Neston Hockey Team Defend Title to Bring Home Tournament Trophy Once Again!

A fantastic well done to our hockey team who played against the other schools in our cluster in a tournament on Thursday 13.01.22. The team: Will, Erika, Jack L, Charlotte, Charlie, Flo, Ella, Bella, Bo and Poppy only conceded two goals in 4 matches and scored 7 of their own, winning 3 matches and drawing 1. They have earned a place at the next level of competition - the Wiltshire School Games County Hockey Finals.

Many thanks to the parents who transported the team to the event and cheered them on, along with several Neston pupils who wanted to support as well!

Class Christmas Parties

This year's Christmas parties will be held separately in each class:-

• Willow - Thursday 16th December

• Oak - Monday 13th December

• Silver Birch - Thursday 16th December

• Hazel - Thursday 16th December

• Chestnut -Thursday 16th December

• Maple - Thursday 16th December

• Beech - Thursday 16th December

Children can come to school in their own clothes or school uniform for their class parties and also the Christmas dinner on the 16th December.

There is no requirement for the children to bring in party food, this will be provided.

If you would like your child to have a school Christmas dinner, please remember to order via ParentPay by 6pm on the 8th December

Christmas Jumper Day - Friday 10th December

Dear Parents/Carers

Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 10th December

Neston Primary School will be participating in the tenth Christmas Jumper Day 2021 on Friday 10th December. On this day, children and staff are invited to come in wearing their jazziest Christmas jumpers/tops/t-shirts/dresses to raise money for Save the Children. We’d love to see some jazzy jumpers at pick up and drop off too!

The suggested donation for this event is £1 and donations can be made via your ParentPay accounts on the following link:  https://www.parentpay.com/ As we are now a cashless school we will be unable to accept any money donations on the day.

Thank you for your continued support,

 Miss Turner

Severe Weather - School Closure Procedures 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Severe Weather Procedures

We are writing to remind you of the procedures in the event of snowy weather conditions. 

Please listen to HEART Radio or Wiltshire Radio who will start announcing school closures from 6.45am.  You can also go on the HEART FM website and click on NEWS and then SCHOOL CLOSURES https://www.heart.co.uk/news/school-closures/ and they give a very comprehensive list of Wiltshire School Closures. 

You could also check the “Our News” page on our school website http://nestonprimary.co.uk/journal for information.  Please do not rely on social media for an accurate update.

Please be assured that whilst every effort will be made to keep the school open, the safety of students and staff is of paramount importance during extreme weather conditions.  Also, the majority of our teachers live in surrounding towns and may experience difficulties on minor roads. We will ensure you receive information as quickly as possible; you will also receive a text if the school is closed. 

If you do not receive a text this is due to your mobile telephone numbers not being up-to-date on our school records.

Kind Regards

Pam Evans

Headteacher

Neston Netball Team win Fair Play trophy!

A super well done to our netball team: Flo, Fayven, Holly C, Alice, Daniel, Harry, Izzie B, Bella C, Edie and Alfie, who attended a training session with Mrs Long and 2 Corsham School Young Leaders on the 11th and who participated in a cluster competition on the 18th. They played 4 matches - drawing 2 and losing 2. Commendations to Holly C for using her netball experience to support the captains Flo and Fayven and to Daniel for being Mrs Eggleton’s Player of the Match for his sportspersonship, which must indeed have been exceptional to stand out amongst the super attitudes of the rest of the team, who all shone enough to be awarded the Fair Play trophy!

Many, many thanks to the parents who transported the team without a word of complaint, despite the last minute changes in timings for both events! Also thank you to Mrs Eggleton and her daughter Kate, ex-Neston pupil, for accompanying the team to the tournament and supporting them all the way!

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal

We will be selling Poppy Appeal merchandise on behalf of the Royal British Legion during this week.

 Suggested donations are:-

 20p for poppies, reflectors and zip pulls

50p rubbers, sharpeners and rulers

£1 for wrist bands and up to £1.50 for snap bands

£2 for pin badges.

To be Covid secure, an equal spread of merchandise will be available to each class from Monday 8th November. Children who wish to bring in a donation will have the opportunity to purchase an item. This is on a first come first served basis in each class.

Children In Need - Friday 19th November

It’s that time of year again to put on our Pudsey Bear and Blush ears and spots in readiness for Children in Need 2021!

Neston Primary will be celebrating and raising funds for this fantastic cause on Friday 19th November.

Children are invited to come to school in spots or MUFTI (own clothes) on this day. The suggested donation for this is £1 – please see further details on how to donate below. Children will also be participating in different Pudsey themed activities within their classroom on the day. 

All donations for Children in Need 2021 can be sent in via the ParentPay donations page on the following link: https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=4745 . As we are now a cashless school, please do not send your child to school with money on this day as we will be unable to accept it.

Thank you for your continued support – we are very much looking forward to going spot-tastic for Children in Need 2021!

Miss Turner

Maple Class

Wiltshire Air Ambulance Visit - Postponed

Wiltshire Air Ambulance will be visiting our school on the 11th & 12th November to teach all children valuable first aid skills in Reception to Year 6.

Wiltshire Air Ambulance rely heavily on charitable donations and they won't be charging the school for this visit. Therefore, we are kindly asking for a donation towards Wiltshire Air Ambulance which we will pay to them after their visit.

Donations can be made via your ParentPay accounts.

Cross Country Teams Do Neston School Proud!

Our cross country teams:

Y5/6 boys - Riley, Finn, Rowan and Archie

Y5/6 girls - Flo, Bethia, Holly, Edie, Bella and Isla

Y 3/4 girls - Amelie, Darcy, Mia and Esmee

Y 3/4 boys - Lennie, Alex, Kaleb and Isaac

did us all proud when they took part in a competition at Biddestone against other schools in the area on Thursday 7.10.21; they all tried their hardest and were very supportive of each other. Our top scorers were: Finn, 2nd and Rowan, 7th in the Y5/6 boys race; Holly S 11th and Bella P 13th in the Y5/6 girls race; Mia 10th and Esmee 15th in the Y3/4 girls race and Alex H 3rd and Kaleb 1st (wow!!!) in the Y3/4 boys race.

Many thanks to the captains, Flo, Holly and Bethia for training the teams in the lead up to the races and for helping Ms Sims at the event and also to our parents who transported the teams and stayed to support them!

Harvest Festival Celebration

This year, as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations, we will be donating our harvest gifts to the Corsham Churches Food bank.

 If you have any of the food listed and feel you would like to donate them to this charity, please give them to your child to bring into school no later than Friday 5th November.

Click here to view the list of donations

Covid 19 Isolation Guidelines

Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms or a positive test result should stay at home and self-isolate immediately. 

If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you should arrange to have a PCR test as soon as possible. This still applies even if you have received one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccine. 

If you live in the same household as someone with COVID-19, have no symptoms and are aged under 18 years and 6 months you will not be required to self-isolate. 

From 16 August, if you are fully vaccinated you will not be required to self-isolate if you are a contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19

Fearless and Focused Neston Football Team Win Close Fought Tournament!!!

A fantastic well done to our football team: Alfie, Olivia, Erika and Charlotte of Maple Class and Max, Harry, Fin, Jack G and co-captains, Jack L and Charlie of Beech Class! They played 6 matches against the other schools in our cluster winning 4 and drawing 2. They worked brilliantly as a team, led ably by their captains, and demonstrated resilience and determination as the rain poured down and they faced increasingly challenging teams, who really tested their stamina. I was very proud of all of the team, each and every one who gave their all!

Many thanks to their loyal parent supporters, who not only transported them to the event but who also braved the inclement weather for two and a half long hours.

Golf festival kicks off cluster event timetable!

A very well done to Oscar, Harry and Evie from Chestnut and to Jack L, Frank, Toby and Amber M of Beech for representing Neston School at the first sport cluster event of the year - a golf taster session led by Chippenham Golf Club. They learned how to use a putter and aimed for targets. They also used a wedge club to chip the ball into a hole. Everyone had a great time!

Many thanks to Mrs Monelle for accompanying our golfers to the event and to the parents for transporting and supporting!

Y6 cricket team win cup at cluster event!

Congratulations to Frankie, Georgie, Freya, Archie, Emily, Harry, Jocelyn, Ollie, Elsie and Seb who competed against Colerne and Regis at Corsham Cricket Ground on Thursday and came away with the cup! Mrs Monelle, who accompanied the team to the event, said they all played magnificently as a team and benefited from competing against other teams. She could see an improvement in their play from the outset of the tournament to the end! Thank you to Mrs Monelle for being there and to all of the parents who provided transport and support!

Y4 Quadkids are first team to compete at an inter-school competition in 2021!

A big well done to Eva, Lauren, Edie, Bella, Bonnie, Alfie, Jack G, Fraser, Archie and Rowan, who represented Neston School at a Quadkids (athletics) event at Biddestone Sports Ground last Thursday. They ran a 50m sprint, did a standing long jump and a ‘javelin’ (vortex ball) throw, ran a 400m and did a team relay race too! They were competing against 7 other schools - 80 children in total! Our top point scorer was Jack G who came 15th overall! Fraser was 18th, which is also very impressive. Our top girl was Eva, who was the 6th top scoring girl and 35th overall while Bella and Bonnie tied as 11th in the girls and 46th overall! The children all tried their best at all events and were very supportive of our two athletes who were carrying injuries.

School Games Day a great success despite changeable weather!

Well done to all of the staff, children and Mr John Andrews for a great return to our annual School Games Day! With the exception of (sadly) no spectators, the day progressed as usual with Willow, Oak and Silver Birch participating in their events in the morning and Hazel, Chestnut, Maple and Beech doing theirs in the afternoon. All of Beech Class, whether they were part of the School Games Crew or not, took on roles to support the adults in charge and they were soundly commended by all of the staff. Mr Andrews took the time, as he does every year, to come and quality control Mrs Evans’ scoring. The final results have yet to be tabulated because the final two events: KS2 egg and spoon and tug of war still need to take place (date tbc). We will also include the points gained by the KS2 children in their 600m run which took place on a very wet and windy afternoon the week before School Games Day. The top finishers in the Upper KS2 race and the Lower KS2 race are attached. It’s interesting to see how many siblings made it into the top 20!

School Closure Procedures In The Event of Severe Weather - Jan 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Snow Alert!!

We are writing to remind you of the procedures in the event of snowy weather conditions. 

Please listen to HEART Radio or Wiltshire Radio who will start announcing school closures from 6.45am.  You can also go on the HEART FM website https://www.heart.co.uk/news/school-closures/and click on the TOPICS / SCHOOL CLOSURES tab and they give a very comprehensive list of Wiltshire School Closures. 

You could also check the “Our News” page on our school website http://nestonprimary.co.uk/journal for information.  Please do not rely on social media for an accurate update.

Please be assured that whilst every effort will be made to keep the school open, the safety of students and staff is of paramount importance during extreme weather conditions.  Also, the majority of our teachers live in surrounding towns and may experience difficulties on minor roads. We will ensure you receive information as quickly as possible; you will also receive a text if the school is closed. 

If you do not receive a text this is due to your mobile telephone numbers not being up-to-date on our school records.

Online home learning will still be available but TEAMS meetings will not take place

Kind Regards

Pam Evans

Headteacher

Remote Learning Update 8.1.2021

Dear Parents and Carers

On Monday 11th January, we will be re-launching Neston School’s remote learning programme. 

We’ve made some updates and improvements that we think everyone will enjoy and benefit from. We will continue to teach and feedback using the Seesaw platform but we will also soon be offering our remote learners daily opportunities to interact live with their teachers and classmates in school.

Each of our remote learning days is going to reflect a regular school day.

As soon as we get Microsoft Teams up and running, we’ll start with a live registration, which will include our remote learners at home and our face-to-face learners at school.

The day’s learning will be structured to follow the usual class timetable (specific information about your child/ren's class timetables will be posted on Seesaw) so the provision is the same for our remote learners and our face-to-face pupils. We encourage all of our remote learners to do their Seesaw learning assignments in the same order as their face-to-face classmates are doing in school. Teachers will be building in opportunities to look at the learning posted by remote learners throughout the day and feeding back where necessary. They will stop feeding back at 5.00pm when they will take the opportunity to adjust their plans for the next day based on the day’s learning output. 

At 2.00pm every afternoon, our remote-learners will again be able to check in with their teachers via Microsoft Teams (when operational) for some group feedback, consolidation or sharing of learning.

Now that we have all had a practise run at remote learning during the first lockdown, we are looking forward to seeing all of our pupils fully accessing the curriculum and making progress with their age-related learning.

If for some technical reason, your child/ren is unable to access the learning for the day, please contact the school at admin@neston.wilts.sch.uk

We are all looking forward to next week! There will be some teething issues from all sides but we know that everyone will be trying their best and it won’t be long until everyone settles into the new routine.

Have a lovely weekend

The Neston Teaching Team

"Teams Registration" - 11.1.2021

Dear parents/carers,

We were hoping to commence our 'live' TEAMS registration sessions from Monday 11th January, however due to some technical issues we are going to delay this process in order to ensure we can roll this out successfully.

All remote activities on Seesaw & Tapestry will commence as planned from Monday, except for TEAMS at this stage. We will update you as soon as we have with further details.

Kind regards

Neston Admin

Information Regarding Remote Learning - 6.1.2021

Dear Parents / Carers

Remote learning will begin from Jan 11th 2021 in order to allow teachers time to prepare and adapt planning. In the meantime, children are very welcome to read, engage in Spelling Shed, Teach Your Monster to Read, and TT Rockstars. These are all great activities which promote the learning of essential skills.  Perhaps they could set up a little workstation so they are ready for action!

Please click here to view the letter with further information