The Thomas Coram CE School

How have you shown: Kindness, Resilience, Respect and Thankfulness this week?

Newsletter 3 Friday 12 September 2025

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

Important Info for week commencing 29th September

	Arbor	Paragraph 7
	Lunch accounts - please make sure these are in credit.
Monday 29th September	Flu Vaccination	Paragraph 3
Tuesday 30th September	Dermot O'Leary Author visit	Paragraph 5
Wednesday 1st October	Y6 Online Health Questionnaire
Thursday 2nd October	Census Day School lunch menu	Paragraph 4
Thursday 2nd October	Ashlyns Open Evening	Paragraph 6
Friday 3rd October	Brazil Class Assembly 9.00am
	Berkhamsted Rotary Fireworks Click to take a look!

This week

What a great week I have had back in school. It was strange being out at PGL last week and not seeing everyone, but was lovely to be back and to have beautiful weather! Year 6 had an excellent time last week at PGL and enjoyed all of their activities. This week has been good to walk around and see the children in lessons and so engaged and motivated. Next week, I will be doing a Maths learning walk to look at Maths across the school as that is one of our priorities for the year. We have had some issues with Labbubu, this week and children losing them, arguing over them and getting them dirty etc. Please can I ask that you do not let your child bring in a Labbubu, if they are seen in school they will be taken off of your child and returned at the end of the day. Thank you for your understanding with this. Have a lovely weekend.

Worship

On Monday, Rebecca came in to lead worship on Noah and the Ark. On Wednesday we had our RE day looking at The Big Frieze and thinking about the early bible stories. The children created some beautiful pieces of art work and I am looking forward to getting them up on display. Today, we had our first class worship and Norway blew us away with all the information they have been learning since the beginning of the year!

Important Information

Flu Vaccination

Vaccination UK are coming on Monday 29th September to administer nasal spray vaccinations on behalf of NHS England. Please ensure that you have completed the consent form here. This needs to be completed by all parents to either confirm that you do or do not want your child to have the vaccination. They have also provided a leaflet 'Protecting your child against Flu.'

Census day school lunch

Thursday 2nd October is school census day and Coram Cafe will be offering the following lunch options.

Red - Beef Burger

Green - Quorn Burger

Purple - Chicken Burger

Blue - Jacket Potato

Yellow - Tuna Roll

AUTHOR VISIT FROM DERMOT O’LEARY – LAST CALL SIGNED BOOK OFFER

On Tuesday, we will be welcoming one of the UK's best-loved broadcasters and author DERMOT O’LEARY to our school. He will be coming to talk about his Toto the Ninja Cat Book Series.

Dermot O’Leary will be signing books for the children at the event.

IMPORTANT – Parents, you can order a copy from Our Bookshop- click links below...
https://www.ourbookshoptring.co.uk/product/toto-the-ninja-cat-and-the-pirate-treasure-hunt/

The signed books will be given to your child on the day.
This will be very exciting for all the children.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM BEN AT OUR BOOKSHOP - Please include your child's name and class so the books can be labelled up for the event. Postage is not required; we will deliver all the books on the day.

Ashlyns Open Evening

Ashlyns Open Evening is Thursday 2nd October. For further information and to book a place click here.

Arbor
Arbor Please can we ask parents to login into Arbor to check your child’s details are up-to-date including emergency contacts; address; consents and permissions.

Delivering Specialist Provision
Each half term we receive details of support available for children and their families through the Delivering Specialist Provision Locally newsletter. The link to see the current offer is below. There are lots of fantastic resources and courses offered supporting families of children with a wide variety of additional needs.

https://dacorumdspl.org.uk/dspl8-parent-nl-sept-25-1/

Community Information

Toy Hub Needs Your Help! 🎁

Please help us collect bags for life and big sturdy bags (like IKEA bags) - bring these to the school office by Friday 7th November. They’ll be used by Toy Hub to deliver Christmas presents to local families.

Toy Hub is also looking for volunteers in November & early December — keep an eye on their socials for details. More info: www.toyhub.org

Berkhamsted Swimming Club

BSC are currently welcoming new members aged 8 and upwards who are in Stage 8 (or above) swimming lessons. Swimming is not only a vital life skill but also a fun way for children to stay active, make friends, and grow their confidence. For more information click here.

Berko Repair Cafe

The Berko Repair Cafe have moved to a new venue. Please see their press release here.

Bricks & Blaze for The Pepper Foundation

30^th October – from 6 pm.

Tring Park Cricket Club

Choose to do a Lego Walk (ages 5+), or Fire walk (ages 12+) or both- to raise funds for the children’s hospice at home.

A wonderful opportunity to do something heartfelt and exhilarating as a family!

Biggest Question: Do you burn your feet? … NO! so don’t let that scare you 😊

We would love to have you join us. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. For now, here is more information and the sign-up page: https://www.pepper.org.uk/event/pepper-bricks-blaze-challenge/

Friends of Thomas Coram

Thank you so much for all the wonderful offers of help we have received. We have an exciting meeting lined up next week and will be in touch with you all following that meeting.

Our Annual General Meeting will be held at school on Thursday 16 October at 7pm - all are welcome! This will be where the next committee members are voted in.

Scarecrow Trail

We are looking for some creative pupils to become 'Scarecrow Creators' and design and make a scarecrow to be outside your house over October half term. The desired theme is 'Favourite Book Characters'. If this is up your street, please let us know here by Friday 3^rd October. We will be selling trail maps and a quiz nearer the time for a scarecrow hunt around the town!

Weekly Attendance W/C 22/09/2025

Year 3: 97.5%
Year 4: 95%
Year 5: 91.5%
Year 6: 89%
Whole school: 93.1%

A huge shout out to Norway and China for achieving 100% attendance last week. We have had 100% attendance more in the first two weeks of term than the whole of last year!

"Always show up, never give up."

Values in Action

Madagascar - Tia - for demonstrating kindness, taking her own time to unexpectedly make a staff member a birthday card out of pure generosity!

Gambia - Bobby - for showing resilience and determination to keep going in Maths this week.

South Africa - Edith - for showing kindness to others when working in a group.

Norway - Ted - for always showing respect to others in the ways he talks and behaves.

Croatia - Lily - for showing resilience in her Maths work this week.

Finland - Florence - for her kindness in helping others during her free time.

China - Anya - for always showing kindness to others.

Borneo - Jack - for his hard work, resilience, sense of humour and friendly attitude towards his peers. A wonderful young man who is a credit to our class.

India - Ashton - for being respectful: always being kind, polite and ready to learn and ensuring that he is setting a great example to others.

Brazil - Orla - for showing great kindness, responsibility and friendship on our PGL trip.

Peru - Benji - for showing kindness this week in class to his peers.

Mexico - Ava - for settling into her new school class and showing everyone kindness and respect.

A full calendar is available here

Information attached/sent out this week

This week at St Peter's

Details of services at St Peter's can be found here.

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