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.

• Multi-sport playing surface building works begin 18 July

  Mon 11 Jul 2022 Peter Dunmall

  Building works for our new multi-sport playing surface start on Monday 18 July and are expected to last until the end of October. During these works:

  • Fielding Walk entrance is closed;
  • play facilities for pupils, including Forest area, sand pit and pirate ship, gaga ball pit, climbing trees, mounds and log piles are closed.

   

  Works include installing:

  • 1,500m² (34.5m x 43m) artificial grass pitch, marked for ‘Quicksticks’ hockey and 5-a-side junior football, occupying around one-third of the current field;
  • 4-lane, 60m running track;
  • 3m high rebound fencing to contain balls;
  • 12m high floodlights for winter evening use;
  • new and refurbished natural play equipment and areas.

   

  Plans include ecology improvements to result in a net gain in biodiversity with the planting of new trees, also to provide natural shade for pupils, bat and bird nesting boxes, and 'bug hotels' for insects.

   

  Completion of the project will offer our pupils top-quality sports facilities for PE lessons, competition against other schools and after-school sports clubs until 6pm, for use all year round in all weathers. The all-weather pitch will also give children more space to play at break and lunchtimes, sometimes led by our sports coaches.

   

  Sport England’s requirements and national planning conditions mean that we must also offer our new facilities to community users for use up until 9pm weekdays and at weekends from 10am – 6pm. We are working with 3 recognised, local sports clubs to meet this requirement.  Community use is expected to start from January 2023. This will further opportunities for our pupils beyond the school.

   

  Inevitably, there will be some disruption to the smooth running of the school. Works are taking place during the summer holiday period to minimise disruption. There will also be a reduced specialist club offer for the first half of the Autumn term.

  

• This week's Reading Celebrations!

  Fri 08 Jul 2022 P. Whaley

  Congratulations to pupils at Fielding who have been 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). We now encourage pupils to hand in their response activities to their class teachers in person. To support this process, response activity books have been purchased for September in which your child can complete the tasks and hand them in to their class teacher. We look forward to celebrating more reading achievements during the final two weeks of this academic year at school! 

   

  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 books are flying off the shelves! More graphic novels are in the process of being purchased due to their popularity! Children have had 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.

   

  It is important that you 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 Want to get involved in the PTFA?

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 PTFA

  The PTFA is on the look out for a number of new positions in September 2022.  Our current Chair and Treasurer have sadly had to step back after five years due to other commitments so both Nolan O'Connor and Charlotte Douglass are planning to step down - however they will still be active and look to mentor any prospective new parents who want to get involved.  

   

  As Nolan often talks about, volunteering and getting involved in school events is an incredibly rewarding experience.  Knowing that your efforts go towards enhancing your child's experience at the school is only one of the benefits, but seeing the smile on everyone's faces during events whether it is a Summer Fair, Circus or Quiz night is incredibly satisfying - whether you are officially recognised or not!.

   

  If you want to chat about how to get involved in any part of PTFA planning, just drop us a line on email:  FieldingPTFA@gmail.com or find Nolan wandering the school at drop-off!  

• PTFA Picnic(16 July): Volunteers needed & Early Bird Ticket deadline

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 PTFA

  The long range forecast is suggesting we might be in for a hot Fielding Summer Picnic on Saturday 16 July. With this in mind, we still need volunteers to help cover time slots on the BBQ, Clean Up and the Gate.  If you can spare 30mins or 60mins, it will really help make this final event of the year a fun event for everyone. Sign up for a slot https://fieldingptfa.ivolunteer.com/fieldingpicnic_002

   

  Early bird tickets finish on Tuesday 12 July, after which family tickets increase to £10.  Purchase at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fieldingptfa.

   

  We are expecting a visit from the Ealing Fire Brigade.  There will also be Kids vs Machine activities and various water based activities could be in the planning!  Thank you once again to Sargeants Estate Agents for their sponsorship of this wonderful event to end out academic year.  Thank you also to nursery parents to help organise.

• PTFA Summer Fair raises over £16,000

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 PTFA

  It is predicted that the PTFA Summer Fair has raised at least £16,000 this year - although we haven't processed all the expenses yet.  This is an awesome effort and is probably one of the largest ever for Fielding. 

   

  Thank you to everyone that got involved and attended the event.  It is a mammoth task which requires not only a dedicated organising team, but also every class across the school to play a part.  The PTFA would also like to thank the overall event sponsors RSK Estate Agents, but also Martin McConway for sponsoring the new smash hit Splash Zone and Chicken Poop Bingo. Thank you also to Imm Thai Cafe who donated all profits to the PTFA (£400). 

   

  The biggest profit centres for the event were the Raffle (nearly £4,000) and Silent Auction (£3,000+), Bottle Tombola (£1,200) and BBQ (£1,200) but every stall allowed us to exceed the expectations.

   

  We hope everyone enjoyed the activities around the Summer Fair - and children were proud to be part of the event whatever they did.

• Urgent - Class Photographs

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 Admin team

  Please find a secure link below to view and order your child's class photograph.  You will need to right click on preferred link and open in a new tab.  The deadline for free delivery to the school is Monday 11th July 2022 at midnight.  After this date parents will be required to pay for home delivery.   Any problems please contact Bentley via email on support@bentleyphoto.com
   

  RF	RH	RP	RS
  1F	1H	1P	1S
  2F	2H	2P	2S
  3F	3H	3P	3S
  4F	4H	4P	4S
  5F	5H	5P	5S
  6F	6H	6P	6S

   

• Annual reports and end of key stage reports, Tuesday 12th

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 Clare Haines

  We are just putting our final touchers to your child's annual report. Reports as well as Reception, Year 2 and Year 6 end of key stage outcomes will be published on Tuesday 12 July in the 'reports' section of MCAS. 

  We will also publish the outcome of the Year 1 phonics and Year 4 multiplication checks in the same place. 

  Links

  • Summer term assessments and annual reports

• Your child's attendance, end of year

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 Clare Haines

  As the end of this school year is nearing we have reviewed your child's attendance. We aim for all pupils to attend school regularly, this means attendance of 97% and above. We know that specific health needs and COVID have had  an impact on school attendance for some pupils this year. 

   

  As part of our attendance procedures, in line with DfE guidance we:

  ‘regularly communicate expectations for attendance and punctuality and school performance with staff, pupils and parents’ and

  ‘establish robust escalation procedures which are initiated before absence becomes a problem, for example by: sending letters to parents and carers’

   

  As well as being able to see your child's attendance on MCAS,  we will also report attendance in your child's annual report which will be available on Tuesday 12 July to download from the reports section of MCAS. 

   

  For us, attendance of:

  • over 97% is excellent – this is our target for your child
  • 96-97% is good attendance,
  • 90%-95% is starting to cause a concern.
  • below 90% is a concern

   

  In line with our attendance procedures, over the next two weeks we will be sending out an email to parents of all pupils whose attendance has fallen below 90%. We will also be sending out an email to those families where their child's attendance has significantly improved.

   

  For pupils who's attendance at the end of the year is between 90 and 94.9% we will be monitoring their attendance in the autumn term and offering support to those families who need it.

   

  Any absence, authorised or not is registered as non-attendance at school and count towards your child’s overall attendance. There following events are recorded as absence (even if authorised)

   

  • illness, including self-isolation, even if you have followed our absence procedures, or we have asked you to collect your child
  • medical appointments (including speech and occupational therapy)
  • authorised leave for exceptional circumstances
  • being late after the registers close
  • your child not wanting to come due to anxiety
  • open days at other schools
  • religious observance
  • exclusions or suspensions
  • remote or hybrid learning at home 
  • any unauthorised absence

   

  If you have any worries or concerns about attendance at school please contact Marsha Coppin-Payne, our attendance administrator or arrange to speak to your child's class teacher

• Year 6 excellent SATs results

  Thu 07 Jul 2022 Peter Dunmall

  Overall standards in reading, writing and maths remain high for our year 6 pupils, despite slipping for year 6 pupils nationally.

   

  83% of our pupils met the expected standard in these combined areas this year, compared to 84% in 2019. Nationally, 59% of pupils met the expected level, down from 65% in 2019.

   

  Most year 6 pupils leave Fielding working at or above the expected standard for their age:

  • Reading, 87%
  • Writing, 90%
  • Maths, 92%

  These outcomes are well above national figures and in-line with previous years.

   

  Many pupils have achieved highly, working above the standard, with nearly half of the age group working above the expected standard in English:

  • Reading, 46%
  • Writing, 47%
  • Maths, 35%

  These outcomes are also very high and compare favourably to previous years.

   

  These results are a credit to children, their families and teachers, especially given the impact of the pandemic. The pupils who took these tests this year were part-way through year 4 when schools first closed to most children in March 2020. Further school closures followed while they were in year 5.

   

  Individual results will be given to pupils and parents on 12 July when annual pupil progress reports are published.

   

  National tests in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the pandemic.

   

  School performance tables, also known as 'league tables' will not be published by the government this year. We will receive comparative performance information in the Autumn term.

• Fielding compete at West London Cricket Finals

  Wed 06 Jul 2022 Dan Thomas

  On Tuesday, Fielding took a Year 5 cricket team to compete in this years West London Finals. We qualified for the West London Finals as Borough Champions by winning the Ealing competition and were now representing Ealing against the champions from every other West London Borough. Unfortunately, a lot of our winning team is in France this week so Year 5 children were invited to try out for the team to go in their place. The guys that were selected have great potential but we were expecting a tough day as we were going into without the tournament experience that other teams would have had.

   

  Our first game of the day was against Brent champions, Sudbury, who lost the toss and so were fielding first. Each of our batters started well and set a very good score of 286. In a lot of games this would be a winning score but Sudbury were excellent in bat and scored 357. 

   

  In game 2 we had Pinner Wood, Harrow champions and were batting first. We set a score of 256 which wasn't our best but we were determined to work hard in the field and try to get our first win. We did well and took some wickets but Pinner Wood held firm and scored 278 runs.

   

  Cranford Primary School from Hounslow were our third game of the day and after 2 losses we were learning lessons and starting to grow into the day. We played some great cricket and scored 261 in bat and then in field took wickets and limited the amount of boundaries. It was going to be a close score but after the final bowl the umpire told us Cranford had won by just 8 runs with a score of 269.

   

  Going into our final game against John Betts from Hammersmith and Fulham we knew we wouldn't be making the final but we were still chasing our first win of the day. John Betts looked like a decent team but we kept our heads up, reflected on the day so far and showed great resilience in giving it our all once more. We scored 242 in bat but then John Betts tournament experience came through as they finished their day with another win as they scored 259.

   

  So we finished the day without a win but still felt very proud to be representing the Borough without any major losses. Our Year 5 team did extremely well by stepping in at fairly short notice for the days cricket but now have a great experience under their belts for next year. Well done everyone.