RAF Newsletter - Autumn Week 4

Dates for your diary

Here are details of important events in the next few weeks.

Year Group	Date	Timings	Event details
Year 4	Monday 29th September	2.30pm – 3.15pm	Getting to Know You Event and Welcome
All Year Groups	Monday 29th September	Daytime	Flu Vaccinations
Year 1	Monday 29th September	Daytime	Kew Gardens Trip
Year 5	Tuesday 30th September	10am – 1pm	Maths Wizard Competition at Hampton School
Year 11	Tuesday 30th September	4.30pm – 6pm	Getting to Know You Event
Year 2	Wednesday 1st October	2.30pm – 3.15pm	Getting to Know You Event
Year 6	Monday 13th October	Daytime	Trip to Imperial War Museum
Year 5	Tues 14th Oct	2.30pm – 3.15pm	Getting to Know You Event
Year 1	Monday 20th October	2.30pm – 3.15pm	Getting to Know You Event
Nursery	Wednesday 22nd October	10.40am (families of morning children) 2.40pm (families of afternoon and all day children	Getting to Know You Event
Reception	Thursday 23rd October	2pm – 3pm	Getting to Know You Event
All year groups	Monday 27th October - Friday 31st October	All day	Half term holiday
All Year groups	Monday 3rd November	Daytime	Back to school
Parents of children starting reception in Sept 26	Tuesday 4th November	9am and 1pm	Open Event
Parents of children starting reception in Sept 26	Tuesday 11th November	9am and 1pm	Open Event
Year 6	Tuesday 18th November	Daytime	Trip to Saatchi Gallery
Year 11	Wednesday 26th November	5pm to 7pm	Feltham College Open Event

Spotlight on... Marginal Gains

This cycle we've been focussing on time and marginal gains: how every single moment matters as an opportunity to learn. Big transformations come from small, consistent habits. Little things like getting to lessons quickly, bringing equipment daily, paying attention to every explanation will help our pupils be successful because it expands the time they can spend learning which ultimately helps them to achieve that life of choice and opportunity.

Imagine if we spent five minutes a day working on something? Over the course of a school year, that equates to more than two days in total. Although five minutes doesn't sound like much, if you add it all together that two days learning could make a big difference. So what will you spend your five minutes on?

Year 7 Open Events at RAHP

Due to overwhelming interest, our sister school Reach Academy Hanworth Park is holding two more Open Events. These are for pupils who will start Year 7 in 2026. The events are on 7th and 8th October at 10am until 11am. Please tell your friends and families with Year 6 children in other schools, so that we can share with them all the fantastic things they do at RAHP.

Please can you urge people to book here or by clicking on the flier below, as we have had overwhelming interest and need to know numbers.

We are so proud of how well our nursery children are settling in.

They are being so brave, saying goodbye to their parents without any tears! Mums, dads and carers you're doing a great job with your strong, swift goodbyes. You're helping your little ones build trust and develop emotional resilience.

We are learning to be independent by hanging up our coats on our pegs, lining up and finding our names to place on the 'Who is in Nursery today?' board for self-registration. We are learning to line up one behind the other and wait patiently for our turn to walk into nursery.

Maths

During our Maths lessons, we've been exploring important early maths concepts like matching objects, making equal pairs and comparing quantities to understand more and less. We’ve also started looking at different types of measurements.

Understanding the World

We've been learning about families: who is in our family and what makes each family special and unique. This would be a wonderful topic to continue at home. You might like to talk with your child about what is special about your own family, such as your heritage, traditions, or values that are important to you.

We are incredibly proud of how confidently the children have begun their Reception journey, and we’re excited to be working alongside you this year to support your child in building the foundations for a life full of choice and opportunity.

Drama Workshop

This week the children thoroughly enjoyed a lively drama workshop where they explored acting and built confidence through imaginative play.

Maths

We have been learning about the composition of numbers up to 10 using rekenreks. The children were able to visualise number bonds and practice finding them all within 10. I wonder how many your child can remember?

Writing

We are continuing to write about 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea'. Children are applying knowledge of capital letters and full stops to punctuate their sentences, and are retelling using their story maps.

Can you use the story map below to retell the story at home?

Book Club

In Book Club, we have started reading 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne.

This book is full of mystery and magic: a boy sets off through a dark forest to deliver a cake to his grandmother, and along the way he meets characters from well-known fairy tales.

It’s a story that makes us think carefully about family, fears and the importance of kindness.

You can help at home by asking your child questions such as:

Why do you think the boy went through the forest instead of around it?
Which fairy-tale characters did he meet?
How did the forest make the boy feel, and how do you know?

Writing

We are now planning our independent writing on pirates! Children will be writing about:

What pirates wore (shirts, breeches, bandanas, eye patches)
What pirate ships looked like (tall masts, billowing sails, cannons, crow’s nests)
What pirate flags pirates flew (some flags had skulls and crossbones, some had skeletons holding weapons, and some even showed hourglasses to warn that time was running out!)

Reading

Daily reading at home is so important. Reading every day builds fluency, which is essential not only in English but across all subjects. Please share what you read with your child too, whether it’s a recipe, a road sign, an email, or instructions, so they can see how useful reading is in everyday life. In writing, fluency helps us read back and improve our own work.

Each Friday your child will take home three books: two of them should be read by them to you and one is a parent reader. Please ensure that you write a comment in their reading record every day and send it back into school.

Maths

We have continued working on numbers within 100. This week we have used a place value chart to compare numbers. We learned that we can compare numbers by looking at the tens column and then the ones column. We have used the phrases “greater than”, “less than” and “is equal to” and learned the symbols that represent that: <, >, =

Computing

This week we learned about passwords and how we can make sure our password keeps our unique information safe. Ask your child what makes a super safe password!

Team Reach

In Team Reach, we talked about the special people in our life and what makes them special to us. The key words we used were commitment, care, quality time and love.

Dates for your diary

Get to Know You Event: Wednesday 1st October. Please bring baked goods only for our shared “tea time.” Let us know if you can make it by filling in the form here.

We are so proud of Pine and Cherry Class for their enthusiasm and hard work. Thank you for your continued support at home. Together we are making great strides in Year 2!

Wow! How quickly the first four weeks of school have gone! There have been a lot of changes moving from Phase 1 but everyone is settling in well and we are so proud of how everyone has shown the value of endeavour over the last few weeks.

Google Classroom

Moving into Phase 2 means children can now use google classroom to stay up to date with work and to ask any questions that they have about their learning.

To log in you will need their google classroom logins which can be found glued into their reading records.

Juniper Class

Wisteria Class

As it is a professional space, unfortunately it cannot be used to talk to other teammates or to write comments unassociated with classwork.

We cannot wait to post some exciting information on our classroom!

Homework in Year 3

We have loved seeing all of the children’s reading records with their newly learnt words and definitions over the last few weeks.

We will slowly now start introducing new homework over the next few weeks. The first of these is Times Table Rock Stars, which children will be used to from Year 2. Once login’s have been given out children should be completing 10 minutes every night at home.

Once everyone is settled with Times Table Rock Stars we will then also introduce another homework platform called Century but more details will be sent out about this soon.

What have we been learning?

Book Club

This term we are reading the book ‘Ice Palace’ by Robert Swindells.

The story follows Ivan on a long and treacherous journey to find his brother after he was taken in the middle of the night by a mystical being known as Starjik. We have had a great time reading this book and cannot wait to see what happens next.

To support reading lessons, it is vital that your child is reading for 10 minutes at home everyday. Please ensure they are writing a new definition or about the story in their reading log afterwards.

Continued endeavour!

It’s been a brilliant two weeks for our incredible students! They have continued to show an exemplary attitude towards their learning. They should be very proud of how well they have settled into life in Phase 3.

Congratulations!

We want to congratulate our recent merit and value certificate winners!

Date	Merit Winners		Value Certificate Winners
Date	Y6 Esk	Y6 Medway	Y6 Esk	Y6 Medway
5.9.25	Alina	Oscar	Dominic	Laith
12.9.25	Aizah	Dominic	Anvi	Aya
19.9.25	Carter G	Ruby	Eesa	Parisha

Maths

We have worked incredibly hard on place value to ensure that we can compare and order 7-digit numbers.

Humanities

We learnt how nearly two million children were evacuated from their homes at the start of the Second World War. This was called ‘Operation Pied Piper’. This meant they had to leave their homes in the UK’s largest cities and move to the countryside to escape the bombing.

Thousands of children were even sent overseas to North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This topic links to our Book Club text.

PE

We had an exciting lesson where we did a variety of activities to work out a baseline of our fitness. We will be using this to set a target for the rest of the term that we will endeavour to achieve!

Tuesdays - Esk

Thursdays - Medway

On these days, children should come into school wearing their PE kit. They do not need to bring their normal uniform in as they will not be required to get changed after their PE lesson. Please ensure that your child is not wearing any jewellery.

Homework

We have provided all children with a homework book. We will be setting homework on Google Classroom every weekday (Monday to Friday). It will consist of Maths, SPAG (spelling and grammar) and reading questions. It should take about 20-25 minutes each day. This should be completed in addition to the usual daily reading.

If your child is unable to access the work, or is having difficulty completing it, then please do let us know as soon as possible so that we can provide the necessary support.

Class invite link
Class code: raxmo2xd

Permission to go home

If you would like your child to go home by themselves, please make sure you complete this form. Here is the letter shared earlier this detailing further information.

Well done to Year 7 on another fantastic week!

They have shown so much reflect and endeavour this week in all their lessons and their learning habits are coming on leaps and bounds: they really look like mature, secondary school scholars!

Thank you to all the parents who attended our Getting to Know You Event this week. We are so grateful for the time you have taken from work and other commitments to participate in this community event, welcome our new staff and the parents of our new students.

Thank you also for all the wonderful food that was provided!

Shout Outs

Excellent endeavour from 7C in drama today - so much creative energy in the room and willingness to give everything a go! So excited for the rest of the year in drama with this year group

⭐SO to Wensum for some fantastic pronunciation with new words. They were fantastic and beat MPE by 15 points!

SO to MPE for building such a lovely culture with them during the phonics practice!

SO to Mersey for a great history lesson looking at the problems in Roman politics. Particular S/O to Anas who set a great example for consistent endeavour and to Macie for her insightful answers. The entire class were asking some really great questions!

SO to team Wensum. Their routines are so strong already and their answers are always so insightful. Such a delight to teach

SO to Virat who very kindly has taken on the responsibility to help me look after the fish in my fish tank! He’s agreed to clean the tank once a week from 8.10-8.20am. He came to let me know he had already done it this morning

SO to Virat (as well!) he was so excellent in Comp Sci today- being really curious and showing lots of aspire by answering lots of questions!

SO to Deetya (and by extension, TPO) as she was able to tell me soooo much about Roman politics after her history lesson - I learnt so much!

SO to Niklaus who in every comp sci lesson is endeavouring throughout and gives fantastic answers

SO to 7Wensum in Science, after a tricky start to the lesson and a lot of reflection, these guys smashed their lesson on rates of reaction! Every single person in the room was busy writing answers in wonderful full sentences, diagrams drawn with dual coding, and our MWB quiz at the end everybody got 100% of their answers correct! #goTeam Wensum. Special SO to Javeria, Michael, Mantaj, Isla, and Deetya who achieved 100% in their HW quiz!!🧪

SO to Deetya, Adrian, and Gabriel who all got 100% on their drama quiz! Some excellent dramatists in the room this morning, great expressions from Taiem and Aiden, and lots of energy in the room!

SO to 7A art so much beautiful contouring drawing and super focus and routines, SO to Madi 100% in her first KIP quiz and golden tickets to her and Imaan and Isla and Ahad, plus 6 art scholar postcards #aspire

Huge SO to 7A in drama today - some excellent performers and directors in the room. I'm not sure I've seen a class work so well together before. They give and take feedback encouragingly and are incredibly kind. Special SO to Madi, Aaila, Pharrell, Alexa, and Isla who have been working so hard all lesson - their performances are going to be fantastic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Huge SO to 7B in Art too, such amazing young artists, Golden tickets to Aari, Jade, Aayushri and Manjot, beautiful apple contouring studies!

SO to Jaylen, think he was just the first member of Y7 to reach the 10 sticker goal! #starstudent Also to David and Natalie who both had EXCELLENT lessons I was so impressed

SO to Mersey. Such a fantastic start to the day and a really impressive performance from everyone discussing the First Triumvirate. SO in particular to Shane and to Madi for exemplary endeavour throughout

This week, we had our first Celebration Assembly, which gave Year 8 the opportunity to celebrate all the amazing work from the year group last week.

Merits

Team Cherwell were given 1174 merits across the week, whilst Team Ouse were given 833.

Payslips

Our top 5 payslip earners were Rediet, Carey, Hasan, Avni, and Saif - congratulations to them!

Attendance

We have so many pupils who have 100% attendance, which is incredible. Well done to Amy, Dorcas, Megan, Hasan, Jayde, Avni, Sera, Austeja, Saif, Jason, Fatuma, Zion, Millie, Keira, Sakinah, Ruby, Eisa, Carey, Kelvin, Jojo, Rayen, Avya, Billy, Cien, Sahasri, Rafay, Chidera, Iman, Rhea, and Lexi.

Star of the Week

Finally, our Star of the Week Awards go to Rafay for Have Fun, Sahasri for Aspire, and Jayde for Reflect.

Shoutouts

Eve: SO to both Ouse and Cherwell - I had brilliant RS lessons with both, with so much excitement and enthusiasm for learning #havefun

Izzy: SO to all of Y8, back to back RS lessons with each class and they were excellent throughout, their routines are consistent and efficient!! SO to Javed and Scarlet joint HOTR in Ouse, and Saif HOTR in Cherwell for such wonderful lessons and endeavour 🤩

Megan: SO to Ouse who are furiously writing hard about their first poem they have studied - so much endeavour and focus from some hard-working badgers in the room. Special mention to Cien, Billy, Ruby, Iden and Lexi who are worked super hard and persevering even when it's difficult!

Chloé V: SO to Cherwell who on average got 90% in the first weekly quiz with no scores below 70%, I am so impressed with their recall of last week’s lesson about “I am” and today with feminine/masculine nouns. In particular from Rhea, Eisa and Carey who had sooo much endeavour! Well done!

Sarah R: Perfect 5 for 8C in art p5 and 6 too, lots of courage and endeavour! Amy is such a fab artist and Kaitlyn and Ruby really showed courage to do independent drawing practice.

Megan: Perfect 5 for 8B in Drama this afternoon. Lots of endeavour in the room and special mention to Austeja who was absolutely smashing being 100% on it all the time.

Getting to Know You Event

It was wonderful to meet so many Year 9 families at the GTKY evening. Thanks to everyone that came and especially to those who bought food to share. Thank you also for your support in making sure Year 9s are coming to school ready to learn and with the right school bag: a final reminder that this should be the Reach bag only.

A highlight for me this week was watching 9 Don enjoy their first science practical, using the microscopes to look at cells.

Year 9 D of E excitement

In both assembly and form time this week we have started our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award. This term we are completing our skill and physical components: this means all year 9 pupils must do:

A physical activity once a week
A skill once a week

This needs to be signed off by an assessor, this can be anyone not related to them and over the age of 18. For ideas on what pupils can do check out the DofE website: https://www.dofe.org/

As mentioned at the GTKY evening, we are working towards more independence this year, please support your child to do this by checking their homework with them on Google Classroom and making sure both their planner and payslip are signed every weekend.

Finally, please see below some incredible shout outs demonstrating Year 9’s endeavour in over the last two weeks - let’s keep it going!

Shout Outs

Sophie: SO to Don who had a great lesson today! Specific SO to Waqas and Klaudia whose work was of such a high standard it was shown as a perfect example on the visualiser.

Eve: SO to Tyne. I just had the most amazing RS lesson with them. So much focus and fun for a Friday! #havefun

Savarnah: SO to Preston, Max and Suvan in English this afternoon. We had lots of fun learning about repetition in poetry!

Kit: SO to excellent work from Amir, Dylan, Tanya, Max, and Krish today. When I checked their books in computer science they were writing excellent notes and aspiring to answer every question in excellent detail #endeavour

Phoebe: SO to Preston, Paris, Mikaal, Lana and Amima who were incredible in Spanish. They were following every instruction first time every time. By the end of the lesson, they produced the most amazing paragraphs in Spanish which I am so excited to mark!

Sarisha: SO to Ahmed in Don! Just had an excellent double science lesson where he produced some great work on biological drawings! He was very well focussed throughout!!

Thank You!

Thank you to all that were able to attend the Year 10 Getting to Know You Event: it was great to see you all, we are very excited for the year ahead!

Speak Out Challenge

In Week 3, Year 10 took part in the Jack Petchy Speak Out Challenge. Our pupils showed courage in expressing their ideas and contributed eagerly throughout the sessions. We will announce the finalists in the next newsletter!

Attendance wins

Year 10 had 100% attendance for a few days in the last fortnight which we are celebrating in school. We would love for Year 10 to lead in the school with 100% attendance everyday!

Please continue to support us in this achievement and reach out to us if you need any support. We will continue to spread the joy in the lessons we deliver and in every interaction we have with the students.

Shout Outs!

Jason: 10 BTEC Sport were great today! Super motivated and happy to contribute to all discussions ⭐
Megan: SO to Thames this morning - so super focused in English and excellent endeavour in writing around the room. Very hard to choose individuals for a SO as they were all so fantastic ⭐⭐⭐
Joel: SO to Leam for their English lesson this morning! They all endeavoured so hard on their annotations and extended writing on London and had such great ideas!
Megan.T: SO to Thames this morning who worked so hard on their annotations of 'London' - so much endeavour as always! Special SO to Lorenzo and Avneet for impeccable STAR routine throughout the lesson - they never need reminders to be doing the right thing!
Chelsea: SO to Rosie for greeting me with obvious kindness every time she has seen me over the past week!
Chloe.V: SO to Year 10 French for showing courage reading aloud and completing their first translation from a GCSE paper. I was particularly impressed with Patryk, Anvita, Avneet and Shreyash's French accent when reading aloud to the class!
Izzy: HUGE SO to Y10 historians. What a class! They were so engaged and their partner talk was probably the best I've seen since the term started. Special SO to Alan for working hard and being obviously kind to me on his way out. Also to Hannah & Elias for excellent contributions, Cadeyrn for showing courage, loads of contributions despite being the only one I haven't taught history to for the last 3 years!
Chloe.S: SO to Christine who has shown so much endeavour and courage in Spanish! 🇪🇸 SO to David whose Spanish vocab has been incredible so far and to Alan who was a perfect professor today!
Kit: SO to the Y10 computer scientists! So impressed with their endeavour to stay after school and engage 100% in new learning, in particular to Sharun, Avneet, and Tyler 💾💤🚨
Sarah.R: SO to Lena and Carlos I am already blown away by the skill in their drawing. I feel so lucky to have them! In fact so lucky to have the best art class so much aspire and endeavour with special mention to Eliza, Miley, Halle, R-Jay, Calleigh, George, Willow, Jayda, and Ananya #smashingitalready!
Jason: S/O Varunan and Brandon who have been working SO hard in BTEC Sport this week. Always contributing to discussion and giving extra sporting detail in their answers ⭐⭐⭐
Chloe.V: SO to Tyler and Yara for Show Courage, they had their writing task of 90 words under the visualiser being corrected. SO to the whole class for great discussion around the markscheme and what marks should the writings be!
Ruksar: A massive SO to all teachers of Y10 and all the students in Y10 - not a single student in the year group had a removal, S1 or S2 in C1W1 and W2!! Every time I've walked into lessons, there is such an engaged and purposeful environment in the room. I've had lots of students giving me feedback this week about how supported they've felt, how learning is so much fun in lessons and that they really enjoy coming to school 💯🙏🥳 Thank you so much for such a strong start!
Anastasia: SO to Alan who completed an A level biology question first out of the whole class #aspireaspireaspire and SO to Hannah, Kayla, Dheer, Carlos, Christine, Bikal, Calleigh and R-Jay who also got it right! #GCSEs are too easy for these guys🤩
Navjot: SO to Rabah, he was on fire with his answers and questions today! Was so on it, I'm super impressed!
Chloe.S: SO to Logan who just asked Miley "Did you have a good lesson?" after Spanish class! #ObviousKindness
Sophie: SO to Year 10GG2 today who had a great lesson. Great contributions from Shreyash, Iqra and Lorenzo.
Ruksar: SO to 10Bio3 - what absolutely amazing biologists - they corrected one of my answers today which I loved and they genuinely are the highlight of my week!🧑‍🔬💯
Chloe.V: Massive SO to Y10 Further Maths and LBL who are still very engaged after a day of learning showing endeavour and aspire to be the best mathematicians!
Chloe.V: SO to Nihanya for an outstanding writing in French using impressive language and to Rosie for her resilience and endeavour, she has been such a star in French!
Sarah.R: SO to Y10 Artists all really pushing themselves to produce quality work, special mention to Miley whose drawings are fantastic and Halle who is really pushing herself with excellent results!
Chloe.S: Shoutout to Hannah who has been SO on it in Spanish class this year! I am so impressed by her work and to Gabbie who used a complex standout structure in her Spanish writing this morning! 🥳🇪🇸💥
Phoebe: I am marking Y10s first Spanish writing and I am in awe! The complexity and accuracy of their writing is so impressive. I've just read Anvita's and it is flawless. Shreyash' is so complex with so much new vocabulary we've learnt this year. Zulayka's paragraph is unbelievable!! and Iqra, who has never done Spanish before, has just written the most incredible paragraph which includes so many phrases from our vocab list this week! And Lorenzo has written an A4 page of Spanish! 🤯
Suprina: SO to Maisey who worked so well in our first chemistry practical! She was perfectly focused the whole time and achieved such great results. 🧪

Year 11

We are delighted to share that Year 11 have made a fantastic start to the academic year. Their focus, maturity, and commitment to learning have been excellent, and we are confident that this positive attitude will support them in the important months ahead.

Independent Study

To support revision and build strong study habits, Year 11 currently have independent study sessions from 3:30pm to 4:30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

As the year progresses, these sessions will increase to provide more opportunities for focused revision in a supportive environment.

Homework and Revision

It is vital that all Year 11 pupils complete their homework. Homework not only reinforces classwork but also plays a key role in preparing for assessments and final exams. Consistent completion of homework helps build revision notes and improves recall over time.

Football

We are pleased to confirm that football for Year 11 pupils will take place on Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:30pm.

This is a great opportunity for them to enjoy physical activity, teamwork, and balance alongside their academic commitments. There will other options soon to ensure an inclusive range of activities are available to them - stay tuned!

A Christmas Carol Spotlight

Year 11 have been working incredibly hard in English this term, studying 'A Christmas Carol'. They have shown real enthusiasm for the text and have been enjoying exploring Dickens’ characters, themes and language.

Their effort and commitment have been fantastic and we are proud to share examples of their excellent work below.

Shout Outs

Some SO’s to share the joy:

Savarnah: SO to Aishah for some thoughtful contributions in English today and Mohamed for showing endeavour in his independent writing at the end of the lesson!

Sarah C: SO to Ameer - he is always endeavouring in History whether it's independent practice or through class contributions. Absolute superstar!

Ryme: SO to Daniya, Serena and Rutuja as they always go above and beyond for their English HW. They are expected to complete one essay but will give me a stack to mark, which I am asked to do ASAP because they 'NEED' the feedback! #GeniusDucklings #ExcellentEnglishScholars #Grade9Girlies 🥳

Clive: SO to Praise, Ruby and Calvin in Btec Sport this morning. They were working hard and did well in their knowledge checker quiz!

Kit: SO to Kai who every time I see him always asks how I am and how my weekend has been #obviouslykind

Faduma: SO to Y11 Set 2 who worked through some really challenging GCSE questions. Apparently they thought so hard that I 'fried their brain' 🤖 Special SO to Eshan who was flying through it with ease and such clear working out (deserving of a golden ticket if someone could supply him with one!)

Phoebe: SO to Ameer, Valli, Iris-Jay, Calvin, Elias, Ella and Eshan who have made such a brilliant start to Spanish in Y11 - they have already made so much progress and I have been so impressed with their knowledge. Really excited to teach them for the rest of the year!

Chloe V: SO to Mohaned, Omar, Max, Benigno and Danyia who all showed courage during a speaking task describing a photocard. They had such fantastic accents with some great vocabulary and voila!

Chloe S: SO to Akshaya who has written such a fantastic extended piece of writing in Spanish and received the golden ticket! 🏅

Izzy: SO to Cam I am so impressed with their independent practice, they were writing loads for an essay question and many wanted to continue despite it being time to transition 🤓 golden ticket to Aaishah for relentless endeavour 🌟

Art

A huge shout out to GCSE art student Akshaya for this incredible and accomplished fragmented weave drawing inspired by Marilyn Monroe. This is part of Year 11's second coursework project linked to fragmented portraits! What an outstanding start to year 11!

Year 12

Thank You!

A huge thank you to all parents and carers who attended our Year 12 Information Evening. Your support makes a real difference as students settle into sixth form life. We are grateful for the opportunity to share key information with you at this important stage of the year.

AP1 Assessments

Year 12 students will be sitting their AP1 (course suitability) assessments next week. These provide an early indication of progress and help ensure students are on the right courses. Results will be shared with parents and carers by email on 6th October.

Parliament Trip

Last week, some Year 12 students enjoyed a memorable trip to the Houses of Parliament. It was a fantastic opportunity to experience first-hand how our democracy works and to broaden their understanding of political life.

Enrichment Programme

This week saw the launch of the Year 12 enrichment programme. Students took part in a wide range of activities including volunteering, photography, art, Duke of Edinburgh and Model United Nations. We are delighted to see so many students embracing these opportunities to develop new skills and interests beyond the classroom.

Access Arrangements

Just a reminder that if you had Access Arrangements for your GCSEs in your previous school, please contact Angela Melia (angela.melia@reachacademy.org.uk) as soon as possible and complete the form sent via Google Classroom.

Year 13

UCAS Updates

Our Year 13 students have been reminded of the internal UCAS deadline to help them stay on track with their university applications. Each student has also now been introduced to their mentor, who will provide personalised guidance and support throughout the process.

Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition

This weekend, many of our Year 13 students will be heading off on their Silver Duke of Edinburgh expedition. We wish them every success and look forward to hearing about their achievements when they return.

Shout Outs

Kit- SO to the Y13 computers for their lesson today- in particular Kelen, Nathan, and Kush had their hands up to answer every single question or to ask interesting questions #aspire SO to Zayan! He showed so much courage and got up in front of the class to draw and explain Harvard computer architecture on the whiteboard! #supercomputerscientist

Chloe S - SO to Lubna & Aya who were the best study partners I've ever seen for Arabic A-level this afternoon! 🤩🥳👑 Lubna gave up her time so willingly to support Aya who she had never met before. Also a massive shoutout to all the linguists who interacted so maturely and kindly with Jake and Martha (our language volunteers)!

Sarah C - SO from Anne for Suhana and Ushmeet in Psychology today for their fantastic contributions. SO to the Y12 Historians for their incredible AP1 essays. Absolutely blown away by the extent of additional reading they have done to produce such detailed, analytical responses. Best I have EVER seen!

Alice - SO to Ayaan Y13 who was so on it in Stats, asking really insightful questions :) SO to Rawan, Maja, Aaminah and Amira in my Maths class who have produced the most excellent, well thought through HWK I just know they are going to be successful in AP1

Lily - SO to Sam, Yusei and Aaliyah who have made some excellent contributions in Team Reach 🌟

Wellbeing Hub

We encourage all of our families to join the Wellbeing Hub. Our school is signed up to this fantastic resource which gives families and their children free access to great content on everything including starting school for the first time, puberty, smartphones and anxiety. There are really helpful resources for all ages.

Next week's podcast is about how to talk to your child about issues surrounding alcohol, relationships, drugs and more.

If you haven’t joined the Hub yet, we urge you to do so through using the QR code opposite.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Kay Stone. kay.stone@reachacademy.org.uk

The Wool Shop Closure

Some of you might be aware that Anne and Paul's Feltham Wool Shop next to Reach Academy Feltham is due to close down on Saturday 8th November. They have been trying to find someone to take over the shop, but so far have not found the right fit. If anyone is interested they're urging people to drop in or give them a call on 02088937779.

As closing date becomes closer there will be some bulk discounts at the shop. The owners would like to say a heartfelt thank you to staff and customers over the years for their unwavering support.

NEWSLETTER

AUTUMN 2025

Dates for your diary

Here are details of important events in the next few weeks.

Spotlight on... Marginal Gains

Year 7 Open Events at RAHP

Find your way around

Primary

Congratulations!

Nursery

The Water Tray

Reception

Settling In Well!

Literacy

Maths

Understanding the World

Year 1

Drama Workshop

Maths

Writing

Science

Year 2

Book Club

Writing

Science

Reading

Maths

Humanities

Computing

Team Reach

Dates for your diary

Year 3

Google Classroom

Homework in Year 3

What have we been learning?

Book Club

Maths

Writing

Music

Year 4

Maths

Art

Writing

Geography

Reminder: Getting to Know You Event

Year 5

Year 6

Continued endeavour!

Congratulations!

Y6 Getting to Know you Event

Book Club

Maths

Humanities

PE

Homework

Permission to go home

Art

Art Enrichment

Secondary

Year 7

Shout Outs

Art

Enrichment

Year 8

Merits

Payslips

Attendance

Star of the Week

Shoutouts

Art

Year 9

Getting to Know You Event

Year 9 D of E excitement

Shout Outs

Year 10

Thank You!

Speak Out Challenge

Attendance wins

Shout Outs!

Art