Dear Parents and Carers
It has been such a pleasure walking round the school over the last few weeks, celebrating the very rapid progress that the children in every class are making. Each time I walk into a class, I am blown away by the children's enthusiasm for learning, their pride in their work and their support of one another. The staff are purposeful, driven and creative and take such great pleasure in their pupil's success. Every visitor - either a professional or a potential parent - comments on how calm and focused the classes are. I absolutely love showing people around this school and sharing our 'Bamptoness' and am super proud of our team. If you know of anyone who would like to have a look around - do please send them our way. I am always more than happy to show off what a great school we have!
In order to deliver so brilliantly, staff are on a very intense programme of training in Phonics, Maths Mastery, Art and Music, History and Early Years, as well as supporting children with additional or social and emotional needs. They also tirelessly offer lunchtime and after-school clubs and organise trips to ensure the children have a wide range of extra curricular opportunities. We are so lucky to have such a dedicated team who are so keen to develop their own learning and set such a great example to our pupils.
Meaningful learning happens in all sorts of ways and last Friday, for our circus skills workshops, Lucas Jet filled the hall with his juggling balls, balance bars and diabolos. The children were in turn enthralled, frustrated and overjoyed while trying out their circus skills but every child, even the Fieldmice, got to have a go. They had a lovely time and his show at the end was super exciting - although I had to watch most of it with my heart in my mouth!
It was a wonderful way to end the week and the feedback from those of you who were able to attend was fantastic. In the future, these are the times that the children will look back on with fondness as they remember what fun they had at Bampton Primary!
It was such a pleasure to take the Yr 5/6 girls to the Tag Rugby tournament at Tiverton High School yesterday. The girls were on top form and came first in their group against four other schools. Very well done to them all and many thanks to Mrs Bray for accompanying us.
Just another reminder that Breakfast club is up and running every day from 8am and can be booked through the school money app.
Have a wonderful weekend
Best wishes
Lully Newman
Head Teacher
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Here are the learning, activities and events that have been happening in school over the past fortnight.
Our Character Education Focus Virtues this term
Fieldmice Class:
The children have been enjoying exploring different colours through lots of sensory experiences such as coloured foam and playdough. They explored different colours and puffy paint, and the children really enjoyed watching their paintings puff up in the microwave. Our book this week has been ' We’re going on a bear hunt’, and the children have loved retelling the story outside. Last week the children had the opportunity to take part in our circus workshop which they were very excited to participate in. They loved having a go especially with the spinning plates.
Hedgehog Class:
We have been investigating the composition of the number 5 in maths and linking it with our expressive arts. In music we have been learning to accompany 2 songs using the glockenspiel and in art we have been looking at and copying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. We also had great fun investigating different coloured ice during the cold snap.
Squirrel Class:
demonstrated the character virtues of creativity and reflection this week. We have been developing our painting skills using watercolours, learning how to use new techniques such as ‘wet on wet’ and building pictures using collage and pen on our paintings. In computing we have created several pieces of work in the styles of various artists using paintz.app. We had great discussions about which techniques we preferred and what we had learned. In Maths we have been practising our 2 times tables. Well done to all those children that have logged onto TTRockstars at home to continue their learning
Fox Class:
have demonstrated the Character virtues of curiosity and creativity. Over the last two weeks, Fox class have experienced a fantastic circus skills workshop, where everyone tried all of the activities. It was a delight to see their enjoyment and curiosity to understand how the circus tools worked. Some very lucky members of Fox class were also chosen to participate in the circus show in assembly!
Everyone in Fox class has started to learn about our focus artist Henri Matisse. They have created beautiful art pages reflecting Matisse’s bright colours. I have been very impressed with how they have written their thoughts and ideas about a variety of his artwork.
Stag Class:
demonstrated creativity during their Art lessons over the last two weeks, creating some phenomenal work through the medium of monotype printing, responding to the poem ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake. It has been amazing to watch the children experiment and produce really individual pieces of work; I am looking forward to seeing how they put it all together as we move towards creating our final piece.
Massive congratulations to the Year 5 and 6 girls who won the Tag Rugby event at Tiverton High School on Friday! Another sporting success!
