Our Wish List
This links to our School Development Plan
- Playground 2025 Project (e.g. sculptures, insects seats, willow animal sculptures, trails, fort, fix bandstand, new maze/tree house, sensory play structures, outdoor climbing wall, wall for bouncing balls, Junior Jungle, artificial grass under trees, new boat)
- New hall floor
- Continue to paint rooms
- History timeline in grounds
- Upgrade staffroom kitchen area
- New EYFS shed
- Secret garden shed floor
- Shepherds Reading Hut/reading nook
- Time circle sculpture
- Pond island feature/walk, ways to the island/web cam
- Canopy over the courtyard area
- Refurbish the Junior wooden floors
- Year 2 tables and chairs/sink unit/cupboards/fix toilet and drains
- New studio gate
- EYFS Small World toys
- New telephone system
- 15x iPads and trolley
- Glass panel in the office door
- Finish adding perspex to the back café wall
- Large outside weighing scales
- Replace old PE mats
- Nature Table - "Cabinet of Curiosities"
- Giant globe
- School pet/animal of some kind... keep the chicks we hatch!
- Replace worn and broken classroom tables
- New speaker for hall
- New camera for social media
- New corridor carpets. New Group Room carpet
- New EYFS resources
- Portable air conditioning for other classrooms
- Add blind to Quiet Room and to Year R and Year 1 main door window
Completed Projects
2024/2025
- External doors repainted
- Front porches painted
- New Perspex to notice board
- Basket ball post installed.
- LED lights installed
- ELS Reading books £1000
- Two new office computers
- Green Goblin cars- tools/wheels/ motors
- New sign-post in the grounds
- Six new PE gym mats
- New water station in EYFS
- New zip wire and climbing structures in Secret Garden
- New outdoor 120th year school clock installed
- Water heaters replaced
- Tree works in secret garden and orchard pruned.
- Junior toilets refurbished
- IT upgrade - move to The Cloud - news computers and laptops
- New Be-Bop Tower
- BAT Club storage reviewed and sorted
- Wellie Pegs fixed
- Perspex added to the Café walls
- Maze taken down
- New staffroom fridge
- Classroom books from Book Fayre - £150 per class
- Spinning seat for sensory room
2023/24
- New fire alarm
- Tipee re-waterproofed
- Reupholstered chairs in group room/ corridor bench
- Tree works in secret garden
- Christianity RE resources from grant
- Plant the King’s Coronation tree
- New studio and office windows and blinds (Including Quiet Room and EYFS blinds)
- Office and entrance hall repainted
- New Café advertising sign outside
- Refurbish disable toilet.
- Year R and Year 1 cloak rooms painted
- External doors repainted
- Front porches painted
- New Perspex to notice board
- Basket ball post installed
- LED lights installed
- ELS Reading books £1000
- Two new office computers
- Green Goblin cars- tools/wheels/ motors
- New sign-post in the grounds
- New water station in EYFS
- New zip wire and climbing structures in Secret Garden
- New outdoor school clock installed
2022/23
- Year 4/5 classrooms painted
- New switches and WIFI points
- 20 new laptops and trolley
- iPad for Wild School and Music
- Blinds for Cafe
- New kitchenette in Office
- New Sensory Room and blind for door
- New blinds for Year R and Year 5 blinds fixed
- Purchase of ELS Phonics Scheme
- New Clevertouch board in Studio
- New play train
- New netball posts
- Portable air con unit for Year 2
- Reupholstered chairs in Group Room
- Planting of Queen's Memorial Tree
2020/21
- New Year 6 tables
- New ceiling skylight in entrance hall
- Year 6 classroom painted
- New Tipee in Secret garden
- New early years resources eg den/ book corner/ interactive Jolly Phonics (Approx. £900+)
- 2 x laptops for SBM and HT
- 2 x new gazebos
- New topic book journals
- External gutters, hoppers, pipework, fascias made good/ replaced. Year 6 porch drain installed
- New maths resource work books
- New boiler
- 8 x laptops for teachers. 1 x DFE lap top
- Webcams for classes and HT
- Headphones
- Raspberry Pie etc IT equipment for Code Club
- PE Dodgeball set/new PE balls
2019/20
- New window for reception area - new desk in office
- Kitchenette and store cupboard added to Humphrey’s Café , CJ’s Kitchenette fitted out
- New phone line in café
- PTA buy new fridge freezer
- Lettering in entrance hall and hall
- Sign for the café
- 6 I Pads for teachers and charging station
- New server
- Toilets re-painted- juniors
- New projector screen in café
- New projector/ screen in hall
- New laptop/speakers and projector in the hall
- 20 new Pro Books and charging trolley
- £600 new library books from Book Fayre
- New ORT Books (Stage 1)
- Forest school resources
- PE Sports balls etc
2018/19
- ORT books (PTA £5000)
- Artificial grass to bottom playground ledge
- Dead hedge in the Secret Garden built/ bird hide taken down in Secret Garden following storm
- Hall painted and area outside headteacher’s office to repair damp wall.
- New emergency lights/fire extinguishers
2017/18
- The building and setting up of Humphrey’s Café!
- New playground drainage and tarmac resurfacing- includes car park and front of school
- Hall roof patched and fixed
- New hall lights
- New whole school fire alarm system
- Giant chess board and storage, 100 number square and mini- court installed
- Eco roof shed repaired
- Train refurbished
- Wild School equipment purchased
- Café tables bought by the PTA (£14000)
- £500 ORT books
- Early years furniture and resources
- Musical instruments (£150)
- Two new eco-planters made from recycled bottle tops for courtyard!
- New pavilion installed and storage
- New studio carpet and BAT Club resources bought- includes outdoor storage
- New outdoor playstore container
- New union flag - Mrs Venton!
2016/17
- Asbestos free school now! (removed from boiler house, girls’ toilet floor and outside pipes)
- Maze repaired
- New Year 1 trimmer
- Pavilion demolished and new kitchen and dining hall starts to be built!
- Playground resurfaced and extended - including new drainage in bottom playground and a new under-ground pump!
- Millennium Courtyard demolished and replaced with new astro-turf quiet seating area.
- New corridor/office/staffroom/ Year 2 carpets
- Seven Clever Touch boards installed!
- New Forest School equipment purchased- includes a new mud kitchen!
- Year 4 gulley roof repairs finished off after last year’s roof work.
- PTA – new stocks built and stand.
- Flag pole re-sited.
- New boiler house metal doors.
- New Premises Manager’s tool shed installed.
- Musical instruments- £100
- Mrs Vedde’s Trophies.
- Hall thermostat moved
- Year 2 radiator moved in light of new Clevertouch board.
- New hand driers and water heater to year 5 and disabled toilet.