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Issue 91 • 2 May 2014

Dear Parents,

A very warm welcome back to you all!

New Pupils A particularly warm welcome to our new pupils this term; Afraz Malik, Rhianna and Ruby Sidhu and Elodie Single inNursery and to Anna and Alex McGovern in Year 7 and 6 respectively.

New Staff Welcome to our new staff this term; Sandy Relf our new Sous Chef in the kitchen and to Vicky Kent our newGraduate Assistant. Daniela Bondatti also rejoins us this term as a Teaching Assistant in the Pre-Prep.

New Arrival Congratulations to Dan & Priscilla Smith on the birth of baby Ethan William on Friday 25th April weighing 9lbs 13ozs. Mum and baby are doing well and Dan is recovering well!

Future arrivals!Tom Rook (NPS 95-05), Andrew Benyon and Bethany Davies will join the school next year as Graduate Assistants.

Holiday Courses Thank you for your support of our holiday courses whichwent well this Easter. The children had a great time atBourne to be Wild, Bourne to Have Fun and Supercamps.Supercamps recently won ‘best camp’ award in the UK.

NPILCOur very own Northbourne Park International LanguageCentre goes from strength to strength. Weeks 1 and 2are now full and closed for further bookings and we havea request to open the camp for the fourth week.

ChinaI have just returned from my trip to China where Ipresented the School to interested parents. My thanks toLawrence and Annie Lo, the staff of Mayer Brown andClaire Percy for contributing to the success of this trip.

Dover Night Walk. Many thanks to Marc Horton who ran a creative andstimulating Night walk for the Heads of School andHouse Captains. The party left at 8.30pm and after somebeautifully-organised night missions along the way,arrived in Dover shortly after midnight. Although tiredthe next day, the children loved their experiences and Ithank all of the staff who so kindly volunteered their timein sacrificing a night’s sleep.

LAMDAJudging by the singing and dancing, shouts and wails inthe Double Classroom this week, the LAMDA season isupon us. It is wonderful to hear the children’s dramaticpieces and the work that they have put into theirperformances. Confidence and independence flowquickly from performance arts and it is good to hearhow many pupils have examinations this week. Goodluck!

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Kent U11 Cricket Camp We welcome back Kent U11 Cricket for their annual camp on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th April.

Bank Holiday Please remember, we have moved our Open Day and Celebration Day to help you to enjoy a three day bankholiday with your families this year. There is no school for day children on Monday 5th May. Boarders will enjoysome weekend activities.

Year 6 Boarding Taster Night. Wednesday 7th May Please do sign up for this free night of boarding. It would be great to have as many Year 6 as possible stay thenight.

Open Day / Celebration Day. Saturday 10th May.Please put this date in your diary and enjoy a visit to Northbourne Park to see the school in action. There is plentyto enjoy for you and your families and your friends and the senior children enjoy showing you around the school.We would be delighted to meet other families with children who might be interested in coming to the school.Please feel free to invite them to the picnic lunch at 12.30pm and to the eccentricities of the annual Burton Race.We offer a fine tea after the event.

Intermediate Overnight Camp. Sunday 11th May. Good luck to Years 5 and 6 in this tough event in which the pupils pit themselves against all manner of nocturnalchallenges. It is not for the faint-hearted! Who will survive? Please join us for a short Sylvan Service straight afterthe Intermediate Camp ends.

Common Entrance French and Spanish Orals. Good luck to Year 8 on their French and Spanish orals in Week 4.

Year 3 Parents’ Meeting. Monday 12th May. 6.30pm.

Roubaix 2. Wednesday 14th May Welcome to the second leg of the Roubaix exchange! Thank you to the Year 6 parents in advance for reciprocatingthe wonderful welcome that our pupils received last term in France.

Year 5 Boarding Taster Night. Wednesday 14th May.Please do sign up for this free night of boarding. It would be great to have as many Year 5 as possible stay thenight.

Cambridge KET, PET and FCE examinations. Thursday 15th May.Good luck to all pupils in these assessments of their improvements in English.

UniformAt present Prep School children can choose as to whether they wish to wear winter or summer uniform, but werecommend jumpers at this time of year. I will let the Prep School children know when they should all be insummer uniform.

Here’s to a great summer term!

With best wishes,

Edward

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Whole School PhotographThis will be taken on Thursday 8th May at 9am. For Prep School children boys are to wear winter uniformwith blazers, checked shirts and ties and girls are to wearsummer dresses, blue v-necked jumpers and white anklesocks.All Pre-Prep children should wear their summer uniformplease. Boys: Navy polo shirt, sweatshirt, grey shorts, short greysocks.Girls: Summer dress, v-neck navy jumper, white ankle socks.Thank you.

‘THE KING AND I’ - Senior PlayOrders for ‘The King and I’ DVD are now being taken.If you would like to reserve your copy please [email protected] before Friday 9th May.The cost is £5 per DVD, payable on collection from theschool office and will be available from Friday 23rdMay.

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Congratulations to the following children for receiving SpringTerm Headmaster Commendations during Week 11:-

NAME HAS BEEN AWARDED A COMMENDATION FOR Anna Bevan Player of the Match v St Lawrence NetballQuentin Biettron D’Assault Translating ‘Siste Viator’Quentin Biettron D’Assault Improvement in EnglishElie Schneider 15.4/20 English PET examLucile Bizot 18.3/20 KET ExamAlberico Bernard 17.6/20 KET ExamJaime Guzman 17.6/20 KET ExamMathis Tayssier 16/20 KET ExamCamille Olcott 92% French ReviewOlaya Beacock Benavides 88% French ReviewPedro Ruiz de la Prada 84% French ReviewAmandine Lucas 84% French ReviewMarie-Louise Boisnier 82% French ReviewElla Sainsbury 80% French ReviewAmandine Lucas 93% Spanish ReviewJean-Baptiste Defour 83% Spanish ReviewMarie-Louise Boisnier 72% Spanish Review

Congratulations to the following children for receiving SummerTerm Headmaster Commendations during Week 1:-

NAME HAS BEEN AWARDED A COMMENDATION FOR Ladislas Bacot An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultAlberico Bernard An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultQuentin Biettron D’Assault An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultLucile Bizot An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultJaime Guzman An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultFelix Habert An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultLouis Jonglez de Ligne An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultFerdinand Plessix An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultJorge Puertolas An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultNils Riviere An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultMathis Tayssier An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultElie Schneider An excellent CNED 7 Maths test resultAlberico Bernard An excellent CNED 8 Maths test resultQuentin Biettron D’Assault An excellent CNED 8 Maths test resultLucile Bizot An excellent CNED 8 Maths test resultJorge Puertolas An excellent CNED 8 Maths test resultNils Riviere An excellent CNED 8 Maths test result

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From the FriendsUPCOMING EVENTSSaturday 17th May - Social Event – pleasekeep this date free in your diary and detailswill be available soon. Following thesuccess of the Jubilee Street Party and lastyear’s Hog Roast we are working towards asimilar event on this date, made availableby the re-scheduling of the Fashion Show.Fashion Show – This has been re-scheduled to take place in the autumn, on27th September.And Finally…We always welcome new members to theFriends committee so why not come alongto our next meeting? A date will beannounced soon, follow us on Twitter andFacebook.

CatchCricket are coming to NorthbournePark ! Every Sunday and Wednesday during term time plus aSummer Camp experiencePlease see website for further details.

Welcome back to the boarders anda belated Happy Easter to you all.We are pleased to say that all ofchildren had fun on their holidaysand made it back to school safely.Unfortunately the same cannot besaid for the staff team! BothMaureen and Haydn sustainedinjuries during the holiday and as aresult neither have yet been able toreturn to Northbourne. We wishthem both a speedy recovery andkeenly await their return to school.In the absence of Maureen, Jennyand Jules will fully manage theboarders’ medication and First AiderJo Smith will be on hand during theschool day for both boarders andday children.

In other staff news, we are very pleased to announce a newmember of our team, Vicky Kent. Vicky joins us as a GraduateAssistant for this term and for the next school year and hasalready made a great impression on staff and pupils!

As always, boarding life has been non-stop since the childrenreturned. Last Thursday they quickly dropped back into theirdaily routine and lessons. We decided on Thursday evening toput the unpacking on hold and let the children enjoy the goodweather and one another's company and after three weeks ofseparation. It seems there was lots of catching up to do!

As the evenings are now lighter and we have made slightalterations to our supper time, the boarders have plenty oftime to play outside! In school we have seen the start of boththe rounders season (girls) and cricket season (boys), and,especially after the visit from the 11th Wicket cricket shop,these have been popular games.

At the weekend some of our senior boarders joined their peerson a Night Walk completing missions as they hiked fromSchool to Dover in the darkness. They had a great time hidingfrom 'guards', splashing through muddy puddles and slurpingon hard-earned hot chocolate when they reached theirdestination.

We followed this with a relaxed day on Sunday; playingoutside, gaming and watching movies. In the afternoon wewent to church for a very unusual service, an animal blessing,where members of the congregation were invited to bringalong their pets to be blessed. Very kindly the boarders wereable to 'adopt' some pets during the service as they weresitting amongst their classmates who had brought along theiranimals. We also took along Mocca the Girls' House hamsterand Obama the goldfish who lives in the Boys' House. Theservice was very enjoyable and perhaps unintentionallyentertaining with dogs howling to the hymns and yelping during the sermon!

All in all we're having a great start to the summer term and look forward to the next few weeks.

As ever, please do get in touch with the boarding team with any questions or queries.

Katie Brown (Assistant Boarding Tutor)

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Welcome back to the Summer Term and I hope enjoyed theEaster break with your children. It was lovely to see so manyparents at the Mothers’ Day service at the end of term. It isalways a special occasion involving all the Pre-Prep children andparents, and I think it rounded off the term beautifully.

It is lovely to see all the children back and to hear their holidaynews. We are delighted to welcome four new children into theNursery Class, Afraz Malik, Ruby and Rhianna Sidhu and ElodieSingle.

We are looking forward to the warmer weather and to doingmore activities outside in our beautiful grounds. A reminder toplease apply sunscreen before your children come to schooland to send in sun hats when necessary (please returnsunscreen permission if you haven’t already done so).

Thank you for your donations to Marie Curie Cancer Care,which totalled £34.26. I’m not sure how many of the daffodilbulbs planted by the children actually bloomed! Here arephotographs of Tabitha Thomas and Kitty Furneaux with theirs.

Finally, I look forward to seeing you all on Celebration Day onSaturday 10th May (please see separate letter forarrangements). Alison Pouget

Whole School Photograph This will be taken on Thursday 8th May. All Pre-Prep childrenshould wear their summer uniform please. Boys: Navy polo shirt, sweatshirt, grey shorts, short grey socks.Girls: Summer dress, v-neck navy jumper, white ankle socks.If you need to purchase new items of uniform, this can be done using the order forms available from Mandy in theoffice.

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Bourne to Have Fun! This was very popular during the Easter holidays, andwill be running again at the Pre-Prep for the half-termweek 26 – 30 May. Please see website for bookingform, or there are copies in the office. Early birddiscount applies to all bookings made by Friday 9thMay. Places are limited so please book early!The dates for the Summer holidays and October half-term weeks are now on the website, together withbooking forms.

Calendar We apologise for an error on the summer term calendar,please delete Nursery Trip on Tuesday 24th June.

Dates for your diary:Monday 5th May: Bank Holiday (no school for daychildren)Thursday 8th May: Whole School Photograph(summer uniform)Saturday 10th May: Celebration Day and BurtonRace. The Pre-Prep will be open to visitors from 10am –12.30pm. Parents to collect at 12.30pm please.Friday 23rd May: 2 – 4.30pm Church Fete at Prep School. Please collect your children at 2pm when the Pre-Prep will close.Mon 26 – Fri 30 May: Half-Term break

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Nursery: Jessica Smissen Great singingTeagan Riley Lovely picturesCiall Norris Careful bumble bee paintingFred Hammond-Adams Careful ladybird paintingBecky Mitchell Lovely artworkTeagan Riley Lovely artworkJasper Moreland Great counting skills

Reception:Freddie Balfour Super independent sentence writingHarry Ledger Great effort in class

Class 1:Harry Spencer Improvement in readingTommy Harvey super design work

Class 2:Charlie Bond Fantastic improvement in reading and

drawingCameron Matthews Fantastic ball skillsGrace Roche Fantastic ball skills

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Wednesday 30th April 2014

1st XI Cricket vs Wellesley House (Home)

Thankfully, the sun made a marvellous and most welcome appearance to allow us to complete our first cricket match of theseason. The format of the game was 20 overs for each side but with a draw option included.

We won the toss and decided to bowl first, not really knowing how the pitch would play due to the damp conditions. BothPaddy Jackaman and Felix Dont both bowled with great accuracy and this limited the opposition to scoring barely 2 runs anover. They were both ably backed up by some consistent bowling from Joly Presland. As a team, we bowled and fielded verywell for our first outing and this was highlighted by the superb airborne catch that Ferdinand Plessix pulled off to dismiss theirkey batsman. We eventually bowled Wellesley all out on the very last ball of their innings, with them having amassed a total of81 runs.

The boys set about with instructions of chasing down this very achievable target, but alas too many ill-disciplined shots resultedin us falling short of Wellesley’s total. We eventually drew the match having scored 38 for 8. The lads must learn that you haveto play straight to deliveries that are on the stumps and not look to keep playing across the line. The fact that 7 of our dismissalswere a result of being bowled, suggests that our shot selection wasn’t as disciplined as it should have been.

Quality practise is the key ingredient for us to improve, so get out there and perfect those straight drives!

Colt’s Cricket v Wellesley (Away)

The first match in a cricket season is always difficult and expectations are best described as ‘realistic’. It was a pleasant surprise,then, to see so much go right.

On a beautiful afternoon, Wellesley opted to bat. They have a number of very competent batsmen, especially their openingpair. Charlie Scholfield and Roshan Aiyagari bowled well enough to keep the score down to 40 off the first 8 overs and then JackShipton dismissed their number one. The next Wellesley pair piled on the runs when our weaker bowlers came on but we keptour discipline and manage to get a run out and Patrick Davies got the wicket of their number 5. Wellesley finished on 153 for 3.If we had been a little more aggressive in our fielding, especially in our catching, we could have knocked 30 runs off that.

Charlie and Roshan opened the batting and kept the Wellesley bowlers at bay for 8 overs when Charlie was bowled. Our nextbatsmen decided to lose their heads and 3 run outs later we were in a bit of trouble. But cometh the hour, cometh the man andin came Thomas Mead who not only stayed in for 12 overs but hit 9 fours in his total of 37. Marcus Yanni made a decentcontribution as did Roshan; Jack Shipton and Oliver Martin saw out the remaining overs. We finished on 110 for 6. MatchDrawn.

Man of the Match : Thomas Mead

ROUNDERS

Wednesday 30th April 2014

U13 Rounders v Wellesley House (Away)

The first match of the rounders season was quite a wake up call for our team. Wellesley were very strong in the field and hadsome very good batters. If our girls failed to make contact with the ball when batting they were regularly stumped out at firstbase. In the second half our team were all out before the end of the innings. We misfielded the ball a number of times in thedeep allowing Wellesley to score freely. The most positive aspect of the match for Northbourne was Carla’s excellent battingand some very good link play between her and Honor in the field.

The final score was 21 – 6 to Wellesley.

Rounders is a relatively simple sport that involves throwing, catching and hitting a small ball. Without these basic skills wecannot hope to compete effectively in matches and at the moment they are sadly lacking. The girls must spend more of theirfree time practising and improving the accuracy and strength of their overarm throws and get used to catching and stoppingthe harder ball if they are to develop as players.

Player of the Match - Carla Ruiz de la Prada

U11 A Rounders v Wellesley House (Away)

The game began with NPS batting and though the intention was there, unfortunately we were not getting big hits and theWellesley girls were able to field the ball quickly and prevent us from reaching 2nd base. Their backstop to 2nd base passeswere precise and accurate, as were ours, but this prevented us passing 1st base on a number of occasions. We alsotook some risks in an attempt to push for the ball and got stumped out unnecessarily. Most of our points for this >

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Sports Newsinnings came from no balls but it is fair to say the girls were putting in a lot of effort.

We then changed positions and were fielding the Wellesley House balls. The Wellesley girls were making more contact with theballs than we had managed and kept our fielders on their toes. Some inexperience in our team led to a couple of poor throwsand fielding decisions at times, however, there were some moments of lovely, controlled fielding as well as direct catchestaking out several of Wellesley’s batters. At the halfway point the score was 3.5 to NPS- 6 to WH.

In our second innings our play was noticeably improved with Harriet starting us of strongly scoring a full rounder from a strongball. Maria soon followed suit with a second full rounder. This prompted the girls to push harder for points but unfortunatelythis lead to many of our team being stumped out! The effort and the willing to score was there, we now need to improve onthe judgement and decision making required to take those risks. Harriet went on score a second rounder, judging theopposition’s fielding well. In this innings we scored 5 rounders, a clear improvement.

However, the Wellesley girls also improved during their second innings scoring 7.5 rounders. Credit must be given here to EvieJackaman who played very well as backstop sending strong, clean passed to both bowler and 2nd base and thus preventingfurther half rounders being scored.

Final score 8.5 to NPS, 14 to Wellesley House.

Player of the match Harriet Balfour but well done to the whole team on a promising first game.

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