Keep up to date with all the news happening in the school at the moment. Articles are added during the week. Parents are encouraged to check regularly. Our weekly bulletin, emailed directly to parents, summarises content for the week.

• Annual Parent Survey - Closing soon

  Sat 28 Jan 2017

  411 responses so far...representing 599 pupils

  Over half of our pupils are represented in our annual parent survey so far this year.

  Parents are encouraged to complete our short, web-based survey to help us hear what we are doing well and where we need to improve.  The survey will close on Friday 3rd February.

  Please make your voice count by completing our survey:

  • Annual parent survey

• How safe is your child on-line?

  Fri 27 Jan 2017 L. Stabler

  Lots of children using or having access to social networking sites

  Following our very successful NSPCC assemblies last week, Key Stage 2 have been having class discussions and lessons regarding E Safety. What became clear very quickly is that children are having access to a wide range of social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Musical.ly, snap chat and WhatsApp. They also showed very little understanding of privacy settings (particularly on Musical.ly) and that anything they post could be visible to outsiders. We regularly discuss E-Safety in school including the dangers connected to talking to people on line and steps to keep themselves safe as part of our curriculum but it is clear that this is an increasing issue. Children as young as eight are admitting to creating their own or using older family member’s social media accounts and admit to not always telling their parents. We would strongly recommend that E safety needs to continue to be spoken about regularly at home.

  Below is an interesting article regarding children using social media and two website links with further advice on how you can support with this at home.

  • Child, Safety online 
  • Common Sense Media, social networking
  • NSPCC, Keeping children safe

• Inclusion Drop-In with SAFE

  Thu 26 Jan 2017 C Chadwick

  The next Inclusion Drop-In will be held on Thursday 2nd February from 2:30pm-3:30pm.

  We will be joined by Patricia Meyer from 'Supportive Action For Families In Ealing' (SAFE).

  Patricia will be joining us to explain the role of this service, and the support on offer to families. 

  This may range from supporting behaviour at home, breakdown in family relationships, parenting support, mental health issues and many other difficult situations.

  Please join us to  find out more.

• The Countdown Begins!

  Thu 26 Jan 2017 Karen Esprit

  Breaking news!

  Tim Peake’s spacecraft lands at the science museum just in time for the holiday club’s visit. Would your child like to see the capsule that has travelled hundreds of miles through outer space? The two metre-tall Russian capsule carried Major Peake on his 186-day mission – in which he became the first British astronaut to walk in space.

  This is a huge treat for space fans or those curious to learn more. Could this trip inspire a Fielding child to be one of the next generation of astronauts?

  Bookings now open on Laser.

  

• Healthy Fielding, snacks and lunchboxes

  Thu 26 Jan 2017

  Working with parents to continue the good work

  In the summer term we were very proud to have received the Gold Healthy School Quality Mark in recognition of :

  • improving pupils' emotional health, well-being and behaviour though Values-based education and MindUp
  • increasing physical activity through greater uptake of specialist sports clubs and our PE curriculum
  • promotion of healthy living through our PSHE curriculum.

  We have noticed that some children have started bringing in unhealthy snacks for morning break. Can we ask you to check the following:

  • break-time snacks should be fruit only (this is provided for children in Early Years and key-stage 1)
  • lunchboxes should be balanced, click here for ideas: Change4Life

  We know that some families like to celebrate  birthdays by sharing treats with the class. If you would like to do this, treats should be brought in after-school  and can be given out in the playground, please do not ask our teachers to do this. An alternative healthy option to this could be donating a book to the class library on your child's birthday.

• More exciting reading opportunities!

  Thu 26 Jan 2017 P.Whaley

  First £15,000 worth of books have arrived!

  We are thrilled to have received our new order of books for the libraries and book corners in the school. Mrs Hodge and the Year 6 librarians are currently eagerly sorting and stamping the books and teachers and children will be able to view them by the end of this week or early next week. 

  Scholastic Book Fair begins on Monday for one week!

  We welcome the scholastic book fair in the KS2 library every morning before school and afternoon after school next week. It will be open from 8am and close promptly at 8:30am. In the afternoons, it will open at 3:45pm and close promptly at 4:15pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

  Readathon continues!

  Children throughout the school continue to challenge themselves in reading all the books that they set out to read during the month of Readathon. Readathon ends on Thursday 9th February. http://www.readathon.org/ has lots of useful information and it is where family members are able to donate.

  Book donations

  We always welcome donations of books. Please view our wish lists below.

  • Book lists

  Thank you for all your ongoing help and support, particularly to all parents and carers who volunteer their free time to come in and read with the children.

• Focus on Fielding, 1st February, 'How do we measure and share your child's progress?'

  Thu 26 Jan 2017

  Parent information and Q&A session, 1st February

  Come and join us on the 1st February at 9am or 6.30pm for our next 'Focus on Fielding' session. We will be discussing how we assess your child's learning and what our online reporting system shows. 

  During the session we will cover:

  • Our assessment principles
  • How we measure your child’s progress
  • How we report to parents

  We would also like to use this opportunity to find our your views. At the end of each session there will be time for you to ask any questions about the school. Each session will last no longer than 1 hour.

• Year 1 news

  Wed 25 Jan 2017 E. Tsoukala

  Lots of exciting things have being happening  in Y1 since the beginning of 2017!

  Readathon started on 9^th of January and is taking place for one whole month. Children from the whole school have chosen what they are going to read and have asked family and friends to sponsor them. Family members are able donate the money on the readathon website (www.readathon.org). Children in Year 1 have shown particular enthusiasm.

  ‘I’m trying to read all the Roald Dahl books’, said James from 1P. Matilda is also excited and said that she is hoping to read all of the books that she has chosen. All the children are excited about the new books which have arrived for the book corners in the school and cannot wait for the book fair to open next week!

• Year 4 - The Winter March!

  Wed 25 Jan 2017 Mr. McConnachie

  What have Year 4 been doing?

  Year Four have been doing their best to brighten up their days by getting to grips with co-ordinates, plotting shapes, X and Y axes, translations, rotations, lines of symmetry, and right angle turns. Remaining hopeful and enthusiastic about this unit was easy for most as three weeks of fractions were beginning to take their toll, however all made huge progress!

  From castles in the sky to miniature fairy castles in the sand, some truly magical and wondrous castles were created in English with the help of Colin Thompson’s clever, spooky and captivating book ‘Castles’. The children used their grammar skills of extended noun phrases, paragraphs to organise their ideas as well as presenting their writing with headings and sub-headings to create some fantastic and fabulous reports on their fictional Castles.

  With Norman Day fast approaching, February 10th, the children have been exploring all about 1066, the Battle of Hastings, Motte and Bailey Castles and the Doomsday book. With the sound of marching and singing rumbling through the upper school corridors, 4S and 4H have been showing off their stuff and practising for their class sharing assemblies. Be sure to check the school website for updates to the big day, but rumours are still abound that the King Dunmall might make an appearance, or at least his minstrel??

• Tolerence Lessons in Year 2

  Wed 25 Jan 2017

  Year 2 English

  In keeping with our Curriculum topic "How have Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela helped to make the world a better place?" We have started a new English text which has really captured the interest of all pupils. This week we have been learning about recounts with a focus on the book "I am Rosa Parks". From this text, the pupils have learnt all about who she was and what her life was like, sparking some great discussion within the classroom. We have thought about what we have learnt about Rosa's life and how she shows the values we learn about at Fielding. Milo in 2H said “It’s been really interesting learning all about Rosa Park’s life and how she changed the lives' of black people.”​

  In addition to learning about the values Rosa showed, pupils are learning the apostrophe being used in writing for contractions, and using this skill in their recounts.