Mr Hanson leads our assembly on Monday about team work. He’ll be asking the children to think about how they can best work as a team in the run up to the Christmas Market!

On Tuesday, 4B are visiting the QMC science centre. Year 5 parents are also invited to see their news reports at 2:30pm. Year 4 music concerts are on Wednesday- 2pm for 4B and 2:45pm for 4PJ. Friday is our school Christmas Dinner! This can be ordered on the day. Have a great week!

This week, we’re focusing on curiosity! Our visitor assembly is being led on this theme by the Compass Group, which is a group of teenagers from a local secondary school. Curiosity raises lots of questions; we also want our pupils to follow through in trying to find the answers!

On Thursday, out choir will be singing at Festival Place! And 4PJ are off to QMC on Friday to have science lessons using their fantastic equipment. It’s 4B’s turn next week.

Don’t forget the deadline for bringing in an item of food for the Christmas boxes for the BVA- it’s this Wednesday!

Finally, Juliette Meunier is having her last day as part of our catering team on Tuesday. Although strictly employed by HC3S and not our school, Juliette has always been part of our school through her friendly and helpful manner, her flexibility, and her sense of fun. We will miss having Juliette around, and wish her the very best in the future.

Christmas Food Boxes for Basingstoke

Last year Basingstoke Voluntary Action provided Christmas Food Boxes to people less fortunate than ourselves and who would benefit enormously from a little extra at Christmas time. They are doing a similar appeal this year and we would like to join in by asking parents to send in donations of food to be distributed to homeless centres and hostels. They are requesting the following items listed below:

1. Packs of pasta/rice
2. Pouches of pasta sauces
3. Tea and coffee
4. Long life milk
5. Biscuits
6. Sugar
7. Cereals
8. Cup soups, noodles

The deadline for delivery at school is Wednesday 3^rd December.

Thank you very much for your support for this fantastic cause!

Welcome back! We hope you’ve had a really good half term break. Our theme for the week is resilience- the ability to keep going and remain strong, especially when things get difficult. It is of course closely linked to perseverance.

This week, the Year 6 pupils go on their residential. We know that they will have an amazing time! They will certainly be developing resilience.

‘Bags to School’ need to be returned on Monday as previously mentioned. This is a huge help to raise funds for our school. Thank you.

Year 3 go to the cinema on Wednesday, and Year 4 on Friday. This is part of a free showing put on by Vue for schools.

Have a great week

To see some of your children’s fantastic work make sure you pop in to the Discovery Centre in Festival Place.  Why not join the library while you are there and pick some fantastic books to borrow and read together over half term.