Dear Parents and Carers I hope this message finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as we finish the Spring term. Attendance was significantly affected last week due to Eid, with overall attendance at 80.32%.  We hope we can improve our overall figure as we head towards the final term of the school year.  Our attendance is still better than both the LA and national average which is pleasing. Year group attendance: Year 7 83.72% Year 8 82.04% Year 9 80.89% Ye

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this message finds you well; a Friday update for you as always. You may have seen recent national reports regarding cases of meningitis  in Kent.  While this is not in our local area, and current guidance confirms that the risk to our community remains low, we wanted to share this information as a precaution and to promote awareness rather than cause concern.  Public Health colleagues locally have reassured us that the situation is not affecting

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you, as always. Attendance remains at 92%. You will be aware of our whole school target of 98%. Regular attendance at school plays a vital role in helping students remain engaged with their learning, their teachers and their peers. Thank you for your continued support in ensuring that students attend every day and arrive punctually, unless they are genuinely unwell. Year group att

Dea r Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well. A Friday update for you, as always. Attendance remains at 92% for the second consecutive week.  We know there is more we can do together as we continue working towards our ambitious target of 98% attendance.  This target reflects the high expectations and aspirations we hold for every student at Kelmscott.  Evidence shows that even small improvements in attendance can have a meaningful impact on aca

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well and that you and your children enjoyed a restful half term break.  A Friday update for you, as always. I know you will be aware of recent social media posts referring to so-called “School Wars” across a number of London boroughs, including Waltham Forest.  As you know, I wrote to families about this yesterday.  I am very pleased to say that this proved to be exactly what we believed it would be, onlin

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, a Friday update for you,  as always, as we finish the half term. Our whole-school attendance currently stands at 92.5% , which is 0.5% lower than the previous two weeks. We are aware that a number of seasonal illness bugs are circulating at present. Despite this, we were delighted to receive confirmation this week that we have once again achieved an FFT Attendance Award . This is excellent news for o

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  I look forward to sharing these updates with you as we continue working in partnership to support our students’ wellbeing and success. Attendance this week remains at 93% for the second consecutive week, which is encouraging and something we want to continue building on as we work towards our ambitious whole-school target of 98%  attendance, a key priority in our S

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  There is much to share as we continue to work together to support our students’ wellbeing and success. I am pleased to report that our attendance this week has risen to just north of 93%.  This is encouraging and shows the impact of families ensuring their children are in school consistently. Colds and sickness that affected us earlier in the term have abated for n

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well. Attendance this week stands at 92%. While this continues to sit above the national average, we are determined to improve attendance further still. Attendance matters enormously: one day missed each week equates to around 38 days of learning lost over a school year; one day each month adds up to more than a week of learning; and even a single day missed each half term soon accumulates. We know how muc

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another busy and purposeful week in school, with lots to celebrate and a few important reminders to share. I led assemblies this week focussing on herd mentality, the bystander effect and morbid curiosity, exploring why people sometimes follow the crowd, stay silent, or spectate when they know something isn’t right.  Students were encouraged to think cr

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, and that you had a restful and enjoyable holiday break.  Happy New Year to you all.  As we return to school, we do so with renewed energy and a shared readiness for the challenges and opportunities of the new term ahead. The start of a new calendar year always brings with it a powerful sense of possibility.  It is another opportunity for a fresh start — for students to reflect, reset and work towards

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well as we come to the end of a busy, joyful and very festive term. It has been a really good final week in school. There was a lovely atmosphere throughout the building, not least on Wednesday when huge numbers of students enjoyed Christmas lunch together. It was genuinely lovely to see staff and students sitting, eating and chatting side by side. Celebration assemblies have also taken place across the

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well.  As we move into the final full week of term, there is lots to celebrate and share with you. Thank you once again for your patience following last week’s electrical fire in the canteen. The team has worked incredibly hard to get things back up and running and we returned to full service today.  I will update you immediately if any further issues arise, but hopefully we are out the other side now.  Yo

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another full and positive week in school, so I wanted to share some key updates with you. Thank you once again for your patience and understanding on Tuesday when we had to close the school due to the local power cut and subsequent electrical fire, affecting the extractor on the roof of the canteen.  The word fire  is always unsettling, but our teams

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another full and positive week in school, so I wanted to share some key updates with you. Attendance - Our whole school attendance for last week was 93.32% . Here is the breakdown by year group: Year 7  - 95.11% Year 8  - 93.35% Year 9  - 90.34% Year 10 - 94.20% Year 11 - 93.67% It was fantastic to see families at Thursday’s Year 9 Progress Evening. 

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another busy and positive week in school.  I wanted to share a few important updates with you below. Attendance - Our whole school attendance for last week was 94.00% . Here is the breakdown by year group: Year 7:  95.34% Year 8:  94.11% Year 9:  92.29% Year 10:  92.68% Year 11:  95.92% This week, our students enjoyed two live language theatre performances in

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. Tutor–Parent Day yesterday was once again a highlight for us.  It is always a pleasure to welcome families into school for meetings with form tutors, to discuss how students are getting on.  I was particularly proud to see so many of our students walking their families through the school, pointing out classroom spaces, displays and the work they are doing.  These moments d

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. Welcome back, I hope you all had a restful half term and enjoyed some quality time together.  It has been a great start to this next half of term, with students returning focused and ready to learn.  The first few days have been full of purposeful energy and good learning across the school.  Our assemblies this week have reflected on Armistice Day and the significan

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as we finish for the half term. It is pleasing to share that this week our whole-school attendance has risen to 94.41% , up from 94.09%  last week. This is a positive step in the right direction and highlights the impact of regular attendance on student progress and wellbeing. Your support is invaluable in helping us move closer to our whole-school target of 98% .  Every day i

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It’s been another busy and inspiring week here at Kelmscott, with lots happening both in and beyond the classroom, as we have come to expect. On Wednesday, our Year 7 students had the chance to experience the Astrodome, a mobile planetarium organised by the Science Department. This immersive dome transported them through the night sky, exploring planets, constellat