Newsletter 12th September 2025

Friday 12th September 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

Our first full week back at school has gone well. It is fantastic to see our Nursery and Reception children starting to join us – we hope they have enjoyed their first days of their Holy Trinity journey. Eils joined us for Collective Worship on Monday this week, and we explored the Fruit of the Spirit – and we chose to have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control to aspire to in all that we do!

Do have a wonderful weekend – let’s hope the weather can decide to stay warmer for a little longer!

Best wishes,

Mr George

Instagram: @HolyTrinityschrichmond

Trips, visits and events

Nursery and Reception join us at school!

This week some of our Nursery and Reception children have started their school journey with us. We are so excited and happy to have you in our HT family!

Notices and requests

Arts Richmond Young Writers Festival 2025/26

The Arts Richmond Young Writers Festival is now open to entries from pupils who live in or attend a school or club in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Write a short story (up to 500 words) or a poem (up to 25 lines) on one of this year’s themes:

‘My World’

‘Something Extraordinary’

Deadline: Friday 5th December 2025

Winners will be invited to a special gala performance at The Exchange, Twickenham, on Sunday 15th March 2026, where drama students will perform the shortlisted work on stage. All shortlisted entries will also be included in a professionally printed anthology.

Entries are judged in four age categories:

Years 4 and under

Years 5–6

Years 7–9

Years 10 and above

Key entry rules:

One entry per pupil. Entries must be original and typed (no handwritten or AI-generated work). Do not include your name on the piece itself. Post or email your entry to:

Arts Richmond Young Writers Festival
ETNA Community Centre Room 21
13 Rosslyn Road, Twickenham TW1 2AR

Email:
YWentries@artsrichmond.org.uk

For more information, please visit: https://artsrichmond.org.uk/arts-richmond-events

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

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

James, Betsy, Xincheng, Natalie, Norelle, George, Hin, Deniz, Phoebe, Kosei, Sophie, Aadam, Rita, Jason, Amelie, Niam, Clara, Mudasir, Ajai, Hazel, Flynn and Ning.

P.E Star

Congratulations to Aduraiyah in Dragonflies!

Music star

Congratulations to Ailbe in Swans!

Attendance

95.93% overall: Well done to this week’s winners, Owls with 100%.

Dates for your diary

15th-19th Sept – Year 6 Residential to Isle of Wight

19th Sept- Year 5 trip to Science Museum

25th and 26th September- Individual and sibling photos

PTA event dates

10th Oct – Movie Night

29th Nov – School Christmas Fair

12th Dec – Christmas Movie Night

6th Feb – Disco KS1 4.15 – 5.30, KS2 5.45 – 7.30

26^th Feb – Sponsored Bounce

13th March – Movie night

20th March – Chocolate Bingo

15th May – Movie Night

12th June – HT in the Park

4th July – Summer Fair

Safeguarding

A reminder that we have a set of Designated Safeguarding Leads in school. These are Mr George, Miss Ashby, Miss Brunt and Mrs Allard. If you have any worries regarding the safeguarding of children, you can contact one of them and they will respond as quickly as possible. You can, of course, raise any worries with your child’s class teacher, and all staff have safeguarding training so that they can assist with any worries.

Our Safeguarding page on the school website is here.

Community events and initiatives

Friday 11th July 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Summer fair – despite the damp start, it was a roaring success, and I would like to take the opportunity to thank our wonderful PTA for all that they do for the children and families of Holy Trinity. Eils Osgood joined us for Collective Worship on Monday to explore how light can guide us on our journey through life. Parents may be aware that for each collective worship, a child is chosen to light our candle, giving us focus on our theme, and to help us reflect on Jesus, the Light of the World.

Have a wonderful weekend, and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Best wishes,

Mr George

Instagram: @HolyTrinityschrichmond

Trips, visits and events

Herons and Swans visit Kew Gardens

Year 3 had a wonderful time on their trip to Kew Gardens on Tuesday. The children explored the gardens and the greenhouses, experiencing what it is like in the Tropics, went on a bee hunt as part of a pollination workshop and were even able to pollinate some flowers. There was also time for a play in the Children’s Garden. Everyone behaved impeccably and a lovely day was had by all.

Recorder concert

Year 2 treated us all to a spectacular recorder concert this week. They played a wide range of songs from different genres with confidence and enthusiasm. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came along. We appreciate the time spent encouraging the children to practise playing their instruments at home.

Notices and requests

HT Friends Coffee Afternoon

Thank you to everyone who attended the coffee afternoon on Thursday, it was lovely to see you all!

Tennis Balls needed!

We would like to kindly request donations of any tennis balls you no longer need. We go through quite a few over the course of the year, and your support would be greatly appreciated!

Parent Survey

Just a reminder that our parent survey can be found here. The survey will close at midnight on Sunday 13 July; many thanks to all those parents who have completed it so far.

Leavers

If there are any parents with children in Reception to Year 5 who are leaving the school at the end of term, please contact Mrs Prendergast (lprendergast@htprimary.com) for a leaver’s form. Richmond Admissions are starting to make offers for September admission. Many thanks.

2025 Summer Reading Challenge – Adventures in Nature and the Great Outdoors.

The Summer Reading Challenge is the UK’s biggest children’s reading initiative for 4 –11-year-olds and is produced by The Reading Agency and delivered by public libraries. We hope that this year’s theme will inspire children to tap into a world of imagination through reading, exploring the magical connection between storytelling and nature.

From Saturday 5 July 2025 the children can sign up for the challenge at their local Richmond upon Thames library and receive a Story Garden pack. To take part, they need to be a member of the library and have their own library card. For each of six library books they read they can collect a sticker for their pack. Children can update their progress through the challenge at any library in the borough. Everyone who reads six library books is rewarded in the library with a medal and certificate.

Story Garden ends in the borough on Saturday 6 September 2025. More information is available here https://www.richmond.gov.uk/summer_reading_challenge

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

James, Nina, Tom, Keira, Christopher, Anna, Magnolia, Kamaya, Agnes, Kosei, Zoe, Amelie, Lexi, Morgan, Bulut, Haya, Arda, Matias, Scarlett, Juliao, Hazel, Paven, Ichika and Year 6 for their fabulous production!

P.E Star

Congratulations to Sheldon in Bumblebees.

Music star

Congratulations to Kosei in Dragonflies.

Attendance

95% overall: Well done to this week’s winners, Bumblebees with 100%.

Dates for your diary

Monday 14th July End of year reports go home

HT’s Got Talent auditions

Tuesday 15th July HT’s Got Talent

Thursday 17th July Reception to Bocketts Farm

Sports and Music award assembly

Monday 21st July Star award assembly

Nursery Concert 9.00am

Tuesday 22nd July End of term – 2.15pm

Safeguarding

Online

In school, we have a very secure filtering system called SENSO, which helps us to monitor the usage of computers in school, ensuring that websites and content are suitable for whoever is using the machine and keeping children safe online. However, this filtering system is only available at the school, and so we are asking all parents to ensure that any devices used at home (online gaming consoles, laptops, tablets, phones etc) that their children may have access to have suitable filtering and monitoring controls fitted. Whilst each home system will be different, we are happy to recommend the NSPCC website here, which is a link to Parental Controls for devices. The best way of checking that children only access appropriate content at home is by parents keeping a close eye on all devices and ensuring that children are in a shared space when using them. If you have any further queries, do contact Mr George at school.

Community events and initiatives

Current years 5, 6 and 7 who cannot yet swim 25m

Pools on the Park and Teddington Pools & Fitness Centre are offering Summer Splash crash courses for children in current years 5, 6 and 7 who cannot yet swim 25m. This is open to children who either live in the borough or attend school in the borough. The 5-day course costs £5.

Applications will be accepted from 7th July 2025

Summer Splash

The Summer Splash programme will return this summer, providing crash courses to children in school years 5, 6 and 7 who are unable to swim to a level expected for their age.

Summer Splash 2025 – London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

MET IN THE PARK

The Met Police South Richmond SNT are running the highly successful Met in the Park, in Old Deer Park, Richmond on the 6th August between 1100 and 1700. This is a completely free family fun day, with dogs, horses, interactive crime scene for kids as well as London Fire Brigade and vintage army vehicles. They will also have free fun fair rides and lots of other activities. They would love to have as many families attend to meet the various departments of the police and to enjoy a free day out in the summer holidays.

Love, Aspiration, Community