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.

• Get ready for Fielding's new approach to teaching reading in Years 3,4,5 &6!

  Thu 15 Jul 2021 Philippa Whaley

  From September, pupils in Years 3-6 (and from Summer term in Year 2) will be taught whole class reading in a similar format to English and maths lessons. Teachers have trialed this approach in some year groups this term with positive results. Lessons are engaging and challenging with the inclusion of explicit pre-teaching of vocabulary and reading skills such as prediction and inference. There are opportunities for pupils to practise each skill before applying it directly in the context of the class text.

   

  This approach to the teaching of reading works best if each child has their own personal copy of the book. We have found that children take more care of their own book, are more motivated to learn and it build up their own personal library. 

   

  In preparation for September, we would like you to purchase a copy of the class book. Please see details below of which book your child's year group will be studying: 

   

  Year 3- Flora and Ulysses, Kate Di Camillo 

  ISBN-10 1406354562

   

  Year 4- The Borrowers, Mary Norton

  ISBN-10 0141333324

   

  Year 5- The 1000 year old boy, Ross Welford

  ISBN-10 0008256942

   

  Year 6- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

  ISBN-10 9780007458424

   

  If your child has a pupil premium passport we will provide your child with a copy of the class text free of charge. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you do not receive a grant but will be unable to provide the book due to financial reasons.

• Chicken Club

  Wed 14 Jul 2021 Ellie Lock

  Chicken Club is back - if you would like to look after our new chicks this summer, please sign up on the sheet in the school garden.

  Volunteers will be able to feed and play with the chickens, and any watering you can do is very welcome (especially the polytunnel).

  We'll email all the information you need once you've signed up. 

   

  

• Feeding Hungry Minds - New menu from our new caterers

  Wed 14 Jul 2021 Clare Haines

  ISS Education are please to publish our new menu for autumn and spring term.You can find it by clicking here:

  • Menu

   

  More information about the caterers can be found on our school dinner web page, including information for pupils who require a special diet.

  • School meals
  • Hello from ISS Education

  All pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will continue to get a free meal. For pupils in Years 3,4,5 and 6 school meals will need to be paid for in advance via ISS's new 'BlueRunner' online payment system. Further details to follow.

   

  If you think your child might be eligible for free school meals, please see our recent news article:

  • Have your financial circumstances changed?

• The Governing Board and School Leaders have been busy reviewing our policies.

  Wed 14 Jul 2021 Clare Haines

  Updated this term:

  • Teaching of Mathematics
  • Safeguarding and Child Protection
  • Anti-Bullying.
  • Volunteers in school 

  Click here to find and read all of our policies.

• Childcare - Tuesday 20th July

  Tue 13 Jul 2021 Karen Esprit

  On Tuesday 20th July school will finish at 2.30pm, children pre-booked to attend childcare and specialist clubs will automatically be cared for from this time with no additional charge. Specialist clubs continue to run to the end of the term.

• Annual reports and updated assessment information now live on MCAS

  Tue 13 Jul 2021 Clare Haines

  Your child's end of year report has been published on MCAS.  It is available to download from the 'reports' section of MCAS.

  The assessment widget has also been updated. Parents of Years 1-6 you should look at Assessment point 2 (AP2) click on 'more' to expand the box. Parents of Reception and Nursery aged children you will need to click on the 'more' button to open up the assessment box and scroll to 'summer' for recent information.

   

  Find out more here:

  • Parent guide to end of year assessment
  • Find out what your child knows and remembers
  • Assessment

• Stitch Design - Order by 1st August for the new school year

  Mon 12 Jul 2021 Office

  Our school uniform is supplied by Stitch Design and items branded with the school logo are available to purchase online with delivery to your home.

   

  To be sure that your items are delivered in time for September, please place your order by 1 August.

   

  More information about our school uniform can be found below.

   

  Fielding School Uniform

• Constellation Winners - Orion! Non-uniform, 13th July

  Fri 09 Jul 2021 Clare Haines

  The winners are...Orion with 996 points!

  Congratulations 

  Children in  the Orion constellation can wear their own clothes on Tuesday. They will join our constellation treat outside between 2.15 and 3.15pm, where they will have a chance to take part in a range of activities in a COVID safe way.

  Other scores:

  • Pegasus - 986
  • Cygnus -  982
  • Hercules - 920

• UEFA Euro 2020 final

  Fri 09 Jul 2021 Peter Dunmall

  School is open to all staff and pupils as usual on Monday morning:

  • Breakfast Club and early Nursery, from 7.30am
  • main school, soft-start 8.45-9am, as usual
  • registration at 9am and absence phone calls to parents from 9am, as usual

  Whilst many pupils and parents will want to watch the England (or Italian) team in England men's first, major football final for 55 years, we can live our school, work and leisure time without compromise. Pupils watching the football final and then attending school as usual sets positive expectations for life. The precedent has to be school as usual for all future notable events, irrespective of men's or women's sport or any other national event. 

   

  Parents know their own children best and can manage and plan for children's sleep needs. I would suggest that most children can cope with one late night followed by a couple of early to bed nights.

   

  Teachers know their classes and pupils well. They have the flexibility to adjust their day and the demands of the day to match their class.

   

  For a few pupils, late arrival at school might be better than not attending at all.

   

  Alternatively, a national Bank Holiday might be granted ... ...!

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

  Fri 09 Jul 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.

   

  Please see our PowerPoint introduction (found here) to the Relationship and Health curriculums and how we are implementing them at Fielding Primary.

   

  Our initial overview for this subject, was 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. Following 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 changed the sequence of learning or included additional lessons to support pupils needs.

   

  After trialling our new RSHE curriculum this year, we are consulting with parents again (last consultation about Relationship and sex education was in December 2019 when we were starting to prepare our new curriculum). Please complete the parent survey to share your views on our RSHE provision. Click here to fill in consultation survey.

   This survey will close on Tuesday 20th July at 12:00pm. 

   

  What is taught in our RSHE lessons:

   

  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)

   

  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.

   

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

  • DfE, relationships education