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Hampshire Collegiate
Junior School receives
Quality Assurance Award
N ursery
teachers and children at Hampshire Collegiate School
recently celebrated receiving their Quality Assurance Award from
the Centre for Research in Early Childhood as part of the Effective
Early Learning Programme. The school has enjoyed being part of the
award scheme for the last three years and this year plans to work
towards further enhancing the links between the great outdoors and
early learning.
‘We are always looking at ways to bring the great outdoors into
the classroom and vice versa as we take the children out and about,’
says Head Teacher Elaine Hooten. ‘We recently enjoyed a fabulous
sponsored toddle through the woodland on the HCS school estate
that involved parents and carers coming along too, which raised over
£500 for Barnado’s. This helped us explore many areas of learning
from animal needs in winter to thinking about other children in
need.’
The Nursery is also extending links to the wider world by using
some of their fund-raising monies to sponsor one of the animals at
Marwell Zoo. The children will be involved in learning about the
animals, thinking about how to take care of them, visiting the zoo
and then choosing the animal they wish to sponsor.
Rookery Pre-Prep enjoy
learning about fire safety
C hildren
in Rookery Pre-Prep at Rookwood School, Andover, were
thrilled with a recent visit from the Hampshire Fire and Rescue
Service. As part of their Key Stage 1 study of fire and road safety, the
education unit explained to the children how fire starts, how to
prevent it, what to do in the event of a fire and general safety inside
and outside the home. In addition to the classroom work, they also
got the chance to look around the specially adapted fire engine, hear
the siren and squirt water from the fire hoses at targets.
‘This was a fantastic way for the children to see at first-hand the
work of the local fire service and to learn important lessons about fire
safety,’ says Mrs Jan Ibbotson, Head of the Rookery. ‘Thank you very
much to Hampshire Fire and Rescue for an excellent educational day.’
Celebrating their Quality Assurance Award at Hampshire
Collegiate School
Setting out on the sponsored toddle
Leehurst Swan tops
academic league tables
T he
pupils and staff at Leehurst Swan, Salisbury, are delighted that
their success has been acknowledged in the latest school league
tables, published in The Times. The 100 per cent achievement in science,
mathematics and English, giving all pupils at least 5 A* - C grades in
their GCSEs last summer, places Leehurst Swan at the top of the league
tables for Wiltshire. Headmaster Roger Leake said he was delighted with
the success of the pupils: ‘Leehurst Swan offers a broad and balanced
education in which pupils achieve exceptional standards in core subjects
and music, art, sport and drama. The school was recently awarded The
Best Independent School in England for GCSE Photography for Girls.
The academic success of the pupils in GCSE examinations is another
facet of the exceptional standards our pupils achieve in their education.’
Leehurst Swan is an all-through school, taking pupils from age two
to the end of their compulsory schooling years at age 16.
A special and unexpected gift
At Sherborne House School, the eight- and nine-year-olds have just
had a wonderful surprise. They had been having such fun learning
the ukulele last term that they decided to send a card to the Ukulele
Orchestra of Great Britain together with a video of their rendition of
Jingle Bells at the very end of the term. Imagine their surprise when they
each received a gift back from the orchestra: of a copy of their single Miss
Dynamitee. It was totally unexpected and a wonderful extra-special
Christmas gift – just when they thought it was all over. ‘When I put it on
the stereo we listened to it at supper,’ said nine-year-old Frankie. ‘It was
very nice and we listened to it lots and lots of times.’ It certainly made all
the children feel very special, and they are now working hard for the
Southampton Festival later this term.