Whiteley and Sarisbury pupils to get dictionaries for life

Dictionary 4 Life given to Whiteley Primary School children in 2009

School children in Whiteley and Sarisbury Green will be learning a host of new words thanks to the Whiteley Rotary Club’s Dictionary 4 Life scheme. The club has raised cash and received funding from Fareham Borough Council to provide 200 Year 6 pupils at Whiteley Primary and Sarisbury Junior schools with the dictionaries. The Usborne [...]

Charity bobsleigh challenge hopes to raise cash for heroes

John Bird and Andrew Copestake pretend to be in a bob sleigh while Isabell Copestake (second left) raises money with a donation from Charlotte Jenkins, 11.

The Western Wards will be cheering on their own bobsleigh team in a Help For Heroes challenge. Andrew Copestake and John Bird are taking to the slopes against a team from the Royal Air Force to raise money for the RAF Benevolent Fund (RAFBF). The pair and four other British civilians have started training in Igls, [...]

Read all about it! Pupils report on Sarisbury crime

Lauren Batten and Ajay Subhan, both 7, found evidence while searching the crime scene

Budding journalists at Sarisbury Junior School put pen to paper to write crime stories in a newspaper style. Learning the art of journalism the Year 3 classes at the school in Allotment Road had a Police Day where they investigated a crime with the forces from Park Gate. The pupils were able to see first-hand [...]

Scarf scandal rocks Sarisbury Junior School

Isabel Harmer, Alex and Anna Scrase from Year Three with their stories.

The pupils of Year Three at Sarisbury Junior School wrote their news articles based on the events that unfolded at the school during their police day. Gazette editor Kevin Briscoe then selected some of the stories for publication; “All the pieces by these cub reporters were excellent and I selected a small number to represent [...]

Pupils go spotty for Children in Need

Sarisbury Infant School children shout hip hip horray for Children in Need

Hundreds of school children dressed in spots to raise cash for Children in Need today (November 18). Thousands of pounds have been raised for the national cause in the Western Wards by children and school staff – and even Shrek! The colourfully dressed pupils decorated the six-foot ogre in a spotty hat and earrings at [...]

New adventure playground extension is a swinging success

(l to r) Keira Alexander, Jennifer Shirley, Josh Bailey and Richard Thomas on the climbing wall

Sarisbury Junior School pupils are getting active at lunchtimes with their new £20,000 extended play area. Swinging on the monkey bars, pulling themselves up the wall, climbing and tiptoeing across the balance beam – these year fives are a having a great time in the adventure playground. It has been a huge achievement to see [...]

Wildlife garden opened at Sarisbury Juniors

Pic of one of the pots at the Sarisbury Junior School garden

Owners of a garden centre have helped out Sarisbury Junior School by donating lots of plants for a new wildlife garden that the Year Three pupils have created outside their classrooms. And Tracy Puttock from Paulton’s Plant Centre was on hand at the school yesterday (July 20) for the grand opening of the garden in [...]

Pupils bring Greek history alive in the classroom

Jasmine Painter, 9, holds the clay pot she made

Sarisbury Junior School pupils gave parents a tour of Ancient Greece when they turned a classroom into a museum for the day. The Year Five children showed parents their various creations which portrayed life in that era – from board games and a video of their own Ancient Greece Olympics to clay pots and a [...]

Three Western Wards schools shut by strike action

Three schools in the Western Wards are closed today (June 30) as part of the national day of action by public sector employees. Brookfield School, Park Gate Primary and St Anthony’s Primary School in Titchfield Common are closed as a result of the national strike action by teachers. Those schools in the Western Wards that [...]

Ladies evening in Sarisbury for stroke ward

pic of Karen Sutton

Handbags, shoes, skincare and cookware will be on sale at a fundraising evening tonight (Friday June 24) in Sarisbury. Karen Sutton has organised the event at the Parish Rooms to raise money for the Phoenix Stroke Rehabilitation Ward at Quern Alexandra Hospital in Cosham. That was where her husband Nigel spent three months after suffering [...]

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