GUILDHALL CHOIR SUPERSTARS!

What a GREAT night it was for the Guildhall Choir children last night!  They did brilliantly with both performances and wowed the audience.  We are very proud of you!  Special shout out to the wonderful chefs in the KS1 performance and of course our little Rudolph!  Well done to all the children and staff who helped make this happen, you are amazing :) Thank you to all the parents as your support with the rehearsals has been wonderful too.  We hope that you thoroughly enjoyed it and it helped get you into the Christmas spirit!

Bitterne Manor is famous!

Guess what? Bitterne Manor is famous! Last half term Swifts and Swallows were lucky enough to have artist Kev Munday ask them to help contribute to a project which would be put on display for all to see.  He's an up and coming artist who is very creative! Children created funny creatures out of all sorts of materials and used a range of resources.  Kev picked a selection to build up a billboard which is now up and on show. This will be up until the 11th of February (at the bottom of Cobbett Road, behind Kwik fit)  He was utterly impressed with all pieces and took inspiration from all of them.  As well as this, all of the children's original pieces have been put up on display in an exhibition in Showcase Gallery in Southampton.  This will be open to the public from 2nd February - 14th April.  We will definitely be organising a trip next half term so all the children can see their wonderful work up on display...how exciting!
As this is such an amazing opportunity to celebrate the children's achievement, the Echo would like to do a piece on the billboard and talk to some of the children who contributed towards the artist's inspiration.  This will happen soon, so I'll be in touch when it happens :) We are thoroughly proud of each and everyone of them, go Swifts and Swallows!

Below are some sneaky peeks of the board going up.  Please pop down there to see the board if you can, you'll be blown away!

 

SUPER SWIFTS SMASH SATS!

Swifts have worked INCREDIBLY hard this week and I am so PROUD of them ALL! They undertook their SATs papers for Reading and Maths which help contribute towards the teacher assessments at the end of the school year.  They tackled these tests head on with a calm and positive manner.  Living up to their name, they did exactly what was asked of them and carried on learning to be the best that they can! Well done SUPERSTARS!  Thank you to all those members of staff that were in involved - you were brilliant! Also, a special shout out to our fab parents that have supported us throughout our journey, couldn't have done it without all your support at home!

Well done SUPER SWIFTS!!

           

Nightingales First Week in Year 3!

What a fantastic first week for the Nightingales! It has been brilliant seeing the class back in school ready to learn with buckets of enthusiasm! On our first day back we learnt about the importance of resilience (Our learning value this term) and putting the effort into everything we do to succeed. We watched Mo Farah from this Years Rio Olympics win his gold and understood that even if we make a mistake (he fell over) we can all be winners so long as we try our hardest!

We looked at how we view others in the class positively and how being positive and optimistic means that we remain resilient and friendly towards one another. Each class member had their own hand filled by the rest of the class with positive features about that person (See below!) Nightingales have already proved how friendly we are as we won the Kind Kevin award last week! Well done Nightingales! :)

Nightingales were also tasked with creating the tallest tower they could. In groups they were all given the same type and amount of materials to see which team could build the tallest tower. The class had to show fantastic teamwork but above all great resilience as many times their towers fell over but Nightingales would't give up and persisted until 5 tall towers were standing in the classroom! Great effort!

Nightingales also played a question and answer game called The Key Jar. Some questions examples included 'What was the hardest thing you have done this week?' and 'Who in your class do you admire and why?'. This made the Nightingales really think about the week and reflect on what they have achieved.

Nightingales Science experiment this week was Blobs In A Bottle. The class made their own lava lamps and made predictions on what would happen if some variables were changed. They also found out that oil is lighter than water.

Moving on into Week 2 the Nightingales have also won SAM and PAM the punctuality and attendance awards! So, all in all, an outstanding start to Year 3!!!

Nightingales Music Concert

On Monday 8th February, we performed a recorder concert for our friends and family and year 1. Whilst the parents were walking in we sang, signed and played the aardvark song. After everyone was seated, Mrs Clowes showed our audeince noisy bird and silent snail.
After that we showed everyone our amazing progress. We've made lots! We started our show with the song 'glory b'. After that we played them BB blues which was amazing too. We also played strictly b.
Afterwards, we played another great song Thinking A which is very slow and sad. We played Abies Blues, the Mole song and Mr Cool. After that we played Jelly on a Plate which was complicated but brilliant! We finished with our favourite song EBGBs. We loved it!
My favourite part of the concert was the end when we played EBGBs becasue its my absolute favourite.
My mum and my nanny said "That was excellent you're amazing! " I think the parents were happy because we played so well together and didn't squeak once!

By Ellie N

Mrs Clowes was really proud of you all- she said you had a fantastic learning attitude and had made amazing progress. Well done Nightingales!
Miss B

School Mark Silver Award Achieved!

We have achieved the Excellence Silver Award in Sustainable Travel. This has been achieved by lots of hard work, enthusiasm and encouragement to our children from the B.U.G. Club members.  Our events include:

Winning the Big Pedal,

holding Biker's Breakfasts,

Bike Doctors events,

Smoothie Bikes at the summer fayre for the community to access

Teaching scooter skills to year one pupils

Carrying out scooter and bike counts weekly

Hands Up surveys

And much, much more!

We have also managed to recruit a teacher who regularly enjoys cycling to school which is a massive achievement!

2015 WINNING TEAM! CHAMPIONS OF THE LEAGUE, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE JEWEL SHIELD!

Yesterday evening was the finale of an amazing football season for Bitterne Manor. After a fantastic performance from the boys throughout the league group stages and some close games in the Champions league, the final prize was in sight -  The Jewel Shield.
It was a very exciting end to end match against Blackfield who were worthy opponents and showed some great skills. But Bitterne Manors boys demonstrated relentless determination and team spirit to win the match. Mr Puckett encouraged some great tactical play with a strong defense, skillful midfield and some great speed and finishing from the boys to win 3-2!
Well done to Mr Puckett for coaching the team and Mr Smith who has been helping out. A big thank you to Mr Humphries for organising the tournaments and matches. Also to the parents, friends, families and teachers for all your support.

The FINAL, the story!

The preparation

The Team Talk

The warm up

The match

Concentration

Never giving up

Another corner

The presentation - Team captain lifting the trophy!

An amazing team!
Very Proud!
Well done!

The Jewel Shield is the Southampton schools final prize and has been presented to schools since 1966. This is the first time Bitterne Manor will have its name engraved on this piece of History. I will get it engraved shortly and it will take its place in our trophy cabinet for all to see.

Our School's Learning Environment

I took time out this morning to have a walk around our school and look at the fantastic learning which is up on display. There is a real sense of pride and achievement in the work the children are producing; lots of examples of 'learning to be the best we can' at Bitterne Manor Primary School! Well done everyone!