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Choir at Fordingbridge Culture Week
Last Friday after a wet and rainy morning, the choir walked to St Mary’s Church to perform to a packed audience.
FJS choir started the performance by singing four of their favourite songs including Make Your Own Kind of Music and How far I go, followed by the FIS choir. The choirs then came together as a joint choir to sing five songs including A Million Dreams, Believe and Mamma Mia as their finale.
Both choirs sang beautifully and with such confidence. It was a fantastic performance and a real pleasure to see them perform. Well done.
Musical Cafe
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What a performance! Children from the Fordinbridge Juniors and Infants came together to perform at the Musical Café in front of a packed audience full of proud parents in the hall at FJS on Thursday. Musicians playing guitars, flute, guitar … Continue reading
School Council – March 2019
Mrs Ovenden and Mrs Robertson joined us at school council this week and we were able to share ideas for how we would like to improve our school. We are focusing on football and litter bins.
Safer internet day 2019
FJS celebrated safer internet day this year exploring the word ‘consent’. We looked at why it is vital to give our permission for online activities and the consequences of giving permission for different events.
E-Safety for Parents
These are the most popular apps used by our Year 6 children
- 41% of parents feel their children know more about being online than they do
- The average time spent online by a 8-11 year old is 13.5 hours per week
- 40% of children who have their own tablet are allowed to take their device to bed
- 77% of children regularly use YouTube as a form of entertainment
- 42% of parents have no knowledge of content filters
- 19% of parents with children 5-15 have never spoken to them about the risks online
These are just some of the figures we explored at a recent e-safety session for parents, as well as looking at practical suggestions for keeping children safe online.
The presentation is available here if you were unable to make the session – https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/fordingbridge-junior/UploadedDocument/2bfcb698c96642b297b2f8e31d021453/e-safety-2019-ks2.pdf
Carol Concert
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As always, this year’s Carol Concert at St Mary’s Church was a wonderfully festive community event, with children throughout the school displaying their hard work and talent in singing, reading and playing music. Highlights are difficult to pick but a … Continue reading
Buzzing about Bach
After a week of listening to Johan Sebastian Bach in all classes across the school, the History of Music was launched in Singing Assembly this week.
Each half term the children will be introduced to different genres of music in chronological order of periods of time. This term the genre is classical dating as far back as 1750, and they will learn different composers each week.
It was great to hear how children were able to give facts and express their own opinions about this composer depending on whether they liked it or not. Hopefully, they will be able to compare and contrast as they are introduced to more composers.
Next week it will be Vivaldi!
Happy listening!
Orienteering British Champions
On 13th October 18 children from FJS joined Ms Mays at Moors Valley to compete in the British orienteering championships. Armed with whistles, maps, a compass and dipper they set off on a 45 minute adventure to reach all 12 controls.
Ms Mays had told them all before they left that the most important thing was to have fun, fun they had but also success!
On Friday 2nd November we welcomed 3 members of the Wessex Orienteering club to present medals and certificates and announce that FJS are the BRITISH SCHOOLS ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONS! What an amazing achievement, congratulations to all of the team and a huge thank you to Ms Mays for all her time and passion towards orienteering.
Parent Liaison – October
In order for your child/children to excel at home, a school working partnership is essential.
In previous years, school and home links have been made through parents’ evenings, reports, learning unit outcomes, curriculum evenings, reading diaries, 1:1 meeting with parents and school events.
Following the success of our parent liaison last year, we continue having Parent Class Representatives to meet with Mrs Robertson on a regular basis. The hope is that any matters involving the children and the wider community can be brought to these meetings.
Please see below parents who have agreed to stand as representatives this year. If your child’s class does not have a representative and you would like to take on the role please let us know.
Our first meeting took place on the 11th October – to read the minutes from the meeting please follow this link: https://fordingbridge-junior.secure-primarysite.net/parents-liaison/