Sacred Heart News

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for coming along to the Parents’ Evenings this week. It was good for the teachers to catch up with regards to your child's progress to date this year. Thank you for your excellent input at home too. If you missed the opportunity to catch up with your child’s class teacher, please email and we will arrange an alternative time.

Christmas and Advent season

We have been preparing for the upcoming Christmas and Advent Season and most dates have now been finalised. Details of the various Nativities and Carol Services, Christmas lunches are listed in this newsletter but we will also ensure they are on the school calendar on the website. We have been finding it difficult to schedule our KS2 Carol Service whilst Sacred Heart Church is being repaired. St Mark’s Church, next door to school, have kindly let us use their church over the past two years but they now have bookings most evenings. We are hoping to use St Mark’s Church on 18th December at 4pm KS2 Carol Service and are awaiting confirmation. We will let you know as soon as this is confirmed.

The PTA have planned some wonderful activities for the children on the run up to Christmas and have produced a poster to support organisation. Thank you – that is very helpful.

We will be singing at Teddington Lights Up later in the month and outside Gail's Bakery another morning (Charity Fund raising event). We will let you know exact times in the near future.

Between the PTA and school, we will try to keep everyone as organised as possible.

Elleray Hall Christmas Lunch and Advent Charities

Sacred Heart Church and our school are helping with the organisation of the Christmas Lunch at Elleray Hall this year. It is for the elderly in the community who are on their own for Christmas. There are about 70 people to cater for this year. The church are looking for volunteers to help before or during the event. Year 5, as part of their Caritas Ambassador’s work, have taken on helping with elements of the project and will be asking the school community to help with an aspect of this; the rest they will organise in lessons. We will await their guidance on what they need help with.

We will be supporting a number of charities/Christmas initiatives this Advent. These include Elleray Hall Christmas Lunch, Shooting Star Trust and Cafod World Gifts. We will align this fundraising to the various special events happening at school during Advent.

Anti-Bullying Week and World Kindness Day

Next week is Anti-Bullying Week and the theme this year is ‘Choose Respect’. We are holding Odd Socks Day on Tuesday 12th November. Please come to school wearing your odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique! We have planned daily activities and discussions for all year groups across the week. World Kindness Day is on Wednesday 13th November so we thought we would mark this event with the children as well.

On Monday we will have a Remembrance Service in School. The children have already been reflecting on the meaning of Remembrance Day, writing poems, prayers and making displays on this theme around school. We have a special Poetry Workshop relating to this theme planned for next Friday which all children will attend over the course of the day.

School Development Plan

Please find a link to a Parent friendly version of the School Development Plan for the year ahead. These plans always reside on the school website. The staff and governors work on this together each year.

School Lunches

Please encourage your child to eat a hot lunch at school. Once they try the food on offer, they usually like it. The lunches are fresh and flavoursome. Everything is cooked from scratch with a salad bar and a range of healthy desserts on offer each day. Please try new foods at home with your children; this is helpful to develop the children’s palates. Eating the free meals provided at school equates to around a saving of £500 per family, per child.

AUTUMN TERM 2024

Tuesday 12th November - Odd Sock Day

Wednesday 20th November- Mufti Day

Thursday 21st November - Yr 6 to Lincolnsfield

Friday 22nd November - Nasal Flu Immunisations

Tuesday 26th November - Book Fair

Wednesday 27th November - Book Fair

Wednesday 27th November - Yr 5/6 Boys football tournament

Thursday 28th November - Mufti Day

Saturday 30th November- Christmas Fair

Monday 9th December - Girls football vs SMSP

Tuesday 10th December - Boys football vs SMSP

Tuesday 10th December - KS1 Nativity 9.30 am

Wednesday 11th December - EYFS Nativity 9.30am

Wednesday 11th December - Christmas KS1 Film Night

Thursday 12th December - Christmas Lunch/Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 12th December - Christmas KS2 Film Night

Tuesday 17th December - Christmas Parties

Wednesday 18th December - KS2 Carol Service 4pm tbc

Friday 20th December - TERM ENDS (1.30pm finish)

Reception Ella for her focus in Phonics and brilliant recall of the 'Prickly' words/

Year 1 Maja B for always following our expectations and setting such a positive example for her peers. We're very proud of you Maja!

Year 2 Orla for her hard work across the curriculum and for challenging herself to extend her learning. What a star!

Year 3 Quinn for his fantastic efforts and focus in Maths and for his hard work and dedication to learning his 7 times tables! Keep it up!

Year 4 Bobby for showing brilliant resilience towards unexpected changes and for fantastic work in our Maths lessons.

Year 5 Liberty for her increased confidence in her abilities. Liberty listens carefully, makes contributions and is really engaged with her learning.

Year 6 Szymon for his determined approach to learning, always participating actively and giving his best.

The Raymond Kerr Writer of the Month Award

Year 1 Alexia for her fantastic story, your letter formation was lovely and well done on remembering how to write those tricky words correctly. Keep up the amazing work Alexia!

Year 2 Jacob for writing a super retelling of 'The Storm Whale', including a range of conjunctions and time adverbials.

Year 3 Eloise for her exciting and descriptive acrostic poem about Bonfire Night!

Year 4 Millie for her fantastic poem from the perspective of the living and the dead in Odysseus.

Year 5 Niamh for writing an excellent letter in the role of Magnus to his father.

Year 6 Fiona for writing an excellent diary entry as Mister Tom using original ideas, varied sentence structures and high quality vocabulary.

On Tuesday 5th November we played a Netball match against Twickenham Primary Academy. It was our first Netball match for some of us. We found it very excitable and enjoyable but hard work!

The match was at Sacred Heart and we felt that we played well but we did lose 4-2. We hope we do better next time! We still found it fun!

Thea and Niamh

Social Media

As you may know, Sacred Heart has been up and running on social media for a few months now. Our goal is to model a positive, safe use of social media, sharing moments of joy, achievement, and the many “little wins” that happen every day in our school community.

Please be assured that safeguarding is a priority: if your child does not have permission, their photo will not be posted. We do not use children’s names, to further protect children’s privacy. Please inform Miss Flowers if you wish to change permission arrangements.

If you aren't already, we’d love for you to follow us and see what your children are accomplishing. This space is here to celebrate our students and keep you connected to the vibrant life of our school. Thank you for your support in making Sacred Heart a joyful, safe, and supportive online community!

Follow us on social:

Instagram - @SacredHeartTeddington

Facebook - @SacredHeartPrimaryTeddington

Twitter- @SacredHeartTedd

EasyFundraising – many more retailers now donating to schools all year around

As we approach Christmas and we are shopping for groceries and gifts, why not let the retailers give a little something extra to Sacred Heart School in the way of funds. These donations from retailers to school soon mount up and proceeds are used for the benefit of the children. Perhaps grandparents, aunts and uncles could also sign up to Sacred Heart School as well. Once linked up on a device, you will be prompted, when shopping, if that particular retailer is part of the EasyFundraising scheme and a click of button means they make a donation to school. Thank you for your help with this.

Sign up here: https://join.easyfundraising.org.uk/sacredheartpsteddington/N799B1/c2s/cnZQq0VU/CE951/facebook/128

or scan QR code in poster

School Tours
Children starting school in September 2025: We would be delighted to welcome you for a tour of our school. Tours are running every Friday morning at 9.40am until early January 2024. Please ring or email school to book a place. Should a Friday not be convenient, please speak to the school office and they will arrange an alternative time. We look forward to welcoming you to Sacred Heart. In the meantime, please take a moment to watch a video about our school and to read about the benefits of choosing a smaller school for your child.

Sacred Heart also offers an EXTENDED NURSERY PROVISION to those eligible for 15/30 HOURS FREE CHILDCARE and to those who are SELF-FUNDED. We are happy to show you around so please do arrange a visit. Short video of our Nursery setting.

For the fallen

Remembrance day, 11 November

God of peace,

We pray for all victims of war,

We remember them, so that in remembering

Each new generation will know their sacrifice

And work even harder for peace.

Amen

Tel: 020 8977 6591

Email: info@sacredheart.richmond.sch.uk

Website: www.sacredheartteddington.co.uk

Address:

St Mark's Road,

Teddington,

Middlesex,

TW11 9DD

Sparks Film School at Sacred Heart School on Saturday morning during term time and also the school holidays. Details at

teddington - Sparks Film School (sparksarts.co.uk)

Changes to the Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) programme

Ahead of the new school year starting, we are writing to inform you of changes to the Volunteer Police
Cadets (VPC) programme, run by the Metropolitan Police Service.

The Met is committed to continuing to support the Cadet scheme, recognising how it contributes to
building trust with young people, supports recruitment and diversion, as well as having a positive
impact in communities through crime prevention and other police initiatives. There are currently 32
cadet groups across London and the scheme currently supports 4,100 cadets from the age of 8 to 18.
Changes to the scheme will see us retain all 32 groups, but instead our revised scheme will now run
for 13 to 17 year olds.

Click here to read more.

Connect with Your Kingston - New Whatsapp Channel

There is a new convenient way to stay up-to-date with the latest news, exciting events, and activities and services in your local area directly on your smartphone. Your Kingston Whatsapp channel from Kingston Council is a secure, private way to follow what matters.

Click here for more information.

Parenting support

Please see details below of two groups that will be running this term for parents and carers of adolescents.

Triple P Teen: This group is for parents and carers of adolescents with mild to moderate challenging behaviour.

Topics include encouraging appropriate behaviour and managing problem behaviour
Saturday 9 and 16 November at The Star Centre, Surbiton, KT5 8SU 10am-2pm for two consecutive weeks

Talking Teens: A four week parent group for parents and carers of adolescents.

Topics covered include understanding your teenager, managing conflict and communicating.
Friday 8 November at The White House Family Hub, 45 The Avenue, Hampton, TW12 3RN

For more information and to register interest in any of the above courses, please contact Karen Williams.

"I wish i’d known" webinar

“I wish i'd known” has been commissioned by the public health team in Kingston and is being run by the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation. It aims to help parents understand the risks regarding drug use and offers strategies for keeping young people safer. It is targeted at parents/carers of secondary school-age children.
Webinar Details:

Date: 27 November
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30pm
Platform: Zoom

Save money with our annual squash membership

St Mark’s Church next door to school - Christmas Schedule. A highlight will be the Messy Nativity Server, Donkey’s included!

https://stmarksteddington.org/christmas