Newsletter 26th September 2025

Friday 26th September 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

What a busy week we have had! Monday started with Eils leading us in Collective Worship, focusing on joy. It was fascinating to see the children exploring this emotion and coming up with what they found joyful.

It has been lovely to see the children settling into their new classes and enjoying their learning, particularly our Reception and Nursery children who are settling in well.

Do have a super weekend – I will be working on my guitar playing so that I can come up with a few more pre-90s songs for our assemblies!

Best wishes,

Mr George

Instagram: @HolyTrinityschrichmond

Trips, visits and events

Foxes explore in Forest school

This Monday, Year 5 had a fantastic day in the wildlife area for their Forest School session. Linking with their science topic on forces, the children experimented with pulleys and rope systems, testing out different ways to lift and move objects. They also enjoyed pond dipping and were excited to discover several nymphs and newts in the water. The day was rounded off with plenty of outdoor fun, including time in the mud kitchen, building bug hotels, and playing a lively game of Eagle Eye. A great day of learning and adventure in nature!

Notices and requests

Staff Governor

We are pleased to announce that Mark Collett (year 5 Badger class teacher) has been elected as our staff governor.

Uniform

Children should not be wearing leggings under their skirts or pinafore dresses. They can wear white socks, royal blue or navy tights. Long sleeved white tops are also not part of our uniform – short sleeves only please.

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions: Amelie, Harley, Maria, Milo, Olive, Ayden, Saskia, Aduraiyah, Anni, Tahaan, Julius, Sienna, Morgan, Zac, Willow, Nylah, Ruby, Fraser, Emma, Matteo, Elena and George.

P.E Star

Congratulations to Lottie in Swans!

Music star

Congratulations to Isabel!

Attendance

95.9% overall: Well done to this week’s winners, Fallow class 100%.

Dates for your diary

29th September – Badger Class Forest School

3rd October – Year 3 Harvest Festival Assembly

6th October – Year 2 Trip to the Wetlands Centre

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13th October – Kingfisher Class Forest School

14th October – Year 4 Kew Gardens Trip

20th October – Reception and Year 6 Heights and Weights

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

Helpful hints and tips to help to keep your children safe online. Be curious about what your children are doing online, take an interest in their activities and regularly check what they are doing.

Check that your internet service provider provides parental controls so you can add a layer of security for your children and filter out inappropriate content. The website links below also contain advice about this. If your child has a mobile phone, check the settings on this too – at Holy Trinity, we are supporters of the Smartphone Free Childhood campaign.
Talk to your child about online safety and take an interest in their activity. Especially encourage them to talk to you about anything which is worrying them online
Keep online passwords safe and secure, and change them often. Don’t let any of your networks be open or discoverable
Agree ground rules for safe use of the internet at home. For example, limit the amount of time children can spend online in any one go and restrict access at bedtime
Be App aware. Many devices require downloading an app. You should check the privacy settings and permissions of any apps you download, as well as the product itself.
Be device aware. Make sure your security settings include all internet-enabled devices, including smart TV’s and game consoles
This website may provide further guidance on safer internet use.

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.

Helpful hints and tips to help to keep your children safe online. Be curious about what your children are doing online, take an interest in their activities and regularly check what they are doing.

Love, Aspiration, Community