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Week ending 18th October 2019

Fri 18 Oct 2019

The Family Learning group made some delicious crumbles at their session of Dine Well for Less on Monday afternoon.

Year 4 are continuing to learn the cornet with Mr Oldham.

Nursery children enjoyed their walk to Ellenden Farmshop on Tuesday morning.

Year 4 had an exciting trip to Pizza Express in Stratford on Wednesday. The children learned about foods from Europe and also developed their cooking skills - they all made a pizza to take home with them at the end of the day.

Miss Beaver accompanied the netball and football teams to St Andrew's First School where the children took part in a cluster tournament.

Despite the rain, Year 1 enjoyed a wonderful visit to Bishops Wood on Friday. The children learned about the changing seasons and explored what happens to plants and trees in the autumn.

The PTFA discos took place on Friday evening.

Autumn term so far

Fri 11 Oct 2019

It's been a very busy half term so far!

We welcomed everyone back to school after the summer holiday and also welcomed our Nursery and Reception children who have settled in so well.

We are very proud to announce that we have become a Music Mark School Member for the year 2019/20. This is in recognition of a commitment to providing high quality music education for all children and young people.

We are also pleased to announce that we have been awarded GILT Status for the Primary Science Quality Mark.

After school clubs have, once again, proved popular and include sports clubs, science, debate and handbells - all clubs will run until week ending 22nd November.

Some classes have already taken part in a trip - Year 3 visited Birmingham Museum, Year 2 have been to Leicester Space Centre and Year 5 learnt about Vikings during their trip to Compton Verney.

We held a dress down day for 'Oscar' - thank you to everyone who donated so generously! We raised £424 to help towards Oscar's treatment.

The school had a visit from a Muslim Iman (Priest) who works at HMP Long Lartin. Iman Mufti Mayet gave a brief introduction to Islam, discussed The 5 Pillars of Islam, their dress Code and shared artefacts.

Miss Beaver accompanied our netball team to The De Montfort School for a netball tournament - the team played extremely well and were a credit to our school.

Thank you to those parents/carers who joined Year 1 and Year 2 to 'Share our Phonics' workshop.

The new Family Learning programme 'Dine Well For Less' has started with Mrs Thorp, our Home School Link, and will run until 9th December.

Week commencing 20th May 2019

Fri 24 May 2019

Six excited Key Stage Two children attended a poetry writing workshop at Bengeworth Academy on Monday 20th May. The morning is designed to inspire young people to set their imaginations to work, and was delivered by a published children's poet - Debra Bertulis! Everyone had a very successful session, listening to and interpreting the famous 'In the Hall of the Mountain King', then drafting poems before performing them in front of an audience of children and adults from various local schools! Well done Sophie, Eli, Lois, Ethan, Tom and Daisie!

On Monday afternoon Year One walked to Ellenden Farm. We have been completing a topic all about plants and how they grow and went to see a real working farm in action. We loved walking around the orchard and seeing all the fruit trees growing. We got a chance to visit the farm shop and see all the amazing fruits and vegetables they had on offer. We challenged ourselves to see if we could name all the vegetables in the shop... it was very tricky. We each took some money along to the shop to buy some fruit and vegetables for our cooking day this week. We enjoyed selecting the produce and working out how much money and change we would need at the till. We are very much looking forward to cooking up some yummy treats for our garden party this week.

Year 1 enjoyed our end of topic Garden Party this week. We spent the morning doing lots of cooking with the ingredients we bought from Ellenden Farm. We made apple scones and spinach and cheese muffins. We loved sharing our baking with our grown-ups during our picnic on the field. Thank you to all those who attended.

Our Home School Link together with our Family Support Worker led a Sleep/Bedtime Routine workshop on Wednesday. Thank you to those parents who attended - we hope you found it informative.

Week commencing 13th May 2019

Fri 17 May 2019

Reception class had a brilliant trip to St James’ church. The children learnt lots about the different parts of the church from Reverend Richard Thorniley. They enjoyed sitting in the sunshine and sketching the outside of the church building, creating their own stain glass windows and exploring the church. Phoebe said, “Can we do more sketching, I really liked it”. Arthur said, “I like finding different things in church”. Thank you to Reverend Thorniley for supporting the children’s learning.

On Friday KS2 visited the science museum in Bristol. We were able to explore so many different exhibits including animations, parachutes and bubbles. The children enjoyed being able to touch and test everything around the museum. Each class also completed a different workshop that linked in with their science topics. We all had a brilliant day and the children were extremely well behaved and keen to find out answers to questions they had.

Also on Friday, KS1 and Early Years held a joint Art day. Children were split into three mixed age groups and rotated throughout the day to complete three pieces of art. Our theme for the day was the seaside. We had an assembly in the morning to discuss all the things we knew about the seaside and some time to talk about our experiences of visiting the seaside. We were all very excited to get going. It was wonderful to see children from each year working together and supporting each other throughout the day. Well done to everyone, there were some fantastic pieces of art produced. Look out for some new displays popping up around school soon.

Week commencing 6th May 2019

Fri 10 May 2019

After school clubs started this week. We have a great selection of clubs for children to attend this term which include Outdoor Sports, Cricket, Drama, Handbells, Playclub, Purple Mash Computing, Boccia, Rounders, Cookery and Football. These will continue until week ending 28th June.

Week commencing 29th April 2019

Fri 03 May 2019

We all returned to school on Monday after a lovely Easter break.

This week Year 5 children participated in Bikeability training. They learned how to ride their bikes correctly perfecting turns, safe riding and emergency stops. Thank you to our instructors Robin and Pam and to Mrs Sale for accompanying the children out on the roads. Well done Year 5 you were all brilliant!

Music lessons started again this week with Mr Blackman and Mr Telford - please remember instruments and music.

Year 4 enjoyed the first of their swimming lessons yesterday.

Miss Beaver took four Year 3 children to St Andrew's First School yesterday for a Cluster Writing Event. The children watched a video and listened to sounds of the beach then were asked to write a story about a desert island. Well done to everyone who took part.

Year 5 wrapped up warm today for their bell boating trip on the River Avon - they are getting into practise for the school regatta to be held in June. We wish them the very best of luck and hope for better weather!

Week commencing 8th April 2019

Fri 12 Apr 2019

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our music concert on Monday afternoon - the children played beautifully. Well done musicians!

As part of the RE curriculum, Year 3 visited the Shri Venkateswara Hindu Temple in Tividale on Tuesday. The children enjoyed a guided tour of the temple, listened to Hindu stories and offered fruit to the gods.

We held a moving Easter Service on Wednesday, thank you to Reverend Richard for leading this.

Today, Year 4 performed brilliantly at the Cluster Music Event at The Arts Centre.

Class Catering cooked a delicious Easter lunch today which was followed by Easter chocolate cakes. Thank you to Class Catering for preparing and cooking.

We break up for the Easter holidays today and return on Monday 29th April.

Wishing everyone a lovely Easter break.

Week commencing 1st April 2019

Thu 11 Apr 2019

On Monday Year 5 visited The Arts Centre to participate in the Festival of Languages with other local schools.

We held Parent Consultation Evenings on Monday and Tuesday of this week when parents heard of their child's learning and progress. Thank you to everyone who attended.

Nursery and Reception class enjoyed an Easter Together Morning on Tuesday. There were lots of Easter activities and Reverend Richard read the Easter Story, this was then followed by an Easter bonnet parade in the school hall. The children looked wonderful in their creations!

For the first time in Harvington First School's history we won the swimming gala! Many congratulations to all the competitors!

On Thursday, Mrs Clark accompanied four Year Two children to Badsey First School for a maths gifted and talented workshop.

Six members of our Sunshine Group and Mrs Sale attended an RE local cluster hub event at St Peter's Church in Bengeworth on Friday. The group met with children from other local schools to share their vision and values and discussed the role of the Sunshine Group.

The PTFA held a very successful Chocolate Bingo on Friday evening. Thank you to everyone who supported this - you raised a fantastic £364 for the school. Special thanks also go to our brilliant bingo callers - Mrs Fishbourne and Mrs Enstone!

Week commencing 25th March 2019

Fri 29 Mar 2019

Mrs Sale accompanied three of our Pupil Parliament Ministers to Bretforton First School on Tuesday. The ministers took part in a learning walk to share ideas on what makes an outstanding school. We look forward to Bretforton's visit to us next week.

We welcomed Mrs Thomas (our school lollipop lady) and Mr Beard (police officer) into Nursery this week to link with our story of The Everywhere Bear by Julia McDonaldson. We wish to thank them both for taking the time to visit us and for talking to us about their important roles in the community.

Mrs Thorp hosted a Home School Link drop-in session on Wednesday - thank you those parents who joined us for a coffee and a chat.

Reverend Richard will be holding a Mothering Sunday service at 9.15am at St James' Church.

We look forward to seeing you all at parents evening on either Monday or Tuesday next week.

Week commencing 11th March 2019

Fri 15 Mar 2019

Book and Cook was held on Monday afternoon with Family Learning and our Home School Link, thank you to all the parents who attended with their children.

Despite the awful weather, Year 1 had a fabulous time at Cotswold Wildlife Park on Tuesday.

We welcomed parents of Early Years and Key Stage 1 children to our Come Dine with Me on Wednesday - we hope everyone enjoyed the delicious lunch cooked by Class Catering.

Mrs Clark accompanied four Year 2 children to St Richard's School yesterday to take part in a cluster dance event.

Children came to school wearing red today for Red Nose Day - so far we have raised over £300 for this very worthwhile charity - thank you to everyone for your support!