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Newsletter 34 Friday 20June 2025

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

Important Info for W/C 23 June 2025

Lunch Accounts	Please make sure your child's lunch account is in credit.
Class photos	Deadline for free delivery to school  Wednesday 25th June. After this date it costs £5.50 per order
Wednesday 25th June 2.30pm	Dacorum Family Support Anxiety & Attendance	Paragraph 3
Friday 27th June	Norway Class Assembly	9.00am
Friday 27th June	FOTC - Dress Down for Donations
Saturday 28th June	TC Fest
Flyers, letters and links	Game on   Next Thing Education	Bottom of newsletter

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

This week at Thomas Coram

Wow what an incredibly hot week we have had this week! The children have coped remarkably well in such high temperatures and have shown true resilience. Yesterday we had Ollie Pike in to talk to the children about the different types of love and how important love is. As a school, we really want the children to understand love and understand how love can be different for all people but showing kindness and respect demonstrate that love and we should be trying to do that each and every day. I cannot believe we only have four weeks left until the summer holidays, time is moving so quickly. Next week, we will be sharing the new classes and teachers with the children and with parents which will be an exciting time to look forward to. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. 

Worship 

On Monday, Father Stuart came in to discuss St Columba in worship and what a pilgrimage meant. On Tuesday we had our singing worship and today we had the wonderful class worship by Mexico. Well done all of Mexico. 

Important Information

Dacorum Family Support
We have arranged for Jan Nethercoat from Darorum Family Support to come and speak to TC parents around the theme of anxiety and the impact that it has on pupils' attendance. Like many schools we are seeing an increase in the number of children who are unable to attend school completely or for whom attendance is a real barrier for them. This is open to all TC parents and advanced sign-up is not necessary. Please come in via the main school reception. 

Date: Wednesday 25^th June

Time: 2:30pm - 3:20pm

Author Visit - Nadia Finer Tuesday 1st July

We’re thrilled to share that author Nadia Finer will be visiting our school on Tuesday 1 July to talk about her book, Quiet Riot.

Quiet Riot challenges the idea that shyness is something to be "fixed" and instead celebrates the successes of softly spoken trailblazers—from athletes and writers to scientists and activists. Featuring 40 real-life stories, this book reassures children that they don’t need to change who they are to achieve great things—they just need to embrace their own quiet power.

During her visit, Nadia will speak to the children about what it feels like to be shy and how to overcome the fears that can sometimes hold us back. She will also be sharing powerful stories of shy superheroes—from Marcus Rashford and Taylor Swift to Lionel Messi and Beatrix Potter—proving that quiet voices can make a big impact.

✨ Order a Signed Copy! ✨

If you’d like to purchase a special hardback copy of Quiet Riot for your child, and have it signed by the author, please place your order by Monday 30 June using this link: 

Community Information

Ashlyns Comedy and Curry - Friday 11th July 
Ashlyns are running a comedy and curry night more information can be found here. 

 

DENS Woodland Trail – Saturday 21st June, Berkhamsted Castle
A scenic community-friendly walk through nature, choose from a 5 or 10-mile walk (or run) through beautiful woodland and countryside. Whether walking as a family, with friends, or enjoying some alone time outdoors, whilst supporting a local charity. It’s a great opportunity for everyone to enjoy the outdoors, take on a challenge, and help make a difference in their community. Every step taken will directly support local people facing homelessness, poverty and social exclusion.
More details at: www.dens.org.uk/trail

 

Friends of Thomas Coram

Here is a line up of our remaining summer events!

We are always looking for helpers for our events.  Please let your rep know if you can help!

Shout out to all Year 6 parents - Year 6 are hosting the ice cream sale on Thursday 17 July - this is your last chance to help out at TC! Please let your rep know if you can help.

All tickets can be bought in our Box Office here.

Weekly Attendance W/C 16/06/2025
Year 3:  96.7%
Year 4: 96.1 % 
Year 5:  92.8%
Year 6:  92.7%
Whole school:  94.7%

 "Always show up, never give up." 

Madagascar - Sophia L - For excellent effort with her 100 word poetry this week. 

South Africa - Arlo - For being an excellent role model in our class; he is always calm, hard-working and positive.

Gambia - Joshua - For thoughtful contributions during our celebrating love week discussions. Well done Joshua! 

Finland -  Louis J - For always coming into school with a cheerful and positive attitude and for always being ready to be helpful and lend a hand.

Norway - Imogen - For her consistent effort in lessons, sharing ideas and working well with in a group. 

Croatia - Logan - For his improved presentation and handwriting. Well done!

China - Charlie - For showing creativity with his 100 word poem.

Borneo - Benji - For always working to the best of his ability and being an amazing role model to others.

India - Jasper - For incredible focus in his learning this week in all subjects.

Brazil - Whole Class - For amazing enthusiasm for Macbeth including your great acting and role pay in lessons.

Mexico - Parker - For maturity regarding transition to secondary school and throwing himself into all of our activities this week.

Peru - Freya - For her great examples of figurative language in English.

                                        A full calendar is available here   

Information attached this week

Flyers/ Links

Next Thing Education - Stem Camp

Game on Summer Camps

Good Shephard Holiday Clubs

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.