Mailing for 15^th October 2021

Letters Home (https://www.hwis.hants.sch.uk/letters-home/):

Whole School:

• Outdoor learning day
• Flu Vaccination  https://www.southernhealthimmunisations.co.uk/forms/flu (complete by 31.10.21)

Year R:

• No specific mailing this week

Year 1:

• Class charter

Year 2:

• No specific mailing this week

The Year R class photos were in the Gazette this week. A form will be sent next to enable you to place an order to buy a 6’ x 4’ photo if you would like to.

The Year 1 parents evenings were a great success with almost full attendance. Thank you for your understanding about it being an adult only event. We are still trying our hardest to minimise visitors in school to try and keep everyone as safe as we can especially in light of the amount of sickness we have in school.

Hello Yellow day raised £360 – thank you for your support of this amazing charity.

The whole school enjoyed a Harvest assembly and sharing some freshly cooked tiger bread in class. They also went to look at the generous donations provided by everyone – Thank you so much for supporting the Foodbank!

General Reminders:

• If a member of your child’s household tests positive, we ask that arrange a PCR test keeping them at home until the test result is confirmed.
• Please DO NOT send your child in to school dosed up on Calpol. If they are unwell they should rest and get better at home. Sending children that are unwell in to school is making some of our staff ill and unable to be in school.
• We are a nut free school but are also becoming a shellfish free school due to staff and children allergies. Please do not send shellfish or nut products within your child’s packed lunch.
• From 1^st October – 31^st December, the Tesco’s token scheme is offering to help us try to receive £1500 to further develop Fluffy's gardens around school so we can grow more things. It will enable the children to see how fruit/vegetables/flowers grow, harvesting foods, seeing insects pollinating etc. The planters in lower playground are a start to this. If you shop in Tesco’s, please use your token to support us.
• We have been selected by ASDA as part of their Community projects. We have been nominated as part of the Green Token scheme, in their Brighton Hill branch. Please vote to enable us to receive funding to buy some outdoor musical instruments that will support all of our children and especially those with additional needs. Voting can only be done online via http://www.asda.com/green-tokens Please share to ensure that we receive the highest number of votes when the count closes in November. 
• We have started our Parent tours for Admissions 2022 this week. If you know anyone who would like to visit, please ask them to log onto the website to book a tour. New Year R Parent Tours for Admissions September 2022 | Hatch Warren Infant School (hwis.hants.sch.uk)

This week Year R have creating masterpieces using paint and their hands!! They have also been thinking about people who are special to them especially their families.

Year 1 have had a message from Openbox and they needed some help. Year 1 needed to make them some leaflets to take to another infant school as they had forgotten all of the information about the Titanic- luckily Year 1 know so much they were happy to help! In maths Year 1 have been looking at the more than and less than signs to compare numbers- these signs look an awful lot like crocodiles- just ask the children. In science the children have been looking at waterproof materials to build a new roof. We don’t think netting would be a good idea! The word of the week is surprised- what has surprised you this week?

This week, in English Year 2 have been learning about the features of poems and planned their own rainforest poems. In Maths they have been thinking about how they can solve 1 less and 10 less than a number mentally and have started to solve subtraction questions on a number line. In the afternoon, they have been sketching and painting tigers in their art lessons and in Geography they helped Fluffy pack a suitcase for his trip to Brazil.

We have successfully recruited a new Senior Admin Assistant who has started working part time with us. Her name is Mrs Jolene Riakiotakis but she will be known as Mrs R as she understands her surname is a tricky one to spell and pronounce.  Mrs Thomas will continue to work in the office part time until Mrs R starts full time and we are very grateful for this.

Also don’t forget to follow our Facebook page…we will try to share important events, dates and things that have happened in school……don’t forget to share with your friends and family!

The menu next Thursday will be changing. It will be fish or sweet potato curry or jacket potato with double beans.

Diary Dates (School Calendar):

18.10.21 - Week 3 School Dinner Menu (School Dinner Menu)

20.10.21 & 21.10.21 - YR & 2 Parents evening 3.30-7.00pm – ADULTS ONLY

20.10.21 – Year R – Beep Beep day

21.10.21 – Individual school photo’s

22.10.21 – INSET – school closed

22.10.21 – Sarah Gaunt Photography – family/sibling photo’s https://signup.com/go/QUgGTkr  

INSET Days for 2021-2022

Friday 22.10.2021

Friday 18.02.2022

Friday 27.05.2022

Monday 11.07.2022

General News and Information:

Please be advised that DFE guidance informs us that if a child displays any coronavirus symptom (cough, temperature or loss of taste/smell), we must send the child home and ask them to follow the guidance and get them a PCR test. The child must isolate until a negative result is given when they are able to return to school if they are well enough. If the result is positive they must isolate for 10 days.

Remember that LFD testing is for people who are asymptomatic. If anyone within your household develops symptoms, you must book at PCR test by either phoning 119 or booking online: https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test

• Children to come into school wearing their PE kits on the days they have PE (Year 1 – Mon & Wed, Year 2 – Tues & Thurs).
• The play equipment must not be used before or after school as our insurance is not valid.
• Please park considerately around the local area. We have sadly received several complaints from residents whose drive ways have been blocked.

HC3S are launching a new parent portal where they can register children needing special school dinner menus directly. This will give parents more control and direct contact with the catering team. You will then need to make an application online for your child to have a special menu and the school will be notified automatically.  If you need to apply for a special menu, please see the information in Letters Home

If your child has a change or existing or new medical condition, please inform us by completing the form which is now available on our website: New or Change to Existing Medical Condition Form

We continue to put our children, their parents and our staff at the centre of any decision making to ensure that we keep everyone as safe as we can at this continued tricky time. If you have any feedback as to how this week has been, please let us know via parent.mail@hwis.hants.sch.uk

Have a lovely weekend. J

Take care and stay safe.

HWIS team