On Thursday the children celebrated European Language Day. In the Pre-Prep the children all represented different countries by making a headband with a European flag on. The children even sang Frere Jacques in Mrs Morgan’s assembly!
Buon Giorno!
Today children from Hordle Walhampton were taught in Russian, Spanish, German, and encouraged to dress up in something that represented a European country, attaching a fact about that country to their backs.
Some staff took the brief to heart (a little too much?) too…
Adrian Taylor will be giving the first of this year’s Burrard Lectures, covering the basics of photographic technique, in a talk aimed at novices and intermediate photographers who want to take more control of their photography
Having collected lots of blackberries at Forest School last week, Reception had a very busy morning making blackberry and apple jam. The form rooms smell DELICIOUS and having tried a little, it tastes as good. We are going to sell it next summer at our Garden Party.
Wednesday 9th September was Reception’s first foray into the woods this term and all the children were very excited.
They each had a small pot and set off collecting blackberries so that at a later date we can make jam. Quite a few scratches later, we had enough so we carried on to reach the Forest School site where we sat around our firepit and had a snack.
We all talked about the safety rules of our school and then the children went off to explore.
They found a dead pigeon which caused a great deal of excitement and conundrums! First the children photographed it and then they decided that they would find a worm and put it in its beak and that might help it to ‘be alive’. They then thought they would find a’ catapult stick’ and send it back into the sky and that might ‘make it better’. The final plan that they settled on was to ‘build a graveyard and then see if is still there next time’. We shall wait and see.
A boy in Year Four has been prescribed Tamiflu but does not have a confirmed case of swine ‘flu. The advice we have been given is to continue as normal but we felt parents would like to learn of this from us rather than via the rumour mill.
A new school year has begun, and we’re delighted to see our “old hands” return, and we extend a very warm welcome to all our new faces, both children and staff.
On the staff, we welcome our new deputy head, Mr. Clive Smith-Langridge, who joins us from Cumnor House School, and Tim Peacock, our new Head of Maintenance, who will also be teaching woodwork.
