Harvest Festival at Shirley Warren

This week our whole school has been collecting food for Basics Bank, which is run by Southampton City Mission and Matt came in to lead an assembly for KS1 and one for KS2. 

We had a lot of fun with a visual story Matt told us from the Bible about the farmer planting the seed in different kinds of ground. Some of it landed on rocky ground and didn't grow.

Other seeds did a little bit better. But the best seeds in the good ground produced a good crop. 

Matt told us that when we give to others we are like the seed planted in good soil. The funniest bit was when Miss Lott dressed up as a crow and "ate" some of the seeds.

We are glad to be a generous school and hope our donations will help many families in the city who don't have enough food.

Year 4 Gymnastics Festival

Watch this video of some of our year 4 children enjoying the Gymnastics Festival yesterday.

Harvest Festival

On Thursday the 8th of October our school buzzed with excitement as we held our annual Harvest Festival. Matthew Gwyn from Southampton City Mission performed a very entertaining and educating assembly for us. Thank you Matthew for making us all laugh and yet think about the fact that only good seeds will allow us to harvest good things. (However, how amazing would it be to be able to grow our own money or chocolate?) We would like to say a huge thank you to the parents, helpers and supporters of the school who donated a very generous amount of food. You are truly amazing! There is a thank you note from SCM Basics Bank where the food went attached to the album below.

KS1 Sports Solent Racket Skills Festival

Here are some of our year 2 children improving their racket skills at the festival today. They were improving their serving, eye to hand coordination and rallying. We all had great fun!