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Newsletter 3 - 23rd May 2025

Key Dates

HALF-TERM BREAK
Monday 26th - Friday 30th May

Monday 2nd June
Children return to school

Tuesday 3rd & Wednesday 4th June
Class Photographs

Thursday 5th June
Clover class parent assembly at 9:00 am

Friday 6th June
PSA Film Night for Years 5 & 6

Monday 9th June
PSA Mufti day for Summer Fair donations

Year 2 & 5 visits to Rose Theatre

Thursday 12th June
Cornflower class parent assembly at 9:00 am

Friday 13th June
PSA Dads' Breakfast at 8:00 am

Nursery Sports Day

Saturday 14th June
PSA Summer Fair 12:00 - 3:00 pm

Thursday 19th June
Cornflower class parent assembly at 9:00 am

Eco-Refill Shop at 3:00 pm

Friday 20th June
Sports Day for Reception to Year 6

Key dates for this school year are published here. Some of these dates are provisional, and all dates are subject to change — please refer to this newsletter and communications via ParentPay for the latest information.

Click here for term dates for the current and 2025/2026 school years, including INSET days.

Reminders

Illness
If your child is unwell and will be absent from school, please inform us by 8:30 am on each day of absence. You can email the school office at: office@fernhillprimary.org or call 020 8247 0300. If the office is busy, you may be put through to the answerphone. Please do leave a message. When you leave a message, please tell us the nature of their illness and the symptoms they have.

Year Group Weekly News
Don't forget to check the Google Classroom for your year group's weekly update and any important reminders for next week.

Home Learning

Well done to all the children for their fabulous work this half-term! Home Learning Grids for next half-term will be posted on the Google Classroom shortly and activities completed in time for the Home Learning Showcases on Friday 11th July.

School lunches & snacks

Please remember to order your child's school lunch by 8:00 am on the day required. Click here to view this term's full menu. If your child brings a packed lunch, please ensure it is healthy (no sweets or chocolate) and strictly nut-free. Please may we also remind you that morning breaktime snacks should be friut and/or vegetables only. This applies to all year groups. Children in Reception to Year 2 are provided with a friut or vegetable snack through the National Fruit for Schools Scheme but you are of course welcome to provide this from home.

Half Term Our last half-term break of the school year has arrived! We hope you have a great week and look forward to the children returning on Monday 2nd June. It will be a busy last half-term with some important dates, including Sports Day (Friday 13th June for Nursery and Friday 20th June for Reception to Year 6), the Fern Hill Art Fortnight (Monday 7th - Friday 18th July), and class changeover day on Monday 21st July. Year 6 will begin their transition to secondary school with the Kingston and Richmond borough transition days and will also be rehearsing for their drama production and Leavers' assembly at the end of term. We look forward to welcoming our new families who are joining us in September at the New Parents' Welcome Evening in June. Finally, a huge thank you to the PSA for organising some brilliant family events too, including FernFest on Saturday 14th June and the Dragon Boat Race on Sunday 20th July.

Spark! School Book Awards

The Fern Hill Spark! Pupil Competition is now open! The children can choose their favourite Spark! shortlisted book as inspiration for their entry and they can be as creative as they like…

Write a book review or design a book review poster
Write a story or create a comic
Bake a cake (and take a photo before it all gets eaten!)
Create an artwork or model
Create a story box for your favourite scene/setting
Recreate the cover using sewing/collage/crochet
Create a video book trailer
Write a song & record it

There will be prizes for the winners and the best entries will be sent? on to the main inter-school Spark! Competition. Please make sure your child’s name and class is on their entry which should be handed to Ms Rouillard in the library by the deadline of Monday 2nd June 2025.

Inclusion Coffee Morning

We are very sorry to have had to cancel the Inclusion Community Coffee Mornings on Friday 23rd May. We've rescheduled it for Friday 27th June at 9:00 am (but please bear in mind that this is the reserve date for Sports Day, in case of poor weather on Friday 20th June). The topic will be the same - how to support your child to develop positive home learning habits. If you plan to join us, please let us know by completing the registration form here.

Class Photographs

Our school photographer will be taking photographs of the children all together in their classes on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th June. This will include the Year 6 Leavers’ year group photograph. All children should be wearing full school uniform, including ties for Years 3 to 6. The photographs will be available to purchase and delivered to school before the end of the term.

Young Photographers’ Competition

This week, the children have been invited to take part in the Kingston Camera Club’s Young Photographers’ Competition. The photos entered will be displayed at Ham Fair on Saturday 14th June with the prize giving ceremony at 3:00 pm in the Art Marquee. Photos can be taken with either a camera or smartphone/tablet and there is no specific theme. Entries should be handed in to your class teacher no later than Friday 6th June. Happy snapping!

Eco Schools Update

Our Eco-Committee is on Instagram! Please follow @fernhillecoschool here. Thank you for all the lovely entries for the Bird Feeder Competition. Miss Evans has agreed to keep the competition open over the half-term break so there's still time to design and build one to support biodiversity in school. Please hand entries to Miss Evans in Nursery on Monday 2nd June. The Eco-Committee will judge the designs on Wednesday 4th and the winner will be announced at the end of the week in celebration assembly.

Sports Day

You will have received a letter today with all the details for Sports Day, which will be held on Friday 20th June at the YMCA Hawker Centre field. You can read the letter here. Events for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will take place in the morning from 9:20 am – 12:00 pm and events for children in Years 3 to 6 will run in the afternoon from 12:40 – 3:00 pm. We hope you will join us to cheer on your children and enjoy a whole school picnic lunch from 12:00 - 12:40 pm. If your child is in Years 3 to 6, please complete the short form linked in the letter by Friday 6th June to let us know their collection arrangements. Nursery will have their Sports Day the week earlier on Friday 13th June and it will be held in school. Miss Evans will share the details on the Google Classroom.

Become a Young Scientist for the day!

The Developing Minds Lab at Kingston University is holding their annual Young Scientist Event for children aged 4 - 12 on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th May. This free event takes place at Kingston University’s Penrhyn Road campus and is a fantastic day filled with fun, hands-on activities designed to spark curiosity and a love for science in young minds, offering a unique chance for children to explore the wonders of the scientific world, particularly about psychology and what psychologists do. You do need to book to attend - you can find out more here.

Time out for parents!

Care for the Family are running a free positive parenting course to provide practical information and tools to make your relationship with your child even better. This is a course covering the primary years, for anyone parenting children aged 5 to 11, and it starts on Friday 6th June at Kingston Town Children's Centre. You can find out more here.

Book of the Week

'Time Tub Travellers' by Claire Linney

When Zula’s teacher marks her history project down for historical inaccuracy, she is determined to prove that there were Black people in Tudor England.

A visit to her aunt’s antique shop leads to much more convincing proof than she could possibly have imagined when she and her best friend, Milo, are accidentally transported back in time to 1589 in a bathtub time machine. The first person they meet is a girl called Jane, daughter of the silk merchant, Reasonable Blackman, who was a real person who lived in Southwark in the late 16th century and is one of the earliest Black business owners on record.

A thief has just stolen a bolt of silk from Jane that was intended to make costumes for the theatre. Zula and Milo must help Jane to trace the thief, get the silk back and find a way to get back home again.

‘Time Tub Travellers’ is an exciting and engaging adventure story, perfect for KS2, and it is the first book in a series intended to bring to light the relatively unknown and uncelebrated role of Black people in British history. The story is also well-researched and packed with fascinating facts about Tudor London - highly recommended!

Team Points Update

The overall House winner this week is KINGSTON

KINGSTON

284

COOMBE

219

RICHMOND

239

HAMPTON

249

Attendance Update

Weekly Attendance Congratulations to Year 2, who had the best attendance for this week. Well done to Lavender class with the highest attendace at 99.3%.	Year	Attendance %	Star Year
	Reception	95.6%
	Year 1	97.1%
	Year 2	98.2%	★
	Year 3	97.6%
	Year 4	93.9%
	Year 5	96.9%
	Year 6	97.4%

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