Weekly Update-Friday 24th April
🌍 World Earth Day 2026
What an amazing World Earth Day we had at BWIS this week! We were incredibly proud to launch our new vision for sustainability with the children, exploring how we can all do our part as guardians of the Earth. 🌱🌏
We also introduced our brilliant Sustainability Badgers, who the children enjoyed getting to know! Miss Martin and Miss Daniels-King launched the day with an assembly that created excitement in all of our learners. The children had a fantastic day learning about the world and how to look after it – they are especially keen to avoid wasting electricity and have been enthusiastically turning off lights all around the school. 💡👏
We were joined on the day by Steph, one of our school governors. She saw how excited the children were in their learning and how curious they were to find out more. She thoroughly enjoyed her visit and talks with the children.
🐝 A big thank you to Hilliers Garden Centre in Hedge End for their very kind donation of bamboo for our bee houses. We are so grateful for their support in helping us care for our environment and local wildlife.
If you would like to know more about sustainability at our school, please click onto our sustainability page:
https://www.bwis.org.uk/sustainability-1/
School Pond
💧 We are still looking for pond volunteers to form a small committee to help us keep our pond in its current lovely condition. Please get in touch if you think you might be able to help. This week, Year 2 enjoyed pond dipping and were absolutely amazed by the range of creatures and larvae they discovered!
🎉 Summer Fayre Donation Days 🎉
We will be holding three donation days over the next few weeks to help support our Summer Fayre stalls. In return for a donation, children may wear non-school uniform on the day:
- 🍾 Friday 1st May – Bottle Donation Day
Many donations may contain alcohol – please bring these directly to the school office on the morning, carried by parents. - 🍫 Friday 8th May – Chocolate Donation Day
- 🍰 Friday 15th May – Cake Donation Day (and Summer Fayre Day!)
🙏 Our PTA are desperately short of helpers, particularly for running stalls, face painting, cooking and barbecuing. If you can spare even a little time, your help would make a huge difference. Please do let us know if you can support us.
St George's Day
We celebrated St George's Day this week in our assembly. We have celebrated all of our Saints days this year and used some of the resources from our learning links page. If you would like to explore these at home too, please click here:
https://www.bwis.org.uk/st-georges-day-1/
☀️ We have enjoyed some glorious weather over the past few days and the children have loved playing in the grounds, listening to the birds singing, learning outside and making the most of the sunshine. Long may it continue!
⚽ And finally… I might see a few of you at Wembley tomorrow – fingers crossed for a Saints win! 🤞🔴⚪
Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
With warm wishes
Mrs Riches
Headteacher
