What an amazing start to our sporting calendar! These 10 Year 3 and 4 boys took part in a Football competition at Ringwood School on Thursday 26th September. They competed against 5 other teams from the local area and came out on top winning first place! Arriving back at school they were all greeted by proud teachers who applauded their efforts.
Proudly, the boys have been wearing their medals and commenting on how much fun they had. Well done boys your hard work and effort paid off!
This year we have started with an exciting bang by being involved with lots of sporting events. On Wednesday 25th September, these children were selected to represent Fordingbridge Junior School in an Inclusive Can Do Festival.
This took place at Testwood Sports College in Totton and the children represented us really well by being polite and great sportsman.
As you can see from the smiles on their faces the enjoyed their day and gave 100% effort throwing themselves into all the activities.
Natalie, 4AG- “ I had so much fun and I really enjoyed the activities. I also saw a friend who had a different type of cerebral palsy and it was nice that we could all participate together”
Welcome to our new Cyber Ambassadors!
We have recently recruited a cyber ambassador from each class who will be our experts in e-safety.
Yesterday we welcomed Hampshire Constabulary into FJS and had a morning of training. We are looking forward to sharing why toothpaste and tieing ourselves in knots is linked to e-safety with the whole school very soon – watch this space!
Wow! What an inspirational and motivating visit we were treated to. Aaron plays wheelchair rugby for team GB and represented GB in London 2012, as well as competing in the London marathons and more recently being the first disabled British person who has climbed Kilimanjaro without assistance. He is now training for Tokyo 2020.
As well as telling us all about his adventures the key messages of never giving up on a goal and having a growth mindset were inspirational.
Aaron gave us his 4 steps to succes:
– Set a goal
– Get organised
– Ask for help
– Work hard
We know many of the children came home to share Aarons story and we know his messages will come through in the childrens own lives.
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to our harvest collection – our best yet! The food was donated to the Fordingbridge Food Bank; we collected enough food to feed 16 families for 3 days. What a great community achievement!
What would you like to trade along the Silk Road? Linking to our learning unit, ‘The Golden Age of Islam’ Year 6 went for a journey along the Silk Road. We each represented a country and a item and went trading! We were surprised to learn of the high value of nutmeg and perfume and wished we had less ivory and coral! What a fun learning experience and great bartering skills!
When I was planning this trip, people advised me this was an ill-fated year group, who often received a drenching on their outings.
NOT ANY MORE!
How lucky were we: every time it rained we were under cover. The weather didn’t limit our visit to Marwell Zoo at all.
Even better, many animals (especially the big cats) were active and in close view. The giraffes were positively skittish, cantering around and meeting up in circles like players before a match.
A big thank you to the children for their exemplary behaviour and a warm thank you to the adult volunteers without whom we wouldn’t have been able to take the children out of school.
We look forward to the next adventure!
Year 3 have explored the world this week in our hook for our topic ‘Around Europe in Six weeks’. We wanted to know which countries they knew by giving them traditional clues as well as edible ones! They had a go at tasting German sausage, African biltong, baguettes and poppadum, so they were very brave! We were very pleased at how knowledgeable they were with their country names – especially knowing the different flags.
They also had a taster session on rugby this week with the Fordingbridge Rugby club, which they really enjoyed.
A great start to the week Year 3!
On Friday 13th September, all year groups had the chance to take part in rugby coaching sessions with Fordingbridge Rugby Football club. They all had a 35 minute session which involved throwing, catching, understandings rules and most importantly having fun. Teachers and children commented on how much they enjoyed themselves and learnt. Lots of children said to me “I’m going to join Rugby now because that was fun”. I want to say a massive thank you to Mrs Trow for organising the event with Mrs Knapman. I’d also like to say thank you to Fordingbridge Rugby and Football club for their hard work and dedication to ensure all children learnt something and had fun. Finally all children behaved well and joined in showing what amazing pupils we have at Fordingbridge Junior School. Slips have been sent home detailing the coaching that happens at Fordingbridge Rugby and Football Club. Attached are pictures of some of the children in their sessions
Once we found out what the rainforest biome was like, we decided to invent a new creature to live there.
Beware, some of our inventions are dangerous.
Here we are sharing our first descriptions with a partner.
