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Lucton News
FROM THE HEADS
Dec 4th 2020
PREP SCHOOL Issue 13
SENIOR SCHOOL
CCF
SPORT
EQUESTRIAN
From the Heads
Christmas is approaching; the pass is already overflowing! there is so much more to look
season to enjoy the company Most recently the call has forward to in the coming week!
of loved ones, and yes to look gone out for treats, like
forward to receiving lots of chocolate biscuits and packets John Goode & Elmien Niblett
presents! of sweets. While healthy living
is important, clearly there are
It is, however, also a time of the children in our area who will
year when we really do need to have a stark Christmas and
remember those who are less who really deserve a bit of
fortunate than ourselves. One cheer, and a treat. No doubt
way or another, Lucton has had the collection boxes will be
a “term of giving” and we were groaning with treats soon.
delighted to hear that the final
sum raised for the recent A huge thank you to everyone
Children In Need Appeal who has contributed, or plans
exceeded £700 – a great to do so in the near future. We
effort. Nevertheless, the are proud of you!
concern among our
community for others What a delight it was watching
continues, and all areas of the the Nursery and Pre Prep
school are now Nativity productions today,
collecting packets and tins for and sharing a very enjoyable
local foodbanks. The collecting evening with the Sixth Form
box that we most frequently last night at their dinner! And,
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Prep School
The excitement levels are something from: hope, peace, PowerPoints of famous UK
increasing… joy, and love. Eternal messa- landmarks, Year 2 have been
ges amongst the mince pies. finishing their newspaper
The Christmas tree went up However, we still have a week article on the Great Fire of
last Thursday; the left and there are still London, with special mention
entrance decorated in important areas of the of Pudding Lane, and Year 1
baubles and lights, and curriculum that we need to have been creating puppet
finished off with a wonderful complete. For a start, the Year shows; writing the scripts and
Nativity collage made by the 5s need to finish their biscuit performing them to the class.
Nursery, before Year 4W project. During DT they have Last but not least, Reception
presented a super Advent been thinking about marketing have been painting their Divas
assembly. a product. They had to come and using the Advent
up with the ideal biscuit, create calendars to support counting
It was the story of Advent, packaging, devise an as well as time.
beyond the commercialism advertising campaign, and
of what it has become. They the most important part of all, All in all, a very busy week
certainly made us all think, and making the biscuits! indeed, but what better way to
I hope that during the fun and finish than with the Christmas
mayhem, we all take a Year 4 pupils have been Show Jumping spectacle on
moment of calm to ponder on designing bridges and then a rather (very) wet morning.
the Christian story as well as presenting their ideas to each Busy, indeed, and we still have
the meanings of the four other, Year 3 have been the final week to go!
Advent candles that finishing their Escher
everyone can take tessellations and creating Mr Bicker-Caarten, Head of
Prep School
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Year 5 Virtual
Classroom
On Friday, Year 5 enjoyed a
Virtual Classroom session,
linked with their work in
Geography.
Via the TEAMS platform, we
had a meeting with Max, who
works for Kando - a
technology company that
specialises in making sure
waste water is properly clean
before it goes back into the
water cycle.
The children prepared
questions in advance, and technology companies, indeed,
listened carefully to the they need people with different
answers. Together, we learned strengths, including writing,
a lot about looking after graphic design, and even
water and the environment. We social media skills!
also learned that people with
all sorts of different skills can Mrs Wall
work in science and
LAMDA 20 books for
Success 2020
We would like to Season’s greetings from the term. Students are encouraged
congratulate all the Speech library. The 20 books for 2020 to sign out books for the
and Drama students across challenge is nearly coming to holidays, and many already
the Prep, Middle and Senior an end, and I would like to ask have.
School on their LAMDA exam students to hand in their
results. We received them via completed book marks by Miss Quick
email this morning, and they January, 8th. This will
all are fantastic! Needless to hopefully give students more
say, we will be going through time to enjoy reading during
the reports and handing out the festive break.
certificates as soon as they
arrive with us. 100% Merits The draw will take place on
and Distinctions across the January, 11th. I hope that
board! Santa will bring lots of books
to every student, and perhaps
Mrs Sharman and Mrs Rogers some for the library, too! Many
thanks to all those who have
donated books during this
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Senior School
Charity Foodbank
Collection
Advent is nearly here and no UHT Milk
doubt many little cardboard Spreads
doors are starting to be opened
in the traditional countdown to Also, special Christmas items
Christmas. such as:
Yule log type cakes New Options for
After the success of the Prep Mince pies
School’s Reverse Advent, we, Cheesy biscuits 2021!
in the senior part of the school, Chocolate biscuits
are doing our own collection Chocolates Congratulations to our new
for the foodbank. We will ask Pringles/crisps Options!
your son or daughter to put Tinned custard
aside one or two donations Christmas pudding We are delighted to welcome
over Advent, so we have a three new members to the
collection of goods ready to The Senior School will be Options Team at Lucton
drop off at a local foodbank in collecting for Leominster School. Options are invaluable
time for Christmas. Some foodbank. On Wednesday 9th to the school in carrying out
Forms have already made a December, Leominster duties and ensuring that the
great start to this and have foodbank are putting together school is a well-organised and
begun their own collections. special Christmas parcels for happy place to be and learn.
the most vulnerable in the Our three new Options are;
The list below isn’t exhaustive; community, so we ask, please, Maureen, Rachel, and Zoe!
it is merely to give an idea of that your donations are
what could be donated. handed in by TUESDAY 8th Mrs Goode, Head of Senior
Nevertheless, all items should DECEMBER. There will be School
be non-perishable and can collection points around the
include toiletries: school, for each bubble.
Tinned soup The purpose, as I am sure you
Tinned vegetables are aware, is to make the
Coffee children think about others,
Cereal less fortunate than
Rice themselves, and to realise that
Pot noodles this is a season of giving, not
Juices just of receiving.
Curry sauces Many thanks for all your
Pasta sauces kindness and generosity.
Instant mash
Tinned custard/fruit Ms Berry
Jams/marmalades
Cuppa soup
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CCF
The Year 8 cadets are starting
to get a taste of outdoor CCF
action and really made the
most of the recent Fieldcraft
exercise.
The class were introduced to
camouflage and concealment.
After being taught why and
how, they then tried to
camouflage themselves using
cam cream with some
interesting results and then
conceal their position in the
woods.
Our senior RAF cadets have ready to deliver the Year 9 and
also been busy this term with 10 training package next term.
their Methods of Congratulations to them on
Instruction Course. Cpl Watts, their outstanding efforts.
Cpl Taylor-Woodward, LCpl
Millhouse and Acting LCpl Squadron Leader (retd) House
Bryant, are now qualified and
Sport
As the skies lifted and the sun bacon’, a mini four-team games. All the skills the girls
made a brief, yet chilly tournament was played, are learning are being
appearance, a busy featuring relentless defending transferred into improved play
Wednesday of games unfurled. from Chloe B, Daisy and Ottie in game situations. Earlier in
and a fabulous goal scored by the week, the Year 8 girls had
With the Middle School boys Amelia! impressed on the lacrosse
continuing to hone their rugby pitch with their attacking play,
skills under the watchful gaze While the Year 9 and 10 boys as they confidently took the
of Mr Cowley, the girls enjoyed were being worked hard on the ball into and around the 11m
a rare treat; a trip to Bridge St rugby pitch by Mr Cheshire, fan to create goal scoring
with Miss Daughtrey and Miss the girls were put through their opportunities.
Quick! Whilst there, they paces on the lacrosse pitch.
focused on communication, Miss Wilkinson is delighted The main focus of the day for
with plenty of warm up drills with their enthusiasm, the Sixth Form and Year 11
that made sure they looked competitive spirit, and pupils was the Lucton School
before passing the ball. progress with ground ball Park Run, a race we had been
After several rotations, and a pickups when playing ‘grab the preparing for. It was an
competitive game of ‘grab the bacon’ and first off the marks inter-form competition, with
(Continued over)
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the dual aim of promoting victory over 9D. It was role
competition alongside reversal in the backstroke relay
individual achievement. with 9D hanging on to win by
0.03 sec as Darcy, Myra,
Conditions were ideal; a George J, and Tristan swam to
relatively calm day, with a the wire for victory. The medley
distinct chill in the air and relay was tense and exciting,
sound underfoot conditions. with just 0.01 sec between 9M
The Sixth Form went first, with and 9D. Matthew G’s butterfly
Forbes darting into the lead, leg got 9M off to a good start,
eating up the ground with with Zac P
every stride, to record the (freestyle and backstroke), and
fastest time of the day: 2.75km Evie (breaststroke) excelling.
in 10.04. Matthew D (2nd), In the final 25m breaststroke
Angus W (3rd) and Daniel L sprint relay, 9D exacted
(4th) were in hot pursuit for the revenge, tying the inter-form
minor placings. Aoibh C competition. Despite some
showed her class with a strong swimming from 10Ts
dominant victory in the girls’ Jess C, Nathan, Leo, and Lola,
race, with Emily W (2nd) and 10Q dominated all of the Year
Louise P (3rd) 10 races, with some excellent
taking the other podium swimming from Yara, whose
places. Malachy C the class butterfly and breaststroke legs
act in the Year 11 race, were impressive, and strong
strolling home to a support from Ellis, Evie, and
comfortable victory in 10.09. Archie. An excellent end to an
Tim W was runner-up while action-packed day.
Harry D won the sprint to the
line for third place with Jack Mrs Connop, Head of Sport
B only one second behind. He
was closely followed by the
first of the girls: Catherine C,
who literally stepped over the
line just ahead of Millie (2nd)
and Jess W (3rd). The front
three were closely followed
by Seren and Alice. 11W just
pipped 11R in this round of the
inter-form contest, so it will be
interesting to see who excels
in next week’s swim league!
The day was rounded off with
a tight relay contest in the
pool. The session began with
the freestyle relay and a
superb display of swimming,
as Matthew G gave 9M the
start they needed to clinch
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Equestrian
Jake’s Blog
We have had a great week
getting ready for the Prep
School show jumping which,
unfortunately due to Covid-19
couldn’t be as big as normal
years!
The Horse and Hounds
competition was replaced
by Horse and Space Hopper.
Most of the ponies weren’t too
alarmed by bouncing children
although Zola was a bit of a
scaredy cat - even Charlie was
braver and that’s saying
something!
On Wednesday Pony Club well with a few poles down Orla and Boing Boing who flew
helped to build the course after here and there, but nothing round in 33.90, but Emma on
Mrs Harwood taught 2 groups too terrible. Emily did a very Zola had the secret weapon of
of our riders on their own stylish and classic round with Jake who raced around with
ponies plus Ravi. me (Jake) getting the best and Bob Bouncer taking off
most consistent marks (of seconds to complete in 30.24!!
Thursday came and was really course) but Milla and Mouse Santa hats flew off the
wet and cold but the Prep were the only combination to bouncers and Elodie managed
School hoppers and riders go around loose, just a shame to fall before really starting
came up with huge smiles and about the last fence. at Mouse’s feet with Boingy
great fancy dress!! (Mouse didn’t flinch, he’s so
Class 3 was the Horse and brave!) All did really well
Class 1 was the fancy dress, Hopper. A rider and horse went despite getting really cold
this was judged in school by around the course and then a hands! Huge thanks to Mrs
Mr Bicker-Caarten and was hopper jumped 3 fences plus Rogers, Miss Annett, Miss
won by Milla and Emma who the bending cones. Faults were Daughtrey and Miss Pudge for
were great elves. just added onto the time of the helping us look after our riders
hopper so all were kept in and getting us ready!
Class 2 was judged on riding suspense for the results. Our
style. Each jump was judged path finder again was We enjoyed seeing all the
out of 10 and any jumping Cordelia, this time children really enjoy
penalties taken from that accompanied by Samuel with themselves and to see how
score. Cordelia and Charlie Jumper, who took it all much they have all improved
showed the way and did a steadily! from our teaching. Our
lovely round to set the costumes where fun, Jig
standard. All jumped really Milla and Mouse again set off thought he was the bee’s
at a pace this time paired with knees with his ear piece but
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I think Princess Zola looked
the cutest and Mouse was the
most stylish!
Results
Fancy Dress: Milla and Emma
Class 2
1st: Emily and Jake
2nd: Bea and Mouse, and Holly
on Zola
3rd: Cordelia and Charlie
Brown
4th: Ellouisa and Daisy
5th: Matilda and Charlie Brown
6th: Edwin and Zola
Class 3
1st: Emma/Zola and Jake/Bob
Bouncer
2nd: Milla/Mouse and Orla/
Boing Boing
3rd: Holly/Zola and Isobel/
Boinger
4th: Emily/Jake and Scarlett/
Hoppity
5th: Matilda/Charlie Brown and
Annamae/Prancer
6th: Charlotte/Jigsaw and
Jasmine/Springer
Jake House Merit
Countdown to Totals
Christmas Raffle
2020
Congratulations to Isla in Year
2! Please don’t forget that we
still have one more raffle next
Collingwood
week: the Grand Prize!
Rodney
Nelson
Drake
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*Numbers accurate 4th December
2020
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