Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Peer Mentors Support Other Children At Playtimes

  Fri 31 Jan 2020

  Our peer mentors ‘launched’ their support service this week. A team of children from Class 4 have been specially trained over the last term by Mrs Soley to be key supports at playtimes – Darcy, Talea, Bluebell, Hayden Wallis-Guy and Hayden Miller. They are children who are all empathetic and understanding for others to approach if they are having a worry at playtime – to solve a problem such as a play dispute when they need some help. They also introduced a ‘worry box’ where children can place a note to request some help. Their activities are overseen by Mrs Soley and part of their role is to pass on anything more serious to her. Some of you might remember from the parent questionnaires last summer that this was an area a parent rightly observed needed a bit of development so we are pleased our fabulous children have been trained to now help each other in this way.

• Standing Together Against Hate

  Fri 24 Jan 2020
  Our collective worship has been a little different this week. On Monday we started to explore a theme in preparation for Monday 27^th which is Holocaust Memorial Day. This most sombre of subjects is difficult to explore but I started by talking about how we are all so lucky to be safe and happy. I then talked about what hate is and that in the distant past a group called the Nazis used their position to act on their hate and do horrible things to people they hated – such as Jews, which is called the Holocaust. This was all age-appropriate and not detailing the full implications of the acts committed. This is a piece of work Portsmouth & Winchester Diocese board of Education has encouraged all CE schools to do. It is based on the idea of ‘standing together against hate’ – a timely message for current society.

• A Wild Week Of Weather!

  Fri 17 Jan 2020

  What a wild week of weather! On Tuesday, we had the whole day inside, as wet plays. This happens surprisingly rarely – even on rainy days we generally seem to get outside at some point. Though children don’t burn off energy running about, they do enjoy the novelty of games, activities, Lego, drawing etc in their class. Class 1 children spend wet plays in with Class 2 so that they can share their toys and interact with these older children in play. This also subtly starts the transition process for when they move into Year 1 – it helps to make them feel comfortable and familiar with the classroom space, toilets and get to know the Year 1 children they will eventually ‘join-up’ with.

• Happy New Year And A Focus On Epiphany

  Fri 10 Jan 2020

  Happy New Year to everyone and I hope you all had enjoyable Christmas breaks. The children have returned with lots to tell regarding presents and events, as you can imagine, but also seem pleased to see each other again and our first week back has been a calm, focussed one. In assembly this week, we started by talking about Epiphany (which was on Monday) before thinking about the coming year and trying to be the best version of yourself. Miss Olver got them to try to think of ways they could improve and represented these on a bulb image which they symbolically planted so the ‘shoots of this growth’ can be seen over the coming weeks.