BOUTCHER SCHOOL
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
17th October 2025
Dates For The Diary
Monday 20th October
Y3&4 Trip to Natural History Museum
Y1 Art club 3:30 - 4:45
Y3/4 Football club 3:30 - 4:45
Tuesday 21st October
Y6 Battle of Britain Trip
Gardening club 3:30 - 4:30
KS1 Drama club - 3:30 - 4:45
Y3/4 French club - 3:30 - 4:45
Y3/4 Art in the Forest Garden club - 3:30 - 4:45
Y5 Cooking club – 3:30 – 4:45
KS2 Board games club - 3:30 - 4:45
Wednesday 22nd October
Y1 Homework club 3:30 - 4:45
Y2 Dance club 3:30 - 4:45
Y3/4 Dance club - 3:30 - 4:45
KS2 Sport & fitness - 3:30 - 4:30
KS2 Homework club 3:30 - 4:45
Thursday 23rd October
School tours - Reception intake 2026 - 10:00
Y1 Dance club 3:30 - 4:45
Y2 Homework club 3:30 - 4:45
Friday 24th October
Open day - SCHOOL CLOSED
Pick of the Bunch
Rec - Lucas
Year 1 - Vera
Year 2 - Greysen
Year 3 - Hasset
Year 4 - Ahmed
Year 5 - Ava
Playground Awards
Rec - Lucas
Year 2 - Ariana
Year 2 - Ezrah
Year 4 - Joe
Year 4 - Stephen
Year 5 - Aaliyah
Presentation Awards
Rec - Leon
Year 1 - Frankie
Year 2 - Amirah
Year 3 - Zenaya
Year 4 - Joe
Year 5 - Hazimah
Boutcher Family
The YELLOW Boutcher family won this week with 378 points!
1st Hope Yellow 378 pts
2nd Peace Blue 361 pts
3rd Honesty Green 327 pts
4th Love Red 309 pts
100% Spelling
Year 2 – Amelia, Ariana, Ezrah, Freya D, Hiyab, Joshua, Kaleb, Kyan, Lucy, Mer, Paul, Tadhg, Taika, Viola, Yusef
Year 4 – Stephen, Ibrahim, Malachi, Sophie, Tias, Olivia, Nyriah-Jae, Joe, Nathan, Alma, Dennie, Aydin, Ahmed, Binta, Jack, Vanessa, Tadeo, Nila, Jotham, Matilda, Teddy, Sebastian
Year 5 – Connie, Davina, Ava, Rofiu, Imelda, Harold, Olivia, Eleanor, Patsy, Kwame, Alexandra, Gemini
Notices
REMINDER – parents seeking sibling places to start September 2026 , please ensure that you complete the Supplementary Form and hand in to the office, as well as completing your Southwark admission – thank you.
Festival of the Girl 2025
Festival of The Girl, aimed at primary school aged girls and their families (including brothers), is taking place on Sat 18th and Sun 19th October in Islington. Kids will have the opportunity to try different activities ranging from engineering to gaming, sports to aviation, experiments to activism, production to sustainability, politics to friendships, banking to farming and much more. With a SEND session (Saturday morning) and pay-what-you-can option we don't want anyone to miss out. For more details and to book your tickets click here.
Boutcher Carnival will take place on Thursday 23rd October and Open day for the Autumn term will take place on Friday 24th October, school will be CLOSED on Open day.
Half term fun at the Drawing Room Gallery29 October 2025, 12pm-4pm
https://drawingroom.org.uk/event/lets-make-the-best-chutney-in-the-world/
Join us to make… THE BEST CHUTNEY in the WORLD!
A fun, hands-on creative afternoon for families 🌶️🥭🎨
Come along for a playful and imaginative workshop where we’ll be:
Making art together!
Get stuck into drawing and collaging as we explore the different flavours and stories found in our neighbourhood.
Tasting and imagining!
We’ll be sampling seasonal ingredients from local allotments, the orchard, nearby shops — and using our imaginations to invent a chutney full of memories, flavour, and fun!
✨ This is a drop-in session, open to everyone – no need to book.
🕛 Pop in any time between 12pm–4pm to join the fun!
Activities are suitable for all ages. Children under 16 must be with a parent or carer.
Have a question? Email Amanda at: amanda@drawingroom.org.uk
KS2 Weekly Junior comments
The government has said that by 2029, every primary school in the UK will have its own school library. Right now, more than 1,700 schools don’t have one.
Why do you think it’s important for every primary school child to have a library at their school? What’s your favourite thing to do when you visit the library - reading, exploring, or maybe finding weird and wonderful facts? Do you have a favourite memory of something you have done or discovered in the library?
Nathan (Year 4)
My favourite thing to do in the library is to find the comic book pile and have some laughs and giggles while reading. I think every school must have libraries because libraries are a place to calm down, and a place to find knowledge and wonder.
Aaliyah (Year 5)
I love our library because it allows me and my friends to go to a place that is quiet and learn about different types of texts. It could be a cook book, something about Lego or a David Walliams book. It gives me a space to relax and enjoy a good book which keeps me focused. I think it's quite important that all primary schools have a school library. Children are able to take books from the library and take a book they have chosen which they can read. Some people don't have books in their home so it would help children who don't have them. My favourite thing to do when I visit our school library is when Hazel puts us in a group and we read together, and we all pass the book around we read aloud. My favourite memory in the library is when it was Carols leaving party and we had a tea party.
Hard copies of School Policies,
including Safeguarding are available from the office and can be read online.