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Dame Alice News (DAN)
3rd July 2008 - For full download - click here
The end of the Summer Term has been as busy as ever, with the usual special end of year events, including this week the Senior School House Music Festival, Junior School Charities Afternoon, Sixth Form Induction, Year 6 Disco Dancing Competition, Hilda Long Poetry Competition, Sixth Form Revue and Leavers' Tea and the end of Year 11 trip to Drayton Manor Park. I hope the girls have enjoyed all these experiences and that they have helped to make this academic year memorable for them. Many thanks to the staff who have worked so hard to organise and support this wide range of activities for the girls.
Tomorrow we hold our final assemblies. These give us the chance to congratulate the girls on their achievements in a whole host of different areas of their school experience, to say goodbye and to wish good luck to those girl who are leaving, and to thank and wish well a number of staff who are also moving on. This year these staff include Line Dubois, our French Assistant, Mrs Brunton, Mr Hindess and Mrs Lascelles from the Maths Department, and our retirees Mrs Baker (Drama), Mrs Chubb (Head of Chemistry), Mrs Grafton (Educational Visits Co-ordinator and formerly Head of PE) and Mrs Marquand (English). We also say farewell to Margaret Marshall, who retires from our catering department after 19 years. We wish all these staff every happiness in their future ventures, whatever they may be! Thank you for the dedication and commitment you have shown to Dame Alice during your time with us.
Good luck to all those who are involved in school-related events during the summer, including the expedition to Costa Rica, CCF activities in a range of locations, the trip to Sicily, the Year 6 Adventure Holiday and Sixth Form Geography fieldtrip. We look forward to hearing about all yourexperiences and achievements when we return in the autumn.
We hope that girls in current Years 11 and 13 have now returned their school text books by the due dates, as publicised in the editions of Dame Alice News on 17th April and 5th June, and that the number of invoices we send out to cover the cost of books which have not been returned is limited. A reminder that once invoices have been sent out and replacement copies have been ordered by the Heads of the relevant Departments, it will not be possible to issue refunds, even should the books be returned. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
Congratulations to our last Gold Award winners of this academic year:
Eshwari Kawsar, Bella Ladd, Grace Marner, Eleanor Storey, Madison Turner, Natasha Willcock in Year 7, Helen Hepher in Year 8 and Alice Blatchford, Louisa Coleman, Alice Day, Ellie Gill, Lauren Gordon, Shama Johns, Frances Layland, Harriet Tenneson in Year 9.
A special well done to Alice Davies, in Year 9, who has achieved her second Gold Award this year.
Attached to this edition of Dame Alice News are the term dates for the academic year 2009 - 2010. The dates also appear on the school website: www.dahs.co.uk. Please keep them safe and take them into account when you are making your arrangements; we are always disappointed when girls miss school for holidays or social events, including at the end of a term, which, as this week demonstrates, is a very important time in the annual school calendar. Thank you in anticipation.
Enjoy the summer break! We look forward to seeing the girls again on Thursday 28th August.
Jill Berry
Headmistress