Friday 10th January 2025

Dear Parents and Carers                ,

A very big thank you to everyone in the Holy Trinity family who has made me so welcome in my first week with you. The Christmas and New Year celebrations seem a long way away now, and the weather has been seasonably chilly to say the least! Children and staff have been very much living our values of Aspiration, Love and Community, and in our assembly on Tuesday we celebrated these, together with a reminder of our school rules, which help us to stay safe and be there for each other. In our prayer we asked God to help us to work hard and love our learning, even when we find things difficult we will aspire to try our hardest; to help us to love one another, even when we find our patience is tested, and to help us love Him –  when we need His support, when we are happy, and when we are sad. I look forward to a happy and successful time at Holy Trinity with you; please stay safe and look after one another.

Mr George

Trips, visits and events

Year 5 investigated materials that conducted heat

Badgers and Foxes were busy this week exploring which materials were best for insulating hot water. THey experimented with different materials including paper, tin foil, bin bags and fabric and measured the temperatures accordingly.

Notices and requests

 Application to reception – September 2025

Children born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021 are due to start reception class in September 2025.  Applications should be made online, via your local council by next Wednesday 15th January.  If you need any help with your application please contact Mrs Prendergast at; lprendergast@htprimary.com

You can find more information at; Kingston and Richmond :: Community Information / Information and advice / School admissions / Starting school or moving up to junior school in September

 

Nursery applications

Applications for nursery enrolment in September 2025 close on March 1st.  If your child was born between 01/09/2021 and 31/08/2022 and you are interested in them joining our nursery, please email; lprendergast@htprimary.com for an application form, or download one from our website.  We also need to take a copy of your child’s birth certificate or passport (with visa clearance if required).  Offers will be sent out in late April.

Calling all Runners!

If your child currently runs any of the  park runs  at the weekends please could you send their times and the events they participated in  to Mr Callaghan (lcallaghan@htprimary.com), we would like to celebrate any personal best times and milestones reached! We would also like to encourage more children to start running and feel that the park Run 2K event will be a good way to help our children develop their running skills and build our community spirit. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at how we can continue to build on our great relationship with Real Runners.

If you would like to sign up for the park runs, please do consider signing up as an HT Run Club member!

https://www.parkrun.com/about/join-us/junior-parkrun/

Parent governor election

This is now live!  You should have received an email from Choice Voting to enable you to cast your vote.  The election runs until noon on Thursday 16th January.

Celebrations!

Our Values Champions

Congratulations to this week’s values champions:

Amber, Shin, Xincheng, Elias, Lucas, Zachery, William, Emilia, Amelie, Siddarth, Morgan, Canvas, Olly, Isabelle, Kaylee, Ching Yeung, Ajai, Emily, Nika, Matias, Lois, Tristan, Sophia and Jamie.

House Point Champions

Congratulations to this week’s winner,  Rashford.

P.E Star   

Congratulations to Kosei in Dragonfly class!

Dates for your diary

• Wednesday 15th January Closing date for Reception applications
• Tuesday 21st January Hearing Tests Reception and Year 1
• Wednesday 22nd January KS2 Choir to the O2
• Monday 3rd February RISE Swimming Gala
• Tuesday 11th February Richmond Swimming Gala
• Thursday 13th February Year 1 History Workshop
• 17th to 21st February Half term break

 

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