Dear Parents and Carers
KS2 Carol Service
The KS2 Carol Service will take place at St Mark’s Church, next door to school, on the 18th December at 2.30pm. It should last approximately one hour. Apologies, that we could not have a later time but this is due to availability in the church; they have both morning and late afternoon bookings. St Mary’s College is also finished up for the term and so were not able to offer the Chapel as an alternative venue. If you wish to attend as a family, younger children can be collected from school but we are also happy to look after the younger children until the end of the service. Year 5 will be leading the service and each KS2 class will be singing as will the choir. It is always a beautiful occasion and a lovely start to Christmas celebrations. Hopefully, next year we will be back in Sacred Heart Church.
Flu vaccinations
The nurses came today to deliver the flu nasal vaccinations. They have informed us that they will be running a catch-up session locally should your child have missed out for whatever reason. They will let us know the date and time and we shall communicate this to you.
We enter a busy period now with lots of fun activities planned each week by school and the PTA. There is a wreath making evening on Wednesday 27th, the Christmas Fair on Saturday 30th 3 - 6pm and on Thursday 28th at 5.30pm you are welcome to join us singing Christmas Carols outside ‘Shambles’ in Teddington during the Christmas Lights Up evening.
We have a mufti day on Thursday 28th – Bring a bottle.
There is a book fair in the school hall on Tuesday 25th November and Wednesday 26th November after school. Please pop along if you can.
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, World Kindness Day Poppy and Poetry Workshop
We had a super Anti-Bullying Week focusing on ‘Choose Respect’ with World Kindness Day last week. There are plenty of photos of the children participating in all the activities. The Poetry and Poppy Worship on Friday was a huge success.
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.
