Splash Dec 2021

Stars pattern

We’ve had such a great half term. Things have just seemed a little bit more normal!&nbsp;

Maths- Crooklets have worked so hard and have really grasped the idea of exchanging in addition and subtraction.&nbsp;

English – We have been writing some brilliant stories, based on the story ‘Star in the jar’. The class used paragraphs, fronted adverbials, onomatopoeia, to name just a few skills.&nbsp;

English&nbsp; Our&nbsp;main focus&nbsp;has been writing recounts on a fictional character being evacuated during World War Two. We have also been studying A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. To start we&nbsp;used&nbsp;drama&nbsp;to tell the story in ten minutes.&nbsp;Although it might not look like it,&nbsp;this is Tilly playing ‘The Ghost&nbsp;Of&nbsp;Christmas Present’ to Jake’s Scrooge!&nbsp;

PE&nbsp; Wanson&nbsp;have shown their wonderful skills during our tag rugby&nbsp;sessions.&nbsp;

Maths&nbsp; This half-term we have been plotting, translating and reflecting shapes in quadrants using co-ordinates. This included playing Battleships&nbsp;and plotting Christmas shapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;

We have finished off the year in science and DT learning about electrical circuits. The children constructed a fully functioning ‘Steady Hand Game’ from scratch and had a great time playing with their own creations.

We are looking forward to some fantastic learning next term and we wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Years 3, 4 and 5 participated in a Carol Service at The Central Methodist Church on Wednesday 15th December. All the children behaved wonderfully and were a credit to the school.

This half term in Sandymouth, we have enjoyed Cognition learning writing code to control Lego robots. We learnt about electrical circuits and then made Christmassy coloured torches.

The autumn term in Northcott has been a fun filled, space adventure! 

In English, the children in Northcott have written their own stories based on the novel, ‘Cosmic’ and have written their own journal based on an astronaut being stranded on a uninhabitable, distant planet. They particularly enjoy using the chromebooks to publish their work, their typing skills are continually improving.&nbsp;&nbsp;

“We’ve particularly enjoyed learning all the facts about space in our English lessons too!”&nbsp; “It was very adventurous!”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;“I can now write using cursive handwriting.”&nbsp;

The Year 3 put on a fabulous Christmas performance this year - 'Its a census, get me outta here!' Here are some pictures and songs from the dress rehearsal.

One of the highlights of this half term was our Stargazing evening which featured space themed games, hot chocolates and marshmallows roasted by the fire and a stargazing session discovering the secrets hidden in the dark abyss.&nbsp;

&nbsp;“Best night at school ever!”&nbsp;&nbsp;

“We even spotted Jupiter &amp; Saturn in the night sky!”&nbsp;

Northcott have been learning how to play tennis, they can now serve with grace and lots of power!&nbsp;

For the spring term our project is going to be ‘Groundbreaking Greeks.’ We have encouraged the children to complete some research to share with the class when we return in January.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Have a wonderful break, we will see you in the New Year!

In maths, children in Northcott have really enjoyed working with even larger numbers! We have been learning about multiplication and division, focusing on key terms such as: square and cube numbers, factors, multiples and prime numbers. We have also introduced a new Bude Collaborative Challenge that has been challenging our mathematical brains and developing our team work and leadership skills.&nbsp;&nbsp;

We have been immersed in music this term, we have had our Brass lessons and body percussion sessions. The children’s favourite songs were: John Knankaka, Wellerman and The Snow is Falling.&nbsp;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;“I LOVED playing the euphonium.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

This November, we wanted to develop the pupil's understanding of road safety at Bude Juniors. By asking the children to wear bright accessories to school it developed their understanding of how to keep themselves safe on their journey to and from school.

During our assembly we discussed the Green Code, please remind your children of this regularly, especially if they have permission to walk home from school by themselves.

Well done to the winners in each class, the range of bright accessories we had in school were fantastic! #keepsafeontheroads #roadsafetyawareness

Band club is made up of members of Widemouth who get together one lunchtime a week. This term they have been learning 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons. Before they started in mid September, many of the band club members had never played an instrument before! They have done a fantastic job and put on an amazing performance to the school at the end of term. This term Band Club has featured Henry, Ella, Aiden, Jasper, Marshal, Brock, Tom, Chloe, Emilia, Scarlett and Lily.

Jimi and Ruan from year 5 have been having weekly guitar lesson with our guitar tutor, Tom Lintel....They put on an amazing performance of 'Good King Wenceslas' at our carol concert at the church on Wednesday 15th of December. To listen please click on the guitar on the right.

Not only have we held a Stargazers evening (full of fire-making and telescopes) but we've also built and launched bottle rockets, written and filmed transcripts as lost astronauts, and become experts in everything to do with our solar system! In our Maths, Reading and Writing we've made some awesome improvements, and we've also embraced all the fun of Christmas! What a half-term!

IN DT, our torches are in their final stages.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have researched, planned and this week we are creating paper models of our final design.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then we will be making a&nbsp;working torch, with an electrical circuit inside.&nbsp;&nbsp;To say the children are excited would be an understatement and I am hoping for&nbsp;excellent&nbsp;results.&nbsp;

As you may be aware, it&nbsp;was recently&nbsp;‘Anti-Bullying’ week and as part of this, we have been&nbsp;reading the poem&nbsp;‘Still I rise’ by Maya Angelou.&nbsp;After breaking the structure of the poem into smaller chunks, we wrote&nbsp;our own poem.&nbsp;&nbsp;There&nbsp;were so many&nbsp;outstanding&nbsp;pieces of writing, I wish I could share them all&nbsp;with you; here is just one.&nbsp;

Thank you&nbsp;Summerleaze.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your attitude towards your learning has been superb and the resilience that you&nbsp;continually show makes&nbsp;me very proud.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Duckpool&nbsp;have had a busy autumn term. To link with anti-bullying week,&nbsp;we wrote poems based on&nbsp;Maya Angelou’s&nbsp;poem&nbsp;‘Still I Rise’ and then created a background for them.&nbsp;

In our science lessons we learned about solids,&nbsp;liquids&nbsp;and gases.&nbsp;We learned how to use thermometers to take temperature and then conducted an experiment to see what would happen when we put a blue ice cube and a yellow ice cube in a container together&nbsp;(taking temperatures at measured intervals).&nbsp;

RE&nbsp; We have continued our learning with Hinduism.&nbsp;Amy and Scarlett are trying to put&nbsp;duties&nbsp;(dharma)&nbsp;into the correct&nbsp;stage of life (four ashramas).&nbsp;

Last but not least.... To&nbsp;get into the Christmas mood the class worked with Mrs. English to make&nbsp;‘Christmas Stars’.&nbsp;

Helping Hands Fundraiser across Bude Primary Academy

Children at Bude Primary Academy have been working hard to do jobs at home to fundraise for Little Harbour Children's Hospice Southwest. As part of our Helping Hands Week, many of our Infant and Junior children were paid by family and friends to do chores like washing up the dishes, hoovering, setting the dinner table and even feeding a hedgehog in the garden! Our school community raised over £1200 altogether! We shared out this money and each class selected lots of Christmas presents that they wanted to buy for the children and families who attend the Hospice. We also had enough money left over so that in the New Year we can purchase the entire wish list of sensory toys that will be used time and time again to help children in their care.&nbsp; Anne Garrad said "We want to thank all of our children and families for their hard work and generosity. Alice was overwhelmed when she saw the mountain of toys. We hope that it helps to bring smiles to the faces of those who receive them." Pictured here are some of the fundraisers from the Infant and Junior Schools with Anne Garrad (organiser and Assistant Head at the Infant School) handing the presents over to Alice Merrett (a representative from Children's Hospice Southwest).&nbsp;

We are all looking forward to the seasonal break and are hoping that our good learning and behaviour combine to merit a visit from the 'Big Man' FC himself!

With many thanks to all our pupils, wonderful staff and fantastic parents.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Happy Christmas all and here's to a healthy and enjoyable New Year!

A huge thanks to our Catering Team who feed the majority of the school on Wednesday - pupils AND staff!

The obvious&nbsp;prediction&nbsp;was that the ice-cubes would melt. What we didn’t predict was that the blue&nbsp;ice-cube would melt quicker than the yellow one!&nbsp;&nbsp;

In the first half of the autumn term the children learned about electrical components and how to connect them together to make a simple circuit.&nbsp;This half term we combined our knowledge of electrical circuits with D&amp;T skills to build a torch.

The children were very keen to play dodge ball with PE coach Mrs Stanbury.&nbsp;They clearly enjoyed it.

Making lollipop stick decorations was fun and we ended up with a very glittery classroom (sorry to the cleaning staff – you did a great job!)

The children enjoyed RTime and class reward time at the end of the week.

We loved watching the Year 3 Nativity Play “It’s a Census get me out of here!”&nbsp;The first time we have seen a school play in 2 years.&nbsp;Thankyou so much to Year 3 for this!

We are currently making stained glass windows and snowflakes to decorate the classroom. Roll on Christmas!

The children thoroughly enjoyed beach combing for special stones containing quartz, shells and tiny crabs.

Millook have been making pouches using running stitches. We drew and embroidered a picture on the front and then stitched the pouch together.&nbsp;

Bude Primary Academy Junior's Monthly Celebration Bulletin

Autumn Term 2 - Monday 1st November to Friday 17th December

We want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for doing something so special to help the Hospice to support these families at Christmas and beyond. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.

In year 3, we have been learning all about rocks! We joined Simon Hammond on an amazing geology walk along Summerleaze beach. We learned about how our coastline was created and studied the sedimentary rocks that make up our cliffs.

We learnt about the tides and how different seaweeds survive. We found out that channelwrack seaweed can survive even though it is not underwater for a large proportion of the day and that bladderwrack seaweed contains air bubbles that allow it to float when the tide is in.

It has been wonderful to be able to celebrate Christmas this year with a little more normality. This half term has been full of fabulous&nbsp;events, experiences&nbsp;&nbsp;and trips&nbsp;with&nbsp;the children making&nbsp;some lovely memories.&nbsp; I have now been at Bude Juniors for a whole year and have seen it through some of its most challenging&nbsp;times.&nbsp;Together with the senior leadership team,&nbsp;I am&nbsp;developing&nbsp;our&nbsp;long-term plans&nbsp;which will see our school go from strength to strength.&nbsp;I am proud of what we have achieved so far.&nbsp;

This booklet celebrates the best of the&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;and&nbsp;learning&nbsp;at Bude Juniors&nbsp;this half term&nbsp;and demonstrates happy pupils&nbsp;enjoying their learning.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I wish you all a very merry safe Christmas and look forward to continuing our partnership in the new year.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs Sarah Robinson&nbsp;

Crackington class have had an incredibly busy, productive and FUN half-term, full of learning about space in our Stargazers topic!

Well what a term it has been...! We have been involved in a range of learning as wide as our recent weather - not to mention a few parties that we're open and honest about!!!

From our daily phonic and number learning to riding our new balance bikes to jumping in muddy puddles to making beautiful Christmas arty creations to Christmas story-times - not to mention our soft play sessions and messy play with shaving foam, slime and hand painting!

The children have been very resilient when trying to thread their needles, creative with their designs and independent with their sewing.&nbsp; We are very proud of their achievements.&nbsp;

School council have had a very productive term! They have been busy rebranding our ‘House’ system in school. They have been working hard on designs, voting on their favourites and organising the new system. They will be launching this to the rest of the school in the new year. They can’t wait to share all of the things they have been working on! Mr C

Merry Christmas from all at Bude Juniors!

We look forward to seeing you all back in school on Tuesday 4th January, however for now, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!

ICT&nbsp; During our topic on electricity, we made a ‘Steady Hand Game’ (think of the game of Operation). First the children had to plan their design for the base to hide the elements needed-batteries, buzzer etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Then the&nbsp;children&nbsp;made the circuit.&nbsp;To finish… the children played the game!&nbsp;

PSHE&nbsp; With Mrs English,&nbsp;Wanson&nbsp;have been&nbsp;using role play to&nbsp;show how to stand up to bullies&nbsp;who discriminate against others due to&nbsp;their differences. Charlie and Tyson are&nbsp;playing the roles of bully and teacher,&nbsp;demonstrating how to get help in&nbsp;these circumstances&nbsp;and not just standing by.&nbsp;

Widemouth have had a fantastic Autumn term. There has been some fantastic learning, some amazing progress and a great deal of fun too!

Our topic this term has been World War Two. We kicked this topic off at the start of term with a fantastic visit to the Britain in the Blitz exhibit at Flambards. The children were a credit to our school and were praised by staff and members of the public at Flambards.

In maths, we have seen some amazing progress in areas such as place value, the four operations, coordinates and geometry.

A busy half term but lots of&nbsp;fabulous&nbsp;things to report.&nbsp;&nbsp;In Science, we have been planning and carrying out experiments&nbsp;and observing&nbsp;the changes that occur when a solid is heated. The chocolate button experiment was a complete hit&nbsp;and some of our ice-pets lasted quite some time.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Our project, Rocks, Relics and Rumbles has seen us delve below the Earth’s surface and explore what makes up the physical geography of our World. 

We have loved finding out how volcanoes are made. Other highlights include, our geology and ecology school trip. Sewing in DT, practising our school play, fantastic gymnastics in PE and our brilliant science observations and investigations.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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