Rowner Infant School

Our Year 2 leavers have had the best fun afternoon which has included a silent disco, bouncy castle, photo booth, glitter tattoos and sweet treats.
We would particularly like to thank our staff, PTA volunteers and, local businesses who have made this possible.
Photos to follow on Monday.

We are very excited to announce that in September, Woodpeckers Childcare will be running before and after school provision at our school.
This will run from 7.30 am each morning and, after school, will run through to 5.45 pm in the evening.
Please click the link below to make an enquiry for September.

Home – Top Bar Woodpeckers opens its doors at 7.30am offering children a selection of cereals, toast with various toppings, and drinks right up until 8.10am. Each child is given their own toothbrush and case along with toothpaste allowing them to join in with our “Healthy Teeth” policy.

We would like to thank the school staff, parents and Governors who came into school for the Ground Force Day yesterday. Despite the awful weather, we managed to get a lot done! We mostly focused on the gated playground area. This was a huge job but, we did manage to remove most of the surface in preparation for laying turf in the summer.

To enable us to finish this and other jobs, we are going to hold another Ground Force Day this Sunday between 9 and 3.
It would be great to see you. Even if you can only spare an hour!

It's official! Our new Caretaker, Mr Wilson, now has his name on the school sign. We are so lucky to have him join our team and he has already made a big impact on making improvements to the school site.

Today, we have written to our parents and carers to share the result of our recent graded Ofsted inspection.

We are extremely proud and delighted to inform you that the overall judgement is that we are, officially rated as a GOOD school.

Here are just some of the positive comments made by the lead inspector in the report:

‘Rowner Infant School is welcoming, inclusive and nurturing’
‘Staff care deeply for the pupils well-being’
‘The school has made significant improvements since the last inspection’
‘This is a school that works hard to meet the needs of all pupils no matter what their background or barriers in life’
‘Pupils have trusting relationships with adults’
'Pupils are happy and safe’
‘There is a strong team spirit at the school, staff morale is high’
‘The overwhelming majority of parents are delighted with the school. They typically comment that their children thoroughly enjoy school'

This is a fantastic achievement for everyone in our school and the entire Rowner Infant community. I will hope that you will join us in celebrating this great success and spread the word to the entire community just how amazing our school is and how exceptional its children and staff are.

Next week, we plan to celebrate with the children and will be having class parties on the afternoon of Thursday 18th July. On this day, the children can come in to school wearing non-uniform/party clothes and we will provide them with a treat filled afternoon. We will also be sharing this with the wider community via the local newspaper (watch this space).

We would like to thank the school staff, parents and Governors who came into school for the Ground Force Day yesterday. Despite the awful weather, we managed to get a lot done! We mostly focused on the gated playground area. This was a huge job but, we did manage to remove most of the surface in preparation for laying turf in the summer.
To enable us to finish this and other jobs, we are going to hold another Ground Force Day this Sunday between 9 and 3.
It would be great to see you. Even if you can only spare an hour!

Thank you to those parents and carers who have already offered their help for our next 'Groundforce Day'.
We would really appreciate your help everyone, even it is only for an hour.
Our last 'Groundforce Day' was a huge success and we were able to make many improvements to the outside areas of our school.
We are hoping to re-surface our gated playground during the holidays and need as much help as possible next Sunday to take up the current surface in preparation for this.

Please see the July edition of the Rowner Infant Bee News attached. This is being sent out to our parents and carers today.

Well done to all of our children for taking part in our sports afternoon on Friday. We were so proud of your resilience and team work.
Miss Clements has added up all of the scores and the difference between Red Team and Blue Team was only 2 points!

Blue Team have won for the past 2 years but, this year, the winner is.................. RED TEAM!

Last week in school was our Sports Week. The children enjoyed many exciting activities and worked with lots of visitors. These included the Hampshire Bikeability Team, Dance Days, Education Catering - Hampshire County Council, the School Nursing Team and PH Sports.
During the week, we learned about and took part in many new sports and activities. We also learned about the importance of being healthy.
Our busy week ended with our sports afternoon on Friday with our parents and carers.
We would like to thank Miss Clements for organising this special week for our children . We hope that this will now be an annual event.

Thank you to those parents and carers who have already offered their help for our next 'Groundforce Day'.
We would really appreciate your help everyone, even it is only for an hour.
Our last 'Groundforce Day' was a huge success and we were able to make many improvements to the outside areas of our school.

We are hoping to re-surface our gated playground during the holidays and need as much help as possible next Sunday to take up the current surface in preparation for this.

Our Sports Week ended today with an amazing sports afternoon. We would like to thank our families for coming along today to support the children.

We were so proud of our wonderful children this afternoon. They demonstrated resilience and confidence when trying all of the activities.

We will announce the winning team in Monday's assembly
Red or Blue Team? Who will it be?

Next week, we will share some of the photos from our amazing week of sport.

We are aware how difficult the current financial climate is for our community and are receiving requests from parents about what support is available locally.
Please see the details below for Gosport Community Pantry.

Yesterday, our year 2 children had a visit from Sublime Science. They enjoyed being scientists for the morning and did many exciting things including making slime, making lemon sherbet, launching rockets and doing sound experiments.
The visiting 'scientist' has inspired them all to try to find out about new things and to do their own experiments!

Friday Freeze is back! Ice pops will be for sale at the school gate at the end of the day today for 20p. Bring your pennies!

Today, we had a yummy football themed lunch as England are playing Denmark in the Euro 2024 championship this evening.
COME ON ENGLAND!

Next week in school is our 'Sport and Healthy Living Week'. Throughout the week we will be doing themed activities and we have arranged many exciting visitors and experiences for the children.

These include the following:
The Hampshire Bikeability Team will be in Year R and will be teaching the children to ride a balance bike.
We have a dance company coming in to do street dance sessions with Year 1 and 2.
Our sports company (PH Sports) will be doing extra sessions and introducing different sports to the children
'Hall of Fame' assemblies to celebrate the children's sporting achievements
Touch rugby for Year 1 and 2
The School Nursing Team
Hampshire Caterers
Asda Champions will be cooking with classes

Our exciting week will end with our sports afternoon next Friday. The playground gates will be open from 1.15 and we will start at approximately 1.30.

Please ensure that your child has a PE kit in school for the whole week. Please check that they have one in school before the weekend.
This needs to consist of the following:
White tshirt
Black shorts
Trainers or plimsoles

Today, Mr Wilson, our new caretaker, joined Ms Woodford and the Bee Team to discuss improving the outside area for the children. The children brought all of the ideas from their classes to share with him. Mr Wilson has gone away with a very long list of jobs to do!

The children and staff have really enjoyed 'Football Friday' today to celebrate the start of Euro 2024.

On Friday 14th June, the children are invited to wear football kits and sports wear to school to celebrate the start of Euro 2024.
This will be a welcome treat for them because they have been amazing this week while we have had special visitors in school.

Please see our flyer below about next week's Father's day Shop.

Today, in school, we marked 80 years since D-Day. Our school day has been filled with many themed activities linked to D-Day including, learning new facts, making aeroplanes and making flags. We watched some of the D-Day coverage on TV including the King's speech and the drone light show and we also had a special lunch.
Our children have shown so much respect and empathy whilst remembering the events of 80 years ago. We are extremely proud of them.

Tomorrow, to commemorate 80 years since D-Day, the children are invited to wear red, white and blue clothing to school. Children can also wear their Beavers, Squirrels and Rainbows uniforms if they wish to.

Today in assembly we talked about the important job that our Armed Forces do. We then briefly talked about what happened on D-Day 80 years ago.

We also talked about how important it is to always remember our Armed Forces, both past and present.

This Thursday, to commemorate 80 years since D-Day, the children are invited to wear red, white and blue clothing to school

We would like to wish our children and their families a happy bank holiday weekend and half term.
We look forward to seeing you all on MONDAY 3RD JUNE.
Also, a reminder that, Thursday 6th June is a red, white and blue dressing up day for D-Day 80.

Today, we officially celebrated Mrs Parratt's retirement from nearly 30 years of teaching. We were so lucky to have her join us at Rowner and will always be grateful for everything she did for our school.
We know that you will join us in wishing her the very best in her retirement.

Yesterday, our Year 1 and 2 children had a special visitor from the Royal Navy. The children were able to ask him questions about what life is like in the Royal Navy. Our Year 1 children are also learning about what life was like in the Navy in the past.

The company below are currently supporting our site team after school each day with school cleaning. They are now advertising for staff in the local area (not at our school). Please see details below:

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The dates below have been emailed to parents and carers today. More information will follow regarding some of the events but we wanted you to have the dates for your diaries.

Today, Miss Clements held our second 'Hall of Fame' assembly. A group of children were given the opportunity to share their sporting achievements from home.
We listened to the children talk about clubs that they currently attend and some of them also shared medals. trophies and certificates.
We are extremely proud of them all.
Miss Clements will be emailing families about the next assemblies which will take place during our 'Sport Week' on 24th June.