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.

• Cake Sales raise £4100 so far, plus when will you be hosting cake stall?

  Tue 26 Mar 2019

  Many parents/carers have been asking when they will be expected to bake and manage the cake stall for their child(s) year group. Please find below the dates until the end of the academic year. They will also be available in the school calendar if you are syncing this with you phone calendar.

  So far this academic year, the cake stall has raised over £4,100. This money is helping the PTFA on its way to providing better outdoor facilities for pupils - including shade and reading areas, alongside Artifact Boxes which will help your child's learning on a variety of subjects. 

  Friday 29 March - Year 4 Cake Sale

  Friday 5 April - Year 5 Cake Sale

  Friday 26 April - Year 6 Cake Sale

  Friday 3 May - Reception Cake Sale

  Friday 10 May - Year 1 Cake Sale

  Friday 17 May - Year 2 Cake Sale

  Friday 24 May - Year 3 Cake Sale

  Friday 7 June - Year 4 Cake Sale

  Friday 14 June - Year 5 Cake Sale

  Friday 21 June - Year 6 Cake Sale

• A huge thank you - WWF/Earth hour run

  Mon 25 Mar 2019 Eco Committee
  A huge thank you to all pupils, staff and parents for their efforts with our WWF/Earth hour run today. 

   

  The total raised on our just giving page is currently £548 and that does not include the monies raised through non school uniform donations.  When the money is counted we will announce the grand total raised.  If you still would like to donate please see the link below:

   

  https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Fielding

   

  Collectively we ran 10, 302 laps which is 2060 miles which is a huge achievement as a school - not quite the length of the Amazon rainforest but nearly 80 marathons ran or the distance from London to Turkey!

   

  Today was an important day in supporting our pupils' understanding of how under threat our planet is and how it takes days like this and the attitudes shown today to turn things around and make such an important difference.

   

   

  

• NHS Free Healthy Lifestyle Programme

  Thu 21 Mar 2019
  The ALFIE programme is a FREE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PROGRAMME for children aged 5-13 who are above a healthy weight and their families. Our aim is to support families to be HEALTHIER and FITTER by participating in FUN and INTERACTIVE workshops that focus on healthy eating and nutrition alongside physical activity sessions. Children who complete this programme may be eligible for a discounted membership on the junior programmes run at Gurnell Leisure Centre, or Dormers Wells Leisure Centre. Places on this programme are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis, so to book your place or for more information please call us on 0208 354 8032. 

• EMS Piano Concerts next week

  Thu 21 Mar 2019 Maria Neil-Smith

  If your child has piano lessons in school they will be performing in one of the EMS piano concerts next week in the Sports Hall. Please come along and support your child in their concert, it promises to be a wonderful showcase of what they have achieved. As the concerts are taking place in the mornings, performers need to register with their class teacher and then make their way down to the Sports Hall with their music on the day that they are performing. Each piano teacher has a separate concert therefore to check the date and time of your child's performance  please click here. 

• Nursery Easter Holiday Club

  Thu 21 Mar 2019

  Fielding Nursery holiday club are planning a mixture of free play and planned activities, including lots of messy play for the children to get their hands on; shaving foam, cornflour, and flour will be explored, the children love to investigate these materials using a variety of tools.

  We have a very special visitor coming into school on Tuesday 16^th April at 10.30, Naomi is from the Blue Cross and will be bringing along ‘Dooby’ her pet puppet to share with the children. The children will learn about what pets need and how we can look after them, we are looking forwards to welcoming Naomi and Dooby to Fielding Nursery.

  The children will have opportunities to make Easter biscuits, Easter cakes, Pizza and Fruit Skewers, cooking and baking are always popular with the children. The children will also enjoy an Easter hat parade and egg hunts, so a small treat will be the order of the day. We will be practicing our cutting skills with cucumber and lettuce which we will feed to the chickens when we visit.

  Our popular outdoor play will include Fielding’s Forest, Pirate Ship and Reception Playground. The children really enjoy visiting these different play spaces, they find them challenging, interesting and a lot of fun.  Please make sure that your child is dressed in old clothes, bringing their coat to nursery as it can get windy on the school field too.

  Please provide a wholesome healthy packed lunch and snack for tea, Fielding School is ‘nut free’ so do make sure that any food sent in with your child does not contain any form of nuts or sesame, please check all labels for ‘may contain nuts/traces of nuts’ ‘made in a factory which also uses nuts/peanuts’ any food with either or similar statements on labels will be sent home, please ensure you check all labels including seeded bread etc. The children will have access to fresh fruit throughout the day.

  We are open five weeks across the summer holidays, these booking are open if you want to book early to secure your place. Please find the summer dates here

• Summer Term Specialist Clubs, Season for Change

  Thu 21 Mar 2019

  The summer term programme can be viewed here for browsing only, bookings will open on the following dates and times.

   

  KS1 Monday 25th March 2019 – 8.00pm

  KS2 Wednesday 27th March 2019 – 8.00pm

   

  The summer term has some great seasonal additions for the children to enjoy, with the prospect of brighter and warmer days we will be making the best use of the school playing fields, bringing back Golf, Forest school and Cricket clubs. The school field permits a much broader offer of sporting activities in the summer months.Evaluation of the Annual Parents Survey proved variety continues to be a key strength of specialist clubs, to meet this demand we must be creative with the space available and sometimes clubs that are less popular may need to be withdrawn to provide the flexibility. With this in mind fencing club is on a break for the summer term, however there are three new exciting clubs on offer.

  NFL (National Football League)

  Avenue Street Dance

  Basketball

  Once again waiting lists have been used to increase availability of some of our most popular clubs. Drama for KS1 has moved back into the sports hall to enable an increase in capacity. Children's places in Ballet and Judo will automatically rollover to next term to enable progression, remaining places will be allocated through booking on the evening.Throughout the term all clubs are carefully monitored for quality, with the enjoyment of children being an essential ingredient.

  Please make sure cashbooks are cleared prior to booking, and remember, choose carefully with your child before launch evening as once clubs are booked there is no cancellation or refund, all club bookings must be paid for.

• **Silent Disco Update**

  Wed 20 Mar 2019

  We’re excited to announce that the parents only silent disco will now be held in the upstairs room at the Foresters. The upstairs bar will be open for our sole use. Disco will still be held from 8pm - 1 am. Look forward to seeing you all there. Wear your dancing shoes!

  You can still buy tickets and support your school at 

  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fieldingptfa/241939

• 5 Days to go! WWF/Earth hour event

  Wed 20 Mar 2019 Eco Committee

  5 days to go!

   

  Fundraising for WWF/Earth hour - attempting to run the equivalent length of the Amazon Rainforest 

   

  How can parents/carers support this event?

  • Talk to your child around the charity work of the WWF
  • Recognise Earth Hour as a family - Saturday 30th March (8.30pm - 9.30pm) 
  • Help us to reach our target of 4,345 miles by running with your child the morning of the event (8.00am - 8.45am) 
  • Sponsor your child for participating in the event by clicking on the link below:                  https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Fielding
  • Children donate £1 on the day to wear non-school uniform/sports wear. 

   

  We would like to say a big thank you in advance for supporting our event and promoting awareness of global issues to our pupils. 

• Britain's best parent?

  Tue 19 Mar 2019

  Casting for TV production company

  Monkey Kingdom, a TV production company, are currently looking for confident parents to take part in a brand new competition for a major UK broadcaster. 

   

  They want to hear from parents who are proud of the way they raise their children and who have a particular child-rearing strategy because they are looking for Britain’s Best Parent. Whether raising kids in a couple or singly they want to hear from parents who would like to share their approach with others.  Parent(s) will need to have at least one child between the ages of five and thirteen to take part.

   

  If anyone would like to find out more information about the series, parents are asked to send their name, contact details and to tell what makes their parenting style great, to parent@monkeykingdom.com.

  

• Your child's progress. Spring Term assessments and parent consultation meetings.

  Tue 19 Mar 2019 Clare Haines

  Spring term assessments available from 12 noon on Monday 1st April

  Your child's class teacher is current assessing your child's outcomes for this term. All of this information will be available to you on School Pupil Tracker from the afternoon of the 1st April. Log on here:  http://www.mychildsreport.co.uk.

  Our next parent consultation meetings will be held after the Easter break on Thursday 25th and Monday 29th April except for 5F which will be on Friday 26th and Monday 29th April. 

  Please read our latest assessment newsletter to find out more:

  • Assessment update, Spring term
  • Year R - 6, Book your parent consultation meeting here  (from 12 o'clock on 29th March)

   

  Please remember that we will no longer be using School Pupil Tracker after the end of this academic year. If you wish to keep any information stored on this system you will have until December 2019 to download it.

   

  We are currently in discussions about how we will assess pupils' learning and what we would like our new assessment system to include. Please previous news articles for more details

  • School Pupil Tracker is closing
  • Ofsted inspection framework for September 2019