Thank You to Axa Volunteers
A Huge Thank You to AXA Volunteers! We are incredibly grateful to the two fantastic teams of volunteers from AXA in Tunbridge Wells who spent time at our school transforming our outdoor spaces and refurbishing areas inside. Thanks to their hard work: New furniture has been built The trim trail has been revamped and bark […]
Sunguarding Assembly
The Melanoma Fund delivered a sunguarding assembly to the whole school. The children were given lots of facts about the sun and learnt the importance of protecting themselves from the sun’s UV rays. As a follow up, many children completed the sun-sorted quiz online. It has been fantastic to hand out so many UV wristbands […]
Sports Day
What a fantastic Sporting week! Congratulations to Ridgewaye House, who were the winners of KS2 Sports Day on Wednesday 25th June. Ridgewaye: 690 Brokes: 680 Barnetts: 680 Powdermill: 660 As you can see, it was a very close competition. Well done to all the children in years 3,4,5 & 6. A fantastic effort led by […]
School Games Award – Platinum Mark
SCHOOL GAMES AWARD We are delighted to announce that St Matthew’s have been awarded the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the 2025/26 academic year. This is the 5th year running that we have achieved this. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to […]
Poster Competition
Congratulations to Naureen, who is the winner of the poster competition. The poster competition was organised by the school council and they decided that they wanted to ask all the children in the school to design a poster showing our school values. The children then looked at all the entries and decided on the winner. […]
Easter Service
We held our Easter Service at St Matt’s church this morning. It was Chris’ last service for St Matthew’s school as he is retiring after Easter. Chris has been the vicar at the church for over 30 years and throughout his time there, he has supported our school with dedication, kindness and love. We gave […]
Art Exhibition
Year 5 & 6 pupils held an art exhibition of the work they have been doing since September. The whole school came to look at the work on display and it was lovely seeing our year 6 children take younger children around the hall and talk to them about the art. Year 5 had […]
Harvest
We held our Harvest Service in St Matt’s Church on Monday 7th October. The whole school came together to thank God for our food. Our Leading Lights led the Service and asked us to think about the food we have, where it comes from, and who is involved with it coming to our plate. We […]
New Entrants Tours
We are looking forward to welcoming new children to our school next academic year. If you have a child due to start school in September 2025, we would like to invite you to attend one of our New Entrants Tours. Come and find out all about St Matthew’s. To book a place on one of […]
Colour Run
COLOUR RUN 2024 For the first time ever St Matthew’s held their own colour run this week organised by the PTA. We had so much fun with Reception, Year 1 & 2 on Monday, Year 3 & 4 on Tuesday and Year 5 & 6 on Wednesday. We set up an obstacle course around the […]