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Kites Connect Festival: a celebration of culture and kites Following last year’s success, Kites Connect Festival returns for 2026! Grab your kites and join in

Music at the Bandstand – Luton Brass Band Sunday 26 July | 2:00pm–4:00pmThe Rotary Bandstand, Wardown Park, Old Bedford Road, Luton Pack a picnic and

Read to the Beat with the Summer Reading Challenge! Keep your child’s love of reading going all summer long with Read to the Beat, this

There is still time to contribute donations to the Charity Committee’s fundraising total for our FUNtastic Challenge 40. How many of the 40 Challenges did

As we come to the end of the school year, we can look back on some of the learning we have done. It’s not all

With Ms Thomas retiring from her job as headteacher of St Matthew’s at the end of the summer term, the children from Wolf Class thought

Our end-of-term newsletter for summer 2026 is published today, here on our website: https://stmatthewsluton.com/newsletter-summer-2026/

Confirmation of drop-off and pick-up times for the final week of term – 13-17 July 2026. MONDAY 13thTUESDAY 14thWEDNESDAY 15thTHURSDAY 16th JULY Normal drop-off time

We are delighted to have received a generous grant from the Moto Foundation towards the purchase of three laptops for our school. This funding will

Don’t forget to join us for the Repair Café in its new home — at High Town Social Club, Oxen Road, Luton. Join us on the last Friday of

For Parents – New videos from Internet Matters Over the last few days Internet Matters have released two new videos onto their YouTube channel which

This half term, a group of Year 4 children are taking part in an exciting six-week project with Ruth Baker, who runs a florist shop

Recently, twenty children from Year 5 took part in the first of two exciting workshops with the University of Sheffield as part of a Luton-wide

Anyone who buys a ticket to support St Matthew’s Primary School in the weekly Giving Lottery, is automatically entered into the monthly super prize draw.

Our latest Family Centre Newsletter was distributed to all parents on ParentMail last week. Everyone can read it here too.

On Thursday 5th March 2026, World Book Day was celebrated in style across St Matthew’s with a wonderful range of book-themed activities taking place throughout

Our Year 4 children recently enjoyed their very first visit to the beautiful Chellington Centre — and what an adventure it was! Staying overnight in

On Friday 22nd May, we will be hosting a special Pop-Up Community Breakfast and Coffee Café at the front of the school, open to staff,

St Matthew’s Choir was honoured to perform at a special farewell celebration held at Luton Town Hall for long-serving Council Leader Hazel Simmons as she

Today is the first day of the Key Stage 2 tests and our Year 6 pupils all arrived at 8am to enjoy a hearty breakfast

This half term, our Year 5 Active Citizens have been working with Brown Bookshop once again on High Town Road on a very special creative

Families are invited to Market Hill, George Street on Saturday 25 April from 11am to 4pm to experience Luton as it might have looked in

We’re pleased to share the forthcoming workshops, which are free to attend and delivered as part of the CHUMS Early Intervention Hub. These online workshops

Small Business, Big Impact! Since Christmas, a group of enterprising Year 5 and 6 pupils have been running their very own in-school business, creating handmade

PLAY THE GIVING LOTTERY WITH ST MATTHEW’S We are pleased to share that St Matthew’s is now registered with the Giving Lottery. The Giving Lottery

Our school photographers will be visiting on Thursday 16 April 2026. They will be taking whole class photos of each class which families will be

Today we publish our latest end-of-term newsletter which gives you a flavour of all that has been happening at St Matthew’s during the past term

Eid Mubarak to all of our families who are celebrating! We know that Eid is a very special time for many within our school community

This half term, a new group of Year 5 pupils have begun an exciting project in partnership with our local community bookshop, Brown Books. Over

We have made the decision to move the rescheduled Fun Run date from 20th March, to Friday 13th March. The reason for this is that