Newsletter 3

26th September 2025

In this week's news...

Year 6 Junior Citizenship Workshop, Bryn Hunt starts Teacher Training

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

Where dates have been changed, reminders are yellow.

Newly added dates are green.

SEPTEMBER

Monday 29th September - Friday 3rd October - Scholastic Book Fair - 3.15 - 4.00pm

Tuesday 30th September - Year 5 Visit to St Stephen's Church for 150th Anniversary

OCTOBER

Thursday 2nd October - Year 4 Visit to St Stephen's Church for 150th Anniversary

Thursday 2nd October - Reception Curriculum Evening - 4.30 - 5.40pm Anning Classroom

Friday 3rd October - St Stephen's Literacy Fun Run (Years 1 - 6) - Moormead Park

Monday 6th October - Wednesday 8th October - Year Six residential trip to Hooke Court

Wednesday 15th October - Year One trip to Bocketts Park Farm

Wednesday 15th October - Reception Autumn walk to Moormead Park (further details to follow)

Thursday 23rd October - Year Four trip to Thames Explorers (further details to follow)

Friday 24th October - Inset Day - Stars will be open (further details to follow)

Monday 27th - Friday 31st October - Half Term

NOVEMBER

Monday 3rd November - Children return to school

Thursday 6th November - Whole School Flu Immunisation (further details to follow)

Monday 10th - Friday 14th November - Anti-Bullying Week

Friday 21st November - Year Two trip to Gilbert White's House (THIS IS A CHANGE OF DATE) further details to follow

Tuesday 25th November - Year Three Mandela class trip to The Museum of Richmond (further details to follow)

Wednesday 26th November - Year Three Thunberg class trip to The Museum of Richmond (further details to follow)

Wednesday 26th November - Year Five trip to Hampton Court Palace

DECEMBER

Monday 1st December - Year Six Swimming Group - last session

Monday 8th December - Year Six Helping Hands Workship (further details to follow)

Wednesday 10th December - Reception Nativity, 2.30pm

Thursday 11th December - Reception Nativity, 9.30am

Wednesday 17th December - Christmas Service at St Stephen's Church (further details to follow)

Thursday 18th December - Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day

Thursday 19th December - Last day of term - children finish at 2.15pm

For FOSS Fundraiser Dates, please see page 6 - FOSS UPDATE

Safeguarding Notice

For safeguarding reasons, adults are not permitted to use or accompany children to the toilets located next to the pitch. These facilities are for children only, and pupils must go in by themselves.

If your child requires assistance, please walk around to the Chertsey Road gate and use the toilets by the office, where you can accompany them. Alternatively, there are toilets at the Turk's Head.

Thank you for helping us keep all the children safe.

Scholastic Book Fair - Next Week!

Our Scholastic Book Fair will take place after school every day next week. Thank you Twyla, Myriam, Zeynep, Ujala, Caroline, Stephanie and Fiona for helping us run this.

If you're able to help out on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of next week, please do sign up.

Your support makes an enormous difference! Each year, the funds raised allow us to significantly enhance our school library class and book corners.

Volunteer

Our wraparound care team are busy making the most of our new outdoor marquee, and the children are loving their all-weather playtime outside. To make the space even more fun and creative, Stars would be very grateful for any donations of toys that could be used for outdoor play and den-building.

They are especially looking for things like:

Pop-up tents or small play tents

Tarpaulins, cushions and blankets

Plastic outdoor toys

If you have any of these items at home that are no longer needed, we’d love to give them a new lease of life at Stars! Please bring donations to the school office. Thank you so much for your support — it really does make a difference to the children’s play.

STARS OPEN ON INSET DAY

Stars will be open 8am - 4:30pm on our upcoming inset day on Friday 24th October. The cost will be £40 for the day, breakfast will be provided but please provide snacks and a packed lunch. Food sent into school should be in line with our Food in School policy and not contain nuts, sesame, coconut, bell peppers, red peppers or any of it's derivatives such as paprika, cayenne or chilli. Bookings can be made on Parent Pay from Wednesday 1st October. Drop off and pick up is from the Winchester Road gate.

A message from Vikki, our Finance Officer:

ParentPay Payments:

We understand that it is a busy time for everyone with a lot to juggle. Please can we ask that you open your ParentPay account and settle any outstanding monies owing. We are working through moving any credits from last year’s Stars Payment items into this year’s Payment items

All credits will be moved to the relevant morning or afternoon sessions as appropriate

To settle outsanding balances:

Log into your ParentPay account
Click on ‘Payer Dashboard’ in the drop down menu
Click on ‘Active Payment Items’
Scroll down through all payment items and outstanding balances are highlighted in red text

Payments are now due for the following trips:

Year 6 Hooke court

Year 1 Bocketts Farm

Year 5 Hampton Court

Year 4 Thames Explorers and PGL

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