The Buzz

Seeing the whole school enjoying such a special day and really getting into the spirit of World Book Day is a real pleasure. The enthusiasm of all the staff for getting involved and encouraging the children is one of the aspects of HJS I am most proud of. We really do have a staff team to be proud of and who bring so much to our school.

Retaining our great staff and recruiting new members of the team is key to the continued success of HPP.

Ms H Lockey

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

3E - Reuben Donnelly

3M - Max Evtimov

3S - Darcey Simpson

3T - Aida Clarke

4W - Ellya Galles

4P - Sariah Amara-Wilson

4B - Alexia Young

4S - Nia Pandya

5N - Sophie Branch

5R - Miguel Emmanuel-Thorpe

5B - Rhys Mansell

5H - Leoh Keogh

6G - Gwendoline Cain

6GK - Arthur Dorner

6C - Lucas Crombie

6L - Ivaanesh Nadarajan

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 - Millie Lipman

Year 4 - Tia Dennis

Year 5 - Albie Lipman

Year 6 - Sahar Subhani

This week's achievers' certificates will be handed out in assembly tomorrow.

The class with the best attendance last week is 5B

The class with the least numbers of lates last week is 3E & 6C

Thank you to everyone who has paid the first instalment of £150 for Bude. For those who are yet to pay, this payment is now overdue and we would be grateful if this were paid immediately.

Am sure you will agree - the children all looked amazing on World Book Day! Here is a selection of some of the wonderful outfits.

6GK- had a great World Book Day and had some great costumes! We also enjoyed Miss De-Beer who came in and read to us. In the afternoon, we did some Art based on: “The Witching Hour’ from ‘The BFG’ by Roald Dahl. Thanks to everyone who was involved in such a fabulous day.

6L showed up in some amazing costumes for all the exciting WBD activities on Wednesday.

HJS are very excited to be taking part in the ‘Community Senior Letters’ scheme. This is an initiative which matches schools and residential care homes. We have been matched with Abbeycrest Nursing Home in Sonning Common. It is a nursing home which provides residential, nursing and dementia care.

The focus of the project is for children to write letters and pictures which will then be sent to the care home. This creates a valuable connection as well as combating loneliness and feelings of isolation the elderly residents may be feeling. It also teaches the children valuable life lessons, such as compassion for those in vulnerable situations and selflessness as they carry out good deeds for the benefit of others.

During our mental health week, where the focus was ‘Connecting’, all classes created art work or wrote letters to introduce themselves and Hampton Junior School. Here are some of the fantastic examples which will be sent to Abbeycrest Nursing Home.

From this point on, in order to manage the flow of letters, we will be allocating one year group every month to be responsible for communicating with the nursing home for that month. March will be allocated to year 3 and we look forward to sending the residents some lovely spring poems and pictures.

I look forward to showing you some of the artwork and perhaps some replies from the residents soon.

Thea Woolf

PSHE Subject Lead

We had so many wonderful entries for our Extreme Reading Competition! Ms Lockey and Mr James were given the almost impossible task of choosing our winners- see their brilliant entries below. Thank you to all that took part.

6GK thoroughly enjoyed their badminton lesson last week.

6G having a great badminton lesson. On Tuesday, they focused on learning the fundamentals of serving. Thanks to Badminton England for delivering such fun sessions!

Last Friday, all year six enjoyed participated in Art together in the Rose Hall painting Bushy Park landscapes.

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Location: Hampton Junior School, Percy Road, Hampton, UK
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