Newsletter 24th October 2025

Friday 24th October 2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

We welcomed Matt from Holy Trinity church to our Collective Worship on Monday. We explored Goodness as the last part of our Fruits of The Spirit theme we have been following since we came back in September. As we look forward to a refreshing half-term break, let’s take a moment to reflect on the Goodness we’ve shared and witnessed, and how it connects to our vision: Love Learning, Love One Another, Love God. Jesus reminds us in Matthew 7:17-20 that “every good tree bears good fruit,” which means the good actions and kind words we share are evidence of the goodness in our hearts. Just as a healthy tree produces sweet apples, when we Love Learning by trying our best, Love One Another through kindness, and Love God by following his path, we are bearing good fruit! This goodness comes from God, who promises in Ezekiel 36:26-28 to give us a new heart and a new spirit, enabling us to follow his ways. Over the break, let’s try to be a “good tree” for our families and communities, showing God’s love and letting our good fruit shine! Have a wonderful and restful half-term!

Best wishes,

Mr George

Instagram: @HolyTrinityschrichmond

Trips, visits and events

HT Friends Coffee Afternoon – save the date!

We’d love to invite you to join us for a tea or coffee before pick up on Tuesday 11th November. This is a great chance to catch up and say hello!

Time: 2:45-3:15 pm

Place: School hall

RSVP: https://forms.gle/uYwXUvqu94gfQ2Ch7

Notices and requests

Holy Trinity Church Christmas Community Choir

HT Church has their Carols by Candlelight service at 6pm on Sunday 14th December, and would love to invite any HT parents or carers who are interested to join in. Music reading is desirable but not essential, as full rehearsal recordings will be provided. To sign up, please click this link, or for more information email matt.osgood@htrichmond.org.uk.

Holy Trinity does Movember!

This November some staff and Governors are joining in with Movember and would love parents and carers to join them.

This annual event raises money and awareness for men’s health charities while being a bit of fun. The rules are simple – be clean shaven on 1st November and then grow away! All styles of Mos welcome! If you are keen to join the fun drop an email to fneal@htprimary.com.

We’ll keep you updated during November – look out for updates on the school social media accounts. We are going to get everyone participating together towards the end of November to compare moustaches – there might even be a prize for the best Mo….!

There is a QR code below that links to the HT Team page for donations or visit –

https://uk.movember.com/mospace/15380367?utm_medium=share&utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=q r-code

HT Friends – Celebrating our community & it’s diversity

We are a very happy, warm and welcoming group of parents and staff that meet each half term/term to plan and organise different initiatives and events so that we can celebrate our rich diversity as a community. If you would like to join our working party please do email me, we would love to have you onboard! Thank you, Miss Ashby lashby@htprimary.com

School uniform

Please use the half term break to make sure that your child has the correct uniform and footwear. Children shouldn’t be wearing the summer checked or striped dress from November onwards. They can wear a navy pinafore, skirt or dark grey trousers. Please note that long sleeved polo shirts and leggings under skirts and dresses aren’t part of our uniform.

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

Matias, Izzy, Emily, Dominic, Toby, Sinai, Beth, Apollo, Amelie, Callum, Doruk, Hayley, Zoe, Amir, Orla, Beatrice, Keira, Amber, Kora, Ellis, Saayuri and Marcel.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Rashford!

P.E Star

Congratulations to: Amber in Dragonflies!

Attendance

96.86% overall: Well done to this week’s winners, Swans with 100%.

Dates for your diary

3rd -7th Nov – Roe Class Bikeability week

5th Nov – Year 5 Future Makers Trip

10th-14th Nov – Fallow Class Bikeability week

14th Nov – Own Clothes day for Bottles for Christmas Fair

21st Nov – Own Clothes day for Chocolate for Christmas Fair

26th Nov – Flu Imms Whole School

28th Nov – Own Clothes Day for Cakes for Christmas Fair

10th Dec – KS1 Nativity 9.00am

11th Dec – EYFS Nativity 9.00am

16th Dec – KS2 Carol Concert at Holy Trinity Church 6pm

PTA event dates

29th Nov – School Christmas Fair

12th Dec – Christmas Movie Night

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

26th 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

As the half-term break approaches, we want to remind everyone that safeguarding remains our highest priority, both in school and at home. While you enjoy your time off, please continue to have open conversations with your children about staying safe, whether they are playing online, meeting friends, or trying new activities. Remind them of the trusted adults they can talk to if anything ever makes them feel worried or uncomfortable. Should you have any concerns about a child’s safety or well-being during the break, please remember the school’s designated safeguarding lead contact details, which are available on our website. We wish you a safe, happy, and worry-free half-term holiday!

Community events and initiatives

Mayor’s annual Christmas Card Competition

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