Brampton Bulletin

B r a m p t o n P r i m a r y S c h o o l S t r i v i n g t o R e a c h t h e B e s t Week ending: 23.3.12 Spring Term: Issue 11

Inside this weeks issue: Science & Technology Week Forthcoming Dates Why we like our clubs... Week 3 Menu School News Gold Book Entries Weekly Attendance And finally

S C I E N C E A ND T E C H N OLOG Y W E E K
Last week was National Science and Engineering week at Brampton Primary School where we looked at the world in motion. The children took part in lots of fun and exciting activities which used their Science and Design Technology skills. KS2 explored what happened to eggs when they were placed in different liquids with some remarkable results. KS1 were challenged to find out how many colours a sweet shell was made up of using filter paper, water and a sweet. They were amazed at how the water separated the colours across the paper. Reception and Year 1 even created some art work exploring felt tip pens in the same way! Each year group also designed and made models using scientific theory to make them move. Year 1 and Reception made super spinners based on helicopter design; Year 2 produced balloon powered racing cars; Year 3 made boats with sails; Year 4 explored the phases of the moon; Year 5 created toys with cams; Year 6 constructed hovercrafts with balloons and CDs. The week ended with a fabulous exhibition of what the children had got up to. Thank you to all the parents that showed their support during the afternoon and we are sure you were fascinated by what you saw! Many thanks to Miss Westbrook and Miss Bates
Brampton Primary is a restorative school where the initial response to conflict is to find a solution where things are put right, the victims needs are met whilst also meeting the needs of the wrong doer and meet all the schools responsibilities.

Forthcoming Dates: Monday March 26th Parents Evening (please note change of date) Tuesday 27th March Y6 Chessington Wednesday March 28th CRIBs event/5B Parents Thursday March 29th Parents Evenings Friday 30th March End of term Monday 16th April Term starts for children Friday 20th April Yr 4 British Museum Wednesday 27th April Parent Forum Meeting Thursday 26th April 7.15pm FOB Meeting

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Breakfast Club is fun, theres lots of toys, my favourite is colouring. Sue is my favourite she plays with me. Olivia in RJ Gym Club was good. I went because I needed exercising. I did jumping and skipping. It was easy. She was nice and helped me. Chloe in RB In the After School Club I play football and art. I play football with Oliver in Year 2. The ladies are good because they give us sandwiches sometimes or sausage rolls. Jack in 1W I do some proper football. I have to do a match. I learnt to dribble and score. I play with Year 1 and older classes. Its with a coach from outside school. I like it because when Im older I want to play properly. Sam in 1B In ActiveAlli we used to get the toys out from Miss Bates bag. We used the hall wall bars, we played dodge ball, collection to get the cones. I went because it was fun and Miss Bates did good things with us. Lewis in 2PW In Recorders we do funny songs sometimes the holes go funny and we make funny sounds. Hot cross buns is my favourite song. Miss Bartlett is good at teaching the recorder. I do it with Year 1 and 2. Taylor in 2B In Science Club I learnt really good stuff and really enjoyed it. There were things I really wanted to know like your blood is blue and when it comes out and touches oxygen it turns red. Professor Wibblysocks told me that. Dylan in 3WH I liked Active Kids because you can do a lot, it teaches you games you havent leant before. You can get fit because people dont exercise at home. Dave was a good teacher and if you went wrong he didnt say anything. Prajval in 3W Comic club is fun, you make comics on the computer or you can write it down. Its for all the juniors with Miss Cross. For myself the best I made was my Alien comic on the computer. We print it out and give it to our parents. Id recommend it to everyone I know. William in 4C In choir you sing songs and go to concerts and gets lots of opportunities to do things. We go with Miss Hope, Mrs Perks and Year 4 to 6. I like the Christmas songs we sing, all year round we sing different songs and in the middle of the year we go to Fairfield Halls and its nice to do that. Megan and Leah in 4H In Maths club we learn loads of stuff. Mrs Ward makes it really fun to learn. We have done quite hard work on algebra but it seems easy now because Mrs Ward makes it fun to learn. It gives us a boost in class and if we dont get it in class she can go over it so we know it. Finlay in 5B In String Starz we play songs on the violin with Miss Hope. We learn how to use our fingers on the violin. My favourite song is Londons Burning. There are two from Year 6, 5 and 4. I enjoy it. Mollie in 5C Football is quite good because you can enjoy them and learn at the same time. I have been told by Mr Kempster that I have good potential on the left wing. I like school football club best because you get to play warm up games before the actual game of football. Daaniyal in 6S In Year 5 I did hockey and netball and in Year 6 Ive done cricket. I enjoy them because I keep moving around. I was Captain in one cricket game and we won. Sorrel in 6M FOB News Many thanks to FOB for their recent donation of books to our school library. Many of the books came from A New Chapter shop in the Broadway Shopping centre. Extra special thanks to Gemma Mentz from the shop and a parent who kindly donated a number of extra books free for the school. Miss Hope is currently awaiting the new furniture for the new library.

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SCHOOL M EALS W E E K B E G I N N I N G - 2 6 T H M A RC H 2 0 1 2
Monday Meat
Homemade Spicy Chicken or Cheese Pizza with Pasta and Coleslaw

Tuesday
Bolognaise Pasta Bake

Wednesday
Roast Beef with Roast Potatoes

Thursday
Crispy Chinese Chicken with Rice

Friday
Homemade Fish Cake with Chipped Potatoes Roasted Vegetable Quiche

Fish or alternative Vegetarian Desserts

Courgette and Tuna and Red Spring Vegetable Sweetcorn Onion Fritatta with Wheel with Roast Omelette with New Potato Wedges Potatoes Potatoes Pesto Pasta

Tomato and Thyme Fish with New Potatoes Vegetable Chilli and Rice

Macaroni Cheese

Peaches with Raspberry Frozen Yoghurt

Carrot Cake

Chocolate Orange Brownie with Ice Cream

Zesty Lemon Cake

Fruit Deli Bar

A choice of salads, seasonal vegetables, fresh bread, fresh fruit platter, fruit yoghurt, milk and drinking water are also available daily. Peanut Allergies Please can we remind everyone that we are a Peanut Free school in our cooked meals and we ask parents not to put any nuts or items containing nuts in their childs packed lunches. Thank you School News Well done to Sorrel Bulpitt, Mark Hawes and Jasmine Sweet who were presented with prizes for reading over 1,000,000 words with Accelerated Reader. This is a new on-line scheme designed to encourage and motivate children to read more whilst questioning their comprehension with on-line quizzes.

An Artist in the Making? Congratulations to Archie Annis in 1W who recently won a national competition for Mastercard. He had to draw a picture for Mothers Day. His work was chosen and printed in the Mail on Sunday on March 18th. As the advert said his picture is priceless!! Well done Archie.

BRAMPTON GOLD BOOK Striving to Reach the Best Every week we print the names of those children who have achieved in either their work, conduct or behaviour around school and have been entered in the Gold Book. They have been mentioned in Mondays celebratory assembly. After 3 mentions children receive a bronze certificate, 6 mentions for a silver, 9 mentions for a gold, 12 mentions for a Super Gold and 15 mentions for a Platinum certificate, 18 for Diamond, 21+ for a Head teachers Award and 24 for a Special Head teacher Award and Badge.
RB Ravi Bhat RB Alex Larner RB Zak Hone RBJessica Hinxman RB Alice Pearce RB Louis Wait RB Imogen Hill RB Jayden Guerrier RB Sam Rye RB Maciej Kaminski RB Sophia Lawrence RB Callum Ingram RB Emily Atkinson 2B Leila Kimber 2B Taylor Owens 4C Gemma Barclay 4C Sam Edwards 4C Navpreet Minhas 4C Vaishali Kulenthiran 4C Mollie Barnes 4C Louie Panayiotou Unfortunately there is not enough space to mention the childrens achievements here but if you are interested to see your childs mention please pop in and ask to see it.

Weekly Attendance

Week ending 17.3.12 RB: RJ: 1B: 1W: 2PW: 2B: 3W: 3WH: 4C: 4H: 5B: 5C: 6S: 6M: 97.7% 99.3% 99% 98.3% 98.7% 97% 99.4% 96.6% 99% 95.7% 99.3% 95.2% 95.7% 99.3%

HOUSE POINTS Week ending 24.9.10

1st Yellow = 48 3rd Red= 38 2nd Blue = 43 4thGreen= 27

Congratulations to Yellow House members!

And finally......Saints Days We would like to confirm that on Saints Days e.g. St Georges Day on April 23rd, children are encouraged to wear their uniforms from organisations such as Cubs, Boys Brigade and Brownies to school. We like to acknowledge their commitment and contribute to clubs and their wider community. Remember if you like what were doing tell us and others! If you dont, please help us improve! School Office; 020 8303 2873 Fax; 020 8298 0286 Email:admin@brampton.bexley.sch.uk

Well done to 3W and the other classes above 96.1%

Our School Total was 97.9%! Raffle Prize Winners The winners in this weeks draw for tea with Miss Fisher were Louise Jardine in 1W and Lucy Collins in 6S Well done to them for showing the appropriate behaviour.

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