Lots of fun at the year 6 disco photo booth!
We set sand traps and saw fox paw prints. We were lucky to see videos of our fox family and other animals that live around our school. we then made a documentary on one of the animals.
We were also visited by James the ecologist who helped us explore the grounds and AJ from mad4animals who had us wearing cockroaches and holding snakes!
Every skill possible was used in the kitchen. They made their own gnocchi from scratch and blanched it. They peeled, chopped and tore ingredients to make a tomato sauce and then whisked, grated, juiced and crushed ingredients to make a chocolate orange cheesecake. After preparing and cooking the food, they went to sit at the chefs table to enjoy the meals they had created. Whilst eating, they were able to watch the Limewood Chefs at work preparing and cooking meals for the main restaurant. The meal must have been delicious because every platter was cleared.
A special mention to Harry in 6AP, who was awarded a special recognition award, for his culinary skills and passion for cooking. Mrs Smith and Mrs Hatfield will be looking out for him in a few years in the kitchens of Limewood. An amazing day for all.
Many thanks to Limewood for hosting us at their beautiful venue!
He read a story, explained his job and then went through the unform gadgets he was wearing. The children sat beautifully the whole time and were really engaged.
On Wednesday we emailed our school community to let you know that we would be collecting donations today and yesterday, to support the refugees resulting from the situation in Ukraine. We would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has brought in donations over the last 2 days. The office team have actually shed a few tears this morning at the generosity of our school community, below are a couple of snap shots that show just a fraction of what has been collected.
A mixed pack of cards will be available to buy online in aid of Hammersley Homes, a mental health charity.
Well done to everyone who took part!
Anna 6LM
Ella 6AB
Erin 5NA
Harry 6KP
George 6KP
Evan 6LM
Leanna 5VE
Matilda 6AR
Summer 6BP
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Please vote online for ABBOTSWOOD JUNIOR SCHOOL!
We have been nominated to be one of three local charities to be in with a chance to be gifted £500 but we need the most votes to achieve this!
The Friends of Abbotswood will use the money to purchase activities for our newly renovated quad.
Please click on the link below and make sure you pick Totton then select Friends of Abbotswood and press the vote button.
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You can vote for us every week from now until the end of September.
Please share the link to encourage your family and friends to vote for us.
#asdafoundation #greentokengiving
The Friends of Abbotswood were given the opportunity to take part in the Morrisons initiative to give away 25 million sunflower seeds in an effort to spread hope and lift the spirits of the nation.
We decided to have a competition between the classes to see who could care for their seeds and be the "Best in Bloom."
5EH came first growing very healthy plants and they are just waiting for the sunflowers to appear!
A big thank you to Morrisons for supplying the seeds and helping to put together a hamper for the winning class.
The F.O.A were delighted by the amazing response to our non uniform day last Friday. We received an amazing amount of chocolate, bottles and £1 donations. A special mention also needs to go to Asda and Morrisons for their kind donations towards our hamper making.
Our volunteers have been busy creating fabulous hampers to be raffled on Saturday 17th July. Sadly this won't be happening as normal as part of our fair but we are determined to carry on our fundraising efforts towards the treats and extras for all our children.
First prize this year is £75 cash, 2nd prize is a hamper including a Bluetooth outdoor speaker and then we have over 25 bottle and chocolate hampers! Five of these hampers also have an extra prize hidden in the treats which is a £20 amazon voucher so look out for the smile logo.
If you or your family would like to enter the raffle please write on an envelope the name of the person entering, how many tickets they would like and a telephone number or email address. Each ticket costs £1. The F.O.A will be in the school car park every morning with a bucket to put your envelopes in until Friday 16th July.
Thank you very much for your support and we wish you a lovely Summer when it arrives.
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5AP and 5KP had a debate and read newspaper articles to each other from a distance for their outcome today.
Both classes displayed their art work
It was fantastic to see them making use of the newly resurfaced quad in the sunshine too!
Fantastic work year 5!
In Year 4, we have been looking at perspective. Mrs White was particularly impressed by Jackson. Incredible use of vanishing point and horizon line, he took great care in his presentation!
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We now have another fantastic outside space to match the one we had done last summer. We can use this for activities with the children and staff. It has been an absolute delight to see LSAs and children using it today, to play in sun! The quads are a really lovely space to have as they are enclosed, yet outside. This makes for a quiet, safe place, for classes, small groups, 1 to 1 sessions or even for staff to meet.
Once again we must give a huge THANK YOU to the Friends of Abbotswood for organising fundraising events to help pay for this work. The Friends are always looking to welcome new members and in particular have quite a few Y6 parents in their current committee who will be moving on at the end of this school year. If you would like to be part of the friends of Abbotswood please email [email protected] as she will be delighted to hear from you!
The work on the Quad was completed by a local company called Apex Outdoor Spaces
We're now looking at outdoor furniture and games that we can put into this quad to add the finishing touches!
This is what it looked like before!
N.B. Mr Humphries did his best to capture all of the children in their costumes at break time but apologises if some were missed. Some children chose not to have their picture taken.
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Millie created a beautiful piece of art related to the year 5 topic is the Butterfly Lion and over the last 2 weeks Millie has persevered with her super creation. We are incredibly proud of her. Her picture is "pride" of place in 5KP.
Valentina's Harry Potter Portrait
Valentina in Y4 shared this brilliant picture with us last week ‘This a picture on a Zoom Tutorial that I did with an artist called Anastasia.’ Well done Valentina, we think this is fantastic!
Weronika's writing on 'Once'
In class we have been re-writing chapters of the rich read, 'Once'. This can be quite tricky as the children need to write in the style of the author as well as showing the character's traits using their own words. We think Weronika has done a wonderful job of this.
We continued to read our topic book, Once by Morris Gleitzman, and explored key events from the text.
The Year 6 children have settled in amazingly and the whole team are very proud of each of them.
Here is just a small selection of the fantastic learning this week!
We are looking forward to presenting the children with their World Book Day book tokens when they return to school next week.
Mr Cox
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The first was a fabulous box of biscuits to share with staff (individual wrapped... ideal for sharing safely!) accompanied by a very thoughtful note (Thank you Wyatt Family!). The kindness that parents have shown us really helps us to keep motivated! We appreciate every kind word and have received so many lovely emails from so many of you!
The second was the video below from Southampton and England International footballer; Danny Ings!
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Laptops and Chromebooks are too expensive for some of our families to purchase. Some have devices, but they are either out of date, or do not have the functionality that they need to continue with remote learning.
We also know that there are many families who have parents that are having to work from home and when you add siblings into that, the allocation of devices is spread thinly.
There is a lot of information on the news at the moment about how families can apply for devices via their school. Please be aware that as soon as ordering is open to us (as a school) we will then look at ordering our full allocation (our full allocation is still not going to be enough) and distributing. However, this is unlikely to happen for a few weeks as secondary pupils have been prioritised.
We were able to order 16 new devices before Christmas and Mrs Pace (Finance Assistant) and Mr Noyce (Site Manager) have been delivering these today (alongside 70+ Free School Meal Hampers).
Thank you once again for your patience whilst we adapt to the changing situation. If you happen to have a device that you would like to donate a family, please get in touch with the school office. Unfortunately we are unable to manage loaned devices from members of the public (due to the complexity of insurance). However, if you can donate a device for someone to keep, you will be making a real difference! (Ideally Laptops, Chromebooks, Tablets). Thank you.
Mrs Smith
School Business Manager
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The Friends of Abbotswood would like to say a massive thank you to the 160 supporters who helped us crowdfund using Aviva this term.
We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Year 3 loved making Christmas wreaths and designing personalised elf hats!
Year 4 enjoyed making Christmas hats and lollipop ornaments.
Year 5 spent their day making Christmas cards with fingerprint snowmen and Christmas hats.
Ho Ho Ho!
Taking part in the Aviva Crowdfunding project has allowed us to continue fundraising for a much needed new minibus with wheelchair access.
We have two days left to use this fundraising platform, so we would like to ask you for the final time to share our link and donate if you are able to do so.
https://www.
Many thanks and a Merry Christmas from The Friends of Abbotswood.
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So back to the question… How much does a minibus cost? The answer…a lot! The school has quotes of around £28,000.
The friends already have £8,000 from previous fundraising and add to that the £5,000 (plus whatever else we raise in the next week.) So as you can see we have a way to go.
If you are able to donate please use the link below and share with others. Thank you and Christmas wishes from the Friends of Abbotswood
Our friendly reindeer is very upset that he won't be guiding you to the grotto or joining in with the games and buying tombola tickets.
He would still like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. If you are able please click the link below and make a donation in support of our fundraising for a new minibus.
https://www.
Thank you!
from the Friends of Abbotswood
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During the night, aliens invaded the school and abducted one of the Year 5 LSAs! The Year 5 children inspected the field, where there appeared to be an alien body, to look for evidence before entering the school. They were shocked to see the mess the aliens had created in the Year 5 classrooms. At break, Miss Hoyles returned safely and took part in a Zoom interview so the children could find out what happened. The children then wrote some fantastic newspaper reports on the events of the past 24 hours.
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We have 19 days left to continue our mission to raise money as part of the Aviva project. So far we have over 90 supporters who have helped us to raise over 70% of our target. Thank you if you have already donated or shared our link.
We have also received some great feedback from parents who have kindly donated what they would have spent at our fair or on donations towards our school raffle.
Aviva employees have been amazing at supporting us and to date we have received £575 in pledges. Thank you!
Please continue to donate and share our project link with other possible supporters.
https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/new-minibus-fund
The Friends of Abbotswood Committee
If you are able to please can you consider making a donation to the Minibus fund as we will not be asking for our usual donations for the raffle and tombola stalls.
Please use the link below to donate and share it with family who may also be interested in supporting our fundraising.
https://www.
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As you can see from the pictures below, we were able to hand out these lovely little care packs to our Teachers and Support Staff.
We just wanted to say a big thank you for such a thoughtful idea. These are such unusual times and this gesture delighted our staff so much!
THANK YOU!
Instead, we would like to share our wonderful school with you here.
You are welcome to email any questions to [email protected]
Further information is available on our School Admissions Page
Abbotswood Junior SchoolDue to the coronavirus pandemic, we are unable to host our Year 2 open mornings this year. Instead, we would like to share our wonderful school with you here.
]]>Whilst current restrictions have changed the way we mark Armistice day in 2020, we felt it was still very important to do something.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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