When children join our school, we ask parents for their information in order to do a check for Pupil Premium Funding eligibility - also known as Free School Meal eligibility. 

If you would like to check again, or if your circumstances have now changed and you think your child may now be eligible, you can do the check yourself here. This funding enables children to continue to receive free school meals beyond the universal entitlement of Infant School, free school milk beyond their 5th birthday, as well as helps pay towards school trips, additional activities and resources in school. 

You can read more about the purpose of Pupil Premium Funding, and the eligibility criteria for it, on the Gov website here.

Thank you to everyone that came to our first 90's/00's adult disco, we felt it was a massive success and hope you all enjoyed yourself too. This was never intended to be an event to make money on, we wanted to hold an event that brought people together to have some fun and not be expensive. But thank you to everyone that purchased tickets and glow sticks, you helped us to raise an amazing £288.95.

We are pleased to have started making our first purchases of the year with the money you have helped us raise and this has gone towards lots of sensory items for each year group and our new sensory room. Once all items are in we will share a photo of these. 

Emails were sent out this week with more information regarding the Easter Fayre and Junior ParkRun. Thank you for taking the time to read these. 

Thank you to the extra person that has signed up to marshal at the Junior ParkRun, we will reassess this on Monday 10th to see if we need to re-think this event. 

Eastleigh Borough Council are investigating someone repeatedly loading up the public bins in the vicinity of the school with animal waste such as hay & straw. This is putting an unnecessary strain on their collections as well as filling up the bins quicker, causing an overflow of rubbish surrounding the bins.

In case this is in relation to someone in our school community who receives this newsletter, they would like us to remind you that domestic animal waste should be included in your household black bin waste, or up to 2 bags per household per day can be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre (such as the one on Shamblehurst Lane South). 

If this is a problem in your area, or you think you may know who is responsible, you can submit a form on the website here.

Following on from the Parent Survey that was sent out last half term, we will post the results of each question and one response to feedback each week. Thank you again to those who took the time to leave their feedback.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our packed lunch survey (this was sent only to those children who have a packed lunch most days / every day). We will be looking over the results and discussing them with Aspens, and hope to be able to provide some feedback / update regarding the suggestions shortly.

What YOU must do:

Try to telephone the school before 8.30am each day of your child’s absence.

Tell the school in advance, of any medical appointments and bring in appointment cards/letters.

If you are not sure whether your child is well enough to attend school, send them in anyway as they often perk up on arrival.

If you and your child are experiencing difficulties with school attendance then talk to us as a first step so we can help!

What WE will do:

Check your child’s attendance every day.

Phone home to discuss your child’s attendance with you.

Invite you into school for attendance meetings if we are concerned.

If we cannot establish a reason for absence, then we may make a welfare home visit.

• Friday 20th June 2025

You can view Hampshire term dates at any time here.

The school year dates for 2025-2026 are now available, including INSET days. These have been published on our website here.