Friday 21st March 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

The sunrises this week have been spectacular as I drive into work, and the wonderful colours of the sun and clear skies, although cold, are really inspirational. It was wonderful to see so many of you at Parents’ Evening on Tuesday – although 10 minutes never seems long enough to speak to you about your amazing child, it does give us a chance to see you in person and make that special link, which is all part of our Community value at Holy Trinity. I will be spending the weekend attending to various maintenance jobs around the house and garden, weather permitting – I hope that you have an enjoyable weekend with your family and friends in our wonderful Holy Trinity community.

Best wishes,

Mr George

Trips, visits and events

Celebrating all things science!

This week we have been celebrating STEM Week across the school. The theme for this year has been Change and Adapt and the children have been looking at how living things (including humans!) need to adapt to our changing world. We have carried out lots of exciting investigations, including looking at how to help bees, how different animals are adapting to our changing climate, the best materials to filter dirty water, and how to extract DNA from strawberries. We have also carried out a whole school data collection experiment to find out if our reaction times get quicker as we get older (they do!) and Years 2, 4 and 6 enjoyed a computing workshop with Dr Wilson using our Micro:bits as data loggers. We are looking forward to sharing our learning this afternoon in a whole school assembly.

   

Foxes explore at Forest School

Foxes had a wonderful day in their outdoor classroom on Monday! They madeChinese New Year snakes out of wood and string; did lots of bug hotel building; had a tug-o-war competition and made woodland animals out of clay.

What a wonderful concert!

Year 4 showcased their musical talents last week in a wonderful brass performance to their parents and carers. Over the past 8 weeks they have had the opportunity to learn either a cornet, trombone or baritone offered to us by Richmond Music Trust. We are very proud of their achievements!

 

Notices and requests

International Food Festival TUESDAY 25th March

Our International Food Festival is on Tuesday! (25th March) Please bring in a plate of bite-sized nibbles to share with our community. It may be tasters of a family favourite (sweet or savoury) from England or some traditional food linked to your culture or heritage. The children just loved experiencing different foods from around the world and enjoying dishes that were community favourites. It really helps them to recognise and celebrate what a wonderfully diverse community we have here at HT. The children can wear any national dress/clothing that is linked to their heritage if they would like to. Please label your plate of food with the ingredients, (and vegetarian/vegan/gluten/dairy) for our children with allergies and intolerances.

Any leftovers we will be sharing with you all by the main gates at pick up time!

If you can help us on the day please let us know through the google link: https://forms.gle/uD9ydiCEtE9ur9mi7

Thank you!

 

Annual Easter Egg competition – 31st March

A reminder that on the last Monday of term we will be holding our annual blown Easter egg competition! The challenge, if you would like to take part, is to decorate a blown egg/eggs in any way you choose. Entries to be brought in on Monday 31st March at the start of the day.

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

Kane, Milo, Noor, Shin, Alan, Giselle, Orla, Agnes, Sienna, Amir, Emily, Siddarth, Holly, Zoki, Rafi, Zaraan, Belle, Lujain, Abigail, Tabby, Anna, Keita, Emily, Joseph, Kian and Harry.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Seacole!

P.E Star   

Congratulations to Bamdad.

Music star

Congratulations to Toby .

Attendance

What a week! A record overall attendance of 98.6%; congratulations to our 4 winners with 100% – Owls, Dragonflies, Bumblebees and Badgers!

Dates for your diary

 

• 24th March Marvellous Maths Workshops
• 25th March International Food Festival – please bring in a plate of food
• 25th March Year 5 visiting Duke Street church for the Easter Story
• 26th – 28th March Year 5 residential
• 1st April Butterflies to Holly Lodge
• 2nd April Ladybirds to Holl Lodge/ KS2 Choir to the Rose Theatre
• 4th April End of Term 2.15pm finish
• 22nd April INSET Day
• 23rd April Children return to school
• 2nd July Sports Day.  Early Years + KS1 – AM.   KS2 – PM

Emotion Coaching

Safeguarding

Playground equipment

Please ensure that your children and their siblings do not use the playground equipment, scoot/cycle on the 3Gor use the balls before or after school. We will remind the children in school but do really need your support with this.

Community events and initiatives

 Chocolate Bingo!

Wishing everyone lots of fun and excitement at the Chocolate Bingo this evening! Thank you so much to our wonderful team of parents who have organised this event for us; you’re amazing.

 

Adults_parents_carers_schools_GPs – introduction to the MHST flyer (3).pdf

If you’d like to, please have a look at what our mental health support team can offer to our families and children.

 

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