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• Weekly Update Friday 26th April

  Fri 26 Apr 2024

  This week saw our Year 2 children having a visit from the Hampshire River Trust as part of their project. They learned about the different animals that live in the river in our area, and learned about a salmon's journey. They cannot wait to go and visit the river in Bishops Waltham with the experts.

   

  Year R have been busy learning to ride the balance bikes. They managed to get outside on the couple of hours of fine weather we had this week. They were all busy concentrating and the collecting game looked great fun!

   

  Year 1 have been out and about on the scooters, learning safety rules and how to balance. Lots of children at our school scoot to school and we hope that parents will also talk about safety when they are scooting too.

   

  Our PTA quiz is tonight and we are looking forward to having a night of fun with staff and parents. This week the PTA let us know the final figure raised from the Easter event which was an impressive £585.00. The sweet stall events raised £188 and when our PTA heard about a local appeal for Easter Eggs at the Children's Neurosurgical Ward at Southampton General Hospital, they donated 30 leftover eggs to them at Easter time. A huge thank you you to Claire and her team for all the fundraising support. After our upcoming summer fayre, we will be looking at the funds available to transform our corridor space into our learning/wellbeing communal area, following the theme of our 'Wonder Wood' library.

   

  Please remember to bring bottle donations on 3rd May for our Summer Fayre Bottle Tombola. Friday 3rd May will be non-uniform day in exchange for a donation.

   

  Our Whole School Sculpture Day exhibition is now open, if you would like to come and see it. It is in the entrance area, and the area outside my office. It is truly magical and the children are talking about the different sculptures they can see every time they pass it.

   

  Wishing you all a lovely weekend

   

  Best wishes

   

  Mrs Riches

  Headteacher

   

   

   

   

   

  

• Weekly Update Friday 19th April

  Fri 19 Apr 2024

  Welcome back to everybody. We hope everyone had a restful break over the Easter period. The children were a little quiet coming back on Monday, but back to their usual, excited-to learn-selves by today!

   

  Summer term is always a busy one at school. All parents with siblings starting in September should now have their offer letters at home, and Mrs Palmer has emailed everybody with regards to documentation to send in.

   

  We had a detailed PTA meeting on the first day back to school. They have been really busy organising our next events. We have a quiz night on the 26th April. This is a great way to meet other parents and have a bit of fun. We then have our Summer Fayre on Friday 17th May. We need parent helpers for this event, so if you can give a few hours to support it will be gratefully received. To support the event, we have 2 donation days for the chocolate stall and the bottle stall. These are;

   

  Friday 3rd May-bottle donations please. Only consumable ingredients, and preferably something parents would like to drink.

  Friday 10th May- chocolate donations please-these can be bars or boxes

   

  On both of these days children can wear NON-UNIFORM in exchange for their donation.

   

  The children have been busily finishing off their sculptures and our whole school sculpture display is nearly finished. We will send an email out to each year group to invite parents and carers in to come and see the display, when it is completed.

   

  There are currently a lot of children running into school ahead of their parents, but particularly grandparents. This is a gentle reminder to make sure your children are walking with you, as they get distressed if they cannot see you if they have fallen over. It also means our coming to school times are a calm time, which helps all the children who find large crowds overwhelming. Your cooperation in this is greatly appreciated.

   

  We have had our hanging baskets delivered for the Bishops Waltham in Bloom competition. If we have any greenfingered parents/grandparents who would like to help, please let your class teachers know. We would also like flower donations for the baskets and the boxes on the way into school, so if this is something that you could possibly help us with, please talk to us.

   

  Wishing everybody a lovely weekend

   

  Best wishes

  Mrs Riches

  Headteacher