Today, we were lucky to have two police officers visit our school. The children were allowed to sit in the car and listen to the siren, along with wearing police uniform! Here are a few children from 1b enjoying the visit.
It was great to see different members of Year 3 and 4 attend Golden Tea this week.
Well done and thank you for always showing above expected behaviour.
We will be able to have one more Golden Tea this week before the Summer break.
Miss Marriott and Miss Courtney
Head of Year 3 and Head of Year 4
As you can see, the new Year 5s have been busy practicing this wonderful song, written by Alyssa. They have shown real determination and commitment to learning to the words off by heart. Well done girls!
This week, year 4 have had a brilliant week. As part of the project ‘Inspiration and Aspiration’, we had a visit from Paralympic swimmer Kate Grey. She talked to us about how, if we put our minds to something, we could achieve anything we wanted too and overcome any barriers in our way. This is something we will keep reminding ourselves in Year 4.
We have investigated and researched some other inspiration people as a class: J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King and Sir Chris Hoy. We then looked at Martin Luther Kings ‘I have a dream speech’ and wrote our own dreams for the world. Some of the children created poems on the ipads which you can watch below.
There is no Literacy or Maths homework this week, but we would like the children to talk with their parents about someone who inspired them when they were younger. We will be sharing this in a circle on Monday next week.
Have a good weekend Year 4.
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper and Miss Gilders
One of our Year 2s came in wearing the perfect T shirt for our current project ‘Inspiration and Aspiration’ for non-uniform day today! It sparked off lots of interesting discussions about what the children could become they grow up. It was wonderful to hear children already setting goals for their future.
Here are the reading monitors from Year 3 and 4 (now Year 5 and 6!) celebrating their rewards for being such amazing reading monitors this year. They really did transform the Year 3/4 library and modelled excellent attitudes towards the books and resources in our school.
Well done everyone and good luck with your applications for your new leadership posts!
Last year, during transition, the whole school on Fen Street and Countess Way took part in The National Gallery’s Take One Picture competition. The painting which inspired our learning journey throughout transition was ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough.
We noticed that Thomas Gainsborough’s painting was set on a farm, which reminded us that there used to be a farm where both the Brooklands Farm schools now stand. Throughout the Project, children and parents worked with the art teachers and their class teachers to create pieces of artwork, which represented the story of Brooklands Farm – what our landscape was like in the past, what it looks like now in the present and what we thought it might look like in the future…
We then created a huge collage of all the work on our 3 Brooklands Farm ribbons for the final piece.
Our work won the competition and is now being exhibited in The National Gallery in London!!
I was very privileged to be able to attend the launch party last week, when the exhibition officially opened! I had a great night, meeting some of the people who organised the exhibition and seeing some of the other schools’ work. But my favourite part was walking into the exhibition and seeing our school’s artwork on the wall of The National Gallery – it looks amazing!!! Here it is…
Please go and visit The National Gallery this summer to see our work on display in the ‘Take One Picture exhibition. If you do visit, we would love for you to take a photo of yourself in front of our work and bring it to school in the first week back so we can create a display in school of our amazing achievement!
Well done Brooklands Farm!!!
Tonight, Year 7 had their Leavers disco. Everyone who came had a really good time, socialising and dancing with friends.
Here’s a picture from the end of the night!!!
We would like to thank all the parents who organised this event and helped us out on the night – being the DJ for the night, doing face painting and keeping our refreshments flowing!!
Year 4 have been working hard this week making the transition from Balance to Achieve. We were extremely inspired by WheelPower, who came in and delivered a session with all of us, giving us the opportunity to experience wheelchair sport. We have talked about overcoming challenges and being resilient as we know that this will be very important in Year 4.
We have introduced our key author for transition – Michael Morpurgo, as well as discussing several other inspirational people.
The year 4 teachers are extremely proud of what the children have ACHIEVED this week and are excited to continue the learning journey.
There is no homework this weekend as we would like the children to focus on an area of 5 for change instead. The areas of 5 for change are:
- Be Active
- Take Notice
- Be Connected
- Keep Learning
- Give to Others
Have a good weekend year 4.
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper and Miss Gilders
