Autumn Term 2013

New Little Learners

By Ellie Lunt-Lloyd and Dylan Cotgreave

The Day the Royal Navy Visited

BY TRISTAN WEETCH
The whole school started this terms good at it at the beginning, but we got topic on the sea with a visit from the better. Beth and Dan told us we were really good by the end. Navy . Eva Carman told us all about what Class 2 did. Dan and Beth came wearing their full uniform. They told us about their uniform and showed us the badge on their arm which showed some wings. This was because they were engineers in the Navy.

Welcome to all the new Reception children. It is fantastic to have them all. We have already spent happy playtimes playing with them and seen some of their work in sharing assembly. We think all the new children think it is wonderful at Bickerton as whenever we see them they always have nice big smiles on their faces. We asked Mrs Tudor what her new children were like, Class one are very helpful, happy, settled, kind to each other and full of mischief. We would also like to welcome the other children who have joined us this year: in Class 3 we have Luke Madeley and Calum Rodway; in Class 4 we have Chap Adams and Class 5 Ruth Ivanova. All of our teachers and other staff are always so lovely to all children who are new. We all do our best to make them feel a part and welcomeI think we have all succeeded!

We then had great fun playing a game where we had to pretend to fix the plane, clean the plane and best of all fly the plane.

They check and fix the planes. We then all tried on their hats. It was good fun and Mrs Vaughan and Mrs Shone said that we looked good in it. It looked very big on some of us! Next we went outside into the play ground and Beth taught us how to march like they do in the Navy. We had to march together and stop when she shouted Halt!. We werent very

Each class enjoyed the visit from the Naval Engineers and learnt a lot at the start of their new topic.

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Sad Goodbyes
BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL Sadly last term both Mrs Boothby and Mrs Kirk left. We had a special assembly for both of them and we gave them gifts. In her leaving assembly Mrs B. came in with a box ready to put on her head, so people didnt see her crying. We found this funny! We also sang a special song and the Year 6 girls danced to itthis did make Mrs B. cry!

We presented cards and gifts to both of them so hopefully they will not forget us!

Ross and Jacob were fantastic presenters leading us through amongst other things, Who wants to be a Millionaire? where of course all the answers were Mrs B. and making us all laugh with a dance. We couldnt let her cry the whole time!

Mrs B. gave us a bench to remember her by (and the Staff were treated too!)thank you Mrs B. We will never forget either of you and hope you both have a good time. (It has been good to have Mrs Kirk back with us on supply recently and Mrs B. is settling into her new school and enjoying the new challenges. She misses us all though. The Editor)

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Toys and Games

BY RACHEL JOHNSON

Danny has the Fergus Factor

BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND CHRISTY MORRISBARNES sonssomeone who shows the amazing spirit of Fergus. This award was set up in memory of Fergus Hunter, a pupil at Bickerton who showed amazing spirit and courage after he became very ill. He always had a smile on his face, was determined to carry on and became an example to us all. Last term the Fergus Factor was awarded to Danny Mosford. We asked Danny how he felt when he received the award. I felt so happy and excited and very proud of myself. I did not think it would be me and it was a total surprise. At Bickerton we have an award called the Fergus Factor which is awarded to a Well done Danny, you deserve it! pupil who is has been a brilliant person or who has worked extremely hard in les- We wonder who will be the next Bickerton pupil to earn this special award.

Last years School Councillors bought us lots of toys and games to play with from the money you all gave at Cookie Day. We have both indoor games for wet play and outdoor games. The marble runs have been particularly popular. Everyone has enjoyed playing with all the games, so thank you last years School Councillors.

Oliver stars again!

Oliver in Class 5 has been performing The Turn of the Screw. Tom, William and Sophie have been to watch it and said it was brilliant. It is a ghost story from the Shakespeare novel, Much Ado about Nothing. Oliver also had a treat - watching the play himself! He absolutely loved it! Oliver has already got his next play ready: Accrington Pals. He is looking forward to that as well. Well done Oliver!

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SUPER SCHOOL COUNCILLORS!

BY RACHEL JOHNSON

LOVELY LIBRARIANS
BY ZOE VAUGHAN AND SASHA PRICE Once again the lovely librarians are back Issie, Sasha, Sophie and Zoe. They are going to make the library tidy, there are going to be lots of competitions and lots of new books. The competitions are based on colouring and puzzles or writing stories. They are going to make the library tidy and fun. There is going to be puzzles in the library like word searches and crosswords. They have a meeting every week to make the library more appealing and better. Mrs Chesworth said: I am really looking forward to working with the new librarians. They are full of fantastic ideas which will benefit the school. The librarians will be visiting three libraries one at Bishop Heber, one in Whitchurch and the education library in Winsford.

This year we have another group of amazing School Councillors. The School Council is run brilliantly by Mrs Tudor and Miss Gittins. These children all impressed their class-mates who voted for them to represent the year. The Juniors also had to give a speech before votes were cast.

(see article later in the magazine)

Thank you Mrs Chesworth.

Here is the amazing team: Year 1: Alex Lightfoot and Molly Barber Year 2: Ava Dilworth and Angus Adamson Year 3: Jack Tompkins and Ruby Cotgreave Year 4: Bob Vaughan and Millie Smith Year 5: Rachel Johnson and Matty Bailey Year 6: Issie Harman and Sebastian Armstrong They have had their first meeting and have already thought of some super events for the school. Mrs Vaughan asked Rachel if she could share some of the ideas, but she responded by saying Its a surprise wait and see. If anyone has any ideas for the school, please let any of these fantastic School Councillors know and they will bring them to the next meeting.

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FUN FOREST SCHOOLS

BY TRISTAN WEETCH Class 4 have had great Wednesday afternoons doing been found in the scavenger hunt. Forest Schools. They have been up Bickerton Hill with Jason their guide. They have had lots of fun planning things such as building a village of dens! The scavenge hunt brought up treasures such as mushrooms, We began by making shelters by using plastic. We different types of bark, animal made them by putting rope between two trees, footprints and holes and Callum hanging the plastic over and then tied the edges. found a grasshopper.

One week they built dens and carried on with the ones that were already started. Gardens and fires were built around the dens. Then some of the class went on a scavenger hunt and some of them learnt some knots. We got in a right tangle when we tangled ourselves up and we had to try and get back into a circle. Even the rain didnt stop the fun as a big parachute was put up keeping everyone dry. The lanterns were made by using sticks, string and back in class we put on tissue paper.

While under the parachute the class looked at peoples lanterns that they had made and what had

We asked Bob what he thought about Forest Schools: It was brilliant fun especially when Jasons son and daughter came because they helped us find more things and we had great fun breaking down the dens. But it was sad to see them go.

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DIRTY DELAMERE
BY MOLLY TUDOR AND GEMMA DULSON Year 3 and year 4 went on an amazing trip to Fox Howl, Delamere! When we first arrived, Stella, our fantastic guide, took us on a walk around Delamere Forest, where we discovered Wood Sorrel (Wood Sorrel is a type of edible plant with heart-shaped leaves). We also found out lots of other interesting things. Curry (Dinner). The trip to Delamere was brilliant, loads of people said that they really enjoyed it.

Jack Tompkins, Year 3, jumped into a wet, muddy puddle and his face was plastered in mud; he fell over in it! Jack was moaning for the rest of the day; even when he was in dry clothes, he was still moaning! We slept in epic bunk beds the boys bedroom had red and yellow stripes on the wall paper, while the girls had a sheep on their wall paper with a purple back round. Food there is delicious especially the bacon (Breakfast), Tuna sandwiches (Lunch) and

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KIPPERS PARTY!
BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND LILY GORMAN On Friday 13th November, Class 1 had a special visitor. It was our old friend Kipper, back again! Class 1 had a big Birthday party for him which they needed to plan for and set up. On the morning of the party, Kipper was sent to his Grans for an early present opening session. The children all worked very hard with the preparations, including making Birthday cards with lovely neat writing inside for him . They also had to make crispy chocolate cakes, with a secret ingredient, syrup which made the cakes really sticky. (Dont tell any oneThe Editor!) Everyone loved them. Also they made strawberry jelly, just to make it right! They found it tough to tear out of the jelly block. They made a HUGE banner for the party, which was very colourful and amazing party hats which were so pretty! To make the party yummy, everyone brought in some snacks like crisps and vegetables. Mrs Latham said that it was the healthiest party that she had ever been to!!!!

There was lots of excitement as Kipper arrived at about 11 oclock and this year he was 5 (AGAIN!!!!!!!) A HUGE box arrived which was full of balls that was given to Class 1 from Kipper.

After that the party started!!!! It was FAB and everyone loved partying! Kippers cake was very yummy!

BICKERTONS BUZZARD On our field we have our own Bickerton Buzzard. He likes to come in the late evening and early morning. Mrs Parsons calls the Buz-

BY LILY GORMAN zard Monty. He likes to sit on the climbing frame and the school fence. See if you can spot him anytime.

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LIBRARY INTRODUCES COMPETITIONS

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL AND SASHA PRICE The librarians set two competitions - a colouring one for infants and designing a spooky book cover for juniors. Winners got a big packet of sweets obviously Halloween themed. We announced the winners in sharing assembly. They were Y6-Lucy Bourne, Y5-Chap Adams, Y4- Emily Fowles, Y3-Ruby Cotgreave, Y2Ciaran Dunne Y1George Nield and Reception- Beatrice Cundy. Also everybody who entered got a mini packet of sweets - an amazing 60 people entered! It was a very hard decision. Our next event will be to write a winter poem which will be presented in the Junior library. Sadly this time it is only for the Juniors. So we hope you enjoy this upcoming event as much as you did the spooky competition. Thank you for everybody who enteredyour creations were amazing.

Magnificent Magazine Reporters

BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND CHRISTY MORRIS-BARNES

There is a new amazing gang of reporters in Bickerton for the magazine. Heres a bit about them:
Sophie wanted to join the Magazine because she enjoys it and loves taking part of it. Likes: Everything Molly wanted to join the magazine because she loves reading the magazine and wants to be a part of it. Likes: Lego Harry Potter. Dislikes: Sprouts Dylan wanted to join the magazine because he wants to be part of the Bickerton Bulletin. Likes: International Rugby. Dislikes: Beetroot Rachel wanted to join because she wants to be part of it. Likes: Animals, chocolate and fun. Dislikes: Cabbage, Maths and Sprouts Gemma wanted to join because she wanted to be part of something big. Likes: Horse riding and Chocolate. Dislikes: Spiders and Sprouts Tristan wanted to have his name on the page. Likes: Football. Dislikes: Sprouts and mustard. Sasha did it last year so she wanted to do it again because it was so fun. Likes: Chocolate. Dislikes: Spiders Ellie wanted to join because she wanted to learn different skills and all her friends said it was amazing. Likes: Her bike. Dislikes: Spiders Billy wanted to join because when he looked at the magazine he admired it and wanted to do it. Likes: Sweets. Dislikes: Baked Beans . Lily wanted to join because she has always loved English and writing reports. Likes: Horses. Dislikes: Beetroot and Cabbage Christy wanted to join because everyone was saying that it was fantastic so she really wanted to join. Likes: Pizza. Dislikes: Maths and Cabbage

FANTASTIC FREYA
BY RACHEL JOHNSON Freya Davies has spent a long time working with Mrs Chesworth doing the Rapid Reading to help her with her work. She has now completed the course having put a lot of her own time into it too and she has done really well. lot better as well Has it been hard work? Yes it has been hard work, especially when the computer didnt work! Has it been worth doing? Yes it was definitely worth doing.

Mrs Chesworth said What a star! Freya has been a delight to work with and her reading skills have come on leaps and bounds. Over the last 18 months she has worked exceptionally hard with me at school and We spoke with Freya and with her family at home. we asked her some quesFreyas determination to tions; Have you enjoyed it? Yes succeed has certainly paid I have really enjoyed it and off. it was really fun Are you a lot more confi- Well done Freyayou are dent? Yes I am a lot more a star and we are all really confident in my work and a proud of you.

So there are the amazing magazine reporters who this year are going to make a brilliant Bickerton Bulletin. If there is anything you would like adding to the magazine please let one of these reporters knowit is after all, your magazine.

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AMAZING ALAN
BY GEMMA DULSON AND ELLIE LUNT-LLOYD At our school we are linked with an author; his name is Alan Durant. He is our school laureate and he comes to our school when he can. He came in a few weeks ago and showed us a front cover that he had decided to choose for one of his football books. He showed us the real thing and it was brilliant. He also told us that he went to Mr McCain (Fins Dad) to find some ideas for his book, which is about horses and he wanted some ideas. He said that he really enjoyed looking at the horses and finding lots of ideas. He asked us in assembly if we liked horses or not, loads of hands went up! When Alan Durant comes in he reads us some of his stories and poemssometimes they are in draft and sometimes completed. This time he showed us one that had been printed that he read to us in draft form last time. It is always fun to hear Alan and listen to his new poems and stories.

STORY TIME
BY SASHA PRICE AND SOPHIE FURNIVAL
Every Thursday the librarians go and read a 20 minutes story with class 1. We have just had our first story with them and they are already loving our choices of books. They respond very well to our questions and are always screaming out the answers. We have read them Super Pants, Silly Billy, The Best Loved Bear and The Bears and the Great Big Storm. Whenever we come in they are always sitting quietly and waiting for us. At the front there are always some keen listeners. We think they are enjoying it and we are going to change the theme of books as we go through the year. We talked to Class 1 about their special story time. This is why t they thought: Leo said he loved the stories they chose and they read well; Gwen told us that the librarians are lovely and Fred loves hearing what happens next in the story. Zoe, one of the readers told us that it was scary knowing they are all looking at you but she was glad she did it. Thank you Librarianswhat a lovely idea.

Winsford Library Visit

BY SASHA PRICE AND SOPHIE FURNIVAL The school librarians went on a visit to Winsford library. We were given a tour around the library by their librarian and got shown the back room where they send the books, receive the books, and where they store the objects to send to schools. They supply over 500 schools including ours. The librarian let us pick a FEW books NOT 4 trolleys full! We got books from authors including: Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and loads others. They also sell DVDS and we got one, Shrek the 3rd. Because we were so good we got a hot chocolate and Zoe being Zoe put 5 sugars in her hot chocolate! We are so grateful to the staff of Winsford library for sparing their own time to show us round their amazing library. Thank you Mrs Chesworth for taking us there and buying us hot chocolate. And we cant wait to go backwhen we do, can we have another hot chocolate please Mrs Chesworth?

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VISIT TO RHYL
BY DYLAN COTGREAVE AND GEMMA DULSON Years 1, 2 and 3 went to the SeaQuarium in Rhyl and the beach as part of their topic. The SeaQuarium was very interesting and they were introduced to sea creatures from different sea habitats. They had a talk w h e r e they even stroked star fish. The children were fascinated by sting ray eggs known as mermaid purses (The teachers were also sharks and a big tunnel they could walk through where all the fish were around them. One of

the really fun things according to Maisy Tudor who told us all about the trip was running with the seals. They also went on the beach and were digging a giant castle and making other sculptures using the natural things around. The giant castle even had a sofa on it and Maisie wanted to go to sleep. The weather was so nice they even had sandwiches on the beach. Maisie said that she had a really fun time.

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SCURVY PIRATES
BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND CHRISTY MORRIS-BARNES

On the Tuesday before the end of the half term our school had Pirate day. There were lots of different pirates present: Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Hook, Mr Smee and lots of other truly amazing pirates. Class 1,2,3 and 4 did a treasure hunt in the Nature area and on the Field and they had to follow all the clues to find the edible gold!!!! Classes 1,2 and 3 also had to save favourite buddies from their classes which had been taken by the Pirates. If they didn't solve the clues before midday then Bickerton Bear, Squarky and Monkey would have had to face a life on the seas with the Pirates. Thankfully, at the last minute the clues were solved, the map completed and the buddies discovered! Class 5 did projects on piratesMrs Chapman let us choose how we presented it. Some children did raps, songs, poems and quizzes for their class mates to enjoy. Everyone enjoyed the fun day with lots of Pirate activities and we would love to have it again!!!!!!

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FUN IN CLASS
Class 1 have been busy with their new topic Ice and Snow!!!They have really enjoyed doing all
sorts of interesting work. For example Class 1 really enjoyed it when Blue came in, Blue is a polar bear, who wore a blue scarf. They also enjoyed it when Mrs Latham got the sparkly white play dough out, They said they had a brilliant time making all kinds of shapes out of that. Class 1 tried to make polar bears but it was a bit too tricky. Also they had been making pictures with potatoes, the picture made a penguin, when they had finished their hands were covered in paint Mrs Tudor told them to go and wash their hands. Class 1 have been making jumping jellyfish with paper plates, cellophane and finally bubble wrap. They really enjoyed making these funny creatures!!! They have also enjoyed making snails out of paper plates and decorated them with pens and crayons. They look brilliant you should go and see them! Class 1 have had a blasting time doing lots of different things with Mrs Tudor and Mrs Latham, thank you for letting them do so much fun things.

Class 2 have enjoyed looking at lighthouses, creatures in the sea and more recently Ice and Snow.
They have loved building igloos, exploring the properties of ice and water and finding out about Penguins, Walruses, Polar bears and Beluga Whales. Making stained glass biscuits was fun as well as the challenge to float a stone and build the best boat! They also saw what happened when salt was added to ice. They loved being real scientists when they tried to find out which material stopped you slipping and which mopped up water the best. Class 2 have got some amazing displays which they loved producing work for!!! They have a Pirate Stew display, one on ice and snow with tube penguins and symmetrical painted penguins-some ended up with double-headed penguins (!) and some had symmetrical twins! The tube penguins even had googly eyes! Class 2 have also produced a SIMPLY amazing Display based on The Lighthouse Keeper! The Lighthouse display is on the largest display. One of the really popular things in Class 2 is the Kapla they have loved making lighthouses, bridges and igloos out of it. It seems that the challenge is to make the tallest igloo or lighthouse!

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Class 3s topic is Ice and Snow and they have been working on a book called Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. In literacy theyve been describing people and been working on the setting. They have also been doing role plays about the Ice Palace, in assembly. Also they have been working on the Arctic and the animals habitats. In science theyre going to be doing electric circuits which will be working a Santa alarm. They are doing collage with ice and snow, made up of all sorts of strips of blue and turquoise paper they used the glue guns and squirted it all over, they drew letters on the back. Class 3 do French every day they really enjoy it. They do the register and dinners in French. Class3 have been amazing with all their work. In class 4, they have been working on space and water. In maths they
did grids showing how long sea animals are and they loved making space alien masks out of maths square grids. In literacy, they wrote stories about the sea and they also wrote a diary about going to V2 and how they felt because lots of people died. Writing about water stories was another one of their literacy topic. They have also enjoyed finding out about Shark facts, Humpback Whale facts, where Whales and Dolphins live, which animals around the world live in streams and rivers, why do sea animals live in the sea. In art, the class painted their topic book covers with lots of different shades of blue. Also they have also done models of planets (fun they commented). They did food chains, facts about sea animals, facts about the river Dee and loads more exciting things. Also they have made timelines about rockets setting off, moon missions and when they happened. Their trip that they went on was to Delamere: it was Year 3 and Year 4. In class 5 we have been very busy with our topic The Blue World. Within that we have done a mini topic on penguins doing allsorts including: Penguins ICT, 365 penguins, debate work and a penguin leaflet. In ICT we went on paint and made our own penguin scene by copying pasting and reflecting. In the end people had penguins fishing swimming and snow-boarding. Mrs Chapman read our class a book called 365 penguins. Its a book about a family that gets delivered a penguin each day and its got lots of maths in it. The first question was about whether you could fit in 61 penguins in an equal triangle. Our debate work is working on sentence openers and debating whether penguins should be kept in zoos. We have also been working on non -chronological leaflets about penguins which has lots of facts including what they eat and where they live a lot of hard work has gone into the penguin leaflets. With Mrs Tedham we have been doing poems, baptism and islands. With the poems we have done them about blue and rivers. First of all we had to write down all the things that are blue we ended up with the sky flowers birds and loads more. With the river poem we ended up with really good poemsthey even got read out in assembly! In the practical area we have been doing blue pictures using different shades of blue (people did boats, birds abstract pictures and waterfalls.) Also we have been researching all the islands and writing them down then presenting them beautifully in our topic books. In our class we have also been creating some fantasy islands: some did magic island, music islands and chocolate island. We had to was write down the information about the island like the animals and famous places. So class 5 have been very busy and working their socks off !!!

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ONCE UPON A TIME

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL AND LILY GORMAN Once the teachers were children too! We asked them what their best and worst memories of primary school were! Mrs Tudor (Class 1 and Deputy Head ) Best: My Infant teacher. Worst: First day a boy called Steven who stole my dinner money!

Miss Gittins (Class 4) Best: Going on trips Worst: School dinners.

Mrs Latham (Assistant in Class 1) Best: Meeting new friends Worst: We kept moving.

Mrs Tedham (Class 5) Best: Being the main part in the school play! Worst: Having to drink milkfrozen in the winter and sour in the summer.

Mrs Vaughan (Class 2) Best: Learning about history Worst: Semolina with pink raspberry sauce!

Mrs Chapman (Class 5) Best: Playing Rounders. Worst: The uniform which was a yucky bottle green.

Mrs Shone (Assistant in Class 1) Best: The Christmas party Worst: The visit of the Nit nurse

Mrs Chesworth (Assistant in Classes 5 and 4) Best: Playing Hockey. Worst: Sewing.

Mr Rich (Class 3) Best: Break time, football and Cricket. Worst: Having to do homework.

Mr Sweetnam (Head teacher) Best: Roly Poly Jam Pudding Worst: The outdoor toilets.

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Mrs Weaver (Reception) Best: School Dinners Worst: The Nit nurses

Mrs Holmes (Music Teacher) Best : Playing chime bars. Worst: Slipping on ice in year one.

Mrs Parsons (PE teacher and Assistant in Class 1) Best: Being Captain of the Deanery. Worst: Nothing (loved it)

Mrs Clay ( Music teacher.) Best: Playing in playground Worst: Being scared of the big children.

Mr Innis (Caretaker) Best: Playing football. Worst: The playground was too crowded.

Emily (Piano teacher) Best: Going on first residential Worst: Cutting my knee when playing football

Mrs Jenkins (cook) Best: The uniform Worst: The Nit nurse

Ian (Guitar teacher) Best: Delamere Worst: When I was sick in class.

Mrs Billington ( Midday Assistant) Best: P.E lessons Worst: Exams and the dentist.

Revd Anthony Dutton (Curate) Best: Lake District walking trip. Worst: Going to school on the first day.

Mrs Carr (Midday Assistant) Best: Swimming lessons. Worst: Injuries.

Canon Ian Davenport (Rector) Best: Being in the school choir. Worst: Being left at the school gate from the very first day of school because parents were not allowed in school.

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PUMPKIN FUN
BY MOLLY TUDOR
Every year from 20 th-31st October there is a PYO Pumpkin week at one of our local farms. AND a little bit after that-till Halloween! We always have a huge selection of pumpkins and it is always great fun. We had lots of visitors from Bickerton School this year! We got an interview from one of their helpers, Maisy:

MUMS AND DADS GO BACK TO SCHOOL

BY RACHEL JOHNSON On the 9th of October the parents thought that they were going back to school but in fact they had a really fun evening which was so different to school! Ruth Robson held the evening which was for adults and they were talking about how to help children to read and spell. It was held in the school hall and they played lots of practical games. One of the games was called the plural game where they were given words such as pen or church and they had to see a pattern: pen would be pens and church would be churches. The parents found out that you could tell if you added es or s by the number of syllables! Ruth also told the parents the story of the little red hen with lots of fun actions and EVERYONE joined in. They were also told a story that they had never heard before called Monkey see, Monkey do and Ruth got the adults to tell the person next to them the story and then they had to draw it on a storyboard. It was funny because the adults got REALLY, REALLY competitive when playing a game about contraction. The parents really enjoyed the evening. Mrs Vaughan said; It was good to see the parents enjoying spelling and reading and it was a fantastic evening enjoyed by all.

What did you think about the pumpkins?

They were very fun and you got to have a look for your perfect pumpkin-you couldnt leave if you didnt!

What did you mainly do at the pumpkins?

I took wheelbarrows back up on the quad bike.

Were there any funny bits? What were they?

Yes, there were two top funny bits. Well, Molly started me giggling by walking round in socks-then she fell into the sawdust lucky dip-it was in an old bathtub!

Next one?

Uncle Gary has this little video camera and he attached it to a wheelbarrows wheel and ran through the maze-the solution to the winding paths! We look forward to more pumpkin fun next year.

QUIZZES AND PUZZLES If you are wondering where the quizzes, puzzles and jokes have gone from the magazine, then wonder no more. You can find them on the school website, so you can download as many as you want for you and your friends.

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AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS

BY MOLLY TUDOR

Bickerton is, as usual, hosting some afterschool clubs like : Magazine club run by Mrs Vaughan! Mr Sweetnam is doing a fab gymnastics club on Monday. Football is hosted by Mrs Parsons and Mr Rich on Tuesday, while Mrs Chapman does a fab cake club. Mrs Parsons and Mrs Chesworth are doing a Netball club for Y3-Y6 on Wednesday. Mrs Tedham is doing Choir on Thursday during lunch. Finally, Mark is doing Basketball on Friday.

BLUE VISITS INFANTS

BY MOLLY TUDOR Blue is Chester Racecourses Mascot for 21st November-5th January because they are putting on a winter wonderland festival! Blue came to visit Classes 1&2 and the person who came with Blue told the children what they can seat Winter Wonderland: Santa and his

Lots of children are enjoying doing these clubs-we hope you are doing at least one of them!

grotto (with real reindeer!), a special Christmas shopping market, the 3D Movie room, A Write a letter to Santa room, Mrs Santas Story room, a chance to dine with the Wintery Characters and a Fairground and rides! Everybody who met Blue got to have their picture taken, as well as making a very happy friend ship with our wintery friend, Blue!

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Brilliant Bikers!
BY TRISTAN WEETCH and DYLAN COTGREAVE
On Monday and Tuesday the 4th and 5th the signs saying cyclists in training! We were looked Year 5s took part in Bike Ability. We tested after and safe though. It was very hard but we our skills on our bikes by going round and round in got there in the end. a orderly fashion, controlling our ride. After that we did a couple of challenges which inNext we did a slow race which we found really dif- cluded keeping up with the person in front and ficultmost of us just went too fast but some many more little challenges. We completed the were clever and went round in small circles. We course and our homework, and all received a cerlearnt how to get past a parked car which very tificate and tricky as it was a real car that we were practicing badge to on!! But eventually we mastered it. show we had After that we went on the road. Most of us were quite scared, but there was nothing to worry about! We moved on to the road outside the school and we had to cycle from the school to a sign and when we got to the sign we had to do a Uturn in the middle of the road with no help or passed. was and a It fab

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BOOK FAIR
On the 4th-7th of November we had our annual book fair. There was a huge amount of books for all ages to choose from. Everybody came along at the end at of the school day and really enjoyed picking their own books. There was a lovely buzz and atmosphere as people chose. There were other things to buy as well including stationery sets, pencil cases and bookmarks.

BY SASHA PRICE and SOPHIE FURNIVAL

HARVEST DELIGHTS
Its this time of year again -the Harvest is back and this year Class 4 performed a play, and Class 3 did the prayers.

BY SASHA PRICE can improve their lives by planting seeds, growing crops and digging fertilizer into fields.

whopping 281. Out of the profit we bought some new books for the school. The librarians chose some including: You Dont Know Me, The Look, The Wombles and David Walliams new book Demon Dentist.

Thank you for anybody who attended. You did the school a big favour and we hope you are enjoying reading your The profit made was a books.

Canon Davenport then The play that Class 4 per- gave a talk and we sung formed was about poor our Harvest songs. It was people in other countries another lovely Harvest and how they struggle to Festival. get food enough food to feed their families. The play then showed us how organisations and individuals are showing these people how they

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FOOD,GLORIOUS FOOD
BY BILLY BRYANT At Bickerton we have a scrumptious variety of school dinners. For example chicken curry and rice, fish, roast dinner, jacket potatoes, tomato and cheese pasta, sausage rolls, pizza, turkey, quiche and loads more and the deserts [the list is even longer of course]: Ice cream, crumble and custard, flap jack, strawberry mouse, biscuits, chocolate cake, jelly, chocolate angel delight and a whole load more. All the meat veg and fish are all produced locally and one of the local Butchers are Barrows of Bollington. Mrs Jenkins works hard making the food from scratch (just like home cooking!)

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

BY MOLLY TUDOR Everybody in the school has been rushing off to Clarks not to get shoes, but to get shoe BOXES! Its that time of year again when Father Christmas gets stuck up the chimney CHRISTMAS! Some children in other parts of the world dont get presents like we do so we send them shoeboxes full of things to do, toys and useful objects (e.g. Hairbrush, clips, toothbrush, toothpaste). This year we got 58 shoeboxes! Well done, and thank you everyone.

As Mrs Jenkins prepares our lunch delicious smells float through the school. By lunch our tummies are rumbling and our taste buds ready! A few of our favourites are Chocolate flapjack, Fruit crumble, In fact theres so much pizza, raspberry ripple ice yummy choice its not sur- cream roll and roasts on a prising that most children Wednesday. have at least one school dinner every week.

MUSICAL MOMENTS
BY TRISTAN WEETCH and DYLAN COTGREAVE Class 4 ran into the hall when the music people arrived. They introduced themselves as Incredible Ian and Magnificent Matt. We worked on building up a piece by doing each layer which was then saved onto the computer, until all layers were finally put together at the end. It was so clever and sounded really good. They helped us to make a drumming sound with tapping our knees to make a Bass drum, clapping our hands to make a Middle drum and making a Tss Noise to be a Symbol. We thought that Matt and Ian were very good and we even played I Gotta Feeling to the whole school + PARENTS!!! (It sounded amazingThe Editor)

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SPORTS AT BICKERTON
BY GEMMA DULSON
We are taught an amazing range of sports at Bickerton to football events. Primary School and enter many tournaments and competitions. We also have a brilliant, and dedicated P.E teacher Mrs Parsons and Mrs Chesworth (What would Mrs Parsons called Mrs Parsons, who teaches everyone how to do them. do without Mrs Chesworth?) take children to many events such as Cross Country, Orienteering, Deanary, Sports Hall, In lessons Mrs Parsons teaches us how to do netball amongst Handball and Rounder's. other sports. She sometimes enters us into competitions. Mrs Chesworth runs a netball club with her too. We also do Tag Mr Sweetnam takes a Junior class to Whitchurch swimming Rugby which is a sport that Juniors do mostly. It is when baths to learn how to swim each term and he enters us into there are two teams all wearing tags; each team has to get the the swimming tournament. tags off the opposite team. We go to tournaments for Tag Rugby: Years 5 and 6 do one tournament and Years 3 and 4 We have lessons in Dance, Rounders, Hockey and Gym too, do the other. and Mr Sweetnam has a Gym club. Mrs Parsons and Mr Rich do a football club for people that We also have other teachers in to teach us sports such as want to learn how to play football. We dont normally play Cricket, Tennis and Basketball. football as a P.E sport - it is mainly a club sport but we do go

CROSS COUNTRY
BY LILY GORMAN AND DYLAN COTGREAVE

TAG RUGBY
BY TRISTAN WEETCH

This year for the first time Bickerton went to Heber High School, to do a big cross country race. There were 10 other schools, and we came third!!!!!! The year 5s and 6s had to run 1,200 meters (thats the main field and the rugby field.) Whereas the year 3s and 4s only had to run the main field. Lucky them!!!!!!! (It still looked a long way !The Editor) It was hard work, but we were all cheered as we came over the line.

Tag rugby was really good. We scored over 10 tries in total; we were also really good at defending. Everyone who took part did really well. Our Year 6 and 5 team were fantastic -they scored tries like bull dogs, and we even came 3rd. The Year 3 and 4 team had to play in the pouring rain but still managed to play exceptionally well. We had such a good experience with Mums and Dads cheering us on. It was a really good day to remember with all thanks to our two wonderful coaches Mrs Parsons and Mrs Chesworth.

HOCKEY
BY DYLAN COTGREAVE

BASKETBALL
BY TRISTAN WEETCH

Mrs Parsons, Mrs Chesworth and Mr Sweetnam took a group of children to a hockey tournament. The children were split into two teams and they really enjoyed playing. One of the teams won one and drew one, and the other team lost one and drew one. They didnt get into the finals but they all had a really good time.

In Basketball we played against 7 other schools and we played really well as a team and had great fun. We won 3, drew 2, and lost 1. We lost to Tattenhall 3 : 2, so even that was close! One memorable and amazing moment was when Dylan scored a 3 pointer from outside the ring.