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We are pleased to announce that Gareth Lloyd has been elected as the school’s new Parent Governor. Congratulations to Gareth! All of us at school are looking forward to working with him.
A big thank you to all of you that voted and well done to Niyomi Fife too, the votes were very close and it takes a lot of courage to stand for an election.
Just before half term 32 pupils from Years 4, 5 and 6 had a fantastic day at Saffron Lane Athletics Stadium. The children represented BFPA wonderfully where they demonstrated superb REACH IT qualities, particularly integrity, challenge and teamwork. Well done to each of them for trying their best and achieving so much.
Paiyton and Malaki both came away with medals for their outstanding effort in the long jump and sprint. It was a very warm day and needless to say that by the end of it we were all a little sunkissed.
On Friday 19 May Year 6 children took part in some essential first aid training. It was delivered by someone from The Red Cross, which is a charity that helps to provide life saving skills.
During the lesson, the children explored different scenarios and acted out how to deal with the situations. They learnt how to care for someone with a burn, a seizure, a cut, a bump on the head and people who have fallen unconscious.
At the end of the lesson, the children were introduced to a resuscitation dummy (Annie) and had a go at giving it compressions, checking for a response at the same time.
Although the children enjoyed learning these life saving skills, we hope they are never faced with a situation where they need to use them.
Western Park have had a brilliant start to their Forest School sessions. The children have been busy planting and creating objects from natural materials as well as playing games such as ‘123 where are you’ and ‘ladybirds’.
Pupils have used the tools: palm drills, loppers and bowsaws. For each tool they learnt a tool talk so they can be used safely and learnt the ways in which these tools can be used. They used the palm drills to drill holes for their woodland necklaces, they used loppers to chop wood to make frames and used bow saws to make ‘log dogs’.
The children have also learnt ‘square lashing’ and have applied this skill to make scarecrows and frames. Pupils learnt about the Japanese art of Hapa Zome and created beautiful pieces of art using leaf dye. They have had to apply their maths skills of measuring as well as their art skills of colour to create these pieces.
Throughout the sessions the children have shown brilliant REACH IT skills, especially their resilience and teamwork skills. We are incredibly proud of how hard the children have worked during their Forest School sessions and look forward to our future sessions!
It was lovely to see so many parents supporting the Year 6s during the open afternoon. Everyone worked really hard on decorating their coronation nets.
At the end of the week, the children used their completed nets to create a carry case for their coronation cup cakes – which were delicious!
Let’s hope that King Charles III had as much fun on his special day as we did.
To mark 30 years since the tragic loss, we wore Stephen Lawrence’s favourite colour – orange!
Our Year 5 pupils scaled new heights in their trip to Condover Hall.
The theme for World Earth Day 2023 was “Invest In Our Planet”. To celebrate this, on Friday 21st April, the Eco-Ambassadors went to City Hall in Leicester for a Plastic Clever Schools Conference. The conference was the first of its kind, providing schools the opportunity to start their journey towards reducing single use plastics!
During the day, the ambassadors learnt a lot about single use plastics and started to develop a campaign to reduce plastic in our school community.
If you have any ideas on how we could reduce single use plastics at BFPA, please let the Eco-Ambassadors know at [email protected]
Year 4 pupils recently took on a Real LiFE mission to become conservationists.
The children visited the forest school area to find out the school grounds’ habitat. Year 4 also worked with Earthwatch to plant over 600 trees and shrubs which will create a tiny forest within our school grounds.
Our Real LiFE Missions link children’s learning across the curriculum and in Year 4 Design and Technology, the children have enjoyed designing and building bug hotels in their mini-crews. They had to use many of the REACH-IT attributes in order to successfully achieve the goal together.
The Year 4 pupils brought their computer learning to LiFE by creating Blogs about their Real LiFE Mission. A blog, short for weblog, is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content.
Our Real LiFE Conservationist Mission has allowed Year 4 children to become advocates for the protection of our local habitats by all taking part in a showcase event where the children shared their learning with their parents/carers.
When the parents of Year 4 came to the showcase event, they were impressed by the children’s passion about being conservationists and protecting local habitats.
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.
