Boys’SchoolNewsletter

Garden House School

Forthcoming Events

Monday 28th September • MSII Football v Finton House—2.15pm kick off at Burton Court. All boys

in MSII will be involved. They will return to school in time for normal collec-

tion and clubs.

Wednesday 30th September • Boys’ School Individual Photographs— boys should come into school wear-

ing what they usually would on a Wednesday, but please ensure they look

smart with their hair brushed. • MSII/USI/USII Football at Ludgrove—2.30pm kick off at Ludgrove School.

All boys in MSII & USI will be playing in a match against Ludgrove and the

USII boys will be involved in a coaching session. The boys will return for a

5pm Collection at Turks Row. • MSI Football vs Westminster Under—1.30pm kick off at Vincent Square,

SW1P 2PW . The following boys are involved: Alfonso Calice, Caspian Lee, William Ponset, Koray Gurpinar, Alex Calabro, Marco Castelvetri, Alexander Moreno, Cassius Napp Queva, Eric Ulfsater, Alexander Magliana, Harry Brown, Alexander Sagiryan, Sinan Basak, Aden Si Ahmed, Claud Hamilton, Edward Lazarus, Geoffroy Molhant Proost, Tom Jackson Sytner, Jamie Mitchell, Christian Jacobsen, Harper Heyman, Oliver Turnbull, Harry Calcraft. The boys will return in time for normal collection and clubs.

• Prep Drinks Party—7pm start in the dining room at Turks Row. Parents of

boys in Prep will have received an invitation to this event. If you have any

questions please contact your class representative.

Thursday 1st October • MSII & USI Football vs Bassett House—2.15pm kick off at Burton Court.

The following boys are involved: Elombe Case, Max Muth, Oscar Warland, Alfred Afriyie, Guglielmo Belingheri, Hugh Walsh, Max Volkov, Igor Sagiry-an, Nur Dincmen, Theodore Fagan, Ben Wieselmann, Jose Alvarez Carcedo. They will return in time for normal collection and clubs.

Friday 2nd October

• School Council Meeting—please could all school council reps arrive promptly

at 8.15am for a meeting in the senior library. • MSI GHS Interhouse Cross-country—1.30pm start at Battersea Park, Pump

House Lawn. The following boys are involved: Cassius Napp Queva, Marco

Castelvetri, Christian Jakobsen, Erik Ulfsater and Tom Jackson Sytner.

Please collect your son at 2.30pm from Battersea Park, Pump House

Lawn.

Friday 25th September Autumn Term, No 3

IMPORTANT INFORMATION Now that we are entering the 4th week of

term we would like to encourage children

to go to classroom on their own, without

their parents or nanny. Clubs

Clubs Parents MUST let the office know if their

child is not going to participate in their

club on a particular day. A lot of time is

spent chasing this up every afternoon German Club If you would be interested in a German Club please email hwilliams@gardenhouseschool.co.uk

***MEDICAL FORMS*** If you have not already done so please return your child’s medical form to Vene-tia in the Boys’ Office on Monday. This is extremely important.

Bushcraft Trip 19th—21st October 2015 (MSII-USI)

All parents should have received an enve-lope with information about the Bushcraft trip. Please return the medical/consent forms to the Boys’ Office by Wednesday 30th September.

Linguascope Linguascope is a useful French resource.

The new log in details are below Username: Gardenh New password : paris www.linguascope.com

Lost Henry Butter’s Silver Scooter. If you have

seen a silver named scooter please let the

boys’ office know.

Swimming Letter If your child has to miss swimming at

school they should bring a doctors note

into the office.

PA Box

Refugee Crisis Date For the Diary: Monday 5th October We know that many parents are keen to collectively contribute to the aid effort to help the current refugee crisis, and the school and PA have been exploring ways to achieve this. The crisis will be discussed with the children in school over the coming weeks in an age-appropriate fashion, and we have also partnered with The Salvation Army to organise a col-lection of various items which they can convert to funds within their shops to help the cri-sis. There is much red tape and legislation surrounding the donation of items to the refugees directly, and we are assured by The Salvation Army that all the funds raised from our collec-tion will go directly to their refugee appeal. Each child will receive a Salvation Army collection bag in their bookbag next week. If you wish to donate some items, filled bags should be brought to school at drop off on Monday, 5th October. The bags will be collected in the blue room library. The items requested by The Salvation Army are the following:

Clean clothes Shoes in pairs

Fashion accessories Household linen and textiles

We also encourage any parents who wish to discuss the crisis with their children to look at the following website: http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2015/09/11/talk-children-refugee-crisis/ If parents are keen to volunteer their time on the morning of the collection, please contact Harriet Turnbull on harrietdutton@yahoo.co.uk

Sponsored Charity Programme Update As parents will by now be aware, the trustees of our 2015-16 Sponsored Charity, Kids Com-pany, have very sadly decided to close the charity and have applied for it to be wound up. As such, it was no longer possible for us to donate the funds we raised last year to Kids Compa-ny. The PA Operating Committee met at the beginning of the school year to evaluate our options, and after careful consideration, we proposed that the funds be split among the four charities that were "runners up" in the sponsored charity selection process in 2014-15 and 2015-16. This proposal was on the basis that these charities, like Kids Company, all benefit children and young people in the UK; that they all meet the criteria for the GHPA Sponsored Charity programme; and that they all have enjoyed significant support from the Garden House parents. We asked parents to let us know via electronic ballot whether they were happy with this proposal, and we are pleased to report that the proposal from the Oper-ating Committee received 94% approval. The PA will be in touch with the relevant charities soon to distribute the funds raised. We thank you for your support.

PA Volunteering If parents are interested in hearing more about any of the PA committees for this year, please sign up on the notice board outside the dining room. Parents are also able to express an inter-est through the volunteer form which has been distributed by the class reps

Tate Modern: The World Goes Pop

Until: 24 January 2016

The Tate Modern's new exhibition cele-brates the pop art movement with an ex-plosion of colour and works from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Revealing the global range of this 60’s and 70’s movement, the exhibition shows an ex-traordinary global surge in pop art’s col-our and graphic exuberance.

The Art Dept

The Unicorn Theatre The Snow Child

A WINTRY TALE FULL OF WARMTH THIS CHRISTMAS Where: T h e Un icor n T h ea t r e, 147 Tooley Street, Southwark, SE1 2HZ When: 18 Novemb er 2015—3 January 2016

Here in the Drama Dept we love Christ-mas and think it’s never too early to get in the spirit! This week we recommend you book ahead for a really magical Christmas trip to the theatre to see The Unicorn The-atre’s Production of The Snow Child… Alumni News Tasha Percy (1992-1999) now works at the children’s publishing house called Carlton Kids. Tasha has written the official Rugby World Cup chil-dren’s activity book which can be bought on Amazon.

Whaaam! Pop! Kapow! This is pop

art, but not as you know it…

MENU

Monday Gammon in Tomato Sauce OR Pesto Pasta Vegetable: Broccoli & Carrots Pudding: Pear & Raspberry Crumble

Tuesday Lamb Tagine OR Roulade of Roasted Vegetables Vegetable: Cous Cous, Peas & Cabbage Pudding: Carrot Cake

Wednesday Roast Chicken OR Goats Cheese & Lemon Risotto Vegetable: Carrots & Cauliflower Pudding: Fruit Flapjack

Thursday Salmon Fillet OR Spanish Omelette Vegetable: Rice, Carrots & Beans Pudding: Lemon Sponge

Friday Hotdog OR Quorn Burger Vegetable: Sweetcorn & Salad Pudding: Banana Bread

Quentin Blake’s “Mr. Magnolia” is every bit as entertaining as you would expect. Beautifully illustrated, of

course, the book became a classic in the 1980s and remains so today. It is essentially a nonsense poem about

the eccentric Mr. Magnolia who has a number of unusual possessions, including a frog, a toad, a newt, some

very fat owls learning to hoot and some green parakeets which pick holes in his suit. Oddly, however, and as

the reader is constantly reminded, one of his boots is missing! The book is an excellent introduction to the

concept of rhyming words but is much more than that. Of universal appeal to younger readers, it is fun, crazy

and stimulating. Garden House Literacy Mouse

BOYS’ UPPER SCHOOL REGISTRATION DEADLINE Please note that the registration deadline for the September 2016 entry into the Boys’ Upper School is Tuesday 10th No-vember. Please see Holly or Venetia in the Boys’ Office for a registration form. SIBLING REGISTRATION 2016 Any parents wishing to register younger siblings for entry to Garden House in September 2016, who have not already done so, should contact Mrs Sophie Strafford in the Girls’ Office on 020 7730 1652 or sstraf-ford@gardenhouseschool.co.uk. The Siblings List for entry in 2016 will be closing on Friday 9th October 2015. We will be holding a sibling morning this term which you will be invited to in due course.

Use of Photographs At Garden House School, we are an open and inclusive community that is very proud of all of the achievements of all of our pupils

in their academic, artistic and sporting endeavours. We often celebrate these by using photographs of the children and their

achievements. Images of the children are securely stored on our internal server and systems and only accessible by staff members at the School.

However, we will often use photographs of the children on our newsletter and in the teachers’ weekly emails to parents. Photo-

graphs that have been taken during the year are often shared in yearbooks or on CDs and given out to parents at the end of the year.

They may also be used for promotional purposes, on our website, in our school magazine and prospectus.

As stated by school policy, any photographs shared by us with parents, or taken by parents at school events are for family use only

and should not be published on the web or elsewhere in any other media outlet or publication, in either printed or electronic form.

If you do not consent to images of your child being shared through any of the mediums outlined above, please let the relevant office

know. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you are happy for us to continue to use photographs of your child in this way.

Assembly Miss McDonald’s USII boys were our hosts this week. They decided to talk to us about some of the things they had learnt over their years at school, especially with regard to how we should speak to one-another. They used the acronym “THINK”, standing for Truth, Helpful, Inspire, Necessary, Kind. We should always think before we speak. What we say should be truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind. They each gave us examples from their own lives about why these things were important. Very well said boys! After weekly winners, we welcomed and congratulated this year’s School Council members. The boys were reminded what an important and valuable role they will play in improving the school and the children’s experience at school. Well done to George Wormald, Arun Lal, Alaric Afriyie, Har-per Heyman, Vincent Giancola, and Aden Si-Ahmed all of whom join the School Council this year. We also congratulated our artist of the week, Jamie Charters. Show and tell for 2015/16 got off to an excellent start with a talk by Aden Si-Ahmed on caving. He told us about his caving adventures on a recent trip to Mexico. Aden showed us some of the kit you need for a successful caving expedition. This included a helmet and head lamp, a wetsuit, and a stout walking stick. We were told about how these caves featured in Mayan mythology and about some of the wildlife that can be found in them. Apparently Aden explored a cave that was almost three miles long. Well done Aden for speaking entirely without notes! William Ponset told us about his recent visit to the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy. He was full of fascinating facts about this invasion. William told us about the seaborne and airborne parts of Operation Overlord and some of the clever ruses that were adopted by the allies. These included dropping dummy parachutists and using chaff to disrupt radar. Alaric Afriyie gave us a confident and entertaining talk about his favourite amphibian, the crocodile. In particular the salt water or American crocodile. They have the strongest bite of any animal, yet their jaw muscles are actually quite weak. They can also go for weeks without food because they have a very slow digestive system. Alaric informed us that salt water crocodiles are extremely heavy; heavier even than Garden House teachers! After the terrifying description of these creatures it was with some relief that we heard that, so far as Alaric is aware, no salt water crocodiles live in the River Thames. Alfred Afriyie then stepped up to speak about diamonds. Alfred told us that the word “diamond” de-rives from the ancient Greek work “adamas” or “unbreakable”. Diamonds are the strongest natural-ly occurring substance and they are often used for drills. They need to be heated to 1292oF before they will melt. The ancients thought diamonds were tears of the gods or pieces of a falling star. Al-fred explained that in fact they are complex carbons. Diamonds can be found in many countries and it is often volcanic activity that pushes them up towards the surface. Recently a diamond was sold for £30m! Congratulations to Willow, our first winners of the weekly House Cup!

Christian Warland

WEEKLY WINNERS For the week ending 25/09/15 House Captains for MSI & MSII Ash George Petrow Beech Jose Alvarez Carcedo Oak Erik Ulfsater Willow James Cormier Upper School Sportsman of the week Hugh Walsh Star of the Week Louis Millar MSI Sportsmen of the week MSIMM James Cormier MSINRE Teddy Niedringhaus MSIRB Oliver Turnbull Junior School Captain (Mrs Caroline Usher) Nicholas Behroun Vice Captain (Mrs Caroline Usher) Gus Rowntree-Bailly Sportsman of the week Adebayo Ogan-Cole Captain (Mrs Livvy Seys) Sam McNamara Vice Captain (Mrs Livvy Seys) Jamie Charters Sportsman of the week Alban Nottin Captain (Miss Lydia Roe) Sam Wildman Vice Captain (Miss Lydia Roe) Sammy Gibbard-Jones Sportsman of the week Maximo Brooke Transition Hard Work (Miss Rachel) Theodore Petrow Good Behaviour (Miss Rachel) William Rowntree-Bailly Sportsman of the week Benjie Gort-Barten Hard Work (Miss Joanna) Zac Castillo-Bernaus Good Behaviour (Miss Joanna) Aksel Andrieu-Rosingholm Sportsman of the week Lucas de Neiva Konig Hard Work (Miss Bobby) Eskander Fouladi Good Behaviour (Miss Bobby) Thomas Lynch Sportsman of the week Algy Delaney Preparatory Hard Work (Miss Rebecca) Tristan Illsley Good Behaviour (Miss Rebecca) Victor Capiod Sportsman of the week Joachim Strabo Hard Work (Miss Toni) Alex Brabazon Good Behaviour (Miss Toni) Richard Barnes Sportsman of the week Cashen Yanicelli Hard Work (Miss Saskia) Noah Thomas Good Behaviour (Miss Saskia) Atticus Afriyie Sportsman of the week William Lowson