Newsletter 11 - w/c 21st November 2022
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DATES AND REMINDERS
Tuesday 29th November - Year Five - Lau - Dickens Museum
Tuesday 29th November - Year One - Strawberry Hill House
Thursday 1st December - Year Five - Attenborough - Class Assembly
Friday 2nd December - Year Five - Attenborough - Dickens Museum
Saturday 3rd December - FOSS Christmas Market with Grotto
Monday 5th December - Friday 9th December - Year Six Obama - Bikeability Cycle Training
Wednesday 7th December - Reception - Nativity Dress Rehearsal for siblings in the afternoon
Wednesday 7th December - Year Three - Thunberg- Richmond Museum - am
Thursday 8th December - Reception - Nativity - 9.45am - School Hall (this is a change of date)
Friday 9th December - Reception - Nativity - 2pm - School Hall (this is a change of date)
Tuesday 13th December - Children's Christmas Market
Tuesday 14th December - Christmas Service - 10am - St Stephen's Church (includes Year Two Nativity)
Friday 16th December - Christmas Lunch
Wednesday 21st December - End of term - school finishes at 2.15pm
MR MUNN IS ON THE BALL
As you can well imagine, lost balls are an occupational hazard in a school playground. They stray upwards onto our flat roof by the bucketful and when stocks become particularly diminished we send up the intrepid Mr Munn to rescue them. This week his foraging was very successfull and balls aplenty were rescued, resulting in some very happy, smiley children. Thank you Mr Munn!
OUR YEAR TWO CHILDREN ARE GETTING READY TO PRESENT THEIR FABULOUS NATIVITY AT OUR CHRISTMAS SERVICE IN ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH ON DECEMBER 14TH AT 10AM. YEAR TWO PARENTS, WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU COME AND JOIN US TO VIEW THIS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH HELPERS - FRIDAY 16TH DECEMBER - WE NEED YOU!
Our annual Christmas lunch, as prepared by our fabulous chef Nicola and her team, is always a highlight of our Christmas calendar. We will need helpers to dish out the festive feast. Next week we will be sending out a letter to all parents asking for volunteer helpers. It is being held on Friday 16th December. These are not salaried appointments but we can pay you with a free Christmas lunch and lashings of good cheer. Thank you.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW YEAR SIX JUNIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM
VICTORIAN VALUES IN YEAR FIVE
One of our favourite educational trips is when our Year Five children go back in time at Gunnersbury Park Museum. Studying the Victorian era makes this excursion a must as children get to go in the Dunces' Corner, scrub floors and endure endless shouting, learn to iron the old fashioned way and so much more. We may sound harsh and uncaring but this short taster of what a Victorian childhood was like really enables our children to show empathy with the past.
To get into character our young historians donned ninetenth century garb, as did our staff - see below. Thank you so much to our parents for supporting us so beautifully by seeking out some splendid vintage-style togs, it made all the difference. A wonderful trip. We promise no children were harmed during this trip - nobody came back with housemaid's knee and any knuckle rapping was purely for the camera.
