Sports Day

Sports Day 2011 was a great success! All the children took part in teams representing Challengers, Freedom, Victory and Stars.



Each team took part in a round-robin of events to test their skills and their ability to work together. There was huge enthusiasm and everyone had fun taking part.



After the excitement of the class races everyone settled down for a picnic on the school field.



And the winner was...FREEDOM! For the second year running, the trophy was awarded to the captains of Freedom. Well done to everyone who took part and who came to support.

Ugandan Watoto Choir

Today we were all amazed by the fantastic Watoto Choir from Uganda. The choir is made up of Ugandan children who have been orphaned. They have performed previously at Buckingham Palace and The Whitehouse!
Bitterne Manor were honoured to enjoy their brilliant singing and dancing talents. Some of our children were excited to be picked to have a go at chanting and dancing.
What an experience for us all...

Art Attack!

The whole school enjoyed a fantastic day of art activities with a multicultural theme. There was batik, printmaking, drawing, weaving, collage, sand art and mask making all happening at the same time! We created an amazing gallery from all our work and had an exhibition of framed pieces in the hall. Each class has also made a globe representing a country of their choice which will be displayed around the school.

Voucher Rewards!

This years School voucher collection is complete! Our totals for this year have been 13084 Tesco and 12202 Sainsbury vouchers collected on our behalf. Thank you to everyone for donating your vouchers to us. We have already put together our order and we'll receive our free resources by September. To give you an idea of what we use them for - this is a picture of a handheld digital microscope which we can purchase using vouchers - something useful that we don't have access to at the moment. Rather than saving for one big thing we talk to the school council and staff about what they would like and choose from the wide range of resources available. This year some of the items we have ordered include a microscope, a bird hide, a bamboo water channelling set, some club cricket sets, a pop-up target and velcro balls, some rainbow river stones and a game called 'Goalball'!

Following on from their 'Pop Art' project Year 6 have been to visit the Andy Warhol exhibition at the City Art Gallery. They got to see first hand some of the work they have studied and were very impressed with the size of some of the prints! After their tour the children had a wire sculpture workshop where they were taught how to create a face in a Pop Art style. These creations look fantastic!

St Mary's Stadium

This week Year 5 have been learning lots about the impact of St Mary's Stadium on the city. We have been working towards writing a persuasive letter of objection to a local MP to prevent the demolition of St Mary's in order to make room for more affordable housing. Children have been acting in role and we have visited the stadium in order to learn more about it, particularly the role of the Saints Foundation in the community. Here are some images of us enjoying our trip to the stadium!

Southampton schools athletics competition

With 5 gold medals several 2nd, 3rd and 4th places in races and field events, Bitterne Manor children and parents can be extremely proud.

Speedstacks competition

Bitterne Manor and Bassett Green took part in a Speedstacks competition in which there were split seconds difference in the results. Well done all children that took part.

Year 1 as Superheroes!

Year 1 have been very busy training to be Superheroes! We had lots of different Superheroes in class today from Spiderman to Doctor Who! We had fun learning about different Superheroes and the different powers and had the chance to test them out by completing lots of different missions! Year 1 did a great job at rescuing and protecting people! Thank you to Year 6 for helping. We also explored different movements to music and acted out a story as a Superhero. Finally we made up our own missions, masks, wanted posters and lots of props for our new role-play! Well done Superheroes, mission accomplished! Keep up the great work. :)

New Parasols!

 

We would like to thank the PTA for our wonderful new parasols. These now give us better shade outside for quiet work spaces and picnic lunches.

Amazing Architects

Year 6 have begun designing a new building for Quayside Road. After making a plan of the land use on the street and surveying friends and family, the groups have come up with interesting plans to develop the area! They will soon be ready to make small-scale models of their designs. We will keep you posted as their work progresses!

Year 1!

Year 1 spent their first week back after 1/2 term by finishing our topic 'Queens, Wolves and Trolls'. We began the week by exploring changes by looking at how we have changed and what will continue to change. We discussed ideas in groups and presented these to the class. Other activites during the week included carrying out a survey to see how much litter is in our school grounds as well as having fun with percussion instruments in music! Year 1 have also enjoyed our fairy tale castle role-play during this topic!

We look forward to our next topic 'Superheros!' Please come to school dressed as a Superhero on Tuesday 14th June. I look forward to seeing lots of Superheros in Year 1!

Y3 become pirates!

Year 3 began their new topic by learning 'How to be a Pirate'. There was the learning of new pirate words, the singing of sea shanties, a quiz to find out what they already knew about pirates, some map reading and pirate maths.
In the afternoon, the pirates practised tying knots, making pirate maps (for themselves and the PTA) sketching, and puzzles. After reading about Jolly Rogers, they formed teams to make their own flag designs by using natural materials found round the school grounds. From the photos, you'll see what a great job they did!
Great fun was had by all AND you all looked fantastic! Welcome aboard, me hearties. We've got some amazing adventures planned for you this term. Signed ... Captain Teach.

A message from the Maasi

Our Maasi friends have sent us some new photographs of school and village life for us to share.

We have recently contacted Grosper who has identified a boy in his school that Bitterne Manor Primary will sponsor. The boy is called Mpanda, he has 18 months left in secondary school and needs our help as his own parents died and he cannot support himself financially. We will hopefully receive a letter from him soon and it would be great if any of our children would like to write to him.

Artist at work...

Our school toilets have taken on a new look! The children and the school council have been collating ideas for what they would like to see on the walls in their toilets and have voted for the best ideas! We gave our favourite ones to an artist called Steve Porter who then painted them as you can see in the photograph. We think they improve the toilets a great deal! More information about Steve Porter can be found at www.steveporter.org.