Shelter Building Success!!

Kestrel's have enjoyed a fantastic afternoon out on the school field building their own shelters.  You may recall our earlier blog where we posted pictures of our prototypes, well today we put our designs to the test and built our shelters full size.  The children demonstrated lots of positive attributes:  excellent teamwork, good organisation, problem solving and there was also plenty of RESILIENCE on show!!  I think you'll agree that they all did brilliantly.  Every group managed, by the end of the afternoon, to have built a shelter which would keep all the members of the group covered and dry.  Great job Kestrel's!!!

Harvest Festival!

We are very much looking forward to our Harvest Festival tomorrow led by members from the Southampton City Mission team. We are collecting for Basics Bank and we hope to beat last years total of 500 items!


The class that brings in the most will win extra play! Results to be announced in assembly!




So far the results are:
Kingfishers: 92
Robins: 68
Finches: 65
Swifts: 100
Nightingales: 30
Rooks: 57
Owls: 39
Kestrels: 29


Swifts are in the lead so far!


We are at a total of 480...very close to our 500 mark! Can we beat it?


Which class are going to win? It's not too late to bring in items! The last day is tomorrow please :)

 

Swift's Super Bird Visitors!

Wow! What a day it has been in the Swift class today! To tie in nicely with our topic 'Into the Forest' we had some special visitors who showed us a range of real life birds.  They were absolutely astonishing!  The visitors gave us information about each bird so we learnt lots which will help us with our writing this week!  The birds we saw were a: Buzzard, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Barn Owl and an Eagle Owl.  They were truly beautiful birds.  The visitors were really impressed with all our questions and willingness to know more too!  After a short presentation, the visitors flew some of the birds around and over us...one even flew onto Mrs Stubley's lap and over Miss Sangha's head! It was amazing!!  Here are some fab moments we'd like to share :)

Rooks Test Wood Lakes Adventure!

On Friday, Rooks visited Test Wood Lakes Nature Reserve.  This term, in our Geography and Science topics we have been studying Rivers and States of Matter, including the water cycle.  The aim of this visit was to link both subjects together, look at and identify the features of a river, and also learn more about the water cycle and the role our rivers play in it.

Read on to find out about our exciting day

The morning began, with us map reading our way around the nature reserve.  After leaving the centre,  we were each given a map to help us navigate our way around the site.

 We crossed over the River Blackwater

 We found ourselves at the faster flowing River Test.

 We all had a game of Pooh Sticks - it got rather competitive!!

 After returning to the center, we ate our lunch.  As part of Test Woods desire to protect the environment, we looked at how much of our lunch waste we could recycle and how much would need to go the the landfill.  Although we were not officially taking part, we managed to win a silver award - well done Rooks!!

After lunch, it was time to play with water.  We created our own water cycle using sponges for clouds, drain pipes to deliver the water and squirty water bottles to act as evaporation.  The three teams had to repeat the cycle and label up the different parts of the water cycle.  Luckily the sun came out, so we dried up quickly.

Finally, if that wasn't enough fun, we headed off to their wooded area to practise our map reading skills.  We had to follow another map and find different parts of the water cycle hidden within the woods, these were clearly labelled on the map but it was quite tricky getting our bearings!  Again competition was fierce, with one team completing the challenge and several others coming close second.  We even had some of the local deer join in the hunt!

After our map reading dash around the woods and an enormous 'Thank you' to the staff at Test Wood Lakes for hosting our day, it was back to the mini buses to head back to school.  

A great day was had by all!

Learning Lab Plans!

We are very excited to share the first look at our new 'Learning Lab' designs. Another of this year's projects supported by our fabulous PTA. The area outside 'Rooks' and 'Nightingales' classes is being completely transformed by the same talented artist who did our library. We are are very pleased to announce that the project will begin the week after half-term and should also be completed well before Christmas. An exciting time to be a child (..and grown-up!) at BMPS!

Robins Dance Day!

Wow! What great dancers we have in Robins class.  Today we were split into different groups. Some of us were robots while others were a jack in the box, spinning top and puppets. Can you guess from the pictures who was who?

Beep Beep!

In our Design technology lessons we have been leading up to building a moving toy car. The first stage in this process was to find out what a car looks like and needs to be able to move. We then moved onto designing our toy car. We worked in partners and listed the equipment that we would need and drew a template. Finally we got to the fun part, making and decorating our cars. Take a look at our pictures.