Latest News

• Friday 19 December 2025 Cracking Concert It was lovely to see so many of you joining us at Gunnersbury Baptist Church for this year's concerts. The concerts opened this year with the drummers playing Djole, packed with powerful djembe rhythms and beautiful vocals. We do hope you enjoyed the fantastic singing, which included some very intricate part-singing from all year groups. There was also one of Mr Bonner's trademark mash-ups with Home and No Woman No Cry. The whole school songs raised the roof with a full range of musical techniques on display, from the dynamics of Only Remembered to the beautiful delivery of Fix You. However, the children were, as ever, the stars of the show; singing beautifully and delivering their lines with confidence and clarity. Special mention, and a huge thank you, to Geoff Bonner, who worked to prepare the drummers and played on the day, and Gill Coulton, who liaised with the Gunnersbury team to make sure everything ran smoothly, and to Gantisha and Abena who designed the cover for the programme
• Friday 12 December 2025 Signing Up for Free School Meals = Extra Funding to School Whilst school meals are free to all at the moment, the school benefits from extra funding generated by the number of children eligible for free school meals. Equally families in receipt of Free School meals have access to funded holiday activities and vouchers to spend at high street supermarkets for holiday periods.
• Monday 24 November 2025 Otis Surgery Fundraiser For nearly a decade, Otis, our beloved therapy dog, has been a source of unwavering comfort for our children within The Swan Centre, at Strand on the Green Junior School in Chiswick. In a world that often feels confusing and overwhelming for our autistic children, Otis is a sanctuary - a fluffy friend, whose presence makes everyone feel safe. He massively helps to reduce anxiety and stress for our children (and staff!!) Sadly, Otis has recently ruptured his cruciate ligament in his back leg. He is in a lot of pain, and the injury is making his work with our children nearly impossible. This is heartbreaking for all of us here in the centre. Otis requires complex, costly surgery and extensive physiotherapy. We are trying to raise at least £4,000 to go towards this. Any donation would be hugely, hugely appreciated - even the price of a coffee (or a London pint!!). Otis has helped so many of our children over his years with us, and we would love to give back to him and get the ca
• Monday 24 November 2025 Strand Retain Year 3/4 Girls Borough Football Title Last Monday, Strand's Year 3/4 girls' football team competed against 16 different schools across the borough. Strand made an amazing start to the tournament with Savannah scoring 5 goals in the first game! Her scoring streak continued throughout the group stages with an impressive 10 goals scored. Our strength was not just in attack our defensive display was just as impressive! Eve and Carmen were rock solid in defence, helping Drey rebut any attack. We then moved into the knockout stages, where our composure continued. We confidentially won 1-0 with a fantastic goal from Evie. That confidence remained in the final, where we faced Springwell. With tensions running high, the girls played amazing football with careful passing, breaking through their defence. Evie and Savannah are keeping their goalscoring record going by scoring a goal each, winning the borough title for Strand! A massive well done to Drey, Eve, Carmen, Sophie, Evie, Savannah, Alba, Pheonix, and Asma.
• Monday 24 November 2025 Primary Maths Challenge Lots of pupils from Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in the Primary Maths Challenge this week. Well done to everyone, including the intrepid group from Year 4, for their determination and resilience tackling some very tricky questions. Amongst many superb performances, special mention must go to Cary, Ruaridh and Leahna from Year 5 and Ayrton, Gaia, Kolka, Matty, Hugo, Dylan, Henry and Vladi from Year 6 who all earned a Gold award. We are waiting for news tofind out how many of them have qualified for the bonus round in February.
• Sunday 9 November 2025 Anti-bullying Week 2024: Use Your Power for Good Anti-Bullying Week takes place next week. This year's theme is 'Use your Power for Good'. Each class will be having discussions about what bullying means to us, how we can stop bullying by calling it out and being upstanders. Each year group will explore this theme throughout the week, and on Friday 14th, we will have BLUE (Be Lovely and Understanding to Everybody) day, where everybody can wear blue mufti to show our commitment to anti-bullying every day at Strand. Odd socks can also be worn on Friday (they don't have to be blue!) to celebrate that we are all different but all equal.
• Sunday 9 November 2025 Year 2 Meeting and Open Morning We are holding our Open Morning on Wednesday, 12th November, with tours and a meeting for prospective Year 2 parents. Current parents are welcome to visit to see the school in action between 9:00 and 10:30 and be given a tour by your children. We are looking forward to seeing you if you can come along.
• Saturday 25 October 2025 Quiz Night - 14th November Last year we resurrected Quiz Night and, by popular demand, it's back.
• Saturday 25 October 2025 Secondary Transfer Deadline – 31 October 2025 The deadline for secondary transfer applications is fast approaching. Submitting a late application greatly reduces the chance of a child getting a place at one of their preferred schools. Late applications will only be processed after the first allocation of places to on-time applicants on 2 March 2026 - make sure you get yours in on time to avoid unnecessary complications.
• Saturday 25 October 2025 Feed the Birds Last year, Year 6 took part in a competition run by the Strand on the Green Association to raise awareness about what foods are suitable to feed the birds on the river. The whole year group designed posters with different birds that can be found there, but there were only seven lucky winners. Last Friday, Isla, Matty, Salem, Kolka, Ellie, Atousa and Vladi were all invited for the unveiling of their posters. If you're stuck for what to feed the birds, their fantastic posters are displayed along the towpath to help you!
• Friday 10 October 2025 Raise Money with Easy Fundraising If you haven't signed up to easyfundraising yet, please join and raise free donations for the school every time you shop online with over 7000 brands. Click here to raise funds for school or scan the QR code on the right.
• Friday 10 October 2025 Healthier Together – NHS-Approved Online Advice Hounslow have launched a new website for families. Hounslow Healthier Together is a trusted
• Friday 3 October 2025 Online author visit for Year 3 Last Friday, Year 3 were delighted to have the opportunity to share in an online author visit from Abiola Bello. She captured her audience's attention immediately when she shared that she wrote her first story at 8 and her first book at 12! After being introduced to one of her novels 'Wild Magic', which is set in Africa and tells the exciting tale about a legendary black lion, she passed on her inspirations and asked the audience for questions. Jesse 3R had enquired what was Abiola's favourite book and she explained that she loved the Harry Potter series and any books with superheroes and magic. Another exciting scoop was that she has written a series of books with Marcus Rashford, 'The Breakfast Club Adventures', which are inspired by Rashford's own childhood experiences and focus on teamwork and friendship (something that we are also focusing on in Year 3 and is certainly a good recommendation for next book choices).
• Friday 3 October 2025 Year 4 Pedestrian Training Road safety specialists visited this week to provide pedestrian skills training for Year 4. The children participated with enthusiasm and learnt essential road safety skills that will make them safer pedestrians. Training was completed with experienced instructors on the pavements and roads around the school. The training reminded the children of Stop, Look and Listen, and included:
• Friday 26 September 2025 Strand Food Bank Collection Needs Your Help Our local foodbank in Brentford who we work with is desperate for donations. They need anything that's non-perishable eg. cereals, baby food, pasta, rice, sugar, milk, pudding (eg rice pudding or custard), tinned fruit and veg, pasta sauces, tinned tomatoes, tinned meat/fish, tea/coffee, biscuits. Any toiletries like shampoo/conditioner, body wash, toothbrush/paste, sanitary products and nappies (of all sizes) would be much appreciated.
• Friday 26 September 2025 School Council Elected Last week the whole school has been involved in hustings to elect their representatives to the School Council. A huge number of children stood for office and bravely made speeches at their year group assemblies. Well done to everyone who took part. It's great to see that the Strand tradition of developing responsible and committed citizens continues. The results of the elections were announced in assembly this week and the whole school was able to congratulate their new representatives as they received their badge of office.
• Friday 26 September 2025 Join Us at Osterley Park Run On Sunday 12th October at 9:00am, we'd love to gather as many Strandites as possible for the weekly Osterley Junior Parkrun. This is a 2km walk or run event organised by a charity to encourage children to get active. If you've been to a parkrun before, you'll know just how fantastic the atmosphere is and it would be wonderful for the children to experience this too!Our hope is that after taking part together, the children will catch the ‘running bug' and maybe even make this a regular part of their weekends.
• Sunday 21 September 2025 Secret Strandite This year's first Secret Strandite is Devon from Year 3. On Sunday, Devon won the Settrington Cup at this year's Goodwood Revival, a pedal car race widely celebrated as the “cutest race in the world.” Competing in an Austin J40 pedal car, Devon raced to victory down the Pit Lane Straight capping off a weekend of vintage motorsport and celebration. Read more about her success on the Chiswick W4 website. A huge well done to Devon – a future F1 driver in the making? #SpiritedStrandite
• Sunday 21 September 2025 TimeGivers Visit to St Mary’s Convent Nursing Home Last Friday, TimeGivers and a group of Year 6 pupils visited the residents of St Mary's Convent Nursing Home. The children joined the residents in a craft activity, thinking about what we are thankful for, and were treated to an afternoon tea of cakes and juice. They had some lovely chats, learning about the residents' lives and sharing what school was like today. The consensus was the children were very lucky to attend such a great school. Mrs Day, who accompanied them, was so proud of the children who were, as ever, an asset to Strand. Thank you to Elian, Dylan, Kolka, Diego, Atousa, Aggy, Darcy, Juan, Emilia, Zarah, Isla, Maddie, Sophie and Reema for giving up their privilege time to give support others #SupportiveStrandites.
• Sunday 21 September 2025 Eco Committee Appointed Congratulations to our new eco committee representatives! Last week, each class nominated one
• Saturday 13 September 2025 Secondary Transfer for Year 6 The deadline for secondary transfer is 31st October. We will be discussing secondary transfer after the Year 6 Curriculum Meeting on 16th September. In the meantime, make sure you contact schools you are interested in to make sure you know how they are organising tours and visits. The link to the Hounslow Secondary Transfer information is here.
• Saturday 13 September 2025 Welcome Back! It is good to see everyone embracing the new school year! The children have shown lots of enthusiasm, good cheer and some really focused learning. Even the weather has not dampened our spirits despite playtimes being wetter than we would expect at this time of year. As well as the excitement of seeing familiar faces, we're delighted to welcome lots of new children and families to Strand Juniors. We have new joiners across the school in addition to our new Year 3 Strandites.
• Friday 11 July 2025 SAT Results - Well Done Year 6 The 2025 SATs results were returned to school this week and we are very proud of each and every Strandite. The table below shows the percentage of children at Strand in Year 6 and River class reaching the expected standard compared to all children nationally.
• Friday 4 July 2025 Strand Moves to No Smartphones from September You may have seen the letter that we sent out earlier in the week regarding no smartphones for pupils from September. We have received some very positive feedback from families about this action. A reminder that from September 2025 children will not be allowed to bring smartphones into school. This also means that smart watches (or any devices with connectivity to the internet) should not be worn. This approach is aligned with a growing number of local primary and secondary schools, including Chiswick School, who are also banning smartphones in Year 7. We recognise that families will want to be able to contact their child in an emergency if they travel alone to school in Year 5 and 6, so instead pupils will be able to bring in a basic mobile phone that does not have access to the internet, apps or a camera. Such phones are affordable and easily accessible. Our practice of handing-in phones during the school day will remain unchanged. Thank you for your support.
• Friday 27 June 2025 Musical Round Up A huge well done to our amazing choir who performed at the recent Summer Fair. More than 70 children from the combined Y3/4 and Y5/6 choirs sang, raising the roof but not bringing any rain thank goodness after singing Raindrops keep falling on mey head! Thank you to all of the children who took part. They will have inspired many of their Infant colleagues to join the Junior School choirs of the future! Choirs have finished for this term but will resume in September.
• Friday 27 June 2025 UKMT Junior Kangaroo maths challenge Esa from Year 6 scored so well in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge (for students up to Year 8) that he qualified for a bonus round called the Junior Kangaroo. Another brilliant performance in this tricky paper means that he has earned a Silver Kangaroo certificate. This puts him in the top 4000 mathematicians nationally. Incredible work Esa!
• Thursday 26 June 2025 Sports Day
• Sunday 22 June 2025 Grow a Pound
• Sunday 22 June 2025 Time Givers Community Day We are excited to announce that the TimeGivers project is nearly complete. The Strand on the Green Boards Project is part of a wider environmental regeneration initiative we've been running in partnership with TimeGivers over the past two years. Together, we have been working to revitalise the school's outdoor space, transforming it into a place of creativity, learning, and wellbeing. This year, TimeGivers collaborated with a group of volunteer artists and students to reimagine the boards surrounding the school playground. Through a series of creative workshops, the students have designed and painted a vibrant series of murals that reflect the identity of the school and the spirit of the local community. The Community Day will celebrate the unveiling of the completed murals, and we would love you to join us on Thursday 3rd July from 2:30pm. All are welcome!
• Saturday 17 May 2025 UKMT Junior Maths Challenge Several children in Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge earlier this term.

View archived news