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Our Federated Christmas Fair was a great success. We raised a fantastic £1500 at Briar Hill alone. Thank you to everyone who helped out whether it was setting up, running a game, donating a prize or clearing up afterwards, you all helped hugely to achieve this.
Thank you for your support with the locking of our car park, it ensured that all of our families were safe moving across from site to site, and there was a lot of movement! It was lovely to see and hear lots of children talking about going to the other one or children from St Margaret's coming to enjoy the Briar Hill fair too. We are looking forward to the Summer one already!

Makaton is a language programme that uses signs, symbols and speech to aid and support communication. Staff at Briar Hill school have recently undertaken Makaton training to support some of our children to communicate with staff and other pupils. We have also established a Makaton Club which is open to Year 1 and 2 children, this runs at lunchtime.

We will soon be introducing a ‘sign of the month’ that will be displayed around the school, on the school website and will be taught to all children in school.

Children who attend the Makaton Club are taking part in a special assembly during which they will perform a song that they will sing and sign to. We will be inviting parents of those children who attend the club to come in to the assembly and watch. 

Please follow the link for more information about Makaton.

https://www.makaton.org/aboutMakaton/

best wishes

Helen Fitzpatrick on behalf of Warwick Poppies"

The Federated Christmas Fair at Briar Hill and St Margarets is on Friday 1st December at 3.15pm to 5.15pm.

You will be able to move between both schools as you want to.

With this in mind, to keep all of our children and families safe, the car park will be locked and there will be no access in or out whilst the fair is on.

This means that parents collecting from club must park offsite and walk up to pick up their children.

There will be no movement of any cars within the 2 hours the fair is on within the car park area.

Thank you for your understanding, we are sure you want everyone to be kept safe as much as we do.

Briar Hill is in this weeks local paper with an article about the wonderful poppies Year 2 made and passed onto St Marys Church in Warwick for their celebrations planned for 2018.

http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/whitnash-pupils-create-more-than-100-poppies-for-warwick-poppy-project-1-8256931

Following seeing an advert in the local paper by St. Mary’s Church in Warwick appealing for poppies Year Two thought it would be a great idea to make as many poppies as they could in as many different ways on Friday 10th November. This tied in beautifully with their learning about Remembrance Day and World War One. The children persevered and managed to make an amazing 154 poppies which were presented to representatives of the church’s appeal on Tuesday morning. After hearing about why the church wanted poppies and where they were going to go in the church the children enjoyed sharing their poppies with their visitors and explaining how they had made them.

Helen said

"The children were so enthusiastic about their topic and loved sharing with us how they made their poppies."

Lochlan said

"I made three of the really complicated poppies. They were really tricky."

Thank you so much for your very generous donations, we raised £211.

The online payment system is still available if you want to pay yours now, we will be sending the money off next week so will close payment availability on Wednesday 22nd .

Once again thank you for supporting this.