With Year 6 spending last week at Liddington, BWJS postponed its World Book Day celebrations until Thursday, 13th March—and it was well worth the wait! The whole school enjoyed a fantastic day packed with book-related activities, celebrating the joy of reading in creative and engaging ways.

The day began with a ‘Booky Breakfast’ in the school hall, where parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles joined their children to share a good book together. The turnout was incredible, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere to start the day.

Throughout the day, children were fully immersed in literary activities. Every class had the chance to visit the Usborne Book Fair, while others took part in:
Book-themed orienteering 
Creating AI-generated monsters based on written descriptions 
Bookmark origami 
Short story writing and character descriptions 
Uploading book reviews onto Padlet 
...and so much more!

The celebrations concluded with a special whole-school assembly, where each year group shared their experiences and showcased the fantastic work they had produced throughout the day.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the day such a success. It was wonderful to see so much enthusiasm for books and storytelling across the school!

We've had a slightly weary Year 6 in school this week as a result of our residential trip to Liddington last week.  If you haven't already done so, please check out the galleries here on jotter or on our facebook page where you'll see lots of photos of happy, brave children challenging themselves on the activities.  The children were fantastic ambassadors for the school while we were away - they joined in brilliantly, ate well, slept well and had a great time - we really enjoyed spending the week with them.

This week, we've caught up on a delayed World Book Day, continued our learning about Ancient Greece in history, explored some dance moves in PE and finished our English work based on The Cloud Hunters.  We're now less than 30 teaching days until SATS, so our focus is tightening ever-more on this next landmark of the year, but we have some fun in store before the end of term as well - watch this space to find out more!

Hello all!

English

Our current unit of English is Lion Diaries. The children have been gathering information about lions in preparation to create a double page spread on lion’s eating habits. They have discovered some fascinating facts, why not ask them to share their knowledge!

PE

The past two weeks we’ve been creating routines based upon Chubby Checker’s ‘Let’s Twist’. Dance hasn’t been everyone’s favourite lesson with some feeling uncomfortable or conscious of what they’re doing but all have tried, worked together and supported each other to make some fantastic routines. Well done Year 4! 

Science

This half term we are exploring plants. In the past few weeks, we’ve learnt the names and functions of the plant’s parts and last week we dissected daffodils. As we worked scientifically, we also created diagrams to better understand what makes a plant.

History

We’ve enjoyed researching King Alfred’s life and this week we’ve used a program called Padlet to compile their favourite Alfred achievements. The year group enjoyed this interactive way of gathering our research.

PSHE

This term we’ve explored money and managing it. One of the children’s favourite activities involved designing a school playground. Each group had £1000 and a catalogue of equipment. It soon became apparent that this didn’t go far. We discussed this and how much things costs and why they maybe shouldn’t constantly be asking adults for things that cost too much!

Finally

As always thank you for all your support and please ask your children what they’ve most enjoyed this week. They may even answer you!

Year 4 Team!

With Year 6 spending last week at Liddington, BWJS postponed its World Book Day celebrations until Thursday, 13th March—and it was well worth the wait! The whole school enjoyed a fantastic day packed with book-related activities, celebrating the joy of reading in creative and engaging ways.

The day began with a ‘Booky Breakfast’ in the school hall, where parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles joined their children to share a good book together. The turnout was incredible, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere to start the day.

Throughout the day, children were fully immersed in literary activities. Every class had the chance to visit the Usborne Book Fair, while others took part in:
Book-themed orienteering 
Creating AI-generated monsters based on written descriptions 
Bookmark origami 
Short story writing and character descriptions 
Uploading book reviews onto Padlet 
...and so much more!

The celebrations concluded with a special whole-school assembly, where each year group shared their experiences and showcased the fantastic work they had produced throughout the day.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the day such a success. It was wonderful to see so much enthusiasm for books and storytelling across the school!