The Thomas Coram CE School

How have you shown: Kindness, Resilience, Respect and Thankfulness this week?

Newsletter 22
Friday 6th March 2026

"Do to others as you would have them do to you" (Luke 6:31)

Important Information for w/c 9th March 2026

Production club tickets are now on sale for the whole school. You can purchase your tickets here.
Just as a reminder breaktime and lunchtime snacks should be fruit, veg, dried fruit, crackers and not sweets, chocolates or crisps. Thank you.
Flyers at the bottom of the newsletters
9th March - Deadline for accepting secondary school place for September 2026. Information about what you need to do after you've been offered a place can be found here.

Oracy Homework

Would you rather a magic wand or be a super hero?

This Week

What a fantastic day we had yesterday! Not only was it World Book Day and we saw some of the most incredible book covers designed by the children, but it was also a glorious sunny day and the children went on the field! We celebrated World Book Day with a whole school parade of the book covers and Mrs Munro and I were blown away by the incredible designs! Well done to everyone for all the effort that was put in. Oliver from China has been chosen to be a mascot at the Six Nations Rugby for the Scotland Team and will be running out of the Murrayfield tunnel with one of the team on Saturday when they play France at 2.10pm! Today, we say a sad goodbye to Mrs Foran (one of our support staff) who will be moving down to Victoria on Monday to work with the Nursery children. We will be sad to lose Mrs Foran, but we have a new addition to TC, with Mr Morgan starting on Monday replacing her. We will also be losing Mrs Nield (Year 4 TA) at Easter, as she leaves to retire. Mrs Nield has worked at TC for an incredibly long time and has been a fantastic member of the team and we will be sad to say goodbye to her when she does go. I think I would definitely rather a magic wand than be a super hero, as I could then decide on anything I want to do. Look forward to hearing next week what you would rather. Just as a reminder, we have the Junior FOTC Fun event on Sunday 22nd March, the children are working super hard to set up different stalls and will be a really fun day for all of the families. Please do come along and support. We are aiming to raise £1200 this year, with this event hopefully raising around £600 for classroom equipment and playground equipment. More info will follow from FOTC. Have a lovely and restful weekend.

Worship

On Monday, Mrs Forde led worship and we spoke about resilience and not giving up in line with Jesus and the Disciples and Luke 5 1:11. Today we celebrated Madagascar's wonderful class worship - well done Madagascar! It was fab to hear everything you have learnt.

Friends of Thomas Coram

Junior Friends of TC - 22 March

🌟*DONATIONS!* 🌟

JFoTC need your help with donations for their Sunday Funday event on Sunday 22nd March!

Drop off stations will be available just inside the main gate at drop off on Tues 10th, Weds 11th and Thurs 12th March, where you can also buy tickets to use on the day (in place of cash)

We need…

🌟 Bracelet making bits
🌟 Packs of sweets
🌟 Colouring pens & paper
🌟 Pre-loved fancy dress, books & toys
🌟 Teddies

We look forward to seeing you there!

Important Information

Ties

Ties are going up to £6 from the 1/4/26 due to increase in cost from our supplier. We have a limited supply left at £5 for current pupils. If you would like to purchase one then please do so either via the Arbor Shop or with cash from the School Office.

Open Classroom

On Tuesday 17th March it will be open classroom - you will be invited in form 3pm to look at your children's work. More info to follow next week.

Red Nose Day - Friday 20th March

TC will once again be supporting Red Nose Day. Please see our Blazers or Pigtails poster here!

We have a Just Giving Page where donations can be made.

Bridgewater School Cross Country
We are looking forward to seeing lots of children at the annual Bridgewater School Cross Country on Saturday 21st March 2026. This is a fantastic event which brings the local school communities together in a morning of running, held at Bridgewater School, Berkhamsted.

More information including race times can be found here.

Community Information

Northchurch Social Centre have a community bingo night tomorrow - more details here.

Berkhamsted Town Council would like to invite you to the Lagley Meadow Hall Community Tree Planting Day on Saturday 14^th March 2026 between 11am and 1pm. Details can be found on the Berkhamsted Town Council website or here.

Weekly Attendance W/C 02/03/2026

Year 3: 99.1%
Year 4: 97.4%
Year 5: 94.8%
Year 6: 93.8%
Whole school: 96.3%

"Be present, be engaged and watch your knowledge grow."

Values in Action

Madagascar - Whole Class - For all learning their lines and performing fantastically in their class assembly.

Gambia - Isla - For resilience across this curriculum this week.

South Africa - Woody - For fantastic work in maths this week learning about fractions.

Norway - Ollie - For his fantastic contributions and resilience in Maths this week when looking at subtracting fractions.

Croatia - Whole Class - For their excellent participation in World Book Day

Finland - Matthew - For his resilience and perseverance in producing a persuasive travel leaflet with rich vocabulary.

China - Frank- For always showing kindness to others.

Borneo - James - For his hard work, effort and resilience this week, well done.

India - Albany - For her fantastic resilience when writing her non-chronological report in English this week.

Brazil - My Maths group- For Resilience for working incredibly hard for which I am very thankful to them.

Peru - Amelia - For showing kindness and respect to her friends at all times.

Mexico - Isla - For her resilience and determination with her writing this week.

A full calendar is available here

Flyers

Game On Easter Holiday Courses

Active Camps Easter Holiday Activities (Based at Berkhamsted School)

Storm Basketball Easter Camp

This week at St Peter's

Details of services at St Peter's can be found here.

To read the latest news from St Peter's click here.