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2021 Schools' Bird Box Project

Fri 23 Apr 2021

Dear 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

2021 Schools' Bird Box Project

Tue 20 Apr 2021

Dear 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

FREE BOOKS FROM USBORNE

Mon 19 Apr 2021 Miss Salter

Thank 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

Welcome Back and Important changes to school times-Please read

Mon 19 Apr 2021

Welcome 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

We wish you a Happy Easter

Thu 01 Apr 2021

Dear 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

New School Menus

Thu 01 Apr 2021

The new school menu will run from April till October.

Children with special dietary menus will have been sent these separately.

2021 Schools' Bird Box Project

Thu 01 Apr 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

Seenature have shared their top website views (see below), help us to get our school into the top 15 by visiting the website www.seenature.org.uk and click on live streams.

The Blue Tit is still busy bringing in nesting materials, Seenature have said that this activity will increase over the next 10-14 days.

School website visits - Sunday 21st March - Sunday 28th March 2021

1. Roseacre Junior 422 visits 2. Woodborough Primary 341 visits 3.Shakespeare Infant 277 visits 4. Castlehill Primary 233 visits 5.Brompton/Westbrook Primary 225 visits 6. St James Primary West End 200 visits 7.Eastry Primary 184 visits 8. Cecil Road Primary 178 visits 8.Jubilee Primary 178 views 10. Downderry Primary 172 visits 11. Hillcroft Primary 170 visits 12. Burwash Primary 156 visits 13. Hart Plain Junior 140 visits 14. St Augustine's - West Sussex 120 visits 15. Weston Shore Infant 114 visits

Articles are published on the Seenature website each week. Please visit the website to see what's new.

Bird Box 2021 Week 3 - Looking out for birds this spring!
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-4-looking-out-for-birds-this-spring-2-2-2-2/
Garden Birds - The Blue Tit
http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/the-blue-tit-2-2-2/
Mealworm Pudding - To be published on Wednesday 31st March 2021
Pupil Zone Week 3 - To be published on Wednesday 31st March 2021

Kind regards

School Office, Bishops Waltham Infant School

Parent Teacher Meetings

Fri 26 Mar 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Our Parent Teacher meetings will take place via zoom in the first week and second week back after the Easter break. The office will set up your consultation times to sign up for, like the first meeting. You will need to log in at the time you have signed up to.

The days and times are as follows;

April

Mon 19	Tues 20	Wed 21	Thurs 22	Fri 23	Weekend	Mon 26	Tue 27	Wed 28
1-6	1-6	1-6	1-6			1-6	1-6	1-6
Hedgehog Squirrel	Otter Fox	Robin Frog				Owl	Bat Rabbit
3.15-5	3.15-5	3.15-5	3.15-5			3.15-5	3.15-5	3.15-5
		Fox Squirrel Hedgehog	Frog Robin Otter					Bat Rabbit Owl

If you cannot make the time/day, please get in touch with your child's teacher to try to arrange an alternate time.

The PTA have organised and are selling an Easter Trail. If you need to get in touch with them about buying any after this week, please send us a message and we will pass it on to Cathy Wilkinson the chair.

The will also be selling sweets next week. Year R and 2 will be in the turning circle again and Year 1 will be at the start of the car park. Both events are run by the PTA for parents/carers to purchase after school. Please do not hand money into the teachers for these events as they do not have the trails or sweets in their rooms.

We have some inquisitive birds coming into our birdbox again. Last year we were lucky enough to watch the chicks hatching and growing. Fingers crossed we will be lucky to watch this again. Our birdbox live feed is under the children tab on our website.

We are waiting for information from our sport clubs for after the Easter Holiday. As soon as we receive the booking forms, we will be sending it out to you. Please look out for this in your inboxes (sometimes they go to clutter). Some parents are letting us know they have not received an email. When we press 'send all', our emails are sent to everybody's email address on our files (those are the addresses you supplied when you applied for your child's place in school.) If you aren't receiving emails, please contact the school office to make sure the information we hold is your most up to date information, so that you aren't missing out.

We hope you have a lovely weekend. I will still be watching rugby this weekend, wearing a kilt this time...

Best wishes

Mrs Riches

2021 Schools' Bird Box Project

Tue 23 Mar 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

Have you managed to have a look at our bird box yet? The Blue Tit is busy bringing in nesting materials: http://www.seenature.org.uk/schools/bishops-waltham-infant-school/

New articles have been published today by the team at See Nature. To view any/all of these articles just click on the links below:

Identifying and grouping birds by observable features

http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/week-3-identifying-and-grouping-birds-by-observable-features-2-2-2-2/

Garden Birds - The Blackbird

http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/the-blackbird-2-3/

Bird Food Recipes - Apple Suet Cookies

http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/may-week-3-apple-suet-cookies-2-3/

Pupil Zone 2021 Week 2

http://www.seenature.org.uk/see-nature-news/pupil-zone-week-2-2-2-2/

School Office

Comic Relief Day 2021

Fri 19 Mar 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to everyone who donated to Comic Relief this year. We raised £292.82. The children have had a brilliant day and they have enjoyed being heroes for the day!

We have received an email from a football club that is happening from the 12th-16th April at Priory Park in the Easter Break. The flyer for the club is on our Information page and will also be emailed out to you. The link to book at Bishops Waltham can be found here

Bishops Waltham Priory Park Booking Form

We had some super learning shared in assembly today and lots of learning stars! Well done to all the children for being brilliant BWIS learners!

We hope you have a lovely weekend, with some sunshine. I will be watching a little bit of rugby...

Best wishes