Jessie Younghusband School

A BIG thank you to The Friends and volunteers for a fantastic summer fair today. A great time was had by all! 🎪

🎪 ROLL UP , ROLL UP, FANCY DRESS COMP DETAILS BELOW 🎪 Do you have a little one that loves dressing up , well here is their chance to shine !! We are doing a circus themed fancy dress competition at the fair this Saturday ! Best costume wins a prize 🤡🎠

The final countdown has begun! With only 5 days to go, we still need some volunteers please 🙏 We have split the helpers into time slots to make it easier for volunteers to enjoy the fair while still helping out on a stall. ⭐️Slot 1: 2pm 3:15pm (2 more needed!) ⭐️Slot 2: 3:15pm - 4:30pm ( 3 more needed!) Please let us know if you can help. Together we can make this the best Summer fair yet and raise funds for some amazing resources for our children 🤩

We need your help!! With the fair less than 2 weeks away we are still looking for: ⭐️ Volunteers to help on the day - specifically anyone keen to help with our face painting stall ⭐️Fancy dress costumes (must be in a very good/clean condition please) ⭐️Gazebos (any size) ⭐️Bottles of alcohol for our bottle Tombola - non uniform donation day 23rd June ⭐️Pimms - non uniform donation day 23rd June ⭐️Party bag items or similar for our Lucky dip stall ⭐️Arts & Crafts stuff - A4 coloured card/pom-poms/pipe cleaners/stickers/paper plates - donation day 23rd June Please contact me or comment on this post if you can help. Thank you!! [email protected]

The fair is fast approaching!
23rd June is Non-uniform day in return for a donation 🤩 1 donation per family. If you are unable or not happy donating anything alcoholic then a small cash donation towards purchasing some wonderful activities for the fair would be also much appreciated!
Together we can make this a lovely event for our amazing JYS community.
All donations are always gratefully received! 😊 (Supermarket own brands of Pimm’s are absolutely fine if you choose to donate) Thank you!!!!

This week, the Year 6 children have been taking part in Enterprise Week. We have been learning about starting and running a successful business, and the skills needed to be a good entrepreneur. On Friday 4th November (between 3:15 - 3:30), we will be selling a selection of tasty snacks and drinks, and arts and craft items that we have made for a very reasonable price! Please visit our ‘Pop-up’ shop on the main playground but please note that this is a cash only event. All money raised will fund activities for Year 6 later on in the year with 15% of all money raised donated to a local charity (to be decided). We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

The Friends are organising a Cake Sale for the school Open Afternoon. This is to raise money to purchase the Disney Production Pack for next summers’ school production (approx. £500).

If you can, please bring cake donations (shop bought or home-made – no nuts) to the Hut in the morning and the sale will take place from 2:30pm.

Cakes will be 50p each. We do have a card machine, but it will be a lot quicker to serve you if you have cash!

Group 2 have also had a fantastic afternoon! We can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Mrs Appleby 🍎 🐝

Despite the wet weather we are having a wonderful first morning with group 1. They have settled in brilliantly and already exploring the classroom. We hope you are having a great morning too! See you shortly.
Mrs Appleby 🍎 🐝

Good morning all,

Is anyone in the process of getting rid of a play kitchen that their little one has grown out of? We are after a natural wooden one, not painted or plastic perhaps similar to the ikea one. We have had to unexpectedly get rid of ours due to wear and tear.

Thank you in advance as I know you are always wonderfully helpful when I put out my pleas.

Mrs Appleby 🍎 🐝

We have made the decision to CLOSE THE SCHOOL due to the worsening weather conditions today - 18th February.

Our Y5s loved 🥰 their sneak preview of the new Brick Wonders exhibition 👍🏽

Don't forget our cake sale tomorrow. Please bring donations of cakes to school - and send your child in with some money (up to a pound) so they can buy one in the afternoon. Thank you 🤩

Good afternoon new Year R parents ☀️
Group 2 are also having a FANTASTIC session! We have played, had snack and a story and are enjoying the sunshine. The children have been superstars learning new routines and sitting on the carpet. The cars, water tray, Barbies and creative area have been a great hit. We hope you are having a good afternoon too.
Mrs Appleby 🍎 🐝

Hi new Year R parents!
We are having a GREAT morning. I'm so proud of how well the children came in this morning. They are enjoying exploring their new environment and making new friends. They can't wait to tell you all about it at pick up. It has been lovely to play alongside the children and to hear all about the things they enjoy doing. We have had conversations about wildlife, their favourite play parks, what they want to be when they grow up and I even had to eat some pirate soup in the mud kitchen! Apologies as there were some photos but I am having technical difficulties.
See you soon,
Mrs Appleby 🍎🐝

Today, as we say farewell to Mrs Sadler who has been Headteacher here for six and a half years, we wanted to share with you the song that the children - and staff - recorded for her for you to also enjoy.

https://youtu.be/-hD2TWX2HWU

A song to say Farewell to Mrs Sadler Staff and children at JYS sang this song to say farewell to their Headteacher who retired on Friday 23rd July 2021

A message from Mrs Hayers:
What beautiful retirement cards from all the children and staff. I've been so privileged to work with such an amazing group of people and am so lucky to have ended my career in such a wonderful place.
Thank you for everyone's good wishes - parents, children and staff. Tomorrow is my final teaching day at Jessie, and I think tissues may be needed.
Much love from Mrs Hayers 🥰
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Ted, in Year 2, is only 6, but last week he decided he wanted to try and use his love of cricket (and his new rebound net that his Pampa gave him) to help people that need it. He set out on a challenge to complete 2,000 throws and catches on his rebound net in a day.

He started at 7am, and with only a couple of breaks (and one episode of Danger Mouse) he completed his task 10 hours later.

He wanted to raise £100, but has already raised over £850!

If you would like to reward Ted's efforts, then you can sponsor him too at:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ted-Seaman?utm_campaign=lc_frp_share_transaction_transactional_--_donation_received_--_nth_donation&utm_content=8d35ae9c-ca62-4d58-9539-6eef840f4f31&utm_medium=email&utm_source=postoffice&utm_term=1616352595405

https://youtu.be/89qhMi87Z08

Ted's cricket catchathon Help Joseph Seaman raise money to support Comic Relief: Red Nose Day

Some great opportunities for Girls' Cricket in the Chichester area!

We are now on Instagram- please show your support by following jessieyounghusband on Instagram- thank you 🙏

Chichester Priory Park Cricket Club is looking to recruit for Girls' Cricket!

💙A HUGE heartfelt thank you to The Friends of JYS for this wonderful treat today (and The Pretty Little Cake Co. for baking them!)
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Many of the staff here, old and new, will tell you that this is probably the most challenging year they have ever had in school. So, to know you are thinking of us means the world 🌎

We are very grateful to Chartwells for providing a complimentary hamper to the parents that received an inadequate hamper last week.
Chartwells has provided this as a gesture of goodwill.

It is lovely to come in and find we have heat, power and lights at work today. Small things that make such a difference!

Chichester Library have reached out and asked us to share this link with our school community. They have regular "story times" and "rhyme times" that can be accessed from home which you may find interesting over the coming weeks.

https://arena.westsussex.gov.uk/web/arena/currentoffer/rhyme-time-and-story-time

Rhyme Time and Story Time - West Sussex Libraries Here you can watch library staff sharing a favourite song or you could look at one of our favourite sites.

Please find below a link to the School's webpage where you can see the 2 Christmas performances:
https://www.jys.org.uk/website/christmas_2020/528372

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We have done the Friends' 2020 Christmas Raffle draw! Winners of the 30 main prizes will be receiving a message via ParentMail at 3pm - but if you can't wait until then to find out if YOU are a winner (or, if you just want to share in the fun and watch the draw), click on the link below:

https://youtu.be/UYPca_dZ5a8

A HUGE thank you to the Friends, for being such good sports with the filming, to them for organising all of this and to ALL of the JYS Community who generously donated items as prizes or bought raffle tickets today - THANK YOU! And Merry Christmas

JYS Friends' 2020 Christmas Raffle The JYS Friends' 2020 Christmas Raffle - filmed on 11/12/2020

WOW!!

I don’t know why I am surprised each time. I have worked at Jessie long enough to know one of the best things about working here is the support from our community. The wonderful staff at St Anthony’s also had a collection to add to our haul today.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your contributions. It was touch and go as to whether my children would fit in the car home!

Don’t forget to spread the word so that your donations can help as many families as possible.

Bognor Regis Community Help Box

The first group of Year R children have settled in beautifully and are having a great time exploring their new environment.

I’m sure many of you have noticed how beautiful our pond area is now looking. What you may not know is that it has taken hours of hard work by our site manager Mr Wilkins and his family. We are hugely appreciative as the area is now so much more user friendly.

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to have a stunning dragon fly enter Reception class as we were reading a story. Mr Neaves suggested that perhaps it had come from our pond area, so at the end of the day we headed down to explore. We read a story called ‘Pig in the Pond’ whilst under the shade of a big tree. We didn’t see the dragon fly again but we all agreed it was a beautiful spot to share a story. One of the children said “I’m looking at the pond whilst listening to the story; I like it.” We all agreed it was a very calming place.

Thank you Mr Wilkins 😁

These cookies rock!

To celebrate 500 Facebook followers (WOW!) we've decided to give away a box of our delicious cookies! 🎉🍪


Now this give away is an interesting one! All you have to do is:


1. Share this post, either in your feed or via your story.
2. Comment with the answer to this question: how many of our Giant Cookies (laid side by side) would it take to get from Baking the Dream HQ (Littlehampton) to Sesame Street, New York (home of the one and only Cookie Monster!) Closest answer wins!


The winner will win 12 cookies in the flavour option of their choice, for collection on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday of your choosing, subject to our availability.


This competition is across both our Facebook and Instagram pages, the winner will be announced by 7pm tomorrow (1st September). Good luck! 🍪🍪🍪

Jessie Younghusband School updated their address.

As we say sad "Farewell" to our Y6s, we want to share this video, which is part of what they had prepared for today's Leavers Assembly.
Have a lovely summer - from all at JYS
https://youtu.be/kSV5yBUSyXE

Mr Neaves' CarPark Karaoke - Y6 Leavers 2020 edition What has now become an annual event, we have put together a "Covid-19 Friendly" CarPark Karaoke to celebrate the children who are leaving JYS in 2020. I had ...

As many of you will know, one of our school's partners is "Portsmouth In The Community" who offer after-school sports clubs, of which football has proved to be the most popular.
They have reached out to us and asked us to share with our school some fund-raising that is taking place today:

On Friday the 3rd of July I will be challenging myself to play 10 straight hours of football in order to raise funds for PITC.
During the 10 hours I will be joined by Ash for a live PE lesson, the details of which are in the attached poster. It would be great to get as many schools involved as we can!
If you would like to take part, it will be streamed on my page...
https://www.facebook.com/RichieInTheCommunity/
We would be eternally grateful for any donations. Please click the link below to donate...
https://gf.me/u/ycdfvx
Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from you very soon!!
Many thanks
Richie Boxall
West Sussex Assistant Area Manager

10 Straight Hours Of Garden Football organized by Richard Boxall Do you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of POMPEY… Richard Boxall needs your support for 10 Straight Hours Of Garden Football

Eco Young and Engaged! Virtual Eco Summit from 2nd July at 10:00

This very popular event will, this year, be on YouTube. You can access it on the day, or at any time afterwards on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCykgyPeAoVRcGW8DnYQGA6g/featured?view_as=subscriber

Each session lasts about 20 minutes. Some workshops have supporting guides and sheets to accompany the content, available to download here: https://eyeproject.co.uk/news/2020-1st-virtual-eco-summit
There is also pledge template design to download if you would like to commit to a future action.

The physical conference is always a lot of fun and very interesting for all. I would love it if you could send me a photo of your pledge to put up on our Eco board, or tell me about anything you particularly enjoyed or were inspired to do by the conference.

Mrs Ritchie (aka [email protected])

The E.Y.E. Project - Eco,Young & Engaged Welcome to our channel....The E.Y.E. Project brings schools in West Sussex together to focus on the importance of caring for our planet. The Project aims to ...

Eco Young and Engaged! Virtual Eco Summit from 2nd July at 10:00

This very popular event will be on YouTube. You can access it on the day, or at any time afterwards on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCykgyPeAoVRcGW8DnYQGA6g/featured?view_as=subscriber

Each session lasts about 20 minutes and you can see what they will be in the pic underneath. Some workshops have supporting guides and sheets to accompany the content, available to download here: https://eyeproject.co.uk/news/2020-1st-virtual-eco-summit
There is also pledge template design to download if you would like to commit to a future action.

The physical conference is always a lot of fun and very interesting for all. I would love it if you could send me a photo of your pledge to put up on our Eco board, or tell me about anything you particularly enjoyed or were inspired to do by the conference.

Mrs Ritchie (aka [email protected])

https://eyeproject.co.uk/news/2020-1st-virtual-eco-summit

We have been asked to share this with parents:

"We are looking to provide a base for local parents to bring their children to a controlled childcare environment this summer following all appropriate Covid-19 guidelines and regulations. We want to provide an consistent regular childcare option throughout the whole summer and not just for a single week. Therefore, we have arranged to run the holiday camp every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Chichester throughout the whole summer. In the event the sign up reaches maximum numbers, often we could look to offer extra days if required. On the activity camp, there will be a mix of activities including games, arts and crafts etc so can be a childcare options for all and not just the children looking to play sports all day.

Bookings can be made through the link below:
https://jc-sportsonline.class4kids.co.uk "

With all the items in the news, and protests in (and around) Chichester, we have added a page to the School's website so that your children can learn more about the movement.
From the page, there are also links to Newsround and Blue Peter clips that explain what is happening in very "child-friendly" language.

https://www.jys.org.uk/website/black_lives_matter/493708

Welcome to Jessie Younghusband Primary School Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an organized movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience in protest against incidents of police brutality against African-American people. An organisation, known simply as Black Lives Matter, exists as a decentralised network with over 30 chapters in the...

Please take the time to nominate our school - what a great prize to win at a time when we are actively looking to update our school library!

Win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for your school Win our massive £5,000/€5,000 National Book Tokens prize to refresh the school library for generations of children to come. The winning entrant also takes home £100/€120 of National Book Tokens just for them. Whether you work in a school or have school-aged children yourself, you’ll know the...

JYS' own Mrs Orde is on a mission to get more books - written by BAME authors and featuring BAME characters - in to our school library, which is currently undergoing a face-lift and renewal.
Please follow the link to see how you can support us:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/bame-books-and-resources-for-my-primary-school

BAME books and resources for my Primary School organized by Georgina Orde I work in a primary school and during lockdown I have had the opportuni… Georgina Orde needs your support for BAME books and resources for my Primary School