Newsletter 6 - 10th October 2025
Dear Parents and Carers,
Harvest
It was wonderful to see the children at their Harvest Services this week. Holy Trinity Church would like to thank you for your generous donations to Sunningdale Foodbank; they will help stock up the provisions over the next couple of months. Thanks to Rev Terry for welcoming us into church. We did miss Rev Jon and we wish him a speedy recovery.
Reading Room
As you know, our newly refurbished Reading Room (library) is now up and running. A huge thankyou to Mrs Sudell for taking time to re-stock the shelves and make sure our book offer is current and fresh. If any more parents would like to volunteer to help with the running of the library, please do contact the office.
You are invited to come and see our new Reading Room on Friday 24th October 8.45 – 9.45am. If you’d like to pop in, please use the hall entrance on Church Road once you’ve dropped your child in to school.
Pre-loved Halloween Fancy Dress
PTA are collecting pre-loved costumes for a sale on Friday 17th October after school. It’s a great way to recycle and save money!
Mufti Day 24th October
Our last day of this half term will be a MUFTI day. This means the children can wear an outfit of their choice for a £2 donation. This can be on ParentPay or cash on the gate. If your child would like to wear their Halloween costume they can. No face make up or face masks please. Sensible shoes only.
PTA Events this term
Please see the information about PTA events this term. If you have any questions please do contact your class rep or the Co-Chairs via Classlist.
Parent Governor Positions - Message from Mrs Jo Steel - Chair of Governors
I would like to thank the four parents who applied for the role of Parent governor and for all those parents who took time to vote.
I am pleased to announce that Mr Jonathan Sharland and Ms Liz Walker were duly elected and will begin their terms of office from 10th October 2025.
The governing board at Holy Trinity plays a vital role in making sure every child receives the best possible education and that the school’s vision is upheld. Parent Governors serve a four-year term of office and bring a very important and valued perspective to the work of the governing board. I look forward to working with them over the coming months and years. To find out more about our governors and the role the board plays in the running of our school, please visit https://www.holytrinityschsunningdale.co.uk/governors/
Get Safe Online
As a local resident, you may have received this information from Thames Valley. Get Safe Online has launched a new scam detection tool on their website.
If you are suspicious of a text, email or message and you want to check if it is legit or not before responding, you can upload it to Ask Silver on the Get Safe Online website and whereupon it will return an indication of whether the communication is safe or a ‘red flag’ for fraud.
This can be accessed here:
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Griffith
Stars of the Week for w/e 10th October
Well done to all of our Stars this week
Reception – Zoe for making a brilliant model of her house in our D&T lesson.
Year 1 – Victor for his excellent vocabulary retrieval in art.
Year 2 – Finley for putting in such a great effort with reading at home.
Year 3 – Lizzie for a creative and entertaining story using vivid language.
Year 4 – Yassy for always striving to do everything to the best of her ability and always doing it with a smile.
Year 5 – Kara-Rae for fantastic participation in reading sessions and for using feedback really well in Maths.
Year 6 - Sam for doing so well with the long division method in maths this week and making great progress with it.
House of the Week
The House with the most house points this week is Earth! Well done Earth!
Diwali Celebration Lunch
There will be a change to the usual menu on Thursday 16th October in celebration of Diwali! Please see menu choices below.
🎃🎃👻👻 Halloween Costume Sale: 17 October 🎃🎃👻👻
Witches, zombies, ghosts and more... get your outfit for Halloween Mufti on 24 October (and of course for the big day itself!)
This is a chance to pass some of your too-small or not-cool-anymore costumes down the school, and to get something new and exciting to wear.
Please leave unwanted (clean and undamaged) costumes with the school office by Wednesday 15 October
All proceeds will go to the PTA.
Christmas Fair Advertising Boards
Holy Trinity Christmas Fair is being held on Saturday 22nd November. The PTA are in discussions with Breckenridge Lettings who have very kindly agreed to donate a generous raffle prize in return for placing advertising boards around Sunningdale to advertise both the fair and their letting agency.
The boards should go up during half term, or shortly after, and will be collected the week after the fair.
If you are willing to have an advertising board outside of your house then please email htpta@outlook.com with your full address and postcode. Many thanks.
Sunningdale Village Hall - Chairperson Needed
Sunningdale Village Hall has played a large part of Sunningdale's community for over 100 years and is home to our much needed and beloved preschool and after school club, as well as many other clubs, parties and activities many of us attend and host. The Village Hall is a charity, and its continued existence very much depends on a dedicated group of volunteers – the Trustees – who are willing to give their time, their enthusiasm, and their life skills to ensure the Village Hall continues to thrive well into the future. We are currently looking for a new chair and would love to hear from anyone who wants to ensure the heart of our community continues to run as smoothly as it has. We have a great operational team in place, so this is a purely strategic, governance and oversight position. Please reach out to Jo Hermon (year 3 mum) if you are interested to have a chat. You can email the Trustee Board at: admin@svhcommunity.co.uk
Ascot Racecourse - Autumn Photography Competition
Holy Trinity children have had much success with this competition in the past and this could be a great half term activity with fabulous prizes.
For 2025, the theme is "Favourite Christmas Memory".
Please see the official invitation to take part below.
Ascot Racecourse are honoured to announce that Royal Photographer, Millie Pilkington, will once again serve as our judge and present prizes at our popular Christmas Family Raceday on Saturday, 20th December.
Submission Detail
Theme
Favourite Christmas Memory - a personal image that portrays a meaningful festive moment, eg. meeting Father Christmas, singing carols with friends, making a Christmas cake …
Format
Please send a digital landscape photograph in jpeg format alongside a paragraph describing why you have chosen this image.
Prizes
£1,000 for each winning school to spend on photographic equipment
£100 of John Lewis vouchers for winning photographers
Entries and Deadline
Please send your entries via email to csr@ascot.com by 14th November 2024.
Autumn Term Key Dates – 2025
Fri 17th Oct - Y5 & 6 Girls' Football Tournament - Braywick Leisure Centre
Fri 17th Nov - Pre Loved Uniform Sale - 3.15pm
Fri 17th Nov - Halloween Costume Sale - 3.15pm
Mon 20th Oct - Y5 & 6 Boys' Football Tournament - Braywick Leisure Centre
Tues 21st Oct - Y2 Countries of the World Day
Fri 24th Oct - End of Term 1 - 3.15pm
Mon 3rd Nov - Inset Day
Tues 4th Nov - Pupils return for Term 2
Tues 4th Nov - Y1 Trip to The Lookout
Weds 5th Nov - Y2 Fire of London Workshop
Thurs 6th Nov - Y4 & Y5 Trip to Ufton Court
Mon 10th Nov - Odd Socks Day (Anti Bullying Week)
Weds 12th Nov - Bags to School - by 9am
Weds 19th Nov - Parent Consultation Mtgs - 1pm - 5pm
Thurs 20th Nov - Parent Consultation Mtgs - 3.30pm - 5pm
Fri 28th Nov - Sunningdale Parish Lights Switch on - Choir Performing
Mon 1st Dec - Y3 Trip to Butser Ancient Farm
Mon 8th Dec - Last week of clubs
Thurs 11th Dec - 9.15am Reception Class Nativity in the school hall
Thurs 11th Dec - PTA Film Night collect at 4.15pm
Mon 15th Dec - KS1 Nativity for Parents - 1.30pm - School Hall
Mon 15th Dec - KS2 Christmas Service - 6pm - Holy Trinity Church
Tues 16th Dec - KS 1 Nativity for Parents - 9.15am - School Hall
Tues 16th Dec - Rec, Y1 and Y2 - Christmas Parties
Weds 17th Dec - Christmas Lunch
Weds 17th Dec - Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 - Christmas Parties
Fri 19th Dec - Christmas Jumper Day
Fri 19th Dec - End of Term 2 - 1.30pm
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
Confidential email address - DSL@holytrinityprimary.org
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