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 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.

Junior ParkRun Takeover 

Thank you to everyone that came forward to offer their help at the ParkRun takeover on Sunday 23rd March. We still have a few spare slots but we are in a much better position than we were last week!! 

Whether your child is taking part in the run or you are volunteering you will need to make sure you are registered in advance http://parkrun.com/ 

You will need to arrive at the event at 8.45 and the run starts at 9.00.

FISHES Easter Bake Off

We are really excited about the return of the Easter Bake Off. There are four categories - Year R, Year 1, Year 2 and adult - please bring your bakes to the school office on the morning of 1st April. Judging will commence at 1.30pm on this day. If you do not wish to enter competition you are most welcome to still bring something in homemade/shop brought as after the Easter Hat Parade we will be holding a cake sale so we would appreciate all donations.  Please remember label your bakes for the competition with the name of the participant and the category they are entering - also a list of ingredients for anything homemade and please do not include anything that contains nuts.

Easter Fayre

Thank you to everyone that has very promptly signed up to volunteer this year. We still have 7 available spaces and it would be amazing if we could get these filled. If you are able to spare any time, please complete the following link: https://volunteersignup.org/7DPMM

Krispy Kreme Donuts

We will be selling Krispy Kreme donuts at a very reduced rate. So you don't miss out you can preorder your donuts to collect at the fayre via the following link: https://buytickets.at/fishes  There will be donuts available on the day but once they're gone they're gone! 

Rainbow Raffle / Non-Uniform day

21st March is non-uniform day, this is in exchange for an item for our rainbow raffle. Each class has been allocated a colour (see attached poster) please can your child bring in a new / in date item in their classes colour. These items will be put into some fantastic hampers for our raffle which will be held at the Easter Fayre. Each child came home with a raffle book last week, ticket stubs and money can be brought to the office ahead of the 29 March. There are more tickets in the office should you require any more. 

David Lloyd

FISHES are really excited to be working with David Lloyd in West End. For the cost of £10 per family we can give you a 7 day family pass with a purchase window of 10th to 21st March. Once you have paid the £10 you will see a link in the confirmation, please complete the details in this link and David Lloyd will be in contact with you to arrange your pass. You will have full access to the facilities whilst you are a member including; gym, swim, tennis, padel, pickleball, kids classes and 100 group exercise classes. You will just need to take with you a padlock for the lockers (or you can buy one on site) and your own towels.

Once we have received payment we will pass your confirmation to David Lloyd so that they can cross reference this with the enquiry forms. Anyone is welcome to sign up, if you have friends/ family that would also like to take advantage of this, but please do not share the link with them.

David Lloyd have set this up to help do some good in the local community and to help schools. The £10 payment will be kept in full by FISHES. To purchase your pass please click the following link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fishes

We are really excited to have joined the campaign 'Recycle to Read'.

Please take your broken plastic toys to one of the collection bins at a participating Tesco store (find your nearest collection point using the recycling point map on the Recycle to Read website). Scan the QR code on the bin to register your recycling visit and nominate the school you’d like to support. Once verified, your Planet Care Point will be added to the school’s total on the School Leaderboard, and you’ll be entered into the weekly prize draw. You can only register one recycling visit per day, earning a maximum of one Planet Care Point, regardless of the number of toys dropped off.

Every term, the top 50 schools on the School Leaderboard will win vouchers from £50 to £500! The next book award day is June 5th 2025. Schools will be awarded

based on their leaderboard ranking at midday*.

The attached picture shows you what you can and can't recycle.

The recycle bins should be located alongside the tills where you would find battery recycling etc.

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.

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.