Thank you to all those who contributed to our annual Poppy Appeal during our focus week for Remembrance Day. We collectively raised £101 toward the appeal.  We extend our particular thanks to Len (Kim's dad) who is a member of The Royal British Legion and annually arranges the use of the card machine to take collections and maintains our Remembrance Day stock resources. 

Monday 15th December is CTW Christmas Jumper Day

It's now December and so every day can be a Christmas Jumper Day! However, on Monday 15th December, we specifically invite all children to wear their favourite Christmas Jumper.

For children who usually attend Mondays, the children's lunch that day will be a Christmas roast.  Additionally, children will have a Christmas party running from 2pm till 4pm with singing, dancing, games and a visit from a virtual Father Christmas.

N.B. Children who don't usually attend a Monday are invited for the afternoon party only (James will email separately).

• We will soon say "goodbye" to Kim who leaves us at Christmas.  Kim started her Early Years career joining the team at the age of 17 and has worked across the different age groups both full time and more recently in a part time capacity. For the past 40 years Kim has supported Katherine and the original team both professionally and personally through the many generations of CTW. Kim's particular specialism is children's creative art, which children love to explore through the many learning themes. Kim has been the key person to siblings within the same family as they've grown through CTW; this includes more recently caring for children who are now parents bringing their own children to CTW with Kim as their child's key person too - second generation! After 40 consecutive years, Kim feels now is the time to step down and see what the future holds!  We wish Kim all the very best and thank her for her huge contribution to Katherine and CTW.

• Welcome to Stella who recently started with us as an apprentice Early Years Practitioner through a work based learning in partnership with West London College, Hammersmith.

CTW will be additionally closed on Thursday 19th & Friday 20th March 2026

As you will be aware, half of our teaching team observe Ramadan and this is something we fully embrace. For example, we rearrange timings throughout the Holy month to enable the team to pray, reflect and observe Ramadan in their own individual way, whilst maintaining their important role to your children.

For the past two years, we have enabled the team observing Eid to have holiday to celebrate this important religious event with their families. We've sought your help, where possible, to keep your child at home over Eid so as to elevate the pressure on maintaining sufficient staff to child ratios. However, this year we found less families volunteered to keep their children at home.

CTW is now at full capacity with children and we feel we can't safely operate CTW sufficiently with half the team not in: it's simply not fair to your children or the remaining teaching team.

In recognition of our current teaching team demographic and the overall care of your children, we have decided to additionally close CTW for the two days over Eid. The days change each year and, therefore, children who attend on those days will be reimbursed pro-rata for that month's invoice.

We recognise for some families this may be an inconvenience and we thank you in advance for your support of our dedicated teaching team.

When the weather is torrential rain and wind (or snow), standing in the playground waiting for your child to complete their CTW routine of independently putting on shoes and coat isn't ideal!

If you would like to, please feel free to ring us (020 8995 7267) when you’re 5 minutes away from CTW and we will begin to get your child ready for collection.

Please ensure your children's clothes are labelled with their name to aide jumpers & cardigans returning to them at the end of the day.  Please remember to label hats, gloves and shoes too!

A reminder that your children must have an appropriate outdoor coat (not all in one type suits) and appropriate footwear that can independently put on and taken off (with teacher support).