BPS News

The word in the corridor

Issue 9 Spring 2008

Inside this issue:

The Baftas 2008 Maypole Club Jazz Dancing French Trip Chess Club Ocean Commotion Science out of School Library News Sport Relief Bronze, Silver and Green World Book Day Disney Wordsearch Teacher Feature 2 2 3 3
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Filming the films

By Courtney Cheshire
Becta is the national ICT support provider for schools. They came to our school to make three films all about our learning platform (we call it the VLE). The films will be shown to teachers in schools across the country to encourage other schools to start a learning platform. Many people across the school were filmed. The three themes they filmed are:

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Pupil voice, which includes the online newspaper and school council. Anytime anywhere, which shows how we can make music at home and upload it onto the VLE. Whole family learning which shows how our parents got involved in making our Bafta films. The film crew who came reported that they were very impressed with all the film making they had seen.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP PRODUCE THIS PAPER? THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS TO GET INVOLVED, FROM WRITING ARTICLES AND REPORTING THE LATEST NEWS, TO TAKING PHOTOS OR DRAWING CARTOONS. ITS YOUR PAPER, SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SAY! COME ALONG TO THE NEXT MEETING (WELL ANNOUNCE IT IN ASSEMBLY NEXT TERM), OR GO ON THE VLE. CONTACT US: BPS NEWS, C/O BUCKINGHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, FOSCOTT WAY, BUCKINGHAM MK18 1TT TEL: 01280 812864

Picture courtesy of Ric Mellis

Have you been on the VLE lately? On the Baftas page there is a three minute movie from Becta team and the introduction for the Baftas. WHY DONT YOU GO AND HAVE A LOOK!

More on the VLE You can find more articles, puzzles, quizzes and comments on the BPS News area of the VLE!

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THE BAFTAS 2008 BY SUFIA MOMEN

Brilliant use of Technology - William Roberts, for The Eggs. Tremendous use of Animation - Sarah Bagshaw for Bears on the Beach. Wonderful effort - Lorraine Clayton for Gymnastics Sparkly Performances - James and Charlotte Kirkup for The Big Filma 007 Film Fantastic use of Special Effects - Issy Reynolds for Bob. Brilliant use of Sounds - Bethan and Euan Williams for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Phantom Raspberry Blower Amazingly Original Idea Jonathon George for Dancing Dudes.

The BAFTAS was a big success this year. The Friends provided refreshments such as pop corn, rainbow drops, and drinks in the library throughout the evening to add to the enjoyment. There were 75 movies made. The movies were made with pivot stick animation, stop motion animation and some movie makers just used a normal video camera . At the end of the movies Mr. Adams announced some special awards. These were:

Inspired use of Characters - Amelia Kendal for The Twits Superb Direction - Joe Greener for Wheres my Teddy?

Mr Adams announced that all the children taking part were Most Sparkling Storyline - Freddy Wilkinson, for winners!! The Gingerbread Man.

Maypole club
By Athena Tzallas

SPRING
BY DOMINIC BUTCHER

At the end of January Miss Youngs, Mrs Brown and Mrs Burman started running a maypole club for all the children in KS2 on a Wednesday. The purpose of the club was to let children learn maypole dances to perform to their parents in May and also at the Spring Fair. Many children enjoy it and have a lot of fun each week. .I went along one week and interviewed EllaMarie Rudd in Year 5. She said that she loved going to Maypole club and she is enjoying making new friends. She also explained that she liked doing the

spider web dance because she loves the pattern on the maypole at the end. Laura Million, also in Year 5, said she liked going to the club because she loves doing maypole as in Year five they do not do this type of dance. I think maypole is an enjoyable club and if any body else is interested in going to the club letters are available from the office.

Summer is on the way but theres spring first. Pretty daises blossom in the sun. Really fine weather that makes the plants develop. Interesting creatures flourish in the warmth. New growth sprouts from the ground. Great and small enjoy the longer days.

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Jazz Dancing
By Athena Tzallas and Laura Million
By Alexander Dunne

Chess club is a great place to practise your chess and improve your strategies by playing against other people. Best for people who know how to play chess but anyone is welcome. There are tournaments to win big prizes. It is on at Thursday after school in the library and ends at 4.10pm. And for more information ask Mrs Thackery.

Many people across the school in year 5 and 6 do jazz after school and in school on Friday afternoon. It takes place in the performing arts room where people get to do drama and dance. The lesson in school hours starts at 1:10pm until 2:10pm for the year 5s but for the year 6s it starts at 2:10pm until 3:10pm. Everybody enjoys it very much and always have a great time.
YOUR NEWSPAPER CLUB NEEDS YOU!
By Samantha Rudd Newspaper club needs help. We need more reporters to write more articles. Do you have a particular interest you could write about? Are you in a group or club that you would like to tell the school about? We meet in the ICT Suite at 12.30pm on Thursdays. Keep a watch in the KS2 Library for the date of the first meeting. Parent helpers are also neededcontact Jane Butcher on janebutcher @hotmail.co.uk for details.

Ahoy The Pirate Ship Has Just Landed

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!FRENCH TRIP!
By Samantha Rudd

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Lucky KS1 children have just got new equipment including: Pirate ship 2 play houses Sand pit Water pit Slides Climbing roads And much more! All this equipment is safe, all thanks to Mrs Gadd, Miss Clayton and Miss Barnes whose idea it was to get it built. And here we are with some exiting interviews ... Toby-James Fisher Etherington Age 5 (Who is in Reception and who has been on the equipment!): His favourite piece of equipment was all of it. He says he always has his friends with him on the play equipment. Toby-James says theres nothing he doesnt like! So a well done for Toby for giving up his time for a mini interview. Miss Clayton and Miss Barnes (Reception Teachers): At break the children go on it class by class, otherwise they go on it all together and they sometimes use it for PE. They said they think it will build up the childrens balancing and climbing skills! Miss Clayton and Miss Barnes said they think the best equipment for the children is all of it. Thank you to Miss Barnes and Miss Clayton for their time.

On the 3rd-5th of June some year 5 pupils are going to France on a school trip. Maxine London said that It will be fun and enjoyable because my friends will be there Laura Burnett said It will be cool to visit to all different places Louise Brunt said It will be extremely exciting because we get to try lots of new and different foods We will be going to a bakery and hopefully to the aquarium. It will be good because we will have to use some of the French we have been learning in school. We will report back after we have been to France so you can find out more about it!

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Science Out Of School

Have you been to the library lately? We have got a load of brand new, brilliant books. Do you enjoy adventure stories? Or is comedy your style? Youll find something to suit all tastes and reading abilities in the fiction section of the KS2 library. In the non-fiction section we have a range of information books, including World War 2, Sports and Science. Whatever subjects you are looking at in your year groups there is sure to be a book for you. Are you up to date on current events? First News is a child-friendly newspaper which can be found in your library. Dont forget the library is open every lunch time. We look forward to seeing you there!
By Sam Bristow

By Dominic Butcher
On 14th February Year 4 went to the Science Museum in London for a school trip. It was brilliant. The launchpad A place where you could experiment on your own was very good. You could experiment with bubbles, using the flow of water for electricity & how holograms are made! Really good physical activity William Crisp. Excellent and fascinating Alexander Dunne. After we left the launchpad we went and had lunch. It was very tasty! Comment: I liked it because there was every part of science there.
Answers to Teacher Feature Teacher no.1: Mrs Else. No.2: Mrs Powell. No.3: Mrs Coates

Ocean Commotion
By Kanza Elmrabti and Hannah Hens
Ocean Commotion is all about a Hammer Head Shark who falls in love with a dolphin. When he first meets her it is out in the ocean and they both sing a love song to show how much they love each other. Then the dolphin goes to play with people on the shore and the porpoises and other sea creatures warn the dolphin to look out for nets and hooks in case she gets caught. When the bottle nosed dolphin goes to play with the humans she doesnt look where she is going and gets caught. The people who were given the bottlenose dolphin named her Dolly, and they taught her how to play their games and then put her on a show. The other sea animals said that Dolly was nearly a human. Year 3 produced this show earlier this term. They all dressed up as fish and other sea creatures and sang lots of songs and danced in this sparkling performance.

SENSATIONAL SLAMMER
By Harriet Morris A few days ago Year Six were invited to London to appear on the CBBC programme The Slammer, (a prison for entertainers.) While we were there we watched 4 acts: The Amazing Christopher, a puppeteer that danced with puppets the size of humans. Veloviski, two Western people who used whips to do anything they wanted. Grim Baldy and the Bear, a circus master and a dancing bear (who was not as he seemed!) Roller Skaters, an amazing woman who hung on to a man with one hand while being swung around over his head. According to everyone who went, it was better than watching the show on the television. If you do watch it, hope you like it and recognise some familiar faces from Year 6. Thank you to all of the staff who gave up their time to take us.

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WORLD BOOK DAY ASSEMBLY By Alexander Dunne

On Wednesday the 5TH March it was World Book Day. This was also the day of the BAFTAs. During the day each KS2 year group performed in front of the rest of KS2. Their performances were based on books. Year 3 performed THE WHALE AND THE SNAIL. Year 4 performed VOICES IN THE PARK. Year 5 & Year 6 performed GUESS THE STORY. The teachers and support staff also came dressed up and described their characters in little speeches. The day was a great success
Picture courtesy of Mrs Sawyer

SPORT RELIEF BY Kanza Elmrabti During Sport Relief week in March KS2 raised money for sport relief. On Friday the 14th we were encouraged to come dressed in sports related clothes. We made a donation for this and also gave money for completing a mile in our games lessons during the week. The money is now going to be sent to poor places such as Africa, to be used for medicines, clean water and other projects. Thank you for supporting this appeal. Buckingham Primary School raised 470.

Bronze, Silver, Green by Rory Butcher

The Bronze Award is something schools can work for, in terms of eco-friendliness. To obtain this achievement, you and your school have to do a certain number of things that are listed on the Eco-Schools website. BPS has successfully completed the listed requirements, such as: Produced a basic Action Plan and shared this plan with the rest of the school and have an obvious, designated noticeboard, web page or newsletter which outlines Eco-Schools activities. This means we have achieved this Award. Miss Youngs, Head of the Eco-Action Team said, I am very, very excited. I am also delighted that The Eco-Action Team have worked so hard, alongside the rest of the school, to achieve this award! The Eco-Action Team are now aiming for The Silver Award, the next rank up, and then, finally, The Green Flag, the highest level.

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DISNEY FILM WORDSEARCH BY ATHENA TZALLAS

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Teacher Feature by Samantha Rudd & Maxine London

Teacher 1: Her favourite colour is blue She has a dog called Freya and two guinea pigs. Her hair colour is brown Her favourite TV programme is Grand Designs Teacher 2: Her favourite colour is red Teacher 3: Her favourite colour is blue

She has two cats called She has no pets Dougal and Marley Her hair colour is Her hair colour is brown blonde and brown Her favourite TV Her favourite TV programme is programme is Friends Coronation Street

Her favourite lessons to Her favourite subjects teach are Maths, to teach are Maths and Her favourite lessons to Games and I.C.T Geography teach are Maths and Science
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