Newsletter 6

Friday 11 October 2024

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

Important Info for W/C 14 October 2024

Parent Consultations	Bookings go live 7pm Monday 14th October	Paragraph 6
Captains Club	Bookings for Autumn 2 go live 7pm Monday 14th October
Hannah Gold Author visit	Tuesday 15th October
Y6 Secondary School Applications	Deadline for applications 31 October PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE IT TO THE DEADLINE	Paragraph 8
Lego Club	Mrs Giles would love any donations of Lego to add to her collection as her Lego club has become very popular!
Berkhamsted Rotary Fireworks		Paragraph 14
Half Term holiday courses/ camps links		End of Newsletter - new links added weekly

Resilience quote of the week: “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!

This week at Thomas Coram

Go team TC!! So this week we started to think about how we can build up that team spirit across the school and our starting point is to call ourselves team TC. During worship, I will now greet the children by saying Good morning/afternoon team TC. The Pupil Parliament and classes are now also thinking of the best way to greet me back so I am looking forward to sharing with you, what the response will be. I'm sure the children were eager to share with you our big news that arrived in school on Tuesday!! We now have wall wraps in the corridors and library and they look incredible. In the corridor beside the gym, we have a large timeline, between Year 3 and 5, we have a world map and in the library we have an amazing magical area. These were able to be provided for TC, with the money we were donated from The Lawton Trust last year. Have a look at the amazing pictures below!

Worship

On Monday, Father Stuart spoke to the children about Joseph and his brothers and the children have looked at that during the week and how it relates to their life. On Tuesday, Mrs Bruguier was leading singing assembly and as I walked past I was amazed at the children's fantastic signing of Joseph. Thank you to Mrs Bruguier for organising such wonderful singing assemblies. Today, our wonderful pupil parliament led our worship and spoke to the children about resilience and how resilience will now be awarded across the school.

Kindness Challenge

For Anti Bullying week next week, we are launching a writing challenge for the children. Can they create a poem on kindness? The poem can be in any style and needs to relate to kindness. The poems need to be in by Friday 18th October, we look forward to seeing the poetry the children create.

Asda Cashpot for Schools

Asda have signed up with PTA charity Parentkind to support school PTA's this Autumn. To help the FOTC get money for nothing, all you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app and choose our school. Between now the 30th November – every time somebody downloads the Asda rewards app and opts-in to support our school, Asda will give us £1!! Whilst we know it isn't our local supermarket, every time you shop with Asda or George using your Asda Rewards app, Asda will also donate us 0.5% of the value of your shop. Plus, it doesn’t stop there – Asda have given us £50 to get us started! If every child had 1 adult sign up, we would get £350 for practically doing nothing! This is an amazing opportunity for us so please download the app today!

Production Club

We have been overwhelmed with the number of pupils wanting to take part in Production Club this year! 90 pupils have signed up which is amazing and 25 more than last year! At the moment, we are no longer accepting new pupils to join. We will review this at the end of term and may do a shout out for pupils to join the chorus in January.

Important info

Parents Evening

Please check the email from Miss Hill inviting you to Autumn Term Consultations which went out yesterday. Bookings go live in Arbor at 7pm on Monday 14th.

Jewellery

Please can we remind you the children should not be wearing jewellery to school. Only a small pair of studs should be worn. Children should not be wearing necklaces, bracelets, dangly earrings and anklets!

Secondary School Applications
Applications for Secondary School for September 2025 are open. A guide for parents and carers can be found here. The deadline for applications is Thursday 31st October. Please make sure you have applied by this date. If you have any questions or need any assistance then please contact Ms Rennie in the office.

Class reps

We are still looking for class reps for South Africa, Norway, China, India & Brazil. Having a class rep for your class is a great way to get extra reminders for what is going on in school and for your class to take part in parent voice later on in the year. If you would like to sign up please use this link.

Friends of Thomas Coram

Please see our 'What's on Weekly' here - it's filled with all of our upcoming events such as dress down days, AGM and festive workshops so please do take a read.

Community Information

Toy Hub

Toyhub is a local charity working in Berkhamsted, Tring and local villages whose mission is to ensure every local child has a gift to open at Christmas, by providing parents and caregivers with unwrapped, age appropriate gifts. They are currently running a donations appeal and would be very grateful for any donations listed here. Please bring any donations after half term. Thank you.

Community Nursing Team

The Hertfordshire CNT have asked us to share their latest newsletter with you.

Pepper Foundation
The Pepper Show (https://www.pepper.org.uk/about/the-pepper-show/) is taking place next week (15th - 19th Oct) at the Dembe Theatre in Tring. It's a great event and raises money for a very worthy local cause. Please do take a look via the link above.

St Peters News
St Peters are holding a 'Be a Chorister' day on Sunday 13th October between 1.30 and 5.45pm. This is an opportunity for you to come and try out singing, make new friends and have tea, juice and cake. It is open to all children aged 6+

We're introducing a short time of prayer at St Peter's at 9am on Fridays during term time. Meeting for about fifteen minutes, it will provide an opportunity to share in a bit of stillness in the busy week. Many people find that just being in St Peter's can bring a sense of calm and centredness.

Please feel free to bring along younger siblings, take-away coffees, and whatever (or whoever) else you might have with you. Starting on Friday 11th October. If you'd like to know more, please contact Fr Stuart - fr.stuart@gmail.com

Berkhamsted Rotary Fireworks
Once again we are selling discounted tickets for the Fireworks on Saturday 2 November. Family tickets cost £25 (£30 on night), Adult £10 (£12 on night) ,Under 16 £7 (£8 on night). Tickets can also be bought online using the following link BerkoBang.

Woods of Berkhamsted School Scheme

Thank you to all the parents who dropped in receipts from Woods, we have been able to brighten the front entrance with plants from there. Please remember us if you buy anything from Woods (all their outside plants are half price at the moment!). For each £100 of receipts we give them, we get a £20 voucher to spend there, which we can use to brighten up other areas of the school.

Madagascar - Winnie and Amber - for their determination to write independently.

South Africa - Alizah - for a fantastic start at TC. She is always enthusiastic and positive and is an excellent role model for the class.

Gambia - George - for working hard across the curriculum and confidently sharing his answers in Maths lessons this week. Well done George!

Finland - Jaxson - for improved focus and concentration and giving it 100% in lessons this week.

Norway - Jacob - for super effort in all his learning this week.

Croatia - Bradley - for his improved focus and trying to do his best this week.

China - Chloe - for always being cheerful, positive and working hard in all lessons.

Borneo - Elwood - for being a wonderful friend and giving support to others when needed.

India - Josh - for his concise summary of the story of Joseph in class worship.

Brazil - Avaley - for always working extremely hard and challenging herself to do her best in every lesson.

Mexico - Rocco - for his brilliant independent writing about monsters, as well as fantastic effort in PE.

Peru - Ernie - for being incredibly focused in lessons and using great historical skill to investigate Maya artefacts

Weekly Attendance W/C 07/10/24
Year 3: 98%
Year 4: 96.5%
Year 5: 94.3%
Year 6: 90.6%
Whole school: 95%

A full calendar is available here

Information attached this week

Whole School letters/emails sent this week

Parent consultations

Flyers/ Links

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.

The Thomas Coram CE School

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