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News From the Head of Prep
31 January 2025
This week, many of our pupils have celebrated the Lunar New Year. Talking to the girls about their plans for this celebration filled me with great joy. Chinese New Year is a time for family, food and fresh start; a chance to welcome in new opportunities, prosperity and happiness and it struck me that there are lessons for us all to learn from these traditions. So often we find ourselves in a habitual routine, it is a safe place to be, and we know how it works. However, recognising our mistakes, learning from these and embracing new opportunities is so important. At EHS Prep, we want to prepare our girls for future success. We do this by providing a safe and supportive environment, one where it is OK to make mistakes (to grow our brains!) and we encourage girls to be curious learners.
This was clearly evident in the Year One classroom this week when I came across a group of excited pupils learning about their bodies. The wonderful Mrs Hobbs had carefully planned an engaging and interactive Science lesson for the girls. Whoops of delight could be heard as the girls used their iPads to ‘look inside’ their peers and discover their bones and internal organs. They proudly shared with me their newly learnt scientific vocabulary and had clearly made a huge amount of progress over the course of the lesson. It was wonderful to see such curiosity in evidence.
Doris and Amelia helped me lead a special Lunar New Year assembly on Tuesday and talked with great pride about their culture and traditions. We shared the story of how the Jade Emperor created the Chinese Zodiac by holding a swimming race for animals. As we say goodbye to the Year of the Dragon and we welcome in the Year of the Snake, I hope that our entire EHS community will welcome wisdom, transformation and personal growth.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Mrs Hobson
CELEBRATING SUCCESS
This week, our Prep girls have continued to demonstrate the EHS values in every part of the school. Congratulations to:
Kindergarten
Aminah for perseverance in all physical activities including swimming and Balanceability.
Winnie for aspiration with her continued effort and determination to write her name independently.
Reception
Roha for excellence with her reading and growing fluency.
April for excellence with her number work and completing tasks independently.
Year One
Chimdalu for excellence with her continued effort with the presentation of her work.
Sophia for excellence, always taking pride in her work and presenting it neatly.
Year Two
Khadijah for aspiration with her Art and Science work when mixing primary colours to create a colour wheel.
Denver for demonstrating responsibility for expanding her knowledge.
Year Three
Maisie for aspiration, consistently working to the best of her ability in all subjects.
Ruby for aspiration to improve her strokes and stamina in swimming lessons and as part of Swim Squad.
Year Four
Tilly for perseverance with mental subtraction.
Ava for aspiration, working hard to improve her handwriting, Mathematics and Art work.
Year Five
Roni for persevering when solving addition and subtraction of fractions with differing denominators.
Suzannah for showing creativity and accuracy when sketching an eye.
Genevieve for showing aspiration to produce a clear ‘How to...’ video.
Year Six
Natalia for demonstrating responsibility by helping with jobs across the school.
Avani for demonstrating excellence with her contribution to discussion work during PSHE about the topic, ‘challenging stereotypes’.
Robyn for writing an excellent alternative ending to The Highwayman poem in English.
