Newsletter 32 - 6th June 2025

Learning This Week

EYFS

This week in EYFS, the children have been reading, 'The Colour Monster,' by Anna Llenas. They have enjoyed creating their own colour monster, discussed different feelings they might have and written notes of any worries and fed them to the worry monster.

Year 1

This week in Year 1 the children have been exploring the poem Sitting at the Harbour. They recapped their knowledge of simple noun phrases, (adjective and noun), as well as explored the suffixes -ful and -ing to change the meaning of a word to use in their poems. The children thought about their experiences at the seaside to inspire them to write their own Sitting at the Harbour poem. They were all fantastic poems!

Year 2

This week, Year 2 had a fantastic time at Marwell Zoo! The children enjoyed exploring the zoo, especially thinking about which animals would live in the rainforests and learning lots of interesting facts.

Back in class, they have been preparing to write their zoo recounts. The children have enjoyed working with adverbials of time, expanded noun phrases, suffixes and adverbs to make their writing exciting. A brilliant week full of learning and fun! Well done, Year 2!

School Mural

We were lucky enough to have the local artist My Dog Sighs in school today. He has created us an incredible mural in the playground. The children enjoyed watching him create his masterpiece and got to ask him lots of questions. We love the new addition to our playground!

School Attendance

This time of year we are seeing more and more requests for absence due to family holidays, so we wanted to update families with regards to our policy on absence requests for children during the school year. As per our Attendance Policy, "Headteachers can no longer authorise leave of absence unless there are exceptional circumstances. Generally, the DfE does not consider a need or desire for a holiday or other absence for the purpose of leisure and recreation to be an exceptional circumstance. "

As you will be aware, there is a national threshold of 10 sessions (in a period of 100 sessions) of unauthorised absence, after which a penalty notice may be issued by the Local Authority. We would like to inform you however, that under Sec.185 of Working Together to Improve School Attendance, a penalty notice may be issued before this threshold is met in cases where parents are deliberately avoiding the threshold; by taking holidays in weeks where there may be an Inset day, or a Bank Holiday, for example. The school will use it's own discretion as to whether we may pursue this course of action, as supported by Hampshire County Council in their Code of Conduct.

A first Penalty Notice is £80 if paid within 21 days or £160 if paid within 22-28 days. A second Penalty Notice may be issued if a Penalty Notice has previously been issued in the preceding three-year period in respect of the same child. A second Penalty Notice is £160 if paid within 28 days with no option for this second offence to be discharged at the lower rate of £80 : Attendance Guidance for Parents / Carers

FISHES News

Summer Fayre - Saturday 28 June 11:30 - 2:30

We hope you are all looking forward to our annual joint Summer Fayre.

We are in search of any unwanted toys for our toy tombola and teddies for our teddy tombola. If you have any that you are happy to donate please bring them along to either the Infant or Junior school office.
If you own / work for a business and would be happy to either donate a raffle prize or would be happy to do any sponsorship of the event please get in contact with us at freegroundsfishes@gmail.com or pop into the school office.
If you own a small business or know anyone that does and would like a stall at the event please get in touch with us at freegroundsfishes@gmail.com to find out more information or complete the following Google form: https://forms.gle/1pW8Mu5nCFFHze9v9

The volunteer sign up is now active via the following link: https://volunteersignup.org/47JB4 if you can spare any time at all we would really appreciate it. These events are only possible with the help of all the volunteers. If you have any questions about any of the stalls please let us know.

Sports Day - Wednesday 18th June

We will again this year be selling refreshments at Sports Day. We will be selling tea, coffee, soft drinks, cookies and pastries. We will be set up outside Green Class on your way to field. Refreshments will be on sale from 8.45 through to the end of sports day.

Legoland - Friday 20th June

Thank you to everyone that signed up to Legoland and promptly made payment. We have received the tickets from Legoland and these will hopefully be distributed to you early next week via email so please keep a look out. They will be sent via the FISHES email address so make sure this is in your safe senders list: freegroundsfishes@gmail.com

Disco - Friday 11th July

Our last disco of the year will be on 11th July. Please see attached poster for timings. Tickets are now on sale on Ticket Tailor via the following link: https://buytickets.at/fishes

CAMHS Information

CAMHS A5 PACE Event - 26 June 25 (1).pdf

Nut Free School

We would like to remind parents that we are a nut free school. We have members of both the staff and student community who are anaphylactic to nuts of all varieties. This includes obvious things like hazelnut spread in sandwiches, but also many types of cereal bars and biscuits also contain nuts. Please check the ingredients list of all food items that you send into school.

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