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...