Sports Day

Here are some pictures from our sports day! Well done to all the teams taking part and to all the parents who came along and supported!

Dance Festival

A group of our pupils took part and performed in a Dance Festival today at the Turner Sims Concert Hall at Southampton University. Joining together with lots of other schools from all over Southampton, they spent the day sharing dance moves and watching lots of other talented youngsters from all over the city. The dance will gett another special showing at the Summer Fayre!

Snow White on Ice

We had a fabulous time at the Mayflower. Thanks to all our lovely Mum helpers and our fab drivers.

Year 3 trip to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Year 3 visited the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth to learn more about Henry V111 favourite warship. Later we handled replica artefacts from some of the men aboard ship, having to guess their jobs. Then, in role, we performed a 'gun drill' loading cannon ready to fire on our 'enemies'! Great fun.

Gardening update

Well done to Year 4 for their winning weight of potatoes grown! There were plenty of spuds grown so pupils in Years 3 and 4 were each able to take home a potato.







Year 3s dwarf beans are growing and the full sized ones are busy climbing up the canes. The pumpkin seedlings however, have been 'slugged' so we'll try again!

Boys Singing Workshop

The boys in Years 5 & 6 went along to a fantastic singing workshop at Oakwood Junior School. The session was run by a performer from the Royal Opera House in London. He taught the boys how to warm up and use their voices. They put this to good use by learning a Beatles number and an African song. It was a great afternoon!

Year 5 & 6 visit the Book Festival

This week Years 5 & 6 were lucky enough to meet the author Ali Sparkes. During her excellent talk she explained how she started out as a writer (whilst she was a pupil at Bitterne Park Secondary School!) and where her ideas for her stories come from. She emphasised the importance of never giving up and has inspired some of our young writers!

Year 4 Sewing

Year 4 are in full production on their Moneybags - looking forward to selling their creations at the Summer fayre next week!

Ali Sparkes and Steve Cole

This Tuesday, linking with our Power of Reading week, children in key stage 2 had a trip to Southampton to meet two authors Ali Sparkes and Steve Cole. Ali Sparkes is best known for her Shapeshifter series and Steve Cole for his Astrosaurs series of books. Both authors gave us inspiring talks about their own writing and lots of encouragement to those who want to become writers themselves.

Potato Harvest Time

Over the last few months, year 3 and 4 have been growing potatoes outside their classrooms and today was harvest day. Our bags of potatoes were opened and our crop was weighed and the potatoes shared out amongst the children. We had entered a potato growing competition run by the potato council. Find out more at http://www.potatoesforschools.org.uk/

Superheroes

Year 1 is full of Superheroes!

We are really looking forward to seeing Snow White on Ice tomorrow!

Southampton School's Athletics

Here are the photos from the Southampton school athletics competition held today. Bitterne Manor entered a full team of 30 pupils who competed against 15 other schools from the city at the city sports ground. All the children did extremely well in all their events and (very proudly!) our team came 8th overall! There were some outstanding individual performances from Ryan in year 4 and Shani in Year 5. Well done everyone! Thanks to all the parents who came to assist and support us!

Year 4 Guitars

The children learning guitar in Year 4 performed a few of their songs to the class - we were so impressed that we thought we'd like to share one that we recorded on our blog. It's a great tune as well!

Year 5 SEAL Day

As part of SEAL Day, Year 5 found out about Adinkra patterns from Ghana. We used the patterns to design symbols to represent ourselves and made individual prints of these. We also made a whole class pattern using our symbols to create a design that represents us as a group.

Mary Rose trip

Year 3 have started to learn about the Tudors.

We are looking forward to our trip next week to the Mary Rose exhibition at Portsmouth. There we will be finding out more about Tudor life and will be able to view, and handle, artefacts from King Henry VIII's flagship!

Here we all are...

Here is a preview of this years whole school photo...

Science Day follow up

View photos of some of the investigations that the children across the school were working on.

Africa!

Last term Year 6 did an awesome job making their African masks using a range of materials including leaves, lentils and sequins. This is our display of them.

Voucher Collection

Thank you for all those of you who have collected either Sainsbury's or Tesco's vouchers this year. We are busy counting them all up and are about to send off our Tesco vouchers - please have a rummage around as it's not too late to send them in! The Sainsbury's scheme finishes this week. We'll let you know the totals and what we plane to spend them on as soon as our school councillors have decided.