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.

• Bentleys Class Photographs

  Fri 27 May 2022 School Office

  Unfortunately due to staff sickness annual class photographs for Reception to Year 6  scheduled for 6th June will know take place on 27th June  Please ensure your child/children are in full school uniform on that day.   2H will need to bring their school uniform in a bag due to their gardening and cooking lessons in the morning.

• Virtual Author visits and this week's Reading Celebrations

  Fri 20 May 2022 P. Whaley

  Pupils in Reception and Year 1 are eagerly awaiting a Virtual Author visit at 10:30am this morning from author, Lotte Jeffs and illustrator, Sharon Davey. They will introduce themselves and their new book, 'My Magic Family,' which is out next week. This follows the success of the Spring term virtual author visit in Years 4, 5 and 6. Classes will listen to a reading from the book and view the illustrations, join in and talk to a partner about what they remembered from the story, watch a live draw-a-long and create their own superhero family so an action-packed morning awaits!

   

  Lotte Jeffs is an award-winning journalist and former acting Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of ELLE Magazine. She writes for various publications and is the host of the LGBTQ+ Parenting Podcast Some Families.

  Sharon Davey is a children's illustrator based in Surrey, England. She worked as a set and costume designer for 15 years before moving into illustration.

  To find out more information, please click here.

  If your child receives a Pupil Premium grant, they will receive their own copy of the book to take home in the coming weeks. 

   

  Pupils in Years 2 and 3 are also looking forward to a Virtual author visit on Friday 17th June from Sharna Jackson, author of, 'The Good Turn.' Copies of the book have been purchased for children who receive a Pupil Premium grant in these year groups. To find out further information, please click here. 

   

  It has been a pleasure to see even more pupils at Fielding being awarded Bronze, Silver, Gold and even Platinum Reading Awards this week. These are achieved for pupils having read  5, 10, 15 or 25 books from their year group recommended reading lists and completing response activities (from the options provided in their reading record). Response activities can be submitted to class teachers on Teams under their class notebook, in the recommended reading section or handed in to their class teachers in person. We look forward to celebrating more reading achievements next week! 

   

  You can view your child's current recommended reading list when you sign their reading record or click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the page. English | Fielding Primary School. In preparation for next academic year, teachers have updated the  lists to include even more of a diverse range. These can also be viewed by following the above link. These will be published in your child’s new reading record which they will receive in September.

   

  £1500 has been spent on new book stock in the KS1 and KS2 libraries and the delivery has begun to arrive this week! Children will have an opportunity to look at the new books during their timetabled library sessions with our school librarian, Mrs Hodge, and will continue to be able to borrow books to bring home. Please do ensure that your child remembers to return the books once they have finished reading them so that others can enjoy them.

   

  Please do continue to take the time to read daily with and/or listen to your child read for 20 minutes and sign their reading record. This is invaluable as it instils a love of reading amongst our pupils and essential to teachers as they continue to monitor the books that their pupils are reading at home and recommend new books based on their interests. 

  

• PTFA's EasyFundraising goes mobile

  Thu 19 May 2022 PTFA

  Would you like to donate to the PTFA at no additional cost while online shopping , but don’t know how or keep forgetting. Help is here! As an example, Nolan (Our PTFA Chair) has raised over £50 by tagging this app since the start of 2022. Use it on anything from supermarkets, insurance, travel, fashion shopping and even protein!

  1) First, download the easyfundraising app found here – available on Apple and Android: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/easyfundraising-app/

  2) And, if you shop online with iPhone or iPad, download the donation reminder app here so you never forgot to use it:https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/easyfundraising/id915474725?pt=857672&ct=donationreminderios-2022-hiwvideopage&mt=8

  For info on how it works, see here.

  
  Also, if you’re shopping with Amazon, make sure you enable Amazon smile separately to automatically donate for free by following the instructions in this article. Please note that the easyfundraising reminder app will not work on Amazon, Expedia or Hotels.com. Happy shopping!

• Circus Success & School’s Out Picnic (16 July)

  Thu 19 May 2022 PTFA

  The PTFA hosted Happy Circus together with St Marks School in Hanwell last weekend (14-15 May). Informal feedback from parents and children alike has been overwhelmingly positive, including the more obvious squeals of delight on the day. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the parent volunteers who helped in the run up to the event and over the weekend. For most, it was just an hour here and there, but it all mattered and made sure we could run the event safely and smoothly. We’re still totalling our takings for the PTFA over the two days and will share more information when we have it. And, if you’re up for more fun and socialising, make sure you set the date to attend the Fielding School’s Out Picnic on 16 July. This has been an extremely successful event in past years where families can meet and picnic on the Fielding field while the children run around and play safely in the locked and secure grounds. Look out ticket sales sometime in June.

   

  

• Children in Years 1 -6 take a democratic vote on which charities to support in 2022-23

  Tue 17 May 2022 Clare Haines

  Our termly parliament assembly took place on Monday this week. The children voted on which charities they would like to support in the next school year. 

  Star Leaders and Deputy Star Leaders researched a wide range of charities and came up with a short list for children to vote on. 
  Each year children select 3 charities:

  • Local
  • National
  • Global

  Find out more about parliament assemblies here

  In the academic year 2022-23 the children have chosen to support: 

  • Ealing hospital as our local charity
  • Cancer research as our national charity
  • Ukrainian Red Cross as our global charity

  We will support one of these charities each term with the whole school learning about what that charity does and supporting them with a fundraising event.  

   

  In the meantime will continue to support the charities chosen for this school year. Information coming soon about an event for the WWF and RSPCA

  • Ealing Food bank as our local charity
  • RSPCA as our national charity
  • World Wildlife Fund (WFF)as our global charity

   

  

• Keeping safe survey for children, deadline 3rd June 11am

  Sun 15 May 2022 Clare Haines

  Click here to start Keeping safe survey for children

   

  In your child's  RSHE lessons they learn about how to keep safe in and out of school. We want to find out how much they have remembered and how this makes a difference to how children treat each other at school. This will also help us plan what we teach next.

   

  We would like all children from Reception to Year 6 to complete a short survey. They may need your help.

  To log on, they will need their school Microsoft username and password, this is the one they use to log on to the computers in school or on to Teams. It looks something like this ahain56.307@fieldingprimary.com.

   

  If your child has forgotten or don't know their username or password, they can ask their teacher or you can email the admin team. Teams logins changed in April for all children, read this news article.

   

  The form  will take around 15 minutes to complete. Click here to start Keeping safe survey for children.

  

• Help with Summer Fair (25 June)

  Fri 13 May 2022 PTFA

  If the Summer Fair is to run on 25 June, then the PTFA need a team of parents who can volunteer to be on the organising team.  The role generally involves two or three online meetings,  making decisions on which stalls should be run, assigning stalls and sourcing some items (like inflatables).  If you are interested in contacting local businesses for sponsorship then that is also something that would be useful.

   

  If you are interesting to join the team, please email fieldingPTFA@gmail.com

• Circus comes to town and enjoy local food!

  Fri 13 May 2022 PTFA

  The Circus will be arriving this weekend for the two sold out performances on Saturday and Sunday. 

   

  For those of you who managed to secure some of the 600 tickets, we just wanted to give you some more information about the event.

   

  Entrance Gate:  Fielding families will have their own dedicated entrance to St. Marks Primary School.  Please use the gates located on Lower Boston Road - just next to the pedestrian crossing.  Gates open at 12pm with the performances starting at 2pm.
   
  Local Food:  Northfields very own Indian street food caterer, Patri, will be serving delicious food on site, along with a The Lil Kitchen serving kid-friendly Mexican food and mini pizzas. There will also be a bar (sponsored by Sargeants Estate Agents) and Dee Jay will be supplying ice-creams.  We also have a special deal with Krispy Kreme! Fieldings Facepainters will also be out in force, so please come along early and enjoy the atmosphere in the sun.
   
  Please ensure you have a copy of your tickets (on the phone or printed).  Check your junk folder in case the email ended up there.  If you are celebrating a birthday at the Circus then please let us know on StMarksFieldingCircus@gmail.com

   

• New recommended reading lists for 2022-23 and this week's reading celebrations!

  Fri 13 May 2022 P. Whaley

  It has been a pleasure to see even more pupils at Fielding being awarded Bronze, Silver, Gold and even Platinum Reading Awards this week. These are achieved for pupils having read  5, 10, 15 or 25 books from their year group recommended reading lists and completing response activities (from the options provided in their reading record). Response activities can be submitted to class teachers on Teams under their class notebook, in the recommended reading section or handed in to their class teachers in person. We look forward to celebrating more reading achievements next week! 

   

  You can view your child's current recommended reading list when you sign their reading record or click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the page. English | Fielding Primary School. In preparation for next academic year, teachers have updated the  lists to include even more of a diverse range. These can also be viewed by following the above link. These will be published in your child’s new reading record which they will receive in September.

   

  £1500 has been spent on new book stock in the KS1 and KS2 libraries and we are all eagerly awaiting the delivery. Children will have an opportunity to look at the new books during their timetabled library sessions with our school librarian, Mrs Hodge, and will continue to be able to borrow books to bring home. Please do ensure that your child remembers to return the books once they have finished reading them so that others can enjoy them.

   

  Please do continue to take the time to read daily with and/or listen to your child read for 20 minutes and sign their reading record. This is invaluable as it instils a love of reading amongst our pupils and essential to teachers as they continue to monitor the books that their pupils are reading at home and recommend new books based on their interests. 

   

   

  

• School & Nursery term dates to July 2024

  Thu 12 May 2022

  School term and holiday dates from September 2023 to July 2024 are now available.

   

  Attendance at Fielding continues to be very high, reflecting the way that our families value their children's education so highly. Please continue to make all holiday and other travel arrangements during school holiday periods.

   

  Our assessment information shows that the more days pupils are in school, the more likely they are to succeed.

   

  Term dates:

  • September 2021 - July 2022
  • September 2022 - July 2023
  • September 2023 - July 2024