The staff would like to welcome you all back after the summer holidays! As you are aware, Mrs Hallett, our new Headteacher, is unable to be with us in school at the moment, however she has sent the following message for the school community:

I hope you enjoyed reading your child’s annual school report last night and were proud of all they have achieved this year.  The staff have all been incredibly proud of the children’s hard work and the progress they have made, and thank you for your support at home to ensure your child completes their homework on time and commits to reading at least five times a week.Please enter an introduction for your news story here.

It was great to see so many of you at the Summer Fair last week.  It was a fantastic afternoon with perfect weather and an excellent range of activities to keep everyone busy and having fun.  Just over £2000 was raised for the school, which is incredible! Events like these take a huge amount of planning and organisation and would not be possible without the support of our school community; from chopping onions, to putting up gazebos, to cooking burgers on the barbecue – the list goes on!  A massive thank you must go to our wonderful PTFA chairs, Molly Scotton, Sarah Cordina and Sarah Forbes who coordinated the event.  Please see the thank you list at the end of the newsletter for further thanks.

What a wonderful week we have had here in school!  Following on from a successful Sports Day last week, Year 5 and 6 represented the school brilliantly at the Alton Cricket Festival this week.  A boys’ team participated on Tuesday and a girls’ team on Wednesday with both teams winning lots of their matches.  We are waiting to hear if they have made it through to the final being held in Southampton next week!  A big thank you goes to Mr Goddard and Mr Metters for taking the team to their matches, driving the minibus, cheering the team on and keeping them cool!

I can’t believe we are already at the end of the first half of the summer term and what an incredibly busy one it’s been!! We’ve had a huge range of educational visits, two residentials, SATs tests, coronation celebrations, sporting events and prayer week, as well as all of our usual learning and activities.  I have been so proud of all the children this half-term. They have worked hard in their lessons and have represented our school well when off site by upholding our rules and values at all times - well done children.
 

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend to celebrate the King’s Coronation.  I have certainly enjoyed hearing about all the memories that were made by the children as they celebrated this moment in history.