Milton Park Primary School

Wishing all of our families a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday. We look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Wednesday 4th January.

Year 2 wrote their own Christmas Calamity stories. Year R and Year 1 were lucky enough to hear the authors read them!
The children listened beautifully to each other and ended the session asking each other about their Christmas holidays.

The Milton Park Elves have been busy again this year!

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‘Tis the season to … stay safe online! 🎅🛡 If your children are getting any new games, apps or software, our guide has tips to minimise risks – helping you ensure the only Christmas surprises are nice ones! 🎁

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We hope you can join us tomorrow!

Lyrics and music willl be provided at the church so just bring along yourselves and your families! 🎄⛪♥

We hope you have enjoyed walking through our Winter Wonderland❄️

The Rocksteady concerts are always a highlight of the school calendar and this was certainly true today! Well done to our amazing bands: The Marmalade Sandwiches, The Spongebobs, The Space Monkeys and Bin Bag Frogs! You ROCKED! ⭐️🎸

We hope our families are excited to come and have a look around our Winter Wonderland from 3:15pm!
Kingfisher Club have made some yummy little treats for you to enjoy so make sure you pop along to their stand if you'd like to buy some! ⛄️🎄🎅

Lyrics and music willl be provided at the church so just bring along yourselves and your families! 🎄⛪♥

Please share our poster with any friends and family who have children starting school in September 2023.

We enjoyed Christmas lunch and jumper today! Thank you to our wonderful cooks in the kitchen and thank you also to one of our lovely parents who bought Christmas hats for all of the children to wear with their lunch.

Thank you to David from Southsea Synagogue who came to talk to Year 4 about the symbol of Hanukkah as part of their RE learning.

Christmas isn't complete without a festive emoji challenge 🤣🎁

Can you work out the value of each emoji?

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Get the inside track on services that can help your family at Portsmouth Local Offer Live on Wednesday 7 December from 10am - 2pm at Central Library (third floor).

Meet 14 community groups and organisations who can provide information and advice to support children and young people aged 0-25 years old with SEND.

Local experts from the sector will deliver short presentations on topics about 'progressing through primary to secondary education' and 'an introduction to neurodiversity now.'

Learn more here: www.portsmouthlocaloffer.org/live

It's beginning to look a lot like Chistmas at Milton Park Primary School 🎄❄️☃️

It was, as ever, a pleasure to welcome Milton Park Primary to St James this morning for Assembly. The choir sang beautifully and we thought about waiting for Christmas- and glimpsed a bit of the Christmas spirit by giving Mrs Fowler and Ms Middleton festive hats!

Thank you to Fr Hugo for leading our assembly at St James' Church, Milton, Portsmouth. UK We had a lovely morning learning about advent and lighting the first advent candle. Our choir sang beautifully and Fr Hugo also sourced some rather fetching festive headwear!

We went to the polls last week for This was launched in Monday's assembly by the Pupil Leadership Team. In keeping with this year's message of 'Make A Difference', The Pupil Leadership team canvased the views of the children in their classes on the things they thought would improve their school experience. From this, they short listed 6 options and the whole school got involved by voting for their choice at the 'polling station'! Ballots were secret and children could only vote the once (we learned that spoilt ballots don't count!)

The votes were then counted and verified and we are excited to announce that 'Outdoor Play Equipment' was the winning decision! The pupil leadership team will now be going back to their classes to create their wishlist for outdoor games!

Well done to the staff, children and famililes at Milton Park Primary School! You raised a SPOTACULAR £268.12 for Children in Need 2022 💙

Did you go and see the fairy and elf doors at ? We think they looked magical! 🧚‍♂️💙🧝‍♂️

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If you know someone who wants to learn to read, then please encourage them to reach out to us! 📚

Our services offer judgement free, one to one sessions with trained coaches.

We are supporting Children in Need on Friday 18th November. The theme is 'BE SPOTACULAR'. Children are welcome to come to school dressed in spotty non-school uniform. We'll have buckets out on the playground in the morning to collect your donations 💛

Thank you Community at Fratton Park Tesco for donating bread rolls for our Kingfisher Club. They went down a treat!

Some of our children took part in a fairy and elf door craft session. These will be displayed in the art installation in Victoria Park as part of 'We Shine Portsmouth 2022'. Portsmouth Creates
https://www.weshineportsmouth.co.uk/

We launched with Odd Socks Day! Chrildren and adults wore odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique 💙

This year, we paid our respects for Remembrance at St James' Church, Milton, Portsmouth. UK in an assembly led by Year 6 pupils and Father Hugo. Mrs Mansbridge and a group of pupils also joined the Lord Mayor and Members of the Birtish Legion bearing standards at Milton Cemetary and the whole school observed two minutes silence at school too.

We enjoyed learning about our local area history during our visit to the The D-Day Story. The visit really helped us understand the role Portsmouth played in WWII and brought our school project to life.

Anti-Bullying Week is Monday 14th - Friday 18th November. We will be launching this with Odd Socks Day on Monday 14th. This is where adults and children are invited to wear odd socks to school to celebrate what makes us all unique. Anti-Bullying Alliance

November's Newsletter 🗞🍂☕️

It's less than two weeks until the most glamorous event of November: the St James' Church Christmas Bazaar on Saturday 12th November from 10.30 until about 1. Come along for a bargain and to tell Father Christmas what you'd like in your stocking. Fun for all the family!

We loved bringing our Titanic learning to life at SeaCity Museum yesterday. We enjoyed the activities and workshops where we could draw upon all of the history knowledge we have gained during our project.

Dear Parents/Carers,

With Half Term upon us, please remember that if you want to visit our food pantry to help you through the half term, you are more than welcome! It is stocked with pasta, soups, baked beans, canned fruit, tea bags etc.

Please pop us an email if you would like to use this today ([email protected])

Kind Regards,

Come along and meet a member of the new Portsmouth ND Team (neurodiversity)!
We have a Family support worker attending our next ND Support group.