Community Plan
The governing body have been looking at the ‘community’ aspect of our Federation. Governors recognise the significance of the work with our stakeholders; pupils, parents/carers, staff, the wider community, the Diocese and the Local Authority, to the success of the Federation. We discussed how our mission statement drives our interaction with our community and to provide clarity for everyone, we have agreed a ‘Community Plan’. The aim of the plan is to ensure our engagements are meaningful and beneficial for everyone.
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Shalfleet Class Charities 2024-2025
YR – MacMillan
Y1 – RNLI Lifeboat
Y2 – The Donkey Sanctuary
Y3 – Race for Life
Y4 – MacMillan
Y5 – WaterAid
Y6 – The Roy Dennis Foundation
Freshwater & Yarmouth Class Charities 2024-2025
YR – MacMillan
Y1 – RNLI Lifeboat
Y2 – Wildheart Foundation
Y3 – Save the Children
Y4 – Kissy Puppy
Y5 – WaterAid
Y6 – Mountbatten Hospice
Dementia Friendly Choir
Each week during term time a small group of children from years 5 and 6 go along to Freshwater Methodist Church to attend the West Wight Dementia Friendly Choir. It is an absolute pleasure to take the children each week, not just because of their enthusiasm and great behaviour, but also to see the effect their presence has on the choir members. Some weeks, especially after a school holiday, you can hear the whisper of” The children are here,” going around the church and we see the welcoming smiles of the choir members and volunteers.
As well as joining in with the singing and helping with refreshments, the children are often called upon to perform some actions or dancing at the front to accompany the singing. The choir sings a wide variety of songs, ranging from traditional folk songs to 1950’s and 60’s pop music and numbers from well known musicals. Many of these songs are not familiar to the children, but they do their very best to join in. One song in particular, however, was both well known and very popular with the children – ‘Sweet Caroline’ – now associated with the England football team. The children even taught the choir (needing very little encouragement!) to add the ‘Ba ba ba’ and ‘so good, so good, so good’ at
the appropriate time!
Music is so important for people with dementia as it reaches the part of the brain associated with memories which they might otherwise find difficult to access. Going along with the children is such a lovely, positive way to connect with our local community and is something we’re looking forward to continuing in September.
‘The dementia choir has a wonderful atmosphere to it. The children of year 5 and 6 love going to the choir and leave feeling happy and excited to go again. At the moment in the choir we have been singing songs by Mary Poppins, one of our favourites being Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. People at the choir are really kind to us and very helpful. At the break we help hand round the snacks and sit with the people, talking about all the things we have been up to. When we are singing we have instruments like maracas, bells and mini drums. We are so grateful for this opportunity.’
By Annie & Summer
Dementia Choir (1)
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Charity Fund Raising
MacMillan – Beach Class
Beach Class held a Macmillan cake afternoon last week. We would like send a big thank you to Beach Class families for helping to raise £30 for our class charity.
Mountbatten Hospice – Go Yellow Day
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Yellow Day in aid of Mountbatten Hospice. F&Y raised a fantastic £172.41
Comic Relief/Red Nose Day
Thank you to everyone who donated to Red Nose Day.
Freshwater & Yarmouth raised £92.45
The DASH in the DARK raised £950!!
Well done to all of the children and staff at Shalfleet for taking part in this event. It was a great evening, with a real happy atmosphere with parents encouraging and supporting them along. A presentation to WIGHT SENSE will take place very soon.
Poppy Appeal – We raised an outstanding total of £328.08
Well done everyone who supported!
Freshwater & Yarmouth school raised £219.30 and Shalfleet raised £272.12 – Total raised for Children in Need was a whopping £491.42!
Beach Class would like to thank all the families who donated cakes for their Macmillan cake morning.
They raised £95.00 for Macmillan cancer support.
Well done Beach Class!
Food bank – Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind Harvest donation to Isle of Wight Foodbank. Your donation weighed in at 125.46kg.
With your help we have fed 526 people in the last month, including 221 children.
Thank you so much for your support.
Comic Relief – Thank you to everyone from Yarmouth who donated to Comic relief. We raised £96.40. The cake sale by Shalfleet Year 6 raised a massive £200!
Donations for Mufti from Shalfleet was £129.98
Total Raised = £426.38
Swimarathon
Y3 River Class IOW Food Bank Charity Fund Raising
Charity Fund Raising
Children in Need – Go Spotty day raised a massive £217.57 from Shalfleet and Yarmouth raised £118 – Thank you!
Many thanks for all donations of cakes and support for Shalfleet Year 6 cake sales
Poppy Appeal – This year’s Poppy Appeal at Shalfleet raised an outstanding total of £372.38
Congratulations
MAD-Aid Charity Fund Raising
