Spring 2

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Greek Pottery&nbsp; The children studied pictures of old Greek pottery to learn about the battle scenes and stories of everyday life that they portrayed.&nbsp;

They then designed their own pottery, which they created over a period of 3 weeks.&nbsp;

‘I enjoyed observational drawing of the heart because I liked experimenting with the different thickness of pencils.’ Tristan ‘I didn’t like being in the room with the heart but overcome my fears and went in for the observational drawing. ‘ Jonty

Northcott have had an extremely busy half term and have been working extremely hard!&nbsp;&nbsp;

They have been engrossed in our latest project - Groundbreaking Greeks – and have been learning all about the geography and the history of the country. They have also been studying Ancient Greek art styles and have created their own vector art style posters.&nbsp;&nbsp; In maths, Northcott have been focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages and we have seen some fantastic progress in this area. We have also had our Spring assessment week where we saw some great progress being made.

In English we have been learning how to write stories as well as creating our own playscripts linked to our Greek project.&nbsp; In Science we have been learning all about forces like friction, gravity, air resistance and water resistance. We have been looking at simple machines and working out which forces are involved and how they can help us in our daily lives.&nbsp;

Why not take part in the Easter trail over the holidays? If you didn’t manage to collect a clue sheet from the office, these can also be purchased in The Barge!&nbsp;&nbsp; Children who return the solved clue after the Easter break will be entered into a prize drawer – could the winner be you?&nbsp;&nbsp;

Save the date – Summer fair – 16th June&nbsp;&nbsp;

To celebrate World Book Day this year, we held a world book day themed house event. Each house had a different text as the focus for the morning event, each house then had a different way to represent the stories and themes within the texts.

This term we have being trying some Tri-Golf during our PE and after school clubs. We have been focusing on full swings, understanding how to grip the club correctly, address the ball correctly and use our hips and legs to provide power to our strikes.&nbsp;We have also practiced our short pitch and chip shots. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been great this term so we have also worked on putting, finishing with a crazy golf day with some excellent creations.

This term in our outdoor adventure activities, we have learnt all about coordinates and symbols typically found on an OS map and made some of our own. We have also enjoyed some archery lessons and visited forest school.

The sports leaders continued to impress this term, teaching a sports session for year 5 and Poppy class. Activities covered included basketball and an athletics session. Year 5 enjoyed some extra special PE this term thanks to their class teachers. For Greek Day they took part in a Olympic Games, supported by our leaders.

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Bude Primary Academy Junior's Half Termly Celebration Bulletin

Spring Term 2 - Monday 20th February to Friday 31st March

We have welcomed Della to Poppy Class and look forward to welcoming Chloe in the near future.&nbsp; We would also like to thank Ellie for her excellent support of our pupils and hope that we see her again before she sets off on her travels ‘down under’!&nbsp; The pupils have greatly enjoyed a wide range of learning opportunities associated with ‘The Rainbow Fish’ story – as can be seen in the photo of our incredible class display board.&nbsp;

This has been quite a different half term as Mr P has been away recovering from a minor operation.&nbsp; As a result, the rest of the amazing Poppy Class staff team have needed to step up in his absence.&nbsp; They have all done so brilliantly, whilst being led superbly by Corrine.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Another half-term has flown by and Wanson have continued to push themselves as hard as they possibly can. 

Their achievements are a credit to their dedication to their learning.&nbsp;&nbsp;The children have been preparing for their end of key stage SATs which they will take next half-term. I’m sure their hard work will be reflected in the tests. We are incredibly proud of all of them.&nbsp;

Blood Heart&nbsp; This project has seen the children learning about the heart and the circulatory system. From being able to describe the different sections of the heart to listing the various components that make up blood, Wanson have shown all of the key skills required of them at this stage.

Of course, the highlight for most was the heart dissection. The children got to physically feel and dissect the heart giving them a real understanding of the four chambers and the arteries and veins going in and out of the heart.

I am proud with how resilient the children have been in their sewing this half term. Through continual practice the progress that all pupils have made has been phenomenal&nbsp;and the end results are equally as fantastic!&nbsp;

In Maths, we’ve been getting stuck into fractions, decimals and percentages, while in Science we have been learning more about forces, including joining an online ‘live lesson’ with real-life astronauts!&nbsp;

Joseph: “It was very fun Maths – I really liked the challenges!”&nbsp; Taylor: “I enjoyed the interactive lesson with Helen Sharman&nbsp;and the other astronauts.”&nbsp; The children have worked extremely hard this half-term and have made some superb progress. Here are their highlights:&nbsp; Siena: “I love drama so to be able to write a script has been really cool – I can’t wait to showcase it in front of the parents.”&nbsp; Buster: “I’ve really enjoyed PE with Mr Brown – especially golf.”&nbsp; Tyler: “I really enjoyed Greek Day when we got to bake the cookies.... and eat them!!!”&nbsp;

Our pupils have also responded extremely well to the exciting physical challenges set by Mr Brown each Thursday afternoon, and we are already excited about our traditional end of term swimming activity at Penstowe!&nbsp;

We have continued to enjoy our sensory ‘messy’ play, woods exploration, song choices and hall-based PE sessions and really hope that the sun shines on us more frequently after Easter so that we can participate in further opportunities to learn outside the classroom.&nbsp;

To finish, we would like to thank our amazing Year 6 ‘apprentice TAs’ for their wonderful support of our pupils during breaktimes and also thank Simon for his continued help to maintain and improve our ARB indoor and outdoor spaces.&nbsp;

This half term we have continued to fund school equipment and activities. We have funded a set of water bottles for the Junior school to ensure all children have access to drinking water in school and on school trips. We have funded a set of gardening gloves to allow children to help prepare the beds by the huts for the spring. We have funded activities for lunchtime nurture and after school club – the children especially love making bracelets and necklaces! We are also funding fresh fruit for the Juniors; the Infant school children receive a piece of fruit each day, but this stops after Year 2. For those children who do not have a snack, they are able to choose a healthy snack in school.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have also funded an Olympic athlete visit to the school – this has been rebooked for the 27th April – a day full of aspiration and excitement, for sure!

Thank you for your continued support as parents – all money raised helps the school provide further experiences or equipment that may otherwise not have been possible. Our next BPA PTA meeting will be on Wednesday 26th April at 7.45pm - email <a href="mailto:bpapta@budeprimary.org">bpapta@budeprimary.org</a> for the zoom meeting details.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The children were very brave sharing lots of our learning in our class assembly and we think the parents enjoyed it.&nbsp;

Children from classes across the school, worked together to create beautiful collages. 

Thank you to our house team captains who supported with this. &nbsp;

This half term we have been busy, busy, busy!&nbsp;&nbsp;

English - We have written some really fabulous explanation texts and are now in the throws of some really rather powerful poetry, depicting spring and in all its glory. Here are some of the lines from the children’s poems so far...&nbsp;

Spring is here&nbsp; Her eyes are fresh and glittery like lime juice,&nbsp; A wild rose smile swishes across her mouth,&nbsp; Her hair a warm shiver along the meadow,&nbsp; Spring is here&nbsp; As spring circles and taps smiling her way through,&nbsp; She heals hard frozen trunks, awakening all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Melodies of lambs bleating and frogs croaking&nbsp; Bees buzzing and flapping and pollinating.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Chess tournament We have just completed round 3 of our tantalising chess tournament; the final matches will commence after the Easter holidays. We started with almost 60 competitors and now have only 7 children remaining in the competition! We have seen real resilience show within our competitors and a real supportive atmosphere between challenging opponents. Who will be the final child standing? Will they be able to win against Mr Bevan in the final showdown?

We had lots of fun orienteering with Mr Turnham, we had to ensure we were really accurate! 

This half term there have been many highlights and we love to be creative learners in Widemouth class. We’ve had many emotions expressed through tears, laughter, anticipation and excitement and this was just while dissecting a pig's heart!

‘I liked touching the pigs heart because it was fun.’ Theo

On Monday 6th March we celebrated St Piran’s day. Mrs Goodearl led an assembly sharing lots of facts about the origins on St Piran’s day, including the significance of black and white in our Cornish flag.&nbsp;&nbsp; After our assembly, we came together as a school to sing Trelawny.

Aspens created a special themed lunch to celebrate, the children very much enjoyed their homemade pasties.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The school council have had a fantastic term and have achieved a great deal. Earlier in the term they were part of a focus group about improving school attendance. They even phoned other schools and asked them about their attendance policies.

Towards the end of term they focussed their efforts on fundraising for Comic Relief. They decided to run a bake sale and a red themed non-uniform day, which they organised themselves. They raised almost £400! They have already started thinking about what they would like to achieve in the Summer term. Well done school council! Mr Clarke

‘I have really enjoyed learning percentages because I struggled before. Now I’m nailing it!’ Matt ‘I like doing maths now because I think I have really improved.’ Lilah liked trying percentages and it was fun for me.’ Niall&nbsp;

Greek art&nbsp; Paying close attention to Greek architectural structures, the children drew Greek scenes and then used water colours to add detail.&nbsp;

PE&nbsp; The children worked with Mr. Brown to create their own orienteering course. They studied maps and&nbsp;Wanson also developed their basketball skills (although Mr. Bevan ended up with a sore throat trying to get some of the children to run with the ball - “It’s not netball!”).

Design Technology&nbsp; This half-term was our textiles work. The children have made mini waistcoats.

The Wanson team wish you a lovely Easter and look forward to the summer term. In the first week back, we have two days at Adventure International to look forward to!

PE&nbsp; This term we have been studying golf.&nbsp; The children have learned a range of golf skills which will culminate in a mini golf tournament competing against the other classes.&nbsp;

Maths has required lots of resilience as we have been learning about fractions and decimals.&nbsp; It has not been easy, but Mrs Gibson is extremely proud of the how we have applied ourselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In art, linked with our project work, we have been developing our observational skills by drawing ocean animals.&nbsp; We have also recreated The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai using paint and charcoal.&nbsp; We have used pastels to recreate Monet’s Lilies Under the Bridge.

Our Design Technology project is underway and by the Easter holidays, we will have built our structure for a garden or park.&nbsp; So, there we are.&nbsp; Another half term filled with lots of outstanding learning.&nbsp; It is hard to believe that there are only two terms remaining.&nbsp;

The children produced stunning single and double page spreads showing off their learning. 

Nightmares and fears have been at the fore front of our writing as we crafted a horror narrative inspired by a Monster Calls.&nbsp;&nbsp;

What a jam-packed and exciting second half of the Spring term we’ve had in Crackington class!&nbsp;&nbsp; In our project, Groundbreaking Greeks, we’ve been learning about democracy, Hippocrates and his medical breakthroughs, Greek art and architecture, and what everyday life was like for someone living in Ancient Greece. This culminated in our fantastic Ancient Greek Day just before the Easter holiday, where we made Greek cookies, learnt about the history of the Olympics and then hosted our very own Olympic Games!

Go Team Sparta! Go Team Athens! Go Team Corinth! Go Team Olympia!&nbsp;

Maths&nbsp; We have covered two topics during this half-term, ‘Decimals’ and ‘Fraction, Decimals and Percentages’ as well as our continued work on arithmetic. The class work has led to significant increases in our weekly arithmetic assessments.&nbsp;

English&nbsp; Wanson have completed two writing pieces which will go towards their end of year assessments. Here are two excerpts from our ‘Horror’ narrative writing inspired by the book ‘A Monster Calls’.&nbsp; The nightmare begins, I hear a noise from downstairs, I grab my flashlight and investigate, the noise becomes louder and louder and clearer and clearer. I start to make out words “La la, la.” And more. “Rings around the rosies.” When it leads me to the…basement? I try to turn the light on but a small flicker came from the lightbulb. Suddenly I hear a noise, like a little chuckle. Bizarrely the light comes on, there it was, the girl as I was about to see who this mysterious figure was. I woke.&nbsp; Jay.&nbsp; Gracie had a nightmare: scarlet red eyes; the inky blood making her less sanguine; a pounding heart and THE MONSTER. She woke. She woke terror-stricken. She woke traumatised. Petrified, Gracie sat up in bed “That same nightmare.” Something was suspicious.&nbsp;

Last week, we took part in six Easter activities at the Central Methodist Church.&nbsp; It was a really well run and enjoyable session.&nbsp; We learnt about the Bible, what Jesus’ last supper was and that you can make crosses out of anything; we used pipe cleaners!&nbsp; We also found out that the guard felt sorry for Jesus.&nbsp; We got to make decorated boxes to put a candle in.&nbsp;

This half term we have been extremely busy.&nbsp; In science, we have been thinking like scientists and finding different ways to classify (sort) animals into various groups.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

In English, we have written a story based upon the book Float by Daniel Miyares.&nbsp; We folded our final piece of writing into the origami which featured in our story.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Year 3 and Year 4 had a wonderful time learning about Easter at the Central Methodist Church.&nbsp;

Thank you so much to all those from the Church who spent time with our pupils - the children really enjoyed it.

We have also enjoyed a great art based house team event where the children created art projects based on books like Flotsom.&nbsp;

In PE we have been taking part in Basketball and Golf. The children have been designing their own golf courses. In Spanish we have been learning about the weather.&nbsp; This term, many of year 5 have taken part in Bike-ability. This was a fantastic opportunity for them to become safer on their bikes. Many of year 5 were involved in the recent school council run bake sale for Comic Relief. This was a huge success and we can’t wait for the next one.&nbsp; Have a fantastic Easter break!&nbsp;

This term after school club have enjoyed playing with our new toys, kindly donated from PTA and Mrs Stollery  purchased a lovely wooden kitchen. We would love to have some more play food, so if you have any items that need a new home, we would love to receive them.&nbsp;

We also were very lucky to have our school cook came into After School Club, to show our children how to decorate small cakes, which they then gave to their mums for Mother's Day. I'm sure you'll agree, they are beautiful.

This half term we have been making volcanos with mod rock and tin cans&nbsp;. We all enjoyed the process.&nbsp;We had a school trip to the church we learnt about the Easter story.&nbsp;After the visit everyone dissected the seeds from fruit and planted the seeds.&nbsp;Then we painted fabric and sewed over the top of it.&nbsp; By Charlie and Emma&nbsp;

It has been a fantastic half term full to the brim with learning. We have continued our topic of ‘Rocks, relics and rumbles’ by building our own replica volcanoes. It has been wonderful observing the collaboration between the children when painting their volcanoes and dissecting their fruit. &nbsp;

In science, we have been learning all about plants. How they grow and how they reproduce. We experimented with celery to see whether temperature would affect the transportation of water. Unfortunately, like some investigations, it didn’t work very well so like real scientists we are going to tweak it and try again. &nbsp;The children loved dissecting different fruits and extracting the seeds. We used hand lenses and microscopes to make observations of the seeds before planting them to see if they will germinate. &nbsp;

Each of our year groups continue on their learning journeys, immersing themselves in their project learning for the half term. Poppy class continue to amaze us with their creativity, their Rainbow Fish display was very eye-catching. The vocabulary choices in our Year 3 spring poetry have been capturing the attention of staff across the school. Year 4&nbsp;wowed us with their phenomenal class assemblies – we could really see a clear development in their confidence and oracy skills. Year 5 have been exploring the ground-breaking Greeks in more detail; taking part in the Olympic games, cooking a Greek dish and even becoming architects constructing their own bridges. Whilst preparing for the upcoming SATs, Year 6 continue to bowl us over with their cross curricular learning linked to their project this half term, blood heart. &nbsp;

Excitingly, this half term our Year 4 cohort had the opportunity to take part in a one night residential at Plymouth aquarium, sleeping with the sharks. This is the first time our Year 4s have completed a residential and they represented Bude Juniors beautifully. It takes a large amount of time and effort to organise these events so thank you to Mrs Gibson, Mr Whelan and to the adults who participated in the trip. &nbsp;

We are very much looking forward to the summer months with many exciting events to come such as our Year 5 class assemblies, Year 6 residential to Bristol, PTA summer fair, sports day and much, much more! We hope you have a sunshine filled two-week break. We look forward to seeing the children back in school on Monday 17th April.

Freddie: “I really enjoyed making our Greek pots out of clay and then painting them afterwards.”&nbsp; Lithy: “I liked how we did the races and all the fun we had for our Greek Day!”&nbsp;

In English, our fist model text has been ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne. The children loved this particular text, especially discovering all of the secret clues and messages hidden in the artwork, and produced superb versions themselves, complete with improved use of dialogue, relative clauses and colons. We then moved onto Ancient Greek playwriting: we studied a modern retelling of Odysseus and the Cyclops, and used this playscript to create our own plays based on the story of Icarus and Daedalus.&nbsp;

Tommy: “In my own version of the story, I created a were-monkey!”&nbsp; Matilda: “I enjoyed working with my friends to create our scene of our Icarus play.”&nbsp;

Producing a website from scratch on their chosen area of interest has really showcased their skills and to top it off we made totally awesome mini waistcoats for a chosen favourite teddy.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Well done to the Red Crabs who won the most house points this half term! They will have an extra playtime session, along with the Green Turtles, when the sun decides to shine!

Team Points for this half term are as follows...

Art – We have been continuing to develop our skills when working with cloth and have been working towards a mixed media, abstract painting.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Project – We have finished our rocks relics and rumbles project with year 3s own version of the ring of fire! Such fabulous effort has gone into our volcanoes. They really do look fantastic. As well as this, we looked more closely at the events of Pompeii and how we came to know so much about it and also the, until recently, unrecognised work of Mary Anning.&nbsp;&nbsp;

We very much enjoyed our sleepover at the Plymouth Marine Aquarium.&nbsp; It was amazing sleeping in front of the huge Eddystone Reef tank.&nbsp; It was really exciting and the shark tank was probably the best part - Laurie I really loved sleeping next to the shark tank as it was relaxing and helped me to get to sleep - Bucky I liked the aquarium because when I woke up in the morning it was relaxing and calming to watch all the fish - Rosie H The most magical part for me was when I awoke to all of the children sleeping peacefully whilst I observed the fish swimming - just wonderful - Mrs Gibson

Year 4 residential - Sleeping with Sharks!

We have some new staff who have joined us and some who are due to leave us after Easter.

In Poppy Class The Team are saying a very fond farewell to the lovely Veronica Stone who has been working in Poppy Class since 2003! She will be missed very much by the pupils and the staff and we wish her a wonderful retirement. We therefore welcome, Della and Chloe to the team and we are hoping to recruit one more part time staff member over the coming months.

In the Admin team We are saying farewell and good luck to Mrs Smeeth who has been working across both Bude Primary Academies over the last ten years. She will be working for Aspire's Core Services after Easter. We therefore welcome Mrs Rice to the Admin team. Mrs Rice will be working in school every morning supporting Nikki in the main office.

Another wonderfully busy, full of fabulous learning experiences, half term. Taking a look through the Splash each half term&nbsp;is an absolute pleasure, the children at Bude Juniors make us so incredibly proud every day. We continue our journey as a school, considering ways to improve the provision for the children and developing links within the community and our Trust. As a staff team we reviewed the structure of our school day and have subsequently changed the way we run assemblies this half term, which has been a huge success. We’re sure you will have seen the happy faces from our wake up and shake up sessions before our Friday celebration assemblies on our social media pages. Children have very much enjoyed coming together as a school more and having the opportunity for more interactive whole-school experiences. &nbsp;

Science&nbsp;- We have been learning about the different parts of a plant and had a closer look at these, using the microscopes we have on loan. This was a wonderful experience. 

Next, we investigated how water travelled in a plant – with some pretty cool results and observations.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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