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Term Dates and INSET Days 2021-2022
Tue 11 May 2021Dear Parents and Carers
Our INSET days for 2021-2022 are as follows:
Thursday 2nd September
Friday 3rd September
Monday 1st November
Monday 14th March
Monday 13th June
Please follow the link below to our term date page, for the rest of this term and next year.
https://www.bwis.org.uk/term-dates/
Kind regards
Mrs Riches
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2021 Schools' Bird Box Project
Wed 05 May 2021Dear Parents/Carers,
Update - there are 9 eggs!
"When will our chicks fledge and leave the nest?" is a question many of us will be asking over the coming weeks? The adult bird will often sit on a clutch of blue tit eggs for around 15 days. Then once the eggs have hatched the chicks will spend another 19 to 21 days in the nest growing before they fledge (leave the nest) and learn to find and catch food for themselves. Add these two figures together and the average Blue Tit or small garden bird will spend in total between 38-40 days in the nest from the moment the egg is first visible to the day it flies away.
The young chicks should start appearing very soon and will fledge and disappear between the last week in May and the first 10 days in June.
So set your watches and keep your eyes peeled from around the 25th May onwards!
Seenature have published their viewing figures for the Week Monday 26th April to Monday 3rd May, Bishops Waltham Infant School are 9th on the list with 208 visitors.
1. Gateway Primary 454 visitors 2. Shakespeare Infant 427 visitors 3. St Pauls Nelson 350 visitors 4. Hart Plain Junior 318 visitors 5. Salfords Primary 285 visitors 6. St James Primary West End 269 visitors 7. Weston Shore Infant 267 visitors 8. Castlehill Primary 262 visitors 9. Bishops Waltham Infant 208 visitors
10. Woodborough Primary 203 visitors 11. Milford School 195 visitors 12. Bean Primary 188 visitors 13. Brompton & Westbrook Primary 186 visitors 14. Kings Worthy Primary 181 visitors 15. Cecil Road Primary 172 visitors
Seenature website - New weekly website articles
This week the focus in on "What do birds like to eat?"
Bird Box 2021 Week 8 -
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-9-what-do-birds-eat-2-2-2/
Garden Birds - The Chaffinch
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/the-chaffinch-2-3/
Bird Food Recipes - Blackbird Summer Fruits Recipe
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-3-july-wild-bird-food-cake-2/
Pupil Zone Week 8
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/pupil-zone-week-8-2-2-2/
Kind regards
School Office, Bishops Waltham Infant School
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Julie Sykes - author visit to school
Tue 04 May 2021What a fantastic morning we had today with the wonderful author, Julie Sykes. Julie has written over 100 books and has a wealth of knowledge, ideas and experience that can inspire us all to get reading and writing.
Julie read Year R a story called 'That Pesky Dragon' and was able to answer a question from Owl Class.
Julie then met all of the children in Year 1 and 2. She was able to show us really special things like her magic box of things that help her to write (including ice cream!), her office where she keeps all of the books she has written and we even got to meet her dog.
Year 1 and 2 asked some fantastic questions including 'which book are you most proud of?' and 'which book is your favourite?'
We were so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet Julie and thank her for her time and inspiration.
Julie will be sending us some of her stories to share in our library, which we can't wait to read.
Find out more about Julie Sykes
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End of our first week of the summer term
Fri 23 Apr 2021Dear Parents and Carers
What a super first week back we have had. The sunshine was out and the children have been amazing at their learning. They have thoroughly enjoyed seeing all their friends and teachers in school and lots of excited chatter!
Please remember to fill in your 'Big Ask' survey with your children. They have lots of ideas about what they would like to happen and see in the world!
Happy St George's day today, to everybody celebrating. We have lots of exciting activities on our 'fun things to do' page, if you would like something to do this this weekend.
All the Year R and Year 2 children enjoyed their PE session with Active me 360 this week. They thoroughly enjoyed working in our school and said how lovely, friendly and polite all our children and staff are. We look forward to working with them for the summer term. Our dance Kidz and Football after school clubs started back too, with Rocksteady and Yoga starting back next week. It is nice to feel a little bit more normal!
With everybody exiting at the same time, our school is a very busy place. Please can you make sure that your children who attend school and younger children , are not on their bikes and scooters. Our school has always been a scooter and bike free zone at pick up and drop off time to avoid any accidents for the children and adults. Thank you for your cooperation.
Try to have a little peek in our bird box this weekend too-both birds have been busy flying in and out today, looking after their 8 eggs!
We hope you all have a lovely time in the sunshine this weekend!
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
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2021 Schools' Bird Box Project
Fri 23 Apr 2021Dear Parents/Carers,
We have eight eggs in our Blue Tit nest, the next 6 weeks are traditionally the busiest in the bird calendar so make sure you keep checking the Seenature website and our Blue Tit nest in case you miss out on anything.
Seenature have published their viewing figures for the week Monday 5th April to Monday 19th April, Bishops Waltham Infant School are 13th on the list with 237 visitors, thank you for logging on and getting our school onto the list.
1. Gateway Primary 646 visitors 2. Shakespeare Infant 475 visitors 3. Salford Primary 431 visitors 4. Castlehill Primary 414 visitors 5. Weston Shore Infant 381 visitors 6. Hart Plain Junior 351 visitors 7. Burwash Primary 331 visitors 8. Woodborough Primary 312 visitors 9. Roseacre Junior 280 visitors
10. St James Primary West End 268 visitors 11. Brompton / Westbrook Primary 264 visitors 12. St Paul's Nelson 245 visitors 13. Bishops Waltham Infant 237 visitors 14. Cecil Road Primary 235 visitors 15. Jubilee Primary 221 visitors 16. Eastry Primary 209 visitors 17. Bean Primary 207 visitors
18. Hillcroft Primary 179 visitors 19. Wilmington 177 visitors 20. Downderry Primary 174 visitors 20. Rodbourne Cheney Primary 174 visitors
Seenature website - New weekly website articles
Bird Box 2021 Week 6 - Building a nest
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-7-building-a-nest-2-2-2-2/
Garden Birds - The House Sparrow
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/the-house-sparrow-2-2-2/
Bird Food Recipes - Tasty Oat Crumble
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/may-week-4-tasty-oat-crumble-2-2-2/
Pupil Zone Week 6
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/pupil-zone-week-6-2-2-2/
Kind regards
School Office, Bishops Waltham Infant School
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2021 Schools' Bird Box Project
Tue 20 Apr 2021Dear Parents/Carers,
Our Blue Tit has been busy laying eggs, we can't wait to see the chicks start hatching.
Seenature have published their viewing figures for the week Monday 29th March to Monday 5th April 2021. Please help us get our visitor numbers up and visit the website: http://www.seenature.org.uk/schools/bishops-waltham-infant-school/
1. Cecil Road Primary 380 visitors 2. Salford Primary 333 visitors 3. Gateway Primary 332 visitors 4. Brompton Westbrook Primary 294 visitors
5. Castlehill 287 visitors 6. Shakespeare Infant 274 visitors 7. Wilmington Primary 243 visitors 8. Woodborough Primary 240 visitors
9. Burwash Primary 231 visitors 10. St James Primary West End 230 visitors 11. Hart Plain 225 visitors 12. Roseacre Junior 195 visitors
13.. Jubilee Primary 175 visitors 14. St Augustines CEP 167 visitors 15. Bean Primary 166 visitors
Seenature website - New weekly website articles
Bird Box 2021 Week 4 - Skeletons and Muscles
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-5-skeletons-and-muscles-2-2-2-2/
Garden Birds - The Starling
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/the-starling-2-2-2/
Bird Food Recipes - Peanut Butter Cakes
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/april-week-3-peanut-butter-cakes-2-2-2/
Pupil Zone Week 4
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/pupil-zone-week-4-2-2-2/
Kind regards
School Office, Bishops Waltham Infant School
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FREE BOOKS FROM USBORNE
Mon 19 Apr 2021Thank you to all who placed orders through our Year R parent Laura Gailis at The Rainbow Book Corner. These orders enabled us to receive a generous collection of Usborne books for free. The children will love having the opportunity to read this excellent selection.
You can find Laura on Facebook and Instagram if you search for The Rainbow Book Corner. Alternatively you can follow this link. The Rainbow Book Corner
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Welcome Back and Important changes to school times-Please read
Mon 19 Apr 2021Welcome back to school everybody. I hope you all had a lovely break and managed to get out and about in the sunshine last week. The children are all happy and excited to be back and were keen to get going with their new learning projects today.
With the relaxing of restrictions in England, we have looked at how we can reflect this in our school drop off and pick up times. From Tuesday 20th April, these will be as follows for ALL CHILDREN.
Gates will be open 8.45-9am for dropping off
Gates will be open from 3pm-3.10pm for picking up
Our one way system will still be in place. Both the little blue gate at the front and the gate by the pool will be for entry only.
Children in Year R and Year 1 will exit through the car park. Please note there will be no traffic permitted to move in the car park during these times, including staff, parents and carers using the disabled bays, unless there is an emergency. Traffic will be permitted to move outside of these times only, this is for everybody's safety.
Year R and Year 1 children will exit through the car park. Year 2 will exit down the ramp.
Face masks are still to be worn. We will assess the need for this as more restrictions are lifted over the coming weeks. We are still one parent per family group on site.
Please try to keep the flow of dropping off keep moving as quickly as possible by using email and telephone to let teachers know any information you would like them to know, not at the class door. They will respond as quickly as they can when they aren't teaching. Staggering drop offs and pickups during these times will also help, instead of arriving and queuing. We thank you in advance for your cooperation in helping to keep our school as safe as it can be.
Parent/Teacher meetings are also happening via zoom this week and next. Please sign up for a time, if you haven't already done so. All emails and links have been sent out in the same way that we did in November.
Please look for a separate email that we will be sending out called 'The Big Ask' this week. It is the biggest survey of it's kind to understand and collate children's opinions and views. Teachers will be talking to the children too, and they will need to be completed at home. We will also put all the information on our 'Parent Information' Page.
With the warmer weather upon us, please remember to put sunscreen on and bring hats and water bottles. Long hair (for girls and boys) need to be tied back and large hair bows/cat ears etc need to be worn at home and not school. Trainers/sandals/school shoes can be worn, but please remember socks (one of the worst injuries I have ever seen in school was when I first started teaching and a child tripped in sandals with no socks).
Please also remember our voluntary one way system when dropping off and picking up in cars and park considerately on the estate. Hoe Road car park is an excellent place to Park and Stride and will save you driving onto the estate to try to find a space (if you are anything like me and hate parallel parking!). It is only 5 minutes away and will help to alleviate traffic congestion. Parking on our yellow zigzags is strictly forbidden and you will be asked to move along. Cars who park on here will have their number plates reported to the police, as the zigzags are there to provide safety for children crossing the busy roads to us and the juniors.
We are looking forward to opening our library back up this week. For the first few weeks we will be using it with our teaching staff, then hopefully (fingers crossed) we will be able to welcome back parent helpers. We are still being flexible in our approach and will use government guidance to steer our way.
It is lovely to be back!
Best wishes
Mrs Riches
Headteacher
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We wish you a Happy Easter
Thu 01 Apr 2021Dear Parents and Carers
Our newsletter is being published today and will be emailed to you, along with all the information for the extra curricular clubs that will be starting back after Easter in our outside area. Please don't forget to sign up for our Parent/Teacher meetings, starting in the first week back.
Our birdbox is also getting a little visitor to watch, so have a look on the live feed at how their nest building is going!
Thank you to our PTA who have been selling Easter treats over the last two weeks. They will be situated in the car park after school today for the year 1 parents. Every penny really helps fund the treats for the children in school and we are very grateful to all the volunteers who give p their free time to help out.
The Easter bunny has been visiting our school this afternoon and the children all have an Easter treat to take home. Some children even think they saw him (descriptions have been varied, to say the least!).
Well done to all our Year R gardeners this week, who did a smashing job of weeding and planting! I have loved seeing Year 1's amazing recipe books-full of super ideas. Year 2 have also wowed me with their information foldouts of Lord Nelson and his life! What a talented, creative bunch of learners and teachers we have at BWIS!
We had a little bit of good news from Hampshire County Council this week. All the old toilet areas in the older part of the school are being refurbished in the summer break (including Lilypads). We are very excited and cannot wait until September to see the finished areas!
On this note, I will say goodbye and behalf of all the staff say thank you again for your support and understanding of the all the staff in our school during this last term. We have appreciated your hard work in helping your children through the time when school was not open to all, despite the many challenges you faced at home juggling your own work and families. Hopefully our cautious road to recovery will serve us well and we are able to maintain our 'getting back to normal' path.
Best wishes and take care
Mrs Riches
Headteacher
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New School Menus
Thu 01 Apr 2021The new school menu will run from April till October.
Children with special dietary menus will have been sent these separately.
