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17th September 2021
“The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.”
Alfred Brendel
It’s also why we ask our Prefect Team and senior pu-
Head’s pils to undergo ‘welfare walks’, where they make a
Words point of walking around our school, ensuring our
children are happy and engaged at breaktimes. They
I talked last week about the are there to listen and to support. A helping hand
‘sound’ of our school and and a listening ear. Something we all need from time
how much I enjoy hearing to time.
the ‘buzz’ and excitement of
a happy school. There is also I’ll leave you with the great philosophical question
something rather lovely about that I posed our senior pupils this week as we con-
the sound of silence and even in a busy school such templated the art and importance of listening, “If a
as ours, we are hugely fortunate to be able to find an tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it,
abundance of ‘quiet’ places (he writes, humming the does it make a sound?”. As a parent of teenage chil-
tune to that wonderful Simon and Garfunkel song…). dren myself, I often wonder whether I make a sound
when I ask them to do something…for the fifth time.
Listening is a life skill we all need to develop and, cru- Is it me?
cially, is very different to hearing. Listening is one of
the key elements of our ‘Moyles Court Way’; a series Wishing you all a wonderfully ‘quiet’ weekend,
of ‘signposts’ to help our young people develop the
skills and characteristics that will help them succeed
in the wider world, and hopefully stay with them for
the rest of their lives. I love Alfred Brendel’s quote
(which we’ve used this week) and in a world full of Richard Milner-Smith
noise and mass communication, time to be silent and
to listen seems to be ever decreasing. By ‘listening’, we
don’t mean simply listening to instructions (although
this is crucial, both at school and at home), but really
listening to what other people are saying. Good lis-
tening helps us understand other people and under-
standing other people helps us make connections and
positive relationships then form as a result. As Epic-
tetus notably once said, we were given two ears and
only one mouth for a reason.
House Points
House Points Strikes Total
Dockens 0 65 65
Latchmore 0 99 99
Linford 0 93 93
Junior School Early Years
Reflections News
Well done to all of our students Check out our Facebook page
for another impressive week! We for some great pictures of
kickstarted the week by celebrat- our pre-school and reception
ing Roald Dahl Day on Monday, pupils enjoying some messy
with our Junior pupils having the play.
opportunity to work alongside pupils in other classes
- a privilege that we have certainly missed over the last
year! Our pupils learned a little about his life story in
the first of two assemblies this week. The pupils shared
their brilliant thoughts and creative ideas as they came
together to celebrate a much-loved author. On Wednes-
day, we continued to explore ways in which our pupils
can become the best version of themselves by follow-
ing “The Moyles Court Way”. The children are already
somewhat familiar with this, as we have posters in all
classrooms celebrating those key characteristics which
help our pupils to succeed. To follow The Moyles Court
Way, we encourage all pupils to:
Be Honest
Work Hard
Be Kind and Helpful
Cooperate
Listen
Thank you to all of our brilliant pupils, our hard-
working staff, and our devoted parents, who all work
together to make Moyles Court truly special indeed.
Alicia has created a colourful moodboard showing different patterns found
in nature. All the photos were taken in the wonderful school grounds,
which provides great inspiration for her Textiles 'project .
Stars Year 1 - Leon
of Congratulations to the wonderful Leon for
being the Year 1 Star of the Week. Mr Legg has
the named Leon a “true star”. He is always a good role
model to his friends and peers. He helps and cares
for others in the class, as well as throughout Key
week Stage 1. Well done and keep up the amazing work,
Leon!
Year 2 - Jack
Well done, Jack! Mrs Cheal is very pleased with the Year 3 - Jamie
start that Jack has made to life in Year 2. Jack has A massive well done to Jamie, who has had a super
shown Mrs Cheal this week that he is willing to try. week. He has worked really hard to understand new
He is working hard on his reading, sounding out topics but has taken this further and also support-
unfamiliar words and really working hard at fol- ed other pupils in the class without any direction
lowing instructions. He is beginning to show a ‘can from Miss Turner. Furthermore, Miss Turner also
do’ attitude which is all Mrs Cheal asks for in Year adds: “I have been impressed with his improved fo-
2. Mrs Cheal also says: “keep it up Jack -you have cus and how well he has settled into year 3! Keep
really impressed me this week!” up the great work Jamie!”
Year 4 - Harry
Congratulations to Harry. Mr Hutchings is very
Year 5 - Pippa
impressed with Harry and we are all delighted with Well done to Pippa and congratulations for being
how he has settled into life at Moyles Court School the Year 5 Star of the Week. Mrs Walbrin is very
since joining. Harry has made a good impression pleased with Pippa’s attitude and efforts in and
in class and have shown himself to be a talented around school. She is always smiling and is doing
individual. Let this be the first of many Stars of the her best. Well done Pippa for making a great start
Week to come! Well done and keep up the great to life at Moyles Court.
work!
Year 6 - Noah
An enormous well done to Noah. This is a truly
well-deserved award for this week. Noah is a fan-
tastic role model to all those around him and he
has continued to grow into a fine young man. I am
very pleased with his efforts in class this week, as
well as his heroics during Wednesday Afternoon
Games - where he saved a penalty in the dying sec-
onds of the game! Noah is very highly thought of Stars of
by those around the school and he demonstrates
many of the characteristics of “The Moyles Court
Way”. Well done, Noah!
the week
Annabel prepares A
to face spurs
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Annabel Muller & the rest of the U 16 girls at Cor-
fe Mullen have successfully secured their place in
the Junior Premier League. They will be playing
teams including Tottenham Hotspur, Watford FC,
AFC Wimbledon & AFC Bournemouth, along with
many more established clubs.
Boarding News
The boarders went for a walk to Hockey’s farm
and enjoyed some challenges along the way set
by Mrs. Benham and Mrs. Pragnell.
Year
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11 Textiles
Lucy has created this beautiful hand embroidery design which
was developed by experimenting with a variety of stitches
and threads. She has combined chain, satin and herring-bone
stitches with clusters of French knots and beading to create tex-
ture and colour.
spotlight:
Staff spotlight:
Mrs. Percy
Favourite subject when you were at school?
I loved maths (particularly algebra), biology & chemistry. I en-
joyed seeing how different chemicals could be mixed together
and turned into something completely different. It’s probably
why I enjoy cooking too.
Tea or coffee?
Definitely coffee
What job did you want to do when you were younger?
I wanted to be a pathologist and do post mortems. I thought
of it as problem solving without the responsibility of keeping
someone alive!
What or who inspired you to become a teacher?
I was working in labs and realized that my favourite part of
my job was working with groups of students who visited and
showing them new things. Teaching allowed me to do that all
the time.
If you could do any job in the world now, what would you do (apart from working at Moyles Court!)
I would like to be a night security guard at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris so I could spend hours with the amazing
artworks all on my own. I wouldn’t be any good at the security because I’d spend all my time gazing at the pictures!
Favourite animal? How would your friends describe you?
Penguins Annoyingly positive, good baker, terrible gardener
Which 3 people would you invite to a dinner party, and why? They can be dead, alive or fictional!
I think I’d invite Yottam Ottolenghi – I love his cookbooks and he could help prepare the feast, Lucy Worsley –
she could teach me some history (not my strongest subject) and the comedian Henning When to keep us
laughing (and allow me to practice my very rusty German)
If you could only eat one food item for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I’m such a foodie, this is very tough. Probably curry, especially sag aloo.
ARoald Dahl Day in Year 3
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This term we are looking at books by Roald Dahl,
particularly Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this half
of term. This week year 3 have been working very hard
as journalists! They have been covering the story of
the chocolate factory being opened up to 5 lucky chil-
dren who find Golden Tickets! They have all focused
on coming up with a catchy headline and to make sure
they include all the important information the readers
will need to know, they also came up with their own
newspaper names.
Here are a couple of the articles they created…
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