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• School Concert

  Fri 30 Mar 2012
  Our Art Exhibition Concert will take place this Thursday evening at 6.30pm in the Memorial Hall. If you would like to come along please get in touch because we'd be delighted to see you.
  The photo shows our new rock group in rehearsal ahead of their first ever performance.
  Our brass band and choir will also be taking to the stage and after the concert we'd be delighted to welcome you to the school hall where you can enjoy our art exhibition and join us for a glass of wine and refreshments prepared by Year Six.

  

• Art Exhibition 2012

  Thu 29 Mar 2012

  On Thursday March 29^th Bradworthy Primary Academy was launched into Space.

  For the event the hall had been converted into a spaceship with the aid of miles of plastic sheeting and decorated with pictures of spacemen. It was filled with a collection of amazing robots that the pupils had built with just a little help from mums, dads and grandparents. There were metal robots, cardboard robots and plastic robots. They had all been built from junk materials but you would be forgiven for thinking they had been built in a galactic supplies factory. Some had flashing lights, some had whirling coloured windmills and several were remote controlled.

  The children had learned and written several songs for the occasion which had been filmed and were shown as part of the exhibition. They all took part in a performance of ‘The Urban Spaceman’, a song made popular in the 1960s by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. The singing was accompanied by ukuleles and kazoos while film was shown of the Urban Spaceman’s day at school.

  On Thursday evening, after a delightful concert by the school brass band and choir, drinks and snacks were served in the ‘spaceship’. The children had spent the previous week preparing such delights cheesey suns, moon and star shortbread, galactic spirals and sausage asteroids. All the snacks were served by pupils dressed as spacemen and boffins. A cosmic time was had by all

  

• Climbing Boulder

  Wed 28 Mar 2012
  Our climbing teacher, Simon Young, has been building us an amazing new climbing boulder on our school field.
  The good weather just before Easter meant that it was "all hands to the pump" as we worked to complete this exciting new project.
  Year Six spent a day digging out the ground around the boulder and children form Year One upwards then moved ten tons of bark which was needed as a safety surface.
  Who says that there's no such thing as slavery !!!

  

• Kingsley Cross Country 2012

  Tue 27 Mar 2012
  We went over to Kinglsey School In Bideford this March to join over 1000 other children in their annual cross country running competition.
  We took four teams in the under eleven and under nine categories and although we didn't come back with any medals everyone had a great time and it was good to see how high the standard is in a regional competition.

  

• Drama Teaching 2012

  Mon 26 Mar 2012
  Each week our children are taught drama by a specialist teacher from the Plough Theatre in Torrington.
  This week we took advantage of the good weather to go outside and work in the sunshine.

  

• North Devon Gymnastics 2012

  Tue 20 Mar 2012
  Our gymnastics teams met with fantastic success at the North Devon Championships which were held at Kingsley College on Saturday 17th March.
  The biggest and best measure of the success of gymnastics is that despite the fact that we were one of the smaller schools at the competition we were able to enter the highest number of gymnasts, an amazing 49 competitors which is nearly a third of the children at our school.
  We came away with another set of incredible results with a total of ten different teams and individual gymnasts finishing in medal positions.
  This is a huge tribute to Kerry, Michelle and Sara who work so hard coaching our children.
  We would also like to thank Maxine for the hours she spent sorting out their hair and making sure they all looked so wonderful.

  

• Brass Band - Rotary Concert

  Mon 19 Mar 2012
  On Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March our Brass Band performed at the Holsworthy Rotary Club Variety Concert.
  We performed a ten minute set at the end of act one to rapturous applause from a packed house.
  The performance was a wonderful experience and something that we'll remember forever.
  
  The children approached this event with their usual enthusiasm and professionalism and it was wonderful to get the following comment from the organisers afterwards.
  They said that the children were the most polite and best behaved children they had ever had in the Theatre and that we should be very proud of them as teachers, parents and school. They said that it would be a pleasure to have the children back.
  It goes without saying that we agree with this wholeheartedly.
  We are exceptionally proud of every one of them and we would love to go back to the theatre sometime soon.

  

• Art Exhibition Coming Soon

  Mon 19 Mar 2012
  Preparations for our annual Art Exhibition are well under way !

  The exhibition will be open on the last two days of this term (Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March) from 8.00am each morning and you are very welcome to come in at any point each day.

  The older children will be taking it in turns to act as your hosts and they will be delighted to welcome you and show you around.

  The exhibition will be open until around 8.30pm on Thursday evening but will close at 4.00pm on Friday so that we can clear up before the Easter break.

  

• Seventh Class

  Sat 10 Mar 2012
  Bradworthy Primary Academy has opened up a seventh class for the first time in its history. This initiative has come only a year after the school became North Devon’s first primary academy and it means that our children are now taught in small single-age class groups, rather than in big mixed year groups.
  
  We achieved another historic first last month when the school roll passed 150 children.
  In last year’s SATs results Bradworthy featured among the top schools in the country and this new class will be an important part in ensuring that we are able to maintain these standards into the future.
  
  We have worked hard to reduce class sizes because we believe this plays such an important part in children’s learning and development and it is a huge step forward that our average classes are close to only 20 which is significantly lower than the national average

  

• Class Six Science Week

  Fri 09 Mar 2012
  The Second week of March was Science Week and our Year Six children have been involved in several trips which have supported all of the things we've been doing in school.
  On Tuesday we went down to IGER to learn about environmental science.
  On Wednesday we went to Bristol to find out about the technology behind the SS Great Britain and to visit the science exploratory and planetarium at @Bristol.
  On Thursday we visited the Explorer Dome at Holsworthy College where found out about Light.
  It's been a very busy and very exciting week. If you want to find out more about what we've been up to and what we've learnt check out our Class Six web-page next week when we'll have up-loaded some of our work.