The Thomas Coram CE School

Newsletter 35 Friday 27June 2025

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

Important Info for W/C 30 June 2025

Lunch Accounts	Please make sure your child's lunch account is in credit.
Federation Newsletter		Paragraph 5
Road Safety Pedestrian Skills	Year 4	Paragraph 6
Tuesday 1st July	Nadia Finer - Author visit
Tuesday 1st July and Wednesday 2nd July	Y6 Production 'I'm an 11 year old get me out of here'	6.30pm
Thursday 3rd July	Rock Steady Assembly
Thursday 3rd July	New to TC parent talk	6.30pm
Friday 4th July	Ida's bake sale after school in aid of The Hospice of St Francis	3.30 pm under canopy LKS playground
Flyers, letters and links	Game on Next Thing Education	Bottom of newsletter

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

This week at Thomas Coram

What an exciting week we have had with the prospect of change and all the new things to come next year. I always feel apprehensive at this time of year as we are coming to the end of a chapter and there is the thought of a new chapter starting. But I know, that change is inevitable and as humans, we are all able to deal with change well if we put our minds to it. Positive attitudes and encouragement help with that. I have told the children next year will be our best year yet at Team TC and I wholeheartedly believe that. We have our transition day in two weeks which will be a great opportunity to fully embrace next year.

We are aware that some children are going to the park in Velvet Lawn before school rather than coming straight in through the gates. This means that they are unsupervised and we are experiencing an increasing amount of incidents happening in the park before school. We have reminded the children of the expectation that they come straight into school and would appreciate the message being reiterated at home too.

Tomorrow we have our TC does Glasto and I am looking forward to seeing many families tomorrow and hoping for good weather. Have a lovely weekend.

Worship

On Monday, Father Stuart came in to lead worship on St Caedmon and the fact that Caedmon wanted to sing but was unable to, but was a great poet, yet he did not want to do that. We spoke about the fact we cannot all be good at everything and we have to relish those things we are good at. Mrs Bruguier led singing worship for Year 3 - 5 on Tuesday, whilst Year 6 practised their production songs. I am very much looking forward to seeing the production in full next week. Today we had Norway's class assembly - well done Norway for a great performance.

Important Information

Castle Federation Newsletter

The Governors have put together their first Federation newsletter! Please see the link below for more information on all the fantastic work they do across the Federation.

Castle Church of England Federation - Newsletters & Letters

Road Safety advice for parents and carers
Next week, the Year 4 children will take part in Pedestrian Skills training provided by the Hertfordshire Active and Safer Travel Team, in preparation for September when the children move up to Year 5 and, in some cases, start walking to school independently. Understanding road safety is crucial for children’s wellbeing and independence. Not just for the Year 4 families, but for anyone either walking to and from school or with children who walk independently.

Author Visit - Nadia Finer Tuesday 1st July

We’re thrilled to share that author Nadia Finer will be visiting our school on Tuesday 1 July to talk about her book, Quiet Riot.

Quiet Riot challenges the idea that shyness is something to be "fixed" and instead celebrates the successes of softly spoken trailblazers—from athletes and writers to scientists and activists. Featuring 40 real-life stories, this book reassures children that they don’t need to change who they are to achieve great things—they just need to embrace their own quiet power.

During her visit, Nadia will speak to the children about what it feels like to be shy and how to overcome the fears that can sometimes hold us back. She will also be sharing powerful stories of shy superheroes—from Marcus Rashford and Taylor Swift to Lionel Messi and Beatrix Potter—proving that quiet voices can make a big impact.

✨ Order a Signed Copy! ✨

If you’d like to purchase a special hardback copy of Quiet Riot for your child, and have it signed by the author, please place your order by Monday 30 June using this link:

Community Information

Summer Reading Challenge
Berkhamsted Library are running their summer reading challenge and two of the librarians came in to talk to the children on Wednesday. Children can join for free and the challenge runs from 5th July to 6th September. More information can be found here.

Friends of Thomas Coram

We are really looking forward to seeing lots of you tomorrow for TC does Glasto. Thank you so much for all the donations.

After Glasto we have Miss Hill's Hendo (Thursday 10th July) and Frozen Thurs-yay (Thursday 17th July) to look forward too.

Tickets for all our events can be bought here.

Weekly Attendance W/C 23/06/2025
Year 3: 98%
Year 4: 94.9%
Year 5: 90.9%
Year 6: 95.1%
Whole school: 94.8%

"Always show up, never give up."

Madagascar - Isra and Sophie T - For the vast improvements in their handwriting.

South Africa - Jude - For putting lots of effort into presenting his work neatly.

Gambia - Sienna - For her positive attitude and outlook on everything. Well done Sienna!

Finland - Freddie - For excellent effort and improved focus in lessons this week. Keep it up!

Norway - Whole Class - For their brilliant teamwork writing the script and preparing for the class assembly.

Croatia - Jonathan - For showing perseverance and resilience in English this week.

China -Fraser - For working hard in Maths.

Borneo - Evie - For her enthusiasm for learning and being an amazing role model to others.

India - Lily - For brilliant money work in Maths this week.

Brazil - Whole of Year 6 - For their hard work practising for our production.

Mexico - Whole Class - For working so hard this week and being resilient during an unsettled week. Well done.

Peru - Sky - For showing kindness, maturity, and thoughtfulness by helping others learn something new.

A full calendar is available here

Information attached this week

Whole School letters/emails sent this week

Classes for September 2025

Flyers/ Links

Next Thing Education - Stem Camp

Game on Summer Camps

Good Shephard Holiday Clubs

This week at St Peter's

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

To read the latest news from St Peter's click here.