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Newsletter 5 - 14th February 2025
Key DatesSPRING HALF TERM Monday 24th February Thursday 27th February Reception visit to Kingston Fire Station Eco-refill shop at 3.00 pm Friday 28th February PSA Year 5 cake sale after school PSA Quiz Night at 7.30pm Saturday 1st March Monday 3rd March Tuesday 4th March Thursday 6th March Friday 7th March Friday 14th March PSA Year 4 cake sale after school |
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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
School lunches
Lunches are available to order for next half-term. Please don't forget to place your child's order through ParentPay by 8:00 am on Monday 24th February. We strongly recommend that you order for the full half-term - changes to your order can be made at anytime before 8:00 am on the day.
Year Group Weekly News
Don't forget to check your child's Google Classroom for this week's update from you teachers.
Home Learning
Next half-term's Home Learning activities are posted on your Google Classrooms. Work should be completed in time for the class Home Learning Showcases in school on Friday 28th March.
Safety & ParkingPlease do not ride scooters or bikes anywhere on the school site for safety reasons. This includes the car park and pedestrian area running between Fern Hill and The Kingston Academy. Adults and children should dismount before entering the site at the Richmond Road entrance. Please may we also remind you that there is no parking on site. Our car park is shared with The Kingston Academy and is for staff use only. Parking restrictions apply on surrounding roads from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. |
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This week was the last week for Pottery club - we hope that it will run again in the summer term. Athletics and Gardening will start after the break. Author Visit
To celebrate World Book Week, author, Andy Jones, will be visiting Fern Hill on Tuesday 4th March to talk about his inspiring creative writing guide, ‘Unleash your Creative Monster’ and his hilarious zombie adventure, ‘Bob vs the Selfie Zombies’, which was shortlisted for the Spark! School Book Award last year.
If you would like to purchase a personalised signed copy of either of Andy’s books, please make payment via ParentPay by Sunday 23rd February.
Inclusion Coffee Morning
Our next Coffee Morning is on Friday 28th February and we would love to see you there! It starts at 9:00 am and runs for an hour. If you plan to join us, please let us know by completing the registration form here.
Royal Academy of Arts Young Artists' Summer ShowNow in its seventh year, the Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for students aged 4–19 studying in the UK. Submitting artwork is completely free and done online. Just follow this link and select Fern Hill Primary as your school. For children 12 or under, entry must be completed by a parent or guardian. Registration and submission is open until 5th March 2025. Each student can submit one artwork and there is no theme. When you enter, you’ll be asked for an image of your child’s artwork plus some information about the piece such as title, size, and a little text about it. It will be seen by a panel of judges and arts professionals and the selected pieces will be displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts when the exhibition opens in July. Please let us know if you submit artwork on behalf of your child, so we can have our own exhibition at school too!
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Arbor Parent Portal & App
This week, we enabled the Parent Portal and Parent App for Arbor to provide you with access to the information we hold about your children on our MIS. You will have received an email from Arbor to confirm that your account has been set up with instructions on how to log in. Thank you to all the families who have logged in so far.
This linked guide introduces the Arbor Parent Portal and details how to log in, navigate the homepage dashboard and switch between multiple children’s profiles. You may also find this leaflet useful when first logging in.
Any updates you make to the information we hold about your child will not show immediately in the Portal. They must be validated and accepted by the school first so please bear with us while we work through the requests.
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Book Day 
Book Character CompetitionOfsted Consultation
As you may be aware, Ofsted is revising its approach to inspections from Autumn 2025. They are asking parents, carers, professionals and learners what they think about their proposals to improve education inspections and their new report cards for providers. Please see this linked letter from Sophie Cavanagh, Executive Director of the Kingston Educational Trust. You can provide your feedback dorectly to Ofsted here.
Book of the Week
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Team Points Update
The overall House winner this week is KINGSTON
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KINGSTON 383 |
COOMBE 268 |
RICHMOND 309 |
HAMPTON 314 |
Attendance Update
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Weekly Attendance Congratulations to Year 1, who had the best attendance for this week. Lavender, Cornflower, Elm and Heather classes all achieved our school target of 97% attendance - well done! |
Year | Attendance % | Star Year ★ |
| Reception | 95.1% | ||
| Year 1 | 97.9% | ★ | |
| Year 2 | 96.4% | ||
| Year 3 | 95.9% | ||
| Year 4 | 93.9% | ||
| Year 5 | 96.1% | ||
| Year 6 | 94.4% | ||
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