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• Lego Day

  Wed 28 Feb 2018

  Everyone had a fantastic day on Friday, when we took part in a 'Lego Day' organised by our wonderful PTA.   We came to school dressed as lego characters or in lego colours, and took part in competitions based on building lego models and designing lego characters.  This ended with a lego themed movie night in the school hall, which was very popular, as the photos show.

   

  Congratulations to our competition winners:

   

  Jude won the Key Stage 1 design competition with his amazing lego interpretation of the school emblem, and Nate won the Key Stage 2 design competition with his impressive Millennium Falcon.   Eleanor was the lucky winner of the prize raffle.

   

  We would like to once again thank our incredibly hard working PTA, for all of their effort.  The day was a huge success, and we are all looking forward to the next event!

  

• Dartmoor

  Wed 28 Feb 2018
  The children in Year Six have been very busy completing training walks on Dartmoor this term. As you can see they have had varied conditions and some snowy conditions for these walks, where the children had lots of fun throwing snowballs at Sir! The children also witnessed varying levels of snowdrifts from 2 feet all the way up to 8 feet by Dinger Tor, where the children enjoyed using the drift as a huge slide! These were the starting walks leading into the longer (up to 25 mile) walks and the camping experience.

  

• National Climbing Competitions

  Wed 28 Feb 2018
  We took a group of enthusiastic climbers to the recent ' National ' qualifiers for the South West.  All of the climbers have been having lessons in school with Simon Young and after two rounds of competitions we had some very encouraging results.  We had numerous finishes within the top 10, which is no mean feat considering most of the other youth climbers were from clubs that climb for many hours during the week.  We had a superb result, with Ngaio Parr finishing third in her category and qualifying for the National Finals in Edinburgh on April 28.  We would like to wish her the best of luck in the final and say an enormous well done to all of the children who took part and did a fantastic job in all of the categories entered.

  

• Time Flies: Tempus Fugit

  Tue 27 Feb 2018

  It's that time again...........

   

  In April 2018 Bradworthy Primary Academy will be hosting our annual Arts Exhibition.   This year the theme will be 'Time', and every pupil has been asked to make a clock to contribute to the showcase.

   

  The exhibition will begin with a concert, and will officially be opened on the evening of Thursday 26th April.     We look forward to seeing everyone there, and showing you our fantastic work.

   

  Below is a copy of the brief that the children have been given to help guide their ideas - as always, the more imaginative the better.

   

  The Brief:

   

  • Originality and imagination are key - weird and wacky is encouraged.
  • The clock should be free standing or designed to hang on a wall.
  • It should be at least A4 in size, but small enough to get in through the school doors.
  • As far as possible, use recycled or reclaimed materials. 
  • The clock doesn't have to work, but if you choose, battery powered mechanisms are available on the internet for as little as £1.
  • Your clock may be a regular timepiece, but if you prefer it might tell the day of the week, predict the tides, the phases of the moon, mealtimes, the weather, mood swings or anything bizarre you can think of. 
  • Help from relatives and friends is welcome, but the clock must be predominately the child's own work. 
  • Adults are welcome to make and submit their own clock. 
  • Handing in must be on or before Monday 23rd April - the first day of the Summer Term.

  

• Rainbow Run

  Mon 26 Feb 2018

  We were lucky enough to be approached by staff from the wonderful Children’s Hospice Southwest recently, who asked if we would host a ‘Rainbow Run’ in school to support them in creating some publicity photos and videos.  This led to a very colourful Friday afternoon, where pupils ran a circuit around school, while being showered with rainbow coloured paints.

   

  As you can see from the pictures, everyone had a fantastic time taking part in the event, and we made a fantastic colourful mess!   We must say an enormous thank you to everyone from the Children’s Hospice who organised the event, and gave us all such a wonderful opportunity!  We hope the pictures and film advertise the events well, and we look forward to seeing them soon!

  

• Plastic Free Schools

  Fri 23 Feb 2018

  Class 4 had an assembly to introduce ‘Plastic Free Schools’.

   

  We are working with Surfers against Sewage to gain plastic free status for our school. This is not as scary as it sounds! We are aiming to have a boycott day on Tuesday 27th February. On this day we are asking the whole school to boycott Single use plastic bottles and bring in a reusable plastic/metal drinks bottle. We will have recycling points for your single use bottles. The children will also be running some activities during the day to educate the school about the damage single use plastic is causing in our oceans.

   

  This is the first of a few actions we have to take in school before we get accredited as a Plastic Free School. Class 4 have worked really hard getting their plans together for school and have made a passionate plea to the whole school during their whole school assembly to join ‘The Resistance’ and fight the tide of plastic.

   

  Exciting times ahead!

  

• Gardening Club

  Thu 22 Feb 2018

  Recently, the children in Gardening Club have been busy making their own wire sculptures in pairs and small groups. First they had to get some cut wire from a role of chicken wire. Then they had to mould and bend it into the shape of their animal.

   

  The children have made some fantastic animals including a giant squirrel, a snake and a ladybird!

   

  Gardening Club aim to have these filled and growing with plants soon and I'm sure they'll look fantastic outside and around the school grounds.

   

  Thank you to Sarah for giving up her evening to share her artistic talents and help gardening club with this particular project!

  

• Book Buddies

  Wed 21 Feb 2018

  The children in Classes One and Four regularly meet to share their school reading books and their favourite books from the library.  The older children love listening to their young buddies read to them, and the Year One children are always keen to hear about the books that their Year Four buddies have chosen.  As always, the children work together beautifully, and we are all very proud of the effort and attitude that they demonstrate towards this project.

  

• Year One - Wild Tribe

  Wed 21 Feb 2018

  This term Year One have been very busy in their Wild Tribe sessions at Julian's Farm.  They have developed their skills in using maps,

  understanding compass points, following directions, making journey cards and knot tying.  Everyone has had lots of fun during these

  sessions, and we would like to thank everyone at Julians Farm for helping us to deliver these activities for the chidlren to enjoy.

  

• Gliddon and Squire Cross Country

  Mon 19 Feb 2018

  Following a very strong start our fantastic Cross Country team have maintained their form in the final races of the season.   In the final races of the year at Northam Burrows and West Buckland School, the children worked incredibly hard to earn points for their teams.  At the end of the season their hard work resulted in some amazing results.

   

  Eleanor Foster won the Under 9 Girls Competition after an amazing season, and Saul Barraclough came an impressive 4th in the Under 11 Boys Competition.

   

  In addition to these fantastic results, both our Under 9 and Under 11 Boys teams earned impressive Silver Medals, and our Under 9 Girls team finished the competition in 4th place.

   

  These results are a real credit to the way in which the children ran as teams throughout each fixture. 
  It goes without saying that we are incredibly proud of all of our runners for their incredible hard work.  We are already looking forward to seeing the children in action again in the forthcoming Cross Country Events.