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"Do everything in love" (1 Corinthians 16:14)

Newsletter                

1 May 2026

Kindness Ambassadors- Save the Date Fundraising Event

The Kindness Ambassadors had a visit from a member of the community outreach team at St Francis Hospice, as they are doing a  50KM trek across the Sahara. Our ambassadors wanted to help raise money for the hospice and had the fantastic idea for a PJ and bed head day on Friday 22 May.  They are going to create posters which we will send out shortly with all the details.

Booknic and Book Swap -Friday 8 May
With May being National Share a Story Month, we would like to invite our families to a 'Booknic'. The idea is come along with a blanket as well as a couple of books so we can come together to share stories.  The VSA have kindly offered to provide refreshments to help fund new books for the classrooms.

We also will be holding a book swap, as this was so successful last year.  If you have any books (for all ages) you want to bring in to swap, please bring them along by Thursday 7 May.  On Friday 8 May in the morning and after school, the books will be out for children to pick one.  We look forward to seeing you and if the weather is not great, we will set up in the hall.

Father Stuart's Sponsored Walk for Hector's House

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.

Oracy Homework Conversation Starters

This week the oracy task to discuss is:

What makes you, you?

 Use these sentence starters to help:

• What makes me is... 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

We hope you all like the new screens around the playground - and keep an eye out for new picnic tables and benches arriving soon. Improvements like these are made possible by your generosity, and we’re so grateful for the difference it makes.

Just another reminder of the following big events later this term:

• Summer Fair - Saturday 27th June, 12–3 pm

• Summer BBQ - Friday 17th July

More details on both events - and more - 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 - Isla for great listening and recall about life cycles
Ash - Eve got it for being kind to her friends in Reception.

Oak - Flora for showing resilience and trying her best.
Beech - Malea for showing kindness to everyone.
Cedar - Zoe for always following the golden rules and the Castle Way.
Hazel - Edward for the care and effort he puts into all learning tasks.
Rowan - Vaughan for fabulous description in English.