Around the world in Year R!

We have had lots of fun 'travelling' to different countries and learning many facts! We thought carefully about similarities and differences between countries and we have been working hard to write words and sentences so that we can record these findings in our diaries.




We thoroughly enjoyed preparing for our Chinese New Year party and then eating the food! We also enjoyed meeting our very own Chinese dragon and using him in our PE dance!




We look forward to learning lots more as we launch our new transport topic, Zoom!

 

 

 

Bitterne Manor JRockers!!

A huge well done to all the children who took part last night in J Rock! Though the school was not placed in the top 4, the team did extremely well and amazed us all. Everyone there watching was extremely proud to be part of BMPS team, including my own daughter who now wants to join the school!!!

A big thank you too to all the adults who helped out; from costume making, set design to keeping the children entertained on the day!!  Also a huge thank you to Lia, Hannah and Miss Joseph. All the stress and hard work was worth it. 

J Rockers - you did us proud!!! 

Spy training!

Kestrels have enjoyed a great day today at Spy Training HQ.  All trainee agents created undercover identities for themselves and had their ability to memorise false data tested.  Who would blow their cover?  Answer....none!  They were all remarkably good at lying!!  All agents also undertook a mission to retrieve an object of importance to MI6 (pictures of blueprints, evil villains and top secret files....) from around the school.  This was achieved by using their code-cracking skills, teamwork and powers of observation!  This proved quite a challenge for some of our agents but I am proud to report they all rose to it....watch out MI6 we may have found you some future recruits!

Rooks Carnival Workshop

On Wednesday, children in Rooks were visited by Gina and Helen from the New Carnival Company. We warmed up to Carnival music and then got the chance to try on some amazing headdresses! We then designed our own based on the theme 'Under the Sea'. We then turned these into our own wonderful headdresses!!
It was a brilliant morning!

Rooks at Fishbourne

Some pictures from today's visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace with Rooks. Everyone had a really interesting day investigating the mosaics and artefacts. We also had an excellent talk by one of the museum staff and some fun activities. Thankfully, all the 'slaves' were given their freedom at the end of the trip!

Dance day

This morning we have had an amazing day learning the funny bones dance. It was so much fun we split into 4 teams to learn the dance. Have a look at tge photos of our day. Well done year 1!