Newsletter 19 - 7th February 2025

Learning This Week

EYFS

This week in Year R the children have continued exploring pirates. They have looked at the books 'The Treasure of Pirate Frank' and 'Pirate Pete' and have been particularly inspired. The children have created their own maps, stories and pirate packing lists and shown amazing creativity. They even created their own messages in a bottle for pirates to find on pirate day!

Year 1

This week, Year 1 were lucky enough to have a special visitor come and talk to them all about being an Estate Agent. Mr McCathie from Richmonds Estate Agents came and spoke to the children all about his job and what it is like being an Estate Agent. He spoke to the children about the different types of houses they may live in, as well as role playing being an Estate Agent and how someone would buy a house. This has inspired the children ready to write their house leaflets to sell their houses! Look out parents, your house may be on the market by next week (or pretend!).

Year 2

What an exciting week we've had in Year 2! In PE, the children showed fantastic teamwork and resilience while perfecting their learned positions and challenging themselves on the wall bars. It was wonderful to see their determination and cooperation shining through! In Science, the children took a fascinating dive into the life of Charles Macintosh. They loved creating fact files filled with amazing facts about his life. Their curiosity and enthusiasm for learning were truly inspiring!

Free Courses for Parents

As part of our commitment to supporting mental health for our children, please see below important resources for our parent community.

There are courses available from bump to 19+ years, and include:

Understanding your child (0-19 years)
Understanding your child with additional needs (0-19 years)
Understanding your child’s feelings
Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing
Understanding your relationships
Understanding the impact of the pandemic on your child/teenager

All courses can be translated using Google Translate and some professional translations are available, including Arabic, Urdu, Bulgarian, simplified Chinese, Spanish, Welsh, Polish and Somali.

All the information needed to sign up for these free courses can be found here.

Further to the updated menu for after Half Term, we will now also have Jacket Potatoes available on a Monday & Wednesday. The menu on the website has been updated to reflect this.

Internet Safety Day

Ahead of Internet Safety Day on the 11th February, please see the document and YouTube video for information around keeping your children safe online.

Internet-Matters-Guide-Balancing-Screen-Time-5-7-KeyStage1.pdf

Parent Reminders!

Can we please remind parents again that the playground should not be used after school. This includes the use of bikes and scooters (which should not be ridden through at any time), and also the use of the climbing equipment. There are signs around the site to this effect, but unfortunately there are still families who are not supporting us with this, which then confuses the children who are trying to follow the rules that have been explained to them in school.

Can we also ask that the children are not allowed to play on the grass, (particularly outside the year 1 classrooms,) as not only do they slip and hurt themselves, they also come in with very muddy shoes!

Before the school day starts, the teachers are busy getting the classrooms ready for learning, so it would also be appreciated if you would encourage your children to not bang on the windows and try to get into the classrooms.

One final reminder is that children should only be bringing in water to drink during the school day. Children have been coming in with squash / juice / flavoured water in their bottles, which teachers will dispose of and refill with tap water. The only exception to this is where we have medical evidence to the support the use of flavourings to increase a child's fluid intake.

Resources Needed

Thank you for the donations received as requested, we are most grateful!

NHS Dentist

We have been asked to share that the following practice is currently taking on new NHS patients - both adults and children.

Address: Shirley Dale Dental , 44 Dale road, Southampton, SO16 6QL

Contact #: 0280773461

Email Id: dental.v03590@nhs.net

FISHES News

90s Disco - 28 February

With less than a month to go now tickets are still on sale. We are really excited to be hosting our first adult disco and look forward to seeing you all there! With tickets at £7.50 and BYO drinks and snacks it will certainly be a cheap night out!!!

If you have purchased tickets please make sure that you have your QR code ready to be scanned on the evening. You are welcome to bring friends and family with you that are not connected to the school. https://buytcikets.at/fishes

Sponsored Parkrun

Your child should have brought home with them a sponsorship form for the Junior Parkrun takeover event that we have coming up on Sunday 23rd March. If your child will be taking part please can we ask you to complete the following google form and indicate whether you are also able to help marshal the event https://forms.gle/4EfvgmV85fMUQmTs9 If you marshal this is a good opportunity for you to be able to cheer your child on as they run past!

Please can we ask you to return sponsorship forms and money to the school office by Friday 28th March.

Easter Fayre

Our Easter Fayre is fast approaching, more information will be posted on our Facebook page over the next week.

If you have any donations of teddy bears please can you bring these to the school office.
We will be running the golden ticket game if you own a small business or work somewhere that may be able to donate us a prize for this game please could you bring this to the school office.
If you are able to spare any time to volunteer at this event please sign up via the following link: https://volunteersignup.org/7DPMM

As always thank you for your continued support.

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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