To The Parents

Marvellous Music

There are times (please don’t tell the Governors) when I would gladly do my job for free! Some may think this is rather a rash statement but as I was sat in the Cathedral on Thursday listening to the Brass Band bring our Music Celebration Assembly to a close, with children, teachers and parents dancing in their seats, having witnessed an array of unbelievable talent and enthusiasm, I certainly felt that I was in a very privileged position as Head of this School. Music has a very special place at PGJS and this was never more evident than at this very special assembly.

History

I have been reading a fascinating document entitled A History of Cambridge Barracks, which details the usage of our school site as far back as 1194, when King Richard 1 built a moated house where the Rotunda and new play area currently stand. P Block, which houses our infants and Year 3 pupils, was built as a warehouse during the Napoleonic Wars and the building that currently houses the main JS Office and my study was constructed in 1904 as accommodation for orderlies and was known as the ‘Ranch House’; the five pillars and guttering of the verandah are all original features. I am sure you will agree that the site is now much better used as a place of learning and education.

HMCJ

Part of my role, and one that I enjoy very much, is representing the School at national conferences. Last week, I attended the HMC (The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference) Junior Heads meeting at Bromsgrove School. These conferences help set the future national agenda for independent schools and I am pleased to report the Junior School is to play an integral role in this over the coming years. PS Hopkinson Headmaster

Music Week in Pictures (More to come next week)

Strawberries and Cream Concert

Years 3 and 4 Inspired by Senior School Musicians

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The Newsletter of The Portsmouth Grammar Junior School Issue No.80 17th May 2013

Rory’s Story of the Week

Rory enjoys being in a City that is synonymous with the country’s maritime history and is excited about the forthcoming launch of the new Mary Rose Museum. He was pleased therefore to read Joe and Danny’s account of their very special preview visit to the Museum.

Mary Rose

On Saturday we visited the Mary Rose Museum in the Historic Dockyard. We had special preview tickets as it’s not opening until 31 May. It was incredible to see everything that had been excavated including the bones from a dog called Hatch, the doctor’s tools as well as the Mary Rose itself.

Only the starboard side remains because that side was buried under silt which protected it from all the wood-eating marine life. We also saw skulls and bones from human beings. One skull only had three teeth left which showed what a bad diet that sailor must have had.

It was astounding to think everything we saw was nearly 500 years old!

Nursery News

Last Friday the Nursery celebrated a German day. During welcome time Miss Stubel showed the children on a map where in Germany her family live and she sang a German rhyme called ‘Ten Little Wiggly Men’. The children made pretzels and had a go at counting in German. German flags proved very popular with the children, they had to use their critical thinking skills to work out how to attach the flag to the lolly stick.

Healthy Diet

In Reception, we have been reading the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. This week, the children have been thinking about foods that are healthy and unhealthy. They have really enjoyed helping to prepare lots of different fruits to make a fruit kebab.

Head in the Sand

Last week in English, Year Four were learning about play scripts. A play script is the written words of a play. The play script we were working on was called ‘Head in the Sand’. This play was about a boy called Arthur who, while playing by a river, found a bronze, Roman head in the sand. Arthur showed it to his friend,

Gertie, and they were transported back in time and found the Roman Emperor, called Claudius, whose head it was. Claudius had a mean wife called Valeria; she was very bossy and demanding. Claudius wanted to invade Britain as it was the only place left for him to conquer. Unfortunately, Claudius had a stutter and sticky out ears, but he tried to be brave and bold and stand up to Valeria but she kept on putting him down.

We were put into groups of 4 and each of us had to become one of the characters and learn our lines. In my group, Adam Heyes became Claudius, Imogen Diffey was Gertie, Ethan Hards played the part of Arthur and I was Valeria, the bossy one (no acting required!) We had to work together and prompt each other when to say our lines. We practised just our lines to begin with to get used to them and then we started to be more in character and act how the person would when saying the lines. We had to use different facial expressions to show our feelings such as Gertie looking disappointed when it was a bronze head and not a real skull. Some groups had boys playing girl characters so they had to put on high pitched voices but all of us changed our voices a little when playing the roles.

The more we rehearsed the better we became. It was such fun especially when Adam was pretending he had a stutter! I really enjoyed the week.

By Hannah Millerchip

Saxon Legacy

In history, Year Three pupils have been investigating the legacy of the Anglo-Saxons in our modern place names. The children studied a list of suffixes based on Saxon words and what they stood for. This enabled them to look at local maps and work together to identify which modern places originated in Anglo-Saxon times.

Tick Tock Crocs

This week Year One have been finishing off their crocodiles. These started as simple egg cartons but we painted them green and found different ways to attach the head, body and tail. We also found ways to make moveable jaws. We think our crocodiles look just like Tick Tock Croc from Peter Pan!

History in Pictures

On the afternoon of the 14th May Year Six were lucky enough to be visited by Sharon Parks for a talk on the Bayeux Tapestry. We sat in enjoyment as we were bombarded with information about this wonderful piece of history. The scenes were absolutely magnificent telling a clear story about William and Harold. The tapestry told the story of how King Harold broke his oath of how he would not take the throne when the former king Edward the Confessor died. Unfortunately, he did and God during battle blinded him and as a result King Harold died and the throne was given to William (or should I say William the Conqueror!) My favourite scene was the final battle because of all the guts and blood and all the heads that were chopped off! I’m positively sure that Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed themselves and know a lot more about the Bayeux Tapestry which is essential due to the French Trip closing in! By Cameron Clarke

Corelli Orchestra Corelli Orchestra will rehearse as normal

(Year 5 only) on Tuesday 21st May.

HEADMASTER’S AWARDS

The following Headmaster’s Awards were awarded: Hannah Millerchip for a fantastic write up on play scripts, Ashwin Elanchcheliyan for excellent Spoken English work, Giordano Avondo for excellent work on Italy, Imogen Diffey for great effort in English, Grace Powell, Claudia Bishop, Jevon Hannah and Arya Prasad for a lively and interesting missing chapter, Henry Simmons and Imran Vloemans for excellent choice of methods and clear explanations in a maths investigation, Lakshmi Patel, Olan Hosford, Christian Appleby-Mell and Annabel Wainwright for an imaginative ending to the Hungry Caterpillar story, Harry Tolcher for excellent shape work in maths, Oliver Wisbey, Rufus Hornsey, Stewart Jack, Eleanor Matthews, Robert Quinn, Edward Moger, Nadine Hugec, Daniel Kirwan, Freddy Wood and Merlin Cross for their Level 6 score in the Changing Circuits assessment, Tilly Bell for a real improvement in science this half term, Thomas Gibb for excellent work on finding missing angles in triangles and straight line combinations

ROLL OF HONOUR KS2

The following pupils signed the Honours Book this week:

English: Louie Howe-Walsh (x2), Isabelle Pearce (x2), Elliot Robinson-Randell (x2), Ciaran Hards (x2), Sophie Gale (x2), Imogen Diffey (x2), Tilly Bell, Grace Taylor, Joshua Chipper, Hannah Millerchip, Emily Nelson, Alia Alayyan, Grace Saunders, William Jones, Sophie Hamer, Max Burnett, Eleanor Osbaldestin, Stephanie Wade, Oliver Durrant, Jed Hazzard English Homework: Grace Saunders (x3), Emily Nelson (x2), Emily Curwood, George Davis-Marks, Charlotte Howard, Ava Hooper, Adam Stokely, Jake Jordan, Benjamin Jones, Sakina Khaja, Sophie Hamer, Max Burnett, Joseph Hopkinson, Johannes Luckmann, Charlie Walker, Liberty Forbes-Lane

Maths: Louie Howe-Walsh (x3), Susannah Boydell (x3), Giordano Avondo (x3), Grace Saunders (x3), Miles Toh (x2), Ethne Leaver (x2), Isabelle Pearce, William Trise, Ashwin Elanchcheliyan, William Jones, Rory Buckeridge, Sophie Hamer, Bella Digby, Joseph Hopkinson Maths Homework: Sophie Hamer (x2), Manas Harish (x2), Rory Buckeridge Science: Amir Choudhury (x2), Tilly Bell, Tara Bell, Charlotte Howard, Ewan Fleming, Sophie Hamer, Lucas Bradley RS: Emily Curwood (x3), Rory Buckeridge Geography: Louie Howe-Walsh (x2), Joshua Chipper, Maddy Oliver, Tom Shahran, Amy Scott, Oliver Durrant History: Louie Howe-Walsh, Stewart Jack, Max Burnett, Freddy Wood French: Sophie Hamer (x2), Emily Curwood, Charlotte Howard, Emily Parekh, George Hodell, Anna Caldwell, Charlie Walker, Manas Harish ICT: Sophie Jennings, Tilly Bell Reading: Sophie Jennings, Tilly Bell, Edward Campkin, Stewart Jack, Robert Quinn, Georgina Lewis, Bhooshitha Balaji, William Jones, George Silver, George Downing, Max Burnett, Liberty Forbes-Lane, James Wilson, Noah Renton Spelling: Grace Saunders, Rory Buckeridge DT: Louie Howe-Walsh, Stephanie Wade Drama: Ethne Leaver Endeavour: Evie Chapman

KS1 HONOURS

The following pupils signed the Honours Book this week: Lexi Gould (x2), Zoe McCauley (x2), William Brine-Howe (x2), Aimee Jennings (x2), Samuel Zhou (x2), Isabelle Durrant (x2), Ella Trise, Charlie Wilkie, Yelisey Hodell, Luke Hargreaves, William Guyver, Adam Cook-Benaissa, Edward Gasser, Oliver Bridle, Isobel McCauley, Isabella Cameron, Florence Yearsley, Nikhil Patel, Piers Webb, Grace Alexander, Molly Moriarty-Turnbull, Lilly-Mae Prentice, Callum Mackenzie, Elliot Hartridge, Gabriella Giordano, Montgomery Rothwell, Honor Gillies,

George Buckle, Finlay Hoddle, Joseph Smitherman, Sophia Caldwell, Henry Moran, Marvin Leung, Toby Law, Evie Abrams-Wilson, Amelie Parnell, James Chivers, Emilia Talen, Sahib Kullar, Mariia-Olena Hodell, Craig McGeever, Arya Patel, Andrew Davis, Archie Lockyer, Nicholas Ball, Matthew Guyver, Henry Cannon, Noah Gibbs, Evie Howard, Themis Orfanidis, Milly Wilson, Chandhana Iravindranath, Dawn Sands, James Carlin, Nikhil Sen, Rafferty Lloyd

PUPILS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

Congratulations to: Hope Esmé Hillier (2Y) for passing her 25m swimming award. Eden Grace Hillier (RM) for passing her 10m swimming award. James Rixon (5G) for winning, with his Sarisbury Sparks team mates, the Eastleigh District Mini Soccer League title. They will be presented with the trophy and their medals at St Mary’s Stadium.

Badges

GOLD BADGE – Congratulations to Rosie Harfield for gaining her Gold Badge

RED BADGE – Congratulations to Timothy Downing for gaining his Red Badge.

BLUE BADGE – Congratulations to Ashwin Elanchcheliyan, Omar Chowdhury, Ryan Zhou and Kristian Fraser for gaining their Blue Badge.

GREEN BADGE – Congratulations to Lucinda Hawdon for gaining her Green Badge.

Mrs Budgen’s

Brain Boggler:

This Week:

What comes down but never goes up?

Answers from last week:

Footsteps.

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Results

Girls’ Rounders Team Opposition Score

U11A Ryde Won 5.5-2

U11B Ryde Won 11-8.5

U11A West Hill Park Lost 2.5-5

U11B PHS ‘A’ Lost 5.5-9

U10A Ryde Won 19-15

U10C Ryde ‘B’ Lost 15-17

U11A Amesbury Won 23.5-21.5

Boys’ Cricket U11A Oakwood Won by 16 runs

U11C Oakwood Won by 42 runs

U10A Oakwood Lost by 4 wickets

U10B Sherborne House Lost by 9 wickets

U10C Oakwood Won by 29 runs

U10D Sherborne House Won by 15 runs

U9A Sherborne House Lost by 16 runs

U9B Sherborne House Won by 2 runs

U9C Sherborne House Match drawn

Fixtures

Sat 18 May U11A Hoebridge Rounders Tournament (a)

Wed 22 May 1430: U10A & B Rounders v Amesbury (h)

Thu 23 May IAPS Sailing Championships 1415: U9A, U8A & B Rounders v Amesbury (a) 1430: U8 Cricket v Brookham (a) 1430: U9B Rounders v Hampshire Collegiate (h) 1500: U9A, B & C Cricket v Oakwood (h)

U11A Rounders Match

On Friday 10th May, the U11 rounders A team went to Hilsea for the 2nd round of the IAPS knockout, against Amesbury. Wrapped up against the weather, both teams started warming up, and then the game kicked off. Instead of the usual 30 balls per innings, we played ‘all out’ where you had to keep playing until everyone in their team had been stumped, run or caught out. PGS fielded first, with some excellent catches by:

Sammie, Alice, Emma and Nikhila. Amesbury had three very hard hitters, causing the people fielding deep to chase after the ball. They scored a total of 10 rounders. Now it was our turn to bat; Emma bravely stepped up to the box first, then Rosie, Georgie, Tori, Phoebe, Nikhila, Tilly G, Alice, Sophie. Lots of great play and by the end we were at 13 ½ rounders. After a team talk we were surprised to hear we had one more innings – all to do again. We fielded well, resulting in Amesbury achieving a final score of 21 ½. Our turn to bat and there were some excellent rounders scored in particular by Rosie. Our final total was 23 ½, we had won! Soon we will be playing our 3rd round of the IAPS, c’mon PGS!

By Georgina Lewis 6G

U11B Cricket

On 14th May, the U11 B cricket team travelled to Hilsea to play against Boundary Oak’s A team. PGS won the toss and decided to bat first.

We opened with Max Burnett and Freddie Fenton, who scored some early runs, followed by Toby Wingham, Grant Jackson and Robert Mitchell who together scored over 30 runs. Adam Stokely and Amun Laly batted safely and kept their wickets and Ben Priory, Tom Placintescu and James Crundwell also gave some great shots. We ended the batting with over 70 runs.

Charlie Pereira kicked off the bowling with only 1 run off his over and Grant Jackson got 4 wickets. The fielding was also brilliant with 2 relaxed catches from Amun Laly, 2 great catches from Freddie Fenton (including a dive) and another one for James Crundwell, who also bowled one of their batters.

The match ended with PGS winning by 20 runs. Great work by everyone including Toby Wingham for his first time as Wicket Keeper.

PGS in Bloom PGS in Bloom is a whole school competition and every year all the children from Year 3-6 are invited to enter a plant pot design for their House. This year, the theme for displays was “A Greener Future”. Children could plant using a colour scheme to suit this or by the use of recycled materials, or perhaps by making their planting methods/ choice of plants more sustainable.

A winner from each House was chosen and their pots are now on display outside the Junior School Office. Hudson’s Alex Ellison chose plants of the cacti family as they would require less water, James Christensen of Jerrard chose plants which required no specialised soil and limited watering, such as daisies and lavender. Daisy Summerskill of Privett included many edible and useful herbs such as mint and rosemary; she even said she would have liked to have used an old wellie to plant it all into! Meanwhile, Nicol’s Ava Hooper decided upon a colourful array of marigolds and lobelia to attract insects and pollination. We look forward to the final judging of all the entries around the whole school which will happen later in June.

HILSEA GAMES

There will be NO games sessions for KEYSTAGE 2

PUPILS at Hilsea this Saturday 18th May due to

Infant Open Morning.

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