The Buzz

Welcome back and I hope you all had a restful half term week. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the excellent behaviour we are seeing, consistently around school at the moment. So many of the children are showing great enthusiasm towards their work and are demonstrating how kind, polite and respectful they are towards one another and the staff. We have a really clear behaviour system at school and are so very proud of those moments when the children achieve ‘top banana’ status! I love standing on the gate at the end of the day and seeing your child wear their stickers with pride. Please do work with us and congratulate your child when they gain one of these - it shows how brilliant they are being and a real credit to you as parents. My top tip for a great review of the day - always ask your child, ‘what went well today’ or ‘what was the best bit of learning today’! This really helps them to reflect on the positive aspects of their day.

Enjoy your weekend and remember it’s World Book day next week!!

Jon James

Each month the school will focus on a different principle. This month's is:

3M - Blake Senders

3E - Freddie Newstead

3T - Lottie Highgate

3S - Georgia Allman

4P - Charlotte Smallwood

4B - Harry Gold

4W - Nathan Mellon

4S - Yusuf Collacot

5N - Jude James

5B - Yannick Malundama

5H - Abdul Said

5R - Cally Cavell-Parke

6GK - Reuben Wayne

6L - Riley Barham

6C - Raif Stewart

6G - Scarlett Riley

The school council behaviour award is given to one child in each year group by a member of the school council for their outstanding behaviour and positive attitude towards learning. Last week's winners are:

Year 3 - Leo Chinchen

Year 4 - Leon McCrow

Year 5 - Morgan Watkins

Year 6 - Dylan Cotton

3E-Sienna Kimber

3S- Jupite Malundama

3T- Sandy Burns

3M- Max Evtimov

4S- Arthur Evans

4B- Isabella Leverton

4W- Penny McGill

4P- Jay Chambore

5H- Henry Ralli

5B- Aariyan Nurmohamed

5R- Olivia Aleksandrova

5N- Freddie Burnett

6L- Harriet Mackie

6G- Sana Alarabic

6C- Alex Plail

6GK- Mason Smith

The class with the best attendance in the week before half term is 6L

The class with the least numbers of lates before half term is 5H & 6C

A percentage of the book profits enable HJS to get free books so please bring in your pennies and support the school.

😋A big thank you to our wonderful catering team for making the children pancakes this week.

Years 3 and 4 welcomed Lazer Lions to HJS today. What great fun they had on the inflatables and whilst using the lazer guns.

A fantastic performance by the HJS swimmers. Everyone performed brilliantly both in their individual and team events. The girls finished 2nd overall in the large school category! A phenomenal achievement that we are very proud of.

Big thank you to Mrs Fraser who manages the swimming squad.

The rugby team came back to beat Twickenham Primary Academy 9-6 last week. A fantastic game to watch with a few stand out performers.

Congratulations to Raif, Samuel, Finley, Lucas, Zaki, Faris, John, Alex, Lauren & Amber.

The squad is now full and trials will commence again in September 2023.

HJS put on a fantastic performance against Trafalgar, winning 10-3 and showing such dominance throughout the game. With lovely ball movement, the team got off to an early lead scoring 4 unanswered points. A fantastic defensive display meant that Trafalgar struggled to get into the final third, leading to a convincing win. Well done HJS and Mrs Beaumont for training and managing the team!

Yesterday seven keen netballers from both year 5 and 6 represented the school in the Borough Tournament. Four fantastic wins and only one defeat to Newlands School in the group stages sent us through to the top half of the draw (The Cup) for the afternoon’s session. The team fought hard and showed some fantastic defensive skills to hold a strong St James’ team to a draw. We followed this up with two amazing wins and were just beaten in our final game. We held our breath to see if we would make it through to the semi finals but sadly only the top team (St James) made is through with HJS just missing out in second place. It was a great day, with the children singing, laughing and competing hard throughout! We even got to see Commonwealth Games Beach Volleyball Bronze medalists, the Bello brothers, train as welling as getting a picture with an England men’s netballer! Well done team HJS and thank you Mrs Fraser for your minibus driving skills and enthusiastic support!

Well done to all the HJS squad: Teddy, Harriet, Sabina, Alex, Zaki , Lila and Ellie

The Times Table Competition Final was held on Thursday 9th February. All finalists did brilliantly!

4th place Hampton

3rd place Tudor

2nd place Thames

1st place Bushy

Thank you to our Governors (Mr Leverton & Mrs Boswell) who came to present trophies and medals to the runners up along with Miss Cooper (our Maths Lead) for organising this event.

A big thank you to Max Crane who also shared some fascinating information about his family history for Year 6’s World War Two day.

We are advertising for an Admin Officer at the Junior School. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator who is comfortable with numbers to join the team and undergo training to become the Federation Finance & Admin Officer.

Please click on the above heading to view this application.

Email: office.hjs@hpp.school
Website: hpp.school
Location: Hampton Junior School, Percy Road, Hampton, UK
Phone: 020 8979 2545
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HamptonJuniorSchool