Welcome to
Summer School and Summer Camp 2011!
We are all looking forward to another happy, successful year and here is our
news:
STUDENT NEWS
We are looking forward to seeing former students
Anne-Catherine from France,
Annalisa
from Italy
and
Karla from Bahrain who will
be working in the office once more. They will be joined by
Gabriela from Spain and
Maria from Portugal as
Student Assistants as well as Iona,
Abigail, Poppy and
Ellie from England to help
with Summer Camp.
Maria and
Iona have written letters to welcome old and new girls to Heathfield this
year.
Dear Girls,
I’m
waiting the entire year for the holidays because I feel so great at
Heathfield. It feels like yesterday when I first went to Heathfield 3 years
ago with my younger sister. Now, this will be my 4th year and at the same
time my 1st year as a Junior Assistant and I’m so delighted. Despite being
just one month, I feel like I’m in my second home and that I can come
everytime I want to because everyone is so warm and kind, like a huge
family. I have magical memories of all of my friends from different cultures
(returners or new girls), of all of my teachers, the divine and green
english landscape, the food, the trips that allow us to know different
places, the activities which are always great fun (dance, cookery, horse
riding, yoga or sports), the shows, the discos.
More than just learning English,
girls you’ll learn how to be better
human beings. You’ll always remember the laughs or the tears, the gestures
instead of words. And everyone can be helpful, the 8 year-old or the 17
year-old. This year, I’ll be there, as always, to help you. Different
experiences will lead you to learn different things but in the end all of
what you’ve learn will be necessary and will make you want to come back
again. Here is a photo of me
and some of my friends on the playing fields.
Love, Maria
Dear girls,
The sun is finally beginning to shine and for me that only means one
thing... Heathfield Summer Camp is just around the corner! This will be my
4th year at Heathfield and I can't wait. There is such a positive energy at
Heathfield and it really caters for every girl: whether you're the youngest
or the oldest; or whether you are sporty or creative.
As many of you will know, Heathfield is a wonderful way of making new
friends from all over the world. I love to stay in contact with the people I
have met at Heathfield throughout the year and it is wonderful to see them
again every summer at Heathfield.
This year, I will be helping for my second year at the Summer Camp, and I will also be assisting in the English with Style course. The English with Style course is simply wonderful, and I hope that students from across the world will learn so much about English culture as well as gain important life skills. Here is a picture of me helping with Flower Arranging.
Love, Iona xx
We are pleased to have so many Returners already booked so early this year
and we are expecting others very soon. We really look forward to seeing
again many of British Summer Campers and the following students from around
the world:
Kofo
Babalola, Millie Bretherick,
Hana Brckalic, Ines Bua de
Miguel, Ana Carvalho Araujo, Elena
Cebria, Veronika Cherementeeva, Alexandra Conrad, Margarita Crespo, Marjorie
and Tiphaine
Cury,
Teresa Darder Sanchez-Minguet,
Clara de Queiroz, Manuela and Mariana Diaz Bua, Belen Dolz Cerda,
Maria Donatiu Losada, Sophia Duffy, Sophie Everingham, Kyra and Marie
Fantou, Darya Gaydar, Daria Kazak, Larissa Lampert, Layla Mira,
Nicole Morzadec, Minami Onishi,
Ekaterina Ostretsova, Aikaterini Papadopoulou , Carlotta Peverelli,
Anastasia Poliudova, Julia
Ramrath, Anastasiya Razumova,
Aimee and Didi
Rinkel, Chloe Riva, Rocio
Rodriguez, Juana Li Sanchez Calvo, Maria Sanchez-Biel, Taisiya Shumova,
Maria Soga, Maria Soler, Lucia Soto-Sierra, Diana and Venera Vanesyan.
And WELCOME to all the new girls who have booked so far – we already have girls from, Armenia, Austria, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
STAFF
NEWS
We send double congratulations to our teachers
Beth and
Rob. They got married soon after Summer School last year and have
just celebrated the birth of their daughter Léa.
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We send congratulations also to
Patricia who is marrying her
fiancé Ricardo this summer in July – but promises to be back with us next
year.
Tracey
will continue as Assistant Course Director and her daughter and son
Georgina and
Tom will all be back with us.
Joe
continues as Director of Studies and
Rob returns as Assistant Director of Studies.
Alan will again be Senior
Teacher and we are delighted also to welcome back
Chris,
Emma, Jamie, Patsy, Simon
and Will.
Coming to teach at Heathfield for the first time is
Edward who is an Australian by
birth but teaches in Spain with Joe.
Stef and
Jan teachers who have been at Heathfield main school also join us.
Bob
is again Summer School Activities Director and Lucy
W is replacing Nat and Helen (who both have full time jobs now) as
Director of Summer Camp. We
also welcome back Maria, Lizi,
Selina, Lucy A, Nicola, Kate BD, Kate T, Jo, Michelle, Laura, Harriet, Rob F
and Zara.
Zara has been in Australia and here
is a nice picture of her and a new friend!
Karen
will be spending more time with us this summer so there will be many more
opportunities to take photographs such as these from last year.
New activities staff will be appearing at Heathfield this summer.
Jenny is now Fashion Designer
in
Residence at the main school and we are delighted she will work with us as
well. Here is a photo from her 2010 Fashion Collection of travel clothes
called ‘Wish you Were Here’.
Simon
is Actor/Director in Residence at Heathfield this year and will be
spending the summer helping us with drama and all our shows. We also welcome
Alexandra to help with sports
and Rachel-Emily to help with
art and crafts.
Here is a photo of Simon in costume on stage.
In the office you will again find
Helen,
Linda, Caroline and
Elspeth, who this year will
be training Emily
to do her job as she is furthering her studies by doing a PhD at
Bristol University. Emily is
Lucy A’s sister.
Taking
good care of you all again will be our wonderful matrons
Alison and
Pauline and nurse
Elizabeth.
And because we know many former students and staff read this Newsletter, here is a picture of two of our former Activities Staff, brother and sister Darren and Kelly. Darren and his wife had their daughter Ciela baptized in the Heathfield School Chapel. The family live in Florida where Darren is a university lecturer.
And we end with some sad news. Christina
Solari
died in February while having an operation for a broken hip
We know how many of you loved Christina for her kindness and her
cheerful, warm character and also for the wonderful work that she did making
beautiful hairstyles, applying elegant make-up and giving you relaxing
facials. Helen, Linda, Alison and Lori attended her funeral and sent flowers
from Summer School. We will miss her this summer but perhaps Karla summed it
up for us all when she said: “I will always remember her as a joyful person
and for the happiness she spread.”
WHERE WILL WE BE GOING THIS SUMMER???
By popular request we are going back to
BRIGHTON (www.visitbrighton.com)
the beautiful and very trendy seaside city with its famous pier, old and
narrow shopping streets called The Lanes and Royal
Pavilion(www.royalpavilion.org.uk ).
We shall also visit the royal castle of
WINDSOR
(www.royalcollection.org.uk). We shall have two
trips to
LONDON (www.visitlondon.com
) including seeing the Changing of
the Guard and will also go
to the lovely university city of
OXFORD (www.oxfordcity.co.uk
, the royal town of
WINDSOR (www.royalcollection.org.uk)
and the riverside town of
HENLEY-ON-THAMES (www.henley-on-thames.org
)
There are also trips to CHESSINGTON
World of Adventures (www.chessington.co.uk ) and oldest seniors (usually 15
plus but places are limited) have the opportunity to go to
ASCOT RACES
(www.ascot.co.uk)
Here are the girls dressed up last year for the races.
WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING THIS SUMMER???
The Return of the ROLLER DISCO!
On the last Friday afternoon of the course, we welcome back one of the great
events of Summer School – a full size Roller Disco in the Sports Hall.
You will all be given roller skates and will be able to have hours of
fun going round the special roller skate rink.
The
Suits of Cards are our
Summer
School theme so think
Clubs, Diamonds,
Hearts and Spades
with
their Kings, Queens,
Jacks and Aces
and
this year’s colours are
Red and
Black –
so make sure your bring some clothing in red
and black for some of the
discos and shows.
In the new PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE we shall again do as much drama, dance and music as we can and have some great shows such as the House Show, International Show and Dance & Fashion Show – and an end-of-course Staff Show. We hope you all have good memories of our great Staff Band last year who played at many events.
For our older students we shall have again have international debating at
The Big Conversation and Cultural Forum. Lizi will be offering lots of dance
classes.
Selina and her team will also be offering fashion design, textiles, jewelry
making, drawing and painting as well as modeling and craft.
You will be able to do floristry, cookery and also make a range of
beauty products such as lip balm, shampoo and skin cream – and we are
introducing some make-up products for the older girls as well.
Get
Fit
with the sports staff – enjoy all the sports on our large playing fields and
the swimming and games we offer in our beautiful indoor pool.
English with Style
Wendy will be running again our English with Style course for girls of 14
plus. The new course, which we introduced last year, was a huge success and
places are filling fast with many students from last year choosing
English with Style.
Here is the Class of 2010 photo:
This year we will be including the following:>
A London Theatre Trip
Preparing and serving traditional English
Afternoon Tea – learn to make beautiful cakes and scones.
Standing Tall – a welcome return of Heddy & Jo the former models who will be
showing you how to move effectively
Voice Workshops – how to speak effectively when meeting people and when
giving presentations
A visit to the beautiful city of
Bath – preceded by an introduction to the great British writer Jane Austen
who set novels there and with a guided tour by Karen of the British
Photographic Exhibition
Pampering – looking after your skin, your make-up and your health
We are sure everyone will have a great time this year
and to remind you of all the fun
here are a few photos of the staff and girls during our Shows:
YOU ALL FOR SUMMERSCHOOL 2011