Senior School Congratulations

Congratulations to Amelia Green, Aimee Leighfield, Hannah McLintock and Rose Smith who have all passed 13+ Common Entrance to Headington. Special congratulations to Hannah McLintock for winning the top Academic Scholarship and to Aimee Leighfield for winning a Sports Scholarship.

Many congratulations also to Katie Newland for winning an Art Scholarship to Tudor Hall.

And last, but by no means least, congratulations to Arran Ryder who has been awarded Drama and Music Exhibitions to Radley and to Jack Needham who has been awarded a Drama Exhibition to Radley.

Snow!

If we have any significant snow falls over the next few weeks, school will always remain open. Please keep an eye on the website for regular updates during spells of poor weather and only travel to school if you feel it is safe to do so.

Pre-Prep Staff Appointments

We are delighted to announce that Mrs Judith Fisher has been appointed to the position of Year 1 form teacher. She and Mrs Fleming will jointly teach one of the Year 1 forms from September 2012 and Mrs Bremner will also be teaching a Year 1 form, in a full-time capacity. These appointments will begin in September following the retirement of Mrs Jan Bown at the end of the current academic year.

'Try Boarding' Tuesday, 7th February

There are currently a few spaces left for anyone else in Years 3, 4 or 5 who would like to do the 'Try Boarding' night on Tuesday next week. Please email Mrs Watson at boarding@st-hughs.co.uk as soon as possible.

If you have already signed up Mrs Watson will give your child a packing list on Monday to bring home with them that night. Thank you.

Staff Car Park

Parents are respectfully reminded that, for obvious safety reasons, the staff car park should not be used as a shortcut from the Sports Hall to Middle School and Pre-Prep. Whilst it is appreciated that it may be relatively safe for parents to use this route, it sets a poor example for pupils for whom the area is out of bounds. Your support in re-enforcing this would be much appreciated.

FOSH Quiz Night

FOSH Quiz Night - Saturday, 17th March 2012 in the Barn

Sharpen up those little grey cells and prepare for an evening of fun and ferocious competition! Tickets, to include supper, will be on sale soon and further information will be circulated next week. Tickets will be limited so please don't delay or be disappointed! Teams of 8 or individual tickets will be on sale and we will put teams together.

Middle School News - Mud, mud, glorious mud!

Safer Internet Day

Safer Internet Day: Lift off!

On Safer Internet Day, Tuesday 7 February, CEOP will broadcast the 'The Parents' and Carers' Guide to the Internet'. It will be available from 7am on thinkuknow.co.uk/parents and youtube.com/ceop. We want to encourage as many parents as we can to watch it at home.

Then, live on the net on the 7th February, the CEOP team will be taking questions from Parents between 18:00 - 21:00 via Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation at #parentsguide on facebook.com/clickceop

News from Pre-Prep

The Pre-Prep have voted for their School Council representatives: Liesl, Isabelle, Joshua, Kimberley, Anneli and Sam were successful. (Please click on this link to see their photograph).  The Council has already met and the children are full of ideas - they particularly enjoyed the orange juice and chocolate biscuits that were provided by Miss Please!

Parents of Year 1 and 2 children are reminded of the Sports Tournament to be held in the main Sports Hall next Thursday 9th February at 2pm - it should last about an hour. Children will be involved in a variety of activities - the afternoon will offer parents the chance to see the skills the boys and girls have learned. Refreshments will be served to parents afterwards in the Pre-Prep Hall while the children get changed back into school uniform.

The Pre-Prep Sports Relief fund raising event is to be held during the afternoon of Thursday, 29th March. Information regarding sponsorship will be sent to parents in the Book Bags next week.

Nursery News

Nursery has been as busy as ever this week as we explored the riddle 'Hey Diddle Diddle.' The children enjoyed adding together dishes and spoons during Numeracy sessions and we had fun making a rhyme bag during our Literacy time as well as learning the tricky sound 'f' during phonics.

Within PE, we strolled up to the Sports Hall to play parachute games and use the large apparatus. We have also had time to get all the dressing up clothes out for lots of glitz and giggles!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Jessica Blythe

Next week's events:

Monday: Library
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Show and Tell - your favourite nursery rhyme book
Thursday: French conversation
Friday: PE

Please click here for this week's photos.

FOSH Second Hand Children's Clothes Sale

FOSH Second Hand Children's Clothes Sale - Friday, 9th March 3.00-5.00 pm

FOSH are holding a Second Hand Children's Clothes Sale in the Oak Room on Friday, 9th March. A fantastic and not to be missed opportunity to kit out your children with good quality 'good as new' clothes.

If you have good quality clothes (which must be clean) to donate, they may be left with Jo Graham-Campbell at Rushey Cottage (opposite the school) after drop off in the mornings from Monday, 5th March to Thursday, 8th March. Jo has kindly agreed that clothes can be stored and sorted in her home so please do not take any garments earlier than this date or bring them along on the day, as it will be too late to sort them then.

Further information is available from your Form Reps.

Sports Results

U12 Girls' Tennis v North Oxford

Congratulations to L Grace and H Batstone who both won their singles 6-1, 6-1 and also their doubles 6-0, 6-0. Undefeated so far!!

Netball

v Cokethorpe

U13A Won 27-5 (PoM: A Leighfield)
U12A Won 17-10 (PoM: F Blackburn)
U11B Lost 7-16 (PoM: R Bell)

U13A Prior Park Tournament

v The Downs Won 5-3
v Prior Park Lost 4-5
v Dolphin Won 7-0

Semi final v Cheam Won 6-5

Final v Prior Park Won 9-1 (Player of the Tournament: H McLintock)

After a rocky start, the girls hit amazing form to produce a spectacular final. Congratulations on a great win! Thank you to all the St Hugh's male staff and boys who cheered the girls on - you created a wonderful atmosphere.

 v Dragon

U13B Won 19-8 (PoM: R Bell & G Cairns)
U12A Won 14-9 (PoM: G Henderson)
U11A Lost 2-4 (PoM: E Rosenfeld & J Maxse)
U11B Won 19-0 (PoM: F Jones & I Albert)
U11C Won 2-0 (PoM: C Barlow)

v Hatherop

U8 Lost 2-6 (Scorers: L Ashby & C Clemence)

Girls' Hockey

v Hatherop

U9A Won 2-0 (Scorers: A Asher & A Blackburn; PoM: A Asher)
U9B Won 1-0 (Scorer: A Lawson-Smith; PoM: E Harrison)

v The Manor

U10A 6-a-side, no GK Lost 0-5
U10B 6-a-side no GK Won 3-2 (Scorers: M Jacobs, S Walker, S Galbraith; PoM: S Walker)

Boys' Hockey

v Prior Park
1^st VII Won 5-3 (Scorers: G Chauveau x3, P Noakes x2; MoM: G Chauveau)
2^nd VII Lost 0-1 (MoM: G Strainge)
3^rd VII Won 9-0 (Scorers: E Flower x3, L Lewis x2, I Brown, J Smith, P Hicks Beach x2; MoM: E Flower)
4^th VII Won 4-0 (Scorers: G Russell x2, J Cammack x2; MoM: J Cammack)

Football

v Prior Park
U11A Drew 4-4 (Scorers: O Baker x3, A Thomson; MoM: G Elliot & N Batstone)
U11B Lost 1-8 (Scorer: N Smith; MoM: F Rich)
U10A Won 1-0 (Scorer: W Stanton)
U10B Drew 1-1 (Scorer: T Isaacs)
U9A Won 3-1 (Scorers: C Baker x2, J Graham; MoM: J Graham)
U9B Lost 1-2 (Scorer: L Browning; MoM: W Codrington)
U8A Lost 2-3 (Scorers: A McLintock x2; MoM: M Johnson)
U8B Won 3-0 (Scorers: J Power, H Green, F Selby-Lowndes; MoM: T Jackson)

 
Pinewood Cross Country

U13 Boys
I Brown 1st, C Clubb 7th, E Cope 10th, J Dee 25th, E Flower 28th, G Russell 24th, B Yorston 39th (2nd overall).

U11 Boys
N Batstone 4th, L Needham 10th, I Russell 26th, S Mitchell 22nd, E Bremner 5th, J Clayton 12th (2nd overall).

U13 Girls
A Simpson 1st, H Batstone 9th, F Batstone 23rd, R Smith 29th, A Leighfield DNF.

U11 Girls
W Stobart 5th, G McLintock 7th, A Hearn 12th, M Selby-Lowndes 17th, L Rosenfeld 21st, A Michael 34th (3rd overall)

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