Headteacher Message  

I am writing this week’s newsletter with festive tunes floating around the corridors as the children practise hard for their upcoming performances.  We are all looking forward to welcoming you to the different events over the next few weeks with the very first taking place after school today! Kew Sparkle is at 4:45pm in Kew village and our choir, led by the wonderful Miss Carter, will be the opening act! I hope to see lots of you there.

This week we have had a number of educational visits and sporting fixtures and on each occasion your children have lived our school values of Responsibility, Aspiration, Equality and Enjoyment. Our football teams had a disappointing result earlier in the week against a local school, but they demonstrated such teamwork and integrity and as a result enjoyed the matches. They didn't stop there, two days later they played at a larger local school tournament, smashed their first game and went on to win one more. We could not be prouder!

Over the year a great deal of work has been going into ensuring our RE curriculum is the best it can be, relevant to our community and demonstrating well sequenced and progressive learning from year to year. This week Year 2 visited  Hounslow Jamia Masjid whilst Year 1 learnt about Hanakkah, including how to play dreidel and cook latkes - which got the double thumbs up from the taste-testers!

Next week the enjoyment continues as we host a special author event with David Baddiel! He is visiting our KS2 children and children from Queen's school and Kew College will be joining us. There will be a book sale after school and information about this will come with the newsletter.  Year 1 are visiting Richmond Museum to learn more about the history of toys and KS2 classes are taking part in 'Be Internet Legends' workshops. One of our aims at Darell is to live our value of enjoyment and I hope this newsletter gives a flavour of how we do this. Happy children learn!

I am now off to help at the Debatemate club which runs every Friday and teaches our upper KS2 children the skills and techniques of debating.

Have a lovely weekend and hope to see some of you in Kew Village later to cheer on the Darell choir!​

Emma Claridge

Communications

Sent Home

• Year 1 & Year 2 - Royal Festival Hall Trip Letter

• Whole School - Author Visit flyer

Stars of the Week!

Early Years Star of the Week

Wonder Class

Skylar - for always taking responsibility for her learning and for being kind and caring to our new friends in Reception.

KS1 Star of the Week

Peake Class

Sienna-Mae - for showing great enjoyment and participation on our school trip and in our RE lessons. Well done, Sienna-Mae!

Weir Class

Mariam- for showing great enjoyment and participation on our school trip and in our RE lessons. Well done, Mariam!

Walker Class

Scarlett - for using full sentences to communicate what she wants when talking to an adult. Well done, Scarlett!

KS2 Star of the Week

Newton Class

Sanveer- for his enjoyment and excellent participation in Maths this week. Well done, Sanveer!

Thunberg Class

Florence - for being a kind and responsible friend. Florence has helped her friends with their work and focus this week.

Darwin Class

Frankie - for aspiring to use more challenging vocabulary in English and for his constant politeness to his peers and to grownups.

Attenborough Class

Juliette - for the enjoyment and aspiration that she shows in her learning, always ready to go the extra mile.

Parks Class

Raphael - for Always going the extra mile and trying his best in everything that he does.