Welcome to Heathfield Summer School & Camp Newsletter 2010!

 

Not long now until another Summer School and Camp! We are so pleased that so many of you have already booked to come back and we look forward to meeting lots of new girls, too.

A great deal has already been happening during the year AND WE HOPE YOU LIKE THE NEW BROCHURE AND NEW PAGES ON THE WEBSITE. Don’t forget also to look at the Student Project of last year’s top group.  If you click on the map of the school on their opening page, they give you their views and photos of Heathfield 2010. And here is all the latest news now...

Student News:

As always we have lots of wonderful assistants and helpers. We are very happy to welcome back Emma Bumstead (from Spain), Sally Yiu (from Hong Kong) Georgina  Scott  from England.  Former Summer Camp Helpers Zara Buck and Sarah Forster are also coming back to  do activities. Anne-Catherine Clevenot and Eve Grandin, students from France over 10 years ago, and now a teacher and a banker, are taking time out to work in the office AGAIN!! We are very privileged that every year they come back and help us all.  

Annalisa Ugo (from Italy) will also be working in the office and so will  Karla El-Zein (from Bahrain) who has sent this welcome letter to you all:

Dear Girls,

Hope you’ve all had a great year and I am looking forward to seeing you returners again and meeting all the new girls.
This will be my 7th year at Heathfield. I started back in 2000 at 10 years old as a summer camper and returned for the next 4 years. I even brought along my cousins and my sister who came to work one summer. Heathfield became a family affair, and will always feel like a second home. The friends you make here are like family. I became an Assistant in 2008 and now I am a student at London University and will be working in the Heathfield office this summer - I am SO excited! Heathfield always has and always will hold a special place in my heart, and many of my most cherished memories and friends are thanks to the wonderful summers I spent there. There is so much to do and so much to learn, not only English, but you learn about other cultures, make friends from all around the world, visit fantastic places, and engage yourself in an array of activities from cooking to kayaking, basketball and karaoke. There is something for everyone, and rarely does a girl leave without wanting to come back. It truly is a magical place, and I can think of no better place or way to spend your summer. I hope to see you all in July and you all enjoy the rest of the year!

Love Karla xxx

P.S. I attached a picture of me and some of the girls when I was an Assistant

 

We already have almost 75 girls already returning this year from England and abroad and bookings are still coming in. From overseas we welcome back: Welcome back

Natalia Bober, Marie Provence Brue, Annie and Emma Bumstead, Ana and Maria Carvalho Araujo, Alexandra Conrad, Ludivine, Marjorie and Solène Cury who are also bringing their cousin Tiphaine and friend Caroline with them, Chloe Dethoor, Carla Eickelkamp, Kyra and Marie Fantou, Anastasiya Fedotova,  Carolina Feijo Rodriguez, Yuri Fujiwara, Loanna Galli-Merle, Ada Gassowska, Amelie Grignon Dumoulin, Elisabeth Hausmann, Joanna Kamelska, Lisa Marie Meister, Afaf Mira, Ioanna Pamukoglu, Aikaterini Papadopoulos,  Ana Pereira, Alicia and Clara de Queiroz , Blu Rapps-O'Dea, Cloe Riva, Andrea Rodriguez Lopez, Amelie Rouillon, Lucia Salgado Perez, Laure Shin, Mikiko Shumiya, Yamina Stumpff-Niggemann, Anastassia Svedova, Laura and Valeria Taglioni, Paula Uncio Ribera, Greta Wandjo, Elena Wieandt, Emily Wong and  Sally Yiu. And WELCOME to all the new girls who have booked so far – we already have girls from, Armenia, Austria, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia,  Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain,  Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Staff News:

Congratulations to teachers David P and Alexis whose baby daughter, Rosalyn, is doing very well. They are spending the summer with her this year and are planning to visit us.

Also congratulations to Jo, our archery teacher who got married last summer and will be returning this summer for her 14th year! 

Jade has also got married and is expecting her first baby in September so sadly cannot be with us in the office again

Tracey who for many years has run Summer Camp and Summer School Activities, now steps up to be the new Assistant Course Director as, after 10 years, David is having a summer in the United States. Tracey and her family have just moved to the sunny Cayman islands in the Caribbean and here she is with Georgina and Tom – it will be great to have them all back with us.

Joe continues as Director of Studies and Rob Szabo returns as Assistant Director of Studies. Our returning teachers are: Alan, Chris, Emma, Jamie, Patricia, Patsy and  Simon and Susan.

Coming to teach at Heathfield for the first time are Beth McKinnon and William Spouge.  

 And our wonderful activities leaders are all back. Bob is Summer School  Activities Director and  Nat and then Helen will be the Directors of Summer Camp.  Lori will assist them as Activities Coordinator. We also welcome back Christina, Gill, Janine, Lizi, Maria, Paul and Rob F from 2008 – with his bagpipes!

Lots of new activities staff will be appearing at Heathfield this summer. Selina Tholl is Fashion Designer in Residence at the main school and we are delighted she will work with us as well. You will all have a marvellous new opportunity to work with design, fashion and textiles. Here is Selina modelling one of her dresses and a photo of another dress and coat she designed.

Lucy Andrews, Rebecca Carling (a friend of Nat), James Dance, Lucy Williams, join us as do Nicola Jones (Bob’s sister) and Kate (Emma BD’s sister).  Lucy Baish (yes, 3 Lucys!) and Laura Reay will do some activities and also help in the boarding houses.

 Main school photography teacher, Karen White, whose pupils were in the top 10 best school photographers in the country, is going to be doing photography workshops and here is one of her pupil’s award-winning photographs. 

Elspeth will be in the office again, having just finished  her Masters degree at Oxford. She is now an expert on volcanoes! Her brother Fraser who worked for many years at Heathfield got married recently and here he is pictured with his lovely wife Laura and his brother Duncan and friend Paul who also worked with us!

Also in the office are the Director Helen, the Registrar Linda, Abi and Caroline who is directing trips. Looking after you all will be nurses Liz, Deborah and Nicola,  helped again by main school House Mothers Alison, both Paulines and Valerie.

Music- Music-Music

We have very many musical staff this year and will have a Staff Band again.  So we have decided the theme of Summer School 2010 is Music – Music – Music and the Houses will be named after types of music. Inspired by piano keys, black and white will be our colour theme – but black and white with a touch of pink (to make it feminine!). So bring suitable clothes for the Black, White & Pink Celebration Disco Party!   Here is some inspiration from previous Shows.

And if you play a musical instrument and can safely bring it, please do so.

English With Style 

Course Director Wendy promises our English with Style girls a great week of fashion, image, culture, exercise and well-being as well as English lessons which will help you in social situations, with meeting people and talking to adults, and with going to interviews. You will have a lot of fun and meet some great girls!

 

In the March issue of the world-famous magazine Harper's Bazaar, in a 6 page article full of photos of the school, Heathfield was described as a 'School for Style' in a headline also as 'a breeding ground for creative talent.' Many old girls become highflying business women, lawyers or academics, work in journalism, theatre and film or artists and designers.

Heathfield is now offering the expertise that has helped create the self-confidence, charm and success of these young women in the English for Style course. If you are 14 or over - come and share it!

 
   

Trips in 2010:

The sights of London and a museum are also going to be seen along with some shopping.

In week 1 Summer School will be going to Winchester where there is the Cathedral and Winchester College one of the world’s oldest schools which began in 1382.

In week 2 the seniors will go to Guildford for shopping and the juniors to Beaconsfield model village for an afternoon.

Also in week 2, we will go to the lovely city of Salisbury and Stonehenge the  historical English site.  How did people over 3,000 years ago move these stones into position even before the wheel was invented? No one has answered that question yet – can you?

Seniors of 15 and above can go to the famous Ascot Races in week 3 if they wish. Here are the girls last year. You can see smart clothes are necessary!

  

In week 3, students will also go on an afternoon trip to Windsor and Eton and we also visit London again.

There will be a shopping trip to Reading the fourth weekend for any resident summer campers and to all of summer school.

There will be an exciting afternoon trip to Chessington World of Adventures

 

Week 4 will also include a day trip to Warwick Castle and Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare.

Evening trips will also include the cinema, bowling and Coral Reef Water World.

 

SEE YOU ALL IN JULY!!!!