Bowfell

Sport Relief Action

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Each day this week, School Council are organising Get Active sessions at lunchtime playtime. We are challenged to keep an activity going in the Sport Relief Zone for half an hour non stop! Monday was bouncing balls, Tuesday was doing “keepy uppy” and Wednesday was singing Heads, shoulders, knees and toes! It was harder than we thought to keep going all that time! School councillors are on hand to give out stickers to those taking part.

Did we manage to keep it going for the 30 minutes every lunch time? YES!!

Thank you for coming in something SPORTY on Friday and bringing a donation of £1. We made £70 to add to the nation’s Sport Relief total and we learnt that half of the money raised is spent in the UK and half is spent in other areas around the world.

The Tree of Life

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Reception and Year 1 have ben exploring swirls and patterns, in the style of Gustav Klimt. One of Klimpt’s famous paintings is The Tree of Life.

The children created their own pieces of art in his style.

Money Money Money!

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Year 2 have been working hard with Mrs Coker’s school fund!! Counting, collaborating, sorting, finding ways to make different amounts, problem solving…..

Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle

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Today our nursery children have been having a go at mark making. We moved our ribbons in time to the music, lifting them up and down. Then we transfered the movement to our pencils. The children had a great time moving to the music and are looking forward to giving it another go! 

World Book Day Fun!

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We celebrated World Book Day with traditional dressing up – the pupils and staff all joined in and we had a wonderful range of different characters to guess. Thank you to everyone for your fantastic efforts!

During the morning staff pitched different favourite books and the pupils chose which ones they wanted to hear an extract from. We had poetry from Michael Rosen, favourites from Janet and Alan Alberg, and newly published books about noises in the night and vampire headteachers! Our new library display tells you more about staff recommendations.

Each class was busy with book themed activities throughout the day.

Special Talents

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We had a special assembly today to say good bye, good luck and especially thank you to Mrs Haslam. She has been a wonderful addition to our team and we wanted to thank her for all her hard work over the past few weeks. We sang her a lovely song that recognises we all have special talents and this seemed a perfect way to celebrate Mrs Haslam’s talents too! Here she is with her beautiful flowers and cards.

Handa’s Surprise

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This week, everyone has been enjoying being storytellers performing the story of Handa’s Surprise using picture-prompts and actions made up by the children in Nursery, Reception and Year 1.

The children are very proud of their writing retelling the story!  We have been remembering to start sentences with capital letters; use time connectives, finger spaces, full stops; and sequence our story in the correct order.

Superstar writing from everyone!

Art inspired by Africa

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Look at Bowfell’s stunning art work!  Children in year 1 and 2 enjoyed creating atmospheric sunsets of the African grasslands.  Can you identify the animals shown by the silhouettes?  Our Reception children created patterns inspired by animal skins using many different tools, including fingers, to create their colourful designs.  These beautiful pieces are on display in Bowfell Classroom; come and have  a closer look to see which animals you can find!