Wow!
Just.
WOW!
Once again I am thrilled with the level of skill shown by the children and their parents in carving the pumpkins for the house competition. The pumpkins will be judged tomorrow, and the winners from each class will be announced in a special assembly at 2.30!
It is going to be a tough choice again this year!
Here are a selection of entries, can you spot yours?
Look out for the winners photographs tomorrow and for the announcement of the winning house!
Today the children of Bede Burn took partin our second SHINE ‘Wear it Yellow’ day to raise funds for the charity SHINE. Grace, in year two, has Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus which the charity raises money to aid research and treatments. As this week is the national awareness week for the two conditions we asked the children to wear something bright yellow (being the charity’s colour) and bring a small donation for the privilege of not wearing their uniform.
A massive thank you to all of the children and their families who supported this cause and helped Bede Burn to raise £242 today! An excellent effort!
Check out the pictures of the children working and playing in bright yellow…
For more information about the charity SHINE, click here.
I was delighted and amazed at the creativity and talent shown in last year’s pumpkin carving competition. It is definitely my favourite house contest of the year!
The rules are fairly simple:
Good luck everyone and I look forward to seeing the entries!
I know some of you have been asking about dates for the Christmas shows and the other events that occur in December so you can book time off etc.
Below are the dates we have confirmed so far; letters and more information regarding each event will be available nearer the time.
On Friday 26th September, Mrs Parkes hosted another hugely successful coffee afternoon to raise funds for the Macmillan nurses.
We knew this event was going to be popular, but we didn’t bank on it taking over twenty minutes just to get everyone into the hall! We were overwhelmed with the response and turnout and were thankful that we had bought enough biscuits! (Although some staff were disappointed at the lack of leftovers!)
Massive thanks to everyone who donated raffle prizes and provided cakes to sell. We clearly have some very talented parents, and the cakes and buns went down a storm!
No doubt that part of the popularity was down to the fact that Reception and year one provided the entertainment! I think it is incredible testament to how confident and settled our reception class is that they were quite happy to sing in front of such a huge audience, a huge thank you to the staff for leading the singing too!
I hope that everyone who attended had a great time and returned home contented, entertained and full of cake! Macmillan will be delighted too, due to your generosity and the staff’s hard work we managed to raise a very impressive £570.70! Quite easily the most we have ever raised at a coffee morning!
Thank you all.
Look out for more events coming soon…
Welcome back everybody, I know this will be an exciting and successful year for everyone here at Bede Burn!
As some of you may know we have had massive renovations and refurbishments going on over the summer holiday. A brief run down of the works are:
The school looks fantastic and is an excellent learning environment for our children. A massive thank you goes from us all here to Mr Mckeown, without whom the work simply would not have been finished.
Check out the photgraphs here to get an idea…
We had a great time at our annual sports day, every child tried their very best and had huge amounts of fun. Eventually Warkworth emerged victorious, narrowly pipping Aydon by 1 point to lift the trophy! A jubilant house team completed the, now traditional, lap of honour, gleefully holding the trophy aloft!
A massive thank you to all the staff for organising the day, and for all of the parents, friends and family who attended and gave the children such support. A special thanks to all of the parents that joined in the parents’ race, I know that there is going to be some serious training ready for next year!
Last week we had a visit from the ‘Guide Dogs For The Blind’. We were treated to a demonstration of incredible behaviour by one of the dogs, who then visited every class and her handler answered the children’s questions. Look out for news soon about some exciting fund raising events to support the charity!
The children in Reception had a great day with their Year 6 buddies helping the farmer to feed the baby lambs, brush the donkeys and wash the pigs.
Thank you to all our parent volunteers, without you the day would not have been possible.
The last week of Spring term may not have brought ‘spring like’ weather, but there were happy faces all around as Bede Burn held the fourth ‘house competition’ of the year. Building on the knowledge that our parents can become very competitive (see October’s pumpkin contest!) we knew that the standard would be very high and we were not disappointed! There were four ‘winners’ in each class and the judging was easily most difficult decision I’ve had to make this year!
From Angry Birds to farm animals, Storm Troopers to ‘egg pods’ the plethora of egg based puns was second to none!
In the end Aydon house emerged triumphant.
A huge amount of thanks to all of the parents, carers, Grans Grandads and other adults who put in so much time and effort creating the eggcellent creations.
