Bell Heath Residential Trip

Last week, 48 Year 5 & 6 children went on a three day residential trip to Bell Heath Outdoor Education Centre on the outskirts of Birmingham. 

During the visit the children had the opportunity to take part in a variety of different outdoor activities, including:

• Rock climbing on the climbing wall

• Shelter building with tarpaulin and natural materials

We had to work together as a team to build the best shelter.

Carefully choosing the best spot for our shelter.

We worked together to find ways of attaching the tarpaulin to the trees.

Once we had finished we had to test the shelters out. 

We were told the shelters needed to be waterproof.

Some worked...

others didn't!

• Archery

We were shown how to hold the bow safely and correctly.

Then we had a go at shooting at the targets.

Even the teachers had a go!

• Team building activities

We had to work together to complete the different tasks.

• Bush crafts

We went pond dipping.

We collected stones, twigs and sticks from the forest.

As well as some more colourful objects.

Then we used them to create some forest art.

The Royal Wedding

On the 28^th March 2011, at Bordesley Green Primary School we celebrated the Royal Wedding. It was a non-uniform day and all the children had to wear wedding clothes in red, white or blue to represent the Union Jack (British flag). Lessons were as normal, however activities were based around the Royal Wedding and in the afternoon we continued celebrating by making arty, crafty things within our classrooms. We were all given paper plates (before Easter holidays) to take home; we had to decorate the plate as a souvenir for the Royal Wedding. Our decorated plates were then bought into school and placed on the classroom doors, furthermore each child, who bought a plate in, was awarded an ice-lolly! In KS1, some of the children had a street party and enjoyed celebrating the big event, in style. It was a fantastic day!

By Ayesha

Change 4 Life

Year 2 visited our local Nisa shop and made apple bird feeders, cooked a chick pea and spinach curry and also made vegetable wraps. They found out about how important it is to keep healthy by eating fruit and vegetables every day.