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Lower Fifth Reading List

Suggestions for Summer Reading from Mrs Hannah Donnellan, Head of English

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At Sherborne Girls, reading opens doors to wider worlds, deeper thinking and richer discussion. Our L5 English curriculum is carefully designed to support girls to move into the next stage of their literary education, combining classic texts with outstanding modern fiction, and English department staff are looking forward  to meeting our 2026 new girls.

However, for the wonderful summer ahead, we hope that the texts on our summer reading list will provide inspiration for every reader. Enjoy picking something to challenge, inspire or delight.

Parents often ask me how they can support their daughter's English studies and my answer is always the same: encourage them to read for pleasure.
Cyber-Security

Important Information regarding Cyber-Security

Please be aware that independent schools and their parents can be the target of cyber-criminal activity with the aim of diverting fee payments to fraudulent bank accounts. This is typically done through scam emails involving school fees and their payment, offering significant discounts if paid by a certain date, which look convincing at first glance, but provide different bank details from our own and are not sent from a correct email address.

Sherborne would never offer fee remission in this way and we will never change the School’s bank details without formal notice in at least two separate ways.  Should you receive any form of communication purporting to be from us and making a time-limited payment request or advising you of such a change, please telephone the School on the usual number (not that contained in any email or letter) and check with our admissions or finance teams before making any payments.  In short, please be vigilant and always check - if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

OPRO Mouthguard Fitting

Mouthguard OPRO fitting Information from Miss Emma Turner, Director of Sport

Next year your daughter may be taking part in Lacrosse or Hockey and following national governing body guidelines, we strongly recommend that he wears a custom-made mouthguard. Therefore, in the interest of your child's safety, we have invited OPRO, who specialise in the provision of custom-made mouthguards, to visit the School at the start of term. On these days the OPRO dental team will take impressions of all pupils who want to be fitted and the finished mouthguards will then be delivered back to school approximately 7-10 working days later.

OPRO offer a number of benefits with their service:

 

  • Our exclusive school design mouthguards are priced at £46.99
  • Buy one mouthguard and get a second mouthguard for half price
  • Your child will receive a complimentary Snap-Fit mouthguard at the dental visit so they have something to use whilst they wait for their Custom mouthguard to be delivered
  • Each mouthguard comes with a dental warranty which covers up to £22,500
  • Your child’s name and the school name will be included on the mouthguard and case
  • OPRO store all of the models in case a replacement is required
  • All mouthguards carry the CE mark

If you have any questions about the products or OPRO’s services, please contact their customer care team directly on 01442 430690 or email info@oprogroup.com

 


OPRO Mouthguard Custom-Fit order instructions

If you would like your child to attend an impression fitting at Sherborne Girls, please see the following instructions for placing a Custom-Fit order.  

  1. Go to www.oproschools.com 
  2. Hover over ‘Shop Mouthguards’ and begin by choosing your design, eg single colour, the school design 
  3. Fill out the relevant specification on your right hand side, eg choose your protection level depending on the sports your child will be playing 
  4. Select ‘Impression Visit’ under impression method 
  5. Select ‘Next step’  
  6. Fill in your child’s personal details  
  7. When choosing their school, please only type the first few letters and scroll down until you find ‘Sherborne School for Girls’ and select from the dropdown menu
  8. Once all the fields are complete, you can proceed to the payment method 
  9. Once your order is complete, your child will automatically appear on our pupil list to attend the mouthguard fitting.

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