Weekly update 3116 June 2023 (by admin) |
Dear parents and carers,
It has been a great week in school with plenty of activities taking place across the school as part of our Art Week. Each year group will be presenting their artwork on the website for their year group. This will be available on Monday by 5pm.
Thank you to all of the Staff who have organised visits and also to the parents who volunteer to make this possible! The purpose of educational visits is to enrich the curriculum in year groups and we hope that your children have deeper understanding as a result.
Communication Update including lost property
We have two meetings to discuss communication in the school on the Wednesday 21st June at 9am (in school) and also on Wednesday 28th June at 1pm on Zoom.
In the meantime, we have made the following changes to support information being more easily available.
- Almost all communication, aimed at the whole school community, will be sent out on Friday by 5pm as a single email. This includes PTA information. This allows parents to read information over the weekend.
- One reminder will be sent out prior to an event and approximately 48 hours in advance. There will be no other reminders sent.
- Lost property notices must be posted by parents using the guestbook facility on:
https://www.fairfields.hants.sch.uk/parents. These will be visible for parents if they find any additional items brought home. Every effort must now be made to label all items children bring into school. We will also purchase class boxes for children to place items in at break and lunchtime on the playground. These will be where your children line up and you will be able to check these when you collect or drop off your child. Any items left in the boxes will be thrown away each Monday at 3:45pm.
We hope that this will help to improve communication in the interim. If you have any further suggestions please do come along to one of the meetings or email them to the school office.
Missing Library Books
We currently have over 200 library books missing from the school library. Attached is a list of some of the books missing. Please could you look at home to see if you have them.
Healthy Lives Week and Sports Day
Healthy lives week is next week, 19-23rd June. Please can children wear P.E kit all week ensuring that it is black shorts, leggings or tracksuit bottoms and a white t-shirt if you have not been able to buy the compulsory T-shirt.
Sports Day will be on Thursday 22nd June with a back-up day on Friday 23rd June if it cannot go ahead. On Sports Day children should wear their adidas PE top or a top of their house colour.
KS2 (Years 3,4, 5 and 6) sports day will be on the school field from 9 – 12
KS1 (Years 1 and 2) and Foundation Stage will start at 1pm and finish at 3pm.
KS1 and Foundation Stage parents will collect their children from field at 3.10pm. KS2 parents collect as normal at 3.15pm. Parents are welcome to stay on the field during the lunch break, but children will return to school to eat their lunch, refill their water bottles and use the toilets.
Children will bring home their passport for the week home on Monday. This is an opportunity for children to be sponsored for completing activities on their passport. Please see the passport for more info. Teachers will email to let parents know when activities have been completed in school.
There will be a Staff rounders match against St Marys Junior School staff on Monday 19th June at 4pm on the field with a healthy bake sale -we would welcome any donations of nut free cakes (homemade or shop bought!) to be bought in on Monday morning. Parents and children welcome and encouraged to come watch and support.
Diversity Party – Monday 3rd July 3:15 – 4pm
We are really excited about the diversity party which will take place on Monday 3rd July. We have already had a number of families sign up for a table to represent their country.
The aim will be for a table to be given to represent each culture/ country from our school.
The table could have:
- some facts about the country- including pictures, photographs, posters, flags etc. These can be emailed to the school for printing.
- some traditional food – no nuts please and include ingredients list to display.
- traditional games or activities demonstrated or for children to complete.
- photographs of traditional clothing or clothes on display.
If you would like to have a table or join an existing family’s table, please let us know by emailing admin@fairfields.hants.sch.uk
We also have a number of performances taking place at the same time:
- Fairfields Band
- Fairfields Choir
- Bagpipe demonstration
- Indian dancing (TBC)
If anyone else would like to perform, please do let us know.
Staff retiring
We are sad to say farewell to two devoted members of our school community who are retiring at the end of this academic year.
Mrs Terri Hope has worked at the school for 15 years. She has been an asset to the school, supporting families through the pandemic and helping to encourage children who find coming to school challenging.
Mrs Annie Baker is also retiring after 26 years at the school. She has been an incredibly inspiring part of the team and we will miss her magical baking and crafting skills!
We hope that they will continue to visit the school at special events!
PTA Update
Year 1 PTA Challenge and Raffle results
Well done to Year 1 who took part in the PTA Challenge and raised a final total of £563.50 from their Fairfest Crafternoon on 9th June.
The winners of the raffle were drawn on Monday and are:
Wellington country park tickets - Rob and Brady Watt
Naomi’s Nails Voucher - Luca Thomas
House of Handsome voucher - Xinghang Huang
Flip out tickets - Debbie Barnes,
Chennai express voucher - Anthony Weatherhead
Finkley down farm voucher- Rob and Brody Watt
Tea bar voucher - Xinghing Huang,
Village gym voucher - Ryan Michael,
Vue tickets - Helen Damm,
The Street bakehouse voucher - Bayah Aird
Basingstoke wellness centre - Ulrike Hanson
Golf bag - Ilona Godlewska
PTA will contact winners and prizes will be ready for collection from reception next week.
PTA Challenge Year 2
It is the turn of Year 2 next month, could interested Year 2 parents please contact fairfieldspta@gmail.com for details. There is a great opportunity for Year 2 to combine their efforts with the Diversity Party on 3rd July.
Year 5
We need Year 5 parents to shadow the Year 6 volunteers, so they know what to do next year for the Year 6 Leavers Disco, Hoodies etc. Any Year 5 parents who can get involved please email fairfieldspta@gmail.com If we don't have volunteers, these activities won't run for Year 6 in the next school year.
Fairfields Circus and Fair 21st July
If any parents are able to donate second hand good toys to use at the fair - that would be much appreciated. These can be dropped off at the school office.
Further donations needed by Year Group. Please can parents donate items as per the below list and they can be dropped off at the school office next week (please ensure expiry dates are post 21 July else we’ll be unable to use them).
Year R, Year 1, Year 2: Wrapped Chocolate/Biscuits (no nut)
Year 3, Year 4: New toys/dolls/Alcohol/non-alcohol bottle (for game prizes)
Year 5, Year 6: Alcohol/non-alcohol bottles
Tickets are still available at https://fairfieldspta.uk/product/circus-ticket/ and we will be having further ticket exchanges and sales in the playground - watch this space.
We still need volunteers to help, you can sign up here; https://fairfieldspta.uk/summer-fair-volunteer-sign-ups/ you will not miss the Circus by volunteering and will receive a free ice cream or drink token and VIP access to the circus without needing to queue for the best seat.
Parenting Update
On Monday 19th June, from 8.40 till 10, the Primary Behaviour Support Service will be joining us in the cabin on the bottom playground for their last drop in session of the year. We will have refreshments down there and you are all very welcome to come along and talk to the team about any behaviours your child may be displaying which you would like advice and support with.
The parents who have attended previous sessions through the year have found them very useful so please do pop along if you can. It is very informal, and we look forward to seeing you there.
