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

Whole School:

HCC Letter Western Way closure

Hounsome Fields Development letter

Year R:

Mrs Lambell’s Phonics Basic 4 group 4

Year 1:

Year 1 cooking week on the fire

Year 2:

Year 2 Upcoming events

It was lovely to see lots of you today supporting the children during Sports Day. The scores from Sports Day are:

Red Team 1349

Green Team 1187

Yellow Team 1248

Blue Team 1221

The winners are the Red Team, well done. Thank you for your understanding in the day ending a earlier than planned due to the weather.

Reminder Fraser Portraits have recently taken the class photographs at your school.  To view and order these please go to our website www.orderphotos.co.uk and use the relevant proof card id from below the deadline for ordering is Monday 3rd July to enable prints and delivery to school.  If you have any queries please contact Fraser Portraits on 01202 692433

Squirrels: 0008499649A23VY7X

Owls: 0007499649A23KV6E

Otters: 0006499649A232B36

Ladybirds: 0005499649A23AV9J

Hedgehogs: 0004499649A237DNW

Foxes: 0003499649A23QJBX

Butterflies: 0002499649A23EAXL

Bumblebees: 0001499649A23FMWN

Badgers: 0000499649A23ZPPG

This week in Year R we have been thinking all about different Minibeasts and where they like to live.  We have been finding out fun facts about them.  The children have been looking for Minibeasts in the STEM area.  We hope this has inspired them for their talkbook challenge this week. We have been practicing really hard for sports day and the children had an amazing time this morning. Have a lovely weekend.

Maths word of the week: out

Topic word of the week: examine 

We have has another lovely week in Year 1. This week we read Sugarlump and the unicorn, which is another story by Julia Donaldson. The unicorn grants wishes so we decided to write some of our own. Ask your children what they wished for. In maths we have continued learning about place value to 100. We have been comparing numbers and looking at the tens and ones digits. We are very excited for our fire week next week!

This week Year 2 had lots of fun in Maths solving a real life problem with skittles. The Year 2 teachers realised that different packets of jelly tots had a different number of sweets and that the quantity of different colours in each pack was also different. So we decided to investigate this further to see if it would be the same situation with skittles. Each child had a packet of skittles and had to sort them into coloured groups, complete a frequency table, transfer the information onto a block graph and then interpret the data to answer questions. We have also been busy learning our songs for the leavers assembly and practising our sports day events. In PSHE we thought about how to solve disputes in a calm and sensible manner. 

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):

05.7.23 Fisherman’s Walk, Southbourne trip - YEAR 2

05.07.23 NEU Industrial action - School closed to most children in Year R and Year 1

07.07.23 NEU Industrial action – School closed to most children in all Year groups

12.7.23 Year 2 Leavers assembly

13.7.23 School reports going home

19.7.23 Year 2 Water fight 2:45pm

21.7.23 Last day of school – 2:15pm finish time

INSET Days for 2022-2023

Monday 10.07.2023

INSET Days for 2023-2024

1^st September 2023

4^th September 2023

2^nd January 2024

24^th May 2024

8^th July 2024

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