Parents are most welcome to join us for the Big Dance routine at 1.00 p.m on Friday 18th May.



Nature detectives, Amy and Fenya, look for minibeasts at the Thatcham Discovery Centre. All the children in Y2 and Y3 enjoyed the visit to the centre on Thursday 3rd May, despite the rain and the cold! According to Eloise and Grace the best activity was pond dipping and finding the great diving beetle larva.

Science and technology teacher, Tom Ward, who has visited the school (he also ran the rocket workshop during the Y5 Science Museum Sleepover) is running a summer term technology club, starting on Saturday 5th May. For more details visit www.techcamp.org.uk/tech-club.html

The school celebrated St. George's Day on the 23rd April by creating the national flag of England.

Well done to our Y6 team who took part in the Berkshire Games Festival, held at Bradfield College on Thursday 19th April. The boys and girls has an incredible time taking part in all of the sports and other activities provided at the venue.

Year 4 and 5 returned safe and sound from their residential trip at Osmington Bay, in Dorset, from the 18th to the 20th April. Although the weather was not particularly glorious, the children and staff had a fantastic time, enjoying all the activities provided by Rose, 'Dave', Rebecca, Mike, David and other members of the PGL staff. A huge thanks to Mrs Thompson and Miss Harris for accompanying the children, who all behaved impeccably.

This year's Easter Egg Hunt was held in glorious sunshine on Thursday 29th March. The event raised just over £140. Thanks to all those parents who helped out in the cake and tea stall and to Mrs Javes and Mrs Phillips for organising the event.

Our cross country team were runners-up in the small schools section of the West Berkshire and North Hants Cross Country Championship, held at Newbury Race Course on Wednesday 28th March. There were fine individual performances from Elizabeth, Eloise, Henry, Owen D, Louise and Owen M, who all finished in the top 100 of their respective races (there were over 230 competitors in each race). Well done to everyone who took part.

Owen tries to catch Louis as they enter the final straight of their race at the Bradfield Cross Country Championship, held on Tuesday 13th March at Bradfield College. All of the children ran extremely well, but Henry completed the finest run of the day, winning the bronze medal in the boys upper junior race. Well done to all the competitors.

Well done to all the children who took part in this year's West Berskhire Schools Concert, held at the Anvil in Basingstoke on Tuesday 20th March. Many thanks to Mr Teale, Mrs Nicholson and Mrs Javes for all their hard work preparing the children for the event. Congratulations also to Elizabeth, who read perfectly in front of a huge audience!

Y5 had a fantastic sleepover at the Science Museum on Friday 9th March. They attended a presentation on forces, built some 'stomping rockets' and saw a super 3D film called Born to be Wild. They also got a couple of hours sleep! Thanks to Mrs Thompson for accompanying the children.

Both our netball and football teams finished in 5th place at the 2012 Kennet and Theale Football and Netball Tournament, held at Kennet school on Tuesday 6th March in glorious sunshine. Both teams won 4 matches and lost 4 matches. Well done to everyone who took part.

Foundation and Year 1 greatly enjoyed their visit to the Wolf Sanctuary at Beenham on the 29th February. They used information they learnt about wolves in the book they have written with children from other local schools. The children also had a great time at Poppy's Wood on Friday 2nd March.

St Peter's Church is holding a 'Messy Church' for children activity at 11 a.m on Friday 11th April (in the school hall). This event was held last year and was was very enjoyable.

 
The children looked stunning in their royalty costumes, helping to create a tremendous atmosphere in the school for World Book Day on Thursday 1st March. The children in Y6 are busy creating videos showing some of the children reading from their books. These videos (1, 2 and 3) were created on the day by Henry, Elizabeth, Liam and Jacob. Thanks to all the parents who assisted with costumes.

World Book Day Survey. Please could you answer this survey (created by Y3 children).

Congratulations to our Y2 multiskills team, who won a mini-multiskills tournament held at Kennet School on Tuesday 28th February.

Thanks to Mrs Javes, Mrs Aldridge and Mrs Denny for organising and running another very successful Valentine's Day disco on Friday 24th February. The disco raised £165.

An amazing journey from the smallest to the largest objects in the universe can be viewed at the htwins.net/scale 2 website.

All the children have their own password to access the maths games available on the popular Sumdog website.

A new low of -10.9 degrees centigrade was recorded by the Woolhampton Weather Station at 7.14 a.m on the 11th February!

View photographs of the children having fun in the snow!

Download the Y1 Phonics Screening Test materials.

Berkshire Maestros are holding a Choir Bring a Buddy Open Day on Saturday 3rd March.

Our latest Table Top Sale, held on Wednesday 25th January, raised £71 for our school charity, Helen and Douglas House. Many thanks to Year 6 for organising and running the sale.

Our 5-a-side indoor football team played exceptionally well in a very competitive group at the Primary Schools Tournament, held at the new sports hall at Trinity School on Thursday 12th January. The team lost their first two matches but then beat Theale Primary and Hungerford Primary. Well done to Max, Archie, Henry, Charles, Jacob and Owen and thanks to Mrs Javes for helping to transport the children.

Parents can view and download the video of our Christmas Production, Will Santa get Through (the file is 130Mb so will take some time to download!)

The collection at the Carol Service raised just short of £80. The money has been donated to Helen and Douglas House and the RSPCA.

View the video of the choir rehearsal for the Christmas Fayre.

Thanks to all those parents and friends who supported the recent Waitrose charity event for the school. We received a cheque for £280, which will used to purchase rugby shirts and shorts for our tag rugby team.

View the animated Christmas trees and the other Christmas trees decorated by some of the school clubs.

The Lower School Christmas Nativity, "It's a Baby!", was greatly enjoyed by an appreciative audience, including children from Tigers Nursery, on Monday 12th December. Thanks to the children, Mrs Nicholson and everyone who worked so hard to ensure that the production was such a success.

View more photographs from the KS2 Production, "Will Santa get Through?"

A huge thanks to Mrs Javes, Mrs Coltart and all the other parents and staff involved in organising and running this year's successful Christmas Fayre, held on Friday 9th December. The event raised over £1000, which is a fantastic effort!

Rev. Des and Rev. Becky welcomed the children from Year 5 to a special 'Christmas Unwrapped' workshop at Beenham Church on Friday 9th December. Working with pupils from Beenham School, they learnt more about the Christmas Story.

Congratulations to all the children involved in our 2011 Christmas Production, "Will Santa get Through". The children acted and sang superbly. Thanks to Mrs Hillerton, Mrs Nicholson and all the staff involved in organising the production. Photographs taken by Mr Baldwin.

The Kids on the Catwalk video is now available to buy for £4. Orders can be made online or via the office.

Our Adverse Weather policy can be downloaded (just in case the weather takes a turn for the worse!

View the winning designs for the cover of our KS2 Christmas production, 'Will Santa get Through?" Vote for your favourite design.

The Friends of Woolhampton Film Night raised just under £200. Thanks to Mrs Javes, Mrs Aldridge, Mrs Denny and Mrs Barret for organising and running the event. Jack has now moved up another leaf!

Our first inter-house maths quiz, held on Friday 25th November, was won by Blue Kingfisher House. Well done to all the children who participated and thanks to Mrs Nicholson for organising the event.

Congratulations to our quiz team, who came joint 6th (out of 15) in this year's Newbury Weekly News Quiz.

Now available to view are the wartime evacuation videos produced by Elizabeth, Charles, Henry, Max and Liam and Jacob.

Tuesday 22nd November was Super Tuesday for Woolhampton School! Not only did we win the Sportshall Tournament, but we came third in the mini-basketball tournament, held at Kennet School.

Congratulations to our amazing Sportshall Athletics team, who ran, jumped and threw so well they won the East West Berkshire Sportshall Athletics competition held at Denefield School on Tuesday 22nd November. The team will now represent the county at the Sportshall Athletics Competition in April.

Our Spots for Pudsey event on Children in Need day on Friday 18th November raised just over £100, Many thanks to the children for supporting Pudsey!

Y6 visited the fascinating museum at RAF Welford on Wednesday 16th November. This musem, open to the public by invitation only, is an Aladdin's Cave of world War II memorabilia. The director of the museum spoke to the children about some of the items in the museum and also the role of the many wartime airfields around Newbury. Many thanks to Mr Baldwin for organising the visit.

We raised an incredible £228 from the recent Bags2school initiative. A huge thanks to everyone who brought in sacks of clothing.

Read the latest Friends of Woolhampton School Newsletter.

Y6 have been creating a video of their Evacuation Day. View Samuel's video.

Our latest Table Top Sale, held on November the 9th, raised a record £180! £90 of this will be donated to Helen and Douglas House. Well done to Y6 for demonstrating all the skills required to organise and run such a successful event.

Our 2011 Church Inspection Report is available to download.

The Woolhampton Weather Station is back online. To view current weather conditions either click on the link on the Weather page or click on the school logo on the Home Page.

On Tuesday 1st November the children in Year 6 were evacuated to the countryside and billeted with local families! Billeting Officer, Mrs Hillerton, managed to find suitable accommodation for all the children, although the local farmer and vicar were most unimpressed by the children's lack of knowledge of chickens and pigs! The children also spent a morning at the local school, under the watchful gaze of teacher, Wynne Frankum.

The next Table Top Sale, organised by the children in Year 6, takes place on the afternoon of wednesday 9th November. FAQ's and sale slips can be downloaded.

8 children had a 'whale of a time' at a comedy workshop held at South Street Theatre, Reading on Friday 14th October. Children's comedian, James Campbell, displayed his comic talent and the children learnt the art of comedy at two workshops. Thanks to Karen Ward of our Extended School Partnership for organising the visit.

Taking part for the first time at the Bradfield College Netball Tournament, our netball team did amazingly well, finishing as runners-up in the competition. In the group stages, the team won all three of their matches and then beat Church End Primary school in the semi-final. In the final we lost by one goal to Spurcroft. Well done to the squad and to the coach, Mrs Javes.

View the superb photographs of Y6 kayaking on the River Thames. Thanks to Mr Baldwin for taking the photos.

We raised just over £80 for the charity, Jeans for Genes. Thanks to all the children who dontated £1 to wear their jeans.

Both of our teams played some superb rugby at this year's Thatcham Tag Rugby Festival, held on Saturday 8th October. The Upper Juniors were particularly unfortunate not to make the semi-finals, as they narrowly lost a couple of their games by one try. Well done to all the boys and girls. Thanks to Mrs Hillerton for coaching the teams and to all the parents, who again provided wonderful support.

The Year 6 Land Army Girls took part in our Harvest Festival on n Thursday 6th October. There was a fantastic response to our shoebox appeal, with over 60 boxes collected. Thanks also to parents who donated over £70 at the service.

View the pictures taken at Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre by the children in Year 4 and Year 5.

As part of their topic on water, the children in Mrs Thompson's class visited the Kennet and Avon Canal in Woolhampton Village. During the visit they were lucky enough to see some narrow boats use Woolhampton lock, and even helped to open the lock gates. The photos were taken by the children.

Foundation and Year 1 made the most of the recent warm weather, visiting Douai Woods, where they learnt about the plants and fruits to be found in the woods at this time of the year.

The children in Y3 spent several hours at Heathrow Airport on Thursday 29th September gathering data on landings and take offs from the airport. Not surprisingly, British Airways aircraft were the most frequently seen! Thanks to Mrs Brown for accompanying the children.

On 28th September Y6 enjoyed a wonderful visit to London to see the famous illustrator, Quentin Blake. The weather was amazing, and we greatly enjoyed the walk from Westminster to The Royal Festival Hall, passing many famous London sites, including the Battle of Britain memorial on the Embankment. Many thanks to Catrinoa Hillerton for ensuring that we got tickets for the event!

The School Diary Dates list has been updated (27th Sept).

Our associated After School Club, the Bradfield Sunshine Club, now has its own website.

There will be no Netball Club after school on Wednesday 28th September.

This half-term house points will be given for considerate behaviour.

Y6 have begun their canoeing and kayaking lessons at the Adventure Dolphin Centre in Pangbourne. The children have been canoeing on the River Thames and soon hope to try their hand at kayaking.

On the afternoon of the 15th September, the children gathered on Douai Field to watch the Red Arrows fly past on their way to a display at Pangbourne. Many thanks to Elstree School for informing us of this wonderful event. The team made three flypasts, but unfortunately Mr Bingham managed to press the wrong button on the camera for the second and third flypasts - next time he will let the children take the video!

The first Achievement Assembly of the year is on Friday 16th September

Phase 2 of the refurbishment project has been completed! We now have an exciting new Foundation and Year 1 classroom, complete with a new kitchen and DT area and the latest interactive projector. Thanks to Evolution South for completing the work on time and to the governors for helping to manage the project - a brilliant team effort! View the video of the new classroom. Another major building project completed over the holiday was the replacement of the battens, felt and tiles of the west side of the main school roof.