World Book Day 2023

It was a lovely day celebrating all the joy that books have brought to us! We think the children (and staff) really enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters and sharing their favourite stories. Thanks to you all for supporting the children with their costumes - their love of books shone brightly today. Please continue to encourage their love of reading in whatever form that takes!

Kingfishers go to the Library!

 Kingfishers' Library Trip

To celebrate 'World Book Day' Kingfishers class went to Bitterne Library to share their love of books! 

 The librarian Catherine talked to Kingfishers all about how libraries work and how it's place where you can share your love of reading with others. Catherine read Kingfishers a story called 'Ten Delicious Teachers' it was all about monsters wanting to eat teachers. All the children said they thought there teachers were delicious too and wouldn't mind eating them for snack! 

                 

Kingfishers then explored the library looking at all the different books there were! They even found some books that had the characters they were dressed up as! They loved sharing the books with their friends!  

   

Anti-Bullying Ambassadors

Our Learning Leaders from Years 4, 5 and 6 had a fantastic day today training to be Anti-Bullying Ambassadors.  They learnt what it means to be an Anti-Bullying Ambassador;  some of the signs and symptoms to look out for of bullying behaviour and what to do if someone tells them they are being bullied.  As a result of successfully completing the training, they earned their Anti-Bullying Ambassador's badge (which they will be awarded in assembly next week).  They are now keen to go on and teach others about the role and work on collecting the other badges available through the Diana Award.  These include badges for: Respect, Community Action, Online Safety and Wellbeing.

Our Learning Leaders were absolutely fantastic representatives of Bitterne Manor Primary School and I was incredibly proud of the contributions they made to the day!

We would like to say a big THANK YOU!

Spring is starting to arrive at Bitterne Manor! 

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We have created our very own LIVING WILLOW DOME! It has taken time to build but it has been well worth the wait and the children have loved this new addition to our school grounds!

We would like to say a big thank you to our PTA who funded the dome! Without them, this would not have been possible and we can't wait to watch it grow this year!

We would also like to thank Dobbies Garden Centre in Cadnam, who kindly donated the bark flooring for our dome! We are very grateful for this donation and the support they have provided!

Celebrating Super Swifts...

Super Swifts have been working so hard this half term and we thought you might like to see some of the amazing things we have been getting up to!

We kicked off our new topic 'Coastlines' to an exciting start with a visit from the Coastguards! They taught us all about how we can stay safe by the sea and still have fun!

We then had Cultural Day! This was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our different cultures and learn about the special traditions and celebrations within each one. Swifts were looking fantastic this day as they cam dressed in clothes which represented their tradition...

In Geography we have been learning about EROSION! We have been looking at how the sea causes our coastlines to erode and how we can protect them. We demonstrates how erosion happens with our very own investigation...