Newsletter 3

Friday 20th September 2024

 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Genesis 1:3

Important Info for W/C 23 September 2024

Wednesday 25 September	Individual Photos deadline for free school delivery
Thursday 26 September	FOTC Meeting	Paragraph 6
Friday 27 September	South Africa Class Assembly	Paragraph 3
Friday 27 September	Eco Council - Wear Green, Be Green	Paragraph 4

This week at Thomas Coram

On Monday, Father Stuart started our Collective Worships for the week by looking at The Fall, Genesis 3: 1-13. On Tuesday, we had our first singing assembly with Mrs Bruguier, which I heard was fantastic! On Wednesday and Thursday, the children had class worships, looking at this weeks theme and how it impacts their lives. Today, Miss Williamson  celebrated our stars of the week.

We are looking forward to welcoming parents and carers from South Africa into school on Friday for our first class assembly of the school year. The assembly will start at 9am you can come in via the main gates, just after 8:45am.

To celebrate becoming an Eco-School, our Eco Councillors would like to raise more awareness by inviting everyone to take part in our 'Wear Green, Be Green' day on Friday. You can wear a green accessory to school alongside your school uniform, such as a green tie, green socks, hair scrunchie etc. You could also bring a waste free lunch, or walk to school. Mrs Giles and The Eco Councillors will be meeting regularly to talk about their eco action plan for TC!

Friends of Thomas Coram

FOTC Meeting

The FOTC are holding their first meeting of the year on Thursday, 7:30pm at The Old Mill. All welcome, so please do pop along if you can.

For all upcoming FOTC information please see their - 'What's on Weekly' 

 

Community Information

Rotary Young Photographer Competition

Berkhamsted Rotary Club have launched a Rotary Young Photographer Competition.

This event is free to enter and open to all young people aged 7-17 years old. It is an opportunity to interpret this year’s theme: ‘Wonderful Water’  and express their ideas through the medium of photography. Ownership of a fancy camera is not essential as any digital photo in .jpg format can be submitted, so mobile phone cameras can be used.  Furthermore, entrants submit a portfolio of three pictures online, thus avoiding any printing costs.
There are three age related entry levels:

Junior: 7 to 10 years old, Intermediate: 11 to 13 years old, Senior: 14 to 17 years old

The competition details and entrance packs are available now at www.berkorotary.org 
The closing date is 31 January 2025 and although the cut-off date is 4 months away we want to give the entrants every opportunity of taking pictures in all weathers.
Winners of each Dacorum level will receive a £100 prize, an engraved commemoration plate and the opportunity to have their work displayed in an exhibition.  All entrants receive an online certificate commemorating their participation in the competition.  
In recent years, local students have won the Dacorum Area Competition, the Rotary District (Beds, Bucks and Herts) Competition and the Rotary National Competition.

Hospice of St Francis - Mudpack Challenge

The Mudpack Challenge is returning to Ashridge House on Sunday 13 October. For more information please click here.

Parents of Neurodiverse Kids (PONK)

As the Parent Carer Forum for Hertfordshire, HPCI has been asked to work with families at the school to help deliver a key part of the project - understanding how families and the school can work together to improve support for children. To help us with this, we have developed a short survey for all families at the school. The survey should take less than five minutes to complete and is open until 29th September. You can find it here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/HertsPINS1. Thank you to all the parents that completed the survey so far.

  

Weekly Attendance W/C 16/09/24
Year 3: 97.4%
Year 4:  96.4%
Year 5:  94.9%
Year 6:  98%
Whole school:  96.6