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Leaver's Assembly

Fri 22 Jul 2011

Leaver's Assembly 2011 took place on Thursday 21st July.

It was an emotional occasion and the perfect way in which to celebrate the Year Six children's achievements and to wish them the very best for the future as they prepare to start secondary education.

The attitude of this group of children to their work and everything else that school life has offered them has been quite wonderful to behold.
It has been both a pleasure and a privilege to work with them and to be part of their development over the years and it is great to know that they are ready to move on and to continue their journey.
We are going to miss all of them a lot and we hope that they will remember their time at Bradworthy fondly.

Thank you to all of the parents who came along to share this important occasion with us.

The assembly provided us with the chance to make a number of different awards as these photos show -

Academic Achievement: Erin and Stanley.
Academic Effort: Molly and Olly.

Sporting Achievement: Dani and Douglas.
Sporting Effort: Molly and Matt.

Creativity: Georgia and Elliot.
Cookery: Emily and Dan.

The House Point Cup winners for 2010/11 were Puffins with the cup being received by their Team Captains, Emily and Sam.

Leaver's BBQ

Thu 21 Jul 2011

The Summer BBQ was a great success thanks partially to the fact that the weather stayed dry but mostly to the incredible hard work which was put in by our fantastic PTA which was led by Gill.
I know that everyone in school, and especially all of the children who had an amazing time, would like to say how grateful we are to them for their continued work.
Thanks also to everyone who gave up some time to help run the event.

As well as loads of Bouncy Castles, games and stalls, the obvious BBQ, a bar and other refreshments there was also entertainment from a mass gymnastics display, our school band and a live rock group.

It was great that so many people were able to come and join us.

Our Building Project has Started

Sun 10 Jul 2011

We got notification last week that we have been successful in obtaining a buildings grant from the government for £44,500 and this, along with the money we’ve managed to put by over the last few years, means that the first phase of our project will go ahead over the summer holidays.

Everything kicked off this Saturday (16th July) when some of our staff and governors, and an ex-pupil, came in to dismantle our stage.
(We've got it in store and we're going to rebuild it in our new hall one day !!!)

Our builders have also started their demolition job at the back of the school.

Sports Day - 2011

Sat 09 Jul 2011

Sports Day was great.
Everyone had a brilliant time in the sunshine, did their very best and over the course of the day over 100 parents came to support us.

For the firs time in a few years the day was won by Magpies with Robins coming a very close second.
Going into the final event which was the 100m sprint there was only seven point in it and as we were giving 20 points for first place this counts as close !

The Day started at 9.30pm with the finals of the hockey, dogeball, tennis and cricket team competitions.
We also ran a Key Stage 1 football competition before our younger children took part in some traditional sports day races - things like the sack race and egg and spoon.

All of the older children came out to support them and to cheer and the atmosphere was amazing.

In the afternoon the children in Key Stage 2 took part in our own version of the Olympic Games !

Our events included sprints (50m, 60m hurdles, 100m and 200m), longer races (400m, 800m ad 1 Km Walk), relay races (4x50m and 4x200m), throws (shot put, discuss and javelin) and jumps (long jump and high jump) so there was something for everyone to take part in.

We built a podium on the field so that everyone could cheer the children who finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each event, but the best thing was that everyone had a really good go and had a lot of fun.

Merton Football and Netball Rally

Fri 08 Jul 2011

We took two football teams and two netball teams to this year's Merton Rally which took place on Sunday 3rd July.

Our teams did incredibly well with our football A-Team coming out as tournament winners and our football B-Team ending up as runners up in the plate competition.
This is our first trophy for a couple of seasons and a first tournament win for this years new management team of Sampson and Furber.
Bradworthy's footballing future would seem to be secure !!!

Our netball teams did well to reach the semi-finals of their competitions where they were unfortunately knocked out.

Sandy Brown

Tue 05 Jul 2011

We visited Sandy Brown's studio in Appledore last week and had an amazing time.

Sandy Brown is a World famous artist and doesn't usually work with schools groups and it was a great privilege to go over to her studio and spend the day working on ceramics.
We do a lot of pottery in school with Mr Sentance and this is great but it was extra special to go and work with someone like Sandy.

If you would like to look at Sandy's work go to her web-site at
http://www.sandybrownarts.com

Ten Tors - Final Training

Fri 01 Jul 2011

These are our final preparations for our Ten Tors Challenge which will be taking place on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
These "Tent Heads" are smiling despite the gale force winds and driving winds which we endured last Wednesday evening at Culliver Steps on Dartmoor - but then they are inside their tent.

The trip started with us having to put our navigation to the test.
With only a set of grid references to guide us we had to find our way across the moor to the location where our camping gear had been hidden.
By the time we had found it, it was raining but we managed to gt our tents up before it got too bad and w were set for the night - which was wild !!!

We found enough cover under some trees to cook our tea and then headed to the shelter of our tents for the night.
We didn't get a lot of sleep - but this wasn't entirely the fault of the bad weather !!
The next morning we had to walk several miles to get back to our minibus.
By the time we got back to school it was sunny but at least that meant we could dry our kit out so it's ready for the next trip.