Newsletter 13th February 2026

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Dear Parents and Carers,

Eils joined us this week to explore and reflect on our school vision of Love learning, Love one another, Love God. As the week has gone on, we have reached the Lunar New Year, and have reflected on how this ‘new start’ for many people across the world is an important time for all of us. In the Bible, God often speaks about making things new. In Lamentations 3:22-23, it says: “The Lord’s symbols of love never end. His mercies never stop. They are new every morning.” Just like the Lunar New Year is a “fresh start” for many people, God offers us a fresh start every single day. We don’t have to carry around our mistakes from yesterday; we can begin again with kindness and love, and we looked at this with the children in today’s collective worship. We encouraged them, and you, to think of something from last year you want to “sweep away” (maybe a time you weren’t kind or a worry you’ve been carrying), and also something “new” you want to bring into the world this year (a new friendship, a new skill, or more helpfulness).

We wish you every health and happiness for the half-term break.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

Mr George

Trips, visits and events

Year 3 Roman Battle

Year 3 spent an afternoon as Roman Legionaries on Thursday this week. Having made shields (scutums) to a classic design, they practised drilling with a very stern centurion, Dominus George, who taught them how to turn to face, form shield wall and the wonderful ‘tortoise’ (testudo) formation. Plenty of marching ensued, with two Aquilas (eagles) being carried to represent each class’s honour. We then spent more time learning about the different types of soldiers in Roman armies, before the rain came down to finish the afternoon!

Year 1 and 4 Reading Experience

Our Year 1 pupils enjoyed a truly aspirational morning visiting Year 4 to hear

their outstanding English writing. It was wonderful to see our younger learners so

inspired by the sophisticated work of their older peers. Motivated by this high

standard, Year 1 followed the session with some excellent phonics reading,

demonstrating fantastic progress and a real love for literacy.

Girl’s Football Report written by Dolly and Isabelle (Year 6)

On the 5th of January 2026, Holy Trinity had a football match against Kew Riverside. This match was home meaning it was held at our school. We had a lot of fabulous players including Dolly, Isabelle, Izzy, Megan, Tabby and Ichika from Year 6 and Izzy, Beth and Belle from Year 5. The score ended up being 4-1 to us. 3 of those goals were scored by the amazing Tabby in Year 6 and the other goal for our school was an own goal, meaning that the other school accidentally scored in their own goal. We are so grateful for our great goalie, Beth, who saved some brilliant goals. A glorious goal from Belle, but our referee did not accept it as he didn’t see it.

Lunar New Year

Thanks to our fabulous kitchen staff who cooked up a feast for our students

and staff today. We know how important it is to celebrate festivals from all the

cultures across out community. The splash of red really brought our school to life too.

Notices and Requests

House Point Winners: Attenborough House!

We are thrilled to share some exciting news regarding our House Point competition!

Throughout the Spring term, children across the school have been working incredibly hard to earn Team Points for their respective Houses. While we announce a weekly winner during our Thursday Celebration Worship, we have also been keeping a secret running total since January.

We are delighted to announce that Attenborough House has earned the highest average number of points this term!

Reward Day: Friday 27th February

To celebrate this fantastic achievement, all members of Attenborough House are invited to wear their own clothes to school on Friday 27th February.

To show their House pride, please ensure:

House Colour: The Attenborough House colour must be a prominent part of their outfit (e.g., a t-shirt, jumper, or trousers).
PE Lessons: If your child has PE on Friday, they may still wear their own clothes, but please ensure the outfit is suitable for sporting activities and safe movement.

Important Note for Other Houses

Children who are members of all other House Teams should attend school in their normal school uniform as usual. We are very proud of the effort and sportsmanship shown by all our pupils this term. Well done to Rashford House for clinching the top spot!

Nut-Free School

Should you provide a daily packed lunch may we remind you that Holy Trinity is, for the safety of some of our children, strictly a nut free school. As we have gained Healthy School status, we must insist that pack-lunches are well balanced and no crisps, chocolate, sweets, nuts or fizzy drinks are permitted in packed lunches. Please remember that the school is “nut free”, as we have a number of pupils with nut allergies, so please don’t include anything that has nuts in the ingredients. This includes pesto which we often forget has pine nuts in!

Share and Care Collective

All around the country, there are people who sometimes need a little bit of extra help

buying food and toiletries for their family. Share & Care Collective is a small local charity that helps local families with weekly supplies of food and toiletries during term time. They collect donations from across the community and work in partnership with local primary schools to distribute our

support bags. We have agreed to host a collection box for this charity. If you would like to donate, please take your items to Mrs Prendergast and Mrs Bell in the office. Thank you to those who are already donating.

Safeguarding

Mr George, Miss Brunt, Mrs Allard and Mrs Bell can be contacted at the school using their emails (which are on the school website), or you can use our new safeguarding email, which is: safeguarding@htprimary.com . Our Safeguarding Governors are Francis Neal and Helen Taylor, and they can be contacted via email using the links on the school website, linked here.

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to: Elena, Keishin, Josephine, Solomon, Myroslav, Maila, Giselle, Xincheng, Josie, Christopher, Sheldon, Lottie, Amir, Ruben, Elsie, Jonathan, Sammy, Lev, Rafi, Haya, Dolly, Oli, Keita and Jessica.

P.E Star

Congratulations to Ruben in Heron Class.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner: Rashford

Attendance

Dragonfly Class 100% Whole school 97%

Dates for your Diary

5^thMarch – World Book Day (please note a change as an error was printed previously) 11^thMarch – Parent Teacher Meetings

W/C 16^thMarch – This will no longer be HT’s Science week. We have exciting plans which means it will be moved to the Summer Term.

25^thMarch – World Maths Day

27^thMarch – End of Term at 2:15pm

PTA Event Dates

26^thFebruary – Sponsored Bounce

13th March – Movie night

20th March – Chocolate Bingo

15th May – Movie Night

12th June – HT in the Park

4th July – Summer Fair

Community 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

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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