The Splash!

Bude Primary Academy Junior's
Celebration Bulletin

Spring 1 - Tuesday 3rd January to Thursday 9th February 2023

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Mrs Robinson's Round Up

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Another busy half term full of fabulous learning experiences.

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Our Poppy class have particularly enjoyed learning all about Chinese New Year and created some beautiful artwork for their displays.

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Year 3 have been learning all about tectonic plates and different rock types in their ‘Rocks and Relics’ project, including the creation of some fantastic fossils this week. Year 4 have been delving into their project ‘Blue Abyss’, exploring food chains in the deep, learning more about the oceans and looking at the impact of pollution on animals and their habitats.

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Year 5 have been learning more about the groundbreaking Greeks, comparing life now to 2,000 years ago. The children studied a range of historical resources when creating their Greek pots this week. They will decorate these fabulous replicas after half term. Year 6 have been exploring the polar regions, completing some wonderful writing linked to their project. They also spent a day in our woods, orienteering and became polar explorers just like Shackleton. 

Phenomenal learning across the school. Well done Bude Juniors!

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Mrs Robinson's Round Up

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We have very much been enjoying the appearance of the sunshine which hints towards the warmer days that lie ahead.

We have lots to look forward to in spring 2, with our first ever Year 4 residential, World Book day celebrations, a visit from Paralympian Kate Grey, more exciting projects and much more!

The staff team have noticed that the children across the school have been making a real effort to be polite and kind to each other and the adults. This is really wonderful to see. 

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We would like to thank our parents and carers; your continued support is invaluable. We hope you have a wonderful half-term break; we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 20th February.  

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School Houses

Our wonderful house captains have been hosting our very first chess tournament at Bude Juniors this half term. We have completed our first round with over 50 participants taking part. The second round of our competition will take place after half term – we wish all of our contestants the best of luck!  

School Houses

Total house points this half term: 

Blue Dolphins - 803
Red Crabs - 776
Yellow Octopuses - 665
Green Turtles - 844

Total house points so far this academic year:

Blue Dolphins - 2362
Red Crabs - 2471
Yellow Octopuses - 2155
Green Turtles - 2485

P.E. with Mr Brown and Sports Leaders

This term in PE we have been learning how to play tennis. We began with the basics, understanding how to hit a forehand and backhand shot over a net, before moving onto serving. We have also learnt how to play a match and began to understand the scoring system, resulting in playing half sets.

This term in after school club we have been playing Lacrosse. This has been a great success with many children discovering it for the very first time! The clubs have been well attended and everyone involved has adapted really well to the complicated format of play and made sure to play safely at all times.

This term our fantastic year six sports leaders have been preparing lessons in order to teach down at Bude Infants. EYFS have enjoyed several fun and varied Bikeability  sessions on our balance bikes and learnt among other things, how to stay stable, safe and in space, as well as beginning to lift their legs off the ground. Yet again every leader has done themselves and the school proud.

Poppy Class

This half term we have been celebrating the lunar new year that is specifically celebrated for the 2 weeks after the first full moon of the year as Chinese New Year. 

We have shared various stories explaining this significant cultural event and how it is celebrated.  In addition, we have decorated lantern and lion templates with lucky tangerine peel and segments whilst developing our knowledge and understanding of the traditional folk tale of ‘The Great Race’ that led to the order of the animals in the Chinese zodiac. 

We have also created lucky red envelopes with our own individual good fortune slips enclosed and enjoyed tasting real fortune cookies as shown in the photo, being careful not to eat the paper slip inside! 

More recently we enjoyed the challenge of using chop sticks to handle soft noodles and created ‘Mandarin maracas’ with hard noodles in a Poppy parade of dragons and rabbits – marching and moving to traditional Chinese music and accompanied by traditional nursery rhymes sung in Mandarin. 

We have enjoyed finding out about the zodiac animal of the year of our birth and created a fearsome dragon with our handprints that dominates our class learning display board – check out the photo of our classroom display! 

We have also expanded our phonic learning into split digraphs and have identified the properties of nonagons and other multi-sided shapes during numbers circle time. 

We are extremely grateful to our wonderful Year 6 ‘apprentice TAs’ who socialise with our pupils during Poppy Class breaktimes and our PE sessions.  We would also like to say a huge ‘Thank you!’ to our amazing PTA who have very kindly covered the expense of our cooking ingredients recently. 

Finally, as always, many thanks to our wonderful staff and incredibly supportive parents.  Fingers crossed that we all enjoy a fair-weather half term!