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Weekly Update Friday 24th May
Fri 24 May 2024What a busy end of half term we have had. Our children have been excited throughout and have loved the projects they have been learning about. We have lots of green-fingered children in our school, and it was exciting to see the what they have been growing this week and they wowed their parents at project outcome.
This time last week there was hustle and bustle going on preparing for our summer fayre. What a fayre it was! For once, we had sunshine for the day, which was a lovely change. The overall profit raised from the day was £1850, which is a fantastic amount towards our new learning area outside Year R and Year 1. We will hopefully be going ahead with this very soon, and I know that the children in our school will have some great resources to use for many years. This would not be possible if it wasn't for our fantastic PTA and many helping volunteers (including family members). So much hard work went into the event behind the scenes, and also on the day, where staff joined in on stalls. Thank you so much to Claire, Andy, Maddie, Baz, Veronique, Kath and Karen for all your hardwork. It is our main event of the year and it was fantastic! Thank you to all the extra helpers who joined in helping before and on the day too, including many parents, grandparents and staff. A big thank you to Lilypads, CM Sports and our school governors too, who also helped to man the stalls . We also had great performances from Dance Kidz and Roynon School of Performing Arts and our children (past and present) showed off their talents-thank you to Roynon and Belinda for coming along! We cannot wait for everyone to see the result of their hard work, so watch this space!
This time of the year is a very busy one for teachers, who are very busy assessing the learning for their class' summative school reports, as well as preparing the children for the next transition in their school journey. We will see everybody back in school on Tuesday 4th June, the day after our INSET day.
Year 2 will be swimming in the Junior school pool on Thursday afternoons next half term, and they are very excited about it already. They will be taught by Mrs Labram, Miss Whitehead and Mrs Cresswell, whilst being supported by an army of parent volunteers who help support with changing and swimming. We will let you know how our first session has progressed afterwards! Thank you in advance to every helper, who helps to make these sessions so special.
Our new Year R Entrant evening went really well last night, with lots of new parents coming to meet our school community. Thank you to everyone from our school community who joined us for the night including our governors Helen and Roy, the mental health team Christina and Kate, Luke from CM Sports, Andy and Claire form our PTA, Mrs Campone our SENCO and our whole Year R Team led by Miss Turner. There were lots of new parents and returning parents, and it was lovely to see you all.
We have been asked to advertise all the lovely things that you can do in Southampton over the half term break. Please click below to find out more:
https://www.southamptonrocks.co.uk/
Wishing you all a happy Whitsun break, and we will see you back on the 4th June.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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Weekly Update Friday 17th May
Fri 17 May 2024The sunshine has come out for our Summer Fayre and the children are very excited about coming today. So much work has gone into planning and preparing for the fayre, including scrubbing a chest freezer, writing to companies and so much more. I know many more people are helping on the day and we hope everybody has a great time. There will be food and drink available, tokens can be bought on the day, and lot of fun activities to do. We will see you all very soon.
Year 2 have been writing their scripts ready to film their short films this week and what a lot of facts they knew-we can't wait to watch their finished show! Year R have also been showing me their amazing writing today, where they have innovated a story by changing a character and a setting-such fantastic learning!
We have also seen some beautiful paintings in Year 1-what talented artists we have!
We have some exciting staff news to share with you all today. Mrs Withers in Squirrel Class is expecting a baby girl in October. She has told her class today and they were overjoyed. Everyone at BWIS wish her and Sam all our love and luck on their exciting journey into parenthood.
Mrs Palmer our Senior Business Administrator in the school office 'Walked the Wight' on Sunday with her daughter Chloe and her dog Jim. It was a very hot day, very hilly and she raised lots of money for Countess Mountbatten Centre. Well done Michelle-your BWIS family are really proud of you!
We have our September 2024 Year R Welcome meeting on the evening of Thursday 23rd May. If you have a child starting with us and haven't signed up yet, please give our office a call.
We wish everybody a lovely weekend.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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Weekly Update Friday 10th May
Fri 10 May 2024We have waited all year for the sunshine, and it has finally arrived! We have had a few glorious days, and the children in Year R and Year 1 have had a great time practising their skills on the balance bikes and scooters. We have given the children plenty of reminders about drinking water and sun safety. Luckily, in our grounds we have lots of shady areas to cool down and all staff have been reminding the children to do this.
Thank you to all the parents who donated chocolate today for our chocolate tombola. Our Summer Fayre is next week and we hope to see everyone there. This year, there are raffle tickets coming out to win a trip-please have a look for these in your child's book bag tonight. The PTA still need volunteers on the day, so please contact Claire to help. They will also run a token system alongside cash. These can be bought beforehand or on the day. Please see the PTA social media page for more information.
This week we joined in with National Hedgehog Week, with a whole school assembly and lessons in Year 2. I have 2 hedgehogs that climb steps to my garden every night, and they really help keen the slug and snail population down in my flower beds. The children were amazed to discover that a hedgehog can cover 2 miles in one night! If you would like to find out more about how you can create hedgehog friendly gardens, please click on the children's learning link below.
https://www.bwis.org.uk/national-hedgehog-week/
We will be back to our PAN of 60 children in Year R in September, and we are full in this year group. We do, however, have spaces in our current Year R (Year 1 in September) and 1 space in our current Year 1 (Year 2 in September). If you are interested in applying for these places, please contact the school office. Our Early Years Lead, Miss Turner, has started visiting the pre schools to meet the children who will be starting with us this year, and our New Parents' Evening is on Thursday 23rd May.
We had our governor meeting last night, where we finalised our budget for the forthcoming year. We have a parent position on our governing body, and emails have gone out to all parents re applying. The roll is a rewarding one, where all aspects of school life are strategically looked at. Please look in your emails, if you would like to apply.
INSET DAYS 2024-2025
These have now been agreed and are as follows:
Monday 2nd September
Monday 25th November
Friday 31st January
Monday 24th February
Monday 9th June
Lastly, we would like to make a plea to parents to pop their phones in their bags and pockets, when dropping off and picking up their children. They are really excited to see you, and want to tell you all about their day, and we see their faces light up when they know you are there!
Wishing you a lovely weekend
Mrs Riches
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Weekly Update Friday 3rd May
Fri 03 May 2024Year 2 had their river walk this week and there were lots of excited children talking about their learning. We grasped the only sunshine in April and everyone had a super time looking at the river as a habitat. Year R have been showing me their amazing writing-and they are really proud of how their letters and words look now compared to when they started school. Year 1 have been very proud of their maths and the investigations they can do now. What amazing learning in every room!
We are currently in the cycle of budget setting in school for the year ahead, and we are really pleased that some of the saving exercises we have already implemented are having an impact. We will continue to monitor this over the forthcoming months.
We all had a great time at the PTA quiz last week. Thank you to Andy who was a great Quizmaster, and to our amazing PTA helpers who made sure everyone was well watered and The Hampshire Bowman for making sure we were well fed. It was a super night of raising funds for our wellbeing and learning corridor.
Thank you to all parents who brought in bottles for our Summer Fayre bottle tombola. We are very grateful for all your donations. Next week we have our chocolate donation day on Friday 10th May. Our PTA are looking for volunteers who can help set up our stalls on Friday and help man them too. If you can to this, please let us the school office know and we will pass your name on (or email the PTA directly).
We hope everybody has a lovely May Day weekend and we look forward to seeing you back in school on Tuesday.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
