Museum Takeover Day

This month we were excited to take part in a Takeover Day at Milton Keynes Museum, which saw our year 5 and 6 pupils in Maples invited to take on the role of room guides, jobs normally done by adults.

The experience began with an initial visit to the museum to learn about the skills required to be a museum guide before being given a tour, learning about the different Victorian rooms and artefacts. Following this, Maples were assigned different rooms to research, preparing for their role as a guide. On 1st May, Maples, dressed in Victorian costumes, welcomed our year 1 and 2 pupils to the museum, teaching the younger children about life in Victorian times whilst explaining and demonstrating the artefacts found in each area.

On returning to school, Maples shared their ‘Takeover Day’ experience with parents, reflecting on what they had learnt and enjoyed during the process. We are so proud of our young museum guides. Each of them worked hard on their research and communication skills as well as demonstrating excellent teamwork not to mention the confidence to undertake a role normally done by experienced adults. It was an amazing day and one we hope to repeat in the future.

Enterprise Challenge

Our Friends of the School team recently invited our KS2 children to take part in an exciting Enterprise Challenge, with each participating child given £5 to create and sell a product or game with the aim of making as much profit as possible. The children were excited by this project and had great ideas on ways to grow their money, which culminated in them running their own stall on our selling day. Products included pottery bowls, bracelets, keyrings and origami football shirts to name just a few. FOTS rewarded each child taking part with a certificate, with special prizes awarded to the best business plan, best poster, most innovative product and to the pupil who made the most profit! Well done to all our budding entrepreneurs!

New Arrivals

Our EYFS children in Acorns class have recently welcomed some new arrivals in the form of 5 beautiful ducklings who hatched in our incubator. The children have excitedly watched as the ducklings have grown each day, learning how to look after them and witnessing them swimming for the first time.

Summer Fete 

Our Summer Fete will take place on Friday 6th June from 3.00-6.00pm. With a range of stalls and even a colour run, everyone is welcome!

We have many traditions at Bow Brickhill CE Primary including a special Mothers’ Day Tea which our EYFS pupils work hard to prepare for their mummy’s each year. This year our Acorns pupils fully embraced the event, making sandwiches, baking scones and cakes as well as making table decorations so the classroom was beautifully decorated for their special guests. The children were so excited to welcome their mums and to show them to their seats before the refreshments were enjoyed by everyone!

P.E and school sport are an important part of the curriculum, helping us teach the children about the importance of having healthy bodies and active lifestyles. This year, as well as their P.E lessons, our children have represented the school at a number of sporting events, competing against other local schools. Most recently, at a year 3/4 football fixture, our team won 10-1 followed a few weeks later by an equally impressive result for our year 5/6 basketball team who won every game in their tournament. We are so proud of our teams who come together for training and give every event their all and are very grateful to parents who support them.

In the spring term, the children in Cedars class learnt to play the clarinet assisted by the MK Music Service. Each week the children worked extremely hard, learning how to put their instruments together, mastering notes and short musical pieces which they performed for their parents in the last week of the spring term.

Cedars were also lucky to experience a funded trip to Hazard Alley Safety Centre where they learnt how to keep themselves safe in different everyday scenarios. The class had a super time exploring and investigating a range of possible different situations, all the time learning essential safety skills which will hopefully stand them in good stead for the future.

Many of the children were very excited to produce artwork for a national competition led by the Royal Academy of Arts. Now in its seventh year, the Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for students aged 4–18 studying in the UK. We have now submitted all the children’s entries online and are hopeful that, when judged by a panel of artists and arts professionals, some pieces may be displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts. 

To give parents a chance to see the entries, we held our own exhibition of the children’s artwork in the school hall.  Everyone thought the children had worked really hard on their art work and the exhibition was a huge success.  Some pictures of our exhibition have been displayed above.

Fingers crossed for the entries to the Royal Academy of Arts.

On Thursday 6th March the children and staff celebrated World book Day, dressing up as book characters and having a fun packed day with activities all related to books and the love of reading.

Acorns children in EYFS, enjoyed activities based on stories shared during the day, including ‘The Rainbow Fish’, ‘Supertato’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. They creating some beautiful rainbow fish, made some super masks and even invented their own book characters.

Year 1 and 2 pupils in Oaks had a fabulous time focussing on the famous Roald Dahl book ‘The Twits’. Amongst other activities, they sequenced the story and had lots of fun making Mr Twits gruesome beard before making ‘The Twits’ themed book marks and writing book reviews.

Cedars pupils in year 3 and 4 considered book characters who are villains. They made wooden spoon villains then created dioramas with a scene for their character. They also enjoyed designing and making ‘wanted’ posters to describe and capture their villain.

Year 5 and 6 pupils in Maples, wrote their own books and designed bookmarks. They also had their book knowledge tested with a World Book Day quiz! 

As a school, we also collected donations of good quality books for a book sale to raise funds for the Pets As Therapy (PAT) charity who provide us with our Read2Dog who visits school each week. Libby, our Read2Dog, helps our children improve their literacy skills, confidence, interest and enjoyment in reading. She is great listener and everyone looks forward to her visits with her owner!