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News from Langrish Primary School
Merry Christmas to all our families!
What a busy term this has been! As I look back over the last three months, I can’t believe we have managed to
squeeze so much into such a short amount of time. We have welcomed our Squirrels into our Langrish community and
watching them on the stage this week, you just wouldn’t believe that they have only been with us for this term. They
are a delightful, enthusiastic bunch of gorgeous children who have settled incredibly well into school. We have also
welcomed new families into Year 5 and Year 1 and with Ollie joining us in Year 3 after Christmas, our school is full to
capacity once again. The FoLS committee have already been busy raising money for the school and together with the
Christmas fayre money, we have purchased the items below with the profits. Thank you so much to all of you for your
generosity. Recently, you may have read many press articles about school funding, and although our bank account
balances, it is this extra money from your kind selves that allows us to add to our surroundings.
A new bookshelf for the Burrow, play panels for Squirrels and the Year 1 reading den
We have also recently purchased resources as a result of being successful in our bid for an EHDC grant. The three
wooden sheds are full of STEM resources which the children can design, make and play with after the holidays. The
concrete base for the sheds is now complete and so we are ready to go! In addition, by the end of the holidays, every
classroom will have a new carpet: here is Squirrel’s after their refit last weekend.
But what about the changing rooms,
I hear you cry? Well, the inside
refurbishment is due to be signed
off at the end of this week and
below is a taster of what lies behind
the door. The whole building is due
to be clad with wooden cladding
after Christmas and the doors and
windows replaced, so we are very
nearly there.
Finally, all that remains for me to say, is a huge thank you to you all for your
support and kind words this term. Our school would not be a such a success
without everyone’s valued contribution and the whole team here would like to
wish you a very restful, enjoyable Christmas and all the best for 2023.
Best wishes, Mrs. Wright
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Governor Update:
The Governors have had a very busy term, visiting leaders in school to learn more about Science and Maths,
completing safeguarding audits and ensuring that the school finances balance. In addition, I have received
an application from Mrs. Wright to reduce her working pattern to three days a week from September 2023.
This request has been approved. Miss Jones has successfully been appointed as the Headteacher for the
other two days. I know that this strong partnership will ensure that the continuity of leadership of the school
will remain in place as Miss Jones and Mrs Wright already work very closely together on many aspects of
school life.
On behalf of the Governing Body, I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas, Mr. James Greenwood.
Festive Fun
Last week Mrs Riggs gathered all of
her musicians together from across
the school for a festive jam session.
They had lots of fun putting
together some Christmas numbers
and playing in a bigger group than
they are used to. Mrs Riggs
captured some of their music for
us, please click on the link to see
what they got up to: Langrish
Christmas Musicians.mp4
(dropbox.com)
Pantomime Time Again! Thank you FoLS x
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School Parliament
School Council
The School Council have had a busy half term finishing the child version of the Internet Usage Policy and
of course, planning and running the fundraising events for Children in Need.
The School Councillors looked at the Internet Usage Policy in detail and made quite a few changes in their
meetings. They changed the wording into simpler terms to make it more accessible for all the children in
school. They also added words to some sentences to make it clearer for the children to follow, for exam-
ple adding the clarification ‘a trusted adult in school’ rather than simply stating the need ‘to ask for help’.
The School Council then discussed these revisions in each class and more changes to the policy were made
to reflect this. In their final review of the policy, articles from the UNCRC were added. To view the finished
version, please visit the policies page on the school webpage: https://www.langrish.hants.sch.uk/policies
Eco Council
The Eco Council have been leading class discussions on how they can reduce water and paper waste in
their classrooms. Feedback on the school blog suggests a range of simple initiatives from recycling bins and
scrap paper trays to tap monitors and during Eco Council meetings the children have reported that each of
their classes are working hard to reduce their waste.
Eco Council are going to be working on a project next year promoting how much we reduce, reuse and re-
cycle here at Langrish. The children are going to create a poster together which can be put up in our com-
munity. We have also decided to create a video to share our ideas on how we are reducing, reusing and
recycling.
So, watch out for this next year!
JRSO’s (Junior Road Safety Officers)
The JRSO’s completed their two webinar training sessions with other schools across Hampshire this term.
They discussed their role as a JRSO and thought about future projects to complete in school.
The children will be planning an assembly and promoting ‘Be bright to be seen’ next year in school to pro-
mote road safety.
House Captains
The House Captains have met this term to feed back on their houses ideas for competitions this year. The
most popular suggestion was a STEM challenge using recycled materials that children will bring in from
home. This first House Challenge of the year will take place in January.
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School Parliament
Play Leaders
At Langrish we have Play Leaders from Year 5 and 6 who organise games during lunchtime break for our
younger children in Squirrels, Year 1 and 2. For the Play Leaders, this is an opportunity to take on
responsibility, plan, organise and lead others. For our younger children, it is a great way to enjoy playtime
with a mixture of familiar and new games and a chance to get to know some of the older children at
school.
Our new Play Leaders from Year 5 are Riley, Georgia, Kayden, Phoebe, Poppy, Saffy, Wiktor, India, Emily,
Yasmin, Lola and Lyra. Just before half term they completed a morning’s training at school with Mrs
Galliers, our SGO. They have spent the last few weeks play leading alongside the outgoing Year 6 leaders
ready to take over after Christmas, which they are really looking forward to.
We would like to say a big thank you to our outgoing, Year 6 Play Leaders: Drew, Annabelle, Millie, Sasha,
Flo, Sophia, Robyn, Rosie, Harry and Harrison, who have led games so enthusiastically this past year and
who were so encouraging and kind to their young charges.
EARA
Following their meeting with other Hampshire schools earlier this term, our EARA group had been
tasked with creating a mission statement and then planning an assembly to share this with the
other Key Stage 2 pupils. They also wanted to ensure a shared understanding around what is
meant by protected characteristics. After a few weeks hard work, they presented their assembly
last week, providing a clear explanation and supporting the younger pupils through audience par-
ticipation activities. Well done girls, we look forward to seeing the display you are now planning
once it is ready!
Langrish EARA Mission Statement
As the Langrish EARA group, we are here to support
you and to challenge injustice. Pupils can come talk to
us about people disrespecting anyone’s rights, because
you shouldn’t be worried about anyone discriminating
you, article 2 . We are committed to representing our
school in the best way possible.
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Christmas Fayre
A Christmas Fayre to beat all Christmas Fayres: there were marshmallows and musical
medleys, Christmas films and Christmas decorations, pin the tail on the snowman, festive
photo-booths and even a reindeer called Barry!
To top it all off, overall we raised £1042.77 with a huge congratulations to Year 6 for raising
£219. Just take a look at all the festive fun we had!
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The Infant’s Nativity Performance
It’s been a few years since we’ve been able to do a
‘normal’ Nativity, but this year we were back with a bang
with our ‘Boogie Woogie Nativity’.
The story transports the audience back to Bethlehem,
where an animal band, ‘The Stable Stompers,’ are
practising for their big concert. Imagine their surprise
when a choir of angels turn up to tell them that the baby
Jesus will be born that night, right there in the stable!
Who is this special baby? Will ‘The Stable Stompers’ still be able to perform their concert?
And why are there suddenly kings and shepherds turning up at the stable too?!
A fun musical take on the traditional Nativity story, the children thoroughly enjoyed learning
the songs and presenting the play for the school, parents and families.
Thanks to everybody who could come along to watch our wonderfully festive performance, as
well as all the parents who helped provide costumes and practise the songs!
DVDs of the Nativity performance are still available to order from the school office.
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Basketball Club
This half term Mr James has been running a basketball club
for the Juniors in preparation for a basketball festival at
Perins School. We learnt how to score through a layup, the
rules of 3 vs 3, what constitutes a violation, defensive tech-
niques and practised travelling whilst dribbling.
With all of this new knowledge, we enjoyed putting our skills to
the test at Perins where we played against teams from other
schools. Written by the Year 6 basketball players
Maths Workshop for Parents
Following the recent phonics and Spelling The seasonal sing-along met with HUGE success – thank
workshops, we are keen to ascertain whether there you for coming along to support us and to join in with the
is interest in a maths version of some description. If start of our Christmas season! Mrs Wright said that the
this is something you would like, please drop us an new tradition that we have started with this event should
email via the office so we can plan for the relevant be repeated! All the school enjoyed singing Christmas
carols, songs from their Nativity and a few new ‘crackers’.
age/area of curriculum. Many thanks
Well done to the readers: Drew, Flo and Anna who set the
seasonal tone with a mixture of traditional stories and
Multiplication more modern poems. Finally, a very BIG thank you to
FOLS who were selling (alcohol free) mulled wine and
mince pies, raising money for the Year 1 reading area and
Madness the class Christmas parties.
After a busy fortnight of online competition, our
Year 4 class have won the Guildford League of the
Emile Times Table World Cup! Langrish Church
Having qualified for the National Finals, they are
now busily back on the computers competing Carol Service
throughout the week for the coveted title—to be
announced on Friday 16th
December. The St John the Evangelist Church in Langrish would like
competition consists of 25 to extend a very warm welcome to everyone to
questions form the 2-12 attend their Carol service on Sunday 18th December
times tables with just 6 at 6pm and t their scratch Nativity on Christmas Eve
seconds to answer per at 4 pm, where children love to dress up as
question; the average characters from the Christmas story.
position of our students
will determine our final Their Christmas Day service will
placement. Good luck Year be held at 9 am, again all are
4, keep up the great work! welcome.
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Autumn House Point Update
4585 4328 4918 4086
Autumn Term Reading Challenge Winners
Congratulations to all of the children across the school who took part in our Autumn Term Reading
Challenge, raising the profile of our science themed books and pushing themselves to try something
different. A special congratulations to those who managed to complete the challenge, earning themselves 25
house points each and making a HUGE difference to their team’s totals this term. The prize winners,
randomly selected from the finishers in each class, were as follows:
Theo (Year 1), Charlotte (Year 2), Bas (Year 3), Orla (Year 4), India (Year 5), Sasha (Year 6)
Spring Term Diary Dates:
Monday 19th December—Monday 2nd January: Christmas Holidays
Friday 6th January Year 5 trip to Winchester Science Centre 9.00am-2.30pm
Thursday 12th Year 4 swimming @ Churchers College 9.00am
Sunday 15th Year R application deadline for September 2023
Tuesday 17th Year 6 trip to Haslemere Museum 9.00-2.45pm
Thursday 19th Year 4 swimming @ Churchers College 9.00am
Friday 20th Year 5 Class Assembly - Chinese New Year 8.45am
Petersfield Music Festival Rehearsal @ Churchers 9.00-12pm
Thursday 26th
Year 4 swimming @ Churchers College 9.00am
Tuesday 31st Year 4 trip to Winchester
Wednesday 1st-2nd February Year 6 Bikeability
Thursday 2nd Year 4 swimming @ Churchers College 9.00am
Friday 3rd KS1 Road Safety Magic Show 1.30pm
Monday 6th—Friday 10th Take One Picture Week
Year 4 swimming @ Churchers College 9.00am
Thursday 9th
Red House Cake Sale 3.10pm
Monday 13th—Friday 17th Half Term Holiday
Please note, there will be no teacher led clubs next half term as teachers will be running
tuition groups. Look out for invitations during the first week back.
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