Welcome back to an exciting Summer term. We hope you had a great Easter break and had plenty of opportunities to enjoy the holiday. We have many events to look forward to this term from our Year 5 Residential trip to Kingswood coming up, Food Festival where we celebrate different foods including a staff bake-off and ‘Ready Steady Cook’, our very own ‘Prospects Got Talent’ and the Summer Fayre. We are also beginning our new topics in each year group. Year 3 will be looking at the ‘Ancient Greeks’, Year 4 are learning about ‘America’, Year 5’s theme is ‘Pop Up Garden’ and Year 6 will be looking at ‘World War 2’ as well as preparing for transition and their school performance after their SATS in May. We will also be launching another ‘Men at Work’ project to tie in with a Father’s Day Lunch in June after the success of Mother’s Day Lunch in March. As a whole school, we are continuing to work on our school improvement targets, one of which is the health of our children. We have been trialling our free school in fruit which so far has had a massive uptake from the children and we will be looking at possibilities of how we can continue this. We are also keenly aware that anxiety remains an issue that affects many of us, but particularly our children. This term we are launching our Take 5 initiative throughout all the school which aims to provide children with strategies for overcoming anxiety. They will be learning different, short techniques to equip them for life. We hope that this will help them with the everyday obstacles life can throw at them and encourage resilience. As always, if you have any concerns or wish to make any suggestions, please feel free to come into school. Our school works best when we all work together.

We are half way through the school year and it seems to have flown by! Thanks so much to our Parents of Prospect and everyone who attended and helped out at the Valentine’s Day disco where we were able to raise some money for the Heart Surgery Department at Leeds Hospital. Also thanks to everyone who has helped out with sporting events –  the children have really done well this term and we could not have done it without you! This half term is only short but I can guarantee that it is action-packed. Keep a look out for quite a few school events, as we progress through to Easter. Thank you to everyone who has ordered their Mother’s Day Lunch – this is a new concept we are trying out (there is a Father’s Day lunch planned too)! We often say it, but reading with your children is so important and enjoyable. So much so that we really wanted to raise the profile of Reading on the first week back with our ‘Sharing Breakfast and a Book’ before school on Wednesday followed by Story Activities on the Thursday throughout ‘World Book Day’. We can’t guarantee a full breakfast but we can offer a breakfast snack while either you or your child reads a favourite tale for pleasure! We also have our Food Festival in March which should be great to try new foods –  the staff will be making flapjack biscuits ‘Bake Off’ style! Our school improvement focus continues to be in raising standards in all subjects, though especially challenging our children in Writing and Problem-solving in Maths. Thank you for all your support at Prospect Hill Junior School.

Welcome back and I hope you have all had a great Christmas.  It has been lovely to welcome Mrs Grant who has joined our office team, as well as our teachers Mr. Aldread and Mr Fisher. We have launched our term with a ‘Superhero’ Writing theme across the school and the children produced some amazing writing which we shared in our assembly. The children looked fantastic as Superheroes and thanks to your generosity, we managed to raise £170.00 for books. We are now kick-starting our topic work of ‘Predators‘ (Y3), ‘Romans‘ (Y4), ‘Pharaohs‘ (Y5) and ‘Frozen Kingdom‘ (Y6). Thank you to everyone who attended the Y6 SATS meeting – it is great to know that we are all working together- and this is an important term for getting ready for the SATS in May.  Please keep a look out for boys and girls’ football fixtures, Dance festivals and the Athletics final, as we have a busy Sporting term too! As usual, we have our parent activity morning and grandparents coffee corner coming up, as well as the Valentine Disco run by our amazing Parents Of Prospect on the last week of term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact school, it is so much easier to sort things our early so that they do not become bigger problems. Thank you- we look forward to seeing you in school. Please take a look at all our superheroes…

It has been an exciting and busy term this year. We are coming to the end of the Christmas celebrations with parties galore. Our annual family ‘Quizmas’ on Wednesday evening will bring it all to a close. One of the highlights of the season for me was the Christmas Service with Nativity at our local church, Christ Church. Watching and hearing all the children sing, read or act was a joy to behold! The School Council have been active, as well as the Worksop Junior Councillors; they designed and decorated our very own Prospect Christmas Tree as part of the Priory Church Tree Festival based on our school values.

 It has also been fantastic to work alongside the local community; hosting parent and grandparent activity mornings, improving our outside space with the help of the Rotary club, links with Costa Coffee and winning the bid from Tesco to develop our sensory garden (this will be happening in the Spring term). We have also had some brilliant designs through Men @ Work, carried out fundraising for Children in Need and joined the anti-bullying alliance and promoted Friendship Friday.

We know that it is really important for the children to learn from the environment as well as within school and all the year groups have been on at least one educational visit this term. They have had innovative ways of raising money from sponsored Space dashes to their own Pretty Mudders, not to mention bake sales. Please look on Year group blogs to find out more….

Below are some of the highlights of the term.

Welcome back to a new academic year! It has been a lovely start to the year and it has been great to meet our new Year 3 children who have settled into Junior life well. Already, we have been busy launching our new topics with Mexican mocktails in Year 6, Space in Year 5, making submarines in Year 4 and there was even a Mad hatter’s tea party in Year 3! A week and a half in and we seem to be as busy as ever! As part of our aim to really engage children in their writing, the whole school has been studying a book called, ‘The Day The Crayons Quit.’ We will be holding a non-uniform day on Thursday for children to come to school in their favourite colour clothes and parents/carers are more than welcome to join in the fun at our parent activity morning and learn what it is all about Thursday at about 9am.

This year we are also trying to further promote personal, social, health and emotional education in a variety of ways. To kick start this, we enjoyed a 20 minute workout with Joe Wickes online with over 2 million other children across the world. Other events have been planned so we will keep you updated. ..

Just a reminder of how important attendance is –  please phone the office to let us know as soon as possible if your child is ill. Should you have any further concerns, do not hesitate to contact us.

Welcome once again. Well, I cannot believe we are in our final half term here at Prospect Hill Junior School and what a year it has been! The children have worked so hard this year and as always with smiles on their faces.  We’ve had some wonderful events happening already this term. We had a fantastic Healthy Week where the children participated in various sports, tasted different healthy option foods and showed off their sporting skills in our Sports Day. We are currently working with the Infant School on our entrepreneurial skills and producing crafts to sell on Friday in our Enterprise week. It has been lovely to welcome our Grandparents at lunchtime and also thank you to all parents who have attended our parent activity mornings, which was our last one this Academic year. Although we have been working on transition throughout the year, we will be encouraging it further in July where all the children will meet their new class teachers and become accustomed to their classes. Not forgetting our Year Sixes who have been true role models this year. They will get the opportunity to show off their acting skills as they are currently preparing for their production, ‘Pirates of the Curry Bean.’

Ms Lumb