Holbrook Primary School

Thank you to everyone who attended our Christmas Cracker event on Tuesday or sent money in for the secret shop. We raised a phenomenal £2085.15 for our children 👏
Special thanks to our amazing PTFA and all the staff that helped to make the day happen 🥰

On Monday the 4th December, our Sibling Support group went on a Christmas trip to the Made by Me pottery painting studio. The children all had a wonderful time and we are excited to see how their designs turn out.

Today, we were lucky enough to have a visit from The Royal Marine Band! They travel all around the world to play at important events, including the Queen’s funeral and the King’s Coronation! They inspired lots of our children and staff and brought the whole school into the festive spirit with their amazing Christmas performances 🎅

A lovely end to the week with our Anti-bullying themed team morning. All the children worked together, year 1-6, in their house teams for the first time this year. It was lovely watching all the different ages learning and engaging together 🥰 At the end of the session each team had created a new display in the school teaching everyone how to be kind ❤️

Applying for a reception place (Year R)

If your child was born between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020, they will be eligible to start school in the school year beginning September 2024.
Applications are now open!
To make an application visit
www.hants.gov.uk/admissions

Applications close on Monday 15th January 2024

It has been a whirlwind of a first half term but a thoroughly enjoyable one. Thank you for all your continued support with the children, we hope you all have a lovely week off 🥰

Thank you to everyone for all your generous donations of cakes today. We have made a huge £633.62 for MacMillian 🥰
Thank you to our Team Captains/ Head and Deputy Boys and Girls for showing amazing manners and helping all morning 👏
Thank you to our PTFA and all the staff who made it run so well 👏
A huge shoutout to Tesco in Gosport who donated us some cakes thanks to Ella-Marie and Elsie-May.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Open evenings for Year R admissions September 2024.

We are very excited to share the news that we have new baby Guinea Pigs 🥰 the children will be able to put ideas for names forward next week.

What an exciting end of the week we have had! Year 3 had a brilliant time last night at the school sleepover. Thank you to all the staff who gave up their evening to make this happen. Year 6 delivered a wonderful year 6 assembly today 👏
Next week we are looking at the theme of ‘Courage’ and being ‘Enthusiastic Learners’. On Monday Year 4 are off to Buster Farm for a Historic Hook Day and at the end of the week year 2 are inviting their parents in to taste the vegetable tarts that they have designed in DT.
Have a lovely weekend everyone 🥰

Dig out your neon socks, custard scarf and banana hat - let's stand out and show up for young people's mental health.

We can all struggle with how we’re feeling, but sometimes things get tough and it can be difficult to cope. For so many young people, when this happens, they don’t get the help they need, when they need it.

No young person should feel alone with their mental health.

But together, we can change this. By wearing yellow on World Mental Health Day (10 October), and donating what you can, you can show young people that you’re with them. Show them that they matter and deserve the support they need, when they need it, no matter what.

Join thousands of individuals, schools and communities across the country to stand out and show up for young people’s mental health this .

This small act can make a big difference for millions of young people across the county.

We are asking for any cash donation on the day to wear something yellow and give support to this fundraising project.

Many thanks

Well done to our new Eco Team who applied for the positions and were successful 👏 They delivered a brilliant whole school assembly yesterday all about how to save our environment and save water and electricity in our school. Thank you all for being so confident to speak in front of everyone 🥰

The children chosen for showing our school value of Active and Healthy at lunchtimes this week, enjoyed making the first Golden Lunch of the year on Friday.

This week the children peeled and chopped potatoes and carrots and some broccoli for their sausage and mash lunch, then had a delicious strawberry sundae for dessert. The children had a great time working both individually and as part of a team. Well done! 😄

Secondary school open evenings for Year 6 pupils:

The next events for year 6 students will be our Open evenings.
Brune Park will be held on Tuesday 26th September 2023 4.30 pm - 7 pm.
Bay House School will be held on Thursday 5th October 2023 4.30 pm -7 pm.
The last admission for the presentations at Bay House will be 6.30 pm

More information can be found on their school websites. Please look for other secondary open evenings coming up soon for year 6 children on the individual secondary school websites.

Job opportunity:

We need a mini bus driver for our Speech, Language, Communication and Autism Spectrum Disorder Resourced Provision who can safely transport pupils and their es**rt to and from school.

The hours for this role are Monday to Friday 7.30am-8.45am and 3.00pm-4.30pm during school term-time only.

Holbrook Primary School
Minibus Driver
Closing date:
22/09/2023 at 12:00

Interview date:
26/09/2023

Contract/Hours:
Permanent , Part-time

Salary Type:
Support Staff

Salary Details:
Grade B £20,812 FTE

Salary Pro-Rata:
£6.633

Hours of Work:
13 hours 45 minutes per week, term time only

Suitable for a job share:
Yes

Location of Role:
Holbrook Primary School

Contact e-mail address:
[email protected]

What a lovely first day back. It was so wonderful to see our school full of happy children again. It was lovely to meet and welcome all our new Year R children to Holbrook in their settling in sessions today too 🥰

'Storm Athletics are excited to offer an after-school club at Holbrook. Throughout the first half term, they will be running 45 minute sessions after school on a Tuesday from 3:15 to 4:00pm for Years 3-6. The children will learn how to stunt and tumble safely whilst having fun and building relationships with children from other years groups. Storm's coaching staff have recently become World Champions in Orlando, Florida, so expert guidance will be on hand to coach the children. On the last session of the half term, the children will host a show for their family to attend to show them what they have been working on.

The half-termly fee is £24 with sessions running on the following dates:

Tuesday 12th September,
Tuesday 19th September,
Tuesday 26th September,
Tuesday 3rd October,
Tuesday 10th October,
Tuesday 17th October,

Please email [email protected] to register your interest.'

We hope you have all had a restful holiday. Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday for the start of this year’s exciting adventure 😝Mrs Tomkins

If anyone needs a uniform

FYI

A great opportunity for Year 5 and Year 6 girls!

If your child receives free school meals, check your inbox for a ‘free summer swimming pass’ at Gosport Leisure Centre!

Thank you all for your continued support this year. Goodbye to all our leavers, we will miss you all lots 🥰
We hope you have a lovely summer and can’t wait to hear about all your adventures when we return in September 🎉

What an exciting evening we have had at our Year 6 prom. Thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising and leading the event 👏👏The year 6 children had a brilliant time and I learned some new dance moves from watching some of the children 🥰

What an amazing performance from year 6 this afternoon and this evening- so many hidden talents amongst you all 🥰 we feel so incredibly proud of each and every one of you and you certainly brought proud tears to our eyes today. Well done also to your dedicated year 6 teaching team 👏👏
Looking forward to saying a good farewell to you all tomorrow with your leaver’s assembly and then your Prom in the evening 🥰👏🥲

We won a prize for our Edible Garden in the ‘Gosport in Bloom’ competition that was judged last month 👏👏👏Mrs Williams and Mrs Landon took our Young Gardeners to the Town Hall to listen to the Mayor announce the winners this morning. They all got a Mayor Bear Badge for attending 🥰

Thank you to everyone who came to support our Sports Day today. Key stage 1 was successful and remained dry this morning. The children showed resilience and determination as they tackled all the activities 👏 well done also to all the parents who took part in the parent race 👏
Well done to our Key stage 2 children this afternoon, who persevered through the rain showers and nearly completed all the races before the rain meant an early finish (the microphone and sound system also had an early finish and stopped working in the rain, which meant we couldn’t bring everyone together at the end to announce the winners so apologies for this). The children will be given a chance to do their relay races next week and we will add the points to their overall scores. The winning house team will be announced in assembly next week. Thanks to Miss Hughes for organising the day and our Sports Leaders, who were outstanding in supporting key stage 1 this morning.

What an amazing afternoon at our Summer Fayre.
Thank you to the PTFA for supporting the school in organising and leading the event; thank you to all the staff for supporting with stalls and creating great performances from our children and thank you to all the parents/carers who came along and helped to raise money for our school 🙌
Well to to our cake winners as shown below 👏thank you for everyone who entered a cake 🎂
We will let you know how much we raised soon.
Have a lovely weekend everyone 🥰

We are very excited for our ‘Mad Hatter’ themed summer Fayre tomorrow. Gates open at 1.15 and stalls close at 4pm. Children are invited to wear bright clothes or Alice In Wonderland themed clothes. We have had some amazing cake entries in today, thanks you. There is still time to bring in your entries tomorrow. Once judged, all cakes will be sold at the Fayre on the refreshments table.

Thank you to all our new EYFS parents who came along to our coffee morning today. It was lovely to welcome so many new families into our community 🥰

FYI

Please find attached photos from the final C A R E workshop for our Year 5's at Holbrook this week.

This week, using two apples, we demonstrated how our words can have an effect on others (even after we have said sorry), identified five positive things about ourselves and gave our classmates a boost by giving them compliments.

The children have really enjoyed taking part in these workshops and have learnt new ways to help them to be resilient and cope with uncomfortable emotions. Well done! 😄

Thank you very much for all your sweetie donations today- we will have a huge sweet tombola at the Summer Fayre 🥰

Penguins 2 topic book is Supertato.
Today we followed instructions to make our own character . The children were delighted with their creations.

Reminder: Non school uniform tomorrow in exchange for sweets for the summer fair tombola.
Thanks 😊

Today for Golden Lunch the children learned how to make potato wedges from scratch, chopped vegetables for a salad and made their own individual pizzas before having a raspberry ice cream sundae for dessert. Well done to those children chosen by the dinner staff for being Active and Healthy’ over lunchtimes 😄

Our Year 4 children had a lovely time at the camp-out last night. We enjoyed a range of activities, a fish and chip dinner, bonfire, hot chocolate and s’mores. They were very resilient and brave for spending the night in a tent away from home. Thank you to all the staff who stayed to make the experience happen. 🏕️

This week Year 2 have finished off their STEAM learning in style. They started off the week by making their final bridges and testing them out to see if they were successful. On Tuesday morning, the children took part in two workshops at Bridgemary Secondary school, creating a collagraph for printing and using different textures to make clay bricks to create a collaborative structure. To bring the project to a close, we had a celebration assembly and the children enjoyed receiving certificates and prizes for showing our learning values. Well done Year 2 for fantastic few weeks of STEAM learning!!