Celebrating Music Day!

Alex and Ben led a workshop for each class during Music Day. Topics linked with our curriculum and children and staff all had great fun participating in warm up games followed by different groups creating and performing music.

Throughout the day, all our activities were based around music - from learning new songs, to listening to music and creating descriptions or drawings to match the music moods, to making our own fantastice instruments to composing soundscapes with our own instruments! Wow!

Here are just a few photos celebrating our musical day.

Year 3 'Rock stars of the future'

Year 3 have started their In2music guitar lessons every Monday.

Year 6 learn the Haka!

To celebrate the fact that the rugby world cup is underway in New Zealand, Year 6 are creating a rugby dance! This had involved learning a simple version of the Haka to intimidate their opposition and putting together a series of movements to represent scoring a try!

Rock n Roll

Year 5 have really got going with our rock n roll topic and we are looking forward to being able to show all the new skills we have learnt at our rock n roll showcase on 19th October! Look out for photos of our music day, which is taking place on Thursday 29th September!

Our boat show visit

Look at the fun Year 2 had at the boat show.

Year 2 at the boat show

Year 2 had great fun at the boat show. They enjoyed looking on board the sunseekers and seeing the RNLI lifeboat and the marine life on the Callista. It was a wonderful day.

Year 1 enjoying lots of learning!

Year 1 have been very busy over the last couple of weeks. We have been learning about numbers in Numeracy, describing the characters in Toy Story using adjectives and ordering and re-telling the story in our own words! In History we have been exploring new toys and describing what they are like. In Science we have begun our forces topic and explored different types of movement. The pictures show us pushing and pulling ourselves along the benches. Well done Year 1 for settling quickly into the Year 1 curriculum!

Team Captains

Here are two of our new team Captains in action raising their flag above the school! Looks like 'Stars' are this weeks winners. Our captains always do a great job collecting and adding up the points from each class each week and announcing the winners in assembly. Let's hope each of the four house teams earns enough points to see their flag flying at some stage this year!

Welcome to the new Year R!

We have enjoyed welcoming our first two groups of Reception children into school, and are looking forward to the third group joining us next week. It has been lovely to see how confidently the children are settling in, and they have all had lots of fun exploring the classroom- both indoors and outdoors.

The YR children enjoyed making 'listening ears' and going for a walk around school and the school grounds to find out what sounds we could hear. There were lots: we heard voices, musical instruments, water running, footballs bouncing, birds singing, cars, buses, an aeroplane and even a train!

Music themed day 29.9.11

Next week Bitterne Manor is having a Music Day - and we love our themed days in school!

A professional musician is coming in to work with each class with a focus on composing and performing. All the details can be found in the letter your child has brought home, so rummage through their bookbags if you haven't read it yet!


Next Thursday, the 29th September, every pupil has been asked to bring in some junk items in order to make their own percussion instrument. (In a named bag please.) Each class will be creating their own piece of music playing their instruments, which the children will then be able to bring home. If you'd like to come to help at any point during the day, please see your child's teacher. We'd love to see you!

Year 4's patio garden

Spurred on by our successful entry in this summer's 'Southampton in Bloom' competition entry, Year 4 have moved on from growing flowers. This year we will have a vegetable plot instead. We have now sown some winter vegetables, along with spring bulbs too. By covering the plots with fleece, we're hoping to deter cats (and small people!).

Green finger's crossed for a harvest later in the year!

Year 6 coastal visit

Year 6 enjoyed two fabulous trips to Milford-on-Sea as part of their 'Coasts' topic. They studied the coastal features and sea defences in the area. The weather was fantastic and of course the ice-cream tasted great!

Rosebowl Cricket trip

Some lucky children in year 3 to 6 attended a special trip to the rosebowl cricket ground. They were taught some skills and played some games on the pitch while a Hampshire Warwickshire match were breaking for lunch. Then they had their own special buffet lunch in a special room overlooking the match. Finally they helped sort some cricket kit to send to charity and the third world countries.

Year 4 visit Clausenteum

Year 4 have settled well into their new class. We've kicked off our Time Team project by exploring the local area in which we live, which was the Roman town of Clausenteum. It was great that so many parents came on our walk led by a local archaeologist, Dr Andy Russel. Two highlights of the walk were hearing that the skeleton of a Roman woman had been found buried on the rampart behind Rampart Road and seeing the house which found a bag of Roman coins buried in their front garden!



We look forward to our upcoming visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace. At the end of term we'll be celebrating with a Roman Day. Details to yet be decided!

Year 1 visit Blue Reef Aquarium!

Welcome back to Year 1! We began this week by exploring our new classroom and sharing our holiday stories through show and tell. We have also been completing lots of activities based on the book ‘The Sea Horse’ and ended the week by visiting the Blue Reef Aquarium in Portsmouth! We had the chance to explore the Aquarium and took part in a rock pool encounter where we found out lots of interesting facts! Unfortunately the Sea Horses where hiding but we had the chance to ask lots of questions about them. Well done Year 1 for fantastic behaviour on our trip!

Welcome to Year 6!

Year 6 have made a great start to the year and have already been getting stuck into their topic of Coasts! This week they have performed poems and created art work linked to poetry. They have also written their own sea poems. We are very much looking forward to our trip to Milford-on-Sea next week to learn more about a coastal environment.

Year 5 back at school and ready to learn!

Year 5 were welcomed back to school this week and have already got started on their new topic 'Rock n Roll'! This afternoon they started their science lessons with a bang, getting to grips with how sound is created through a carousel of investigations and experiments!

Team building-PE

All Biiterne Manor Children have started the year taking part in team building activities and games. They have to solve problems and reach goals by working together.

Year 3 Explorers!

Year 3 have been out exploring the school grounds as an introduction to their science project on rocks and soils.

A Baby Boy!

 

Congratulations to Mrs White and her husband who have a new baby boy! Baby Adam was born on 23rd August and weighed in at 7lbs 2oz. Mrs White promises to bring him in to visit all of the children later in the term.