Here's your RAHP Newsletter for Autumn, Week 12

Dates for your diary

Here are all the important dates for your diaries!

Year Group	Date	Timings	Event Details
Reception	Tuesday 2nd December	Daytime	Trip to Lyric Theatre (parent and carers who have volunteered attend)
All Year Groups	Thursday 4th December	Daytime	Team Reach (no families, school day event)
All Year Groups	Friday 5th December	Daytime	INSET day
Year 8	Wednesday 10th December	Daytime	Trip to Orange Theatre
Reception and Year 1	Friday 12th December	Performance 1: 10-11am Performance 2: 2-3pm	Reception and Year 1 Nativity (Each family receives 2 tickets which they can use on either slot (either 2 people at 1 performance or 1 at each performance)
All Year Groups and families	Wednesday 17th December	2:30pm - 5pm	Reach Christmas Fair
All Year Groups	Friday 19th December	Daytime	INSET Day
All Year Groups	Friday 19th December	No school	Last day of term for Christmas holiday
All Year Groups	Monday 5th January	Daytime	INSET Day
All Year Groups	Tuesday 6th January	Usual time	Start of Spring term
Year 1	Thursday 15th January	3pm - 7pm	Parents' Evening
Year 1	Tuesday 20th January	3pm - 7pm	Parents' Evening
Parents of prospective Nursery children (starting Sept 2026)	Tuesday 20th January	9am - 10am 1.30pm - 2.30pm	Reach Schools Nursery Open Event at Reach Academy Feltham

Spotlight on...Our New School Building

Work on Reach Academy Hanworth Park's permanent site starts soon!

Great news! The permanent building for Reach Academy Hanworth has full planning permission and work will start very soon.

Before Christmas we will see demolition work starting. As things proceed we will be able to show the children photos of the progress and help them to feel involved in the project. We will keep you updated about time frames for completion, once demolition is underway and we have a better idea of what the ground is like.

Alongside this we are also hoping to have air conditioning fitted in the temporary blocks ahead of summer which will be very welcome!

Have a look at our flythrough video below, which gives you an idea of what the new spaces will look like.

Questions and Answers

Will there be any disruption to my child's day at school?

We anticipate there may be some noise during demolition work but we will minimise this as much as possible. The contractors are aware of when external examinations are and noise will be minimised at this time.

Will there be dust from the demolition and building work?

We will monitor this very closely. There are sophisticated ways of managing dust and other particles which the building contractors are very experienced in.

Will there be traffic disruption in surrounding areas?

We anticipate that there will be some traffic disruption. This is likely to occur in late 2026 onwards. We will update once we know more information. We apologise in advance for any disruption.

Thank you for your patience and support while we get busy building incredible facilities to complement the wonderful education your child is already receiving.

Writing

We have been focusing on instructions. The children are writing ‘How To Make A Jam Sandwich’. They have spent time stepping through each part of the sequence using actions and talk, and they can now confidently retell the full process out loud.

We have been working hard to include adverbs of time (first, next, then, after, finally) and imperative verbs (cut, spread, put). It has been wonderful to see so many pupils beginning to write their instructions independently and remembering these key features.

Maths

We are continuing our unit on the composition of the numbers 11–19. The children have explored finding missing parts in addition equations and are now applying this understanding to subtraction. They have been practising using several strategies, including place value charts, keeping a number in their head and counting forwards or backwards and using the part-part-whole model.

You may wish to practise this at home: a helpful reminder for your child is that the whole is always the biggest number and equations can also be seen in the following format too:

__ = __ + ___ and __ + __ = ___

__ = __ - ___ and __ - __ = ___

Learning Explorers

We are continuing our Learning Explorers afternoons, where children take part in hands-on activities each week linked to science, humanities and art. This week in science, the children explored the parts of a plant using magnifying glasses to observe leaves, stems and petals closely.

In geography, they sorted landmarks into human features and physical features. In art, the children designed and built their own famous landmarks using junk modelling. They have shown fantastic creativity and teamwork: enjoy looking at the photos!

Reminders

A few reminders for the term ahead: please ensure that all clothing is clearly labelled with your child's names to help avoid items going missing.

We also want to highlight the importance of good attendance and arriving on time every morning. Learning begins the moment children enter the classroom with our ‘soft start’, where they develop fine motor skills that support writing and independence. This is followed immediately by phonics, which is a vital part of early reading.

Finally, thank you for continuing to support reading at home. We ask that children read aloud for 10 minutes each day, and that reading records are signed daily by an adult. These are checked every morning before form time. The school reading book is carefully matched to each child’s stage to build fluency and confidence, but children are also very welcome to read and record books from home too.

Thank you for your continued support. We are so proud of the positive start Year 1 have made and look forward to sharing more of their achievements with you soon!

English

Year 7 has been reading about the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. It is an Ancient Greek story about the hero Theseus, son of the king of Athens, who volunteers to be one of the youths sent as a tribute to Crete to be sacrificed to the monstrous Minotaur. The Minotaur was a half-man, half-bull creature kept in the Labyrinth, an elaborate maze designed by Daedalus. With the help of King Minos's daughter, Ariadne, who gave him a ball of string to find his way out, Theseus navigated the Labyrinth, killed the Minotaur, and returned to Athens with the other Athenians.

The focus has been on a moral of the myth. The pupils will also be introduced to similar myths that they can derive a moral from, with the idea that they use them as allusions in their own writing. This is all in preparation for their GCSE’s. These are skills needed to achieve grades 7-9 in order for them to have a life of choice and opportunity.

Maths

This week pupils have been focusing on their end of Cycle assessments. It has been such a joy to see the copious amounts of endeavour and aspiration shown by them during both their preparation and completion of the Maths assessment. They should be incredibly proud of their efforts and I look forward to sharing their results with them.

In amongst their busy assessment timetable,pupils have started on their multiplication and division unit. They have been working on multiplying with decimals, using their prior work on place value to support their learning.

Congratulations to Dhiyaan on being the Subject Scholar of the Week. He has worked incredibly hard in lessons, shown endeavour at home with his independent learning, and made some brilliant contributions during Axiom Maths club. Keep up the great work Dhiyaan!

Congratulations as well to the following students who achieved 100% in their weekly quiz.

Avin

Dhiyaan

Ethan

Isla

Matilda

Nicole

Prithvi

Rafi

Yusuf

Kanshikaa

Alexander

Eyad

Hridaan

Juliana

Mawahib

Niharika

Rio

Shayan

Violet

Archie

Ayaan

Ishani

Kabir

Kelbin

Naisha

Panavdeep

Raj

Sai Deeksha

Shayaan

Sofia

Vincent

Wajahat

Ydelle

Please send in any more of your children's sporting achievements so we can celebrate them in school!

Year 7 have been continuing their netball unit work and have just completed the written PE assessments that they have been working so hard for. We are into our last two weeks of netball before moving onto gymnastics. Please see this letter about grip socks that pupils will be able to wear instead of going bare foot.

Over the next few weeks, the students will be participating in inter-form netball competitions during their activity lunch break. The first match is this Friday: Aconcagua vs Elbrus. Good luck to all the students showing courage and playing in their teams.

Finally, congratulations to Diego, who won last weeks PE scholar card for his excellent netball over the last few weeks.

Science

A huge congratulations to all Year 7 pupils in their first ever end of cycle assessments! The science assessment was the first one last week, and all of them showed great endeavour. I am looking forward to seeing the results after all their hard work.

Since the assessment, Year 7 have been continuing with their working scientifically topic. They have been incredibly successful in drawing bar charts and line graphs. This is a skill that will help them achieve excellent results. Next week, pupils will be starting their final chemistry topic of the year: acids and alkalis.

Maths

This week pupils have been focusing on their end of Cycle assessments. It has been wonderful to witness the huge amounts of endeavour and aspiration shown during both their preparation and completion of the Maths assessment. They should be incredibly proud of their efforts and I look forward to sharing their results with them.

Following this assessment period, the pupils have just finished their ‘Equations’ unit and have been learning to form and solve equations in multiple different contexts.

Congratulations to Senudi on being the Subject Scholar of the Week. She has shown so much endeavour in and outside lessons. She consistently completes extra Sparx homework and independent learning through the Sparx codes for her Maths assessment.

Congratulations as well to the following pupils who achieved 100% in their weekly quiz.

Agraj

Archie

Arogya

Charvee

Durim

Kyla

Mahad

Mohamed

Nahom

Prish

Sanvi

Senudi

Suraiya

Amir

Ethan

Hassan

Isabela

Maher

Maja

Neel

Ophelia

Pranav

Rackeb

Rayyan

Sameer

Samit

Sandalu

Serena

Shahzeb

Taha

Abdullah

Aryan

Charlotte

Corey

Dashin

Dua

Guinevere

Hafsah

Harrison

Kaira

Lakshmi

Rayaan

Zahra

Zain

Zayd

PE

Year 8 have done fantastically well in PE over the last few weeks. They have two more weeks of netball before moving onto gymnastics. Please see this letter about grip socks that can be worn instead of bare feet for these lessons.

Last week our Year 8 boys football team had the amazing opportunity to play at Brentford football club's training ground against Heston. Unfortunately they were not the winners this time, but it was such an amazing opportunity for the boys. Well done to Amir, Ethan, Sandalu, Tanveer, Rayaan, Hassan, Harrison and Mourad!

We have just started our inter-form netball competition, with all the matches taking place across the next two weeks. On Monday Kilimanjaro and Matterhorn played and the score was 2-2. Congratulations to Maja who was named Player of the Match (POM).

Maja is also our winner of the PE scholar card this week. Well done Maja!

Science

A huge congratulations to all of Year 8 for sitting their first end of cycle assessment for science last week! I was very impressed with how focused the year group was and how seriously they took their assessments.

This week we have returned to our final chemistry topic of the year, finishing the elements of the periodic table. This topic includes some GCSE content, which pupils are handling incredibly well: I know they are going to do so well!

Sparx Science

Some exciting news (which you may have heard) is that we will now be using SPARX in science. Pupils will have 30 minutes of homework on SPARX each week for science. This will help them to space out revision of the Year 7 content throughout the year. The deadline for SPARX is each Tuesday at 9am.

Please support your child by encouraging them complete this sooner, rather than later each week.

Grief Awareness Week: 1-7th December

Grief is hard to deal with at any age, but it can be particularly bewildering for children and young people. Next week is Grief Awareness Week and as part of that we're sharing more information on where you can find support for your child(ren) and young people.

Please find more information on a play centre for children to meet other children who have lost a family member here.

There is also information on supporting children and young people with grief and loss via Winston's Wish charity here.

Lastly, the Good Grief Trust gives an overview of a number of organisations that can help support anyone who is struggling with loss here.

Domestic Abuse Support App

Domestic abuse, whether towards a female or male partner, can significantly affect the children who live in that environment. Exposure to violence, coercion or ongoing emotional manipulation disrupts a child’s sense of safety and can influence their behaviour, relationships and engagement in learning.

These situations are often hard to spot. Many victims work to hide what is happening, particularly from official agencies, due to fear of consequences for the abusive partner or worries about major upheaval for the family.

Hestia is a London-based charity that supports adults and children in crisis, delivering frontline services and campaigning nationally on issues such as domestic abuse, modern slavery and mental health. They have created the Bright Sky app, a free and discreet tool that helps people recognise signs of abuse, access specialist support and record concerns safely.

The Bright Sky app provides:

A simple tool to help someone recognise signs of abuse and understand whether a relationship feels unsafe.
A secure, optional journal for recording incidents or concerns that can be shared later with a trusted person or agency.
A directory of national and local support services, making it easier to find the right help quickly.

To find out more, please follow the link: https://www.hestia.org/brightsky

Hounslow Repair Café - youth repair workshop

Hounslow Repair Café is running a programme of events, including the community repair café and new youth repair workshops focusing on developing electrical, bike and sewing repair skills.

The workshops offer free electrical repair courses for 12-24 year olds. These take place one Sunday a month throughout October, November, January and February at St. Leonard’s Church Hall, Heston Road, Heston, TW5 0RD. Run by Team Repair, participants earn a certificate and develop Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mechanics (STEM) skills. They also learn problem-solving, resilience, and sustainability awareness to reduce waste and promote a circular economy. Book now at https://e-voice.org.uk/hrc/book

Community repair cafés also run every third Sunday of the month from 1:30pm-4:30pm at St. Leonard’s Church Hall (address above), where people can bring bikes, small appliances, clothing and digital equipment to be fixed. Book your visit here: http://bit.ly/46njvd4

For any questions, feel free to email hestonrepaircafe@gmail.com