Artist at work...

Our school toilets have taken on a new look! The children and the school council have been collating ideas for what they would like to see on the walls in their toilets and have voted for the best ideas! We gave our favourite ones to an artist called Steve Porter who then painted them as you can see in the photograph. We think they improve the toilets a great deal! More information about Steve Porter can be found at www.steveporter.org.

Hands on - it's Science Day!

What an exciting day to end the half term! Each class moved round their keystage investigating a range of different questions from Do bigger bubbles fall faster than smaller ones? to How high will my rocket fly? to Is it a liquid or is it a solid? plus many more.

The children worked well in teams, using their scientific knowledge to work out the answers and conduct their testing. Very impressive work everyone :) We finished the day by sharing our findings in an assembly.

Tuesday gardening club

What an exciting lunchtime it was this Tuesday, the first day of the weekly gardening club. Supported by 2 able parents, hoards of children tackled the weeds in the KS1 patio gardens, began weeding Year 4 patio garden, planted out bedding plants, watered ... the list of jobs goes on! A BIG well done to you all.

Year 3s small holding visit

Year 3 enjoyed their visit to a small holding near Romsey. Our trip was inspired by the animals in our Power of Reading book, Charlotte's Web by E B White (except that the pig's name was Peppa, not Wilbur!)

We interviewed Debbie, the owner, to find out more about the site and caring for the animals and were able to use our mapping skills too whilst there.

Most of us held one of the chicks which were 5 weeks old. They felt warm and peep-peeped a lot!

Year R visited Hawthorns Wildlife Centre

On Friday Year R visited Hawthorns at Southampton Common.

We took part in a variety of activities including taking on the role of squirrels and hiding 'nuts', acting as birds looking for different coloured caterpillars, mini-beast hunting, finding brass rubbings and using the activity rooms.

We had a fantastic time. Year R were very well behaved. Well done Year R. Thank you to those parents who came and helped us.

Friday clubs get active!

Last Friday saw this terms clubs get active. Children were given the options of joining clubs that were all going to be doing something active in the hall and grounds, on the field and playground. That's 200 children all doing something energetic at the same time!

Year 2 "On Safari" Homework

"I went to Marwell and took some pictures of giraffes and getting my face painted. This is my homework poster."