Hope you all had a lovely Half Term. At this moment in time we are not anticipating school being closed on the 2^nd March for the Teachers Striking although if this changes we will notify you as soon as we can. Next week on Thursday 2^nd March is World Book Day, all children can come to school dressed as their favourite book character or in their PJ’s. If school closed due to the Teacher Strike we will have Dress up day for World Book Day on a different date. Details for Parents Evening will follow shortly for booking appointments. Please note parents evening is no longer next week so Choir and Art club will be on for those children in those clubs.

Thank you to all those who took part in the WOW Design a Badge Competition. We had over 50 entries. On Tuesday the WOW Ambassadors met to decide a winner from each year group. The winning entries have now been sent off to the main competition. So well done to our winners:

Year R: Jake Cooper

Year 1: Mabel Lake

Year 2: Ella Webb

This week in Year R we have been thinking about special clothes.  We have designed our own special clothes and written about ourselves when we have been wearing our special clothes.  We have been thinking about when we might wear special clothes.  Today we have had a visit from the author Eileen Browne the children thoroughly enjoyed their workshop with her.  Where she shared some of the stories she had written and demonstrated how she completed the illustrations.  We have also had great fun with our new cardio drumming sessions.

Maths word of the week:  side

Word of the week: soft

We have had a lovely first week back in Year 1. In English we have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and re writing the middle of the story using adjectives to describe the food that he eats. We have also been working hard to remember to use Capital letters when writing days of the week. In maths we have been beginning to look at numbers to 50 and understanding that numbers like 30 ones and 3 tens are the same. We have also started our new topic looking at farms including animals and humans in science. The word of the week is combine harvester.

Welcome back! We hope you had a good week off. This week Year 2 continued their work on multiplication and looked at the commutativity law. Can your child explain to you what commutative means? Our focus in English was reading comprehension and the children answered questions about different fiction and non-fiction texts. In Science we began our ‘Healthy Living’ topic by learning about the Eatwell plate and the different food groups. In Music we used xylophones to demonstrate pitch and then played the musical accompaniment for a funny song.

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

Whole School:

Book Fair Flyer

HCC Brighton Hill Roundabout letter

Spring into action 2023 Toolkit

Year R:

Year R Newsletter Spring 2 2023

Mrs Lambell’s and Mrs Way’s Phonic group Week 1 & 2

Year 1:

Spring 2 Year 1 Newsletter Year 1 ONLY

Year 1 Longdown Activity Farm Visit

Year 2:

Year 2 Spring 2 Newsletter

General Reminders:

• 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.

• Please do not put sweets in your child’s lunch box.

• 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):

28.02.23, 01.03.23 & 02.03.23 Book Fair

02.03.23 World Book Day (Children Can dress up as their favourite book character or come in their PJ’s)

28.03.23 Year 1 ONLY Longdown Activity Farm Visit

07.03.23 Parents Evening Year R ONLY

08.03.23 Parents Evening Year 1 & 2 ONLY

09.03.23 Parents Evening ALL SCHOOL

INSET Days for 2022-2023

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