Friday 20th December 2024

Dear Parents and Carers                ,

I hope you will join me in thanking our junior children, Nina and Matt for leading and sharing such a beautiful carol service on Monday evening. Thank You all for your support and encouragement; it is such a special time of year and I hope you enjoyed it as much as the children have enjoyed putting it together. Well done to all our soloists, musicians and readers, you are so courageous!

What an incredibly busy and exciting term we have had. Looking back, it seems a lifetime ago that our Year 6 children packed their bags and left for a week in Dorset! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff for their dedication and hard work in supporting and teaching our children, you thoroughly deserve a holiday.

I would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Mrs Evans who has spent the last two terms juggling two schools in order to support us and lead us at HT. Thank you for the genuine kindness and love that you have shown our  community and for your wisdom and direction. I can’t express how grateful we are.

Have a wonderful Christamas and a restful break and we look forward to seeing you back in January.

Very warmest wishes, Miss Ashby.

Trips, visits and events

Year 2 visited the Christmas Story at Duke Street

Dragonflies and Bumblebees spent Tuesday morning at Duke Street church learning about the Christmas story. The children loved the immersive experience and meeting Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and Wise men. The staff were hugely impressed with the children’s interest, involvement, behavior and particularly with the very big and relevant questions that they asked. We were so proud of them!

Christingle

Dan, our vicar, and Matt led us through our Christingle service on Tuesday; it was very special and was wonderful to see all their Christingles.

Swimming gala trials

On Tuesday we held our annual swimming gala trials, ready for the  Borough swimming gala in February. Children from years 4-6 were invited to attend. If your child was not able to attend the trials and they would like to be considered for the gala please time them over 33 metres and send their times to Mr Callaghan before Friday 10th January 2025. To be considered for the gala all children must be confident and swim 33 metres without stopping. Children can be timed in front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly.

Park Run

Well done to Rene who completed his first park run last weekend with a time of  10:15!

Screen Your Story Competition

Some of your children may have taken part in the Screen Your Story competition over the last few years.

It is a chance for young storytellers to become a published author and even have their story turned into a film.

There is no theme this year – authors may write about anything they choose!

Entries must be no longer than 500 words and need to be submitted by the end of February 2025.

Stories will be sent to be judged externally and winners will be announced by April 1, 2025. The Winners’ Gala will be on Sunday June 29, 2025 at the Olympic Studios in Barnes.

If your child would like some tips on giving themselves the best chance of having their writing made into a film, as well as more information about this year’s theme, take a look at the website: www.screenyourstory.org/about

Entries can be submitted directly by email to screenyourstory@gmail.com clearly labelled with your child’s name, their age and school name. Don’t forget to also send a copy to their class teacher so that they can see the wonderful writing that is being produced.

Good luck to all the entrants! Miss Jobbins

  

Message from Mrs Evans

What an exciting final week I have had here at Holy Trinity. It began with the wonderful Carol Service at Holy Trinity Church, followed by Christmas Lunch and jumper day on Wednesday and the lovely end of term service at the church this morning. I have been given some beautiful messages, prayers and gifts to remember my time at Holy Trinity and am so grateful for the way that you have all welcomed me into your community. I am already looking forward to my first chance to visit in the new year. To mark my time at the school, I have bought the school a little gift which George in Year 5 helped me to assemble – when I saw this new lego set I just couldn’t resist!     

Wishing you all a restful Christmas break and a very happy new year.

Notices and requests

 

INSET DAY

Please do take note that we start back in January on TUESDAY 7th as Monday is a staff training day.

Celebrations!

 

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

Christopher, Josie, Alan, Ryker, Gracie, Roopjot, Ege, Alina, Lev, Lexi, Doruk, Bella, Theo, Bella, Niam, Isla, Ellie, George, Emanuel, Elise, Bamdad, Aiden, Kian and Leon.

Attendance

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

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Attenborough.

P.E Star   

Congratulations to Sophia!

Dates for your diary

• Monday 6th January INSET DAY – SCHOOL CLOSED TO PUPILS
• 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