Summer Fair Activity Afternoon

Sadly, we weren't able to to run our summer Fair as planned this year but we think the children enjoyed their afternoon of activities and games as you can see in the pictures below. Thanks for all your donations - it isn't too late to make a contribution before the end of term!

Testlands Home Activities

Please click the link below to access the 'Activities for home learning' provided by Testlands for your year group. The opportunity to work through a learning video and a fitness video each day.

https://www.testlands.com/online-learning

YEAR 5 FILM PERSUASIVE ADVERTS WITH MR AUSTIN!

Lucky Year 5 got to work with Mr Austin today to film their persuasive adverts for their very own Superhero cereal bar!  They have designed a recipe  for their bar (which they are making in DT next week) and also designed the packaging and they wrote and produced a script for their advert in groups of 6.  They each took on a role; director, sound engineer, actor/actress, set design or cameraman/woman and worked together to produce their advert - learning all about media techniques and special effects from our expert Mr Austin.  He will now edit the footage into each advert and return to us when they are complete.  We can't wait to see them and will be inviting our friends and family in for the "Premier"!  A big thank you to Mr Austin, who gave up his free time to come and work with us.  The children were more than excited to see him!

Collecting for Sainsbury's Active Kids!

Sainsbury's Active Kids is back and running from the 27th January. Please collect and donate your vouchers with us and remember every little helps...!

East side Football league winners and now Champions league semi-finalists!

Our talented and amazing football team won the East side football league last Wednesday, which has been played from October to March. Today they competed in the Champions league quarter finals against the winners of the West side league 'Springhill'.  It was an exciting match for us against a worthy team. Both teams demonstrated amazing skills, stamina and competency and battled to the very end. 2-2 at full time, then 2- 2 in extra time which resulted in a nail biting penalty shoot-out! Both teams were neck and neck going through the players scoring and equalising each shot. Eventually the pain was relieved in a 12 - 11 result on penalties. Bitterne Manor finally winning a very deserved place in the semi-finals!

A nail biting penalty line-up

I and the boys would like to thank Mr Puckett again for his relentless enthusiasm for the game and coaching expertise.

I think Mr Puckett is there somewhere?

The next round is Bitterne Manor v Oakwood in a Semi-final of the Champions league. This is the first time a small school like ours has reached this level!

County Athletics championships

Bitterne Manor is a small school with some BIG talents. Twelve children have been competing in local competitions to become worthy finalists. On Thursday our children represented the Southampton district in Hampshire County Athletic Championships competition. Within each category the children competed against 32 of the best children across Hampshire. We did very well, with some of our children coming 1st in their event and lots were placed in the top 10! Well done again to our amazing children and a personal thank you to the parent and also a helper from Solent who came with us on the day.

BM Year 6 Boys WIN the East side Football league!

I am very proud of our Year 6 boys who are winners of the city East side league. They played 8 games scoring 18 goals and conceding only 2!  A big thank you to Mr Puckett our fantastic coach for inspiring and teaching our children the football skills enabling them to do so well. Also a massive CONGRATULATIONS to the boys for working well as a team and never giving up. Now on to the championship game against the West side. Bring it on!

Year 4 Kathakali Workshop

Hello everyone, we are Natasha and Hannah - this term’s editors for the class blog. Welcome to Year 4’s section of the blog.

 

 

We have been learning about Kathakali traditions and made some masks. 

 

 

We made lots of fun and colourful masks and concentrated very hard on them.

 

 

 

 

The teacher was called VJ, he taught us some sign language. We learnt one sentence it was ‘I am angry because the strong wind destroyed my flowers.’

Once we came back from the workshop, Victoria and Natasha showed us a presentation they had made about Jehovah witnesses.       By Natasha & Hannah

 

 

SGO Sports Roadshow

A couple of weeks ago Bitterne Manor hosted a multi-sports day with all the children taking part in a variety of skills based events in a house competition.  This week we held an assembly with a special visit from Sports Solent mascots Buddy and Sparky to reveal the results and present certificates and a plaque .

The results

Superstars - 5425points - Winners
Legends - 4400 points
Champions - 4260 points
Heroes - 4100 points

Congratulations to Superstars!!

Solent School Games Roadshow

Yesterday years R to 6 spent an hour taking part in multi-skills activities in which children enjoyed competing to gain points for their houses. The points will be added together and the Solent mascots will present certificates and the winning house will receive a plaque.