Super Swift's SMASH Summer Fayre!

Wow! It seems like a life time since last week's Summer Fayre...! What a week is has been!  Swifts did incredibly well with their super stands and words can't describe how proud I am of their amazing efforts! They ran the 'Coconut Shy', 'Tin Can Alley' and 'Selfie' stands with such enthusiasm and wanted to make sure everyone at the Fayre had a go! Well done superstars :)  Thank you to everyone who visited us! Here are some fab pics...

VIRGIN GROW YOUR MONEY - THE RESULTS!

Year 5 have taken part in the Virgin Grown Your Money Project again this year, where they were given £5 each to invest in a business idea to sell at the Summer Fayre.  I am proud to announce that EVERY group that took part made a profit - we are all budding entrepreneurs! The winning group was Team Titan with their delicious sweet cones - did you buy one?  They made a whopping £51.52!  As a class we made £126.20, which the children are currently planning on what to spend it on.  They have already decided that they would like to give some to the charities raising money for recent events in London and Manchester.  A big thank you to everyone involved and especially to the children for all their hard work.

Summer Fayre

Money is in and being counted but I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for an AMAZING summer fayre. There was a lovely buzz around the school. Thank you to our great PTA, all the helpers, the children and staff, and to all the community for coming along and supporting the school. The money we raise is vital in making school improvements in a time of dwindling budgets.

Lastly, a huge thank you to Jennie and Kirsty. You are both PTA stars and the school is so grateful for everything you both do.

More photos to follow and once we know the grand total, we will let you all know!

Mrs Hayward

The results for Athletics and Swimming are in...

The results are now in for the recent Southampton Schools Athletics Championships and Swimming Gala.  All of the children that competed in both events made us proud but the following deserve a special mention....

Southampton Schools Athletics Championships - 22 schools competing

- Joe Finn, 3rd in High Jump

- Kimberley Adjei, 5th in Long Jump

- Jayden Ansa-Otu, 4th in 80m

- Hubert Cegielka, 3rd in 400m

- Millie Cowdrey, Ellie Niziolek, Kinberley Adjei and Poppy Chance,  5th in 4x100 relay

Southampton Schools Swimming Gala - 9 schools competing

- Lola McNeil, 2nd in 25m Backstroke

- Ellie Niziolek, 2nd in 25m Breaststroke & 1st in 25m Freestyle

- Joe Finn, 2nd in 25m Breaststroke

- Isobelle Brown, Ellie Niziolek, Amber Burman-Hughes, 3rd in Medley Relay

- Lola McNeil, Ellen Sear, Isabelle Weaver, 2nd in Medley Relay

- Amber Stipic, Isabelle Weaver, Lola McNeil, 3rd in freestyle Relay

Our girls team also achieved second place overall!

Longdown Mobile Farm

As part of the Summer Fayre we today had a visit from Longdown.  We had the opportunity to meet all the different animals.

 We met Max and Ruby the miniature donkeys.  They wouldn't grow any taller than they already are.  We all got the opportunity to stroke the donkeys, Max had a mixture of long and short hair, this is because he was shedding his winter coat.  They were really dusty as well.

After that we met the hens and got the chance to hold a chick. They were really fast and kept trying to get away. We were really lucky as one of the hens had even laid an egg while we were there, it was still warm!

We even played a game of trying to keep a chick balanced on our heads. It was hard but everyone managed it.

We then finished the session with a goat feeding competition.  Jamie and Lola went head to head. Can you guess whose goat won?

M&M master class

 

Kestrels were very lucky today to get a master class in acting and stage production from the M&M crew who came to perform Treasure Island for the whole school.  In addition to enjoying the show, Kestrel class had the opportunity to learn about what goes into putting on such a production.  We were shown how the lighting, scenery and special effects were used and given lessons in how to 'multi-role' - that is taking on the role of more than one character in a play.  We found out that accent and pitch are key in changing the character's voice and that body language made a big difference to getting into role.  We all had a go at becoming Long John Silver - Arrrrr!  Let's see if we can put some of those lessons into practise for our own leaver's performance!!

 

 

 

 

Summer Fayre 2017: Friday June 23rd 330pm

The Bitterne Manor Primary School Parent Teachers Association are proud to present:

Summer Fayre 2017

Friday 23rd June, 330pm

We have lots of homemade refreshments and items to purchase, plenty of fantastic prizes to be won - as well as lots of fun and games! Please join in with as much as you can - and remember, all proceeds raised from the fayre go towards exciting new equipment for the children to enjoy - every penny counts!

STAGE EVENTS

3.45pm Robins & Finches Song & Dance

4.00pm Street Dance Crew

4.10pm Baton Twirling - Ella & Lilly

4.30pm Maypole Dancing

5.00pm Raffle Grand Prize Draw

5.15pm Gunge a Teacher!

A GREAT CHOICE OF STALLS!

• Face Painting and Glitter Tattoos -
• Chocolate Tombola - Bottle Tombola
• Lucky Dip - Teddy Shy - Beat the Goalie
• Guess the number of Balloons in the Car!
• Smellies & Jewellery Sale - Bric a Brac - Uniform Sale
• Cake Stall - International Food Fair - Hot Dogs
• Pick n Mix Sweets - Ice Pops & Drinks
• Summer Raffle 2017!
• Plus all the fantastic class stalls too!
• Kingfishers (Year R): Homemade Elderflower & Hook a Duck!
• Robins & Finches (Year 1): Grow a Bean Bag & Guess the Sweets
• in a Jar!
• Swifts (Year 2): Coconut Shy, Tinned Cans Shoot & Selfie Stand!
• Nightingales (Year 3): Homegrown Veg & Hit the Petals off the
• Giant Flower!
• Rooks (Year 4): Bitterne Manor Newspaper Sale & Soak Mr Soffe!
• Owls (Year 5): Virgin Money - Make Money Grow! 5 stalls
• featuring balloon models, smoothies, sweet cones, friendship
• bracelets and strawberries & cream!
• Kestrels (Year 6): Sweet Gift Boxes and Fruit Machine Game!

RAFFLE PRIZES - 2017

A huge thank you to all the companies, parents and teachers that have donated some amazing prizes - tickets are still available today and here’s a snapshot of what you might win plus many more prizes!

• Teacups and Tutus - Pot of tea and slice of cake each for 2
• Coriander Lounge - £30 voucher
• YMCA Fairthorne Manor - 2 nights midweek camping
• Seacity Museum - Family Ticket
• Hamble Sports Complex - One Month Full Membership + Induction
• Sprinkles Gelato - £10 Voucher
• The Race Centre - Open Team Endurance Voucher (worth £90)
• Longdown Activity Farm - Family Ticket (2 adults & 2 children)
• The Songbird Ice Cream Café - 2 x £5 vouchers
• Flipout Southampton - One hour session for 4 people
• No Fear Academy - Krav Maga - trial session at Hedge End on
• Thursday night (Class worth £19.99)
• Cherry Shine - Cleaning voucher
• Kids 2 Day - 2 x Child Entry Ticket
• Play Shack - 2 x Child Entry Ticket
• Jeffries Jungle - 2 x Child Entry Ticket
• The Station Pub - £30 Dinner Voucher
• The Humble Plum - £50 Food & Drinks voucher
• Domino's Pizza Bitterne - 3 x Pizza prizes
• Sainsbury’s Portswood - Bottle of Wine & Chocolates
• Hair by Kim - 1 x Spray Tan

A Big Thank You!

This event really couldn’t happen without your support! A few special thank you’s to mention:

All the Fabulous Parents for donating chocolates, bottles, raffle prizes, bric a brac, jewellery, cakes, food etc! The Parent Volunteers - for giving us your time and help everyone on the PTA who has worked so hard to organise the event. The Headteacher, Teachers, Teaching Assistants and our Caretaker for helping make this a success. The Local Companies for donating fantastic prizes! Bitterne Park Secondary School for loaning us their marquees The amazing Crazy M for keeping the crowds entertained!

And of course YOU, for turning up and taking part in this special day!!!