Following their wonderful Assembly, The Leopards gave an encore in Special Assembly. The ‘Please Mrs. Butler’ was performed alongside the demonstration of the strength of a drinking straw! It was quite clear that the participants enjoy Science and have learnt the properties of many materials during their topic of ‘Mega Structures.’ Well done on your hard work this term!
Year One Leopards have been classifying materials in their Science work with Miss Horne. They have also conducted a range of experiments on strength and compared lollypop sticks and art straws. Be sure to attend their Assembly on 7th February in order to share their conclusions! Many congratulations to the week’s Superstar Award Winner. From Year 1 Leopards, her testimonial from Miss Horne features the word ‘always’: she always tries her best, always works hard, is always kind to others and always sets a great Birkwood example. A wonderful collection of reasons for this well deserved award! Well done!
Our choir, ballroom dancers and drama group entertained us in tremendous fashion at the annual Christmas Soiree. The drama group starred several Year 5 pupils in lead roles as they treated us to a version of Scrooge. Several fabulous debuts were made! The Ballroom team performed wonderfully well with children from Years 1-6 involved. Our choir shared some Young Voices material as well as leading carols around the tree! A wonderful, evening, well done to everyone involved, especially Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Porter for their hard work and organisation. Our Ballroom Dancers graced the Metrodome again at the Team Barnsley Christmas Event. In a crowd of approximately 300, Birkwood sold over 200 tickets! Our fabulous parents showed terrific support to children from years 1-6! Miss Betts even carried off the raffle prize – which she promptly donated to the Soiree Evening (thank you Miss Betts for that kind gesture). Well done to Mrs. Porter for her tireless work in dance and to the many children involved – some as young as 5! Also, www.birkwood.org.uk would like to thank Mr Thompson for the Ballroom and Soirée photographs which he has kindly allowed us to use for these website entries! Key Stage 1 led our Christmas Celebration with a wonderful version of the Nativity Story. Key Stage 2 helped with the singing although the main stars were certainly our younger children. With multiple narrators, the speaking was superb. The huge audience certainly enjoyed our version of this most famous story. Many thanks to the staff, led by Mrs Exley who worked so hard on the script, singing and costume. Our parents, as always, turned out in great numbers to enjoy this festive event that reminded us why we celebrate Christmas. Our usual Monday Morning Assembly was livened up by our Key Stage 1 Gymnastics Team performing their new routine. Still two weeks away from the competition, they wowed our parents, children and staff with their cartwheels, balances and teamwork all set to music. Well done to all of the children who were superb. Many thanks to Mrs Porter for her coaching skills and to the parents for taking the audience figures to above 250! The competition can’t come soon enough! When asked why this boy was awarded our Superstar Trophy, Mrs Cattell gave three reasons and all of these started with the word always! This hard worker who is kind to everyone in school richly deserves the trophy and certificate. He is a great role model to all and has the ability to charm everyone he meets! Well done, we’re all very proud of you!
The year 1 Leopards have settled well into their new classroom. They are enjoying the various activities, cars, jigsaws etc but the favourite seems to be dressing up as knights and princesses. |
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