Clockhouse Connection - September 2026

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Please enjoy this addition which can be found below as well as a link to a PDF version. 

Clockhouse Connection - September 2026

Hot Chocolate (or lollies) with the Head

As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children. 

This year we are 'Being Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant' in everything we do to ensure that our school is a fabulous place to be and the children get the best all round experience possible. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Abeledo and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this and then they get to have Hot Chocolate with Mrs Savidge!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to 'Be Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant':

Reception - Roel D (Wales), for being a resilient, consistent and brilliant Clockhouse Citizen and always being kind to others.
Year 1 -  Alice C (Italy) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and creating amazing sentences that used all the sentence rules. 

Year 2 - David G (Mexico) for having a resilient approach to all of his learning. He shows great consistency in his work ethic and shows great pride in his learning and is doing a brilliant job.
Year 3 - Sophie A (Argentina) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and show respect at all times.
Year 4 - Evelina A (Kenya) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and always showing great presentation with her work in all subjects.

Year 5 -  Esme B (Japan) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant during Maths and never giving up until she had mastered rounding.
Year 6 - Yaqub A (New Zealand) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and always doing to the right thing even when no one is watching. He is an excellent Class Ambassador and it is lovely to watch him step out of his comfort zone when talking to visitors.
Greenland - Oliver E has shown great resilience with a changing timetable due to swimming. He has consistently followed his new timetable and is just brilliant!
Miss Ward - Alex B (India) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant with his learning during creative writing.
Mrs Abeledo - Alfie F (Argentina) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant when teaching Mrs Abeledo how to make a paper aeroplane.

Mrs Savidge - Jacob L (Japan) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant in making a great start to Year 5.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to 'Be Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant' this week! 

Hot Chocolate (or lollies) with the Head

As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children. 

This year we are 'Being Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant' in everything we do to ensure that our school is a fabulous place to be and the children get the best all round experience possible. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Abeledo and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this and then they get to have Hot Chocolate with Mrs Savidge!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to 'Be Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant':

Year 1 - Emilia B (Spain) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant with her learning and showing a positive attitude in every lesson. 

Year 2 -  Sa'Rye B (USA) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant by always following classrooms rules and being kind to everyone she meets. 

Year 3 - Sophie H (Peru) for always being brilliant in the classroom, following expectations and being resilient and consistent with her effort towards her learning. 
Year 4 - Ella-Rose R (South Africa) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant with her swimming lessons. She has worked really hard to overcome her worries, and we are all so proud of her.

Year 5 - Foley B (China) for returning to school with a fantastic attitude, he has shown resilience, consistency and brilliance in both his English learning and maths learning. 

Year 6 - Riley F (New Zealand) for a fantastic start to Year 6 and has shown himself to be resilient, consistent and brilliant in all that he does.

Greenland - Maame has been outstanding since returning from school. She has shown herself to be resilient, consistent and brilliant demonstrating real maturity and been an exemplary role model for her peers.

Miss Ward -  Valentina V (Fiji) she has been resilient, consistent and brilliant and has been working exceptionally hard. She is keen to improve her learning in all subjects and she has been amazing these past two weeks.

Mrs Abeledo - David H (Fiji) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and showing a great attitude to all of his learning.
Mrs Savidge - Louie C (Canada) for being resilient, consistent and brilliant and pushing himself out of his comfort zone when speaking to visitors.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to 'Be Resilient, Consistent and Brilliant' this week! 

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is last week's Weekly Wow and as usual there were a lot of things to 'wow' about last week.

Reading Raffle Winners!

As you may already know, once again, this year we are holding a weekly Reading Raffle. Each time the children read at home and a message gets sent to their teacher on Class Dojo or a message is put in their Reading Diary they get a raffle ticket which gets entered into the Reading Raffle draw. This takes place in Celebration Assembly on a Monday. 

This week we were overwhelmed with the number of people who entered. Well done to the following children who were this week's winners and are busy deciding on their prizes:

Key Stage 1 

France - Elijah

Italy - Robert

Spain - Kalea

USA - Isla

Canada - Aaliyah

Mexico - Rania

Key Stage 2

Peru - Luke

Argentina - Jack 

Brazil - Tommy

Uganda - Willow

Kenya - Harry

South Africa - Odri 

China - Fariz

Japan - Elora

India - Ruby

Australia - Liam

New Zealand - Veer

Fiji - Alfie

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Greenland Moment of the Week

The Greenland Moment of the Week is awarded to

Vinnie Y

Vinnie initiated play with an adult using his voice. He wanted the adult to throw him the ball and he said 'ready, steady go!' He has had a fabulous start to his Greenland journey!

Citizen of the Week

Citizen of the Week!

Well done to the following children who are Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Reception - Lexi D (Scotland)

Year 1 - Iliyas K (France)

Year 2 - Thomas T (USA)

Year 3 - Grace W-S (Peru)

Year 4 - Maham M (Uganda)

Year 5 - Khadija A (China)
Year 6 - Arlo P (Fiji)

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!

Weekly reminders for week beginning 28th September 2026

Another good week was had at Clockhouse last week. As always thank you for all you do and your on-going support.

After a busy start to the term, we have a slightly quieter week ahead!

Governor Day

Our Governors will be in school on Wednesday and will be in the playground at the start of the day, please do take the time to speak to them should you wish to.

Year 5

Please remember that Year 5 start swimming on Monday, please ensure that they have all they need.

Special Dinner for all
On Thursday we have the first special dinner day of the year. It would be really good to get as many people as possible having dinner on Thursday as this determines some of our schools funding. We really do appreciate your help in this matter. The menu was sent on Class Dojo.

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Nursery in September 2027

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Thursday 10.00am and 4.00pm. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term. 

Things to be aware of

Hopefully you saw the letters about the trips we have planned for the year, which came home last week. We hope this is useful.

On 9th October we will be celebrating World Mental Health Day. Children are invited to wear something yellow to recognise this. A letter will be coming out about this. 

School Closure - Please do not forget that Friday 23rd October is a staff training day and therefore the school will be closed to children.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

Harvest Festival

Geography Subject Newsletter

Music Subject Newsletter

Menu for Thursday

Trips out and Visitors in 2026-2027 (Year 1 to Year 6)

Isle of Wight (Year 6)

Times Table Check (Year 4)

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Clockhouse Primary School Website

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League continued this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Italy in second place and Spain in third.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Uganda, South Africa, Kenya and Greenland who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Peru, Kenya, Japan and New Zealand in second place and India in third.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this week's winners who are:

Spain - 99.3%

Brazil - 98.7%

New Zealand - 99.3%

Well done to all three classes above.

8 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes. 

A further well done to Nursery AM and PM, Wales, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico, USA, Peru, Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, India and Australia who had no lates this week. 

Whole school attendance for this week is:

94.3%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

96.3%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school every day and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is last week's Weekly Wow and as usual there were a lot of things to 'wow' about last week.

Time to CELEBRATE - Value Champion Alert!

We are very excited and pleased to share with you our next Clockhouse Value Champion of 2026-2027!

A huge congratulations to

Esme I (Peru)

who has earned the Excellence Champion Award for 2025-2026! 

Since starting Year 3, this child has come in with an excellent attitude with both her behaviour and attitude towards her learning. She is setting a great role model for the children around her. Keep it up! 

A huge well done from everyone at Clockhouse - wear your Values Champion Badge with pride! 

#clockhousevaluesinaction

Reading Raffle Winners!

As you may already know, once again, this year we are holding a weekly Reading Raffle. Each time the children read at home and a message gets sent to their teacher on Class Dojo or a message is put in their Reading Diary they get a raffle ticket which gets entered into the Reading Raffle draw. This takes place in Celebration Assembly on a Monday. 

This week we were overwhelmed with the number of people who entered. Well done to the following children who were this week's winners and are busy deciding on their prizes:

Key Stage 1 

France - Rayyan

Italy - Arad

Spain - Deren 

USA - Nesma

Canada - Adeena

Mexico - Zander

Key Stage 2

Peru - Matei

Argentina - Bobby

Brazil - Haydn

Uganda - Jake

Kenya - Evelina

South Africa - Mahdi

China - Mila

Japan - Graham

India - Freddie

Australia - William

New Zealand - Isla-Rae

Fiji - Naba

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Greenland Moment of the Week

The Greenland Moment of the Week is awarded to

Harry I

Harry was so excited to be back to school. He welcomed each member of Greenland, children and adults, back to school on the first day. 

Citizen of the Week

Citizen of the Week!

Well done to the following children who are Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Year 1 - Reggie B (Italy)

Year 2 - Rafi K (Canada)

Year 3 - Livvy L-O (Brazil)

Year 4 - Aaila A (Kenya)

Year 5 - Yusuf M (India)
Year 6 - Omar D (Australia)

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!

Weekly reminder for week beginning 21st September 2026

Thank you to everyone who helped us remember our much loved member of staff on Friday, I know it meant a lot to us and the family. 

The children have all settled into the year and we are certainly seeing some fabulous learning taking place across the school. As I walk around the school, it is wonderful to see them so settled, working so hard and showing themselves to 'Be Resilient, Be Consistent, Be Brilliant'. As always, thank you for your on-going support - it really is a team effort in every sense of the word.

Thank you to all those who attended Meet the Teacher last week. It was lovely to welcome you. Thank you also to all those parents who are supporting their children and practising the children's reading and spellings with them at home as well as number bond and times tables. Please remember every time the children read at home and you sign their Reading Record book or send a message on Class Dojo, they get a raffle ticket and are entered into our weekly prize draw - you have to be in it to win it!

Year 6

Please do not forget that you are invited to attend a meeting on Monday at 5pm regarding the Year 6 SATs and residential trip. Please come to the Key Stage 2 building. We look forward to seeing you. 

Year 3 

Year 3 will be working with HEST on Tuesday and completing their Best Buddies Workshop.

Reception

Reception 'Meet the Teacher' is after school on Wednesday and the teachers are looking forward to welcoming you. Teachers will be in classrooms straight after school and available until 4pm. Please do come and say hello and see your child's classroom. 

On Thursday afternoon (from 2.15pm) Reception parents / carers are invited to a Coffee Afternoon where you will have the opportunity to meet with other parents / carers. Please do come if you can.

Things to be aware of

Thank you to everyone for ensuring children are coming to school dressed in uniform and the correct PE uniform each day. Please do keep this up.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:

Pick Up Times

PSHE Subject Newsletter

Art Subject Newsletter

How can you help at home? (Nursery)

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Clockhouse Primary School Website

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League continued this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Spain in second place.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, India, New Zealand and Greenland who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Brazil and Australia in second place and Argentina and Fiji in third.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

 

The great start continues! The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this week's winners who are:

Canada - 100%

Uganda - 99.7%

New Zealand - 98.7%

Well done to all three classes above.

Wow! 16 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes. 

A further well done to Nursery AM and PM, Scotland, Italy, Peru and Australia who had no lates this week. 

Whole school attendance for this week is:

96.9%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

97.0%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school every day and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is last week's Weekly Wow and as usual there were a lot of things to 'wow' about last week.

Weekly reminders for week beginning 14th September 2026

It was certainly lovely to welcome the children from Year 1 to Year 6 back to school this week, as well as welcoming our Reception and Nursery children. The children certainly lived up to expectation and have taken returning to school in their stride. Their adaptability and resilience never ceases to amaze me. They settled so quickly into their classes with lots of learning taking place. 

We have a VERY exciting week ahead!

Meet the Teacher

Thank you to all those who came to Meet the Teacher last week. We enjoyed meeting you and hope you found it useful. Meet the Teacher continues this week. Teachers will be in classrooms straight after school and available until 4pm. Please do come and say hello and see your child's classroom. This week is as follows:

Tuesday 15th September - Year 5

Wednesday 16th September - Year 2

Thursday 17th September - Greenland (2.45pm)

Thursday 17th September - Year 4

Swimming

Swimming starts on Monday for Year 4 and Greenland. Year 4 will be swimming every day for the next two weeks so please ensure that they come prepared. Any questions please ask.

Wow Day
We are very much looking forward to a special event at school on Monday involving the children from Year 2 to 6! Ask them what they got up to when they get home!

Exciting Times for Clockhouse

We have a number of Headteachers and Senior Leaders from all over the country visiting the school on Tuesday to learn about what we do. We cannot wait to showcase our wonderful school!

Year 2 and Year 4

Children in Year 2 and 4 have and exciting VR expeirence coming to school on Wednesday to launch their new topic learning. Please send the money in or pop into the office if you need to pay for this - thank you in advance.

Jean's Day

Friday will once again be the day where we honour and remember Mrs O'Connor with Jean’s Day. Mrs O'Connor was our former Librarian and Midday Supervision, who suddenly passed away in August 2022. Her favourite colour was purple / lilac so we are asking our Clockhouse family to wear something of this colour in her honour along with non-uniform (PE will continue on this day). 

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Reception in September 2027

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Thursday 10.00am and 4.00pm. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term.

Please remember

As you know jewellery is not permitted in school. Please ensure children do not come to school wearing this. This includes earrings which should not be worn for school for health and safety reasons.

Things to be aware of

Following the success of last year, we will be continuing with Achievement Assembly on a Monday to get the week off to a fabulous start. This will be starting on Monday 21st September.

The Reading Raffle is back again - when reading with your child at home, please send the teacher a message on Class Dojo or fill in their Reading Diary so that the teacher knows they have read and the children can be awarded with a raffle ticket and entered into the weekly draw. Look out for more exciting news about reading at Clockhouse coming your way soon.

Hot Chocolate with the Head continues, children will celebrate with me should they win this award. You will get a call if your child has won to ensure they have permission for this.

Please also remember that if children bring things to school, this is done so at your own risk (unless we have directly asked you to do so).

We are having a big push on tucking shirts in and taking pride in our appearance. The children are getting very good at this and thank them and you for your support in this. This also includes ensuring the children come to school in the correct PE uniform on PE Days, please help us with this.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:

Nut Free School reminder

English Subject Newsletter

History Subject Newsletter

OCA Newsletter

Jean's' Day

You Said, We Did

VR Experience (Year 2 and 4)

Height and Weight Check Information (Reception and Year 6)

SATs and Residential Meeting (Year 6)

Secondary School applications (Year 6)

Walking home (Year 5 and 6)

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

Have a good week everyone!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link: Clockhouse Primary School Website

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League started this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 2 Dojo League.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru, Argentina, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, India, New Zealand and Greenland who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 Dojo League with Brazil and Australia in second place and Fiji in third.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

A great first week back, well done all! The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this week's winners who are:

USA - 99.7%

Uganda - 99.7%

Australia - 100%

Well done to all three classes above.

13 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes. 

A further well done to France, Spain, Mexico, USA, Brazil, Peru, Uganda, India, Japan, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand who had no lates this week. 

Whole school attendance for this week is:

96.8%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

96.8%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school every day and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Clockhouse we are ready for you...

Whilst everyone has been busy making the most of the summer holidays, things have not stopped at Clockhouse and we are ready and certainly excited to welcome our fabulous community back to school.

Along with a very thorough clean, there has been some significant building work and improvements taking place.

Have a look below, to find out what has been happening:

Complete renovation of all three Year 3 Classes - 

Refurbishiment of the Key Stage 2 corridor - 

The classrooms are looking great too (we just need children)!

As you can see, we have been very busy and huge thank you must go to all the staff for their dedication and commitment. Without them the children would not be coming back to such a wonderful environment.

We are ready for you and cannot wait to see everyone on Monday!