Mailing for 1^st October 2021

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

Whole School:

Parkwise letter

Walktober letter

Walk to school and 3 fliers

Year R:

Charter letter - Ladybird, Bumblebee, Butterfly

Foundation Stage booklet

Year R parent booklet

Year 1:

Cinema letter

Year 2:

Cinema letter

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.
• We currently have vacancies for parent Governors to support our Governing Body. Please submit an application if you feel you have the skills that could support our team.
• 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 start our Parent tours for Admissions 2022 next week. If you know anyone who would like to visit, please ask them to log onto the website to book a tour.
• The menu next Thursday and Friday will be slightly different. Thursday will be fish fingers, veggie burger or Jacket potato with cheese. Friday will be Thursday’s menu. A text reminder will be sent to remind you.
• Please park considerately around the local area. We have sadly received several complaints from residents whose drive ways have been blocked.

This week Year R have been accessing the corridor and have learnt the rules for being inside during ‘busy time’. They have enjoyed playing in the role play, using the computers and the woodwork tools. They have been taught to put on safety googles and to use a hammer and nails. They have also been taught to make their own playdough. You may have some keen children looking to use your tools and the kitchen this weekend!!

Year 1 have been requested by Captain Blackboots to be part of his crew on his pirate ship. We have practised pirate jobs ready for this including climbing the rigging, scrubbing the decks and looking out for other pirates through the telescopes. In maths, Year 1 have been securing their knowledge of whole part parts and numbers to 10. Our word of the week is worried, we have talked about what it means to be worried and feeding our worries to the worry monster.

This week Year 2 were asked to write a non-chronological report all about ourselves for the Year R and Year 1 children. We learnt about the main features of a non-chronological report and then started our important task. In Maths we have learnt how to work out 1 more and 10 more than a number and looked at different ways of showing this. In the afternoons we learnt about the different layers of a rainforest, looked at different world habitats, composed a dance about the circus and thought about different ways of expressing and dealing with our emotions.

Mrs Thomas is leaving the School Office and is currently working some hours to help us until we are able to recruit someone new. We will try to answer the phones and emails as soon as we can - sorry for any delays.

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!

Diary Dates (School Calendar):

04.10.21 - Week 1 School Dinner Menu (School Dinner Menu)

04.10.21 - Y1 Openbox Titanic

08.10.21 – Hello Yellow – Young Minds fundraiser – dress in something yellow or non-uniform – Just giving page to contribute

08.10.21 - FOHWIS Raisin Challenge

11.10.21 – Y1 & 2 Cinema evening

13.10.21 & 14.10.21 - Y1 Parents evening 3.30-7.00pm

15.10.21 - Harvest festival (internal)

20.10.21 & 21.10.21 - YR & 2 Parents evening 3.30-7.00pm

20.10.21 – Year R – Beep Beep day

21.10.21 – Individual school photo’s

22.10.21 – INSET – school closed

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.

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