OAK BITES 20^th October 2021

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Dear Fair Oak Family,

News for all pupils

Whole School

A reminder that Christmas Card orders need to be with the school office by 3.30pm latest Friday 22^nd October

Year 4 – HARVEST ASSEMBLY

Due to the national rise in cases of COVID the school has taken the decision to ask all attending the Harvest Assembly on Friday to wear a mask unless exempt from doing so.  Thank you for your support and understanding.

School vacancy

Fair Oak Junior School is seeking to appoint an excellent cleaner to work within our established cleaning team in our large, friendly school. The successful candidate will report to the Site Manager.

The school is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic person who takes pride in their work and has high standards, so that our children can learn in a clean and safe environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Ensure that designated areas of the school are kept clean and hygienic.
• Carry out a range of defined cleaning duties in line with agreed procedures and standards.

Experience would be an advantage, but training will be provided. The post is available to start as soon as all relevant checks are in place.

If you are reliable and resilient, hardworking and flexible, then we would welcome hearing from you.

The post is for 10 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 3.30 to 5.30 pm, 39 weeks per year.  There may be additional casual hours throughout the year.
 

If you would like an application pack please email Katy Layley - Deputy Headteacher on k.layley@fairoak-jun.hants.sch.uk 

OAK BITES 18^th October 2021

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Dear Fair Oak Family,

News for all pupils

Please note that there is no vehicular access to the school campus for dropping off for the Film nights this week or for those attending the Harvest Assembly on Friday. Thank you for your cooperation.

Please see below details of the Fair Oak & Horton Heath Remembrance Day Service.

The children in Years 3 and 5 will be painting their box heads on Tuesday and Wednesday and the Year 6 pupils will be doing their papier mâché on Wednesday. Please can they bring in an apron or painting shirt (old top/ large shirt) which doesn’t matter if it gets paint or paste on it. Thank you

There are a number of outstanding music lesson payments. If your child is taking music lessons, please can you check that you have paid the amount due.

News for Year 3

The Year 3 children are looking forward to their trip to Butser Farm tomorrow. Remember they should wear their Fair Oak Junior School jumpers, but with jeans, tracksuit bottoms or leggings, with their waterproof coat and robust suitable footwear such as trainers, walking boots or wellies.  It will be an active day so they should bring a packed lunch, plenty of snacks and their water bottles (no glass bottles or fizzy drinks). Please be mindful that we are a nut free school on visits too.

News for Year 4

We have been asked by a couple of people, who are trying to work out the logistics of picking up other children, about the timings of the Harvest Assembly. At the moment Mrs Gowers thinks it will last around an hour, although the children have not yet run through the whole event to know for sure. We hope this approximation will help your planning. 

The children will be coming home today with a ticket for the Harvest Assembly. If it is a yellow ticket, it means that only one member of the family can attend and if it is a red ticket, two members of the family can attend. Please bring the ticket to gain entry on the day.

News for Year 5

Just a reminder that the deposit payments for the Year 5 residential trip to Stubbington are due by this coming Friday.

News for Year 6

There is no news specific to Year 6.

School vacancy

Fair Oak Junior School is seeking to appoint an excellent cleaner to work within our established cleaning team in our large, friendly school. The successful candidate will report to the Site Manager.

The school is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic person who takes pride in their work and has high standards, so that our children can learn in a clean and safe environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Ensure that designated areas of the school are kept clean and hygienic.
• Carry out a range of defined cleaning duties in line with agreed procedures and standards.

Experience would be an advantage, but training will be provided. The post is available to start as soon as all relevant checks are in place.

If you are reliable and resilient, hardworking and flexible, then we would welcome hearing from you.

The post is for 10 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 3.30 to 5.30 pm, 39 weeks per year.  There may be additional casual hours throughout the year.
 

If you would like an application pack please email Katy Layley - Deputy Headteacher on k.layley@fairoak-jun.hants.sch.uk 

Tuesday 5^th October

Our lower school cross country runners were entered into the South Eastleigh and Winchester cross country race held today at Swanmore College. The standard of competition was extremely high and all of our athletes performed brilliantly. Individually five of our runners finished in the top ten of their races which is a fantastic achievement. Well done to all of our athletes. What a lot of cross country talent for the future we have in our school!

Monday 11^th October

Our girls upper school tag rugby squad travelled to Oakley Junior School today to participate in tag rugby training matches to help our side prepare for the season ahead. The session was really useful to our players who are developing nicely and should head into their upcoming competitions with confidence.

Tuesday 12^th October

It was the turn of our upper school cross country runners to participate in their South Eastleigh and Winchester races today at Swanmore College. There was a more competitive focus to this event than for the year 3 and 4 competition earlier in the month and all four of our teams performed magnificently. The overall results were as follows (the lower the points total the better):

• Year 5 boys team finished 2^nd with 64 points. Two of our team finished in the top ten.
• Year 5 girls team finished 3^rd with 67 points. Two of our team finished in the top ten.
• Year 6 boys team finished 1^st with 33 points. Two of our team finished in the top ten.
• Year 6 girls team finished 2^nd with 43 points. Two of our team finished in the top ten.

What a fantastic set of results. Well done to all those who ran so brilliantly for our school!

Tuesday 19^th October

A year four dodgeball team was entered into a festival held today at Wildern School. Nine schools from the local area participated in the event which gave all of the pupils an opportunity to improve their skills in the sport. Fair Oak played really well in their fixtures and thoroughly enjoyed the competition, losing three matches and drawing their last match against Shamblehurst. Well done to all of those who took part and represented their school superbly!

Wednesday 20^th October

Fair Oak entered five teams into a lower school boys football tournament held at Wyvern. The competition took a league format where every team played every other team. The side with the most points at the end of the tournament would be crowned champions! After all of the fixtures had been played, the final league table stood as follows:

Well done to all of our fantastic footballers. There really were some outstanding performances today!

OAK BITES 13^th October 2021

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Dear Fair Oak Family,

News for all pupils

Change to tomorrow’s school lunch choices – Thursday 14^th October

As with a lot of businesses/shops recently, HC3S are also having some difficulties with their supplies. As a result of this, tomorrow’s lunch choices will be sausages (instead of chicken), with Yorkshire pudding for the red choice and vegetable goujons,(instead of vegetarian sausages),with Yorkshire pudding for the green choice. Please let your children know of this change before school. Thank you

School Photographer ‘mop up’ session - Friday19^th November

For your information, the school photographer will be returning to photograph any pupils that were absent on Monday or any siblings that didn’t get photographed together due to sporting fixtures etc.

School vacancy

Fair Oak Junior School is seeking to appoint an excellent cleaner to work within our established cleaning team in our large, friendly school. The successful candidate will report to the Site Manager.

The school is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic person who takes pride in their work and has high standards, so that our children can learn in a clean and safe environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Ensure that designated areas of the school are kept clean and hygienic.
• Carry out a range of defined cleaning duties in line with agreed procedures and standards.

Experience would be an advantage, but training will be provided. The post is available to start as soon as all relevant checks are in place.

If you are reliable and resilient, hardworking and flexible, then we would welcome hearing from you.

The post is for 10 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 3.30 to 5.30 pm, 39 weeks per year.  There may be additional casual hours throughout the year.
 

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News for Year 3

There is no news specific to Year 3

News for Year 4

There is no news specific to Year 4

News for Year 5

There is no news specific to Year 5

News for Year 6

OAK BITES 11^th October 2021

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Dear Fair Oak Family,

News for all pupils

Eastleigh Basics Bank

In Year 4, we are fortunate to be able to hold our Harvest Assembly again, (after a break last year due to the Pandemic). In conjunction with this, we are asking children across all year groups to bring in an item of non-perishable foods to school on Monday 18^th October 2021. These will be collected in class and brought to a central location so that they can be collected by our local foodbank. 

The foodbank that we have continued to support over the years, is Eastleigh Basics Bank and we hope once again to supply them with as much as possible. If every family were to bring in at least 1 item, we could be seeing a collection of over 500 products! Demand for their products has exploded since COVID with the bank providing food for over 3,800 people already this year. This is up from the 2,451 people they fed in 2019. So, it is with great importance that as a school community we rally round and support them in the best way that we can.  

We look forward to seeing your donations and if you should have any questions at all please contact Mrs Gowers (Year 4 Leader) through the office.  

Many thanks, 

Year 4 Team 

Flu Vaccine consent

Please see the attached link to complete consent for your child/ren to have the flu vaccine in school. This needs to be completed by 10am tomorrow morning. Thank you.

https://www.southernhealthimmunisations.co.uk/forms/flu

Our school number is: SH115997

PSA movie nights!

Just to confirm – the movie nights dates and times are as follows:

Year 3                        Tuesday 12^th October 2021

                                    5.30 – 7.30 pm

Year 4                        Tuesday 19^th October 2021

                                    5.30 – 7.30 pm

Year 5 & 6                Thursday 21^st October 2021

                                    5.30 – 7.30 pm.

Not 5pm, as had been mentioned in last week’s Newsletter.

News for Year 3

There is no news specific to Year 3

News for Year 4

Year 4 Box Heads can be handed in after half term – due to Harvest rehearsals, we have been slightly delayed with doing any work on them in school, so hopefully this gives everyone a bit more time to get prepared!

News for Year 5

There is no news specific to Year 5

News for Year 6

There is no news specific to Year 6

OAK BITES 4^th October 2021

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Dear Fair Oak Family,

News for all pupils

• School Vacancies
• We have vacancies for two cleaners to join our dedicated team.
• 10 hours per week, term-time only; 3.30 – 5.30pm Monday – Friday.
• Annual salary: £4207.00.
• If interested – please contact the school office for an application form.

Your PSA needs YOU!

Please take the time to read the attached letter which reminds us of just how important the PSA is to the life of the school. Get involved!

House Cross Country Results 2021/22

On the afternoon of Monday 4th October the pupils of Fair Oak Junior School competed in our annual cross country races. Below are the year group results:

       1st                               2nd                             3rd                              4th

Year 3    St George                 St Patrick                   St Andrew              St David

Year 4    St George                 St David                    St Andrew              St Patrick

Year 5    St David                    St Andrew                 St George              St Patrick

Year 6    St Patrick                   St David                    St George              St Andrew

The overall house totals are as follows:

1st St David (487 points)

2nd St George (482 points)

3rd St Patrick (428 points)

4th St Andrew (411 points)

Please may we ask that children do not bring ‘fidget toys’ or ‘pop it’ toys into school. Thank you for your ongoing support.

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News for Year 3

A reminder for Year 3 parents/guardians that the Butser Farm trip contributions can be paid on Scopay. We have not yet met our costs for the trip. If we fail to do so we may have to cancel.

News for Year 4

There is no news specific to Year 4

News for Year 5

A reminder for Year 5 Parents/Guardians that the Science Dome visit to our school this Friday, can be paid for via Scopay. We have not yet met our costs for the event. If we fail to do so we may have to cancel.

News for Year 6

Art exhibition: Book Character Box Heads – please see the attached letter for all the information you will need for year 6 pupils.

A change to Year 6 PE - this week only – Year 6 do not need to wear PE kits tomorrow (Tuesday 5^th October).

On the afternoon of Monday 4^th October the pupils of Fair Oak Junior School competed in our annual cross country races. Below are the year group results:

The overall house totals are as follows:

1^st     St David  (487 points)

2^nd    St George   (482 points)

3^rd    St Patrick   (428 points)

4^th    St Andrew  (411 points)

Well done to all of the pupils who took part!