Celebrations 29.4.2016

Some more good work this week - well done everyone!  This goes to those who were awarded a raffle ticket which was entered into our prize draw and didn't win - it's the fact that you got a raffle ticket in the first place which matters!

Harry (Y2), for volunteering to help Mrs Barnes sort out the tangled 'catch cups' that we use in our 'Craze of the Week' playtimes.

Luca Y4, for encouraging and supporting others in class; Elise Y5, for excellent work in Geography; Ellen Y5, for super comprehension work and Hollie Y5 for working independently.  All showing that they are ready for Y6!  

Isabelle Y2, for super composition work in music; Gracie Y4 for great multiplication using the formal method; Daniel and William Y3, for excellent handwriting 

Thanks everyone for trying so hard!

Celebrations 22.4.2016

A very positive start to the new term!

Class 3 Dojo winners (rewards) for last term in order from right to left and bottom row first.

Elise, Jacob, Nathan, Matthew, Rory, Darcy, Ellen, Ben and Adam.  It's great to see new children in the list!

Our Tag Rugby team!  They did extremely well - 7th out of 11 and for a lot of the children this was the first time they had played!  Please see Mrs Chadwick's PE Blog for more information. 

Brilliant effort Team!

Class 1 - children who achieved 100% in Term 4 phonics test - either in sight, sight and sound or everything!

Adam - for being a natural rugby player - even though he prefers football!

Easter Basket competition

Our Easter competition this year was to design and a make an Easter basket with the winning entrants being chosen for their own work and (in the upper school) a reference to Jesus.  We had a fabulous amount of entries - most for several years!  It was hard to judge and I particularly didn't want to know who had made each basket so I could judge independently.  Winners received a chocolate rabbit and runners up got a creme egg.  Everyone who took part got a chocolate lolly.

Reception - Winner Tom with runners up Ewan and Wilfy

All reception entrants - Jack, Tom, Ewan, Wilfy, Ryan, Jack and Joshua

Year 1 - Olivia and Harry (runners up) with Kara winning

Eva, Olivia, Harry and Kara - better photo Harry!

Year 2 - winner Harry and runners up Brooke and Elspeth

Y2 entrants - India, Theo, Harry, Brooke, Elspeth, Isabelle, Brooke, Orla, Millie-June, 

Carl and Caitlyn

Y3 - Annie and Zack (runners-up) and Holly - winner

Y3 entrants - Harry, Annie, Zack, Holly, Lucy, William and Sasha (smile boys!)

Y4 - Gracie (runner-up), George (winner) and Joshua (runner-up)

Y4 entrants - Katelyn, Gracie, George, Joshua, Ben, Alice, Maddie and Luca

Y5 (they are dressed as superheroes - part of their current topic) Jasper (runner-up), Tilly (winner) and Kayley (runner-up)

Y6 - Jacob (runner-up), Joseph (winner) and Holly (runner-up)

Y6 entrants - as before but with Tyler.

Thank you everyone for taking part in this competition!

Thanks parents for helping!

Easter Service in church 22.3.2016

We didn't have much time to prepare a full Easter service because of the very short term so we decided to perform some music that we had been doing in classes along with Easter poems.  It was a lovely, happy service and thank you to the many parents who commented how good it was!

Class 3 - The Easter Tree - a really super story about a tree over the years in Jesus's life

Class 3 with their Hip Hop Samba - we all bopped along to this!

Class 2 - No more sighing, goodbye-ing or crying - a poem about Jesus's resurrection

Class 1 with their lovely Easter acrostic

Recorder group 3 - Edelweiss

Beautiful performance all of you!

Recorder group 2 - excellent!

Recorder group 3 - what skills you have!

More class 3 Hip Hop Samba - really enjoying themselves!

A special thanks to Darcy and Adam in Y6 - I gave them 40 minutes notice that they were presenting the whole service and they did brilliantly!

Celebrations 18.3.2016

Once again - a lot to celebrate this week!  

Everyone is dressed as a sports person because it's Sport Relief Day.

Josef Y3 and Luca Y4 for representing the school at the gymnastics competition last Sunday!  Excellent boys!

India YR, for being the best mannered Racy Ray and Brooke Y2, for

 always helping in any way she can

Luca Y4, Arthur Y4 and Kayley Y5 for fabulous work in their persuasive letter 

writing linked to superheroes.

Isabella and Carise Y2 for behaving excellently at swimming and being the quickest 

to get changed without chatting, etc,

Swimming certificates Gracie and George Y4, Isabelle Y2 and Mathilda Y3

Swimming certificates Alice, Maddie and Joshua Y4, Sasha and Annie Y3

George Y4 - for excellent participation in all lessons at all times, Carise Y2 for her fabulous portrait and Alice Y4 for reading at the Mothering Sunday service in church

Our girl gymnasts who represented the school and did really well!

Lily Y5, Gracie Y4, Hollie Y5, Ellen Y5, Annie Y3

Elspeth Y2, Sophie Y4, Brooke and India Y2

It is really special to see so many children giving up their Sunday to represent the school - thank you parents for supporting us in this and thanks Mrs James for taking the gym club - you have made a big difference to the school:)

Celebrations 11.3.2016

Different things to celebrate this week!

Alice Y4, Matthew Y5, Josef Y3 and Benji Y2 - all for reading in church during the 

Mothering Day Service last Sunday.

Eliza Y1 for a good and enthusiastic attitude to learning - brilliant Eliza, keep it up!

Sophie Y4 for use of excellent vocabulary, Tillie Y4 for a super self sketch portrait, Elsie Y3 for enthusiasm in her learning and contributing to all lessons, Mathilda Y3 for the best comprehension answers in the class.

Hollie Y5 for lesson contribution and answering questions

Matthew Y5 and Jacob Y6 for being excellent 'Lunchtime Operatives' (dinner ladies!) and cleaning up when we were short staffed - hey didn't ask any questions, didn't need to be told what to do and they worked fabulously as a team.  Want a temporary (paid!) job boys? 

Our BISI badminton crew - Joseph Y6, Adam Y6, Riley Y5, Tyler Y6 (smile!), 

Casper Y6 and Rory Y5.

Our very successful netball team - they played 3 matches yesterday and won all 3!

Excellent performance team!  Hannah, Lily, Hollie, Isabelle, Matthew, Casper and Rory.  

Thank you everyone for trying your very best!

Big sports week this week!

There has a lot of of sporting events this week - please see Mrs Chadwick's Sports Blog for full information.

Our bronze sports ambassadors Casper and Joseph did a couple of excellent assemblies and presentations - one to our school and to Long Bennington school - please see my last blog for more information.

Casper and Joseph - they had just chosen our legacy country - Jamaica!

Receiving the legacy torch from Barkston.

Passing the legacy torch on to Long Bennington - their presentation was in front of 260 children and staff - very daunting but they did brilliantly!  I am so proud of you both - you are fabulous representatives of our school.