Bedonwell federation newsletter
Updates from each year group
In Nursery we have been learning about:
Lunar new year: making lanterns and rabbits, we then made repeating patterns to hang in our restaurant, we learned how to use chop sticks.
YR are learning about real life heroes in our community.
We are exploring different occupations and the people that help us in an emergency such as police officers, paramedics, doctors, fire fighters; challenging stereotypes and talking about the jobs that the children may like in the future.
Through stories and role pay we are also learning about other people in the wider community that help us such as plumbers, electricians, crossing patrol and highways maintenance staff. We have been linking many aspects of this to keeping safe on the road and knowing who to go to for help.
Year 1 & 2 took part in a drama workshop this term! The session was an introduction to dance and the performing arts. These workshops are sponsored by Perform - the UK's leading provider of drama, dance and singing workshops for 4-12 year olds. Every child who had attended a Perform4ALL session received a flyer.
In Year 3 for our English unit, we are writing suspense stories and learning how to create suspense and tension for the reader.
The children are also enjoying their History topic about Ancient Civilisations where they are looking at the locations and different writing and number systems that were used in each civilisation.
In Geography, our key question is 'Where does our food come from?' and is all about how food travels around the world and how certain foods go on a journey to reach us here in the UK.
In French, the children are learning how to say the names of different fruits and which ones are their favourites.
This half term, the children will also be making some healthy pizzas in DT and continuing to improve their sketching skills in art!
In English, we are currently working on our persuasive letter writing unit.
Within history we are currently learning about the Romans, most recently looking at Boudica's revolt. We will also be linking this to art, after recently creating Roman helmets, children will next be looking at creating a Roman mosaic.
Currently in History, Year 5 are learning about the Mayans. In the last lesson we looked at religion and beliefs. We will be looking at everyday life and organisation in the next lesson and later finding out the decline and fall of the Mayan cilvilisation.
This half term, Year 6 will continue with their learning of WWII during history and English. We will focus on the evacuation and blitz which will lead up to an exciting WWII day at the end of March.
Linked to this topic, pupils will be creating clay sculptures during art and deciphering codes in computing.
In science, our topic is 'electricity' where pupils will be investigating with electrical circuits. We are also looking forward to our forthcoming science week which provides an opportunity for pupils to undertake fun investigations and to present their own research about a scientist.
Attendance In February
Bedonwell Junior school current attendance for January is 94%
Bedonwell Infant school current attendance for January is 94%
Our target this year is 96%, will you help us reach it?
Each week in our celebration assembly a class from the Juniors and Infants win the Bedonwell attendance cups, the winning class each week get the reward of an additional Golden Time. Will your class be the next winners?
WB 30.1.23 = Sandstone 4 98.6%
WB 6.2.23 = Granite 4 97.2%
WB 20.2.23 = Colorado 6 98.9%
WB 27.2.23 = Marble 97.8%
WB 6.2.23 = Mercury 1 100%
WB 20.2.23 = Saturn 1 and Danube 2 99%
WB 27.2.23 = Earth 1 97.5%
Well done to each of the classes who have had the best attendance on the weeks above!
Always award winners
Every week children who follow our Golden Values in Bedonwell are celebrated by achieving the Always Award! The children who receive the award have really impressed their class teacher by showing as many of our seven Golden Values which include:
Manners, Respect, Teamwork, Stickability, Honesty, Kindness, Calmness.
They can be awarded the 'Always Award' four times throughout the year starting with the Bronze Always Award, then Silver Always Award, then Gold Aways Award and building up to the Platinum Always Award!
Bedonwell school's Golden Values:
FOBS has had a fun February! Year 3 enjoyed their first Junior disco and we got to see some great dance moves! Thank you to all our parent and teacher helpers for making it possible. We hope your children had fun!
Friday 31st March - end of Spring term
Monday 3rd April - Friday 14th April - Easter holidays - school closed
Monday 17th April - Summer term begins - children return to school
Monday 1st May - bank holiday - school closed
Monday 8th May - bank holiday - school closed
Monday 29th May - Friday 2nd June - half-term - school closed
Friday 21st July - last day of summer term
Monday 24th July - Thursday 31st August - summer holidays
Friday 1st September and Monday 4th September - inset days - school closed to pupils
Tuesday 5th September - years 1 to year 6 return to school (Reception and Nursery to be advised separately)
Girls' football team
On the 21st February the girls' football team continued their amazing run in their league where they played their next three games. They all played brilliantly and won 2 of their 3 games on the night.
The scores were:
Girls tag Rugby.
Mr White and Mr Burton, took some of the year 5 girls for a tag Rugby tournament on Friday 24th February. The girls were great and really enjoyed the tag rugby games and playing some mini games of tag rugby against other schools!
Number Day! Friday 3rd February
The children and staff really enjoyed number day on Friday 3rd February. Children got to take part in some fun and exciting maths games and investigations in their maths lessons as well as dressing up in a maths themed costume.
The costumes were brilliant across the Infant and Junior schools and a winner was selected from each year group who won a special prize. Some of the winning costumes can be seen in the photos below.
Money was also raised to support the NSPCC for all the work that they do in supporting children across the U.K.
The winners were:
Reception: Lucas (Angel class)
Year 1: Tallulah (Jupiter class)
Year 2: Xander (Thames class)
Year 3: Isla D (Pacific class) and Annalise (Pacific class)
Year 4: Gracie (Granite)
Year 5: Saran (Everest)
Year 6: Amelie (Sahara)
Bedonwell School Councils
Both of our school councils have been extremely busy so far this term, Below are some of the activities they have been working on:
EYFS school council have organised “Wear red” day for Comic relief. They have also compiled a letter to send to local garden centres regarding the setting up of the school council garden.
School council have been focusing on lunchtimes and menu's so far. They have met with Mrs Foster and Ms Grey (catering company) to discuss how we can improve lunchtimes and what they like about school lunches. They used this information from the previous smart school council question that KS2 answered. We will be thinking of some new themes and meal options together at the next school council meeting. They have also been thinking about ideas to raise money for comic relief which will be on the 17th March.
Check out the images of our Forest School area in KS1! The Nursery and Reception classes absolutley love the area and are really enjoying their outdoor learning!
Turkey/Syria Earthquake Aid Appeal
Thank you so much to everyone who very kindly donated to the Turkey/Syria earthquake aid appeal that was set up, you have all been so kind and so unbelievably generous.
Just to update you all as to where all your wonderful donations are now, we managed to collect, sort and package everything and thanks to the amazing generosity of Turkish Airlines who very kindly made a free of charge courtesy flight available for us from London Heathrow Airport, all your donations have now safely arrived in Turkey and are ready to be distributed to all those in desperate need of them.
All your donations are now making a huge difference so thank you!
The Bedonwell Federation has our own Twitter page, this page is updated on a regular basis with a range of different events, activities and amazing work the children across our school produce every day! If you have Twitter, please give us a follow and like and retweet the posts on our wall.
The link to our Twitter page is below:
We also have a twitter page for KS2 art club and KS2 football clubs. There links are below:
Children's university Update:
Our Bedonwell CU pupils have been busy earning lots of stamps this term by taking part in Number Day and Children’s Mental Health Day! Remember if your child attends extra curricular clubs outside school they can earn stamps too, just ask the person in charge for the stamp code and log your hours on to your online account! A Fun day is planned for the 22nd April (See flyer attached) All pupils are welcome!
World Book Day!
The children and staff go all dressed up for World Book Day on Friday 23rd March! There were some amazing costumes of lots of different book characters.
Throughout the day the children enjoyed a range of different Book Day activities and also had time to read their books and share their books with others in their class.
Year 3 children also enjoyed a book scavenger hunt and those children in Year 1 got to try out some delicious jam sandwiches taking inspiration from their current class book Paddington Bear.
School Uniform reminder
Please see the guidance for school uniform below:
Grey sweatshirt (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)