IMPORTANT INFORMATION. 

Dear Parents/Carers 

Please note the following dates:-

There are no after school clubs this week, so please ensure you collect your child promptly at 3.15pm

Christmas lunch is on Thursday 18th December, please ensure you have booked your child's lunch with The Pantry

Christmas jumper day is also on Thursday 18th December, we are requesting a small donation of £1.00 for Daisy's Dream charity

School finishes on Friday at 1.15pm, please ensure your child is collected on time. 

School is CLOSED on Monday 5th January 2026. 

School re-opens on Tuesday 6th January 2026 at 8.40am prompt. 

Have a lovely week. 

Kind regards 

The Office 

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It was my great pleasure to take mostly year 6's and a few year 5's to the Sports Hall  Athletics Competition at Newland's this afternoon  and I have to say our children were demonstrating the school value of being motivated to do well, they really were a pleasure to take and all of them tried really hard to do the best they could in each event they were in, although we did not win, we did manage to compete against  about 140 of the best children from other schools in the Partnership and you can see what a great time they all had from some of the attached photos.  They took part in various relays, track and field events and it was exciting and very loud from start to finish.

Well done Fahtima,Sumaiya, Safia, Umaymah, Vaania, Ezzah, Arfa, Haleema, Zainab, Murtaza, Amaan A and Amaan I, Salman, Eisa, Saqib and Ameen and thank you for making it such a lovely afternoon.

Wow what another great day for our children from Year 5 who went to Wexham Secondary School to play in a Basketball draw against other Primary Schools as a follow up to the meeting we had at Hasbro Headquarters. I have to say yet again the children made me feel incredibly proud from start to finish, they had an amazing time and what was so lovely was that for it was a first competition for one of our children and for the others it was to let them continue their work on Being Fearless and Being Kind and Sports Ambassadors. Sahil received a special award for his work on Being Fearless and Being Kind and told everyone (well over 50 people of differing ages there) what work we have been doing at school since we last visited Hasbro.

Hasbro gave each child a bag of toys at the end of the competition and all the children had a new tshirt and a medal, it was a really wonderful event and I was so proud of their performance during the game.  A very big well done to Sahil, Charlotte, Eisa, Zaara, Samriddh, Maryam and Mustafa and thank you for making these events such a privilege  to take these wonderful children.

We are hoping that the children will remember to bring in their medals and t - shirts to tell the other children and spread the word of the Special Olympics even more.......

A great last session of Netball today......

It was incredibly wet but the commitment of the netball club carried on through the bad weather, well done girls, I thought it would be nice to show you how wet we got but we still had a great time, I am already looking forward to the January club.....

A very big well done to the Netball team today!  They worked really hard  and showed great resilience against Courthouse Junior School as they were a very tough team, not only were they tall but they were very fast and skilled in footwork and dodging to get the ball.  We lost 10 -1 but I have to say,  credit to the team as they did not give up and had they not defended as well as they did the score could have easily been alot higher!

Well done to Hafsah as Captain and also player of the match, well done to Fahtima, Safia, Vaania, Ezzah, Sumaiya, Haleema and  Charlotte.  We will be getting some training in over the next couple of weeks before our next match in January where we will be working on our attacking strategy!

Thank you to Belle for your umpiring skills and to Fahtima's mummy for helping with the refreshments and Fahtima for help clearing up at the end of the match, you are awesome!!

Wow another amazing afternoon with 9 Year 5 Children, these children were selected as they have not yet represented Riverside in a competition yet and this festival was designed to broaden participation across the schools in Maidenhead.

They were incredibly enthusiastic and an absolute pleasure to take and were great Ambassadors for our school.  They played a game of Dangerball, Goalball and New Age Kurling and they seemed to really like the goalball and dangerball, this was such a great festival as they initially learnt how to play the games and then went round again but this time they played in a friendly way,  demonstrating values of Respect, Fairness and Friendship were encouraged all afternoon, they were all amazing!

Well done to Hend, Leo, Hayden, Inaya, Laiba, Lithanya, Ashley, Darius and Hashir, thank you for such an enjoyable afternoon!!

On Monday it was lovely to see the Sports Ambassadors from Year 5 in Whole school assembly,  they first infroduced themselves and they are  starting to spread the words of kindness amongst the whole school following their training at Hasbro Headquarters last month.  They are aiming to improve the kindness that is demonstrated in the School Development Plan on the playground.

They named some table tennis balls with Kind words and we will continue to do this periodically..

We have met since to decide what the children are going to do and we have decided to work with Year 1, 2 and 3's over the next few weeks to get some designs for our inspired rocks and have a place to put them and then after Christmas they are going to run a club for KS 1 for the children at lunchtime.

They introduced themselves to the whole school in Assembly today and told the children they are going to help them be kind on the Playground and that the children can go to them if they need help.

They worked with  the children from Year 1 designing  the picture and words  for their rock.

I was incredibly proud of them and really would like you to see some of the work they have started and will continue to do...

A very well done to Team Riverside today, there was nearly a river in the playground from all of the rain but I am pleased to say that we managed to play round it and showed our everlasting resilience!

Well done to the team as by half time we were losing 5-1 but by full time with a little switch of positions we ended up drawing 7-7, the sportsmanship was great  and well done to Charlotte who got player of the match as well as the rest of the team, who were Ezzah, Fahtima, Vaania, Sumaiya, Haleema, Safia and Hafsah, we have a match on Thursday at home against Courthouse,  I think this will be a tough game for Riverside but our resilience will shine through I am sure of it!