This week in Barn Owls' Computing lessons, they have been learning about nested loops and coding. The children have worked hard to understand this tricky and digital process. 

The Snowy Owls investigated what happens to the particles in a solid, liquid and gas. 

​We began our academic year by working collaboratively across the school to create this piece of artwork. We recognise that everyone on our planet is equal and we celebrate and respect one another’s differences. Every child has created a person that reflects them and is included on our display.

The Tawny Owls are discussing Technology Around Us during Computing. They have successfully started to use their logins to turn on a Chromebook, find the search engine Google and open programs such as, Paintz to create pictures and Code.org to learn how to drag and drop objects. 

This Wednesday afternoon, Barn Owls children shared their reading and story books with the residents of Springfields. The children showed excellent speaking and communication skills and all the residents enjoyed their visit; many smiles could be seen around the room. 

We were very lucky to have Angela the Food For Thought Gardens teacher visit Bridestowe to work with the school gardeners.
Angela supported the children with planting broad beans and to discuss the next steps for our wonderful garden at Bridestowe.

The Snowy Owls and residents of Springfields enjoyed their first visit of the academic year. A valuable experience for all age groups. The Snowy Owls demonstrated confident reading skills - well done. 

Well done to the children who were selected for the role of Sports Council after submitting an application for the job. These children will be an important part of our physical activities across the school. 

Children applied for the job of school gardener. We are proud to share that these children along with Archie S, Skye, Louie and Millie C (not pictured) have been given the role. We are excited to see what this group can achieve in our green spaces around our school grounds. 

This week children took part in an election process to select our new School Council members. Mrs Harris is very much looking forward to working with the School Council on whole school projects this year. Well done to everyone who put themselves forward for the role and congratulations to the children who were selected by their peers. 

Today in Barn Owls, we voted for our School Council, Sports Council and Class Gardener Representatives. Different individuals wrote their own speeches, discussed their campaign and then created posters which they placed around the school environment. Each candidate presently their speeches eloquently, audience members listened actively and then an anonymous vote, using our school ballot box, took place. The class' choice will be announced later this week - watch this space!  

In Mindfulness Club this week we practised the skill of mindful eating. We made sure we had no distractions, we looked and smelt what we were eating before taking a small bite and tasting the food. Sometimes we eat without thinking but by slowing down and taking notice of what we are eating we can really taste and enjoy our meals. 

Meet the wonderful Snowy Owls! The children took a lot of time and effort in creating these effective portraits. They looked carefully at their faces and drew the other side. 

The Snowy Owls are proud to share their final 'Here We Are' artwork. This work is connected to our learning in English based on the text written by Oliver Jeffers.

This week in our Physical Education lessons, we explored how we could improve and develop our ball skills in small groups. We had to manipulate the ball around our bodies in different ways. We then moved on to using different passes such as the chest pass. 

This half term the Tawny Owls are learning about sculpture. We are using natural resources throughout the unit and this week started with clay. The pupils explored manipulating the clay using different techniques with their hands and tools - I think that you will agree the mini models they created are brilliant!

Today we started to explore our new school text - Here We Are written by Oliver Jeffers. We discussed space and created our own space pictures. The Snowy Owls particularly enjoyed flicking the white paint across their page and adding the final touches to their artwork. We are looking forward to displaying them in our classroom and reading more of the text next week. 

The children worked in teams to generate a list of class rules. We shared these rules and discussed which we felt were most important for our class and our learning. Each new line started with 'I will...' Once everyone was happy with the list we signed it to show that we agree and will do our best to follow the class rules.