School Newsletter – 2nd October 2026

NEXT WEEK

Individual school photographs take place on Tuesday. Please send your child in uniform with their P.E. kit in a bag if they are doing Games or Gym that day. And, of course, don’t forget big smiles!

This year we will be combining the Learning Support and EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) coffee mornings each term. Come for a chat with Mrs Louise and Snra Vanessa about inclusion, equality and diversity in the school. This will take place in the Year 5 sets room on the second floor from 8.15am on Wednesday 7^th October.

Our Year 6s will be having an experience of 11+ exams recreated in our school hall on Thursday and followed by practice interviews given by parent volunteers on Friday. The children find these mocks enormously helpful as a warm up to the real thing happening in the coming months. Our philosophy is to prepare with great teaching and practice but not with pressure and by dint of that, the children do exceedingly well.

We are still looking for parent volunteers to help with our 11+ mock interviews next Friday, from 8.30–9.30am.

If you are available and would be happy to lend a hand, we would be very grateful! Please email Gina directly if you are able to help.

On Friday we look forward to our first year group assembly of the year as Year 3 take to the stage to teach us all about life in Ancient Rome. Togas and Empire building guaranteed!

FORS Update

Dates for the diary:

We are delighted to be able to confirm some dates for your diaries for the rest of the winter term. Ticketed events will become available in due course on Classlist but please do save the dates.

The requests for volunteers for the various events will come at relevant points from your class reps, if anyone wants to put down an early marker to help please don’t be shy!

Wed 7th Oct, 8pm: AGM – Zoom

Thurs 8th Oct, 8pm: FORS Social – Queen Adelaide Pub

Fri 9th Oct: Deadline for Christmas card ordering

Thurs 15th Oct, 2:30-4pm & Fri 16th Oct, 8:30-10am: Uniform Sale – Hilden House

Fri 16th Oct: Freaky Friday, children’s Halloween dress up

Fri 27th Nov: Merry Market order collection

Tues 1st Dec, 3pm: Christmas Bake Sale

Thurs 3rd Dec, 7:30pm: Wreath Making Evening

Sat 5th Dec, 5pm start: Children’s Movie Night

Mon 7th Dec: Children’s Christmas Fair & Christmas Jumper Day

We hope you and your children are able to enjoy as many of these events as you can make. Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support!

FORS AGM

The FORS AGM will be held on Wednesday 7th October at 8pm on Zoom. Class reps and FORS members will receive the agenda and joining details directly. Anyone else wishing to attend can contact their class rep for joining details.

Parent Drinks!

Join us for drinks for Class Reps, FORS members, and any parents keen to get involved and learn more about what FORS does for the school. 8pm at the Queen Adelaide pub, Putney Bridge Road, all very welcome!

Pre-Loved Uniform Sale

The pre-loved uniform sale will take place in Hilden House:

– Thursday 15th, 2.30pm–4.00pm

– Friday 16th, 8.30am–10.00am

The sale is one of the easiest ways to support FORS. Huge thanks go to all the volunteers pitching in!

AOB

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

The Wandsworth immunisation team will be visiting the school to provide the children with their flu immunisation on Friday 16^th October. Please complete the linked form sent in the letters home section of the parent app to give permission for your child to receive the nasal spray or porcine-free injection.

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 fantastic weekend.

Jonny