Newsletter 30 - 7th May 2021
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week 5C have enjoyed their Bikeability course. I really hope they are able to continue to develop their cycling skills outside of school and benefit from the physical activity too. Well done Year 5!
Zoom!
Reception Class, Year 1 and Year 2 had a visit from a theatre company this week – I saw lots of smiling faces as they were entertained! Year 1 and Year 2 also have dance workshops on Monday as part of our school topic of ‘Celebrating our Wild and Wonderful World’.
Class Photos
The photographer will be coming to school on Monday 17th May to take class photographs. Please remember to send your child in school uniform that day rather than PE kit. They can bring their PE to change into once they’ve had their smart class photo taken!
Collection from after school clubs
We have three clubs on a Thursday after school. In order to ensure you can maintain social distancing when collecting your children, please enter onto the playground and find the correct queue for your club. We will signpost which queue is for which club!
Film Night
PTA film night is on Tuesday 18th May. The children will remain in their bubble. Please see the PTA section below for more details or watch out on Classlist for your PTA rep to post further details of how to pay and timings.
Relationships, Health and Sex Education Policy
As you may be aware, a revised statutory curriculum for Relationships, Health and Sex Education is now in place for schools. At Holy Trinity, we are currently sharing our new policy with parents. You can see a copy of this below. This includes information about what aspects are taught in each year group. We will also be asking for any questions you may have in the coming weeks via an online questionnaire so that we can put together a FAQ document for you.
Enjoy the weekend,
Mrs Griffith
Stars of the Week for w/e – 7th May 2021
Reception – Reggie for super perseverance with his reading and writing.
Caitlin for always being so kind and thoughtful and making cards and pictures for people who need cheering up.
Year 1 – Koda for beautiful handwriting and presentation of work. Also, for always being a happy, kind and generous friend.
Year 2 – Cohen for his amazing attitude to his learning and always trying so hard to do his very best.
Class 3 – Maya for being a true ambassador of Holy Trinity during swimming lessons at St George’s. Your respectful nature and positive attitude were commended by the team at Frogs and Friends.
Keiron for demonstrating his breaststroke technique so beautifully to his group.
Class 4 – Isaac for showing great courage, resilience and determination in swimming.
Class 5C – Sonny for being such a polite member of the class and also for working so hard on measuring angles accurately with a protractor.
Lily for making amazing progress in maths, especially arithmetic.
Class 5W – Daisy for working so conscientiously in all lessons and continuing to make good progress in maths.
Year 6 – Lucas W for making a huge effort with his presentation and attitude to work this week, especially in topic work.
House of the Week
The House with the most house points this week is Water! Well done Water!
Sports Clubs
Please make sure children wear PE kit to school on days when they have a sports club. This includes football - football kits should not be worn or brought to change in to at the moment.
Thursdays - on Thursdays lots of children attend clubs after school. We will open the gate for parents to line up and collect their children in the playground so that you are able to maintain social distancing and club leaders can see clearly who is picking up the children. Club leaders will tick the register rather than parents signing out. Hopefully this will relieve the pressure for everyone at the gate.
Change to Lunch Menu - Thursday 20th May
Thursday 20th May is Census Day in school and it is useful for us if as many children as possible have a school meal on that day. The menu will be changed to:
- Chicken Nuggets
- Vegetable Cheese Burger with Ketchup
- Chips
- BBQ Beans
- Peas
- Chocolate Ice Cream, Wafers & Sprinkles
National Read to Your Siblings Day
Thursday 20th May is National Read to Your Siblings Day. Older children get a fabulous sense of responsibility and make wonderful role models for their younger siblings. Snuggling up reading a book together is fantastic for bonding and seeing their older siblings read to them will encourage the younger ones to follow suit. As you will know only too well, reading aloud to each other helps children enhance their communication skills and comprehension, as well as boosting their speech, vocabulary and language. Click here for more information.
'Zoom!'
KS1 and Reception Class were treated to another outstanding performance from Pied Piper Productions this week. The 45 minute production of 'Zoom!' had the audience captivated. The children sat beautifully and loved the story of Molly. Molly is an enthusiastic star gazer and unexpectedly a spaceship lands in her garden and Leelo (an alien) appears. The play tells how Molly helps to mend Leelo's spaceship and talks about how we need to look after our planet and not be wasteful.
Class 4’s Bug Hunt
On Thursday afternoon, class 4 ventured over to Forest School to conduct a bug hunt. In science, they have been learning about livings things and how to classify them. After they had made friends with many different woodland creatures, they created their own branching keys to identify them.
Year 4 Ravenous Readers
Here are this week's Ravenous Readers. Planet Stan was read by Hristiana.
Year 6 Athletics
See some action shots below from Y6 Athletics in PE this week. We have been improving our distance throwing skills using the vortex and trying to improve the spin as we throw!
Mrs Neale
PTA News
Film Night
Bubble Film Night will take place on 18th May, straight after school. To register your child’s attendance and to purchase your child’s Snack Box please make payment via ParentPay. This will be available next week The cost is £5 and will include crisps and a drink.
The School Council are voting on film choices.
Fundraising
Our main fundraising is now focussing on the Key Stage 2 play area.
Don’t forget you can help us raise funds whilst doing your online shopping with Amazon Smile and Easyfundraising, it couldn’t be easier!
Easyfundraising – Many parents are already collecting free donations for the PTA every time they buy anything online with the UK’s leading online fundraising service, easyfundraising. It’s simple to join, go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/3UOK0S and join for free. Every time you want to shop go to easyfundraising, find the site you want and start shopping. When you check out, Holy Trinity CE School Sunningdale PTA gets a donation, the site gives easyfundraising a percentage of what you spend and they turn that into a donation.
Amazon Smile - To shop on Amazon please go to www.smile.amazon.co.uk and select Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School Sunningdale Parent Teachers Association. Amazon donates 0.5% of the net purchase price of eligible purchase to the PTA.
Your School Lottery – if you’ve not already signed up you can join for just £1 a week you get entered into 2 weekly draws, 1 with the chance to win up to £25,000 and the school are guaranteed a return of 40% of all the ticket funding raised. If you haven’t already, please do sign up and support the school. It’s quick and easy to sign up at https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/holy-trinity-primary-school
Dates for your diary:
10 May – PTA Meeting
18 May – Bubble Film Night
28 May – Break the Rules Day
Many thanks!
PTA Committee
Summer Key Term Dates – 2021
- Tues 11th May – Reception Class trip to Rushall Farm
- Mon 17th May – Group Photos
- Tues 18th May – PTA Film Night
- Fri 28th May – PTA Break the Rules Day
- w/c Mon 14th June – Sports Week
- Mon 14th June – Grey Goose Archery – Workshops all year groups
- Mon 28th June – Year 6 to Mill on the Brue
- Thurs 8th July – Years 5 and 6 Mission to Mars STEM day
- Thurs 15th July – 9.30am - Leavers’ Service
- Fri 16th July – Reports issued
- Tues 20th July – Class Swap
- Weds 21st July - 1.30pm – End of Term
School Term Dates
Please see here for term dates:
Absence
Ofsted noted a marked increase in persistent absence (a holiday will register as persistent absence). Please do not book holidays or family days during term time. Thank you.
Holy Trinity CE Primary School take safeguarding very seriously. If you have a concern, please do not hesitate to report to our designated staff;
Mrs J. Griffith, Mrs C Barnes, Miss S. Harding, Mrs F Fargher
Please do not send your child to school if they're unwell or with a high temperature controlled by paracetamol or ibuprofen. Don't forget that your child must not return to school until at least 48 hours after the last episode of any gastric upset (vomiting or diarrhoea).
