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Meon Valley Food Bank

Thu 16 Dec 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

Thank you so much for your generous donations for the Meon Valley Food Bank we are extremely grateful. Please note we are still collecting tomorrow morning.

Kind regards

School Office

Our latest art installation is by Year 1, and is filling everyone with joy as they come up the ramp in school. These heavenly bodies will be finding somewhere to display in year 1 homes soon! Just beautiful!

Father Christmas has come to BWIS

Wed 15 Dec 2021

All year groups had a treat today, when Father Christmas came to visit our Christmas party and he brought every boy and girl a present in the school! What a treat it was and it everyone was very excited! The day has been full of sparkles, fun and joy- what a magical time to be little.

Christmas raffle and a very special visitor

Wed 15 Dec 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our Christmas raffle has been drawn, will you be one of the lucky winners? The PTA will be contacting you to come and collect your prize. We also have some lovely gifts waiting under the tree for our very special visitor this afternoon to hand out.

Kind regards

School Office

Christmas Bazaar Day

Tue 14 Dec 2021

The children have had a lovely day buying gifts for their relatives in our Christmas shopping bazaars. Presents are wrapped and labelled, ready to go under trees at home. Some items are bubble wrapped and are a little more fragile, and some may melt, so please take care when choosing where to put them.

Tomorrow we have our non uniform/Christmas party clothes day. We are hoping for a visit from the man in red himself! Fingers crossed!

Covid Information

Mon 13 Dec 2021

We currently have 5% of our children not attending school due to a positive PCR and a further 5% awaiting PCR test results. The numbers are creeping up slowly, and we are urging any parents whose child is not feeling well/has a headache/been sick/had a temperature/ developed a new cough to take their child for a PCR test and not bring them into school until they have a result. The positive cases are in all year groups.

We are not part of the track and trace procedure any more, and we will be following our risk assessment if a child displays any of these symptoms when in school with us; that is to isolate children and to telephone emergency contacts, in the order they are on the list, to come and collect children as soon as possible.

We will continue to do our best to keep everybody as safe as we possibly can.

Kind regards

Bishops Waltham Infant School

Christmas Week

Mon 13 Dec 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you for the lovely emails we have received regarding our outdoor Christmas Celebration Evening. Staff and parents on the PTA worked really hard to make sure it really was a special evening for everybody.

We are currently on our Christmas Countdown week. These are the things we have on, and what you need to do:

All week: Foodbank donations made in boxes outside. They will be collected by the foodbank on Friday morning.

Tuesday: Christmas Bazaar day. Please bring correct money in an envelope with your child's shopping list. Presents are £2.50, and each child can buy 2 presents. The presents to choose from are for adults/older teens. They will be gift wrapped and labelled. We still need wrapping paper donations and bubble wrap donations for this event. Please also bring in a named carrier bag for the presents.

Wednesday: Christmas Lunch and Party day. Party clothes/non school uniform can be worn all day (with sensible footwear please).

Thursday: Virtual Christmas Panto Day

Friday: Christmas jumper/top non school uniform day- please bring a donation for the Naomi House Charity.

Please bring in named carrier bags ready for children's Christmas bits to come home. If you have any spare carrier bags, please send them in.

Please don't worry if you forget one the above days-telephone the office and we will help to sort everything out.

Kind regards

Mrs Riches

IMPORTANT_Christmas Celebration Evening changed to Friday 10th December

Thu 09 Dec 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Due to the very heavy rain forecast for this evening, we are moving our Christmas Celebration evening to Friday 10th December. It will be at the slightly earlier time of 4.30pm (with children singing at 5pm) , so that everyone can carry on with the evening if they have Christmas plans.

We will see you on Friday!

Best wishes

BWIS School and PTA

Year R Imaginative Play Shelter

Fri 03 Dec 2021

Year R have been having a lot of fun in their new imaginative play shelter. It has been turned into a hot chocolate stand. The children are really enjoying serving each other and the teacher’s hot chocolate and Christmas biscuits. If you are lucky they even have marshmallows!

Amazon Wish List Donations

Fri 03 Dec 2021

Thank you so much for the latest donations, towards our imaginative role play sheds, the children will enjoy playing with them and we are very grateful to you for supporting us.