City Mission visit Kestrels

Year 6 have had a great morning with Charis from City Mission.  She came in and ran lots of activities with us based around transition and the move to Secondary School.  We had fun playing games; writing letters to the future Year Rs; thinking about our hopes and dreams; making thank you flags for members of staff who have helped us on our journey; taking part in quizzes and putting positive comment sticky notes on each other other!

Southampton Schools Swimming Gala

Well done to our swimming team who took part in the Southampton City Schools' Gala this afternoon at the Quays. An amazing team effort and we will share the results with you when they become available shortly. Well done to them all!

Cricket Video...

We thought you might like to see the video made by Solent TV of this week's cricket competition featuring our children.

Cricket Champions!

Congratulations to our Cricket team who took first place in the inaugural City Cricket Cup which took place today. A real team effort! Well played! Thanks to Richard Taunton College for their support in organising the event and Testlands for supporting our team. We will need a bigger trophy cabinet soon...

Emotions

In Kingfishers we have been discussing our emotions.  We read 'The Great Big Book of Feelings' and considered how different situations make us feel.  The children realised that they may not feel the same as others about something, and that is alright.

We then looked at our 'feelings' stones, and discussed what each one represented and when we have felt that way.  The children could think of examples and explain why they felt a certain way.  We also thought about how we can help ourselves to come out of some emotional states.  For example, if we feel angry, sometime stamping our feet or running outside can help us calm down.

Sports Day 2019

We are pleased to announce the winners of our Sports Day 2019:

1st Place = Heroes with 2377 points

2nd Place = Champions with 2208 points

3rd Place = Superstars with 2168 points

4th Place = Legends with 1914 points

Thanks for all the support you showed this morning and well done to all the children for being such great sports!

SPACE CHASE Summer Reading Challenge!

Do you LOVE reading? Well...this is the perfect challenge for you!

Southampton City Libraries are calling for children to sign up to read six books this summer as part of Space Chase, Summer Reading Challenge 2019.

Here's the link:

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The Summer Reading Challenge asks children under 12 years old to borrow and read any six library books over the summer. The theme for the 2019 Summer Reading Challenge is 'Space Chase,' inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.  How exciting!

Children will team up with futuristic family 'The Rockets' for an exciting space mission as they track down books nabbed by a mischievous band of aliens. As children read library books for the Summer Reading Challenge, they will receive special stickers, some with mysterious smells. By adding these stickers to their collectable mission folders, young readers will help 'The Rockets' solve clues, dodge asteroids and discover the missing books, having lots of fun and adventures along the way.

To take part in 'Space Chase,' all children need to do is sign up at their nearest library, where they will be given a Space Chase collector folder to keep a record of their Summer Reading Challenge journey.

Space Chase launches in all libraries across Southampton on Saturday 13 July 2019 and runs until Saturday 31 August 2019.

Goodluck! 

SWIFTS are SMART!

Today, the SUPER Swift class took part in the 'Smarties challenge!'  This required them to use their Maths skills that they have learnt this week! They have been looking at 'Statistics' and learning all about tally charts and block graphs.  It was a great way to consolidate their understanding and see how well they could apply their knowledge. If they did a great job with the challenge, they got the chance to EAT their Smarties.  I've never seen them so focused!

Take a look at what they got up to...

Writers' Day!

Today was a very exciting day for some of our pupils from Bitterne Manor Primary School.  Children from Year 3 and Year 4 were lucky enough to take part in a Writers' workshop at another school! It was led by one of the UK's leading children's authors, Matt Whyman.  Matt has been running workshops in schools for many years now and our pupils gained a great deal from working with him throughout the day.  Their writing is AMAZING! This will be published and put on display for everyone to see :) We are immensely proud of them!

SUMMER FAYRE 2019!

Roll up, roll up and come and take part in our SUPER

 SUMMER FAYRE!

You won't want to miss it!

We are looking for helpers to bake sweet / savory snacks to be sold at the Fayre.  If you feel like you could help, please come forward and speak to a member of our Office team :)

Don't forget to bag yourself some raffle tickets, there are some AMAZING prizes this year.  These tickets will go on sale Monday (£1) Your child will come home with them so please keep a look out! 

Year 6 Crumble Creations, Part 2!

I am so ridiculously proud of our year 6's; I've had the privilege of teaching them computing since the start of Year 5 and they have some of the most brilliant and creative minds I've ever witnessed.

Here is part two of their Crumble Physical Computing projects:

Crumble Creations Part 2 on YouTube


(If you've forgotten about part one, it's here: Crumble Creations Part 1)

Proud Parents

The children in Robins have been proudly looking our new baby chicks this week. After the excitement of watching them hatch the children have now taken on their responsibilities of parenting and began to help clean, feed and cuddle our chicks.

New arrivals in Robins

On Monday Robins were very excited to receive a very special delivery.... 10 eggs!!

The eggs have been put in an incubator and the children have been excitedly watching over them for the  past few days as they began to move and crack!

Finally on Wednesday morning our first chick hatched!!

The whole school have been popping in to watch over the eggs and by Thursday lunchtime we had 9 new healthy baby chicks.