Newsletters

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we reach the end of our longest school term, I’m sure the children are ready for a good rest and a break from school. This morning we had our final assembly for 2018 and it was lovely to look round the hall and see just how much the children have grown and developed since September. Thank you for your support throughout this term and of course, thank you to our wonderful team.

School Christmas Music Concert

A huge thank you and well done to everyone who took part in our concert on Wednesday. We were entertained by our school choir and school band as well as various instrumentalists and soloists. It was lovely to see so many children confident enough to perform in public and it certainly provided a real ‘feel good’ factor for our audience. Thank you too to Mrs Thomson-Smith our music specialist who pulled the concert together and ensured audience participation throughout!

School Christmas Dinner

243 Children enjoyed a school Christmas dinner this week. As well as turkey with all trimmings, Christmas pudding and chocolate log, the children (and adults) really enjoyed the crackers and the awful jokes! If you would like your child to move on to school dinners after the holiday, please contact our admin team  admin@bramhopeprimaryschool.co.uk

House points

Well done to everyone who has earned house points this term! The final scores were added up this morning and after a tense few minutes; the results were announced as follows:

Burton           -   1775     

Hepworth      -  1753

Bronte            -  1705

Wilberforce    -  1653

Well done Burton who have won the House cup for this term! Next term we will begin our new tally and we’ll be encouraging the children to try their hardest again – to ‘Belong, Be Your best, Be Bramhope’

Lost property

We have distributed a number of named items this week but still have a cupboard full of unnamed lost property. If you think your child may have lost something this term, please do call into the office and ask to see what is there.

Finally, I’d like to thank everybody who organised, supported or attended our School Christmas Fair. Our runners really looked the part for the Santa dash and we very much hope this will become part of our annual calendar. The bitterly cold weather and freezing rain did not deter our hardy runners, all of whom thoroughly deserved their medals. Well done everybody!

Later on, we all enjoyed the singing (thank you choir & band) gingerbread decorating, tombola and lucky dip to name but a few! The grotto remains a firm favourite of course and particular thanks to Mrs Lamb and all the team who spent many hours setting up and packing away.  There are some final calculations to be done but I am delighted to announce that around £2000 was raised on the day. Thank you!

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New year. See you on Tuesday 8 January!

Rachel Colbourn

                                   Training Days for 2019/20

House Bauble competition .......winners announced!

Thank you to everyone for their fantastic House coloured baubles, our Christmas trees have looked lovely this year. Key Stage 1 and 2 staff had the difficult task of choosing the house winners, but we are pleased to congratulate the following pupils.

Reception - Cora  - Bronte

KS1 - Jake  - Bronte

Key Stage 1 Highly Commended:

George  – Hepworth

Ben  – Hepworth

Seb  – Wilberforce

Ben  – Bronte

Key Stage 2  winners:

Charlie Bush - Wilberforce

Eleanor White - Burton

Key Stage 2 Highly Commended:

Lara Whiteside  - Burton

Maisie Walker- Wilberforce

Spelling Bee Final Results

The results are in.....well done to Wilberforce who are this term's overall winners.

Community Project

On Monday of this week, we had a whole school Dementia Friends ’assembly led by Catherine Birkby. Dementia Friends is a social action initiative run by the Alzheimer’s Society to raise awareness of what is like to live with and to care for someone living with dementia. The assembly introduced children to ‘Dementia Friends’ and we are keen to build an awareness and understanding of Dementia throughout the school year. Next term, each class will take part in an age appropriate workshop led by Catherine, an ex-primary school teacher. At the end of that week (11^th January) Catherine would also like to invite parents and friends of Bramhope Primary School to a Dementia Friends Session at 2pm in the school. The session will be over by the end of the school day in good time for you to pick up your children.

If you are unable to make it to this session but would like to know more about Dementia Friends, Catherine will be holding an additional session at the Methodist Church at 6:30pm on Monday 14^th January 2019.

Reading with Honey

Congratulations to this weeks Honey readers: Elsie, Kate W, Larissa, Noah, Maisie & Amelie.

You have all been impressing your teachers and grown ups at home with your fantastic effort in reading this week! 

Mission Christmas

Thank you for all of your generous Radio Aire Mission Christmas donations. These were collected this week and will be on their way to local children in time for the big day.

Thank you from Teachers

Thank you for all the Christmas gifts received by all of the staff. We really appreciate your thoughtful and generous presents and wish you all a merry Christmas.

Work begins on the new Reception kitchen

Work has begun ahead of the Christmas holidays to prepare the area for the new Reception class kitchen, which has been specially designed and is being installed by NEST kitchens. We look forward to the grand opening on the 14 January.

 Consultation at PHGS