Visit from chef James Golding

Year 4 had the pleasure of having award winning chef James Golding visit the class. He is head chef at THE PIG restaurant in Brockenhurst.

THE PIG is in the privileged position of having its own farm next door that provides the vast majority of the meat that James turns into delicious dishes.  Their kitchen garden also ensures the freshest vegetables, all picked to order, and everything is grown or reared to organic standards.

He brought in different food types and we had to guess where on our tongues we could taste the flavours.

Our plate of different sustainable food

What can you smell?



What vegetable is this?

 

Thank you James for letting us try some of your organic food!

Read For My School 2014

We are writing to let you know that this term our school will be taking part in a national reading competition called Read for My School, which is open to all children in years 3 – 8 in England.

The competition website www.readformyschool.co.uk is hosting a free online library of over 100 books. If they participate then your child will be able to read those books online wherever they have internet access. They can of course choose to read books in print or that are not part of the online library – the goal is simply to read as much as possible this term.

100,000 books will be distributed by Pearson in prizes for the schools and children who read the most. Individual children will be drawn as prize-winners from the pool of all children around the country who read eight books or more. Prize packs of 100 books for whole schools will be awarded after a draw from the pool of all schools where 250 books or more are read.

100,000 books will also be donated to a Book Aid International programme in Tanzania that distributes books into schools where children currently have very limited access to reading material. A new feature of the competition this year is that children will have the option to write a short letter to the children in Tanzania who will receive these books. Regional and National awards will be won by the children who write the most powerful letters, and by those who read the most books.

Any encouragement that you can give to your child that supports them as they try to read a little more this term would be invaluable, whatever form it may take. If they do participate in Read for My School fully then your child will reap benefits for themselves, for our school and for children in Tanzania.

HOW IT WORKS:

With you child, visit: www.readformyschool.co.uk

Choose sign up as a pupil then follow the simple instructions - you do not have to provide any personal details. 

The READING GROUP CODE is 195961

There is a list of Recommended Reads and a range of books available to read online. If you have a computer or tablet computer at home, you may need to enable Adobe Flash Player to ensure that your child can read the online books. Unfortunately the website won’t work on iPads, but if you have an Android device then you should be able to read the online books.

If you are using Internet Explorer 9 or below, please update to the latest version to be able to take advantage of everything this brilliant scheme has to offer! On Android you can try the Dolphin browser, which enables Flash to work.

Children can also log paper books they have read offline, and they will be counted towards their total number of books read in the competition. To do this, your child needs to log in, then next to their Reading Record, click on 'Toggle more', then 'Click here to add a book read offline' – your child should then be able 

to add any book s/he has read offline...

Have fun reading!

Fair Trade

As part of their Africa topic, Year 6 have been finding out about Fair Trade and put together a short film about it - here's an example!

Unveiling Southampton's New War Memorial

Our school councillors were proud to take part in the unveiling ceremony of Southampton's new war memorial today. Together with children from other schools, we helped to reveal the new wall to remember the people of Southampton who had given their lives in conflicts since the First World War.

This was a chance for old and young to meet and we talked to representatives of the Royal British Legion and this was a reminder that many people are still suffering today as a result of conflicts around the world. The original memorial is nearly 100 hundred years old and many of the names are now worn and faded so this new wall commemorates a further 1,992 citizens of Southampton who lost their lives and will be a lasting tribute to their sacrifice.

News From The Maasi

We were delighted to hear that one of our Maasi friends has recently become engaged. Grosper has sent us some photographs of his engagement celebrations. We wish him lots of luck.
Parents and friends....if you would like to find out more about the Maasi or indeed about sponsorship, visit http://www.serianuk.org.uk/

Mpanda says 'hi'

 

This is Mpanda who we are supporting to go to school. His headteacher is Grosper, one of our Maasi visitors last term.
The building in the background is one of the classrooms. The Tanzanian flag is flying and every morning the children salute the national flag before starting school.
In the background you can see the expanse of land that the school is set in.

Ugandan Watoto Choir

Today we were all amazed by the fantastic Watoto Choir from Uganda. The choir is made up of Ugandan children who have been orphaned. They have performed previously at Buckingham Palace and The Whitehouse!
Bitterne Manor were honoured to enjoy their brilliant singing and dancing talents. Some of our children were excited to be picked to have a go at chanting and dancing.
What an experience for us all...