Christmas Jumper Day Success!

Thank you to everyone at Shirley Warren for wearing festive jumpers last Friday. From your donations we were able to raise an amazing  £203.06 for the Southampton Hospital Charity! The charity were very excited to hear we had raised money for them and wanted to pass on a special thank you to all the pupils involved.

Soccer Aid in Year 4

Today we put on brightly coloured sports tops to raise money and awareness for Socer Aid with Unicef.

If you look sideways at this lovely work by three girls in 4C, you can see what they consider to be "wants," "needs" or not sure.  They also listed some of their own.

 

4D thought about designing a perfect playground.

Here are just a few of their great ideas.



What would you like to see in a perfect playground?

Supporting Soccer Aid in Reception

Today was a great day in Reception. We all wore special sports clothes to support Soccer Aid by UNICEF . We talked about what the charity does and looked at what our money could go towards. We also explored why it was so important that children learn and play. We talked about  how lucky we are in our class because we can read, write and play everyday! We explored our right to play and made links by looking at different pictures. We love being a Rights Respecting School. Thank you to all the grown ups who donated in our Reception classes today.

NSPCC- The Great Reveal

If you have been following the blog, you will have noticed that Shirley Warren recently put on their dancing shoes for a sponsored Danceathon in aid of the NSPCC.

Today, Sharon came in with her decimal point shaped mascot, Buddy, to reveal how much we raised, thank the children and explain what their money would go towards.

She invited the children who had raised the most money to take part in turning over the figures.
Although it's hard to see from the picture, we raised £1,206.47 which was just amazing. You could hear gasps of surprise from children and teachers when the thousands column was revealed!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, especially W in KS1 whose parent set up a Just Giving page which raised a few hundred pounds of that amount.

NSPCC Danceathon

We have all been dancing our socks off today to raise money for the NSPCC. Check out the moves in KS2

Valentines Day 💓 Shirley Warren has a huge heart!

Last week, two parents from our Shirley Warren family who had experience of Ocean Ward and PICU with their children suggested that we ask children to dress in red (or non uniform) on Valentines Day to support these two charities at Southampton General Hospital.

Today saw a lovely selection of red clothes - lots of Saints kits as well!

We are pleased to announce that the total collection amount was £351.82

Well done Team Shirley Warren

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Playground Markings have been completed!

Did you notice anything different about the look of the bottom playground when you came back from our half term holiday?

We finally saw the playground markings refreshed after we fundraised for Mr Kelly's 50th birthday and we were given a donation by Capita. As you can see, the snakes and ladders game goes all the way up to 100 again.

We hope there will be lots of happy playtimes at Shirley Warren, even though the wintery weather is coming.

Rotary Shoebox Collection at Shirley Warren

In our school, we are proud that we try and help other people and this was the first year we have tried making shoebox gifts for disadvantaged children for the Rotary Club.

Thank you so much to all who generously filled a shoebox, and we will definitely be taking part next year.  Even though it is so early to be thinking about Christmas, we know the boxes have a long way to go before they reach their destination and we hope the children will enjoy what we have packed.

Here is a picture of some of the boxes, ready to be collected by the Rotary Club.

We support Water Aid

Earlier in the year, Tony from Water Aid came to speak to Green Council about how many people around the world don't have enough water to stay healthy. he challenged us to raise money for Water Aid.  we asked Costco to donate some cups so we could fill them with water and make some money but instead they gave us a cheque for £50 for Water Aid.

Last week, Tony came in to be presented with the cheque. He had the opportunity to share more about Water Aid with every class in Key Stage 2, so we all have more awareness of Global Issues around water.

Here is the cheque Costco sent.

4T Super Movers

4T have been enjoying celebrating Sports Relief. We loved getting active this week and showing off our super moves!

Rob's Remarkable Run!

Here are a few photos of Rob running through our school on the Friday before half term, as he celebrated his 50th birthday by running 50 miles around the outskirts or Southampton. We are thrilled to be able to share the results of the fundraising which raised £390.13, with the winning class, 5M raising £52.71 We would like to thank all families who donated and are pleased to say that we can now commission work on our playground markings, which will be completed as soon as possible.

Shoe share Success

This week we have been helping UNICEF and Clarks by collecting shoes to be sent to other countries.

Here is a picture of the first day of the shoe collection, with Year 5 Green Council representatives.

At the end of the collection, we counted 79 pairs of shoes!  What a brilliant effort from Team Shirley Warren.

If you are good at doubling, you could work out how many individual shoes that makes altogether!

Celebration Cupcakes for OFSTED

Today we were treated to these cupcakes from a member of staff who had them especially commissioned to celebrate our wonderful OFSTED "Good" rating a few weeks ago.

Staff were also invited to make a donation towards the Grenfell Tower Fire fund as the pupils had a non-uniform day too. We will post our donation total once the money is counted.

Marathan fundraiser visit

Today we welcomed Baz Newman, a parent of two of our pupils, to assembly to thank him for running in Southampton's ABP marathon in April to raise funds for Chromebooks in our school.

He was interviewed by two year 6's from our school's Green Council who chose the questions they wanted to ask.

We found out that the weather was cool but then it became very hot at 12.00. Baz trained for 4 months to run the marathon and it was the first one he had done, although he has run many Parkruns (5K) and other events before.

It was exciting to hear that his next challenge is on Friday, when he will be part of a relay team running from London to Cardiff which is 160 miles.

Thank you for raising £260 for our school.

Fantastic Friday!

On Friday we dressed in red and held a cake sale in aid of Red Nose Day and our link school, Tukela in Zambia. 

Thanks to your very generous donations and delicious cakes we raised an amazing….

£424.64!!!

We linked our learning to World Water Day - keep your eyes peeled for when we announce the winner of our poster competition!

A fantastic amount raised.

 Thank you and well done!

Visit from our Link School

We were honoured to have Ethel, who is the Headteacher at Tukela School in Zambia, visit us with her two daugters last week.  They were in the UK and came to meet the children and celebrate our fundraising of £100 for their toilets, as well as talking to our Green Council about how we could work together.

First, some members of school gave them a tour. Next the two girls experienced life in Year 4 and Year 6.  After that Ethel and her daughters led a very interesting assembly about life in Zambia.

Here are the Green Council with Ethel, her daughters and our pages of fundraising ideas.  Look out for events later on in the year.

Children In Need

A huge, spotacular

thank you!!

to everyone who got in the spirit for 

Children in Need 2016.  

Your donations helped us to raise a massive £300!

You all looked fantastic in spots!

World Water Day Fundraising event.

This term we have been collecting money for our twin school, Tukela in Zambia.

They currently have 2 toilets shared between 130 students and 8 staff.

First of all the Green Council brought back their class bottles to count the money.

Next we lined up the bottles in order of the class that collected the most, compared to the class that collected the least.  

Can you tell which class was the winner?  

Yes, Year 5 not only filled their bottle but also had an extra bag of money.  When counted, it added up to £13.62. Year 5 have won an "Arty Party" with Mrs Williams next Tuesday afternoon.

Here are the children sorting all the money into different values. 

I think this was their favourite activity out of all of the Green Council meetings this year!

Here are all of the denominations being counted after they were sorted.  

When all of the money was counted by two boys in Year 6, we found that we had raised... £100.09!  

What an amazing achievement, Team Shirley Warren.