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21 Nov 2024Year 5 visit to Museum of water and steam - Falcon/Kestrel Class
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22 Nov 2024Year 5 visit to Museum of water and steam - Owl Class
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6 Dec 202413:15Mini Olympics - Otter Class
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11 Dec 2024NSPCC Online Safety Workshop for Parents 8pm
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12 Dec 2024Year 4 Hampton Court Palace trip
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20 Dec 2024Term Ends for Christmas 1.30pm
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21 Dec 2024
to5 Jan 2025
Christmas Holidays
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25 Dec 2024
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26 Dec 2024
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6 Jan 2025Whole school INSET
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7 Jan 2025Children return to school
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17 Jan 202513:00Mini Olympics - Swan
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17 Feb 2025
to21 Feb 2025
HALF TERM
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24 Feb 2025Whole school INSET
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25 Feb 2025Children return to school
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7 Mar 202513:00Mini Olympics - Woodpeckers
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31 Mar 202513:00Sportshall Athletics - Heron
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4 Apr 2025Term Ends 1.30pm
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5 Apr 2025
to21 Apr 2025
Easter Holidays
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22 Apr 2025Whole school INSET
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23 Apr 2025Children Return
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2 May 202513:00Mini Olympics - Robin
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26 May 2025
to30 May 2025
HALF TERM
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2 Jun 2025Whole school INSET
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3 Jun 2025Children return to school
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13 Jun 202513:00Mini Olympics - Kingfisher
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20 Jun 202513:00Mini Olympics - OWLS
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20 Jun 202513:00Sportshall Athletics - Owls
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11 Jul 2025Whole school INSET
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22 Jul 2025End of School Year 1.30pm
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Head Teacher's Message!-
Dear Parents and Carers,
I hope you have all had a lovely bank holiday weekend.
What a fortnight it has been! From bikeability to road safety, synagogue trips to football matches and a bird hide being constructed on the field to support our outdoor learning. Thank you to the FoA for their generous donation. Well done to the Year 5 & 6 boys for showing such great teamwork and resilience in the match against Manor Croft, they are now through to the cup finals! This afternoon, the year 5 and 6 girls are playing at Walton Oak in the league semi finals. We wish you the best of luck.
As you will be aware, SATs start for our year 6 pupils next week and we want them to know how proud of them we are and how hard they have worked in school. Thank you to the year 6 staff team for organising the breakfast for Year 6 in the classrooms from 8.15am Monday—Thursday. We’ll see how many croissants we get through this year! It is important we remember that SATs don’t measure the values we hold dearly in our school – care, courage and curiosity - values which the children excel in! So, my top tip to those of you taking SATs, is to spend a great time this weekend doing what you enjoy the most. Enjoy the sunshine and being with your families and those you love!
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Ratcliff
The Past Fortnight -
Year 5
We are so proud of Owl class who competed against Cleves last week in a Handball competition. The relative novices soon got to grips with the game and everyone gave 100% and beat Cleves 19-9. They cheered every team on and worked well together.
Year 4
Over the last few weeks, Year 4 have been learning about sculpture in Art, learning about how to attached pieces of clay together as well as learning how to indent it to create a pattern. This week, we have applied the skills we have learnt and are in the process of making our own clay cartouches, complete with heirogliphics to decipher! The results have been fantastic so far! Once the clay is dry, we will then paint them carefully, thinking about colour combinations that work well together and really enhance the look of our cartouches!
- Mrs Ready
Year 3
Year 3 had a wonderful morning on Friday 3rd May when they went to Weybridge Synagogue to learn about how Jewish people worship and some of the festivals they celebrate. We felt very privileged to see the sacred Ark (an ornate cabinet that enshrines the sacred Torah scrolls used for public worship) being opened and having a look at a real Torah scroll.
- Mrs Nawaz
As part of Year 3's learning this half term about how we are impacted by extreme phenomena, Austin S has made his very own volcano! The oozing lava was made by combining water, food colouring, sodium bicarbonate and vinegar.
Year 2
As part of our Learning Enquiry, Year 2 were visited by a female pilot, Claire Money who flies for British Airways. Since the children have Brooklands already, they had a lot of questions and have blown our visitor away with their curiosity. Many thanks to Claire for taking the time to come and do a wonderful presentation at our school.
- Mrs Van Der Schaff
Year 1
Thank you so much to Nick, a year one parent, for coming in to speak about being Jewish and celebrating Shabbat. We loved hearing you speak about why Friday night is important to Jews and the different things they do to celebrate. The children have already learnt about why the Torah is special and now are focusing on Shabbat.
- Mrs Rayner 
Reception
This fortnight reception are learning about ‘Which stories do we love and why?’ As part of our learning we read the story ‘The Gingerbread man’. We all had a go at making our own gingerbread men. They tasted delicious. We also made boats to see if they could carry our gingerbread men across the water table.
-Miss Key
May Day Fayre -
On Bank Holiday monday, the school had a stall at the community event on Bridge Street. Despite the inclement weather, it was wonderful to informally meet so many existing families as well as families joining us in September too.
Friends Of Ashley -
We are delighted to announce the brand new Bird Hide has been installed today. We cannot wait for the children to be able to use this and watch the different types of birds around the Ashley grounds. Thank you FOA for funding this exciting piece of apparatus.
Gardening News -
the gardening diaries april 2024.pdf
The front of our school is looking amazing, a big thank you to our fantastic volunteer, Angela. She has worked her magic to help transform what we see when we arrive in the morning.
Both weeding and adding some additions to our planting beds such as the forget-me-nots, we can't thank you enough! Please say Hello if you see her busy working.
- Mrs Winstanley Fisher
☕️SEND parents coffee catch-up ☕️
An informal parent catch up on Friday 21st June from 1.30pm till pick up. The address is 25 Sidney Road KT12 2NA . All welcome 🙂 Hope to see you then! ☕️
Well Done -
A MASSIVE well done to our under10 Ashley cross country running team who raced at Notre Dame. Isla M (Y5) earned a brilliant 6th place out of 72 girls and Ollie C (Y5) won the u10 boys race for Ashley. All the children ran their hearts out, we are so proud!
Congratulations to the following children from 9th Walton Viscount Air Scouts on achieving their Chief Scouts Awards:
Jasper F (Y3) - Bronze
Amelia K (Y5) Max G (Y5) and Isobel O ( Y5) - Silver
'Parkrun of Triathlon'
Get intoTRI with the 'parkrun of triathlon', the world's 1st Free Triathlon series. People of all ages, from novice to dab hand, can challenge themselves and have fun with events that emphasise finishing over winning.
- Event Start: 7am
- Suitable for the whole family (7+)
- Location: Xcel Centre, Walton, KT12 2JG
- Dates: 19 May, 16 June, 14 July & 15 Sept
- Junior (Short): 100m swim - 2k bike - 1.6k run
- Junior (Long): 200m swim - 2.7k bike - 2.3k run
Further information can be found here: https://freetri.co.uk/event/freetri/