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Keep up to date with all the news happening in school
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Weekly Update Friday 10th November
Fri 10 Nov 2023Thank you to all the parents and carers who came along to parent teacher meetings this week. The teachers enjoyed sharing your children’s successes with you and discussing the next steps in learning. We are now in the throes of our next learning projects, and starting our preparations for Christmas.
Our PTA have done a grand job of selling sweets on the stall in the firework event and after school this week. Thank you to all involved and lots of parents have commented about how great it was. I know they are now getting the Christmas Raffke Prizes ready.if you, or your company would like to raise funds for our PTA, please get in touch. This year, we are looking to develop and improve a new learning area, where children can read, research and have space to explore their learning, in the curved corridor outside Year R and Year 1. Our book boxes were first here when the school was built and the whole area is ready for an uplift, to make it a lovely place for children to learn.
Lots of parents have visited our book fair and pre loved uniform stall in the main lobby. These are going on Tuesday, so if you haven’t managed to come along, please make sure it is before the 14th.
We have been finding that some of the addresses and contacts are not correct on our site, where people have moved or changed telephones. All parents can alter this themselves using their Arvbor App, so please make sure you keep us updated.
Our new school council have been busy planning ‘Children in Need’ day for the 17th November. Please see their announcement on this page for details on what to wear and where to donate on the day.
Hopefully, this weekend will be slightly less soggy, and we can all some fresh air and get out and about.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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Children in Need
Thu 09 Nov 2023Today we helped Mrs Charles introduce what we are doing to fundraise for this very important charity. The School Council wore their 'Spotacular' outfits to show the rest of the school the sort of things they could wear.
DON'T FORGET - next Friday, the 17th. Come to school wearing spots and bring a donation, have a go at guessing the number of marbles in the jar for £1 (from 13th Nov) and you might win a Pudsey Bear and be ready for a Joe Wicks workout!
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PTA Sweet Sale - Friday 10th November
Thu 09 Nov 2023The PTA will be holding a sweet sale in the turning circle outside school on Friday 10th November. Payments can be made via cash or card.
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Scholastic Book Fair
Tue 07 Nov 2023Our Scholastic Book Fair is now open until next Tuesday. There are lots of lovely titles to browse and buy. The Fair will be open all day and Tuesday and Wednesday evening.
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Pre- loved uniform sale
Tue 07 Nov 2023Just a reminder that our pre- loved uniform sale is happening this week. We are taking donations of £1 and above for all items. This is a cash only donation stall. It will be open all day and in the evening on Tuesday and Thursday.
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Weekly Update-Friday 3rd November
Fri 03 Nov 2023What an unusually eventful week we had starting back this half term. I have my fingers crossed, that is the end of the extreme weather warnings this year.
We have poppies to sell again at school this year. Our School Council will be taking them around the classes in the mornings next week. If you would like to have one, please put your poppy donation in an envelope/purse, and the children can choose their poppy in the mornings.
We have our first Parent/Teacher meetings next week. Meetings will take place in the hall, with all parents entering through reception. You will be directed to where your child's books are, so please give yourself enough time to look through before your appointment. If you do need to bring children with you, there is a child area/creche with activities to do, run in Rabbit Class by staff, where children can go whilst you are at your meeting. At your meeting you will receive your child's targets they will be working on to improve their learning over the next term. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday and Thursday next week.
From next Tuesday, for a week, we have a Scholastic pop up book fair at our school. This is a great opportunity to buy Christmas presents and books for the children. Please come and have a look -it is open all day, and you are welcome to browse up until 3.30pm (later on Parent/Teacher evenings).
Mrs Charles has been working with our School Council regarding their fundraising organisation for 'Children in Need' day on Friday 17th November this year. They have lots of activities to fundraise pennies for this cause, including a dress down day, where everybody can come in spots! Look out for their letter, with all their ideas!
We are collecting names of volunteers who can help on our school Shopping Bazaar day on Tuesday 5th December. We need lots and grandparents can come and volunteer too. Please let the office know if you are available to help on this day. Volunteering consists of taking children to the hall to pick gifts from their shopping list, then helping to wrap the gifts to go under the tree. It is a magical day, and will give you lots of festive cheer. We are also looking for wrapping paper and bubble wrap donations for the day, and please bring in any of these to the school office.
Our PTA are collecting prizes for the fundraising Christmas Raffle. If you, or a company you work for, have a new gift to give (or an unwanted new Xmas gift you would like to donate), please bring them into the school office. We appreciate everybody's generosity for this fundraising event.
There are still a few tickets for BWJS Firework event at Hoe Road, and please pop along to see our PTA selling their sweets! I have put the firework code and a little about our assembly about Bonfire Night on our learning links. Please have a look and share the safety code at home too:
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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School Closure
Thu 02 Nov 2023Unfortunately school will be closed today due to the severe amber weather warning for the rest of the day posing a risk to site safety and journeys to and from school for pupils and staff.
Teachers will be in contact with children and learning will be on our website/emailed.
We will see you back in school on Friday.Kind regards
Mrs Riches
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Please check junk mail!
Wed 01 Nov 2023Dear Parents and Carers
We have sent an email regarding storm Ciaran, which has gone into many junk mails (mine included). Please can you check your junkmail and make the school email address a contact, which should stop this happening.
At the moment, the advice from Hampshire is to open, but also to monitor carefully regarding the weather, so that staff and children can travel to and from school safely and be safe on school site. Mr Campbell and I will be in touch with each other, monitoring the weather closely this evening and in the morning and if we do have to close our schools, we will let you know by 7.30am, possibly sooner if Hampshire advises us to.
We are really sorry we cannot be more definite. Hampshire is a very large county, and the weather is only affecting certain areas, with information changing hourly, and blanket decisions to close are more localised than smaller counties.
Kind regards
Mrs Riches
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Welcome Back
Mon 30 Oct 2023What an amazing first day back we had today, with our whole school Hindu day. Indri, from Hinduism Education Services, taught us about some of the festivals and stories in Hinduism. Children also danced and dressed up, and looked at the beautiful resources. In class, children made and decorated different artefacts, and our whole school display will be open next week during parents evening, in our lobby through to the library. The children had a fantastic time and thank you to everybody who has donated towards the cost of this special day.
Each year group will be posting pictures on their tapestry pages for you to see, so please remember to look on your year group page.
Please remember to sign up for your child's parent meeting, if you haven't already done so. These are held next Tuesday and Thursday in school.
Lastly, just a little reminder for our Year R parents. Our Year R team are holding a 'Phonics Talk' in the hall at 9.15am on Wednesday 1st November. Everybody who attends this talk say that it really helps their children with their early reading and writing skills. Please come along, if you can.
Please make sure you have looked at the latest HC3S menu, which runs from October to April. It will really help to look at the choices before coming to school in the day. You can find the menu here HC3S MENU
It is going to get even stormier this week, so please take care when walking to and from school. We will be checking our trees and site, to make sure it is safe for children to play outside.
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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Weekly Update Friday 20th October
Fri 20 Oct 2023What a finish we had to our half term this week with our Year 2's history led project outcome for 'Fire Fire'. The children opened their exhibition with singing rounds, then amazed their parents with their historical knowledge and skills. What fabulous historians we have!
After half term we will be having our RE Whole School day and we cannot wait for the children to experience the day's activities. We are looking forward to inviting you in to see our shared art installation the following week.
Our Parent Teacher meetings are on the 7th November and the 9th November, and this will be your opportunity to talk to your child's class teacher about their learning and any other questions you may have. Please remember to sign up, if you haven't done already.
We held our Governor budget review meeting last night, which happens at this time of the year annually. The cost of all services, resources and training has increased much higher than anyone could have predicted, and we are very aware that we will be tightening our belts across the whole school, as we try to save pennies and pounds where we can. One of our biggest costs, is the price disparity between our income for the lunches from the government and the rising costs from the caterers for Hampshire County Council. The lunches are now costing the school thousands of pounds over the year, taking resources away from children. We will be looking at different catering options over the coming months, and will keep you up to date with what our decision will be going forward.
We are now trialing sending all emails via our Arbor system, in response to the Parent Survey in July where parents reported that information was coming from too many places. Some parents have let us know that they aren't receiving these emails. Please check your junk emails for your weekly information from the class teachers. Our methods of communication are now as follows:
Arbor-emails and app messages from office, when needed, and every Friday from teachers
Weekly Update-here on website every Friday (www.bwis.org.uk)
End of Month Newsletter-paper and website (www.bwis.org.uk)
Board outside-reminder only when walking past (no new information)
Facebook-PTA page for PTA events
We hope that this will make it easier to keep up to date for all parents and carers.
If you are following the Rugby World Cup like myself and many of our children, we will all be cheering England this weekend as the last Northern Hemisphere team in the competition. There have been some amazing games played and I have had lots of chats about the results with the children in school. Let's see what the weekend will bring!
Wishing you a lovely half term break-fingers crossed it keeps dry!
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
