Newsletter Six -W/c 9th October 2023

DO YOU LIKE OUR NEW MASTHEAD SHOTS?

Talented local photographer, Valentini Rebeschini, spent a day with us last week, taking lots of shots over a school day. Some of these shots will soon be uploaded on our website. We hope you love them as much as we do.

FOSS QUIZ NIGHT RAISES £2.3K! FOR MORE FABULOUS FOSS NEWS, TURN TO PAGE THREE

DATES AND REMINDERS

Monday 16th - Friday 20th October - Anti-Prejudice Week

Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th October – Individual Photos

Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th October – Parent Consultations online

Tuesday 17th October – Year Four - Turing class - trip to Turner's House

Wednesday 18th October – Year Four - Rashford class- trip to Turner's House

Thursday 19th October – Year Five - Attenborough - trip to National Archives

Friday 20th October - FOSS Favourite Top Day

Monday 23rd - Friday 27th October - Half-term

Thursday 2nd November – Year Two - trip to Gilbert White’s House (further details to follow)

Sunday 5th November - OPS Fireworks Night

Thursday 9th November – New parent tours

Thursday 11th November - Governors' Vision Evening

Friday 10th November - Remembrance Day Assembly - two minutes silence

Monday 13th - Friday 17th November - Anti-Bullying Week

Tuesday 14th November – Year One - trip to Strawberry Hill House

Wednesday 15th November – New parent tours

Thursday 16th November - Thunberg class assembly (tbc)

Wednesday 21st November – New parent tours

Monday 27th November - Flu Immunisations - whole school

Wednesday 29th November - Year Five - Lau - trip to National Archives

Saturday 2nd December - Christmas Fair

Monday 11th December - FOSS Christmas Market

Wednesday 13th December - Carol Service - St Stephen's Church - Year Two Nativity within the service 10am

Wednesday 13th December - Reception Nativity 2.30pm (tbc)

Thursday 14th December - Reception Nativity 9.30am (tbc)

Thursday 21st December - End of term. School closes 2.15pm

Monday 8th January - INSET day

Tuesday 9th January - Spring Term - Children return

CHANGE OF DATE - PLEASE NOTE ATTENBOROUGH'S CLASS ASSEMBLY IS NOW ON FEBRUARY 8TH 2024

IMPORTANT UNIFORM POLICY CHANGE FOR AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS CLUBS

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are writing with a slight change to our uniform policy.

If your child has a sports club after or before school, please ensure that they wear their St Stephen’s PE kit for the whole school day. We have made this decision in order to prioritise learning.

There should, therefore, be no reason for children to need to get changed at school.

Many thanks for your cooperation in advance

OUR JOYOUS HARVEST FESTIVAL

Our whole school got together for a joyous Harvest Festival this week. We were staggered by the amazing response to our call for donations for the Richmond Food Bank. It was beyond bounteous. This has already been delivered and will be distributed to needy families from today. We cannot thank our children and parents enough, your generosity has really touched our hearts.

The special assembly kicked off with some readings from Year Six and Danielle from the Richmond Food Bank joined us to explain the work she and the other volunteers do to distribute all your donations. Then, our lovely Lauren from St Stephen's church talked us through the significance of harvest for Christians. Some rousing singing and a prayer finished off proceedings wonderfully. Thank you so much to Mrs Blomley, our RE Co-ordinator, who organised this and all our assemblies.

GUIDED READING IN YEAR FIVE

Year Five is learning about the Republic of Benin this term. Our cross curricular approach means our children really immerse themselves in the subject matter, thus embedding learning. Here we see them reading some non-fiction history texts in preparation for writing a non-chronological report on the West African country. Benin is famed for its fantastic and highly skilled artwork, particularly bas-relief and life-size head sculptures. These are worked in many materials, including brass, wood and ivory.

TEAMWORK RULES THE DAY FOR YEAR FOUR FOOTBALL GIRLS

Results

Game 1 1-0 W

Game 2 0-1 L

Game 3 2-0 W

Game 4 5-0 W

Game 5 4-2 W

Last week our Year Four football girls, accompanied by our Sports Coach Mr Cain and Mr Dale, competed in a football tournament in Ham. Mr Cain said he was so proud of the sporting spirit and enthusiasm of the girls. It was almost a clean sweep of wins across the board, with the exception of one narrow loss. There was fantastic teamwork, with the balls really beginning to fly into the net, as the tournament progressed! Indeed, the last two fixtures saw our girls score four or more goals per match. Well done Sofia, Sassy, Isabelle, Amelia, Alana and Sasha.

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