Newsletters

May 2022

SUPERSTARS

Our exciting Superstars fundraising event is on Wednesday next week (18th May). A ParentMail has already been sent out with all the details for this. We are also asking parents to send in their child’s money to take part in the events (in 50p pieces if possible) in a named purse or wallet prior to the day. Please can all parents also ensure that they have completed the form to indicate the going home arrangements for their child. Thank you to all the parents who have offered to support with the refreshments. You will soon receive an email informing you of your time slot!

YEAR 3 NEWS

We hope you all had a lovely Easter; the children have assured us that lots of chocolate was involved!

Year 3 have had a wonderful start to the summer term; we have done so much already and still have so much to look forward to. 

Thank you for supporting our recent fairy tale dress up day - we loved the variety of costumes that came in and appreciated the time and effort that had gone into making them. It was a great way to launch our new English unit and we were so proud of the children for working so hard all day.  It was their first experience of Project Based Learning and they produced some wonderful work - a big thank you to the parents who popped in to see what they had been up to and celebrated their achievements with them.  

Thank you also to the parents who were able to join us for our Drop, Stop and Calculate sessions.  The children thoroughly enjoyed being able to showcase their learning and we hope you found it useful. We did identify a few children who are still struggling to tell the time.  This is such an important skill; please keep working on this together at home.

This week we have enjoyed our trips to Dell Quay, 3A on Wednesday and 3B & 3D on Friday.  Although the weather was a bit damp on Wednesday, it was fine on Friday, and we were all able to make the most of the great outdoors - splashing around in the river being a definite highlight! It was wonderful to see the children applying what they have been learning in class and sharing their knowledge with the staff at Dell Quay.  

We look forward to seeing some of you at Superstars next week!

YEAR 5 NEWS

The Year 5 children have done a great job of throwing themselves back into their learning after the Easter Holidays. We have now started work on our new unit 'The Highwayman' and the children are enjoying the dark, spooky nature of the narrative poem. We have also begun our new geography unit all about volcanoes and earthquakes, and we are looking forward to some online workshops with the Natural History Museum later in the term. 

On Tuesday 26^th April, the children took part in the first of three workshops at Warblington School. This included music, art and science - the Bunsen burners were a particular hit! As always, the children did themselves proud with their enthusiasm and behaviour, and we are excited for the next two workshops - Tuesday 24^th May and Tuesday 28^th June.  

With Superstars coming up, we are looking forward to the children showing off their extracurricular skills such as doughnut eating, tower building and wet sponge throwing - although Mrs Browne, Mr Baker and Mr Kershaw are not too excited by that last one! We hope to see as many parents as possible on that day to cheer the children on for this fantastic event. 

WARM WEATHER

Now the weather is getting warmer, please can we remind adults to apply sun cream to children before they come into school. It is also good for the children to have a hat/cap to wear at break times. Please ensure your child has their water bottle with them every day.

ECO NEWS

When we started our journey to become an Eco-school, which we introduced to the school community as part of Havant’s Big Green Week in September 2021, we never expected to have the most wonderful and enthusiastic bunch of Eco warriors in our Eco club (36 children from across the school - and we still have a waiting list!).

The energy that this unique group of children have put into the numerous projects this year to try to achieve our Green Flag and become recognised as an Eco-school has continually made us all proud. We have had the most wonderful opportunities and submitted our application just before the Easter holidays. Our aim had been to try to achieve the Green Flag this year, the Green Flag with Merit next year and the Green Flag with Distinction the following year.

This week, we were very excited to receive the following email from the assessors to say that not only have we achieved our Green Flag within one year, we have been awarded it with Distinction (this was our 3 year plan – not one!). We could never have done this without the support of everyone in the school community to which we belong. We thought you would like to read the assessors' report to see how we achieved this status. As you can imagine we are buzzing with excitement and we have many more fun things planned for the rest of this term!

CONGRATULATIONS ON PASSING YOUR ECO-SCHOOLS GREEN FLAG!

Congratulations!!!

Fantastic work Caroline!

We are very pleased to tell you that you and your Eco-Committee at Bosmere Junior School have been awarded an Eco-Schools Green Flag. We reviewed your application and noted the following:

We loved hearing how your Eco-Committee communicated with the rest of their school and wider community! Giving them the chance to deliver assemblies, shows that their work is valued, including information for the parents via MS Teams is a great way to engage parents in environmental action. It is wonderful to hear you have a waiting list for taking part in the Eco-Committee. Thank you for uploading copies of your minutes, very well written. We love your Willow Dome; make sure it is on your action plan to maintain this as it can grow quickly. Well done on the solar panel! We loved that you involved the children in discovering the answers for the Environmental Review, as our programme is all about empowering young people. We loved reading your Action Plan, don’t forget to update your outcomes on there when your actions have been met or how they are progressing. The Action Plan is a working document and some actions could carry over onto next year. Great work linking your Action Plan into your HEARTS mornings! We fully support your ‘Wild Wednesday’ idea for the whole school to participate in an environmental day. Your Informing and Involving work is fantastic and one of the strongest parts of your application. The Eco-Board showed off all your hard work in an organised manner, and it was especially wonderful to hear how you have involved younger children with the wider community in your Eco-Schools work. Partnering with the local secondary school is a great idea. The parental quote really demonstrates how your Eco-School's work is raising awareness not only within school but at home and the wider community. You have some impressive figures in Monitoring and Evaluation, keep up the good work! We loved the enthusiasm of the children in the Eco movie! Loved the energy usage chart, this could have been placed under monitoring and evaluation as well! Finally, having looked through the bonus sections we were delighted to see how you have used your environmental work to benefit a broad range of pupils in your school, this is a real demonstration that environmental action is for all!

It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to review your Eco-Schools Green Flag application - you are most definitely a worthy Eco-Schools with distinction Green Flag Award winner! Congratulations!

WELLBEING TIP

My child has anger issues…

Do they? Or do they just get angry? The two are very different!

I have heard many children say they have anger issues, as this is what they have been told by their parent/carer. On occasions, this may give the child a feeling of “permission” to behave in a certain manner because they have a “label” which they believe may excuse their behaviour and it should therefore be accepted.

This is not the case.

Anger is a human emotion, experienced by every one of us from babies up to geriatrics, but how it is dealt with has the lasting effect.

Anger occurs for many different reasons and sometimes it is not always understood by those on the receiving end.

Anger can be used as a defence mechanism in order to protect us from “impending danger”.

When we experience heightened emotion such as anger, the chemicals and hormones in our body need time to reduce, so trying to calm an angry child is like “poking a fire with a chocolate stick”. The worst thing you can tell an angry person to do is calm down! Give time, space and patience. Do not rise to their emotion.

When the situation has eased, then is the time to discuss the issue. I bet you find out that the child was not angry … look below the surface and there lie your answers.