Autism Awareness MUFTI Day
- By markward
- 26 March, 2018
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This Wednesday children can come to school in non school uniform in exchange for £1, which will be donated to Autism Awareness.
Thank you to Summer and Scarlett in Year 5 for their brilliant assembly on Autism and for approaching Mrs Moakes about how we can raise awareness and do a fundraiser for such a good cause.
Rescheduled Lepe Beach Clean up Sat 17th March
- By markward
- 13 March, 2018
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The Lepe Beach clean up is now THIS SATURDAY!
March 17th 10AM – 3PM
Lets get as many Waterside families along as we can.
Join the Lepe Rangers as they take on a beach & park clean. Each day they pick up litter that has either been washed up on our beach with every tide or left by our visitors. Plastics are the most common source of litter found and cause harm to our marine creatures and bird life. Turn up – head to the office to collect your litter-picker pack and details of where to litter pick. Make a note of the things you find and weigh your bag when finished as this helps us protect our marine environment. Free parking for those who help with this event – collect your parking pass on arrival!
Wednesday 7th February – Visit from Hampshire Music Service
- By lisaalderson
- 7 February, 2018
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Hampshire Music Service visit assembly
Today we were very excited to welcome Miss Schwartz from the Hampshire Music Service to assembly. Miss Schwartz is an experienced brass musician and music teacher. Miss Schwartz spoke with the children about the instruments, their history and how they are played. We all enjoyed listening to her play and I think everyone learnt something new about brass instruments. If there are any children who are interested in learning an instrument then please come in and speak to staff about it.
Wednesday 31st January – Head Teacher Appointment
- By lisaalderson
- 31 January, 2018
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The governors are pleased to announce that we have appointed Mrs Emma Moakes as Head Teacher for Waterside Primary School. We have full confidence in her abilities and know that she will lead the school to success. We told the children this morning in assembly and they were extremely pleased.
Monday 18th December – FOW Christmas Fayre
- By lisaalderson
- 19 December, 2017
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Santa and his little elves were VERY busy crafting and organising the Christmas Fayre yesterday. There was a chance to meet Santa, a fabulous raffle, tombola and a wide variety of stalls in the hall. Many parents attended with their children and fun was had by all.
The PTA took a whooping £867 which is an excellent amount of money. A big thank you to Friends of Waterside for their efforts in organising such a great event.
Friday 1st December – FOW Christmas Shop
- By lisaalderson
- 4 December, 2017
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Festivities are well underway at Waterside this year. Friends of Waterside opened their Christmas shop today and they did a great job of organising the children.
671 gifts were ordered and this equated to 76% of the school shopping for gifts. Every child who entered the shop had their very own shopper who helped them chose gifts for their loved ones! Each class passed through in 30 minutes which is amazing!
A big thank you to the FOW for organising, shopping, wrapping and spending the time to organise this event. In total the event raised an approximate profit of £300 for the school.
Friday 10th November – Applemore Football Tournament
- By lisaalderson
- 22 November, 2017
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On the afternoon of Friday 10th November, ten boys went along to represent Waterside, at Applemore College for the Year 5/6 3G Football Tournament. Our boy’s spirits were running high and determined to do well, using their skills and football knowledge. Waterside won their first pool, winning one game and drawing two. It was a bright sunny autumn day but the temperature dropped rapidly as the long afternoon went on. All teams were re-placed on how well they had done for the second part of the tournament – four more games. We had to up our game, use our skills and speed as the matches were getting harder – we continued to do well. Defending amazingly well, with some great saves, but unfortunately we did not get through.
Waterside boys should hold their heads high for representing school fantastically well and continuous encouragement towards each other.
Friday 17th November – Celebration Assembley
- By lisaalderson
- 17 November, 2017
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Today at Waterside we launched a new rewards system in addition to the Head Teachers awards that are given out in Friday’s Celebration Assembly. These new reward certificates are centered around our Learning Pirates and they each represent values, skills and traits that will help our children to develop their own ‘character’, and so make them ‘capable’ and ‘able’ to strive, aspire and succeed in all walks of life. The Pirate values are ‘responsible learner’, ‘resilient learner’, ‘reflective learner’, ‘resourceful learner’ and ‘reasoning learner’.
All the children pictured received their certificates today as they have demonstrated in school one of the pirate values.
To find out more about our pirates please click here.
Thursday 19th October – Update from Governors – Head teacher Recruitment
- By lisaalderson
- 19 October, 2017
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Dear Parents,
As you are aware, Mrs Moakes is acting head teacher at present. The process to recruit a new head starts tomorrow (20th October) and I wanted to advise you that a “teaser” advert will be placed on the Hampshire Website as of tomorrow with a more formal advert appearing in November. I will update all with more information after half term. Enjoy the holidays.
Best Wishes Claire Lowther, Chair of Governors.
