Wildcats at Eastleigh Football Club

Eastleigh FC is running a Sunday morning Club for GIRLS ONLY starting this Sunday with the aim to get more girsl into the sport.  18 months ago, there were no female players registered to play for the Club, but now after a very successful period of recruitment, they can boast 114 girls and ladies playing football regularly under the Eastleigh FC banner. For mpore details contact the club directly.

Local area

Today year 1 were lucky enough to go on the local area walk, we walked out of the school and explored the surrounding environment. We found that even in our small area there is lots of different things.  We found houses: for living, offices and factories: for work, the river: for the wildlife.  We were even lucky enough to see buses, trains and aeroplanes to show how great our city is for transport and links to other places both in our country and further beyond.
We were very lucky with the weather and only got a little bit wet.

Magic Maths

 Year 3 have been working hard this week on multiplication and division. Today they designed a game to test their knowledge of the 2,5 and 10 times table.

WOW update!

An update on how our 'Walk Once a Week' initiative is going...

Before the launch of the scheme,  45% of children were walking to school, with 34% coming by car.

During the month of October, 53% of children walked to school, with only 8% coming by car  -WOW!!!

A special well done to Rooks class who have the most children walking to school weekly, and to Swifts class who only have 3% coming by car.

Keep up the excellent work - 8 more badges to collect!! Remember - walk, scoot, cycle or park and stride once a week to be in with a chance of getting your badge at the end of the month!

The Digestive system

Over the last couple weeks Year 4 have been learning all about the digestive system.

This week we all had a go at making our very own digestive system where we put food in one end, replicated the process of digestion and then watched the waste products come out the other end, just like they would do in our bodies. Although some of us were a little squeamish about it, the task helped us remember all the different parts of the digestive system and the processes that happen there.

'Heads Up' in Kestrel class

This afternoon we were lucky to have the 'Heads Up' project in our class talking to us about coping strategies and how we can help ourselves to feel well.  We had the opportunity to jump, hop and starjump in the classroom to learn how exercise not only helps to keep our bodies healthy, but how it also helps keep our minds healthy by releasing chemicals called endorphins, which make us feel good. 

We also learned a strategy called 'bunny breathing', which helps to slow our heart rate down if we are feeling anxious, upset or angry.  It made us feel very calm.  Ask us about it and we can show you how to do it!  We are looking forward to learning some more strategies next week.

Swallows become newspaper journalists!!!

This week Swallows are beginning to write a newspaper article on The Great Fire of London! But first they needed to interview some key characters from the event! Acting in role as newspaper journalist it was question time!!......Quizzing the likes of  Samuel Pepys and Thomas Farriner the baker!