Our picture shows: St. Patrick (S. Hoyle) accompanied by two angels: Peter Marsh-Hunt, and Nicholas Hoare, bring Feast Day wishes to Reverened Mother.

Miss Dunsdon always helps us with our Christmas plays, and last year Lower and Upper II did "The Prince who met a Dragon" and Upper I "Mrs. Tabitha Twitchett" by Beatrix Potter, with kittens and rats amusing everybody.

The dancing class gave us a surprise in their pretty dresses when they did their Tyrolean dance so well. This term we are being allowed to share the stage in the big Hall with the Seniors for the Christmas concert in aid of the World Refugees' Fund.

Our Nativity Play is "Angels' Christmas" by Father Scriven, and if you know and like his Wopsy stories, as we do, you will not be surprised to know that even Pong and Conk are going to appear.

Again, this term, like last year, we are busy with our knitting for the Orphans. In the classes we are collecting for our Mission in Mbanga and, most important of all, trying to paint our best pictures to send in for the Beales Rowney Competition in which our school came second last year, only two marks below the winning school!

Many of our paintings were hung in the Exhibition and Jane Neville and Margaret Selby and Margaret Bell, who entered for the Royal Drawing Society's Children's Royal Academy, had their pictures hung in the London Guildhall for a fortnight, and for the rest of this year in different art galleries in England.

The R.D.S. was so pleased with G. Geake's pictures of anemones that they have asked to keep it.

Sports Day was very warm and we all enjoyed the races on the junior School lawn, and there were some lovely prizes. We had a Pet's Day, too, with all sorts of amusements, and iced drinks to cool us.

We have been twice to the big church for the Mission Service for the Holy Childhood to give Father Baron the pennies we had collected, and this term for the Mass of the Holy Ghost, when we all filled the Church.

Goodbye and a very Happy Christmas.