Dear Parents and Carers,

Our vision is for our pupils to flourish in an inclusive, inspirational place of learning where we are happy, respectful, kind and safe.

This weekend marks the clocks springing forward and brings the promise of some lovely warm weather! Thank you for all your donations over the past few weeks – books for the Book Fair, Crème Eggs for the Big Chick Knit and for buying the chicks too! You raised over £300 for the Alexander Devine Children's Hospice.  Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Our Spiritual Leaders would like to thank you for your generosity in providing Easter Treats for the Holy Trinity Church Foodbank - we can accept treats up until the end of Monday 31st March.  

Easter Services

You are invited to join us at Holy Trinity Church next week for the 9.15am services:

Monday 31^st March – Y1, Y3 and Y5.

Tuesday 1^st April – Reception, Y2, Y4 and Y6

Parents Consultation Meetings

We look forward to welcoming you to school on Wednesday 2^nd April and Thursday 3^rd April.  There will be the opportunity to have a look through your child's book at this time as well.  Please be mindful of sticking to your allocated 10 minutes to avoid causing timing issues. Do contact the school office if you haven’t received the email invite to book. 

PTA Easter Eggs

The children will be receiving an Easter Egg from the PTA on the last day of term and will be bringing them home next Friday.

End of Term

Our last day of the Spring Term is next Friday 4^th April. Please collect your child in the usual way at 1.30pm. Please note, there are no extra-curricular clubs before or after school next week. (Breakfast Club will still be available every morning and Pre School after school club will be available Monday to Thursday.)

Have a lovely weekend and for those families in our community who are celebrating Eid al-Fitr when it comes, Eid Mubarak!  Enjoy the celebrations.

Mrs Griffith

Stars of the Week for w/e 21st March 2025

Well done to all of our Stars this week

Reception – Ruby for amazing caption writing.

Year 1 – Matilda for her excellent retell and writing sentences.

Year 2 – Chloe for her brilliant Bog Baby story.  She worked really hard on her punctuation and description. 

Year 3 –  Paulina for super focus and perseverance in Maths lessons. 

Year 4 –  William for fantastic writing in English this week. 

Year 5 – Mohammed for participating beautifully in pair and group work.

Year 6 - Sam for applying himself to lessons and his revision books. 

Stars of the Week for w/e 28th March 2025

Well done to all of our Stars this week

Reception – Luca for challenging himself in his numeracy work.

Year 1 – Jack for always trying his best in everything he does with a smile. 

Year 2 – Aaron for great work in music when creating a sequence of notes on the glockenspiel.

Year 3 – Elliot for working really hard on his handwriting and presenting his work neatly.

Year 4 –  Freddie for impressing Mrs O'Brien with his dancing. 

Year 5 – George for a great first term at Holy Trinity.  You have made friends, worked hard and adapted well to new routines.

Year 6 - Simrah for always demonstrating a respectful, positive and hard working attitude in everything she does.

House of the Week
The House with the most house points w/e 21st March was Water! Well done Water!

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

Year 3/4 Boys' Football Tournament

Thank you to our Governors Mrs Boaler and Mrs Steel who accompanied two teams in a football tournament at Braywick Leisure Centre this week with other schools from the Borough. Mrs Steel said:

'Year 3 and year 4 both did really well with year 4 narrowly missing out winning the tournament by 1 point, and year 3 improving throughout the tournament to secure a win and 2 draws despite many of the team never having played a competitive game before. 

All the boys were really well behaved, representing our school beautifully and living our Holy Trinity Rules.'

Year 3 Trip to Neasden Temple

Year 3 went on a school trip to Neasden Temple in London. They had a brilliant time visiting and learning about Hindu gods and goddesses.

Royal Ascot Schools Art Competition

Short-listed entries for the Royal Ascot Local Schools Competition are now live!!  Please click here to cast your votes:

ROYAL ASCOT SCHOOLS ART COMPETITION | Ascot Racecourse

Holy Trinity has six entries short listed in the primary sections so please look out for these!  It would be great to continue our winning tradition again this year with winning entries turned into giant placards used to decorate the Heath Tunnel under the Racecourse - always worth a visit to see as they stay in place for a few years being gradually replaced year on year.  Voting will close next Friday 4th April.  

Attendance

Further to a recent visit from our Education Welfare Officer, Jo Barnes, please find a message from the Education Welfare Service below:

'With recent changes in legislation around the issuing of fines (Fixed Penalty Notices) for unauthorised absence during term time, Headteachers are not able to authorise term time holidays and fixed penalty notices will be issued from the local authority where thresholds are met (10 or more sessions of holiday taken – a morning is one session, an afternoon is one session). These are issued one per parent, per child.

It may now be even more tempting to use other excuses for absence, to avoid receiving a fine for taking holidays.  Please note that your children do usually tell friends and school staff when they’ve been on holiday, however the absence has been reported to school.  It’s important that you are honest with school in order that the trust built between parents and school staff can be maintained moving forward. The Education Welfare Service urges you not to take holidays during term time to avoid your children missing vital education and such issues of integrity cropping up.'

Magpies Clubs Now Booking

Magpies Clubs can now be booked for next term - Y1 - Y6 football on Thursdays and R - Y6 Rounders on Mondays after school and Lego Club for Reception Class and Years 1 and 2.  Please see more details below:

Spring Term Key Dates – 2025

Fri 28^th Mar – Y1 Bake Sale

Mon 31^st Mar – Easter Service in Holy Trinity Church at 9.15am – Y1, Y3, Y5

Tues 1^st April - Easter Service in Holy Trinity Church at 9.15am – Rec, Y2, Y4, Y6

Weds 2^nd April – Parent Consultation Meetings – 1pm – 5pm – School Hall

Thurs 3^rd April – Parent Consultation Meeting – 3.30 – 5pm – School Hall

Fri 4^th April – End of Term 4 – 1.30pm

Summer Term Key Dates – 2025

Tues 22nd April - Start of Term 5

Fri 25th April - Y3/4 Swimming starts at St George's School Ascot

Sat 26th April - TCS Mini Marathon

Mon 28th April - All clubs start this week

Mon 28th April - Year 5 Residential to Leeson House

Mon 28th April - PTA Meeting

Fri 2nd May - Reception Class Bake Sale

Tues 6th May - Bags 2 School

Thurs 8th May - Y3 Class Assembly - 9am - School Hall

Mon 12th May - SATs week for Year 6

Tues 13th May - Reception Class trip to Rushall Farm

Mon 19th May - Class Photos

Thurs 22nd May - Y2 Class Assembly - 9am - School Hall

Fri 23rd May - Last Y3/4 Swimming

Fri 23rd May - Eurovision Mufti Day

Fri 23rd May - End of Term 5 - 3.15pm 

Mon 2nd June - Inset Day

Tues 3rd June - Start of Term 6

Mon 9th June - Y4 Residential to Phasels Wood

Mon 9th June - PTA Meeting

Thurs 19th June - Class 1 Assembly - 9am - School Hall

Mon 23rd June - Year 6 Residential to Mill on the Brue

Tues 24th June - Y3 Trip to Marwell Zoo

Thurs 26th June - Reception Class Assembly - 9am School Hall

Thurs 26th June - Junior Music Festival - Choir Perform at the Reading Hexagon

Fri 27th June - Bring a Bottle Mufti Day

Sat 28th June - PTA Summer Fair

Fri 4th July - Sports Day

Mon7th July - Last week of clubs

Tues 22nd July - End of Term 6 at 1.30pm 

Weds 23rd July - Inset Day

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