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• Pyjama Party!

  Tue 28 Feb 2017

  On Friday 10th February 2017 Bradworthy Academy held a Pyjama Party to raise money for Cancer Research UK. This event was organised by Holly Chamberlain, Evie Hoddinott, Lily Drake, Olivia Guy and Charlie Orsler with help from others from Year 6 during the cake sale.

  The children all contributed £1 to come to school in their PJ’s and purchased cakes during break times with all proceeds going to the great cause. The children really enjoyed themselves and there were big cakey smiles all round!

  Pupils and parents from across the school worked to produce cakes and sweets for the sale.  Thank you to everyone who donated cakes - we are incredibly grateful for your efforts.

  They were delicious… and sticky!

  Holly and her team would like to thank everyone for being so generous and helpful. A good time was had by all and the children managed to raise a brilliant total £262.84p!

  

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  Mon 27 Feb 2017

  Children from Reception and Year One had a wonderful evening watching a pantomime of Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Hats Theatre, Holsworthy on Friday. They laughed, sang and danced. Many other visitors commented on how much the children were enjoying themselves and how well they all behaved. 'Oh no they didnt'...

  

• Gymnastics Competition

  Mon 27 Feb 2017

  On Sunday 26th March 50 gymnasts competed at the North Devon Schools Gymnastic Competition with some truly outstanding results. The gymnasts have been practicing for the last few months and their hard work has really paid off, and they have made their coaches, teachers and parents very proud.

   

  The team results were as follows:

  Under 7 novice girls – Silver

  Under 7 novice mixed – Gold

  Under 7 novice boys – Gold

  Under 9 novice Girls

  Under 9 novice mixed – 4th

  Under 9 novice Boys – Gold

  Under 11 novice boys

  Under 9 intermediate mixed – Gold

  Under 11 intermediate boys – Gold

  Under 11 intermediate mixed – Silver

   

  The individual results:

  Under 7 novice boys – Silver – Finley Shadrick

  Under 7 novice girls – Gold - Azalea Wooldridge

  Under 9 novice boys – Bronze – Rory Piper

  Under 9 intermediate boys – Bronze - Stanley Waters

  Under 11 intermediate boys – Bronze – Josh Lui

  Under 11 intermediate boys – Gold – Archie Waters

   

  A special trophy was presented for the highest vault score of the whole day to Archie Waters with an amazing score of 9.80 out of a possible 10.00, and although there was not a trophy for this amazing achievement, Azalea Wooldridge deserves a mention as she had the second highest combined floor and vault score of the day with a whopping 18.10.

  

• Art with The Plough

  Fri 24 Feb 2017

  Class Five were lucky enough to work with Sophie from The Plough Arts Centre and Sue Cottam this week, in a school workshop preparing for the Bradworthy Arts Festival.

  The children had a great time creating mobiles which reflect the theme 'Creative Energy'.  These will feature in the Arts Festival, and are currently on display in Class Five!

  We must say a huge thank you to Sophie and Sue for all of your hard work - we all had a wonderful time and the finished products look wonderful.

  

• Chinese New Year

  Wed 15 Feb 2017

  We have been learning about Chinese New Year over the past week, and children in many classes have taken part in lots of different activities linked to the celebrations.

  Class Two enjoyed eating noodles with chopsticks, and making lots of wonderful crafts based on the 'Year of the Rooster'.  Class Three tried noodles and green tea, while the children in Class Five have been making lanterns, learning how to write their names in Chinese, and having chopstick races.

  The children have also had some fortune cookies, and we are looking forward to finding out what they said!

  Check in to our Class Pages for more photographs, just click on the 'About' tab and choose the class you want to see more about!

  

• Gymnastics Success

  Tue 07 Feb 2017

  The 2017 gymnastic season started with our first competition held at Kingsley school on January 29th. Our two teams of intermediate gymnasts and novice individuals competed alongside some very talented gymnasts from school all over the South West.

  The intermediate under 11 boys’ team, Josh Lui, Stanley Waters and Ewan Shadrick had the judges giggling with their cheeky trio team routine when they ‘dabbed’ at the end. With that, their vaults and individual routines they achieved 2nd place which qualifies them for the National finals held in Stoke-on-Trent where they will compete against schools from all over the United Kingdom.

   

  Our mixed under 11 team, Archie Waters, Holly Chamberlain and Megan Fry also achieved a very well deserved 1st place when they impressed the judges with their ‘Bollywood’ team routine, vaults and individual routines. They will also be competing at Stoke-on-Trent representing our school, and the whole of the South West.

   

  Individually our gymnasts had some fantastic results with Archie Waters winning first place in the under 11 intermediate boys category, Holly Chamberlain an impressive 3rd in the under 11 intermediate girls and in the under 11 novice category, Olivia Guy won 3rd place.

  

• Year Six Band

  Mon 06 Feb 2017

  Following the hard work involved in Killer Queen, the Year Six band is now starting a new term with some new challenges...

  
  The Year 6 band is going very well we meet every Wednesday in after school sessions. We’ve started learning a few different songs, one that has been popular with the group is “Whisky in the Jar.” We’re also learning “Baba O ’Riley” by The Who. For “Baba O ‘Riley” Lara and I are playing the steel drums. I really enjoy playing the steel drums it’s so nice playing something different. The steel drums are only oil barrels but they have been tuned and bent so they make a cool sound. They are more challenging to play because of how different they are.

  Alex is always teaching us new chords and we always try our hardest to learn them. We play different instruments in most of our songs it isn’t just the guitars being played, there also the ukuleles, Bass, Drums and the Piano. We always have on going projects, one is a song called “St’ James Infirmary” which we hope to record later in the year with Alex and produce a CD or Video to go on our YouTube channel.

  
  By Lara and Jess

  Class 6

  

• Bikeability - Year Six

  Fri 03 Feb 2017

  Year Six have been completing a Bikeability course this term, as part of our Outdoor Education programme.

   

  We liked Bikeability because we went to the playground to ride around courses.

  First our teachers Ian and Tom talked to us about clothing, what we should and should not wear while on a bike.

   

  Next we learnt how to move around cars on the playground first and then on the road.

  Then we went onto the roads and rode up to a lane to learn how to do something called a right turn in a safe manner, just like cars.

   

  After that we went to a lane to do a formation called the snake.

  It’s where we all follow the leader in a single file and make a long line of cyclists which looks like a snake.

   

  We enjoyed Bikeability a lot because we liked working with Ian and Tom and it was a challenge to complete all of their tasks.

   

  By Oliver, Thane,  and Sam

  

• Climbing Competition

  Thu 02 Feb 2017

  We recently took part in our first Climbing Competition in Exeter.

  There were 23 participants from Bradworthy, and we were the only school team in the competition.

  Group D had the dark greens as their first route. The dark greens were group D’s easiest climb.

  Their second climb was the floral greens that had three small ledges.   Their last climb was floral pink which hardly anyone completed and was very hard.

   

  Group C had the yellow as their first route.

  Their second route was the fluorescent orange the had a small ledge.  Their last route was the salmons which was very hard.

   

  Also all the Groups had to do three boulder challenges.

  You got three attempts at each bouldering challenge and were graded on the furthest hold that you got to.

   

  The wall we climbed on was a lot higher than the one that we have in school which felt daunting, however we gave it our best shot and enjoyed ourselves very much. We look forward to training more with Simon and hopefully competing again in other climbing competitions.

  By Stephen, Lily and Evie

  

• Fire Service Visit

  Wed 01 Feb 2017

  Bideford Fire Station visited Classes 2 and 5 this week and talked to the children about fire safety in the home, and at school. The children learned how to protect themselves in the event of a fire, and how to prevent accidents in the home.

  Class Two looked at the protective uniform and Farrell and Azalea even had chance to dress up as Firefighters, while Class Five were shown how to check their smoke alarms at home, and how to call 999 in the event of an emergency.