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.

• World Book Day celebrations at Fielding- Friday 4th March

  Fri 25 Feb 2022 P. Whaley

  Fielding will be celebrating World Book Day during the afternoon of next Friday 4th March. Please click here to read further details. 

  

• ARP building works - risk of loud noise for 3 weeks

  Fri 25 Feb 2022 Peter Dunmall

  Construction works of our new single storey building for pupils with special educational needs continues. Ground works, including foundations, drains and the floor base are complete. Contractors now move on to the next phase of works.

  Prefabricated wall panels, constructed off-site, will be delivered by heavy vehicles and lifted into place by a mobile crane. These works start on Monday and are expected to last for up to 3 weeks. Building contractors tell us that the fitting of the wall panels with nail guns may result in high levels of continuous noise.

  I have written to parents and talked to pupils in classes most likely to be affected by the works. We are reducing the risk of noise from the work disturbing classes. Our external CDM Adviser, Roxanne Perveen, has told the contractors to:

  • add acoustic screens to safety fencing to reduce noise,
  • limit working, to take place between 9am to 3pm with a break of 1 hour around lunchtime.

  On Monday, Roxanne will be on site to measure sound levels.

  If needed, we will move classes 3F, 3S, 6S, 6P and 4P to ICT rooms or vacant classrooms when classrooms are empty while other age groups are taking part in PE and music lessons.

• Parents, we are looking forward to welcoming you back, next steps for 'living with COVID'

  Thu 24 Feb 2022 Clare Haines

  We are looking forward to  welcoming parents back to live events in school!

  Alongside our planned roll-out of in-school assemblies and events we will be welcoming parents back to our live events. This will start in 3 weeks time with our EMS ensemble concerts. The concerts will take place in week beginning  Monday 21st March. Miss Neil-Smith will be publishing the full timetable early next week so please look out for it. We will then be inviting Year 3 parents to our 'Easter Show (assembly)' on 30th and 31st March.

   

  We are starting with the concert and Easter show as  these events will take place in the main hall, which is a large well-ventilated space. This hopefully also give those parents who wish to attend enough notice. 

   

  At the moment we are not returning to events in classrooms because rooms are too small to ventilate and distance when pupils and parents are present at the same time.

   

  If all goes to plan, class sharing assemblies with an adult audience will start from Friday 22 April (after the Easter holiday).

   

  We will continue to focus on good ventilation and hand-washing. Adults in school and parents may still wear a face covering if they choose to.

   

  In school assemblies for the children will be returning to face to face assemblies in the halls. We plan to roll these out over a period of time so that we can review the impact on infection and revert to remote assemblies if necessary.

   

  Assembly roll out for children:

  • Year group assemblies, from Monday 28 February, Halls 

  • Phase assemblies, including singing assemblies, from Monday 14 March, Halls 

  • Whole school assemblies (by class letter) from Monday 25 April, Halls 

   

  Childcare 

  • Return to full mixing of pupil age groups from Monday 28 February

• PTFA Reminder - Termly Meeting (Monday 28 February 2022)

  Thu 24 Feb 2022 PTFA

  Do you want to hear about the PTFA plans for the next few months?  This includes progress on a Secondhand Uniform Shop, Bike Repair Scheme, Circus, Balloon Race, Secret Gift Shop and even the possibility of a Minecraft event.

   

  We'd love to hear any thoughts you have by attending one of the PTFA's meeting taking place on Monday 28 February.  The two meetings will be held at 10am (with Mr Dunmall attending) and 8.30pm via online Zoom. Register for the morning meeting here (https://bit.ly/3zsKNxE) or the evening meeting here (https://bit.ly/3HxmqBQ)

   

  Feel free to drop any questions or feedback to Nolan/Aaliah on fieldingPTFA@gmail.com

• How we communicate with you, and some FAQs

  Tue 22 Feb 2022 Clare Haines

  Thank you for highlighting communication in the parent survey as both a strength and an area for us to work on. Over the next few weeks & months we will be looking at how we can continue to improve our communication with you.

   

  You have told us that we have too many channels of communication and that you would like more individual information regarding how well your child is doing in school. We follow the Governing Board's parent/school communication charter that was put together by the Governing Board and a parent working group. 

   

  We have three main channels of communication:

  1. Latest News, this published on our website and updated throughout the week, we make sure that nothing is time critical as all of the week's news is published to you at the end of each week via email in our bulletin. 

  2 Year Group Noticeboard, this is where you will find information that is relevant to your child's year group. This is updated frequently by class teachers.

  3. Direct email, we use this if we need to communicate something to just you, for instance if it is about your child's class or your child, or a reply to an email you have sent us.

   

  We know different people like to receive information in different ways, so our other methods of communication are a copy of what gets published in Latest News.

  • twitter,  Facebook and MCAS alerts are a live feed of Latest News articles as they are published. 
  • Microsoft Teams is used for remote teaching, this is not a communication channel for parents.
  • PTFA WhatsApp groups are not official channels pf school communication, these are linked to PTFA events & communication. 

   

  Any general questions about school routines or events, for teachers or the admin team or any other member of staff should be directed to the admin email address so that we can quickly direct it to where it needs to go admin@fielding.ealing.sch.uk. 

   

  There is a huge amount of information on our website. Which at times probably feels overwhelming, especially when trying to find information quickly. I have put together a short FAQ document with some of the most common questions we are asked, along with a direct link to the relevant page on our website:

  • Parent FAQ

  Our communication charter is quite old! If you would like to help is develop this further, please send me an email at admin@fielding.ealing.sch.uk 

• Thank you for sharing your views, parent survey and next steps

  Tue 22 Feb 2022 Clare Haines

  Thank you for your responses to the Annual Parent Survey

  This year we had a huge response rate with 480 families families responding,  representing 613 pupils.

  We are delighted that our main strengths have been positively recognised by parents. The Governing Body and school leaders will begin to consider the areas for improvement over the next few months. We also recognise that some parents have highlighted other individual strengths and areas for development. Your comments will be shared in full with the Governing Board. For now I have provided a summary of your responses.

   

  402 families told us the about the things they like most about Fielding, the top 10 area are: 

  • Teaching and learning including the academic standards that we set (57 responses)
  • Our teaching team, including teachers and other adults in school (47 responses)
  • Values-based education, including, our welcoming, friendly ethos (42 comments)
  • Our pastoral care, focus on pupil wellbeing and expectations for behaviour. (40 comments)
  • Our child care provision (29 comments)
  • Our extra curricular offer including opportunities for sport, music, cooking and gardening, (28 comments)
  • Overall organisation and leadership of the school (21 comments)
  • Expectations and aspirations for our pupils (14 comments)

  352 families told us about the things we need to do better, the top 10 things are:

  • Communication, majority recognised this has improved but would like to see it more streamlined, some would like more communication with teachers, others more communication about progress. (88 comments)
  • Clubs, including availability and booking arrangements (66 comments)
  • Catering (19 comments)
  • more academic challenge (16 comments)
  • Our sports offer, to make it more equitable and encourage those who aren't sporty (14 comments)
  • Learning to be more fun (14 comments)
  • More arts and craft and creative activities (14 comments)
  • More tailored support for those who struggle with their learning (10 comments)
  • Managing behaviour and bullying (10 comments)
  • Communication about COVID and changes (9 comments)

   

  Read the full summary and year-on-year comparison:

  • Annual Parent Survey 2022

• Living with COVID-19

  Tue 22 Feb 2022 Peter Dunmall

  The Prime Minister announced plans for living with COVID-19 last night. The government also published guidance for schools. Key points for our school:

  • From today, no need for pupils or staff to test twice a week for asymptomatic infection.
  • From Thursday, the legal requirement to self-isolate and stay at home following a positive test is removed.
    • Instead, staff and pupils who test positive are advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue to follow the guidance until they have 2 negative test results on consecutive days.
    • Close contacts, who are fully vaccinated, and those under 18 years old, no longer need to test daily for 7 days.
  • We will continue to send a pupil home from school if they show common symptoms of COVID-19 at school, including a continuous cough, high temperature or loss of taste and/or smell.  
  • Until the end of this school year, we will continue to provide remote education by Microsoft Teams to those pupils who are self-isolating at home.
    • Parents please continue to use our form to tell us about pupils who are self-isolating at home (Fielding, Parents, COVID pages).
    • Pupils should only join remote lessons if they are well enough to work at home. Otherwise, please rest and recover.
  • During April, the government says that the NHS will contact parents to offer vaccination to all children aged 5 to 11 in England.

   

  The government continues to highlight the importance of high attendance at school. We will continue to write to parents if attendance falls below 95% for any reason. If we are worried about a pupil's attendance at school, we will work with families, including involving support from professionals beyond the school, until attendance improves.

   

  In school, we will continue to reduce the risk of infection transmission by:

  • regular hand-washing at break time and before eating food;
  • encouraging good respiratory hygiene - 'catch-it', 'kill-it', 'bin-it' approach for coughs and colds;
  • good classroom ventilation, balanced with warmth, by opening doors and windows;
  • staff distancing from pupils.

   

  National tests for pupils at the end of year 2 and 6 will take place, as planned.

  • The government will not publish 'league tables' to parents.
  • Schools will be given the usual information that lets us compare how well we are doing to other schools. 

   

  Shortly, we will set out our plans to phase out our remaining control measures in school, returning to pre-COVID arrangements and organisation. This will include relaxing the requirement for adults to wear masks in busy areas, returning to face-to-face assemblies, other large gatherings of pupils indoors and face-to-face parent events.

   

  A degree of caution remains because:

  • some members of staff have become ill with COVID-19, often needing a phased return to work over several weeks;
  • we may need to introduce more control measures if advised by our local public health team.

• COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey

  Fri 11 Feb 2022

  As many parents know, our school is taking part in the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey 2 (SIS2). This is a national study that aims to help government experts better understand how many school age pupils have developed antibodies against coronavirus. Results are shared with parents, so they will know whether their child has antibodies against the virus.

  What does the study involve?

  The study involves antibody testing and completing a questionnaire alongside testing. If you would like your child to take part, we would like you to complete a consent form and a short questionnaire about each of your children that you enrol. Once this is completed, your child will be a participant of the study. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer testing to children in pre-school/nursery years, so if you have multiple children in a selected school, please only register those who are in reception or above.

  The study is voluntary, you or your child do not have to take part and you can withdraw from any round of testing without giving a reason.

  The next round of SIS testing at Fielding starts on 9th -11th March. This involves a simple, saliva swab test. To sign up, follow this link . No need to sign up again if your child has taken part in previous rounds of testing.

  • SIS Sign Up Form

• Fielding Girls Football team are 3rd best in Ealing!

  Fri 11 Feb 2022 Dan Thomas

  The Fielding Girls football team were at Featherstone High School on Wednesday to compete in this years Girls Football Borough Finals. We qualified for the finals by finishing as runners up in the Featherstone competition and were now due to compete against the winners of that competition and the 2 finalists from the Willow Tree partnership competition as well. The winners of the Borough Finals go on to represent the Borough of Ealing at the London Youth Games later in the year so we were very excited to try our hardest to win today.

   

  Our first game was against Dairy Meadow, the team we lost to on penalties in the Featherstone final. We started really well and put Dairy Meadow under a lot of pressure. Eventually, the pressure paid off and Viv stepped up with a goal to put us 1-0 up. In the very short, 8 minute games that was enough to start us off with a win.

   

  Game 2 was against St. Gregory's who played very well. They had us under pressure from the start and we defended well until they eventually found a way through to score and go 1-0 up. We fought to get back in to the game but time ran out and we lost. 

   

  Our final game, was against Gifford and we knew we had to win it to have any chance of finishing top. The game was end to end with both teams getting chances to take the lead. It was Gifford who broke through first before they quickly added a 2nd. We kept our heads up and Lily got a goal back for us but again we ran out of time and so lost 2-1.

   

  After all games were played, it was St. Gregory's who were crowned Borough champions and we learned that we had finished in 3rd place today. Although, it was a tough afternoon we were pleased with the fact that we could call ourselves the 3rd best team in Ealing. Well done girls!

  

• PTFA Upcoming Dates for the Diary

  Thu 10 Feb 2022 PTFA

  The PTFA have a few events and meetings that are worth putting in the diary. These include: 

  • Tues 22 Feb - Next round of Fielding Egg Tickets go on Sale
  • Mon 28 Feb - PTFA Termly Meeting
  • Mon 21 March - Fri 25 March - Secret Gift Shop
  • Mon 25 Apr - PTFA Termly Meeting 
  • Sat 14 May - Sun 15 May - Circus