yummy biscuits) while we were waiting for the all the other girls and teachers to arrive. In the end, there were 17 girls and their English teachers. Then the Head of English at Wycombe Abbey led us into one of their libraries, which was very beautiful, for the Poetry Masterclass. We learnt some techniques to write a poem and talked about using objects and how to create a story about them. We were each given an object to use. Mine was a glasses case and the title I gave my poem was ‘The Laser Glasses’. After the Masterclass, we had our Celebration Lunch (which was delicious) before we all had to read our poems out loud, which I was very nervous about, but I managed fine. The prizes were handed out after the lunch and poetry reading and they were a certificate and a cute teddy bear key ring, which had a little T-shirt saying ‘Wycombe Abbey’ on the back and the school badge on the front. After the prize-giving, we had a tour around the school. I really enjoyed this special day!

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