Larkhill Primary School, Wiltshire

We had such a wonderful Sports Day this year. Thank you so much to all the parents who came along to support their children and see them demonstrating our school values of self-belief, aspiration, co-operation and resilience. Well done everyone! 🤩🥇🥚🥄

What an INCREDIBLE time we had at the PTA Summer Fete! Thank you to everyone that came to make it the spectacular event that it was. We had some amazing vendors, stalls, games and community representatives. It was such a special day. We are so grateful to our PTA for organising such a brilliant event ☀️🍧🍭🧽🧸🤩

We held a hugely successful Year 6 careers fair this week.

A variety of professionals gave up their valuable time to talk to our children about what their job involves.
The children learnt about what skills and attributes are needed to be a Doctor, Midwife, Police Officer, 999 Call Handler, Research Scientist, Solider, Dentist, Shoe Fitter and a Business Owner.

The children spoke confidently and articulately to each of the professionals, asking them the questions in their careers booklets. We were hugely impressed at how curious and interested they were in what they were learning.

The value of the month for June has been aspiration and this was a lovely way to bring it to a close.

Following the session, the children created posters to reflect on what they had learnt and discussed what they would like to be as they grow up.

It's just a few days now until our Summer Fete, and in addition to all of the wonderful things that will be happening on the day we have a great raffle lined up!

Below are just some of the companies who have so far donated to our Summer Fete raffle. We would like to extend a massive thank you to them all for their support.

There are some brilliant prizes up for grabs, but you have to be in it to win it, so make sure to join us on the day to buy your tickets!

🍎🤩It’s National Thank a Teacher Day! 🥰🍏

To all the incredible teachers and support staff, we want to take this moment to express our utmost gratitude for all that you do.

Your passion, commitment, and efforts do not go unnoticed.

In celebration of your amazing efforts, join us in saying a big thank you! Why not take a moment to celebrate the hardworking, passionate educators in your life with a gesture of thanks?

Visit the website now and send a FREE, personalised limited edition personalised e-card, courtesy of the initiative!

This is a wonderful opportunity to brighten an educator's day and show them just how much their efforts mean to you and your community:

https://bit.ly/3vzBNcO

We are looking for donations of bottles for the bottle tombola at our Summer Fete. This could be bottles of anything from shower gel to alcohol, ketchup to squash.

If you have any unopened bottles that you don't want/need, please consider dropping them into our school office.

Thank you! And see you on June 29th 😄

Over the past 3 years, Larkhill Primary School have been completing the Royal Horticulture Society (RHS) Campaign for School Gardening. It sets out a 5 Level Award to develop the confidence and understanding of children in the garden environment. We have recently achieved the Level 4 Award, which focused on wildlife and using the garden to support the curriculum. It has a main element of sharing within the school community and the wider community. To achieve this, we have held the big soup and used our produce and school site to cook soup to share, also using our school Pupil Parliament children as leaders. We have linked the garden through a variety of cross curricular links such as science, art and technology.

Alongside this the school garden has been used by the community to help us grow through the holidays, after school clubs, inset training, Father's Day pizza celebrations, holiday clubs, staff socials, as a showcase site for Happy Grow Lucky. Our children at Larkhill understand the main objective of growing and the use of the garden. Their sessions are child led, taking in the principles of Forest School they are continually developing new ideas and being creative with the environment. With insect houses, digging areas, wildflower chill out zones and creative cane toppers! (table tennis balls) It has been a pleasure to witness the impact on the children and whole staff since the start. We need to aim for the final Award Level 5!

🌟 Happy Volunteers Week! 🌟

This week was National Volunteers Week and we want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to all the incredible volunteers who help us across our Trust. From assisting in classrooms to organizing events and supporting our students, your contributions are invaluable.

We are eternally grateful for your hard work and unwavering support. Here's to you – our amazing volunteers! 🙌📚✨

We have recently been awarded our Level 4, RHS School Gardening Awards!
Our pupils have worked very hard with Mrs Matthews and her team to achieve this, and we are very proud of them all.

Our outdoor learning sessions are a hugely important part of our curriculum here at Larkhill Primary School and we are so pleased that our pupils are gaining so much from these sessions.

Well done to everyone involved!

It's less than 1 month until our Summer Fete!

Larkhill Primary School PTA are full steam ahead with their planning. We have a great line-up of vendors, caterers and stall holders set to join us, as well as some brilliant raffle prizes up for grabs!

We can't wait to see you there!

🌟 We are proud and very excited to announce that we've been using a NEW online application process provided by Applicaa 🌟

Applicaa enables consistent data collection across our schools and digitises the application process, it will:

📰 Replace paper forms and multiple processes
👍 Help to reduce administrative workload
💻 Simplify our application forms and processes
👍 Help our parents apply easily
💻 Reduce data errors and ensure consistent data capture

Parents and carers who have children, due to start at a White Horse Federation school* in Reception or Year 7 this September will have received a very important email.

The email contains login details to your child's application form. This is crucial information / data collection that we need to ensure that they have the best transition when starting at our schools. The form includes data collection for contact details, emergency information, medical history, as well as consents and acknowledges your agreement to important policies.

These emails will come from the school, or: [email protected] email address and may mention 'Applicaa'. If you are waiting for this crucial information, please check your spam/junk if you haven't already received the email.

We have already received over 800 applications throughout May...
Don't delay, complete your child's application form today!

We love hosting Up and Under Sports and Happy Grow Lucky for Forest School holiday clubs!

Busy day at Larkhill Wild Explorers. We helped out with high wind absnailing adventures, used a few tools, made some crafts, and built some dens. We found some amazing nature too!

WE’RE HIRING!

Key Stage 2 Class Teacher

Here at Larkhill, we are an active, busy and happy school and we are incredibly proud of our recent achievement of a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating. Our school motto of “reach higher, go further, achieve together” is at the heart of all we do and we work hard to ensure our children are welcomed into a kind, nurturing and stimulating environment every time they come into school.

We couldn’t do what we do without our fantastic staff team, and we are looking for an inspirational and creative Class Teacher, to join our strong team and become involved in our school community.

If you are looking to start your teaching career in a challenging and rewarding role within our school, then we want to hear from you.
Come and join us on this exciting journey to help every child in our school reach their full potential.

Apply today: https://tinyurl.com/bdfnnpz9

We are extremely excited to announce that our 2024 PTA Summer Fete will be going ahead!

Last year's event was a huge success, which raised an incredible £678 for our pupils and we are hoping this year will raise even more! It will be a day of fun and games, with an incredible raffle for you to take part in too. As well as our own games and events, we will be joined by caterers and small businesses, and lots of other entertainment will be available too!

Donation Requests:

Second Hand Uniform Stall - We are hoping to hold a second hand uniform stall, giving everyone the opportunity to purchase school uniform at low prices for those ever growing children. We will only be selling school uniform with our school logo. If you have any uniform which is in good condition that you would be willing to donate, please bring it in to school before June 14th.

Bottle Tombola - This is always a great stall and we need your help to fill it! We are asking for donations of new/unopened bottles towards the tombola. This can be bottles of anything you like - alcohol, shampoo, sauces etc. Please can all donations be brought to the school office or into classrooms by June 14th.

Car Boot Sale
If you would like to hold a car boot sale at this event, please email [email protected] to book your space! Pre-booking is essential.

Stallholders
We are looking for local small businesses to join us and sell their wares! If you own a small business and would like to sell your product at our Summer Fete, please email [email protected] to book your space.

Vendors/Caterers
We already have some great vendors and caterers lined up to join us, but you can never have too much choice! Please share our poster far and wide to generate interest, and if you know any vendors/caterers who may be able to join us please ask them to email [email protected] to discuss this.

Volunteers
Our PTA are wonderful and work extremely hard to put together fun events for our school community, but they cannot do it alone. We are looking for volunteers who can join us on the day to run stalls or games. If you are available and would like to help out on the day, please call the school office to discuss this with Mrs Ball. Helping out on the day does not mean you are committing to helping the PTA on a permanent basis, but if you can lend 4 hours of your time to this event it would help immensely!

We are well underway with all of the necessary plans and can't wait to see you there!

WE’RE HIRING!

Class Teacher

Here at Larkhill, we are an active, busy and happy school and we are incredibly proud of our recent achievement of a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating. Our school motto of “reach higher, go further, achieve together” is at the heart of all we do and we work hard to ensure our children are welcomed into a kind, nurturing and stimulating environment every time they come into school.

We couldn’t do what we do without our fantastic staff team, and we are looking for an inspirational and creative Class Teacher, to join our strong team and become involved in our school community. If you are looking to continue your teaching career in a challenging and rewarding role within our school, then we want to hear from you.

Come and join us on this exciting journey to help every child in our school reach their full potential.

Are you ready for the next move in your career? Apply at: bit.ly/3WhiIHj

On Friday evening, Larkhill Primary School PTA hosted parents and children from our school community at the Dandelion Quiz and Movie Night in school.
Children got to indulge in a cosy movie screening with snack boxes and tuck, whilst parents and staff put their quiz hats on and competed to be the winning team.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended. The evening was a great success, with fun had by all!

Of course, the evening was organised to raise funds for the PTA, whose contributions to Larkhill Primary School are invaluable.

If you would like to contribute to their fundraising efforts, and donate towards the purchase and installation of a Fire Hut for the school's Forest School area, you can do so using this link:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/larkhillprimarypta-firepit?utm_id=1&utm_term=3wRj4GKrb

Every donation is hugely appreciated!

Click the link below for some May Half Term Forest School fun here at Larkhill Primary School!

🌱We are excited to announce we will be running Wild Explorers sessions on the 30 and 31 May, at Larkhill Primary School!🌱

Book your space now: https://buff.ly/4ddEUI9

🎉✨ Attention Parents! ✨🎉
⭐ We have primary places available! 🍎

Tuesday 16th April was Primary Allocation Day. 📚👧👦💼

We’re really looking forward to meeting our NEW reception class students in September, so please secure your offer with the Local Authority as soon as you can.

We still have spaces available at our wonderful primary school! If you or someone you know isn't satisfied with their offer, we can help.
Contact us to discuss or arrange a school tour, alternatively get in touch with the Local Authority to secure your child’s place at our school today! 🏫

This term Larkhill Primary School PTA organised a Rainbow Raffle to raise funds towards their £10,000 target.
Each class was asked for donations of items in a specific colour of the rainbow, and the PTA members put together 8 beautiful (and very heavy!) hampers using the donations from our families.
Today we drew the 8 winning tickets!
Congratulations to all of our winners, we hope you enjoy your hampers!
A massive thanks to the PTA and to all of our families for getting involved!

If you are not able to join our in-school fundraising events, but would like to make a donation towards our fundraising efforts, you can do so using this link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/larkhillprimarypta-firepit?utm_id=1&utm_term=3wRj4GKrb

Forest School fun during the Easter holidays! What's not to love?!

🌱 Play, learn and grow together! 🌱

Our Wild Explorers Forest School Club, is running on the 4th and 5th April, at Larkhill Primary School

These sessions will include bush craft, art, cooking on fire and lots of challenges and games.

Book now: https://buff.ly/3SDWoD3

At Larkhill Primary School, we are very fortunate to have an active PTA who do a great job of fundraising for our school. Their efforts help to provide our pupils with many extra experiences and opportunities.
Their new target is to raise £10,000 for the purchase and installment of a Fire Hut in our Forest School area, and we are very excited to be helping them meet this target!
If you would like to donate to this fantastic cause, please do so using the link below.
Thank you!

Help raise £10000 to build a Forest School Fire Pit Hut for Larkhill Primary School. Weʼre raising money to build a Forest School Fire Pit Hut for Larkhill Primary School.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

We have had some very exciting new arrivals this week. Our PTA kindly purchased some eggs from the "Living Eggs Project" and reception class have been looking after them and learning about lifecycles. There has been much excitement as we have watched them hatch and we now have nine very fluffy little chicks with one more on the way. This has been such a magical learning experience for our children. Mr Papp our caretaker is going to be adopting the chickens and looking after them on the school site so that the children can enjoy them and watch them grow.

Today, we honour the extraordinary women who shape our world, inspire change, contribute to society, and just totally "Boss It"!

At The White Horse Federation, we are privileged to work with incredible female students, staff, and leaders who proudly embody our values of Inclusivity, Resilience, Collaboration, Integrity and Empowerment.

Let's continue to empower, support, and uplift each other. Together, we can break barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create a future where every woman has the opportunity to thrive.
Share your stories, celebrate achievements, and celebrate the amazing women who inspire you!

Here's to a world where equality knows no bounds…
Happy International Women's Day!

Now hiring!

Clerk to Local Governance Committee

The White Horse Federation is a Multi-Academy Trust of 31 schools across Wiltshire, Swindon, Oxfordshire and Berkshire and we are looking for an enthusiastic and personable Clerk to join our Clerking Team in supporting the Local Governance Committees (LGCs) of schools across the local area within The White Horse Federation.

About the role:

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is seeking both the flexibility of part-time hours within term time, combined with the challenge that comes with working in the ever-changing world of education.

As a Clerk at The White Horse Federation, you will cover the organisation and management of Local Governance Committee meetings, which take place at least four times per year and last approximately two hours. In addition, you will be responsible for drafting agendas, producing accurate and concise minutes of meetings, maintaining information on membership and advising the committee on procedural matters where appropriate. There may be optional opportunities to cover ad-hoc clerking duties for additional school meetings or other schools within the Trust.

Do you have what it takes to join us?

Apply Today: https://tinyurl.com/v8hc2jcs

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