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.

• Parent governor ballot result

  Thu 23 Mar 2023 Peter Dunmall

  Melanie Cotton has been appointed as parent governor to the Governing Board of the school, subject to background checks and vetting. Her term of office will be 5 years.

   

  Full results:

  • Melanie Cotton, 107
  • Sulekha Joyce, 48
  • Polly Wilson, 82

  2 spoilt ballot papers

   

  Thanks to all candidates and parents who voted. Many schools struggle to fill parent governor vacancies. It is a credit to the Fielding parent community that all parent governor vacancies are filled, usually requiring a ballot where we have more nominations and parents willing to be a school governor than vacancies.

• Year 5 & 6 Girls Football Ealing League Round 2 Fixtures

  Thu 23 Mar 2023 Natasha Pasha

  Today the Year 5 & 6 Girls Performance team played 3 matches as part of the Ealing Girls Football league. 

   

  Fielding vs St John's 

  5 - 0 (win)

   

  Fielding vs Oaklands

  0 - 2 (lost)

   

  Fielding vs Mount Carmel 

  2 - 0 (win)

   

  League standings have not been announced as we still have one more round of fixtures to complete all fixtures. 

   

  

• PTFA Secret Gift Shop raises over £780

  Thu 23 Mar 2023

  Thank you to everyone who got involved in the Secret Gift Shop which ran in the week before Mother's Day. Nearly 200 pupils got involved and hopefully managed to treat their special person with face-pack pampering and healing stone bracelets.  Thank you to all the Year Two parents/carers for getting involved and securing much needed funds for the PTFA.  The event raised just over £780 profit.

• 5th place out of 33 London Boroughs at the London Youth Games for Year 5 & 6 Girls Performance team

  Wed 22 Mar 2023 Natasha Pasha

  Yesterday the Year 5 & 6 Girls Football Performance team had been selected to represent the London Borough of Ealing. There were a total of 33 London boroughs that attended today.

   

  Group Stages

  Westminster vs Ealing

  0 – 1 (win)

  (Goal scored by Avaani 6F)

  Islington vs Ealing

  1 – 0 (lost)

  Southwark vs Ealing

  0 – 0 (draw)

   

  Knockouts

  Tower Hamlets vs Ealing

  1 -3 (win)

  (Goals scored by Flo G 5S x2 and Emma 6F x1)

   

  Quarter Finals

  Bexley vs Ealing

  2 -1 (lost)

   

  I am delighted to announce that the team came...

  5th place out of 33 London Boroughs. 

  

• The leaderboards have been updated!🥇

  Wed 22 Mar 2023 Clare Haines

  Values Baccalaureate leaderboards have been updated. Find out more here:

  • Individual achievements
  • Values Baccalaureate
  • Values-based education

  

• ⭐Constellation treat winners....

  Fri 17 Mar 2023 Clare Haines

  ⭐The winner is Pegasus ⭐

  Constellation treat will take place on Tuesday 28th March

  Scores:

  • Pegasus - 932
  • Orion - 895
  • Cygnus - 892
  • Hercules - 810

   

  Star leaders have chosen:

  • Non-uniform day
  • Outside play - artificial pitch and climbing frames
  • Arts and crafts
  • Jugs of squash

• Clubs changes

  Fri 17 Mar 2023 Karen Esprit

  Parents shared helpful feedback about our after-school clubs in the recent annual survey. This has helped us to think more about our programme, spaces, waiting lists and booking arrangements. Booking arrangements will change for the summer term.

   

  Parents appreciate the wide range of after-school clubs that we offer in partnership with our external providers. Most suggestions from parents are already available at some point in the school year. Much as we might like to provide swimming and horse riding too, we would struggle with arrangements! Tennis and gardening are likely to return for the summer term.

   

  We use waiting lists to help plan our programme of clubs.  The most popular clubs already have 4 sessions each week. We are going to try slowly increasing these clubs to 5 sessions each week. There is a risk that swamping our programme with the most popular clubs then reduces uptake of alternative clubs that are in less demand but equally enjoyed by pupils who participate. Lower uptake would mean that external providers drop-out, ultimately reducing the wide variety of clubs on offer for all.

   

  Current capacity for outdoor sports clubs is limited by space on the artificial grass pitch. As soon as the field re-opens, from September 2023, we will increase the number of outdoor clubs, especially in summer 2024.

   

  Over the last 2 terms, we have trialled new booking arrangements. Pupils are added to waiting lists and then promoted to join the club as and when spaces become available. Behind the scenes, this has not worked well. The majority of clubs now have full waiting lists. Parents have added children to multiple clubs, limiting the general availability for all. Where parents apply for multiple clubs, when children are offered a place, clubs clash and/or all requests are not wanted. This results in vacancies in clubs. For summer term booking, we return to a first-come, first-served approach.

• Fielding's new Anti-bullying charter, devised by pupils

  Fri 17 Mar 2023 Philippa Whaley

  We are very pleased to announce that Fielding's 24 Anti-bullying Ambassadors in years 4, 5 and 6 have put together an Anti-bullying charter, with the support of Phil Kennedy, Leader of Play. We are extremely appreciative of the important work that these pupils are doing and the positive impact that they are having on our school community already.

   

  Our Anti-bullying Ambassadors want everyone in the school to understand what bullying is and how to help so they worked on making the charter as clear as possible with visuals. It will be displayed around the school and in next year's reading records. 

   

  Please click here to view the Anti-bullying Ambassadors' introductory video which explains who they are, their role and how they can be located in the playgrounds.

  

• Summer term clubs, launch on Monday 20 March

  Thu 16 Mar 2023 Clare Haines

  Our specialist clubs programme for the summer term will launch on MCAS on the following days:
  • Reception, Year 1,  2  Monday 20th March 8pm
  • Years 3, 4, 5 and 6, Wednesday 22nd March 8pm
  
  Please make sure your MCAS is up to date to avoid duplicate bookings

• Fielding pupils raise £3861 through Readathon!

  Thu 09 Mar 2023 Philippa Whaley

  What a wonderful example of our core value of Empathy in action! We are delighted to announce that Fielding pupils raised a total of £3861 for Readathon and the online donations are still coming in! Staff are extremely proud of pupils' energy, time and effort that they put into reading as many books as they could last week and we would like to say a huge thank you to families and friends who sponsored them and donated so generously! As we received 20% of the money we raise as books for our school, this means that we will have nearly £800 worth of new books coming our way very soon! We are also eagerly awaiting to find out who the two 'star' pupils are who will receive the £5 book tokens! Read for Good will be looking at pupils' sponsor cards to find out how many books they read and how much money they raised.

   

  For children in hospital, books and stories are particularly important – they comfort, distract, reassure and entertain. Read for Good (who run Readathon) provides a regular supply of brand new books along with storyteller visits to brighten up the days of children in all of the UK’s main children’s hospitals. Children unable to leave their beds can choose books from our specially designed mobile bookcase which wheels right up to their bedside. Because they are brand new, the books are safe for those at high risk of infection.

   

  If you'd like to find out more about the impact that our Fielding Readathon donations will have, please visit https://readforgood.org/about-us/ and to continue supporting your child along their reading journey, why not visit our Book Fair in the KS1 library? It is open tomorrow  (Friday, 8:15-8:45am and 3:30-4pm) and on Monday 13th, 8:15am-8:45am. Unfortunately, it then moves on to another school on Monday but it will return very soon!