Whole School Newsletter 20 March 2026
Thank you for joining us for parents’ meetings, so important for working collaboratively to support learning and success. It’s been a compact term, but packed with growth and progress!
A wonderful week of performance…
Year 4 and 6 were a lucky audience to theatre company Breach, collaborating with New Diorama on 'Time Sliders'. Children (and staff!) were absolutely captivated - a gripping production with incredibly interesting techniques using music, projection and even an exercise bike to show Zac's journey through different eras, searching for his grandmother's lost cycling medal. Ask your children about their favourite moments!
Juniors watched a performance and learned about a project between Acland Burghley School and icandance, a charity supporting young dancers with disabilities, to create a mixed abilities boys’ dance group. Celebrating diversity and connection, encouraging boys into dance and challenging stereotypes around disability, the dancers have performed in theatres and made a film about their collaboration. Made more special by dancers who are ex-pupils and EP friends.
But the performance highlight of the week was the Year 2 Victorian Assembly! We loved seeing the enthusiasm and confidence of the children as they demonstrated so much knowledge about their Victorian topic this term.
Imaginations have definitely powered up for Junior Engineer entries - ever caring and thoughtful, there were plenty of brilliant environmental ideas and several inventions to help the emergency services. We even had an invention to help tired parents (patent pending!).
We anticipate even more invention and creativity at home over the week ahead as children prepare egg-mobiles ready for one of everyone’s favourite EP traditions - The Great Egg-Race! Details and timings below.
.Eid Mubarak to all our families celebrating the end of Ramadan!
Next Week:
No Sports Clubs or Choir (except Y3/4 football match on Tuesday)
Monday
- Monday 23rd March - Lab Talk on Times Tables - 9am
- Year 3 swimming
- Year 5 visit William Ellis School for an art session (afternoon)
Tuesday
- Year 3 swimming
- Y3/4 Squad match - pick-up 4:30pm Hawley School
Wednesday
- Year 3 swimming
- Team of Year 4 children visit Kingsgate School for sports games - during school day
Thursday
- Year 3 swimming
- Team of Year 5 children to Winton School for sports games - during school day
Friday
- The Great EP Egg Race!
Nursery, Years 1, 3 and 5 race at 9.15am and
Reception, 2, 4 and 6 at approximately 10.45am; however, we can’t be exact!
- Year 3 swimming
- School ends at usual time!
Overview of key dates
Spring Term
- Monday 23rd March - Lab Talk on Times Tables. Aimed at Y3/4 but Y2 welcomed too.
- w/c Monday 23 March - Year 3 start a one week swimming block
- Friday 27 March - The Great Egg Race and last day of term ending at 3:30pm
Summer Term
Reminder that there are no Sports Clubs or Choir in the first week of term - excepting Y3/4Football Squad training on Tuesday.
- Thursday 23rd April - Quiz Fundraiser - Raise the Tower!
- Friday 24th April after drop-off - PTA summer planning meeting. Everyone welcome to help plan a summer term of fun and fundraising!
- Wednesday 29th April Camden Choir Festival 6:30-7:30pm
- Monday 4 May - Bank Holiday
- Year 6 SATs tests Monday 11- Thursday 14 May
- Friday 15 May - No Club EP or Gym Club due to staff event
- Sunday 17 May - Run Kids Run tbc (awaiting confirmation from RKR)
- Thursday 21 May - CBC Night
- Half term Monday 25 - Friday 29 May
- Monday 1st June - INSET day
- Saturday 4th July - Summer Fair!
- Friday 10th July am - Nursery Sports Day
- Monday 13th July am - Sports Day Rec-Y6
- Friday 17th July - Last day of term ending 1:30pm
Information and Diary Dates
The Great Egg-Race!
Ready to race?! One of our favourite events in the EP calendar, this is an end of the Spring Term tradition when children build a vehicle to carry a hard-boiled egg to race the length of the hall. Full rules of the race are at the end of the newsletter.
Families are welcome to come along to watch - race times are as follows:
- Nursery, Years 1, 3 and 5 race at 9.15am and
- Reception, 2, 4 and 6 at approximately 10.45am; however, we can’t be exact!
There is an adult race in the afternoon so you can get involved too!
Thursday 23 April - Quiz Fundraiser
Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets for this. They have sold out!
If you missed the boat, but are still keen to attend, please email epptaprizes@gmail.com to be added to the waitlist.
Forest School pick-up from EP
Urban Outdoors run forest school clubs with an offer to collect from schools. With sufficient interest (a minimum of 8 children), they can offer EP a Thursday forest school club for 11 weeks 3:30-5:30pm in the summer term starting from 16th April. They will pick up children from EP for a session in Foxham Gardens and collection at the end of the club is from there. Urban Outdoors run these sessions for other nearby schools and they are very popular. More information here.
Urban Outdoors are fully independent of EP and whilst of course we will assist in the end of day collection arrangements and will ask families to authorise pick-up, please contact them directly for details of their offer and to explore whether they meet your childcare needs.
RULES OF THE GREAT EGG RACE 2026
Get ready to race on the last day of term Friday 27 March
- The egg-mobile must carry a chicken’s egg.
- The egg must be hard-boiled.
- The egg-mobile is to be designed and built out of school.
- As far as possible, the egg-mobile must be made without help from grown-ups.
- You may work on your own, in a pair, group or family, but the egg-mobile may only be entered for one class race.
- Each egg-mobile will have an independent run on the course.
- No mains electricity may be used to power or move your egg mobile.
- Batteries are allowed.
- No living creature may be used as an egg-mobile.
- If the egg-mobile uses its own source of power, it will be released from a slope. If it uses another source of power e.g. air, battery, it will start from a flat surface.
- Once your egg mobile leaves the start, you may not push it, pull it, control it or re-start it.
- Please do not use any glass in your design.
Each class has their own race. There are 4 winning categories for each class
- The most beautifully decorated
- The most original design
- The greatest distance travelled
- The wittiest
The judges’ decision is final.
If you need advice about your egg-mobile or a piece of equipment that you don’t have at home, please ask a teacher.
