Wishing all our amazing children and their families a joyful and relaxing summer break! The children have put in so much hard work this year, and we couldn't be prouder. We hope the holidays are filled with rest, laughter, and plenty of fun adventures!

We look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 7th September.

September
 7th - TERM BEGINS
 11th - Parent Information Morning - Everything you Need to Know About Burlington 9am Great Hall
 18th - Welcome to Year 2 Coffee Morning 9am Infant Hall
 25th - Welcome to Year 1 Coffee Morning 9am Infant Hall 
 25th - PTA AGM 2.30pm 
 28th - Year 2 Trip to WWT London Wetland Centre

October
 14th - Individual School Photographs
 16th - PTA Monster Ball (more details to follow) 
 21st - Parent Consultations 2-5pm - SCHOOL CLOSES EARLY AT 1.45PM (Blue, Yellow & Purple nursery open as usual)
 22nd - Parent Consultations 4-7pm
 23rd - Wear it Pink (more details to follow)
 26th - Half Term Break

With just one term remaining, we would love to see our school fund continue to grow. The fund helps provide enriching experiences for our children, including Earthsong, Healthy Living Week, the Big Breakfast, and our much-loved pretend holidays, to name just a few. It also enables us to purchase essential resources for classrooms across the school.

This year, we have been working towards replacing the smartboards in most classrooms. Our current boards are reaching the end of their lifespan, and updated smartboards like the one below are a vital resource for high-quality daily teaching and learning. Each new board costs just over £2,000, so any support towards this goal would be greatly appreciated.

Our voluntary contribution is £75 per family - if you feel you are able to contribute, this can be paid online via your School Gateway account. There is also an option to pay in instalments or to pay more if you wish!

You can read more about our School Fund by visiting the webpage: 

Voluntary Contribution web page

Today, we bid a fond farewell to our wonderful Year 2 children as they fly the nest for their next big adventure. Earlier this week, our Year 2 classes took part in their leavers' assemblies. It was a beautiful occasion where they shared their favourite infant school memories and performed two lovely songs for the parents and carers in the audience. It was an emotional milestone for us all. While we are always sad to say goodbye, we know these children are more than ready for this next step and will truly flourish at the junior school. We wish them the absolute best of luck as they transition to Year 3. We could not be prouder of their achievement - the junior school is incredibly lucky to welcome such a kind, bright, and awesome group of children!

Everything you Need to Know about Burlington Infants!

Please come and join us on Friday 11th September at 9am in the Great Hall. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. 

This will be an opportunity to meet some of our school governors, PTA and staff. We will take this opportunity to welcome new parents and explain the different roles of staff within the school and the support we give to the children. All parents are welcome.

We would be most grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete our parent questionnaire for the Summer Term. We really appreciate your feedback and would like to know your thoughts so we can continually improve our school. 
 
To complete the survey, please click on the link below:

https://forms.gle/DvpDh8WHDiBEgxsd9

Deep breaths, everyone, the summer holidays are here! The six-week holiday (well, seven weeks this year!) is officially upon us. If the thought of being the chief entertainer for the next 52 days fills you with a little bit of dread... take a deep breath. You are absolutely not alone! What parent wouldn’t feel a tiny bit apprehensive?

Here is the golden rule for this summer - you do not have to be the "perfect parent" with a military-grade itinerary. Trying to fill every single second of every day will only leave you completely exhausted. Instead, focus on a handful of special moments to look forward to together. Involving your children in the planning is half the fun!

Here are 4 easy, low-stress ways to keep the children happy:

1. Let Them Help with the Picnic Prep
If you’re planning a day out, turn the preparation into an activity. Go shopping, bake some treats, and make the sandwiches together. Children absolutely love to help! Beyond keeping them busy, it is fantastic for developing their fine motor skills, teamwork, and planning.
 
2. Host a Living Room Cinema Night
Turn a simple movie evening into an absolute event. Have the children design and draw a movie poster, create custom tickets to hand out, and package up popcorn into little bags to "sell" at half-time. It transforms a normal TV night into a magical memory.
 
3. Embrace the Mess with Water and Sand
If you have a garden, this summer is the perfect time to get wet! If you're feeling brave, set out a container of sand next to a pool of water. Children will happily play for hours with these two simple ingredients, mixing them to build whatever their imaginations cook up.
 
4. Create a Summer of 2026 Scrapbook
Keep a camera handy and print out some photos as you go. On those inevitable rainy days, you can sit down together and paste them into a scrapbook. It’s a wonderful, creative project for them to work on throughout the break.
 
The most important tip however is to factor in a 'quiet hour'! You deserve a break more than anyone! Set aside one quiet hour every single day. Let the children entertain themselves with some coloring, reading, or building blocks while you sit down, recharge, and enjoy a hot drink in peace. Stay calm, you've got this, and those 52 days will fly by in a flash!

Looking for inspiration? Here, we’ve put together our ever-growing list of tried-and-tested days out that are either completely free or very budget-friendly!

Our thought of the week is:

Let the summer begin with adventures that never end.

Please click here for the brand new summer holiday programme for Kingston children's centres with a variety of activities suitable for children aged 0-5 (and siblings up to 8 years). 

Screens are now a big part of everyday life, making it more important than ever to ensure children are safe in the digital world. It’s also important to help them find a healthy balance and develop positive habits around screen time. Each week, we will share practical tips, useful resources, and guidance to support parents in the home. 

We have added some new items below to our Amazon Wishlist. If you are able to help us we would really appreciate it! 

Click on the link below to see our wishlist.

https://amzn.eu/983v2T9

If your child needs to use the toilet after pick-up, please walk back to your classroom door and ask for your child to go back through the classroom to use the toilet. Parents are not allowed in the toilets. This is to safeguard the other children we have on site after school in clubs and at Acorns. 

Thank you for your cooperation.

If you have not already downloaded the School Gateway App, please do this immediately. This is our communication and payment system for the school so it is really important that you have activated your account. We will use this system to send emergency text messages and all clubs, trips, Acorns, nursery fees etc can be paid using the app. If you require any assistance, please do not hesitate to ask the school office. 

How to access School Gateway instructions for new users

Just letting you know that Burlington Infant & Nursery School are now registered with easyfundraising, which means you can raise FREE donations for us every time you shop online.

Over 7,000 brands will donate to us when you use easyfundraising to shop with them – at no extra cost to yourself! These donations really mount up and make a BIG difference to us, so we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign up and support us.

It’s completely FREE and only takes a moment. You can find our easyfundraising page here.

Thank you so much!
 
All you need to do is:
 
1. Go to the fundraising page by clicking here and join for free.

2. Every time you shop online, go to easyfundraising first to find the site you want and start shopping.

3. After you’ve checked out, the brand will make a donation to Burlington Infant & Nursery School at no extra cost to you whatsoever!
 
There are no catches or hidden charges and we will be really grateful for your donations.
 
Thank you for your support.

Parentkind, a charity that supports school PTAs have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative. To support our school, all you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app, shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com.
 
Between 2nd September and 30th November 2024, every time you shop with Asda using your Asda Rewards app, Asda will donate 0.5% of the value of your shop to your chosen school. Also, every time somebody opts-in to support our school, Asda will give an additional £1 to the school Cashpot. Plus, it doesn’t stop there – Asda are also giving £50 to every school to get them started.

It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3
1. Download the Asda Rewards app, register and opt-in to Cashpot for Schools (make sure you have the latest version of the app installed)
2. Choose Burlington Infant & Nursery School by searching the name or postcode
3. Shop instore across Asda and George, or online at Asda.com and start filling your Cashpot as you shop
 
Asda does the rest, all money raised will be donated to schools to spend on the things they need the most.

Remember, anyone can sign up, so start spreading the news and raising funds for our school.

A reminder to all parents that the yellow zig-zag lines outside our school at both the front and back gates indicate the length of road where stopping or waiting is strictly prohibited. If you park on these clearly marked, yellow zig zag lines you are putting the safety of our children and their families at risk.

Cars should not be parked on the zig zag lines for any amount of time - even if it is just a minute or two to drop off children.

Thank you for helping us to keep our school community safe.

Please can we remind parents that children are not allowed to ride scooters on the school premises. Please use the scooter stands provided or carry your child's scooter once inside the school gates. We really appreciate your support.
Thank you

You can find all our policies on our Policies web page:

School Policies web page

We recommend parents read: 

Medical Conditions Policy
Attendance Policy
Parent & Visitor Code of Conduct
Behaviour & Anti-bullying 
Complaints policy
School Uniform

Some of you may have already met Mr Mayer, our lovely new site manager but we are delighted to welcome him officially to the Burlington community! As well as being interviewed by the grown ups, Mr Mayer also went through a very tough interview with the school council children! A huge thank you to school council for their thoughtful and interesting questions and for helping us with the interview process! 

A bit about Mr Mayer...
'Thank you to the team and the children for making me feel so at home in such a short time. I'm already loving the cups of mud and leaves tea and the sound of "what are you doing?" and laughter all day long. I've come from a backstage theater tutoring background, am a keen sailor, enjoy the outdoors, books and cooking and have a strong interest in early childhood development.' 

There were big smiles in Year 2 on Tuesday afternoon! To celebrate their time with us before they say goodbye next Friday, the children were treated to a special visit from an ice cream van. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed cooling down with a delicious ice cream or lolly. A huge thank you to our wonderful PTA, whose fundraising efforts funded this lovely treat!

The children will be enjoying a party day with their class as a special treat for working so hard this year - please see dates below.

On the day, children can wear party clothes to school and bring some party food to share with the class. Please check with your class teacher about what to bring. Please note that we are a strictly nut free school. 

Tuesday 14th July
Venus & Saturn Class
All Year 1 Classes 
Nursery 

Wednesday 15th July
Jupiter & Mercury

Thursday 16th July
All Reception Classes 

We would love to hear about any science related activities the children take part in at home! It can be anything from helping out in the garden, finding mini beasts, doing experiments or perhaps visiting a museum - please email your science selfie to admin@burlingtoni.org.uk and let us know if you would allow for it to be shared in the school newsletter and on our school website. We look forward to seeing your Science Selfies!

Here are some of the Science Selfies we've received!

Science Selfie Challenge Photos

We’ve had an action-packed week focused all around healthy living and staying active! The children have been participating in sports sessions with Sean McInnes and his fantastic team, dance and 'Wake Up Shake Up' with Don Rae, as well as competing in sports day.

Alongside all the movement, we’ve been learning all about eating healthy and nutritious foods and the importance of looking after our bodies. The children enjoyed a delicious Big Breakfast of healthy cereals, wholemeal bread and fruit. It has been wonderful to see the children’s enthusiasm for making healthy choices and cheering on their classmates during sports day. Well done eveybody!   

The children in Year 2 were inspired this week to make their own booklets about healthy living. We loved reading all their interesting facts and advice! 

Maria Sibylla Merian was born in 1647 in Germany.  She is famous for her detailed drawings of nature.  Her illustrations were so detailed that people thought the bugs would jump right off the page!  She is also famous because she discovered how caterpillars change into butterflies, also known as metamorphosis.  She has at least six plants, nine butterflies, two bugs, one spider and a lizard named after her. 

Take a Science Selfie and post your photo on Tapestry!  If you would like to have your photo included in our weekly school newsletter, please e-mail your photo to admin@burlingtoni.org.uk

Second hand spare clothes for nursery (non-uniform) plus pants, socks etc. for boys and girls - ages 4-6.

Thank you! 

We raised £235 from our recent Copper Mile which has now been donated to the WWF. A big thank you for all your donations. 

Dear Parents/Carers,

The children had an assembly today where they found out their new class and teachers for September. They were all very excited! 

New Classes for September 2026

Please find attached information regarding your child's new class. If you have any questions, please contact the school office. 

Thank you and best wishes, Burlington Infant & Nursery School

10 of our Year 2 children had the exciting opportunity this week to represent the school at an inter-school swimming gala at Coombe Hill Infants. The children demonstrated great enthusiasm, confidence, and determination as they competed in a range of races against pupils from other local schools. 

We were incredibly proud of the way they conducted themselves throughout the event. They showed excellent sportsmanship, cheering on their teammates and celebrating each other's successes. It was such a fun event despite the rain and the children should all be very proud of their achievements.

A huge well done to all of our Year 2 swimmers for representing the school so positively!

On Monday 13th July, we will be visited by one of our featured authors, the humorous and distinctive author / illustrator Ruby Wright for a cheeky and heartwarming event based around her picture book: Invisible Dogs. Books, provided by Richmond bookshop The Alligator’s Mouth, will be available to pre-order and Ruby will be signing and dedicating copies. 

We will be taking pre-orders of Ruby's book ahead of the author visit. The children will then be given their signed copy on the day of the visit. We are offering a discounted price of £7.00 per book which can be paid via your School Gateway account. If you would like to order more than 1 copy, you can make the purchase multiple times depending on how many copies you would like. 

The deadline for pre-orders will be on Sunday 28th June

A bit about the book...
Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright
When you start school, sometimes you need a best friend (or two). Ida is so noisy at home, but at school she is so quiet she doesn’t make any friends. Luckily her grandpa knows the best game to cheer her up: invisible shops. Little does he know that it sells invisible dogs, and those dogs are going to cause chaos!

For WWF Week, the children voted on which animal they would like to adopt for the coming year. The most popular animal was the one that Burlington are to adopt. Five classes voted for the Hedgehog and so we will be adopting a Hedgehog for the next year! We will let you know how much money we raised through the Copper Mile next week. Thank you to Ava and Esme in Emeralds for their fantastic drawings!

Eco Council have been working with Mrs Ridley and Mrs Field, one of our school governors on creating a Climate Action Plan for Burlington. The children met with Mrs Ridley and talked about all of the things that Burlington children and their families could do to tackle climate change. They are going to share their ideas through an assembly on Tuesday and they are going to tell the school all about the Climate Action Plan too! The children are working so hard to make our world a better place!

Every year our school enters the SPARK book awards. We read the books at school and you can watch Mrs Davies read one each week - see video below. There are four books. When you have read or watched them all we will send a voting form for you to choose your favourite.

For more information you can go to the SPARK book awards website. https://www.sparkbookawards.co.uk/the-awards/early-readers

The third book is 'These are my Rocks' and the fourth book is 'Once I was a Tree'. We hope you enjoy it!

Video of Mrs Davies reading These are my Rocks

Video of Mrs Davies reading Once I was a Tree

In our KS1 assembly on Wednesday, Mrs Yay-Walker introduced the importance of saying goodbye and that in September Year 1 children will move into Year 2 and Year 2 children will move into Year 3 at the junior school. We will be saying goodbye to Year 2 children in July.

As a leaving gift, every year the Year 2 children are given a special leavers t-shirt. This year they have been kindly bought by the PTA. Thank you!

The children can now wear their special t-shirts on their PE Days, Non-Uniform Days and during Healthy Living Week! We are really enjoying seeing the children wearing them!

The children have been so busy this week learning all about our 4 focus animals for WWF week. The animals were a Rhinocerous, Orangutan, Emperor Penguin and Hedgehog. We have loved seeing the children so excited to find out lots of facts about all these animals and producing some amazing art work too! The children will now vote for which animal they would like us to adopt so watch out for further news!

Eco Council supported in organising the Copper Mile. Children from classes across the school brought in their spare coins and used them to form a river of money. Eco Council collected the coins and they will now be banked and sent off to the WWF.

Please click here to see a list of activities taking place during the summer term at local children's centres. 

This week, Burlington Infants has been alive with the sights, sounds, and flavours of the world as we celebrated our annual Around the World Week! From country-themed classroom activities to traditional music and dance performances with the fabulous Don Rae, the children had the opportunity to explore and appreciate the rich tapestry of cultures that make up our school community.

The week ended with our multicultural picnic where families and staff came together on the school playground to share delicious homemade dishes. A huge thank you to all our parents for the amazing food! It was a particularly hot afternoon so we really appreciate all your efforts to join us. It was a wonderful opportunity to come together and celebrate the diversity that makes our school such a vibrant place.

Dear Parents/Carers, 

Please find attached some updates for our OPAL play scheme for the summer term. 

OPAL Summer 1 Update 2026

Thank you and best wishes,

School Office

We would like to say a HUGE well done to all the children who performed on Wednesday. What a talented bunch of children we have! They all performed with such confidence and flair, we were so impressed and incredibly proud. Thank you to all the parents who came to support too. 

Madison in Mercury and her sister Andi were so inspired by Burlington's Got Talent that, using a mix of clever craft materials and a lot of imagination, they recreated their very own mini version of Burlington’s Got Talent! The attention to detail was truly unbelievable from custom made costumes to stage magic with microphones, lighting, ballet mats, and even a piano and ukulele! It was simply wonderful to see how much pride they took in an independent project, celebrating their friends through art with such care and precision. A huge well done on such a ‘Golden Buzzer’ creation!

The Your Healthcare School Health Service offer support with children’s health and wellbeing to children and families who attend state funded Kingston Schools or are home educated and live in Kingston. Parent advice clinics are for parents of primary school aged children. They run weekly during term-time on different days of the week.
 
What sort of support/advice is available at a parent advice clinic?
Common issues they provide support and advice with bedwetting, constipation, soiling, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, behaviour, dental health, emotions and sleep. Appointments are on-line, by telephone or in person at our clinic in Surbiton. The aim of the appointment is to find out more about your child’s needs so we can advise you on what to do next. This might include referral to specialists, suggesting you see your GP, signposting to resources that can help you or a more detailed assessment of your child’s health needs by a school health practitioner.
 
Can I get support with speech and language concerns?
For concerns regarding your child’s language development the children’s Speech and Language Therapy advice line is available on Wednesdays 10-12 and Thursdays 2-4pm. The contact number is 020 8339 8106 and a voicemail is available for call back.
 
How do I book an appointment?
Please click on the booking form link: Parent Advice Clinic Booking Form  
Alternatively, you can contact the School Health service on:
Email: KU19-schoolhealth@yourhealthcare.org
Phone: 020 8549 6323
Please include your child's full name, date of birth and school in your email.
 
Appointments are 20 minutes long. If you have multiple concerns to discuss, please contact the School Health Team so that they can offer you a suitable appointment time. Appointments are for one child. If discussing more than one child, please book a separate appointment for each child.

If you require an interpreter, please let them know the language you require ahead of your appointment.