Thank you to all of you that joined in with the Park and Stride with us this morning the Portsmouth Arms to school. The Rotary club have been to collect all of the generous shoeboxes that have been donated to school, they were very grateful and said Thank you.  Reminder that tomorrow school is closed as it is an Inset day, we hope you all have a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you on Monday 31 October.

The FOHWIS have a decorate the pumpkin competition, there is a link at the bottom of the mailing, if you would like to take part can your child please hand back their completed entry to their teacher on Monday 31^st October, Good luck you might win a prize.

This week in Year R we have been learning all about Autumn.  The children have been on an autumn walk and made their own autumn picture using the leaves we all collected.  We have been thinking about pattern in Maths this week and made our own repeating pattern bracelets.  We also used musical instruments to create our own patterns too.  Today in P.E we had great fun playing parachute games.  You should all be so proud of your children and how well they have settled into school this half term. We hope you all have a wonderful half-term break.

Maths Word of the Week: heavy.

Topic Word of the Week: wood.

The children in Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed having our special visitors this week to assist them in creating an amazing shoebox Titanic. Thank you to all of the parents that came in to help! In maths the children have been using counters to help them write addition number sentences and whole part parts. We hope you have a lovely half term and we look forward to seeing you in a week!

In Year 2 this week we learnt about Brazil and considered similarities and differences between Brazil and England. We also finished our Henri Rousseau inspired art work by putting all the different components together. In Maths we moved on to subtraction. We started our learning by thinking about one less and ten less than numbers, then we used number lines to solve subtraction questions. In PE we created a dance all about rainforest animals and in PSHE we focused on being thankful and being mindful. We hope you all have a wonderful half term break and we look forward to seeing you when we return. 

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

Whole School:

Home school agreement

Tales of the Road letter

Tales of the Road booklet

HC3S Primary school menu

Jacket potato menu

Decorate the pumpkin competition

Year R:

Class Photos  

Parents Newsletter the Basics 2 Group 4

Year 1:

Charter Treat letter

Year 2:

No specific mailing

General Reminders:

• Snack reminder, if you send your child in with a snack, please only provide natural fruit, vegetable or breadsticks.

• If your child is going to a medical appointment and going to be late in that morning but will be back at school before 12, please ensure you contact the office to order their lunch before 9am.

• The play equipment must not be used before or after school – our insurance is not valid. Children have been told that if they are caught using the play equipment before or after school, they will lose dojo points.

• Scooters and bikes are not allowed to be ridden on the playground.

• Please remember that we are a nut and shellfish free school due to allergies. Please do not include anything into your child’s lunchbox that contains these ingredients included chocolate spread/peanut butter. Many thanks for your understanding.

• We are still looking for some volunteers that may be able to commit to helping in school on a regular basis. This may be to get experience of working in school before completing childcare training or just because you have some spare time on your hands and would like to be involved in school life. You could help with the library, gardening, run small groups or help hear those children that don’t read at home. If you are interested in this, please email parent.mail@hwis.hants.sch.uk.  We would need to initiate a DBS (safeguarding check).

Diary Dates (School Calendar):

21.10.22 – INSET – school closed

03.11.22 – Outdoor Learning Day

08.11.22 – Individual school photos

INSET Days for 2022-2023

Friday 21.10.2022

Friday 20.02.2023

Friday 26.05.2023

Monday 10.07.2023

General News and Information:

If your child does not eat certain foods due to religion reasons or personal preference, please ensure they know what lunch option they are choosing every day before they come in to book it on the whiteboard. There have been a few occasions when children have inadvertently selected the wrong meal choice. Children with allergies are identified by wearing a different coloured wrist band and have their meals cooked according to their special menu.

HC3S have a parent portal where they can register children needing special allergy 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 by clicking on: https://specialdiets.hants.gov.uk/

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