Education City

Bitterne Manor now subscribes to Education City which is a leading provider of e-learning resources for schools and families. All our pupils are now able to log in and use the activities at school and at home. Children should be coming home soon with user ids and passwords. For more information, head over to www.educationcity.com or if you need your child's log in details please contact our office.

Year 6 SATs

We would like to say how proud we are of our Year 6 children. Their attitude towards their SATs was exemplary. Everyone tried their best. The SATs are only a very small part of our assessment process in year 6, they provide a snap shot in time. We have very strong Teacher Assessment evidence based on all of the work children have done during year 6 and this is our preferred way of assessing children.
We hope year 6 will enjoy their trip to Itchen Valley on Monday as a reward for all of their hard work!

Year 4 Visit the Roman Palace

We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of our trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace, near Chichester. We certainly enjoyed the experience, as you can see, of finding out about this amazing piece of our past. We learnt a lot from seeing these Roman remains first hand and being trainee archaeologists! We would especially like to thank Mr Tanner and Mrs Longley for their help supporting our trip.

Year 3 garden update

We've been enjoying the last of the colourful flowers from the bulbs we planted in the autumn. Next task is to plant out pumpkin seeds.

Our potatoes are really putting on a mass of growth! Do you think we'll beat Year 4 in the competition?

Mayor Making

The former Sheriff of Southampton, Councillor Carol Cunio was elected today, Wednesday May 12, as the 788th Mayor of Southampton, a role for which records go back to 1217. She has taken over from the former Mayor, Councillor Elizabeth Mizon.

Our School was represented at the ceremony, which took place at the Guildhall, by two of our school councillors.

Photos from Fairweather

Year three visited Fairweather's learning garden in Beaulieu recently. We learnt how to be good gardeners and had fun watering the plants (and eachother!), mulching paths and snipping broccoli to sample.

Get Recycling!

The School Council would like to get everyone to recycle more! We collected a bag of rubbish from around our school and took it to Hedge End recycling depot to see what could be recycled. We were met by the manager, Chris Macdonald, who showed us where all our rubbish could be put in the right place. His site is the most successful of 26 recycling depots in Hampshire and has a record 85% recycling rate. He reckons that people could do a lot more to recycle their rubbish even if it did mean putting him out of a job! Enjoy the pictures of us looking round and recycling our rubbish!