Christmas Lunch 2009

For lunch today, the whole school enjoyed a full Christmas dinner!

With plates packed turkey, sausage and bacon, roast potatoes and lots of vegetables and gravy and then finished off with Xmas pudding and custard, a filling lunch was had by all!

Yum!

To see photos of these events, visit our photo gallery here...

Christmas Plays 2009

Today were the final performances of this years Christmas plays, with EYFS performing Christmas songs and Christmas Nativity, KS1 performing a play about the Littlest Christmas Tree and Years 3&4 and 5&6 singing songs, reciting poems and presenting information about different Christmas traditions around the world.

With Badock's Wood children shining yet again, a great time was had by the children and by all of those that watched!

To see photos of these events, visit our photo gallery here...

Harvest Assembly 2009

Thursday 22nd October 2009 saw Badock’s Wood Primary celebrate another Harvest Festival.

With the usual mix of singing, readings, prayers and artwork, the adults and parents who braved the terrible weather were treated to Badock’s Wood Primary at it’s best.

For those that missed it, check out our gallery for photos of the celebration. Click here...

To hear one of the songs being sung, press play on the player below:

Start of a New School Year!

Wow! What a busy start to the new school year!

A new ICT suite, new class learning blogs and social networking accounts on the website, a new teacher and so much more, it’s possibly been the busiest start to a school year ever.

First of all, Badock’s Wood School would like to welcome Mr Scaiff, our new Year 5 teacher, and Miss Ford, our new school secretary. We are sure that everyone will make them feel very welcome!

Secondly, in response to parents requests for the school to communicate more, a newsletter will now be sent home every other Thursday. This newsletter can also be downloaded from our website here...

To improve communication further, the school now has accounts on the popular social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter and Bebo.

To visit our Facebook page, click here...
To visit out Twitter page, click here...
To visit our Bebo page, click here...

With these pages we hope to provide the latest news and information as regularly as possible. You can also sign up to receive our email newsletter which again lets you about the latest news and information, as well as telling you about updates to our website. To sign up for our online newsletter, fill in the details in at the bottom of our homepage here...

Before and during the summer holidays, much time and money was spent in building a new state of the art ICT (computer) room for the children and, although there have been a few teething problems, we expect it to be up and running very soon. See some photographs of the computer room being built here...

Want to know what your children are doing in school? You can now find out by reading our brand new Class Learning Blogs. A blog is a diary that you can write and read on the internet and each class is keeping a diary of their learning and achievements. Read our class learning blogs here...

If you enjoy reading the learning blogs and want to find out more about what goes on in school, try reading the Headteachers blog here...

End of the Year!

Badock’s Wood Primary School today ended a busy year with a Continental Big Breakfast and a special Leavers Assembly.

These events came at the end of a really busy week which included both school and community events.

A week of ‘madness’ began last Friday with the annual school Barbecue, to which children, parents, carers and staff were all invited. Beginning at 6.30pm, good food, music and dancing was enjoyed by all!

A few days later on July 21st, a special retirement tea party, held for Mrs. Allan the school secretary, took place during the afternoon. Parents, children and colleagues both past and present were invited to share some food and drink with Mrs. Allan who retires this year after an amazing 17 years of service to Badock’s Wood Primary.

On July 22nd, Year 6 performed their end of year production to the whole school during the morning and to parents and adults during the evening. Based on the TV show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, the Year 6 version, ‘Badock’s Got Talent’ included jokes, music, impersonations of celebrities and, of course, some genuine talent in the form of singing and dancing. Over 70 parents and adults watched the evening performance.

Finally, today started with a ‘Continental Big Breakfast’ attended by the usual Breakfast Club attendees, as well as many more children and adults. With tea, coffee, hot chocolate, croissants, ham, bread and toast and jam on the menu, as well as a raffle, a great time was had by all!

Later during the morning, a special ‘Leavers Assembly’ took place to say special goodbyes to all the adults and children who were leaving this year. First up were the LSA’s, including Mrs Harding, and Miss Burleton. Everyone also said goodbye to teacher Miss Leakey, who is leaving to travel and work in New Zealand. Of curse, there was an emotional goodbye to Mrs. Allan. Last, but certainly not least, the whole school said goodbye to Year 6, who will be starting new adventures at Secondary School in September. Each child was presented with a dictionary and there where extra awards for selected children who had demonstrated additional attributes this year.

A memorable week! See our calendar page for details of the dates for the new term in September.

To see photos of the Year 6 Leavers assembly, click here...

To see photos of the big breakfast, click here...

New kitchen opened by Lord Mayor!

The Lord Mayor of Bristol visited Badock’s Wood to open the new school kitchen.

The new school kitchen took a few months to build and cost £170,000, but is now able to serve really healthy school meals.

A lucky group of children were asked to sit at the top table with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Susan Davies.

To find out more about our school meals, click here...

To read about this event on the This is Bristol website, click here...

Reading Celebration

Badock’s Wood Primary School today celebrated the achievements of children who took part in both Reading Recovery and Better Reading Partners.

At a special event, attended by parents, volunteers, teachers and adults, 25 children received books and certificates for making such good progress.

Mrs Knight, the Badock’s Wood Reading Recovery teacher, was so pleased with the progress of the children involved she said, “The children are so enthusiastic and love reading now!”.

The intensive one-to-one support of the schemes has shown excellent results and will be continued next year.

To read the Bristol Evening Post article, click here...

To read about this event on the This is Bristol Website, click here...

Sports Day 2009

Badock’s Wood Primary School’s annual sports day took place today. The weather stayed fine and many parents, carers and adults came to watch the event.

Years 1, 2 and 3 took part during the morning, while Years 4, 5 and 6 had fun in the afternoon.

The sports included the traditional sports day races, including the sprint, long jump and egg and spoon. However, there were also more entertaining challenges such as the back-to-back balloon race and parachute racing.

Special thanks to Miss Wilkey for organising the day.

To see photos of this event, click here...

‘Big Toddle’ raises money for Barnardo’s

The youngest children at Badock’s Wood, those in the Nursery, today took part in the ‘Big Toddle’ to raise money for Barnardo’s.

This short sponsored walk is the UK’s biggest charity event for children under 5 years old and was used as the children’s annual sports day.

The Nursery children walked around the park opposite the school while dressed in fancy dress! Many of the adults even dressed up - check out the photos to spot Mrs Clarke dressed up as a skeleton!

For further information about the Barnardo’s ‘Big Toddle’, visit their web site here...

Animal Farm Nursery Trip

As part of the Nursery topic about animals, today Nursery visited the Animal Farm Adventure Park between Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-Super-Mare.

It was very exciting because it was the first time that some of the children had been on a very big coach!

At the farm, children had a chance to feed, touch and hold lots of different sorts of animals, such as goats, cows, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs and turkeys!

Being an ‘adventure farm’, there were lots of slides and climbing frames to play on as well - great fun! Mrs. Clarke even had the chance to eat lots of food! Mr. Willis would probably have been jealous...

To see photographs of the fun day out, visit our gallery page here...

To learn more about the Animal Farm Adventure Park and perhaps arrange a visit with your family during the summer holidays, visit the web site here...

Year 3 and 4 ‘Brunel Day’

Today, children from Year 3 and 4 visited the nearby Clifton Suspension Bridge before traveling down into the city to walk around the SS Great Britain as part of their ‘Brunel Day’.

As part of their learning about Bristol during the Victorian period of History, Year 3 and 4 have been focussing on Brunel, a famous Victorian engineer who was responsible for designing and building both the suspension bridge and the SS Great Britain.

The day started with an early morning walk across the Clifton Suspension Bridge, where everyone marveled at the views of Bristol. Later on, everyone visited the SS Great Britain, an iron steam ship that is now a museum in the harbour in Bristol.

Photographs of the school trip can be found on our gallery page here.

To learn more about the Clifton Suspension Bridge, visit the official web site here. To learn more about the SS Great Britain, visit the museum web site here.

Peppa Pig’s Playtime Challenge

Children in the Nursery today took part in ‘Peppa Pig’s Playtime Challenge’.

Peppa Pig’s Playtime Challenge is an annual event where children collect sponsorship to complete a challenge. The challenge for 2009 was to learn and perform the Big Bing Bong Song.

Watching the performance were many proud mums and dads, as well as other family members and friends. Mr Willis and Miss Pingree even found the time to walk down to the Nursery to enjoy the performance.

The event raises money for Tommy’s baby charity and this year, Badock’s Wood children managed to collect an amazing £246.65!

Well done to everyone involved!

Easter Parade 2009

Children of all ages, from all years and classes of Badock’s Wood Primary School today took part in the annual Easter bonnet parade and competition.

Children came to school wearing their Easter bonnets which had been made at home for a chance to show off their creations and win a prize.

Amongst the colourful eggs and chicks bonnets were some really imaginative creations, including a whole rabbits head, a playground for Easter chicks and, Mr Vaisey’s personal favourite, a Doctor Who Dalek being controlled by chicks!

To see all the Easter bonnets, check out our gallery page here...

Red Nose Day 2009!

The usually green uniform of Badock’s Wood Primary School turned red today, as children paid 50p for the privilege of leaving uniform at home and wearing something red.

The day started in the Badock’s Wood Primary Breakfast Club, where children could make red noses and enjoy a healthy breakfast!

At lunchtime, children munched on handmade biscuits, baked fresh by the Badocks Wood canteen staff and decorated with faces and red nose cherries! Check out our Red nose Day photo gallery and see if you can spot the one of a kind biscuit decorated to look like Mr Willis!

Almost £100 pounds was raised.

To see photos of this event, visit our gallery here...

Tree Planting

Today, children in Phase 2 (Years 2, 3 & 4), braved the frost, snow and bitterly cold wind to walk to the nearby Trymside Open Space to help members of TreeBristol, Trees for Cities and the Forest of Avon, along with volunteers from HSBC, plant new trees and hedges to improve the local environment.

There was even a visit by the Lord Mayor, who helped plant the trees and hundreds of hedging whips around the boundary of the large open space surrounding the River Trym.

Among the 24 new trees planted were River Birch, Wild Cherry, Beech and Alder. For more information about the event and the TreeBristol organisation, click here.

To see photos of this event, visit our gallery here...

Badock's Wood Given Thumbs Up!

After a recent monitoring visit from an HMI Inspector, a year after the school was taken out of special measures, Badock's Wood Primary School received the fantastic news that further progress has been made thanks to new Head Teacher Mr Willis and Deputy Miss Pingree.

Mo Roberts, the visiting Inspector, said, “Behaviour, attendance, teaching and learning are all much better. The school has begun to move forward on all the issues raised at the last inspection.”

Mr Willis, Head Teacher, said, “This report is just the start of our journey.”

Everyone at Badocks Wood Primary is excited about and looking forward to the future.

To read an article about this success in the Bristol Evening Post, click here...