Newsletters

Dear Parent and Carers,

As you may be aware, nearly 70 pupils from Y3-Y6 take part in extracurricular music lessons throughout the week. Music is a great way for children to have fun, make friends, develop their concentration and perform to others.

 Thank you to everyone who took part in this week's summer music concert. The concert provided a great opportunity for all ages to showcase their abilities. From complete beginners to competent players, every child was given an opportunity to play their instrument whether that be guitar, keyboard, flute, clarinet or oboe. In addition, our school choir sang a variety of songs (including our new school song) and clearly enjoyed themselves on stage. If you are interested in your child learning a musical instrument or joining the school choir, please email our admin team. 

Sports Day

This year, it was fantastic to welcome parents, grandparents and friends back to the school field for our three sports days.

Before sports day, children from reception to Year 6 had been practising athletic skills and had the opportunity to qualify to represent their house in sprint heats. 

Starting with Key Stage 1 last Thursday, Burton took the win, collecting more points on the carousel than any other house. Children scored points in their houses over 10 stations, before taking part in the sprint finals.

On Monday morning, we held the sports day for Key Stage 2. This time there were thirteen stations for children to accumulate points for their houses. Despite the rain showers, the atmosphere was extremely positive, and the day didn't need to be cut short. I was impressed with the independence on display as each house group moved from station to station. When it came time for the sprint finals it was clear those who had qualified were keen to show off their speed. This was following a number of false starts, expertly managed and taken in good humour by the racers.

The final sports day had a less competitive feel and was an opportunity for children in reception to demonstrate the coarse and finer motor skills developed this academic year. With reception sprint finals following the nine activity stations, children were certainly out to impress.

This year we could not have delivered such a smooth running sports day without the help of the house captains. Along with the children they supported, the house captains displayed all of our sporting values: respect, positive body language, communication, determination, and respect.

Mr McKeown

Sunflower Competition

Earlier this year, we challenged all pupils to take care of their sunflower seeds at home and see how tall they could grow their plants by the summer holidays.

If your child's plant has survived/flourished then please send in a photo of your child with their sunflower (with measurements if possible!) and we will see who has grown the tallest plant and announce in the final newsletter before summer.

We set up this competition as part of British Science Week when the children also planted seeds with Seasonwell. Hopefully you will have seen in our wildlife garden that we have had success, with the help of our eco-councillors, looking after the garden each week and wit help from class visits to the garden throughout the year. The children will help harvest when the plants are ready!

Mrs Hurst and Mrs Lawson

KS2 Music Showcase

The KS2 Music Showcase was a great success on Wednesday evening. 

I was very impressed with the choir and all of the musicians. They have been working extremely hard in their music lessons and have been putting in lots of practise to develop their musical skills. 

It was lovely to see children performing, and they are all a credit to the school. 

I hope to see many more budding musicians at the concert next year. 

Miss Gregson

Music Subject Leader 

Noodle the Reading Dog!

This week Noodle the Reading Dog has been meeting more pupils. The following children were very excited to be picked to read to Noodle. 

Dates for your Diary

Y6 Leavers' Assembly: Thursday 21 July, 9:30 am.

Year 6 Leavers Play: Tuesday 19th July at 6:30 pm.

Bug Club

Congratulations to our Bug Club Star Readers!  The following pupils have been making excellent progress with their reading on Bug Club this week:

• RB: Elin F
• RF: Samuel B
• 1P: Grace G
• 1HP: Harriet C
• 2D: Sara A
• 2G: Alexandra F
• 45S: Priya K

House Points

The children really look forward to me announcing our ‘weekly winners’ in assembly - especially as we now present the house trophy every Friday! Well done to everyone who has been awarded a house point this week! 

The total house points for this week are:

• Wilberforce - 91

• Hepworth - 132

• Bronte - 118

• Burton - 118

A big well done to Hepworth!

TOTAL SPORTS – SUMMER HOLIDAY CAMP AT BRAMHOPE

We are delighted to inform you that Total Sports are running their holiday club at Bramhope this Summer Holiday.

Total Sports Holiday Clubs are more than just sports and are called, "Total Energy". It is very much child centered; sports, archery, arts & crafts, wide field games such as capture the flag and manhunt, plus party days, fancy dress and inflatables. They have been running camps for 15 years, and have always been very popular. 

All staff are DBS checked, and they are Ofsted registered, so you can use Childcare Vouchers too.

PTA News

A huge huge thank you to everyone who volunteered, supported, sponsored or attended last weekend's Scarecrow Hunt and Summer Festival. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and we'd like to give a special shout out to the Years 6s who did a fantastic job on their stalls, and to the scouts and any older siblings who helped on the stalls too. 

We're busy doing our sums and will update you on fundraising, the Summer Festival and Scarecrow Hunt soon but top-line stats so far include:

• The 9 x Y6 stalls raised over £1,000
• The cake stall raised £126 and the book stall raised £113
• We had 33 scarecrow sponsorships 
• We sold 430 raffle tickets! 

Dates for your diaries:

End of term picnics 

• 15^th July – teddy bear’s picnic for new reception starters at Golden Acre Park 12-3pm (meeting by the ducks!) 
• 22^nd July - end of year picnic on the school field after school - bring your own picnic! 

Email - pta@bramhopeprimaryschool.co.uk

The Pre-loved School Uniform Shop

If you need some pre-loved school uniforms please use the following email to get in contact:

bpsuniforms@outlook.com

Thank you from

Grace, Suzanna, Vanessa & Maike

Have a lovely weekend.