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.

• Easter Holiday Club

  Thu 25 Mar 2021

  Wow, what an amazing uptake! We are thrilled to see the number of children booked to join us for the Easter holiday club. The plan of eggciting activities are available to view in the school website. If you would like your child to join in the fun please book through MCAS before Monday 29th March spaces are filling up fast.

  

• Boosting Your Child's Confidence and Wellbeing

  Thu 25 Mar 2021 C Chadwick

  Thank you to those parents who were able to join our wellbeing workshop this morning. For parents and carers interested, please see the presentation slides with some top tips on boosting your child's confidence and wellbeing.

   

   

  Boosting Your Child's Confidence and Wellbeing

   

   

  

• Nursery and Reception Spring term assessment information ready to view on MCAS

  Thu 25 Mar 2021 Clare Haines

  Our Nursery and Reception team have been busy finding out what your children know and remember, they have now completed collecting their evidence and observations for the spring term. You can now see these on MCAS (please use the desktop version, not the App)

  Use the guide linked below to find out how to see this information.

  • Assessment guide for Early Years children, Spring 

  For more information please see:

  • Early Years 
  • Assessment

  You will be able to discuss these outcomes with your child's teacher at our next parent consultation meetings. Bookings for these will open tomorrow at 11am (on MCAS).

  Reception parent consultations

  • Thursday 22nd April, before and after school
  • Monday 26th April, before and after school

  Nursery parent consultations:

  • Dragonflies - 20th, 21st and 22nd April, during the core school day
  • Ladybirds - 26th and 27th April during the core school day

• Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE lessons) at Fielding

  Thu 25 Mar 2021 Miss L Stabler

  This year in our Relationships, Sex, and Health Education lessons or RSHE (previously called PSHE) we have been successfully trialling new units of work and lessons which cover the new statutory Health and Relationships curriculums.

   

  Our updated overview for this subject, created using resources and lessons from Ealing Health Improvement team, shows the mixture of health and relationships lessons that are taught from Nursery to Year 6.

   

  Find out more about what pupils will learn by the time they leave primary school:

  • DfE, relationships education

   

  Topics taught in our relationship lessons include:

  • families (including LGBTQ+ families and relationships)
  • caring friendships
  • respectful relationships
  • being safe
  • online relationships
  • being safe (covering personal safety and when you might feel unsafe around other children and adults)

   

  Topics in our Health lessons include:

  • mental well-being
  • internet safety and harms
  • physical health and fitness
  • healthy eating
  • drugs, alcohol and tobacco
  • health and prevention (including sleep, allergies and teeth)
  • basic first aid (year 6)
  • changing adolescent body

  Safeguarding, SMSC and British values are also golden threads weaved throughout our lessons.

   

  Follow periods of school closure in the summer and spring terms we adapted our initial overview (found here) to focus on pupils' mental well-being  and rebuilding relationships. This means we have have changed the sequence of learning or included additional lessons to support pupils needs. One very successful example of this is our focus in autumn and spring term on mental health. We taught a wide range of lessons on defining mental health, types of feelings and emotions and how to deal with these. Older pupils focused on self-care strategies and routines that can boost their mental health.

   

  What's coming up in the summer term?

  In the summer term, we will be mainly focusing on our relationships curriculum and any remaining health lessons. In line with government guidance, we will not be teaching separate RSE (relationship, sex education). These lessons  will now be integrated into our relationships lessons.

  These lessons are now statutory,  and will be taught in an age appropriate, respectful way. The only non-statutory element of our curriculum is the human reproduction system and conception, these are taught in Year 6. We will provide more information about these lessons  in the summer term.

   

  It has been a joy to see how engaged pupils have been with our new RSHE lessons this year and the progress they have made with understanding of relationships, staying safe and mental well-being. We look forward to reflecting back on what has gone well with our new lessons and what our final overview will look like next year.

• Years 1 -6, your child's assessment outcomes now ready to view on MCAS

  Wed 24 Mar 2021 Clare Haines

  MCAS has been updated with your child's assessment outcomes for this term, you should view these on the desktop version of MCAS, not the app.

  Find out more here by reading our recent news article:

  • Finding out how much your child has learned.

  Booking for remote parent consultation meetings opens on MCAS on Friday at 11am.

   

• Test and Trace support payments for parents

  Mon 22 Mar 2021 Clare Haines

  Parents you are now able to apply for a Test and Trace Support Payment or discretionary payment of £500, if your child is asked to self-isolate.  This payment ensures that parents receive the financial support they need if they are unable to attend work due to childcare responsibilities.

  If you meet the eligibility criteria you will need to  apply to Ealing Council (if you live in Ealing) to receive a payment. 

  To be eligible you must meet the following criteria:

  your child has been told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or by school because they have been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for coronavirus you are the parent or guardian of a child in the same household and need to take time off work to care for them while they self-isolate. This is limited to one parent or guardian per household for the child’s self-isolation period you are employed or self-employed you cannot work from home while undertaking caring responsibilities and will lose income as a result you meet all the other means-tested eligibility criteria for a Test and Trace Support Payment  Find out more, and apply to Ealing Council here

• COVID Soft-start extension ends

  Fri 19 Mar 2021 Peter Dunmall

  Morning drop-off, 'soft-start', of pupils at school returns to 8.45-9am from Monday 19 April:

  • COVID 'soft-start' extension from 8.30-8.45am ends on Wednesday 31 March
  • Registration and the start of lessons continue to start at 9am
  • Before school specialist clubs re-start. Specialist club booking from the Spring Term carry over. Check for last remaining availability.
  • Early Breakfast and Breakfast Club merge to a single Breakfast Club between 7.30 - 8.45am. Pupils organised by year group bubbles.
  • Breakfast Club, £6.25 per pupil per session
  • Breakfast Club bookings open soon on MyChildatSchool (MCAS)

   

  Our COVID extension to soft-start ends reflecting the government's roadmap out of national restrictions and lower local coronavirus infection rates.

   

  Please continue to keep to 2m social distancing and using our preferred gates for each age group so that we are all spread out across the school site.

   

  We will trial a one-way in and out system at the Wyndham Road vehicle and pedestrian entrances towards the end of this term to see if this improves pedestrian flow and social distancing. If your year group uses the Wyndham Road gates, please follow our signs and use one for entrance and one for exit. The entrance and exit flows will reverse mornings and afternoons to match drop-off and collection of bikes and scooters from the covered shelter:

  • Mornings
    • entrance, Wyndham Road pedestrian gates (to match bike drop-off)
    • exit, Wyndham Road vehicle gates
  • Afternoons
    • entrance, Wyndham Road vehicle gates
    • exit, Wyndham Road pedestrian gates (to match bike collection)

• Values in March

  Thu 18 Mar 2021 Miss L Stabler

  It has lovely to be back in school with all pupils and be able to teach our Values lessons face to face. March sees the Core Value focus coming back to empathy with Key Stage 2 pupils looking at the linked value of caring. These values have been particularly important with settling pupils back to being in class, when playing with other children and when thinking about the experiences others may have had whilst doing their learning during Spring 1. They have also been crucial in order to consider how different people are feeling about returning to school- based learning. Older pupils in Upper Phase have also started thinking about the value of caring in relation to their own mental health and what self-care strategies they can have in place.  

   

  Reception pupils will also come back to the core value of empathy, building on what they learnt during Autumn 2 and learning more about being kind and cooperating.

   

  Nursery pupils will continue to build on their understanding of resilience for one more month. They will still be using the connected vocabulary of trying and patience.

   

  We are also still encouraging all pupils in Years 4, 5 and 6 to demonstrate their values at school, at home and in the local community by completing Bronze, Silver and Gold levels of our Values Baccalaureate. They should be completing these in the class notebook area of their class team on Microsoft Teams. 

   

  Please continue to talk about our values with your children as they help them develop both morally and support their academic work. Please see our Values page and the specific webpages on empathy and resilience for our resources.

• Easter Nursery Holiday Club

  Wed 17 Mar 2021 Tracy Cherry

  Fielding Nursery holiday club are planning a mixture of free play and planned activities, including lots of messy play to tantalise the children’s senses, Easter egg hunt, planting seeds, exploring Fielding’s Forest, and ‘ships ahoy’ the children will have great fun discovering the delights of the schools Pirate Ship. We are looking forward to sharing fun packed weeks full of playful opportunities and new experiences. 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.

  Please provide a wholesome healthy packed lunch and snack for tea clearly labelled. 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. Please note that we are unable to refrigerate or heat food at this time.

   

  The fees for nursery holiday club sessions will be added to your Laser cashbook and must be paid before your child attends. Please be careful when selecting your sessions, as once sessions are booked and confirmed we are unable to refund.

  Booking via Laser; https://fps.slsr.uk/

  1. Select Nursery button in your account

  2. Select the Ad-hoc & holiday sessions button

  3. Use the arrows to near the top left hand side of the page to go to week starting: --/--/----

  4. Click the holiday session you want to book (turns red) click again to confirm

  Important

  To avoid a higher session fee please book before 12pm on Fridays for the following week’s Holiday Club. The increased fees are to cover the administration required to put in place adequate extra staffing at short notice.

  Please see here for more information and fees.

• PTFA Balloon Race: Only 10% of our 1500 balloons sold

  Tue 16 Mar 2021

  Our next exciting fundraiser for Fielding Primary school is the virtual balloon race. You can design your balloons, shape, helium and thickness in the hope to travel the furthest from Jerusalem. So far we only have sold 10% of our 1500 balloons, please buy some balloons to help raise valuable funds for school. Race with your family and friends and see whose balloon goes the furthest.  

   

  It's just like a real balloon race, using the current wind direction and weather to push and pull your balloon the furthest Its all done virtually so 100% environmentally friendly and totally Covid-19 safe! 

   

  At only £3 per balloon, buy a balloon today for yourself and family members or as a gift for someone else. Then decorate and customise it ready for the big release day.The virtual race begins on Sunday 4th April 2021 launching at 12pm.   

   

  BUY YOUR BALLOONS: 

  Bit.ly/FieldingBalloonRace   

   

  Fielding Primary school needs these funds for the valued school enrichment programs, such as kitchen garden, artifacts termly boxes and forest school. For a full list go to our PTFA page. https://www.fieldingprimary.com/ptfa/   

   

  Lots of great prizes up for grabs, nationally with all the groups*: 
  1st Prize* £500 cash
  2nd Prize* Apple iPad
  3rd runner-up Prizes* 10 x £10 book tokens
   

  With the pandemic, sadly we cannot run our fun packed usual events year. So we need to sell 1,500 balloons and we have only sold 10% so please buy some balloons for family and friends and have fun as you watch your balloon travel around the world.  

   

  MORE INFORMATION on the race and the balloons: 
    Bit.ly/FieldingBalloonRace     
  
  If you have any questions, contact the team Fieldingptfaevents@gmail.com. 
  *There will be many other National charities taking part in the Ecoracing Easter Virtual Balloon race so Fielding PTFA will be awarding prizes for our 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed entrants to guarantee some Fielding winners!
  
  SPONSORED BY: Sargeants Estate Agents