The Thomas Coram CE School

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

Newsletter 4 Friday 3 October 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 6th October

Monday 6th - Friday 10th October	Y3 - Y5 Assessment week
Monday 6th October	Breakfast and Captains Club bookings for Autumn 2 open on Monday 6th October at 7pm
Monday 6th October	Harvest Festival	Paragraph 3
	Coats and jumpers!	Paragraph 4
	Secondary School Applications Deadline Friday 31st October
	Game On half term holiday clubs Berkhamsted Rotary Fireworks Pregnancy Well Being Click to take a look!

This week

We have had an extremely exciting week this week, with our special guest on Tuesday. Dermot O'Leary came in to to talk to the children about his new book Toto the Ninja Cat and was was fabulous with the children. They thoroughly enjoyed hearing about his life and taking part in a little activity of creating their own creature. It was a great morning for Team TC. Yesterday, I went round to all of the classes to watch Maths in action across the school, as it is one of our priorities this year. The children were all engaged and I was really proud of how hard they were all working! Go Team TC! Our thoughts and prayers have been with Mrs Giles and her families this week following her breast cancer diagnosis. We shared with South Africa class that the prognosis is currently very good with a short treatment plan and we know you will all keep her in your thoughts over the coming months. Just as a reminder please can I ask that parents and carers use the pedestrian gate to enter and exit the school at drop off and pick up times, I am nearly always on the gate and it is important from a safeguarding perspective, that I see everyone coming and going. Thank you. Have a great weekend.

Worship

On Monday Father Stuart led our worship on Joseph and his brothers and how Joseph and his brothers felt, discussing how they would feel if they were in that situation. On Wednesday, the children looked at Dermot O'Leary and his Christian beliefs. Today, Brazil led an awesome class worship on their PGL trip and how exciting it was! Well done Brazil!

Important Information

Harvest Festival
TC are supporting the Hope Food Bank. Please bring any donations from this list to the school office from Monday 6th October. Thank you in advance for all your donations.

Coats and jumpers
As the weather changes please make sure that your child(ren) come into school with a named jumper and a named coat. They are outside in all weathers!

Community Information

Northchurch Social Centre

They are holding a Community Open Day on Saturday 11th October from 10am – 3pm, which will showcase the wide variety of activities and groups that take place at the Centre throughout the year – there will be something for all ages and interests!

BeeZee Families

Beezee Families, is a FREE heathy lifestyle programme that our nutritionists deliver in-person and online. Some healthy snack ideas can be found here and further information about what they do on the BeeZee website.

Friends of Thomas Coram

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 need four more 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 Monday 6th October. We will be selling trail maps and a quiz nearer the time for a scarecrow hunt around the town!

Weekly Attendance W/C 29/09/2025

Year 3: 97.4%
Year 4: 97.9%
Year 5: 92.7%
Year 6: 90.8%
Whole school: 94.7%

"Always show up, never give up."

Values in Action

Madagascar - Halley - for always demonstrating good manners and being thankful.

Gambia - Oscar - for showing kindness and empathy towards others both in and out of the classroom.

South Africa - Margot - for showing kindness and helping the other children on her table.

Norway - Alizah - for showing tremendous resilience to become confident in swimming lessons.

Croatia - Gabriel - for showing excellent resilience skills in lessons and during Stormbreak activities.

Finland - Alfie - for always showing respect to others both adults and children in his words and actions.

China - Leena - for her excellent resilience during Maths this week.

Borneo - Jacob - for showing resilience in maths and persevering when solving problems. Well done.

India - Jonathan - for his resilience in Maths this week. He has used his understanding to push forward even when it was difficult.

Brazil - Whole Class - for showing thankfulness for our experiences.

Peru - Lincoln - for showing resilience in the classroom and focusing on his work.

Mexico - Olivia - for demonstrating kindness and patience when the our Science experiment wasn't going to plan.

A full calendar is available here

Information attached/sent out this week

Y3-Y5 Assessment Week Email

Y5 - PGL information for September 2026

This week at St Peter's

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