Newsletter Two

W/c 9th September 2024

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PLEASE TURN TO PAGE TWO FOR SOME IMPORTANT MESSAGES FOR PARENTS

TURN TO PAGE FOUR FOR ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM FOSS - OUR FABULOUS PTA

DATES AND REMINDERS

(Dates may be subject to change. For a full list of our yearly dates please check our 'Summary of Dates' page on our website)

Tuesday 17th September - International World Peace Day

Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th September - Year Six Hooke Court

Tuesday 17th September - Curriculum Evening 18.00 - 18.30pm - Year Four - Rashford classroom (first floor)

Wednesday 18th September - Curriculum Evening 18.00 - 18.30pm - Reception - Anning classroom (ground floor)

Wednesday 18th September - Curriculum Evening 18.30 - 19.00pm - Year Two - Yousafzai classromm (ground floor)

Friday 20th Sepetmber - FOSS cake sales commence - school playground (more details on page four)

Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October - Scholastic Book Fair

October - Cultural Awareness Month

Thursday 3rd October - Year Six Junior Citizenship (further details to follow)

Wednesday 9th October - Harvest Festival

Monday 7th October – Year Six Talking Hands Workshop (further details to follow)

Monday 14th - Friday 18th October - Anti-Prejudice Week

Wednesday 16th October - Year One trip to Bockett's Farm (further details to follow)

Friday 18th October - FOSS Favourite Top Day (tbc)

Monday 21st October - FOSS Secondhand uniform sale (tbc)

Tuesday 22nd October - Individual school photographs

Friday 25th October - INSET DAY - School Closed (Stars will be open)

Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November - Half term holiday

Saturday 2nd November - FOSS rugby stall fundraiser

Monday 4th November - Children return to school

WELCOME TO ST STEPHEN'S - OUR NEW CLASS TEACHERS

Shara Sichon

Shara Sichon joins us as the teacher of Reception's King class. Shara taught the Reception Class in a school in Roehampton. At University she was awarded the Honorary Research Fellows Prize in Quantitative Psychology for her research into the impact of memory strategies on short-term recognition.

Charlotte Schmidt

Welcome to Charlotte, who is the new teacher of Rashford class. Like all our new staff, she was delighted to meet her new class this week. Charlotte joins us after working as a middle school teacher in her native Australia.

Ashley Lesch

Ashley is the new teacher in Year Two's Yousafzai class.

Originally from Mauritius, she is fluent in French and, in her spare time, enjoys crossfit. Newly qualified from St Mary's University, she formerly worked at a Teaching Assistant at Darrell School in Richmond.

Emily Scoffield

After a career break to spend time with her daughter Mattie, who moves up to Year Two in September, Emily joins us as the teacher of Year Three's Thunberg class. In her free time she loves to play tennis.

ST STEPHEN'S GETS TOP PLATINUM SPORTS AWARD

Gold simply was not good enough, they had to give us platinum. We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a platinum level Sports Games Mark for our PE and sports provision. Sports Games Mark is a government-led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. To achieve this highest of accreditations our school had to meet a stringent list of criteria, proving we engage all our children in PE and games, nurturing their involvement, whatever their abilities. We also compete in competitions in many sports and so much more. All in all, we are hugely proud of this achievement. Many thanks to Mr Cain and his team and all our children for having such a positive approach to PE and games. Here we give you Mr Cain and some of our Year Six who took to the playground for a mass cheer in celebration. And who can blame them!

SCHOOL CLUBS

New French Club at St. Stephen's

We will be launching a new lunchtime French club from Thursday 26th September. Year 1 & 2 Thursday lunchtime and Year 3 - 6 also on Thursday 15:30 - 16:30

This will be available to book on ParentPay from Wednesday 18th September.

Existing School run and external clubs

We still have some availability in our Autumn term clubs, please see ParentPay for those available to book. Please see the club schedule here for the external club contact details.

We are now pleased to open up Thursday after school Girls Football to Year 4, 5 and 6. This is a school run club facilitated by a Brentford FC coach.

STARS - October Inset Day

Our Stars Inset Day camp will be open on Friday 25th of October 8:30am - 4:30pm. Drop off is 8:30-9am and breakfast will be provided and served during this time. Please provide a refillable water bottle and a packed lunch and a snack for your child. Collection is 4:30pm from Winchester Road gate.

You can book a place on ParentPay, bookings will open on Tuesday 17th September.

GOLDEN GLORY FOR YEAR SIX FOOTBALL BOYS - REPORT BY MR CAIN

Last Saturday we travelled to Hampton School for a boys' football tournament which featured a combination of local state and private schools.

After performing so well season last year I was looking forward to working with this team again, a year older and wiser. The boys understanding of the game has deepened so much due to both our school and Brentford training. We started the tournament well, winning our opening game. And despite losing the second game, we remained unbeaten for the rest of the tournament. However, it did go down to the last game, where we needed a win to clinch the top spot. A draw would not have been good enough and the boys dug deep and fought hard for a 1-0 win. This ensured we brought home the gold medal, winning the Year Six section. Well done to all the boys - Aydin, Peyton, Oli, Seb, Freddie and Raff. We are all so proud of you.

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