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Newsletter                

24 April 2026

School Effectiveness Advisor Visit-Maths

Our School Effectiveness Advisor came to visit and did a learning walk around the school, focusing on maths.  She fed back that there was strong teaching in every class, a consistent approach to embedding understanding of number and high quality interactions between adults and children.  We enjoyed viewing the activities that included making 5 in Nursery, making 10 in Reception, measuring in YR1 and division in YR2.  The children were using whole maths sentences to describe how they got their answers and showed their understanding in lots of different ways (using equipment and pictures).  

Liz Pichon- Virtual Author Visit Tuesday 5 May

AUTHOR EVENT WITH LIZ PICHON – SIGNED BOOK OFFER

On Tuesday 5 May, YR1 and YR2 will be joining a wonderful event with award-winning Tom Gates author and illustrator Liz Pichon.

She will take the children into the world of her new series, The Mubbles! With drawing, games, storytelling and more, this is one very exciting event!

You can order a signed copy from Our Bookshop- click link below...
https://www.ourbookshoptring.co.uk/product/meet-the-mubbles/
The signed books will be boxed up and sent to our school to arrive the following week.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM BEN AT OUR BOOKSHOP - Please include your child's name and class so the books can be labelled up for the event. Postage is not required; we will deliver all the books to your school.

Welcome to our Green Guardians

We would like to welcome our Green Guardians who are working hard towards our Eco School status and sustainability at Victoria School.  Look out for updated information on our website.

They are:

YR1-Evangeline, Kateryna, Malea, Massimo, Nate, Olivia and Zoe

YR2-Finn, Tommy, Leo, Talia and Max

Playground Update

We are absolutely delighted with the new screening for out playground. The children were amazed when they saw it at lunchtime and said it looked like a real life forest! Thank you to Mr Thomson for getting it up so quickly and the the VSA for making this much needed upgrade possible.

Nursery Offers

Thank you to everyone who have completed their application to our Nursery for 2026/27.  Offers will be emailed out today at 2pm with additional details on how to share which days/sessions you require. The deadline for accepting offers is 1 May at 12pm.  If you are having any difficulties accessing the forms or you have not received an offer email, please contact Admin at admin@victoria.herts.sch.uk

Class Photos

Oracy Homework Conversation Starters

This week the oracy task to discuss is:

Would you rather have fingers for toes or toes for fingers?

 Use these sentence starters to help:

• I would have... because....
• I think...
• In my opinion...

Encourage your child to turn and face you to talk and use a clear voice when talking.  A fun way to help with turn taking when talking, is to have an object that you hold and you can only talk when you have the object in your hand.

VSA Update

The two main VSA events for this term are as follows:

• Summer Fair - Saturday 27th June, 12–3 pm: Expect games, crafts, tombola, face painting, music, food, drink and lots more!

• Summer BBQ - Friday 17th July: Our relaxed end‑of‑term family BBQ to celebrate the end of the school year - think sizzling grills, picnic vibes, and a chance to catch up with everyone before the summer break.

More details on both events will be coming your way soon.

And a quick reminder: please drop any Woods of Berkhamsted receipts into the school office as we can exchange them for vouchers for the school. Thank you! 

Acorn - Cole for showing resilience when making new friends.
Ash - 
Oak - Freddie for being so enthusiastic about his learning, being kind and huge improvements in his reading!
Beech - Aira for always showing the golden rules and school values.
Cedar - Katya for showing kindness to others in the class by helping them with their learning.
Hazel - Sonny for his positive attitude to learning and for acting on feedback to improve his work!
Rowan - Georgia for fabulous problem solving with division.