Friday 8th December 2017 The Newsletter of King Henry VIII Preparatory School Academic Year 2017-2018 Issue 11

HEAD’S MESSAGE Dear parents Before anything else, this week I must say a huge con-gratulations to the children and staff in Reception and Nursery for their ‘Very Noisy Nativity’ and ‘Christmas sing-a-long’ respectively. The first prompted tears of laughter and the second tears of total joy, awe and wonder. At this particularly hectic time of the year, the privilege of sharing these priceless moments with chil-dren and families is a true highlight of the year. Snow! The forecast of snow has prompted a review and clarifi-cation of the procedures that we will follow in the event of a closure of the school due to adverse weather conditions. We will endeavour to make any decision by 6.30am and parents should expect to be notified in the following ways:

A notice on the school website A tweet from the school Twitter feed A parentmail notification

We realise that some parents make very difficult jour-neys each day so should snow fall during the school day, you may feel it necessary to collect your children from school early. In this instance, please contact the School Office rather than class teachers as they will not be able to see their email during lesson time. Any decision to close during the day will also be posted on the web-site and a message sent to parents. This would only ev-er be in an extreme weather situation!

We will always do our utmost to remain open whilst ensuring that the school site remains safe, as we know that child-care arrangements can otherwise be prob-lematic for parents.

Keep warm everyone and let’s hope that the worst of any weather stays away until we break up from school!

Kind regards,

Mrs G Bowser Headteacher

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK “Keep your face always toward the sun-shine - and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman

RIDDLE ME THIS… Last week’s riddle was: What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money? SOLUTION: A river Our new riddle is: I go up and I go down, towards the sky and the ground. I’m present and past tense too, Let’s go for a ride, me and you. What am I?

FORTHCOMING PREP SCHOOL EVENTS DECEMBER Fri 8 Years 1 & 2 theatre trip, The Wind in the Willows, Albany Theatre 10.00am Sat 9 U10 & U11 A & B Netball v Bromsgrove (A) 9.30am Mon 11 U10 A & B Netball v The Croft (H) 4.00p Tue 12 EYs theatre trip, ‘Going On a Bear Hunt’ Warwick Arts Centre 1.30pm Year 3 & 4 theatre trip, ‘Cinderella’ Belgrade Thea- tre 10.15am Wed 13 Christmas Lunch Hales U10 A & B Netball v Bablake (A) 3.40pm Thu 14 Year 6 theatre visit to Birmingham Rep 12.45pm Christmas Lunch Swallows Fri 15 Celebration Assembly Reports to parents Mon 18 Coventry Cathedral Carol Concert (Years 1-6) 2.00pm Tue 19 Christmas parties pm Wed 20 Christmas sing-alongs Swallows and Hales Term Ends at 12.00 noon NO Clubs or Aftercare provision

Thu 21 Holiday Clubs open Fri 22 Holiday Clubs open

NOTIFICATIONS

SCHOOL BANK Here are the dates for the School Bank: Friday 15th December Friday 5th January Friday 19th January Friday 2nd February Friday 16th February

HOLIDAY CLUB Holiday club forms are now available and can be found at Hales and Swallows recep-tions and via the KHPS website.

CHRISTMAS POST BOX The Christmas post boxes are now open in Swallows and Hales reception! Prefects will be distributing cards daily.

HALES MUSIC CLUBS Please see below for a list of Music clubs that will and will not be taking place over the last two weeks of Term: W/B 11th December MONDAY - Percussion ensemble - no String orchestra - no TUESDAY - Brass group - no Wind band - no WEDNESDAY - Chamber choir - yes King Hal's - WILL NOW RUN ON FRIDAY DUE TO XMAS LUNCH THURSDAY - Chamber choir - yes Orchestra - no FRIDAY - Guitar ensemble - no Clarinet choir - no Flute choir - no Rock band - yes W/B 18th December MONDAY - Percussion ensemble - no String orchestra - no TUESDAY- Brass group - no Wind band - no WEDNESDAY - Chamber choir - no King Hal's - no

LAST DAY OF TERM

The school will be closing for the Christ-mas holiday at Midday on Wednesday 20th December. All children are to be collected by 12pm. There will be no af-tercare or clubs.

KID KICK/KARATE GRADING There will be an end of Term grading on Monday 11th December at 4:20pm at Swallows. All parents and grandparents are welcome to attend.

CHRISTMAS DINNER DAY—HALES Christmas dinner day will take place on Wednesday 13th December. The kitchen will only be serving Christmas dinner and a vegetarian option (please see menu in-cluded in Sagitta) If your child does not wish to have a Christmas dinner, please send them to school with a packed lunch that day. Please can you make sure that your child knows by Monday whether they want a traditional Christmas dinner, Vegetarian Christmas dinner or packed lunch as form teachers will be asking them and creating a list for the kitchen. It will be charged to the correct children’s dinner mon-ey account on ParentPay on the day. Main meal—£2.95 Main meal plus Dessert—£3.45

CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE—ADVANCED WARNING! A reminder to parents of children in Year 4—6 to please make a packed lunch for your child on the morning of Monday 18th December, as they will be having lunch at the Cathedral. Swallows children and Year 3 will have lunch at school and will join the rest of the children later.

CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY Christmas Jumper Day will be happening on the last day of Term on Wednesday 20th December!

GOODBYE This week we have had to say goodbye to Mrs Halford who has volunteered in our school libraries at both sites since September 2016. She has worked extremely hard to develop both libraries to make them a fantas-tic additional resource for all of our children to benefit from. There is now a huge range of books to choose from for children of all ages to enjoy. She will be sadly missed and wish her all the best and hope she can go on to fully her retirement.

RUGBY FIXTURE RESULTS Tuesday 5th December

KHPS U9 A team v Blue Coat A 30 - 40 LOST KHPS U9 B team v Blue Coat B 35 - 45 LOST KHPS U9 C team v Blue Coat C 100 - 50 WON KHPS U9 D team v Blue Coat D 65 - 30 WON Monday 4th December KHPS U10 A team v Blue Coat A 40 - 40 DRAW KHPS U10 B team v Blue Coat B 40 -- 15 WON KHPS U10 D team v Blue Coat D 50 - 60 LOST KHPS U11 A team v Bablake A 50 - 0 WIN KHPS U11 B team v Bablake B 45 - 15 WIN KHPS U11 C team v Bablake C 40 - 35 WIN KHPS U11 D team v Bablake D 15 - 20 LOST

NETBALL FIXTURE RESULTS Monday 4th December KHPS U10 A team v The Croft A 5 - 2 LOST KHPS U10 B team v The Croft B 4 - 0 WON U11 Netball v Bablake - Wednesday 6th December A very promising start to the netball season yesterday at Bablake. These were our first netball matches of the season and all the girls have been working hard in net-ball lessons as well as focusing on hockey which is now our major sport of the Michaelmas term. 'A' team - Lost 13 - 19 'B' team - Lost 4 -12 'C' team - Lost 5 - 0

King Henry VIII

PREPARATORY School

Christmas CAROL SERVICE On

Monday 18th

December 2017

2.00pm

At Coventry Cathedral

All children in Years 1-6 will attend this musical event set around the Christmas Story

All parents, relatives and friends are welcome to join us. Tea, coffee and mince pies will be served from 1pm until the service starts.

Traditionally children are collected from the Cathedral by their parents at the end of the Celebration.

(please inform your child’s form teacher if you arrange for someone else to collect them)

Please fill in the reply slip and return it to your child’s form teacher.

(NB—clubs and activities for Years 1-6 will not run, however After Care will be available as usual)

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Christmas Carol Service at Coventry Cathedral – 18th December 2017

Name of Child ………………………………………….. Form ………. I will be attending the Carol Service and collect my child there Please return my child to School as I shall be collecting as normal (NB—there are no clubs for Years 1-6) but After Care is available as normal)

Signed (Parent/Guardian): ………………………………………

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