Braunstone Frith Primary Academy

Children in Year 1 recently took on a REAL LiFE mission to become storytellers. They thought of different ways they could entertain their community and watched a puppet show for inspiration. 

The children then prepared for their Teddy Bears’ Picnic by filming themselves making sandwiches. Afterwards they edited their films on iMovie, snipping their clips and adding a voice over.

To further prepare for their REAL LiFE mission of becoming Storytellers, Year 1 children worked hard in DT to join fabrics and create their own puppets ready for their show which was performed to parents/carers who visited the school.

After the performance children shared their knowledge of animals and how they made their glove puppets with the grown ups.

Our Eco Ambassadors recently met with Liz Kendall (who is Labour MP for Leicester West) to showcase the work we have been doing so far this year. She enjoyed learning about our aims to improve biodiversity and how we are going to promote recycling at school. She even tweeted about us afterwards!

The Eco Ambassadors,

Henry, Alfie, Leroy, Sanaia, Yigit, Navin, Grace, Henos, Scarlett, Arhaan, Paige and Iona.

Did you know that if the Earth was the size of a marble, the Sun would be a 6 metre wide ball and that they would need to be a distance of 25 football pitches apart?  Year 5 and 6 pupils know this because they were visited by representatives from the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and BAE systems for an amazing Science Show that explored technology used in our deepest oceans and above us in space.

The children learnt how important communication is when you live in a submarine or a space shuttle but also played games which demonstrated how tricky that communication actually is.

We love our Science at Braunstone Frith Primary Academy so it is always nice to be able to share our enthusiasm and knowledge with visitors: they were really impressed with the questions the pupils asked – we may even have some budding engineers for the future.

On Wednesday 8 March pupils came together to celebrate the achievements of women in society. Mrs Tatton was delighted to receive a bunch of flowers from a Year 1 pupil who gave thanks for her hardwork.

Tuesday 7 February was International Safer Internet Day and Braunstone Frith Primary Academy pupils discussed how to be safe online and this year’s theme was ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’.

These discussions included children drawing or writing on a post-it note something that they might see or might happen to them online that they would need to tell an adult about.

They then bought this post-it note with them through an obstacle course of gym equipment. At the end of the course, they put their ‘worry’ into a box that said something they would need to tell an adult about.

Teachers then explained that sometimes it can be difficult to tell adults about worries online but it is very important that you do. This ‘Tell Someone’ box allowed conversations to be started on how best to be safe online.