Friday 13th September 2024

Dear Parents and Carers                ,

We have been delighted to welcome our new nursery and reception children into school this week. They have been very busy exploring and settling into their new environments! A big warm welcome to all our new families that have joined our HT community, it is wonderful to have you here.

This week the children have been busy settling into their new classes and routines. We have had all of our ‘Meet the Teacher’ sessions to share our curriculum with you, if you missed them please do ask us any questions you may have. Our Year six children and staff are off on their residential to Osmington Bay in Dorset on Monday and at last the weather looks more promising! We hope they have the very best time and make memories to cherish forever.

Message from Mrs Evans

 

It’s hard to believe that we are already coming to the end of our first full week back together. This morning in worship we began to explore ‘British Values’. This is the start of a series of worships which I will be leading with our pupils to talk about: what British Values are, how they link to our school values, what the Bible says about them and how we can demonstrate them in our actions. Today we focused on ‘Individual Liberty’. I explained  that this means the freedom to make our own choices and hold our own opinions and beliefs. I asked the children to consider if this means that we can just do whatever we want? We reflected on the fact that it doesn’t – sometimes our decisions have to be made within certain guidelines and sometimes we have to consider our actions and how we share thoughts and opinions so that we don’t hurt others. I shared Galatians 5v13-14: “My brothers, God called you to be free. But do not use your freedom as an excuse to do the things that please your sinful self. Serve each other with love. The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbour as you love yourself.” and we discussed the fact that these verses call us to consider others in the choices that we make. Next week we will consider what this looks like in our actions everyday.

Notices and requests

 

Kingfisher Wraparound Care Update

Holly and the team have been working incredibly hard to increase capacity at Kingfisher Club as this is extremely popular within the community. She has created a fabulous environment for our pupils and we are very grateful for the hard work that has gone into this by her and her team. We are currently settling our new Reception children in and will then be working through the waiting list to begin to offer out any spaces that we have following changes in the requirements of families  over the summer. If you are on the waiting list, please bear with us.

For families who are already using the service, to support us with safeguarding, please ensure that you see one of the group leaders when you come to collect and ensure that your child is signed out on the main register before leaving the site.

Celebrations!

 

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

Natalie, Ethan, Harry, Sofia, Keita, Ning, Dominic, Isabelle, Scarlett, Patrick, Jay, Harry, Isher, Amos, Lexi, Jason, Beatrice, William, Ruben, Katie, Aduraiyah, Theo, Giselle and Amelia.

Attendance

Overall: 96.4%. Well done to this week’s winners,Badger and Dragonfly classes, with 100%.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Rashford.

PE Star Award

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Sophia!

 

Dates for your diary

• Monday 16th Sept – Friday 20th        Year 6 Residential to Osmington Bay
• Monday 23rd September        Year 2 to the Wetlands Centre
• Thursday 26th and Friday 27th Sept         Individual and Sibling Photos
• Friday 4th October-                Year 3 Harvest Assembly
• Wednesday 9th Oct       Year 5 Science Museum
• Wednesday 23rd Oct                                    Flu Immunisations in school
• Mon 28th Oct – Friday 1st Nov                HALF TERM
• Monday 4th – 8th November       Year 6 Bike Ability Week
• Wednesday 11th December       KS1 Nativity (9.30am)
• Thursday 12th December                          Nursery and Reception Nativity (9.30am)
• Monday 16th December-     Junior Carol Service
• Wednesday 18th December       Christmas Lunch and  Christmas Jumper day
• Friday 20th December      END OF TERM 2.15pm finish     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community events and initiatives

Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 September.

The Richmond Live festival is taking place at Marble Hill House from 11am this weekend. This is a free festival of music and dance, for more information visit this website: RichmondLive Festival – VisitRichmond.

Attached is also a poster for the Met Police Choir Christmas Concert which is taking place at St James’ Church W2 on Saturday 7 December. You can book tickets via: www.metpolicechoir.co.uk

Have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,  Miss Ashby.

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