Dear Parents and Carers,

This week in school

Thank you for attending your child’s parent-teacher meeting this week.  We hope you found these meetings helpful.

Y4 Passion Play

We are very proud of our Y4 pupils for their wonderful performance of the Passion Play today.  The Passion Play tells the story of Holy Week and Jesus’ resurrection. The children sang and acted brilliantly, recreating these events with maturity and dignity.  Thank you to Mrs FitzGerald, Mrs King and the staff team and well done too, to Y3 children for their fantastic support in the choir.

Richmond Borough Orchestra Day

Our school orchestra took part in a joint schools’ orchestral performance yesterday at The Exchange in Twickenham.  This was a unique opportunity to learn pieces and perform as a large orchestra with other local schools with a conductor and professional musicians.  It was a fantastic show of musical talent and collaboration, and the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Our Journey through Lent

Sponsored Spell for the Catholic Children’s Society

Congratulations to all the children for learning their words for the Sponsored Spell this week, and thank you to all those who sponsored them.  All sponsorship monies can be sent into school next week and they will be sent to the Catholic Children’s Society along with money raised through the Passion Play and the Lent collection boxes.

The Staff Spellathon took place on Tuesday this week and it was certainly a fierce competition.  Mrs Bolger, Mrs Singh, Miss Lopez, Mrs Knowles and Mrs Staveley all took turns to spell out loud a list of extremely tricky spellings chosen by the Pupil Chaplains.   It went to a tie break and in the end, Mrs Briggs was the winner.  Thank you to all for being such good sports!

Foodbank Donations  

Thank you for your donations of food this week.  There is still time to make a donation on Monday if you would like to donate to this cause.

Stations of the Cross

On Thursday 3^rd April we will be having a Stations of the Cross prayer service in school.  This is a children only service prepared by our Y5 pupils who will lead meditations on each of the Stations of the Cross.  Following this, our Y5 and Y6 pupils who have made their First Holy Communion, will have the opportunity for individual confession. 

Next week in school

Pre-loved Uniform Sale – Tuesday 1^st April

The pre-loved uniform sale will be taking place on Tuesday 1st April at morning drop off.  Thank you to Mrs McElroy, Y5 and Y6 parent, for organising!

Non-Uniform Day and Crazy Hair Day

On Friday next week, the children are encouraged to come into school wearing their own clothes along with crazy hair if they wish.  This is a charity event organised by our Pupil Chaplains to raise money for our Lent Charity, the Catholic Children’s Society.  Children are asked to bring in a donation of £1 for wearing their own clothes.

Information for Parents

Richmond Music Trust Guitar lessons

Would you like your child to learn to play the guitar?  If so, please see the flyer attached to this newsletter for information from the Richmond Music Trust regarding guitar lessons. 

Part-time EYFS teacher vacancy

We are currently seeking a part-time EYFS teacher for September 2025.  For more details of the position please visit https://www.eteach.com/job/eyfs-teacher-1473944  Please do share this advert with teachers you know who may be interested.

We are very thankful to Miss Thompson for covering Mrs Goldsmith’s maternity leave and are delighted that Miss Thompson will be continuing in Reception on a part-time basis from September.

Upcoming Events

APRIL

4^th  All Day  Non-Uniform and Crazy Hair Day for the Catholic Children’s Society

4^th  2:00 p.m.  Term ends. Children to be collected at 2pm

22^nd  8:45 a.m.  Children return to school

Save the dates!

Tuesday 29^th April – Hair braiding evening workshop

Friday 16^th to Sunday 18^th May – PTA and Friends of St Elizabeth’s Bike Ride to Guernsey

Sunday 18^th May – PTA May Fair

Values Awards this week

Congratulations to the following children who have been noticed living our School Values this week.

Reception – Mateo

Y1 – Jonathan

Y2 – Elena

Y3 – Kelly

Y4 – Georgia

Y5 - Benjamin

Y6 – Layla

Million Word Readers

Congratulations to Mia and Peggy in Y5 for reading 1 million words!  A fantastic achievement!

Attendance and Punctuality this week

Congratulations to Y2 for having the highest attendance this week with 98.9%.  This is closely followed by Y6 with 98.3%.  Another great week for punctuality with three classes having the highest punctuality rate.  Well done to Y2, Y3 and Y5!

Wishing you a lovely weekend,

Jane Hines and the staff of St Elizabeth’s