Mailing for 6^th May 2022

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

What a busy, although short, week in school. Thank you for all your support with our Summer Fayre and circus event. The children thoroughly enjoyed watching the tent being assembled on Thursday. The after school fayre was really well attended and has raised a lot of needed funds to support school – THANK YOU! When we have a total, we will let you know. The circus event was a real treat and it was lovely to see just how much families enjoyed it. Thanks to FOHWIS for organising the day, it was a lot of work. An extra special thank you to Emma Rogers, Chair of PTA as without her the day wouldn’t have been the success it was.

Today, Mrs Moore came in for her retirement assembly. We know she is very grateful for the gifts and kind words that were exchanged with her last night at the Summer Fayre and last week. As a staff and school community, we wish her well in her new ventures and hope she stays in touch.

Parking concerns have again been raised with cars being parked irresponsibly along Gershwin Road. We are really worried that an accident will happen and one of our children will be badly hurt. Please consider using the Park and Stride offer of parking in the Portsmouth Arms car park and walking to and from school.

As the weather warms up and you start to buy sun care products for your family, please be aware that some of these products contain nuts in their ingredients. We have a number of children in school with nut allergies so please check the ingredients list carefully before you make your purchase. We advise parents to apply sun cream before sending your child into school. On really warm days, the children can re-apply using wipes or a roll on sun cream. Please do not send in liquid sun cream.

Please can we also ask that although it is now summer term, it is important that children are wearing shoes and socks rather than sandals to school as a matter of safety.

If you still have a cake container in school from the Fayre on Thursday, please collect from the school office next week. 

Whole School:

Spotlight fliers x 2

HCC childcare survey

Rainbow raffle prize winners

Year R:

No specific mailing

Year 1:

No specific mailing

Year 2:

No specific mailing

The Year R children have been thinking about questions they would like to find the answers to related to dinosaurs.  They have had great fun making up their own subtraction stories using dinosaurs maybe you could do some at home. 

Word of the Week: enormous.

Maths Word of the Week: odd.

The Year 1 children have had a very exciting week and even got to watch the circus tent being set up! What a fantastic experience! In maths the children have started multiplication and have been using arrays to help them. In science the children have planted beans. We are very excited to see what they will grow into. The word of the week is portcullis.

This week the Year 2 children have been looking at a wordless picture book called Journey by Aaron Becker. We learnt about the features of newspapers and started to write our own newspaper reports about an event in the story. In Maths we continued our work on addition and have been using unstructured number lines to add two-digit numbers. In Science we carried out an investigation to find out if different surfaces affect how far a car travels and in History we considered what ‘famous’ means before going on a history hunt to search for famous people. We have started to learn about ‘tempo’ in Music and have started to develop our tennis skills in PE. The children were excited to see the arrival of the circus yesterday and did some sketching in the sunshine as the big top was set up.

Diary Dates (School Calendar):

23.5.22 – Year R – Travelling History event

24.5.22 – Year 1 Castle Day

26.5.22 @ 3.15pm – End of term

27.5.22 – INSET day – school closed

7.6.22 – Class photo’s

General Reminders:

• 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.
• Head bump letters are changing from red paper to a mustard yellow colour to make them easier to see in book bags.
• Please be aware that school finishes at 2.15pm on Thursday 21^st July 2022 – this is a change due to the extra bank holiday in May half term for the Queen’s jubilee. School staff are owed a day in lieu of this.
• The play equipment must not be used before or after school as our insurance is not valid.

INSET Days for 2021-2022

Friday 27.05.2022

Monday 11.07.2022

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!

Please find a link to the Phonics presentation. Mrs Lambell will show you how we teach phonics in school through a YouTube video: Link -  https://youtu.be/dcuzb8fp-R0

General News and Information:

• Please remember to update the office if your contact details change. We have had a few cases of having wrong addresses where parents have forgotten to tell us they have moved! We also need to see proof of new address for our records.  You can send an email to parent.mail@hwis.hants.sch.uk or click the link and complete pupil change of details form https://www.hwis.hants.sch.uk/general-forms/
• Please find details of a website that helps make decisions as to whether your child should come into school unwell. The website link is https://what0-18.nhs.uk/parentscarers/worried-your-child-unwell/child-unwell-ok-go-nurseryschool
• Children to come into school wearing their PE kits on the days they have PE (Year R – Thurs, Year 1 – Mon & Wed, Year 2 – Tues & Thurs).
• Please park considerately around the local area. We have sadly received several complaints from residents whose drive ways have been blocked.
• We are a nut free school but are also becoming a shellfish free school due to staff and child allergies. Please do not send shellfish or nut products within your child’s packed lunch.
• Red head bump letters – these will be in children’s book bags when they come home. If it is a major bump, you will receive a phone call to explain what has happened.

Brighton Hill Roundabout Footway Diversions and Bus Stop Suspension

• Please see the link which has details of the proposed  pedestrian diversion in place at Brighton Hill Roundabout: https://sway.office.com/8DXH7mT7naSoFSTJ?ref=Link

HC3S have launched a 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