SUMMARY OF 2009-2010

Resident Ceramist Artist - Annie Welch

Building on our work with the blacksmith and ceramic artists, the children created a big mosaic which is centered in our spiritual area. They also created smaller ones which decorate the walls of our school. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves as did the staff!

You are most welcome to come and see our metal sculptures and mosaics 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. The school put on a hugely successful ‘Alice in Wonderland’ production in the summer term. This went on to star as our float in the Liphook Carnival.
We had a number of travelling theatre companies come in to show the school: a pantomime for Christmas (Dick Whittington), also another company came and performed Elmer the Elephant. All the children who study musical instruments performed to the school showing us the results of a year's hard work. We also had performances from years 3 and 4 who have been learning ukulele and brass.

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 Responsibilities’' 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 took part in the national anti-bullying week. Some of our older children have been trained as Activity Leaders and have attended a Peer mentoring conference, others are JRSO’s (Junior Road Safety Officers).

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!