Friday 6th December 2024

Dear Parents and Carers                ,

Thank you so very much to everyone who volunteered and gave their time to support our Christmas Fair on Saturday, it was a huge success! Several people commented on what a wonderful community event it was and how friendly and warm our community is. I felt so proud! A prospective parent said that they particularly loved how organic it was involving everyone and the lovely diverse mix of different stalls and celebrations. The JLT ran a stall to raise money for a charity chosen by themselves, the choir sang and Mr Trollip- one of our teachers- sang with his band. I was sorry that I didn’t make it to the spa – it seemed super relaxing! Thank you for all your donations of bottles, cakes and toys and to those of you that brought delicious contributions to our International Food stall. A special thank you goes to Phil, the chair of our PTA, who is stepping down as he is moving to Australia over the holidays. We have been so lucky to have you and Helen and are tremendously grateful for all the time and support you have both given our school community.

Trips, visits and events

Ladybirds had a great time at Forest School!

Ladybird class had lots of fun at forest schools on Monday. We linked our learning to our science topics – Animals, including humans and the Seasons. The children made animals out of clay, played in the mud kitchen, built swings and ladders from ropes and hunted for soft birds around the forest school area!

HT Rockbandz and orchestra perform in concert

Our fantastic rockbandz and orchestras invited the school and their parents  to two concerts this week. They shared their wonderful talents and got everyone singing and clapping! Thank you so much!

The choir sang at church for their community lunch

“The children sang so beautifully, there were lots of tears on my table! Lots of people said afterwards how special it was and what a wonderful selection of songs it was.”

Boys football matches

It’s been a busy week for our year 5/6 boys football teams. On Wednesday we competed in the Borough tournament where we finished the morning undefeated.  Unfortunately we were knocked out at the group stages of the cup by the eventual winners. The boys performed brilliantly and were unlucky not to progress further.

On Thursday we played two matches against Marshgate; despite playing really well the Marshgate goalkeeper made some excellent saves and we lost the games 2-0. Today we head over to Moormead Park to take on St Mary’s.

Message from Mrs Evans

 Things are getting very busy at school in the lead-up to Christmas. Lots of practice for various performances and it was lovely to hear about the performances by RockBandz this week to showcase what they have been working on. It was great to be able to spend the day with Mr George on Tuesday and I know that he enjoyed meeting many parents and carers at the gate. He will be with me again for the morning on Friday 13th December, so do please come and say hello when we are at the gate in the morning on Carrington Road.

In worship today, we lit the next Advent Candle which represents Peace. We began by focusing on the message given by the angels when they visited the shepherds to tell them about the birth of Jesus: Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests”. We considered what the word ‘peace’ means, exploring the fact that when something is peaceful it is calm and settled. We then thought about ways that we can bring ‘peace’ to our school community in the way that we act towards one another within the classroom and playgrounds, in the way that we move around the school and in how we speak to one another.

Notices and requests

Junior Carol Service Monday 16th December

We are really looking forward to our carol service at Holy Trinity Church on Monday 16th December. The service will start at 6pm and the children can arrive from 5:45pm. The doors to the church will not open before 5:45pm, please make sure you have your ticket with you to avoid any difficulties. You will not be able to come in without a ticket. The children have been working really hard and are sounding beautiful – we are really looking forward to sharing this special evening with you.

Parent Governor Vacancy

Just a reminder that as one of our parent governors will be stepping down at the end of this term, we will soon be holding an election for another parent governor. If you think you might be interested and would like to find out more, and would like to have a chat with either of the current Co-chairs of Governors, Francis Neal – fneal@htprimary.com or Eils Osgood – eosgood@htprimary.com please do contact them. (Francis and Eils are also both parents of children in the school.) Interested candidates will be asked to submit their personal statements by 12pm on Thursday 12th December.

Calling all Runners!

If your child currently runs any of the  park runs  at the weekends please could you send their times and the events they participated in  to Mr Callaghan (lcallaghan@htprimary.com), we would like to celebrate any personal best times and milestones reached! We would also like to encourage more children to start running and feel that the park Run 2K event will be a good way to help our children develop their running skills and build our community spirit. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at how we can continue to build on our great relationship with Real Runners.

If you would like to sign up for the park runs, please do consider signing up as an HT Run Club member!

https://www.parkrun.com/about/join-us/junior-parkrun/

Application to reception – September 2025

Children born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021 are due to start reception class in September 2025.  Applications should be made online, via your local council by Wednesday 15th January 2025.  If you need any help with your application please contact Mrs Prendergast at; lprendergast@htprimary.com

You can find more information at; Kingston and Richmond :: Community Information / Information and advice / School admissions / Starting school or moving up to junior school in September

Celebrations!

 

We had so many things to celebrate this week in assembly; lots of children who achieved their MTech awards and golden discs, lots of children who have reached their 50 or more reads, lots of multiplication awards, a gymnastic award and certificates for children who have represented the school in a football tournament. We are so proud of all your achievements and love to celebrate them – well done!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions: Lorenzo, Aduraiyah, Natalie, Bonnie, Sheldon, Agnes, Elisa, Zoe, Mikky, Bodhi, Elyse, Aadam, Zion, Hania, Lujain, Lev, Ava, Isaac, Erin, Atina, Loch, Chloe, Dolly and Connor.

Attendance

Overall: 97.05%. Well done to this week’s winners, Woodpeckers, with  99%.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner,  Rashford.

Star scientist

Congratulations to Leila in Fallow class!

P.E Star   

Congratulations to George in Fox class!

Dates for your diary

• Wednesday 11th December       KS1 Nativity (9.30am)
• Thursday 12th December                          Nursery and Reception Nativity (9.30am)
• Monday 16th December       Junior Carol Service at HT Church 6pm
• Tuesday 17th December Y2 visiting Duke Street Baptist Church – AM
• Wednesday 18th December       Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper day
• Friday 20th December      END OF TERM 2.15pm finish
• Tuesday 7th January 2025 START OF TERM               
• Wednesday 15th January 2025 Closing date for Reception applications
• Wednesday 22nd January 2025 KS2 Choir to the O2

 

Community events and initiatives

 Silent Auction

There are still a few hours left to bid on the items in our fantastic silent auction – so many great things up for grabs, do have a look!

 

 

 

 

Have a wonderful, if windy, weekend!  Miss Ashby

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