Visiting a Roman Villa

Year 3 visited the Roman city at Wroxeter for their topic of ‘Invaders and settlers’. The trip allowed children to see Roman ruins from 2000 years ago. 

The children also handled Roman objects, saw a replica of a Roman villa and dressed as Romans. They had an excellent time and learnt a great deal.

Year 3 Peckwood Residential

This year, due to popular demand, we had a double year 3 residential to Peckwood, with 2 groups of children visiting over a 3 day period. 

The weather was great and we managed to pack lots into our two day trip.

We visited the local village of Alvechurch.

We went exploring in the woods.

We all had a turn at cooking and preparing food for the group.

Once it started to get dark we also had a bonfire and toasted marshmallows.

Walk to School week 1st -5th June

During walk to school week the class with the most children walking to school each day will win a trophy. Our school council are organising the event and will be on the school gate each day to hand out walk to school vouchers. To inspire children to walk to school some of the council members have written an acrostic poem. 

Why walk to school?
W- Walking to school provides healthy exercise
A-  Awake alert and happy (scientists have proven this)
L–  Looking around us. Sometimes we don’t look closely at our surroundings 
K-  Know your neighbours. Say “good morning” the people we live near.
T-  Talking time to chat. Talk to mum, dad brothers and       sisters
O-  Oxygen. Breathing deeply will keep your lungs working well
S – Safer. The roads are safer for everyone else if there are fewer cars on the 
      roads so don’t get in the car to school 
C-  Clean air. If we travel less in cars, there will be less pollution in the air.
H-  Healthy exercise makes you fitter. 
O-  On time for school.
O-  Our family can do something together.
L-   Look out for friends and meet them on the way.

Pre-school Open Day

On Monday 18th May we held our first ever open day for the parents of pre-school children. At the event there were representatives of the following local providers, Small Heath Library, Golden Hillock Children’s Centre Team, Road Safety, Speech and Language Therapist, Stay and play, StartWell Physical Team, BGPS Inclusion Team and Health Visitors as well as the school's PSA and volunteers who were available to talk to the parents. We also had a variety of fun activities to keep the children busy. It was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who attended as well as our fantastic PSA and parents and who helped to organise and run the day. 

Superstar's Trip

Today saw the first Superstar treat of the year for the first girl and first boy to reach 20 stars in each class. For their treat the children got to join Miss Harris and the other members of the Leadership team on a trip to McDonald's. Once their they could choose and order the treat they wanted. 

We would like to say a big thank you to all the staff at the Bordesley Green branch of McDonald's who took the time to help the children with their orders and provided them with a balloon each.  

Year 5/6 Choir performing on Children in Need

 

On Friday 15th March our Year 5 and 6 choir were lucky enough to be chosen to perform live on BBC Children in Need as part of the Children in Need Choir 2013. The went to the new Birmingham Library where they performed alongside nine other Birmingham and Coventry schools. Click on the picture above to watch the performance.  

Year 6 visit to Parliament

Last week 30 lucky Year 6 children got to go on a trip to the Houses of Parliament in London. Whilst there they also took the opportunity to visit a few other famous landmarks. Carry on reading to hear one child's recount of the day along with some photographs of the places visited.  

"On Monday the 14^th of October we went to London. It took us around three hours to get to London. In the middle of our journey we stopped at  a service station and we saw guards. There was about ten of them. After that, we carried on to London. When we arrived in London we were dropped off near Buckingham Palace.

 The queen’s flag was up so Queen Elizabeth II was in. We saw guards protecting Buckingham Palace. It was amazing! Unfortunately, we had to carry on.

 We saw Clarence house which is the house of Prince Charles. It was huge but not as big as Buckingham Palace. It was white. Buckingham Palace was also white.

We saw the Cenotaph which is a tomb. It was a tomb to remember people in World War I and World War II. Inside it was nothing.

 We went to Trafalgar Square which really is quite small but it was amazing it had history and it had statues. We moved on and saw statue after statue. We carried on and saw Downing Street amongst other places. In one place there was a man with a sword. We walked a few steps and saw people on horses with swords as well.

 When we arrived at The Houses of Parliament, the security had a variety of weapons. We had to go through metal detectors. Then when we passed the security test and we were awarded bands which said we could go through.

We went in the House of Commons first. The first thing we saw was the hall that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up. In the hall there was stained glass which is glass that has a design on it. On the walls there was a layer to hold up the original bricks so they don’t fall and break.

Then a person who works in the House of Parliament came with someone else. I was in one group with Maria and she asked us if we recognised anything in the hall. We said the hall walls had been plastered. We couldn’t find out anymore and she told us about the stained glass which David Cameron bought for the Queen. We carried on and we went up some stairs. We saw the faces of the Kings that there have been.  We were asked more questions and most of them were answered by Adnan.

After that, we were taken to a room which had a quiz. We had to choose team captains and Waqas was my team captain and the other captain was Waddah. We had to press buttons on a remote and if we got the answer right we would win a point. At the end we won and in my opinion we had the best person Adnan. Then we had a talk with our local MP Liam Byrne about how he became a MP and what he does.

Now we were near the end of our trip we bought things from the stall and then we ate our dinner and we went to the service centre again and this time we saw soldiers. Then at nearly seven o’clock we arrived back at school and we all went home."

By Ismail 6W