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A Prayer for Christmas by Ella, Year 5, Owl Class

Dear God,

Thank you for Your wonderful Son who came down to earth and

Thank you for gifting us Your wonderful creations.

Please help those who think Christmas is all about the gifts when it is really about

the Saviour, Jesus Christ, being born to Mary and Joseph.

Sorry for those people who do not have gifts like us at Christmas time.

Amen

Christmas Service at St Nicholas Church, Porton

Whole School Christmas Dinner

A Little Bird Told Me

Volunteer Day

We were fortunate to have one of our Governors, Colin Eastwood, and some of his work colleagues from the Ordnance Survey spend the day with us recently. They kindly offered us their work's charity day and came and tamed, trimmed and re-wove our willow dome. Colin and his team are hoping to return in the spring when the dome starts to shoot and help us with some more tasks around the school grounds. It was great to meet such a willing and able team and we are extremely grateful for all their hard work.

A Wonderful Operatic Experience

Many of our children and parents will recall the visit we received from the professional opera singers and the fantastic workshop and performance that followed. After this most successful visit we were then fortunate enough to receive a second visit, please see below.

Released: 19th November 2019

Guess what happens when professional opera singers spring a surprise visit to our school? This!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7koe-qs5A&feature=youtu.be

"This is the best day of my life"

(pupil aged 6)

Organised by Wiltshire Music Connect

Beep Beep Day

Badger Class and Hedgehog Class took part in Beep Beep Day.

Badger Class took turns to be cars or pedestrians. The pedestrians then crossed our road, choosing the safest place to cross which was the zebra crossing. We knew we needed to 'stop, look and listen' and held hands to stay safe. We discussed the importance of holding an adults hand when crossing roads or walking next to roads.

The Travelling Book Fayre

The Travelling Book Fayre has been visiting and it has been a great opportunity for families to browse the shelves for new books. Not only do the children have the benefit of a book to take home but the school also receives a commission in the form of new books for the classrooms. Thank you to all those who bought books - happy reading!!

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

We have again this year been pleased to support the Christmas Shoe Box Appeal and here are a few of our colourfully wrapped boxes ready to be shipped. The children who receive these boxes are always extremely excited and delighted as this could be the only present they receive at Christmas time. Thank you to all our families who donated these generous gifts.

Remembrance Service

Netball Tournament

Year 5/6 Netball

A team of nine (six girls and three boys) went to Wyvern St Edmunds learning campus to play netball.

Some of the things we enjoyed were how the teachers, our team and even the other teams were so supportive. One of the schools gave us three cheers! We are proud of getting our first goal and winning that match. We are grateful that the teams didn’t get boastful even if they won by a lot.

We are disappointed that we didn’t get to the semi-finals as we didn’t get much practice but we loved our experience playing netball. We hope that next time we get a little bit further.

We want to say a thank you to all the staff including the staff from Wyvern St Edmunds for organising this event and giving us this opportunity. We also want to say a BIG thank you to Mr Waddington and Mrs Irwin for supporting us through this event. Over all we really enjoyed our time there.

Harvest - Mosaic Blessing

PTA DISCO

Writing on the interactive TVs

Badger Class ordering numbers

Harvest Service at St Nicholas Church

Badger Class 'Bringing Prayer Alive' with the Bridge Project

School Games - Quad Kids Year 6 Final

After a successful Quad Kids Festival at the Laverstock schools our team was selected to attend the Final at Marlborough College

Pillars of Faith Exhibition

Mr Waddington and the Art Club have been working on pieces under the title of 'Creation'. These were on show at an exhibtion organised by the Bridge Project and attended not only by the Art Club children but also by the Mayor, John Glen MP and other local dignitaries.

Badgers and Hedgehogs Class Trip to The Langford Lakes

Years 5 and 6 School Residential - Fairthorne Manor

Opening Day of the Snack Shack our new Year 6 Business

Visit to the Porton Over 60's Garden Party

Visit to the Porton Over 60's Garden Party 3

Visit to the Porton Over 60's Garden Party 4

Concert at Salisbury Cathedral

A few clips from our rehearsal .....

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Year Six Bikeability

Salisburys' Schools Mini Marathon

Football Success

Mrs Smith was delighted to congratulate some of our Year 5 boys who successfully won the U10's Jock McClorey Plate at Tidworth for this season. The boys are part of the Porton FC U10 team and only came together this season and have developed in leap and bounds to progress into the well co-ordinated team that went on to win this trophy. We are particularly pleased as the team coaches Mr Waddington and Mr Halls also run our own school sports club and one of our former pupils also helps at their Friday night training sessions. Let's hope their success continues next season!

Grand Opening of Pirate Ship

Comic Relief Cake Sale

On Friday 15th March we held a Red Nose Non-Uniform Day to raise funds for Comic Relief. Some of our older children also organised a cake sale; making posters, wrote letters to parents asking for donations and manning the cake stall.

Not only did everyone have a lovely day but we also raised an amazing £284.62 for a very worth while charity.

Sounds of Easter

Book Week

A visit from Parliament

We were fortunate enough to experience a visit from Parliament this year and learnt a lot about all things politics! It is so great to see such a keen interest from the children,especially in this time of change for our country. We learnt about many things such as - how new laws are voted for and who our local MP is. We finished with a debate about school start time, which was very interesting indeed!

Music Worship

The children of Hare Class have been learning to play the recorder and performed to parents and family members. We also had performances from children who are learning other instruments, each performed a piece they were currently learning with their music teacher.

Music Performance

Opera Performances- Nessun Dorma!

Bella Mama!

Opera Singers Visit!

Road Safety

We have been learning about road safety and where possible walking,cycling and car sharing are all good for us and the environment.

The children in Badger Class used their road track to practise crossing the road safely, they also played some of the games provided during Road Safety Week.

Christmas Carol Service

Whole School Christmas Lunch

Christingle Service at Salisbury Cathedral

On the 6th December the children in Owl Class visited Salisbury Cathedral to take part in the Christingle Service. This was organised by the Children's Society as part of their 50th Anniversary and along with the Bishop, Arch Deacons and other local officials was attended by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester in her role as Patron.

Six of our children had the special privilege of being asked to meet and talk to HRH about the Christingle service.

Thank you to Dominic Parkes for providing us with copies of the official photographs.