22nd March 2013 Dear Parents The “curtain ... - The Perse School

End of Term arrangementsTerm finishes on Wednesday 27 th March and to ensure asmooth end to the day the following arrangements are inplace:1. End of the day timings are staggered to a greaterdegree as below (though the routine and location forcollection are unaffected):• Yr 3 available to be collected at 3.15pm• Yr 4 to be collected at 3.25pm• Yr 5 and 6 to be collected 3.35pm.Please can we ask that parents are swift in exiting the school after collection to ensure a smoothflow of traffic on and off site?2. Whilst all routine after school clubs finish on Tuesday 26 th March, there will be a one‐off Multisportssession (3.45‐4.45pm) operating on Wednesday after school for up to 45 children. The clubwill operate on a first come first served basis. There is no charge for this club. To take advantage ofthis club, please see our separate End of Term Perse Post mailing.3. Late Stay will operate as usual until 6pm.Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryThis week Year 6 put on three performances of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Miss Morris was verylucky to have such a talented group of children to choose from and this allowed her to create threedifferent casts, one for every night. All three casts did brilliantly and not only put on great performances,but also worked together as a super team and supported each other with singing and stage management. Abig thank you to all the parents who helped with set and costumes and to Mr Bown, Miss Hudson and MrsRichardson who gave so generously of their time and talents.Every Year group came to watch the dress rehearsal and Year Three reviewed the play in their Englishlessons.The Year 6 production by roving reporter Maya Vandermark 3 AlphaCharlie and the Chocolate Factory was performed wonderfully by the Year Sixes. Therewere pieces of music to link the different parts of the factory. For example a sweetroom to a gum room. I liked the songs because they were very jolly and cheerful and Iquite liked that the play started with a song. There were nice costumes too. I likedVerruca Salt’s costume and also Mrs Bucket’s. The squirrels’ costumes were goodbecause they had bushy tails. I really liked it because there were no sad bits or scarybits. I think it was a lot like the original story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Myfavourite part was when Violet blew up into a blueberry. I really do think that it was afantastic play and I recommend it to everyone.Summer uniform…..can be worn after the Easter holidays. Polo shirts and summer dresses can be purchased from John Lewisfrom w/c April 8 th and hats are available from Mrs Tully.

Bursary informationThe Bursary Office will be closed from Thursday 28 th March2013 until 8.30am Monday 8 th April 2013. We will shortly besending out the Summer term bills. Please direct any queriesregarding the Summer bills to Lena Bates (01223 403876email: FinanceAssistant@Perse.co.uk) by 5.30pm on Thursday11 th April as we will not be able to adjust for any queriesreceived after this date prior to the direct debit being taken.Any queries after this date will be adjusted/refundedretrospectively after payment has been taken.Please note: the direct debit for the Summer term bills will betaken on Wednesday 17 th April 2013.ISFA U11 Football tournamentOn Saturday 9 th March, the Perse Prep U11 footballers braved the cold to compete in the ISFA U11 Footballtournament, Eastern region, held at King’s School Ely. Placed in a group of four with South Lee, Bishop’sStortford College and Town House Prep, the Perse topped their table after the group stages, notching twowins and a draw. This meant progression to the quarter finals where the team met Widford Lodge, beatingthem 3‐0 to advance to the semi‐finals. Town House, for the second time in the tournament, were theopposition and the Perse once again came out on top, 2‐0.The Perse faced Wellingborough in the final, already safe in theknowledge that we had secured our place in the National finals tobe played at the FA’s new centre of excellence, St George’s Park.The game was very tight with few chances for either side, andeven with four minutes extra time, the game remained scorelessleaving the destination of the trophy to be settled by that mostdreaded of deciders – penalties. After a series of extremely wellexecuted shots from both teams, Perse missed andWellingborough scored to take the title.The Perse team conducted themselves superbly all morning, attempting to play passing football on adifficult surface, and were fine ambassadors for their school throughout. The boys thoroughly deserve theirplace in the National finals where we go with high confidence and excitement at the prospect of pitting ourwits against higher calibre opposition in state of the art surroundings – roll on April 29 th !Girls’ Choir holiday suggestionsFor an easier life next term, it would be very helpful ifyou could find a little time to learn the words of ‘TheMusic and the Mirror’ before the start of next term sothat we can concentrate on movement. These can befound on Sharepoint/Music Dept/Helpful Info./Soundsong words backing track. Also worth a look on YouTube: Music and the Mirror –Rebecca Gegatt to get you going. Have a good EasterBox Tops for SchoolsThere is a collection box for box top tokens in the Library – we are collecting untilEaster so please bring them in!

Well done Tom!Last weekend Tom Davies raced on the road (circuit) in North London on Saturday and on a mountain bikenear the Aldeburgh coast on Sunday. He comfortably won both races against a field of about 20 differentriders from all over the East Anglia region, and a significant amount of prize money to boot!The Saturday win also gained him a winter race series title of the Redbridge circuit, where he won all 3races. His current streak of wins in all races entered so far this year has also put him at the top of thenational under‐10 rankings, despite it only being his "junior" (first) year in the category.ArtworkThe banners this week come courtesy of Year 3 and show their felt toys.Well doneCongratulations to Ishbel Hallam for her swimmingaward, to Rebecca Grainger for her recent trampolinesuccess and to Toby Smart, Ollie Bartolo, GeorgeSalisbury, Thaddeus Glass, Ruairidh Carey, Theo Hay,Alex Fraser and Joshua Barrett for their rugby awards.Well done to Francesca Regnier‐Wilson, Olivia Clegg,Elizabeth Minshall, Sophie Smart and Aoife Carey fortheir hockey success.Yours sincerelyCongratulationsBronze house point certificates have been awarded to SamuelShenker, Hugo Fung and Francesca Regnier‐Wilson. Natasha Haworth,Hugh Benton, Hafsa Amir, Isabella Izzard, Rebecca Grainger, AlexPitchford, Theodore Seamon, Nicholas Stanfield, Megan Carmichael,Ben Knight, Elizabeth Minshall and Kirill Nezhentsev have beenawarded silver house point certificates. Gold house point certificateshave been awarded to Alex Cross, Joseph Clements and AmelieFawcett. Vincent Yip, Charlie Boyle and Neil Sardesai have beenawarded platinum house point certificates. Well done all.Headmaster

Monday 11 th March.Mr Ian Smythe from ARM started off our week with fascinatingtalks on tablet technology to our Year 5 pupils and mobilephone technology to our Year 4. He even let the pupils playwith some of his tablets and phones, they were very excited!Tuesday 12 th MarchDr Miller, an interventional radiologist, spoke about the heart, the lungs and arteries. She performed mockangioplasty, biopsy, and chest drains on pupils, as well as using them to assist her as nurses. They loved beingon the table, although some of them were a little scared and thought she was actually performing the real thing!Wednesday 13 th MarchDr Tim MinsallMr Davis, from Innovia technology, demonstratedhow science and Maths are used to solve a hugevariety of problems scientifically, including theproduction of Arena swim wear worn by manyOlympic medal winning swimmers. He also set thepupils the challenges of designing automatedwindow screen wipers, and a device to stop cardoors opening onto objects. The pupils thought hehad a really cool job!Dr Minshall, from the Institute for Manufacturing, seniorlecturer in technology management, explained howeverything we see and use has to be made, looking at themanufacturing processes. The pupils made play-dohmodels inspired by Wallace and Grommit.

Thursday 14 th March.Mr Morris from CSR wirelesscommunications explained how agyroscope works and is used in tablets,phones and controllers. He thenwowed the children with ademonstration of the latest Bluetoothremote control, controlling a computerwirelessly in any direction, and theNike hyperdunk trainers connecting to an Iphone to show height of jump and steps per second.Year 3 were treated to a display of owls and akestrel from the English School of Falconry, evenbeing given the chance to hold one. However, wewere very nervous throughout the display thatthey would take a liking to any of the fantasticprops for Charlie and the Chocolate factory.Friday 15 th March and Tuesday 19 th MarchFriday 22 nd MarchDr Brierley finished off our science week with a talk about thebrain to our year 6 pupils. Do men really have bigger brains thenwomen? Yes, but (unfortunately) size does not necessarilycorrelate with intelligence! She also explained all the regions inthe brain and what they are responsible for controlling, settingtasks for the pupils to see which their dominant hemisphere is.Dr Cooke worked with class groups of Year 4 pupilstying in very nicely with our recent micro-organismstopic. They looked at the different types of microorganismsusing models to explain the differences, aswell as using a UV light to understand just how easyit is to not wash our hands properly!The week was a huge success and we are extremely grateful for all of the parents who gave their time to comeand inspire the pupils in the world of science. However, we would love to hear from any more parents whowould be keen on helping next year. As can be seen below the staff also enjoyed themselves!