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St Teresa’s offers a strong, caring community based on its Catholic traditions, but remains an inclusive environment that welcomes pupils from all backgrounds.

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It has been wonderful welcoming everyone back! Here’s to a great year ahead!

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After an action packed few days, Year 4 have returned safely home from their residential trip. From archery, gladiator climbing and bushcraft survivor skills, to buggy building, forest games and nightline walking, the children have thrown themselves into a range of activities!

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Year 6 were inspired by M G Leonard to create their own books. They set about designing title pages, blurbs, setting maps and some girls even wrote the first few chapters. We appear to have quite a few budding authors in our midst!

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Year 4 took us on an exciting journey to the USA in their class assembly yesterday!

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For International Women's Day in March, the girls in Year 4 wrote letters to women that have inspired them!

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Our Sixth Form students participated in a group workshop on youth first aid for mental health. Throughout the day, they took part in different activities demonstrating the manifestations of stress.
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We were delighted to welcome Mrs. Jardella, a former parent and skin/beauty expert, into school on Thursday to give a talk to our Year 6 girls about her experience and journey in the beauty industry. This linked wonderfully with their recent LifeLab enterprise project!

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We hope you enjoy looking back through some of the fun things we've been up too this term, we certainly have been very busy!

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Today Year 3 have had a huge amount of fun with their Easter Scavenger Hunt kindly organised by FOST. The girls enjoyed a number of Easter themed challenges and activities and were each given an Easter Egg to celebrate the end of term.

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Today, some of the girls have been participating in a "Volcano Workshop" where they have been learning geology facts and becoming volcanoes themselves through some fantastic dance moves!

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Year 4 kickstarted their new topic, 'Road Trip USA' with a scavenger hunt, using clues to find some of the states of the USA that were hidden around the school. They then needed to use these clues and other resources to answer questions about the geography of the USA.

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The girls were very excited to start building the Bug Hotel near the prep playground. So far, they have completed two pallet levels and filled every nook and cranny with leaf mulch, sticks, logs, bark, large stones and an old metal pipe.

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In Science, the girls were completing their work on the layers of soil and finished off by creating their own soil dessert pots using Oreos, chocolate drops, chocolate mousse, worms and green coconut. They labelled the different layers.

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Year 4 put on a fantastic assembly this morning showcasing their knowledge of the Vikings. Their performance was a delightful blend of superb acting, enchanting singing, and witty humour, captivating both parents and fellow prep students. We were thoroughly impressed!

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As part of their topic 1066, Year 4 have been studying the Bayeaux Tapestry. After learning about the Battle of Hastings and events that followed, including the creation of the Domesday Book, they chose a section of the embroidery to sketch.

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Year 6 undertook some subtractive drawing in their art lessons, preparing for when they will be carving sculptures from soap!

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Wonderful to welcome everyone back, we hope you all enjoyed your half term break!

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The Year 6 girls created these wonderfully creative cartoons using the app “Comic Life” based on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Year 3 wrote some lovely volcano poems this week!

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Year 4 enjoyed working with electronics in their science lesson!