Newsletter 36 - 25th June 2021
Dear Parents and Carers,
Another week has flown by!
New Reception Parents
It was lovely to be able to welcome parents of children starting in Reception for an outdoor meeting this week. Of the 30 children starting, 18 of them are siblings of children in year groups throughout school. I know that you’ll all make the new parents feel very welcome and help them settle quickly into our school community. Thanks to Mrs Tomes for working so hard to make sure the children and families feel part of our school so quickly.
Legoland
Y1 and Y2 had a wonderful day at Legoland on Tuesday! I’ve heard lots about the singing dragon and the robotics workshop. Thank you to Miss Prince and Mrs Rhodes for organising this.
Governor Vacancy
I’m sure you have all had chance to read the information about the up-coming vacancy. If not, the information is here. The deadline to apply is Monday 5th July. You may have spotted Governors in the playground this week at the end of school days. Please feel free to ask them about the role if you have any questions.
Leavers’ Service
The good news is that we have found a way to be able to go ahead with our Leavers’ Service on 15th July at church. The downside is that we have to limit numbers attending. So only parents of Year 6 pupils will be able to attend (limited to 2 people per family). And only Year 5 will be attending from school to support their Year 6 friends.
Year 6 Residential
Year 6 will be enjoying their week away next week. Could everyone please keep their fingers crossed for good weather for them please?! Thank you in advance to Mrs Neale, Mrs Marriner and Miss Lazar for taking the children away.
RHSE
Thank you to those parents who responded to the survey. Please look out for our published policy on the website soon.
Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs Griffith
Stars of the Week for w/e – 25th June 2021
Well done to all of our Stars this week
Reception – Cara for her super progress in phonics and reading.
Year 1 – Rosie for always being kind and helpful and a super role model to her peers.
Year 2 – Vivienne for her fantastic effort in her presentation.
Class 3 – Kaleb, hugely praised by Frogs and Friends for making great progress in his swimming.
Class 4 – Benoit for giving his all to school life and to everything he does.
Class 5C – Amber for working so hard on her writing this term and writing an excellent narrative based on our class text, Flotsam. It’s great to see you trying new things in your writing.
Class 5W – Ben for a super piece of writing based on our picture book Flotsam and for always showing politeness.
Year 6 – To all the House and Vice House Captains (Alex, Bowen, Charlotte, Eleanor, Freddie F, Freddie R, Lola, Micah and Sadie) for your help with KS1 sports day. You all showed true leadership and were a great support to the Reception and KS1 team.
House of the Week
The House with the most house points this week is Water! Well done Water!
Year 1 & 2 Trip to Legoland
On Tuesday this week, year 1 and year 2 had an amazing time on their trip to Legoland. There was so much excitement, laughter and big smiles. Year 1 attended a Story Maker workshop where they were able to plan and then create a 4 part story using lego. Year 2 attended a Robotics workshop where they were able to build and program their own interactive models. The rest of the day was spent exploring the park, and lego exhibits, designing a colourful fish and watching it swim around at Lego Reef, watching the action packed pirate show and funny puppet show, taking to the wheel at driving school and being underwater explorers on the Deep Sea Adventure. What a wonderful way to spend the day!!
Year 4 - Energetic Gymnasts
Year 4 loved their apparatus sessions last week...
Swimming Lifesavers
It is Drowning Prevention Week so in their swimming sessions Class 4 learned how to save themselves and others.
Dahlia has written her top tips below:
- If you’re ever in the situation where someone is drowning, grab anything that floats and throw it to them and tell them to try to swim back.
- If you ever need to jump into the river, you won’t see the bottom.
- There might be glass, sharp rocks or even shopping trolleys so do a straddle jump.
- Put one foot in front of the other and jump in, slapping the water and keeping your head up.
Year 5 & 6 Sports Day
We were lucky the rain held off for us today. Well done to all of the children! They showed brilliant team skills, cheering each other on. A big thank you to Miss Cullen for organising and to Mrs Hunter for scoring, Miss Bohdjalian, Miss Cox and Miss Lazar. Well done to the House Captains who did an amazing job! We saw some particularly good sportsmanship all round! The results are now in and are as follows:
1st - Water
2nd - Earth
3rd - Fire
4th - Air
Ava's Polo Report
On Tuesday 1st June I played a polo match with 50 different teams participating called the Rocket Rentals Junior Tournament. Age groups from 6 - 18 year olds took part. I was in division 3, 10 - 16 year olds. Our polo team was Hampshire Hunt and we came 1st out of 30 other teams. I played 5 chukkas by the end of the day, drawing one, winning two and losing two. Which is an amazing result! At the prize giving I got a cap saying Rocket Rental Rider. During the 5 chukkas I rode a beautiful black horse called Berty. Thank you Berty!
Ava - Class 5W
PTA News
Virtual Summer Fair
Please see the document below for lots of information about our Virtual Stallholders.
Please do take a look at our Facebook page and support local businesses and view any special offers.
Holy Trinity PTA Online Summer Fair 2021 | Facebook
Online Auction and Raffle
Please return your raffle tickets to the office by Thursday 1st July in time for the draw on Saturday 3rd July.
The online brochure will be sent out via Classlist/newsletter on Friday next week and will go live until midnight on Friday 9th July. To place your bid email htpta@outlook.com with your BEST offer for your Lot of choice!
Dates for your diary:
30 June – Bags2School
3 July – Raffle Draw
2-9 July – Online Auction
5 July – PTA Meeting
Many thanks!
PTA Committee
Summer Key Term Dates – 2021
- w/c Mon 14th June – Sports Week
- Mon 14th June – Grey Goose Archery – Workshops all year groups
- Tues 15th June – 9.10am - Years 3 and 4 Sports Day
- Weds 16th June – Thurs 17th June – Year 5 to Brenscombe Outdoor Centre
- Thurs 17th June – 9.10am – Reception Class and Years 1 and 2 Sports Day
- Fri 18th June – 9.10am - Years 5 and 6 Sports Day
- Tues 22nd June – Year 1 and 2 Trip to Legoland
- Mon 28th June – Year 6 to Mill on the Brue
- Weds 30th June – Chertsey Museum Visit Reception and Class 1
- Thurs 8th July – Years 5 and 6 Mission to Mars STEM day
- Thurs 8th July – Year 3 Trip to Legoland
- Fri 9th July – Celebrating Science Dress Up
- Fri 9th July – 3pm – Reception Class – PlayBall Session
- 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).
