Academic Year 2024-2025

Hamworthy Park Junior School Featured in Tesco Community Grants Initiative

We are excited to share some fantastic news for Hamworthy Park Junior School! As part of Tesco’s Community Grants scheme, our school is now one of the local causes that you can support when shopping at Tesco. This wonderful initiative is designed to support local community projects and good causes across the UK, and we are thrilled to be part of it.

The Tesco Community Grants scheme is open to all schools, registered charities, and not-for-profit organisations, with a particular focus on projects that benefit young people.

We are proud to announce that for the next three months, you can choose Hamworthy Park Junior School to receive a share of the funding from Tesco’s local stores. Every time you shop at Tesco, you can use the token provided at the checkout to vote for our school, and the funds raised will go directly towards improving our school library.

The money raised will help us provide more books, resources, and exciting reading materials for our children, enriching their learning experience and encouraging a love of reading. We know that a well-stocked library plays a crucial role in inspiring young minds, and we are incredibly grateful for the support of the Tesco Community Grants scheme in helping us make this vision a reality.

This initiative will run for the next three months, so be sure to pick up your voting token whenever you shop at Tesco and cast your vote for Hamworthy Park Junior School. We are also hopeful that in the near future, Twin Sails Infant School will have the opportunity to feature in this fantastic program as well, further supporting our local community.

We are deeply thankful to Tesco and to everyone in the local community who supports us through this initiative. Together, we can make a real difference in providing our children with the best possible resources for their learning and development. 

Asda Cashpot for Schools: A Great Success for Twin Sails Infant and Hamworthy Park Junior School

The Asda Cashpot for Schools initiative, which ran from 2nd September 2024 to 30th November 2024, has proven to be a fantastic success for both Twin Sails Infant School and Hamworthy Park Junior School. This innovative fundraising campaign allowed Asda customers to donate 0.5% of the value of their purchases to a primary school of their choice, and the results speak for themselves.

Asda kicked off the campaign by giving each participating school a £50 starting boost to their Cashpot, providing a strong foundation for the schools to begin fundraising. Both Twin Sails Infant School and Hamworthy Park Junior School eagerly signed up to take part in this exciting opportunity, and with the support of parents, staff, and the local community, both schools raised nearly £1,000 each by the end of the campaign.

The funds raised were put to excellent use in December 2024, helping to make the schools' Christmas Party Day extra special for the students. The money was used to purchase new rainy-day play resources for every classroom, ensuring that children would have fresh, engaging activities to enjoy during those indoor playtimes. This thoughtful addition to the classrooms has already had a positive impact on the students' experiences at school, providing them with new toys and games to enjoy throughout the year.

Both schools would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to Asda and to everyone who supported the campaign by shopping with Asda and donating to the schools' Cashpots. The success of this initiative has shown just how much can be achieved when schools, parents, and the local community come together to support the education and well-being of our children.

Children in Need Fundraiser: A Big Success Across the Federation

Academic Year 2023-2024

Children in Need took place on the 17th November, and proved as popular as ever. Thank you to everyone who donated to this worthwhile cause - we raised a total of £415.26!

In October we began our Food Bank drive, to collect donations for Jimmy's Food Bank. Across the two week collection period, we managed to fill over 20 crates, full of long life food, which will help local families. 

Thank you to everyone who donated!

September saw the return of the Macmillan Coffee Mornings in our staff rooms. Our staff never pass up the opportunity for cake, especially if they can raise money at the same time!

Academic Year 2022-2023

We are thrilled that Covid restrictions have now lifted and our community fundraising efforts can now resume. 

January 2023

Last week the Royal British Legion contacted us to say that Hamworthy Primary Schools were one of the top five highest fundraisers to the Poppy Appeal in the Hamworthy area. In total the schools raised £743.53 and the total across the Hamworthy Area was £3,217.16

Thank you to each and every one of our parents, carers and children who purchased merchandise or donated any money towards our Poppy Appeal. 

December 2022

As we headed towards the Christmas break, we asked our families to donate items to our festive food bank. Donations were then split between Jimmy's Food Bank and the Moor Community Fund, which will all go to helping create festive hampers for those in need this season. 

We were overwhelmed with over 400 donations! 

On Friday 18th November we held a non-uniform day for Children in Need and raised a fantastic £579.21. Thank you to everyone who donated and took in a very fun day across the Federation. 

A huge well done to Hollie in Year 4, who grew her hair and braved the big chop, donating it to the Little Princess Trust - a UK charity that provides real hair wigs, free of charge, to children and young people who have lost their own hair through cancer.

Hollie raised an amazing £290!

Well done Hollie from all at Hamworthy Primary Schools!

We kickstarted Kindness Week on Monday 14th November by running Odd Socks Day across the Federation. This provided an opportunity in school for the children to have fun and send the important message out that we should all be allowed to be ourselves. 

Mrs Jones in Guillemots went as far as to spend the day in odd shoes as well as odd socks!

Friday 11th November was Remembrance Day, and all children who are members of uniformed groups came to school in their group uniform. We had Rainbows, Beavers, Squirrels, Cubs, Brownies, Guides, Scouts, Cadets and St John's Ambulance. 

Throughout the week our House Captains were selling Poppy Appeal merchandise across the Federation, and we sold out of everything! 

In total, Hamworthy Primary Schools raised a fantastic £743.53