Our Christmas tree is put up.

A big 'thank you' to Lara, Emily, Sophie and Mrs Knights who helped to put up the Christmas tree this year I think it looks really good.

Emma, Sophie, Mrs Knights and Lara sort through the decorations

Lara and Bella start to decorate the tree.

Lara, Emily and Bella

Bella

The finished tree.

Saturday supper in House

Dave decided to go all out tonight and cook for the 19 girls left in House.  He roasted a gammon joint and made dauphinoise potatoes and cabbage.  This was enough to cause much excitement but more was to follow ....

Becci gets her dinner first (nice jumper!)

Angela, Bipina and Sarah waiting patiently

Dave and I serving up

Emily, Lizzie, Olga, Jane, Simran, Bipina, Selene and Lara

Rigam, Angela, Jess, Mimi, Emma, Christy, Prapti and Manaho

The year 10 girls tuck in .... Sarah, Lottie, Becci and Zoe

For pudding, Dave was inspired by the extra large pineapples on sale and with some help from Lottie and Lara, soon had them looking amazing.  After some gentle cooking and basting in an amazing sauce we had ....

pineapples

 Dave flambeed them which caused much excitement.  Christmas had come early :)  A massive thank you to Dave, Lottie, Lara and Mimi who all helped create such an excellent meal.

The girls gather around to watch the flambe

All the girls waiting to get their pudding (we never feed them!)

Cheesy Chips prove a popular snack

Every evening after prep we have snacks in the kitchen together.  On Tuesday I cooked Cheesy chips for the girls.  This proved very popular.

Cheesy chips cooking under the grill

Year 9s are first to start. Lizzie, Rigam, Emily, Bella and Manaho.

Martha, Lizzie, Rigam, Emily, Bella, Simran and Manaho

Same again!

Years 10 - 13 join in.  Olga, Charli, Jessie, Sarah, Abi and Jane

Bipina, Christy, Rachana, Emily, India, Abi, Prpati, Chloe and Lottie

 

Weekend Clay Pigeon Shoot

This weekend, a clay pigeon shoot was put on for the boarders.  Some of the girls joined in and went up to the Upper.

Emily, Sarah, Abi and India

India

Sarah, Abi (??) and India

Emily

Emily

 A big thank you must go to Mr Chua for organising the event.

Fireworks at the Rec

The Summerhill girls and a few friends from Fonthill have just got back from watching the fireworks at the Bath Rec.  It was brilliant.

I made everyone sweet treats.  My mum always made treacle toffee for me when I was younger so I made a batch for my girls to try.  I also made peanut brittle and fudge.  The girls took a section down with them to have with the display.

Not much left here

We met up in Summerhill to walk down together ...

.... and then regrouped outside the Podium.  Then onto the fireworks.

It was a prefect night .....

... no rain and actually quite warm.  The fireworks were brilliant.  Half an hour of superb, deep bangs, sparkles and hisses. 

We regrouped again at the end and made our way back to Summerhill.

Dave decided we needed nourishment so looked out for us with chips, both cheesy and non-cheesy which went down really well.

 

It was a perfect way to finish the evening.

The girls relaxing in the kitchen

Mimi, Christy and India

 A huge 'thank you' to my girls for making the effort of walking to and from town.  I hope you all felt it was worth it because I'd love to do it all again next year.

Mrs B xx

Manaho's 15th birthday

Yesterday, we celebrated Manaho's birthday.  I left a present from her guardian by her bed for when she woke up.  We sang happy birthday to her during registration.  In the evening, we celebrated with double helpings of chocolate cake. :)

Birthday messages on the board

India, keen to be in the picture - while Abi is definitely not (looking good Bipina)

Texting while they wait - Manaho, Bella and Rigam

The song starts .... loving Manaho's grin

Mimi, Sarah and Olga looking on

Everyone singing

Blowing out the candles

Prapti enjoying the cake

Lara's birthday weekend

 Friday 10th October was Lara's 14th birthday.  Because the boarders were watching a film together after prep on Friday, we decided to celebrate Lara's birthday on Saturday.  But after we had eaten pizza on Saturday night we were too full for cake so we delayed it until tonight.

So we have officially had Lara's birthday weekend.  Tonight, we sang to Lara and ate cake and ice creams.  Please note Lara's birthday orange - in recognition of all the oranges Lara likes to eat (although she wishes they were easier to peel).

Lara with her birthday orange

All the girls singing to Lara

Still singing

Edith helping to dish out the cake

Everyone got either cake or ice cream