Tower of London and Superbloom visit
As you may have seen on Classs Dojo, we had an amazing day in London visiting the Superbloom and the Tower of London. It was an early start and a very long day but gosh was it worth it! Almost everyone opted to use the slide into the moat and the Superbloom installation did not disappoint. Many children commented on how they would love to grow something similar at home!
Whilst we were sitting on Thames Wharf eating our lunch, we even saw Tower Bridge being raised and I think the children would have quite happily sat there all afternoon just taking in the sights of the London skyline and watching the world go by. Thank you to all the staff for making it such a memorable experience and to the Year 5/6s for being so well behaved during the visit – we are all very proud of you!
Friday update 01.07.22
Transition day for September classes
On Tuesday 5th July, children will be spending time in their September classes and will be bringing a letter home on Monday with further details.
Parent governor update
We are delighted to inform you that we have three new parent governors, who sent in nominations for our vacancies last week:
- Marian Owoniyi
- Ian Simons
- Sian Tiplady
Our third vacancy became available following Jessica Greenwood standing down as parent governor, as her child will be leaving our school this term. We look forward to them being part of our governing body and getting to know our school in more detail.
On behalf of our whole school community, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jessica Greenwood and Richard Jeffries, both of whom have made a much valued contribution to our governing body and the development of our school during their time in post.
Parent surveys
Thank you for all the responses to our recent surveys – annual parent survey and Safer School survey. We are delighted to report that 100% of respondees said their child feels safe at our school, and 98% said they would recommend our school to another parent, that their child is happy at our school and that their child does well at our school. This is very reassuring to hear and we thank you for taking the time to share your views with us.
Your comments will support staff and governors in continuing to improve our school. As we introduce any changes next year, in response to comments received, we will keep you fully informed.
Ready Steady Show – Summer Workshops
Bicton wins the Gold Award!
Bicton CofE Primary School has been awarded the School Games GOLD Award for our PE and sports provision.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we, Bicton CofE Primary School, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
Our physical activity and school sport achievements this year include:
Starting a girls football team.
Taking part in the Daily Mile initiative.
Starting the Sports Leader Award with Year 5.
Taking non-participating children to write match reports.
Taking part in a wide variety of School Games events.
Having our Sports Leaders officiate events at other schools.
We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community. We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
We look forward to applying once again in 2023!
Mr J Taylor
