Autumn Edition 1 September 2015

Welcome to our new family members

Although we are well and truly up and running and have finished the

2nd week of the new term, we would still like to extend a very warm

welcome back to you and say a very big welcome to our new Snow-

drop starters and our new PP1 girls and their families. We also wel-

come our new P3 and English teacher Mrs Pont, the owner of a ra-

ther beautiful green bicycle you may have seen in the school grounds.

A very keen cyclist, Mrs Pont travels to and from school every day on

her bike, so look out for her on either her green or pink bike on your

way to school. We’d also like to welcome our two gap year students

this year, Miss Amy Partington and Miss Hannah Lord. Many of you

may have met Amy as she is helping to run the school shop. We hope

you will all feel very much part of the Ashdell Family very soon.

The Ashdell News Charity and Fundraising

This year the school has

chosen to support The

Sick Children’s Trust as it’s

major charity. The Trust provides free, high

-quality ‘Home from Home’ accommoda-

tion for families with sick children in hospi-

tal. Sheffield has Magnolia House and Tree

Top House. All our fundraising events this

year will be for this great cause, so lets do

our best for them everyone. We have a

visitor from the Trust coming to assembly

next Friday, so we look forward to hearing

all about it then.

Dates for the Diary

September Tues 22nd Book Fair ( Until Friday

25th) 7pm Curriculum Evening/FOA

AGM– all parents & Staff Wed 23rd 8.40am Eid Assembly for pupils

Governors Strategy Meeting.

Fri 25th 7.30am MacMillan breakfast Coach House.

Tues 29th 7.00pm FOA Meeting

October Sat 3rd 10-12 Open Day Mon 5th 5pm Governors Finance Group

Meeting, Coach House Thurs 8th Poetry Day, Whole School Wed 14th 1.30-3.30pm P3/P4 Netball v

SHS ( A) Fri 16th 3pm Harvest, School Hall 7.30pm FOA Quiz Night, School

Hall *Parents are welcome to attend events in

bold

And the award goes to…..

For the second year running , Chloe H (P4) has won the Arts and Minds Competition with her fabu-lous drawing entitled ‘ I see Friends reunited’ Chloe has been invited down to London for the awards ceremony in October. We look for-ward to hearing all about it Chloe- Well Done!

WELCOME BACK * WELCOME BACK * WELCOME BACK * WELCOME BACK *

Our backroom staff have had a very busy summer in and around the school. A brand new non slip red floor was fitted in the dining room over the holidays and we have had extensive repairs to the roofs and gutters. A brand new server was installed just before the end of the summer term and despite one or two teething problems, it is up and running well. P1 classroom had a new projector and PP2 had the make over team in and had some decorating done. Thank you to Phil our care taker for all his hard work over the summer, the school looks fantastic!

Whilst you were away….

TWITTER @Ashdellprep

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, where you can get daily updates about all the wonderful things your girls get up to during their school day. *PLEASE NOTE:*

Mrs Camm is out of school at an IAPS

Heads Conference from 28-30 September

and on a School Inspection 7-9th October.

If you have any queries that need dealing

New Prep 1 girls take a walk through History

Our ‘New Prep teacher ‘ Mrs Buchanan’, took her new Prep 1 for their first school trip out as Prep girls to Weston Park Mu-seum. The weather looked set to spoil the fun, but Mrs Buchanan

waved her magic wand and at exactly 10am the rain stopped , the sun came out and the girls set off walking, with their back bags full of scrummy lunches and lots of big smiles .The girls had a great day at the museum.

This year’s Head girl is Tamara (left) and our three pre-fects are Molly, Chloe and Ella( right). They are all very excited about their new roles in the school and are en-joying carrying out the various duties they have to do each day. Well done Girls, a great start to the new term, keep it up !

Many congratulations to our past girls and current girls on their success in recent music exams taken at the end of last term. Lily G, former P4 girl got a merit in both her Saxo-phone and Clarinet Grade 5 exams. Chloe H

(P4) got a merit in her Grade 1 clarinet and Millie (ex P4) and Ella ( ex P4) both got a pass for Grade 1 piano. Well Done Girls! We look forward to many more musical success stories this year.

Meet our new A Team

Cross country running in the rain!

First week back and we were straight into our first cross country Event of the season. Despite the poor weather on Saturday morning, Six of our girls took part in the event

at Bolehills Park, Crookes, Congratulations to Robyn(P3), Hannah (P3), Holly T (P2), Gabrielle(P2) and Laura(P1) who took part but a special well done must go to Eleanor H (P2) for coming 14th out of 96 runners. Fan-tastic running !

We like to give you as much notice as we can about forthcoming trips, visits, events, so please take note of the following and ‘save the dates’

Oakes Weekend ( Prep girls only ) 29th January

France Trip ( P3/P4 only) - 2nd –6th May Center Parcs ( P1/P2 only) - 23-26 May

Snowdrops Graduation—12 July Prize Giving—15 July

Key future dates

Music success at Ashdell

At the end of the summer term we started to phase in our new logo enhanced P.E. kit, which some of our girls have already been wear-ing. After October half term, it will be compulsory for all girls to have the new sports wear.

All P.E. kit is available from the school shop. Or if you wish to order, please fill in an order form which you

can download from our website. OPENING TIMES: Every Wednesday 8.15-9.00an

Prep Pre-Prep Prep

New school uniform requirements