Weekly Newsflash! 24th May 2024

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Coming up after half term…

Monday 3rd– Y6 Bikeability
– Live Music Percussion Performance (Swalefest) @ Askrigg
– After School Sports
Tuesday 4th– Y6 Bikeability
– After School Forest Skills
Wednesday 5th– Y6 Bikeability
– NO AFTER SCHOOL SINGING CLUB
Thursday 6th– Y4 – Y6 D’Day Commemoration @ St. Oswald’s Askrigg
Friday 7th– Class Photographs
– After School Science Club

Calendar


24 Challenge @ Richmond School

A big congratulations to Amelie, Sam, Otis and Isaac for taking part and coming third in Richmond Secondary School’s ’24 Challenge’. The children showed off their maths skills and competed against lots of other primary schools. The children behaved phenomenally and represented our schools with grace, humility and pride. Well done guys – you are a credit to us!


Acorns to Oaks

Our wonderful teaching assistant, Mr Stokes, is holding some fabulous activities over the Easter Holidays, be sure to book a place!


BAWB PTFA Car Adventure Quiz! Sunday 23rd June

We welcome families, friends and individuals to take part in an interactive driving challenge around Wensleydale. The aim is to secure points by answering questions correctly at a range of local places, while simultaneously attempting to cover the fewest miles possible. It is likely to take between 1-2 hours to complete. There will be a prize for the winning team. There will be a staggered start time between 10-11am, and it will begin and end at Askrigg VC Primary School.

Following the ‘Car Adventure Quiz’ refreshments will be available to purchase at Askrigg Primary, and there will be a range of activities for children to take part in such as: penalty shoot-out and a slip and slide. 

To purchase tickets please email Mr Greenway via [email protected] with the number of people attending to ensure we have enough BBQ food for everyone. 


Safeguarding Item

healthy-friendships


Swaledale Alliance FREE Teaching Assistant Qualification


May Half Term Activities


Eco-Warriors

Last week our Eco-Warriors had a very productive afternoon making eco-friendly seed bombs! The children tore up paper and soaked it in water to make a pulp, they then whizzed it up in the food processor! After that they mixed it with soil and seeds, to make homemade seed bombs for us to scatter!

But the warriors didn’t stop there! They also made some very pretty butterfly bird feeders – excellent team work guys!


Robins

Some messy hands in the Robins this week as they explored working with clay. Mrs Johnson says even though they have got lots of tools to use they prefer to use their hands!

The Robins have also been doing lots of shape work this week, rotating and matching shapes to make pictures.

Off for a drive in Mr. Gumpy’s motor car!


Owls

A busy week as we come to the end the half term.

Sports Day practised moved to skipping, kangaroo jumping and the beanbag race this week, we have been really impressed by the children encouraging each other and their resilience to have a go at the different races.

In science we have ended our plants unit by planting sunflower seeds to take home and observe as they (hopefully) grow into healthy flowers.  

In art we reviewed our bird sculptures, discussing the process that brought us to this point from observing and sketching, adding texture to paper, to putting the parts together to create our own individual sculptures, what a beautiful flock of birds!


Swallows

After the all of the excitement of SATs, our Swallows hauled the instruments out this week for a fabulous music lesson!

Our wonderful Swallows completed their SATs this week, and as a treat for all of their hard work and dedication, they had a very special Friday disco complete with yummy traybakes from Mrs Park, sweeties and squash!


Kingfishers

Here are some photos of the Kingfishers carrying out the mummification process on some tomatoes. 


Golden Eagles

The Golden Eagles have had a very creative end to the half term!

In PSHE, they created a piece of artwork representing their appreciation for someone special in their lives, which we have put together to create a wall of appreciation.

The creativity continued in art where the children, inspired by the work of Claes Oldenburg designed, sculpted and painted food for a picnic scene. Mr Scrafton had to try really hard not to eat the fantastic models.

In PE continued practising our tennis skills, finishing with short games to put them into practise.

On Tuesday, our old and new collective worship ambassadors delivered a wonderful collective worship on the feeding of the 5000.
In history, the Golden Eagles made observations and interpretations based on Viking artefacts. 

Herons

Our fabulous Collective Worship Ambassadors led the assembly on Wednesday,  with the theme of ‘Happiness’. They did a great job and showed us that money cannot buy you happiness.

Unfortunately, the weather stopped us from going outside for PE this week. We still managed to get plenty of exercise inside though. Here are a couple of action shots. 


Merlins

In RE this week, the Merlins have been looking at Isaiah’s prophecy of the ‘Suffering Servant’ in the Old Testament. We explored why some Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah described in Isaiah 53. We also discussed how this is not a shared belief among everyone; some Jewish people believes that the Messiah Isaiah prophesied is still to come.

The Merlins have had a mindful, relaxing and extremely creative art lesson. We are following our design and measurements to create our shadow puppets. We can’t wait to see the end results!


This Week’s Awards:

Pupil of the week
Robins (Nursery)Ebonie for persevering in PE race practice and concentrating for such a long time on her learning. 
Robins (Reception)Brodie for great listening to friends and adults. Lovely manners and kindness. 
Owls (Y1)William for a positive approach to every aspect of school life, always encouraging and inspiring others. 
Swallows (Y2)Emma for a mature and positive approach to all her learning. 
Kingfishers (Y3)Sammy for effort in English, writing a wonderful narrative based on our class book.
Golden Eagles (Y4)Joey for fantastic creativity and effort in his art work. Joey’s sausage roll looks good enough to eat! 
Herons (Y5)James for working with great focus and accuracy in your shape work in maths and also when creating a Maya city map in history. 
Merlins (Y6)Johnny for his effort and enthusiasm in art – he extended his project and started to make props for his shadow puppet. Johnny has developed such a mature attitude in school and I have been extremely impressed with him – keep up the fantastic work Johnny. 

Headteacher’s Awards
BainbridgeAntoni for hard work, excellent manners and a mature attitude.
AskriggKatie for always being a Good Samaritan and making our schools better places to be.
West BurtonFlorence for a happy and caring approach to life at school (will be at Bainbridge for assembly).

Good Samaritan Awards For courage, care, compassion
(for the children, from the children).
Nominated by
OwlsWilliam for showing her the best way to make models with Kinnex. Ceci
Fearne for checking on her when she was feeling sad. Zoey
Seth for helping him with the heavy door.Jonathan
SwallowsMartha (Kingfishers) for helping when she was struggling in PSHE.Sophie
Rocco for being kind when she was worried about her brother. She also nominates Charlie for being kind and welcoming every morning on the playground.Libby
Golden EaglesOtis (Herons) has been nominated by Maciek and Riley for encouraging them to join in with the football. Maciej and Riley
Fred (Merlins) and Lily (Herons) for being good friends and for making her feel comfortable whilst playing football with the older children.Sylvi
Lily for being a good friend who is always there when she needs her. Ellie
MerlinsAva for making her feel better when she was sad.Beatrice C
Beatrice C for helping her in English when writing a balanced argument. Ava
Dylan – Archie is scared of spiders and at lunchtime, Dylan swapped seats with him so Archie wouldn’t have to sit next to the spiderArchie

Other
Tidiest ClassroomOwls
Best School LibraryBainbridge
House Point Winning Team Dormice
Best Class AttendanceMerlins – 100%

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