A massive thank you!

City Mission came in to school this morning to lead our Harvest Assembly and collect  the food that has been so kindly donated by our school community.  They were overwhelmed by the amount that had been collected - over 800 items!  These will be shared people in our local area that are struggling currently.  Last year City Mission were able to support over 10,000 families and our donations will go towards feeding a huge number again this year -  so once again a massive thank you for your generosity! 

Who could that crow be?!

Reducing single use plastic

We are pleased to announce that every child in school has been given a reusable water bottle; these were kindly donated by Southern Water.  This means that every child will have a water bottle available to them in the classroom, which can also be used during PE sessions etc.  Having reusable bottles also means that, as a school, we can do our bit for the environment by reducing our use of single use plastics.  Mrs Egerton introduced this concept during assembly yesterday and the bottles were distributed to classes today.  Your child will therefore be bringing home any personal bottles they currently have in school in the next few days.

Harvest Festival

Thank you so much for all the contributions for this year's harvest festival.  We were able to give over 700 items to the City Mission's Basics Bank project, who distribute it to anyone in the city that requires short-term support.

PTA Christmas Raffle

The Christmas raffle was another huge success this year with even more tickets sold than last year!  The hampers were spectacular so there will be some very happy winners at the end of the day when they collect their goodies!  A massive thank you once again to the PTA, who have worked hard to make up the hampers and sell the tickets.  

Bon Voyage Miss Cole

As the whole school were together this morning, it was the perfect opportunity to wish Miss Cole well on her travels, before she leaves us tomorrow.  Miss Cole is looking forward to her amazing trip to New Zealand but will be greatly missed by all the staff and children at Bitterne Manor.  Good luck Miss Cole!

at Bitterne Manor.  Good luck Miss Cole!

Anti-Bullying Week at Bitterne Manor - Power for Good!

At Bitterne Manor, we all took part in anti-bullying week! The theme this year is 'Power for Good' with the following key aims:


- To support children to use their Power for Good - by understanding the ways in which they are powerful and encouraging individual and collective action to stop bullying and to create the best world possible.


We started the week with an assembly. Each class shared their definitions for bullying and anti-bullying and ways in which we can use our head, heart and hands for the 'Power for Good!'

Each class explored the theme throughout the week and linked their Literacy work to it. Please take a look at our next Book Look, which is on Wednesday 30th November!


In Year R, we all took part in different role-plays and we discussed how we felt. We all agreed to use our Power for Good to always include and help each other!

SCIENCE WEEK LAUNCH!

Science week got off to a super start today with a special appearance from two "Mad Scientists" called Professor Husslefluff and Professor McHayward!

They came in, with their crazy blue hair, to show the children some experiments like - how to make a glitter volcano!

A big thank you to the Professors for giving up their time to come and launch British Science Week at Bitterne Manor!  Let's hope they can come back and visit us next year!

Celebration Assembly at Bitterne Manor

Sporting achievements and trophies won by Bitterne Manor children were presented and celebrated in Assembly today. The Young Sports Ambassadors also presented the winner of the YSA cap design competition her very own cap! A great big thank you to Solent Sport who had the caps made in the winning design. These will be worn by the YSAs during duties and sports events at school.

Being Challenged!

It looks like the whole school is taking on the Challenge theme for the Spring term!

Please ask the children if they've been working on their challenges.

Anti-Bullying Week

It is anti-bullying week and we started the week by thinking about what bullying is. Each class shared their definition of bullying. Key words/phrases were: continuous; every day; verbal; physical; hurts; sad; made to feel worthless; cyber; mean. 

As a school we also talked about what 'anti' means; that actually it is about the choices we make that will help to stop bullying forever. We asked the children about what sort of friend they would like to be and that by respecting differences we can show that we are anti-bullying. This links with the theme this year of stopping bullying FOR ALL. 

The children showed great empathy for one another and had a secure understanding of the different types of bullying. The children will have the chance this week to explore this in more detail.