St Thomas' Infant School

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Outdoor Project Lifts Off! What a busy INSET Day we have had! Staff from the whole Federation have come together to explore our amazing outdoor spaces and learn new skills such a knots, fire lighting, den building and whittling. The staff are now feeling skilled and confident to teach our new Outdoor Learning curriculum to th...

Work started this morning on creating the next stage of our outdoor learning provision.

We have been working hard on making our vision come to life and planning the curriculum we will start teaching in September. We anticipate this will launch with Den Building skills over the first half of the autumn term. Classes from EYFS to Year 6 will visit our new Outdoor Classroom and the outdoor areas on the Junior site for at least two afternoons every half term.

The Federation will be closed for INSET training tomorrow (Friday 14th) - which will be led by the Hampshire Outdoors team, training staff to deliver our fully sequenced and progressive 'Outdoors' Curriculum.

Thank you to the Friend of the Woolton Hill Schools for their incredible fundraising efforts that has made this exciting project possible.

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Infant Newsletter Friday 7th June Headteacher's UpdateWe are currently planning our programme of Educational Visits for the next academic year. School trips are an important part of our Education Offer. They excite and motivate pupils about their learning and provide opportunities for learning that are not always pos...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 17th MayHeadteacher's UpdateWe are always thinking about ways to support children's wellbeing and help them to find ways to manage any difficulties they might face. In school we continue to commit to our Life Learning curriculum as well as regular class 'Stormbreaks' to support children with....

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Infant Newsletter Friday 3rd MayHeadteacher's UpdateI would like to thank all of the parents who completed our 2024 parent Survey, just before Easter. The results are in and we have had some really valuable feedback on what we're getting right and how we can improve further. The full survey will be discussed at an up...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 19th AprilHeadteacher's UpdateThe Summer Term brings a number of statutory assessments that our pupils have to undergo. Year 6 will be sitting their SATS the week of 13th May and further information can be found on our website in our FAQs section. Year 4 pupils will be undergoing their Multip...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 22nd MarchHeadteacher's UpdateThe staff team and Governors are constantly striving to improve the provision that we offer our children and families. Your feedback is always really helpful for us to identify what we are getting right and where we can do better. This year we have focussed on im...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 8th MarchHeadteacher's UpdateWe were delighted to welcome the Mayor of Basingstoke & Deane, Cllr David Leeks to the Federation today as he visited both the Infant & the Junior School to celebrate World Book Day with pupils and staff. The theme for World Book Day this year was “Read Your Own...

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Supporting your Child's Emotional Health and Wellbeing To support parents, we have added some new resources to our school website. These have been compiled by our ELSA Miss Openshaw and our Family Support Workers following feedback from parents We hope that will give parents some 'go to activities' to use at home to support discussions about Friendships...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 23rd February Deputy Headteacher's Update We are delighted to announce the next stage of our Outdoor Learning Project. With the fantastic support of our PTA and their fund raising over the past year they are able to commit as staggering initial £9,500 towards the project! We want to say a hu...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 2nd February Headteacher's Update The wellbeing of our pupils is of paramount importance, both inside and outside of school. Although our schools enjoy a village location, the road through Woolton Hill can be busy, especially around the the start and end of the school day, recently parents ha...

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Infant Newsletter Friday 19th January Headteacher's Update Attendance is vitally important to your child’s education and time at school. Showing your child the importance of attending school every day not only helps your child to settle quickly when starting school but helps them to keep and maintain friendships an...

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It was a wonderful Christmas Jumper Day at St Thomas'. A big thank you to our kitchen team for cooking a delicious Christmas dinner for pupils and staff.

Children from both schools really enjoyed selecting and digging up a Christmas tree to go in each of our halls. We would like to thank Yew Tree Garden Centre for donating our trees as well as all the parents who supported the event.

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Learning was brought to life this week for pupils in tears 1 & 2 who all participated in a History workshop about Guy Fawkes. The children acted out the story of The Gunpowder Plot, engaged in freeze frame, recited the poem 'Remember, Remember the 5th of November, adding actions, played a true or false quiz and played a game to guess who the conspirators were. They also signed old documents with quill pens that they had made themselves. Well done to all involved.

The children have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man this week and have been writing about him in 'Drawing Club'. They've also made their own gingerbread men which they'll be bringing home tonight. We hope they enjoy eating them.

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Infant Newsletter Friday 24th November Headteacher's Update Thank you to everyone for all of their support last week with both Odd Sock Day and Children in Need. The children enjoyed taking part in a range of activities and assemblies as part of our Anti-Bullying Week and were super stars in their efforts to raise mo...

School unveils new outdoor classroom A primary school has unveiled its new outdoor woodland classroom which it hopes will have a huge positive impact on the wellbeing of its pupils.

Are you looking for a school place for Year R or Year 3 in September 2024? Our next Open Morning takes place on Weds 29 November at 9am. Book your place here:
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Come along to our Life Learning Workshop led by Mrs Jones. Thursday 16th November at Woolton Hill Junior School.

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Exciting news about our new PTA group; "Friends of the Woolton Hill Schools":

PTAs Join Together for Big Project Thank you to all those who came along to our recent AGMs and allowed us to form a committee for the next year. Following a well attended AGM for both PTAs on October 19th, the members present agreed to merge their activities and form a single organisation to represent parents across the Federation.....