SUMMARY OF 2008-9
Resident Ceramist Artist - Lynne Waylen
Building on our work with the blacksmith artist last year, the children spent a very enjoyable and creative week and a bit working with pottery. Lynne Waylen worked with all the children on sculptures for the walls of our new building. They were based on creation stories and one represents the Christian creation story and the other an Aboriginal creation story.
You are most welcome to come and see both our metal sculptures based in the spritual area and our wall sculputures. Please contact the school office if you are interested.
The Arts
Arts Mark - Gold - we continue to work within our Arts mark status. Here are a few things we did this year.... The choir, orchestra, dance and drama clubs went into one club callling itself 'The Show Group' which put on a second, extremely successful production of the 'The Key Master' in the Summer term of 2008 which they showed to their parents and to the school. It was enjoyed by all. The school presented 'The Nativity' to the parents at Christmas which was a mixture of carols and drama.
We had a number of travelling theatre companies come in to show the school: a pantomime for Christmas, also another company came and performed a drama with science at its heart ..Year 8s from Bohunt community school came and performed 'Rocking back to happiness' - a rock and roll show. All the children who study musical instruments performed to the school showing us the results of a year's hard work.
Healthy Schools
Healthy Schools Status - enhanced. We continue to keep our school a healthy one as befits our status, not only physically but also our children are happy to learn. We have also renewed our Active Mark. Not only do we teach our children about healthy eating but we provide many different types of physical exercise in the form of a good P.E. curriculum within school and clubs out of school hours. The children are given opportunities to attend tournaments and take part in matches eg football, tag rugby, athletics, tennis, kwik cricket, rounders etc We follow the 'Rights, Respect and Responisibilities' programme based on the United Nations Rights of the Child. The children continue to be represented by the 'Young Governors' who are elected by their peers and who meet regularly to discuss topics such as ..'how to make their play area better for everyone!' We also took part in 'Blue Friday' a national anti-bullying week and 'Friendship Friday' when we all wore white to signify peace and friendship. Some of our older children have been trained as Activity Leaders and have attended a Peer mentoring conference
Offsite visits
We had many offsite visits....each class except Rabbits had one per term. The most successful were: The year 6 reidential visit to the Isle of Wight, Medina Mosque, Southampton art gallery, Marwell Zoo, West Tisted Manor Farm, Blue Reef, Explosions and Bignor Roman Villa.
Year 6 visited their new secondary schools and the secondary staff made reciprocal visits.
Visitors
Here is a selection of visitors that we welcome into school.
Year 5 enjoyed their visit from a historian from the Mary Rose Trust in a role as a Tudor
A Roman soldier came to visit for the day in Year 4...plenty of marching was done that day
Year 3 had a visit from Andy Channing working with the Gamalan instruments -indonesian
Year 2 worked with Rahi Baines on the Hindu faith A variety of speakers were welcomed to our assemblies throughout the year.
Year 6 had teachers come in from Bohunt Language college for half an hour a week to teach different languages...French, Spanish and German . Lynne Waylan - a ceramicist artist came and worked with the children and staff. Year 9 children came from Bohunt to work with all children, except year 6, by teaching them some spanish.
We have links with the Royal Horiticultural Society and 'The Grow it, Cook it,' programme
We welcomed a variety of visitors into our assemblies.
The county's library van came to school every two weeks to supplement our own library.
The fire engine came and allowed our infants access all over it!
Our community policeman is a regular visitor in school.
Charities
We raised money for different charities....Children in Need, Portsmouth Football Club for sport for all, and many of the children and parents took part in the bike ride for Lidba the proceeds of which came to the school
We took part in the Tesco and Sainsbury's voucher schemes and we managed to get control equipment, gymnastics bench, mini tennis nets and posts, table tennis tables, foam javilins together with a variety of instructors to come in to school and teach the children different types of dance such as salsa, rock and roll, jazz and the cha cha.
We also raised money for some stage lights.
Extra Curricular Activities
It was a good year for clubs and the children had a choice of the following:
Gardening, Football, Soft ball, Keep Fit ,Chess, Choir, Orchestra, Dance and Drama, Challenge, Art, I.T. Tag Rugby, Karate and Rounders
Nearly two thirds of the juniors carried on learning their musical intruments using our county peripetetic staff ..they have a choice of brass, strings and keyboard.
The football, athletics and tennis teams played in matches and tournament against local schools and at Bohunt seconday school.
Spanish Day - June 13th
A group of 44 year 9 children from Bohunt Language college came and worked with most classes for a morning to teach them Spanish. It was a huge success with our children enjoying lessons planned for them by the Bohunt Pupils. Everyone learned alot and much fun was had by all!
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Catering
Our kitchen staff...the school cook, Anji Phipps and Naomi Theckston won 'Best Catering Team of 2008'.
We are justly proud of our school lunches. They make an average of over 100 lunches a day - at times well over half of our children and staff have a school lunch!
