The Buzz

Dear Parents and Carers,

What an exciting week we have had here at HISN! Year 2 have been completing their visits to ‘Hampton Library’ to promote their love of reading; they have enjoyed listening to stories read by the librarians within our local community.

HPPA have been incredibly busy with organising our annual ‘Christmas Fair’ which is hosted at Hampton Infant School and Nursery. There will be a range of stalls with a raffle (see more details below) alongside our ever-popular bottle tombola! We look forward to welcoming the children, parents and our local community this Saturday. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the HPPA team for their continued support and hard work to raise money for ‘Hampton Primary Partnership.’

As we enter into the winter season, there are certainly a lot more coughs and colds. Within school, our HISN staff are being extra vigilant about washing hands and ensuring the classrooms are well ventilated. Please could we ask that your children also continue to wash their hands regularly at home as well.

If your child is unwell please refer to the NHS guidelines below and contact the school office to notify us of their absence. Please do not send your child to school until they are better. If your child becomes unwell at school we will call parent/carers to notify them and ask that the child be collected and kept at home until well enough for school. Calpol cannot be administered routinely and will only be administered in specific circumstances.

We will be making some positive improvements in the coming months. In the meantime we request that parents ensure that they are using the Arbor App to its full potential. Communication is sent to parents as an email via Arbor, we also use the in-app messaging for brief alerts and reminders. Please ensure that you have allowed notifications in the Arbor App so you do not miss these important messages.

I hope you have an enjoyable weekend when it arrives and I look forward to seeing many of you this Saturday at our HPPA Christmas Fair thank you for all the kind donations of bottles and toys.

We look forward to sharing our news for next week including out visit from Munira Wilson as part of Parliament Week, Year 1 and 2 Church visits and our ‘HPPA Christmas Shopping’ event for the children!

Anna Gale

Head of School

The Inclusion team will be hosting a coffee afternoon. This will be an opportunity to meet the Inclusion Team as well as other parents and carers. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available.

Although the coffee afternoon is at HJS, we welcome parents from across the partnership and are keen to meet as many parents as possible. There is no agenda for the first meeting this year, just an opportunity to meet up. If you have any requests for any particular support, please let us know as we try to arrange for other professionals and/or visitors to join our meetings throughout the year.

The Inclusion Team:

• Lisa Maxted - HPP Inclusion Lead
• Chloe Hughes - HISN SEND Lead Teacher
• Gemma Delaney - HJS SEND Lead Teacher
• Karen Finnegan - HPP Parent Support Advisor

Due to changes in the Ofsted framework and the anticipated release of the SEND White Paper next year, we are also looking for some parent representatives. As a parent representative for inclusion, you would represent parents and the school as we strive to enhance our inclusive provision for children and you would be another point of contact for parents. If you would be interested in this new role, which we would be looking to launch in the Spring term, please come along to the meeting and let us know. We would be keen to have parents representing HISN and HJS.

Lisa Maxted

HPP Inclusion Lead

AM Nursery Seb A

PM Nursery Viyaan

RDC Macey

RH Oliver S

RK Dylan

RP Maya

1B Goknar

1C Aurelio

1D Noreen

1T Alfie

2B Owen

2CB Isla

2L Enzo

2M Khadija

Nursery and 1B had the best attendance last week

1D had no late students

There are lots of exciting things happening at HISN this half term. Last week, year 1 went on a walk around Hampton to carry out some simple fieldwork in our local area. We identified different features that helped us decide if Hampton was a rural or urban area, and discussed whether these were human or physical features. We also looked at the symbols used on maps, discussing what these mean and how we use them in a ‘key’. We then practised identifying these using our map reading skills with our friends in class. We would like to give a big shout out to those of you who kindly gave up your time to accompany us on this walk. It was a bitter cold day and we are incredibly grateful, as without your support we wouldn’t be able to carry out these activities, so a huge ‘thank you’ from us all in year 1.

We have been incredibly lucky to have an author come and visit us in school and share her story with us. Charissa Coulthard read her book ‘Super Me’ and we asked lots of questions about the story and her job as an author. She was incredibly patient and kind, gifting us lots of books afterwards to share in class. Thank you, Charissa!

We have an exciting visitor to look forward to this week, with the MP Munira Wilson coming in to visit us all at HPP. We have lots of questions at the ready for her and look forward to showing her around HPP and hearing what it’s like to be a Member of Parliament.

Year 1 are gearing up for Christmas and getting ready for this year’s production of The Nativity. We are learning lots of nativity-based songs and creating actions and dances to go along with the words. We would love it if you could help us to practise these at home, and we are very excited for you to come and see us perform it on stage too!

Next week, we continue on the Christmas theme as year 1 head off to All Saints Church. We are looking forward to learning about Christianity and why Christmas is an important time of the year for Christians. We will be taking part in a treasure hunt, looking at the different features of a church, completing a craft activity, as well as listening to the church bell chime. Thank you in advance to those of you who have volunteered to accompany us on this visit. We look forward to sharing photos of the day with you all.

As part of our History topic of ‘Travel and Transport’, Year 1 will be visiting Brooklands Museum on Friday 8th May 2026.

We rely on parental contributions in order to be able to run the wide variety of visits and workshops that the pupils at HPP enjoy and the contribution we are requesting on this occasion, for each pupil, is £26.50. This includes coach hire, entrance fee, and the ‘Concorde Experience’. Whilst payment of this trip is voluntary, if we do not receive sufficient contributions, we will cancel the visit and a full refund will be made.

In order to support families with making this payment we are offering payment instalments. You can make payments, via Arbor, as frequently as you wish between now and Friday 27th February 2026. If you feel that you are unable to make this contribution and require support with this visit, please contact the school office to arrange a meeting to speak to Mrs Gale, Head of School.

Thank you so much for your generous gifts so far, staff and children are enjoying them so much.

Please remember to put which year group the gift is for on your gift message.

Please note at present we are not asking for second hand uniform to be dropped off at the office until Spring Term - thank you.

Whiteboard pens and glue sticks can be purchased via Class List; once they have been paid for, they will be delivered to your child's class.

Threadworms are a common childhood illness that can spread easily and you can treat them without seeing a GP.

If you find your child does have threadworms, please ensure everybody over 2 years old in the household is treated, even if they do not have symptoms.

Your child can continue to come to school but please ensure you notify your class teacher.

For further information on symptoms and treating threadworms please click here.

If your child is moving up to Year 3 in September 2026 and you would like to book a tour of HJS please book via our website HPP website

There will be a tour on Thursday 11th December 9am

The tours will last approximately 1 hour and are for parent/carers of current Year 2 children only.

Please read the email sent to all Year 2 parents on 16th October regarding Y2's visit to Kew Gardens in March next year. Payment for this visit is due by Friday 30th January. There is an option to pay in instalments if you wish. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact the school office.

If your child needs to use the toilet after school, they can use the toilets in RK, these are well known to the children. All children are given the opportunity to visit the toilet before leaving for the day so please speak to your child about this if this is happening frequently. Children and parents must not enter the school building to find toilets. There is a toilet at HJS in the Music room which children are able to use.

The NHS Pharmacy First Service is an England-only service, which allows you to access advice and treatment for seven common conditions from your community pharmacy, without the need to see a GP.

It's easy, just walk into a participating pharmacy and ask for help.

The seven common conditions are :

🤒Sinusitus 🤒Impetigo🤒Sore Throat 🤒Shingles🤒Earache 🤒Uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women🤒Infected insect bites and stings

Please make sure that your child's water bottle, sweatshirt or cardigan is named; lost property will be put in the box outside the office reception area. Please communicate to other parents via Classlist if you have trouble locating lost cardigans/sweatshirts.

Parents should end their phone calls before they enter the school site so that you can greet your children without any distractions and with a smile.

A reminder to all parents to be considerate to our neighbours when dropping off in the morning and collecting at the end of the day. We do have parking enforcement officers regularly in attendance so please do not park on zigzags, double lines, corners of roads, across neighbours driveways. Ripley Road is a School Street zone and is closed to traffic Monday-Friday 8.30am-9.00am and 2.45pm-3.15pm.

If your child has a medical condition, please make sure that you update their Arbor record. This information is very important and will be used by our Welfare Medical Officer, Miss Bissett.

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Email: office.hisn@hpp.school
Website: hpp.school
Location: Hampton Infant School and Nursery, Ripley Road, Hampton, UK
Phone: 0208 979 1815