Dear Parents and Carers,

We do hope you found your parents meetings useful this week.

Easter Services

Please bring your children to school at the usual time. Then you are invited to join us in church:

Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 Easter Service will start at 9.15am on Monday 25^th March in Holy Trinity Church.

Reception, Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6 Easter service will start at 9.15am on Tuesday 26^th March in Holy Trinity Church.

Please send your child into school in their school uniform for the services (unless your child's class is doing dance at the service - Y5 and Y6). If your child would usually be wearing a PE kit on these days due to PE lesson, please send them into school in their school uniform and send their PE kit in a bag for them to change into. Thank you!

Maths Day

On Wednesday 27^th March we are celebrating Maths! Children are invited to come to school in an outfit to represent maths if they’d like to. 

PTA Easter Eggs

The children will be receiving an Easter Egg from the PTA on the last day of term- next Thursday.

End of Spring Term

Thursday will be Break the Rules Day and just like that it’s the end of term! We finish for Easter Break at 1.30pm on Thursday 28^th March.

Enjoy the weekend,

Mrs Griffith

Stars of the Week for w/e 22^nd March 2024

Well done to all of our Stars this week.

Reception – Lily for consistently giving her best and for outstanding progress in reading , writing and numeracy.

Class 1 – Lucy for being and excellent contributor to our class discussions.  Your insight is invaluable. 

Class 2 – Jayden for his excellent writing about hibernation.

Class 3 – Freddie for making good observations in our science lessons. 

Class 4 – Saffie for great work with fractions in maths this week.

Class 5 – Lewis for his fantastic work in Spanish describing and imaginary animal. 

Class 6 – Ernie for really impressing staff with his work towards SATs this week. 

House of the Week
The House with the most house points this week is Earth! Well done Earth!

Alexander Devine Hospice - The Big Chick Knit

We are supporting the Alexander Devine Hospice at Easter this year by selling knitted chicks containing a creme egg for £3.  These cuties are available from the school office and will be on sale from our Spiritual Leaders at the Easter Services in Church for cash or via a QR code. 

See here for more information.  

New Lunch Menu

Please note a new lunch menu will be in place when we return after the Easter holiday.  This is displayed below and always available on our website here:

Change to Published Menu

There will be a change to the published menu on the last day of term when the choices will be Fish and Chips, Vegan Sausage Roll or Jacket Potato. 

Ascot Racecourse Art Competition - Please Vote!

Please do take the time to vote for the children’s art – winners have their artwork made in to the large panels displayed in the Heath Tunnel for Royal Ascot. We have previous winning examples in school too.

13 Holy Trinity children have their art work short-listed!! (there were 1300 entries from 30 schools)

You need to do 1 vote per age group (and you need one in every age group for the form to submit). 

Partisan votes are obviously encouraged!

All short-listed entries can be viewed here https://www.ascot.com/school-art-competition.

Voting is now live with a closing date of Sunday, 7^th April 2024.

For those going to the Spring Family Raceday this Sunday, they will all be on display in the Pavilion for racegoers to view and cast their votes also.

Winners will be announced at the beginning of May - winners/runner ups plus a school representative will be invited to a celebratory presentation on Saturday, 11^th May 2023 so all to vote for!

Please also share with any friends and family who might like to vote.

Allotment Update

This week on the allotment was gorgeous and felt like spring has finally sprung.
We had our first tulips blooming this week, we have spring onions just germinated, tiny beginnings of radish, and we can now start sowing lots and lots of seeds. This year will be quite an experiment l, seeing what grows well and what doesn’t.
We were donated a wonderful table and umbrella. Martin and Gabriel’s Daddy kindly painted the table top for us. It’s been paintings with chalk board paint so that the children can write or draw on it.
We also received our fruit trees from the tree council, and those will be planted by the end of next week.
A reminder that we definitely still need lots more compost !! Don’t forget to grab a grow kit for sow day, and put Friday 26th April 3:15 pm in your diary for the official allotment opening.

PTA Update

We’ve had a busy Spring Term with our parent community of fundraisers and fun-makers! Polytunnel builds and set up, Bake Sales, World Book Day Sales and let’s not forget the first ever HTS School Disco of the 2020s!

The 2^nd Hand Book Sale re-homed a lot of great page turners and raised £212.80! We will do this again so keep the kids’ books until we come calling for a book amnesty!

The Disco

KS1 were joined by our neighbours over from the Sunningdale Pre-School in the first session followed by KS2 in the later session.  We hope the kids enjoyed this. It was great to see them throw all sorts of shapes on the dance floor with their friends! Any feedback to help make it better feel free to use this form School Disco Feedback 2024.

Big thanks to the all the parents who brought the neon vision to life! It was a great turn out of parent volunteers who made it feel safe and show their support! Fire Away Pizza and Simmons of Sunninghill were great community partners and supplied us the great food at very reasonable prices to make this a worthwhile venture….allowing us to raise a whopping £1,008 cash profit!

So, what’s next?

1. We have the official unveiling of the Polytunnel and Allotment area on Friday 26^th April (see the flyer below). There’ll be seeds on sale alongside some refreshments. Thanks to Mrs Patel (Mum of Savan and Pasha) there has been so much work to get this lovely area for kids to use as a space to create some bio-diversity on the school grounds to sow and grow seeds and hopefully harvest and who knows, someday cook/sell the fruits of their labour!
2.  We are already in the throws of planning the Summer Fair for Saturday June 29^th. We’d love to have your input to make it fabulous and wider reaching! You don’t have to be a Class Rep – you just need to come with ideas and energy to help us make it a show stopper!

Charters School Vacancies

Charters School currently have 4 support staff vacancies:

• Admin Support Officer
• Governance Professional
• Science Technician
• Teaching Assistant

For further details and to apply, please see the vacancies section of the website:

https://www.chartersschool.org.uk/18/vacancies

Baby Bank Donations - Needed

The Baby Bank have reached out for donations:

The demand for our support by families has hugely increased and we are particularly struggling with donations of larger items such as buggies and cots. Families are welcome to contact us directly if they think they have items we can use and for further details of where we are located (Holyport, SL6 2YE) and our opening times.