School Newsletter – 9th October 2026

NEXT WEEK

We look forward to welcoming your children back for our Open Morning tomorrow. Please drop them off at 9.15am and collect at 11am via the gate. Many thanks for your support.

Parent/Teacher meetings take place across the week and give you an opportunity to find out how your child has settled into their new year group. Assessment week will take place the week after half term and information from those formal tests will be relayed in the end of term reports.

On Tuesday, a group of Year 6 children will be performing at the Woldingham Choir Festival with a medley from ‘The Greatest Showman’.  We wish them all the very best and I am sure their performance will be outstanding.

On Thursday, Year 3 will be visiting the Science Museum as part of their topic on ‘Magnets and Forces’, participating in interactive workshops on that theme.

On Friday we celebrate the season with Freaky Friday supported by FORS. The children can come in their most ghastly and ghoulish costume. Donations will go to our house charities.

Also on Friday we have the NHS team visiting the school to provide flu immunisations. Please check the letters home section of the parent app to find the information and link to allow your child to receive their immunisation.

That day will also see our next Spanish taster day for children 4 and under in our EYFS space at 9.30am. Please book here The Roche School and Nursery – Visit Us

FORS

Thank you to everyone who joined the AGM on Wednesday this week. It was a really useful session, with good feedback and plenty of ideas discussed.

FORS Drinks


Thank you also to all the parents who joined us for drinks on Thursday. It was lovely to see you. We’re planning a similar event each term, alongside the much-loved coffee van, to give us parents a chance to meet and get to know each other beyond our class groups.

Pre-loved Uniform Sale


A reminder that the next pre-loved uniform sale is on Thursday 15th October, 2:30-4pm and Friday 16th October, 8:30-10am.

A huge thank you to all the volunteers kindly giving up their time to run this important service for us all.

Christmas card deadline reminder

The deadline for ordering Christmas cards online and sending in the artwork to your class teacher is TODAY – Friday 9th October.

FORS dates for the diary this term:

Fri 9th Oct: Deadline for Christmas card ordering & picture return

Thurs 15th Oct, 2:30-4pm & Fri 16th Oct, 8:30-10am: Uniform sale

Fri 16th Oct: Freaky Friday, children’s Halloween dress up – £1 donation for school charities

Thurs 19th Nov: Merry Market order deadline

Fri 27th Nov: Merry Market collection / open morning

Tues 1st Dec, 3pm: Christmas bake sale

Thurs 3rd Dec: Wreath making class

Sat 5th Dec: Movie night

Mon 7th Dec: Christmas Fair & Christmas Jumper Day

Thurs 10th Dec: Whole school panto

AOB

Sophie Roche has written an article about us for the Spanish Embassy magazine! Sharing our Spanish immersion afternoons and our pedagogical approach, the full article (in Spanish of course!) can be found here: https://www.libreria.educacion.gob.es/libro/tecla-no-1-2026-revista-de-la-consejeria-de-educacion-en-el-reino-unido-e-irlanda_187173/

Applications are open for our main school Nursery which will be continuing as a 3+ offering in our Early Years space on the ground floor. Kate Wiffen our Director of Teaching and Learning who oversees Early Years and Tulsi Misra our Nursery Lead welcome any prospective parents to meet them to discuss what we can offer.

Miss Marcia and Miss Karen will be running our holiday camp the first full week of the October half term from Monday 19^th October to Friday 23^rd October 8.30am till 5.30pm. The cost will be £60 per day and each session will be packed with art, sports and fun-filled activities.  Booking is available via School Cloud as this club will be run via the school. SchoolCloud – The Roche School

Please be mindful of avoiding parking on our neighbours’ driveways on Frogmore as they may need to use them during drop off and pick up.

See below details of all parent talks this term:

Zoom Details:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84426359317?pwd=ABdreTYOq86efH3ZD3CBxyp47e02sE.1

Meeting ID: 844 2635 9317                  Passcode: parota

Autumn Term

Have a wonderful autumnal weekend.

Jonny