Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• School Council Elections

  Fri 25 Oct 2019

  Over the past week, the children have been learning all about democracy and the democratic process. Each class has had the chance to vote for who they would like to represent them on our school council and the winners from each class are listed below. Well done to all the children who nominated themselves and gave speeches in front of their classes. 

   

  Today the three candidates for chair and vice-chair of the council gave their speeches in front of the whole school, outlining why they would be the best choice to lead the school council. All the speeches were well written and delivered and the children have made posters and badges to campaign around the school. 

   

  Throughout the day each class has visited the polling booths so that each child was able to cast their vote in the ballot boxes. After a very close campaign the results were announced in assembly in the afternoon. 

   

  Chair: Evie Roodhouse

  Vice-chair: Charlie Ratcliff

   

  Class Councillors

  Denmark - George Stepney

  Greece - Felicity Alderman

  Aruba - Tabitha Leonard

  Djibouti - Jack Black

  Cameroon - Noah Bennett

  Morocco - Caleb Ndhlovu

  Maldives - Eva Bowen

  Bangladesh - Grace Taylor

  South Africa - Lucy Bye

  

• Harvest Festival

  Tue 22 Oct 2019

  On Friday, Cameroon class led our annual Harvest Festival at All Saint's Church. The children asked us to think about all the miles our food had covered to arrive on our plates and how fortunate we were to have food readily available. 

   

  As part of the service the children donated items of food to the food bank and sang a range of our harvest songs. Well done to Cameroon class on putting on such a thought provoking and enjoyable performance.  

• Table Tennis Success

  Thu 10 Oct 2019

  On Tuesday, we entered 6 teams in the Basingstoke Table Tennis Tournament at Aldworth School. 

   

  Each of the teams was placed in a group alongside 2 or 3 other local schools, playing matches against each other, with the top two from each group progressing to the quarter finals. 

   

  It was really pleasing that all 6 of our teams placed in the top two of their respective groups and progressed to the knock-out stages. For the girls the C team played in a really close match but were unfortunately knocked-out in the quarter finals. The A team were drawn against the B team in the quarter finals and after beating them went on to win their semi-final against St Mary's. This meant they played in the final against St Mark's. After some very close matches the girl's eventually won 3 games to 1 and were crowned Basingstoke Champions!

   

  In the boy's competition our A team were drawn against our C team in the quarter-finals and our B team against St Mary's B. Both the A team and B team came through these matches and progressed to the Semi-finals. The A team then played and beat St Mark's A team to reach the final. The B team lost a very close semi-final to St Mary's A team and so went on to play St Marks in a 3rd and 4th place play off, which they won to claim bronze medals. Our A team then played St Mary's A team in the final, winning by 4 matches to 0 to claim the title and become Basingstoke Champions. 

   

  This was an enormously impressive effort from every child that attended the tournaments, as each team did so well. The boys team have now been Basingstoke Champions for 3 consecutive years and after a couple of years of 2nd place finishes it was very pleasing to see the girls go one better and claim the title. Both the A teams will now play in the county finals in Southampton on 1st December. We wish them the best of luck! 

   

  Well done to everyone involved!