Friday 7th November 2025 

Dear Parents and Carers, 

This week Eils joined us for collective worship on the theme of Faithfulness. Faithfulness means being a loyal and committed friend—someone who sticks with you, even when things are tough. Our special Bible verse comes from Ruth, who promised her mother-in-law, Naomi: “Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.” Ruth was saying, “I’m not leaving you, no matter what happens.” That’s real faithfulness! 

What does being faithful look like? 

At school: It means trying your hardest in your work and standing up for your friends. 

At home: It means keeping your promises (like tidying up your toys!). 

In the Christian faith, it means remembering God’s love and trying to follow Jesus every day. When we are faithful, we show people they can trust us. Let’s all try to be faithful this week and make our friendships stronger! 

What’s one promise you can keep today to show faithfulness? How can you show faithfulness over the weekend? Best wishes, 

Mr George 

Instagram: @HolyTrinityschrichmond 

Trips, visits and events

Herons get busy making stone age tools at Forest School

On Monday, Herons had a fantastic morning at Forest School! The morning was full of fun, from the delicious creations emerging from the mud kitchen, to the impressively built dens and shelters. The children worked well as a team, and constructed their own zip line, making sure they landed in a giant pile of crunchy leaves. To link with our Stone Age topic in history, the children were also given access to sticks, stones, twine and leaves to make their own Stone Age tools. We were very impressed with some of the things made and how well they worked! As always, the children loved their morning in their outside classroom. 

Bike Dr Clinic 18/11/25 9-12pm 

We are very grateful to the Bike Dr who will be in school on Tuesday 18 November, 09:00 – 12:00 to run free checks for your children’s bikes. They will be set up under a gazebo at the front entrance of the school where you can drop off your children’s bikes and collect them from the bike racks at the end of the day. The session will be run by two cycling instructors, who also have experience in bike mechanics, and they will check over everything for free including wheels, brakes, gears, tyre pressure, chain, pedals, saddles and more. They can make any minor adjustments; however, they do not carry any spare parts so anything that needs repairing but that they can’t fix on-site they will inform you about so that you can take the bike to a bike shop for repair. 

Please be aware that: 

• In cases where it’s not possible to get the bike to a safe standard, you will be advised about the faults. ● LBRuT does not take responsibility for problems arising from faults that damaged your bike before this check, for injury, loss or damage to property that is not caused by an instructor’s negligence. 

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

Scholastic Book Fair 

We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Scholastic Book Fair from Tuesday the 18th of November to Friday, November 21st. Join us in the KS1 playground, outside the Year 1 classrooms, after school at 3:15 pm. All payments can be conveniently made by scanning the QR code located on the book fair cases.

Scholastic Virtual Events 

Celebrate reading with your favorite authors and illustrators! Join Scholastic for a new programme of virtual events. Featuring writing workshops, “drawalongs” and more. There are regular events running for all ages throughout the school term. 

To view the Live Events scheduled please click below: 

https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/scholastic-schools-live 

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 – week 1 update!! 

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 

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: 

Ichika, Herold, Oli, Ellie, Bella, Patrick, Zaraan, Abi, Sienna, Alex, Jonathan, Harper, Katie, Carl, Archie, Ailbe, Josie, George, Anna, Alan, Isaac and Anna. 

House Point Champions 

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Rashford! 

P.E Star 

Congratulations to Albie in Swans! 

Music Star 

Congratulations to Sinai in Badgers! 

Attendance 

94.81% overall: Well done to this week’s winners, Roe class with 99.26%. 

Dates for your diary

10th-14th Nov – Fallow Class Bikeability week 

14th Nov – Own Clothes day for Bottles for Christmas Fair and donation for Children in Need 21st Nov – Own Clothes day for Chocolate for Christmas Fair 

26th Nov – Flu Imms Whole School (not nursery) 

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

Community events and initiatives