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Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you were able to enjoy some family time together during the half-term holiday. As we are already halfway through the school year, we are planning to meet with all parents to discuss your child’s progress and well-being. Before then, we will be issuing our termly report.

As you are aware, the termly report format enables class teachers to share progress in core areas on a little and often basis. Your child’s spring term report will be emailed to you on 31 March. The report will include current strengths, most recent assessment data and current targets.

Meetings with parents will take place after the Easter holiday. Dates and times are as follows:

• 25 and 27 April 3:30-6:00pm appointments for Reception and Y3-Y5 classes plus open doors book morning for KS2 classes from 8:40-9:10am on both days. This will be an opportunity for parents to informally look at their child’s exercise books with them, in their classroom.
• 26 and 28 April 3:30-6:00pm appointments for all Y1 and Y2 classes plus open doors book morning for KS1 classes from 8:40-9:10am on both days. This will be an opportunity for parents to informally look at their child’s exercise books with them, in their classroom.

Please note that Y6 parent meetings take place before the Easter holiday. Information has already been emailed to parents in Y6. Parents of children in all other year group will be able to book appointments on 14 March. I will also send electronic questionnaires out to parents on this day.

If you have any concerns or questions about your child’s progress or well-being, please contact your child's class teacher in the first instance. If you have any safeguarding concerns, please contact Mrs Judd or myself in the first instance.

Leadership at Bramhope

Our current school council are doing a fantastic job –leading presentations, organising votes, letter writing and promoting fundraising for our ‘Great Outdoors’ project.

Recently, they spent time ordering some equipment we will need for British Science week. This included watering cans and a wheelbarrow for reception, buckets, magnifying glasses and a thermometer. Our school council will be distributing the equipment next week.

We are committed to becoming a more inclusive school where everyone feels accepted and valued, regardless of difference. To support this aim, we recently purchased in a range of age appropriate books which explore diversity and equality. Teachers chose some of these books to read to their classes as part of World Book Day....

Year 1M (HP) read Milo Imagines the World by Matt de le Pena. They really enjoyed learning about not judging people by their appearance. Zayana said she liked that he was drawing things about what had happened to people. Anya said that she learned that everyone isn't the same.

2G read Little People, Big Dreams by Stevie Wonder. At a young age, Stevie became blind. This did not stop him and with a bright smile and infectious optimism, he became an icon, making music that people could believe in and sing along to. 2G really enjoyed the story and asked lots of questions.

2D read Alien in the Jam Factory. It is about a boy with Cerebral Palsy called Scooter who is a jam making genius and encounters an alien. The factory next door wants to steal his jam making plans. The children found it funny, especially Boris the Guinea Pig pooping in the baddie’s slipper!

45s have begun to share stories from the book Just Like Me. We read the story of gymnast Simone Biles, winner of over 30 World Championships and Olympic medals. Simone was diagnosed with having ADHD as a young girl, but this has not stopped her from achieving her dreams. Simone says she is not embarrassed or ashamed of having ADHD; it is simply part of who she is.

56L have started to read A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman. This book is about a boy who has a long-term illness. He wants the chance to lead a normal life, although his parents want to wrap him up in cotton wool.

56 M have been reading Running on Empty by S.E. Durrant. This is the story of AJ who lives in East London, close to the Olympic park. He is a keen runner with ambitious dreams. AJ's grandfather dies early in the book and the story shows how AJ deals with life without his rock.

World Book Day Potato Gallery

On World Book Day, we encouraged everyone to celebrate by decorating a potato as their favourite book character!

Some of our Bramhope Buddies and School Hosts (Bethany, Alice and Amber) arranged the KS2 potatoes into a gallery for everyone to visit. A big thank you to everyone who took part, they all looked incredible. Here are a few KS2 potatoes that stood out to us. We will be putting more photos into a special gallery for you to see!

Pikachu by Hayden, Giraffe by Ava, the B.F.G. by Ben, Mr Potato Head by Isla, Winnie The Pooh by Izzy and Lion by George. We also had Captain Underpants by Bailey, Peter Rabbit by Elliot and Gandalf by Maisie.

World Book Day Class 2G

Class 2G created a book cover of their favourite story, watched a live lesson about creative writing and produced pictures of story settings. Some children from Year 5/6 came to read with 2G in the afternoon.

It was lovely to see the children reading together. 

World Book Day - Miss Parker

The class were thrilled to listen to stories chosen and read by 3/4HL and share some of our own story recommendations. Some of us even swapped over and read our favourite stories to our KS2 partners!

British Science Week - Sunflower Competition

From Monday 14^th March, we will be celebrating British Science Week in school. The theme for this year's Science week is 'Growth'. As part of our celebration of Science, we are going to be running a whole school, sunflower growing competition!

Each child will sow sunflower seeds and investigate the conditions needed for successful growth. The seedlings will then come home at Easter, to be planted at home to see how tall you can grow them! 

Please could your child bring in a clean yoghurt pot (or two) suitable for planting a seed in, to help us start our investigations in Science week.

Thank you

Mrs Hurst and Mrs Lawson (Science Leaders)

Bug Club

Congratulations to our Bug Club Star Readers this week!  

The following pupils have been making excellent progress with their reading on Bug Club this week:

• RB: James
• RF: Jamie
• Miss Parker: Grace G
• Miss Maul: Leo B
• 2G: Hector W
• 2D: Eva H
• 34H: Ava W
• 45S: Tom G
• 56M: Peter M

If your child hasn't had a chance to log onto Bug Club yet, please encourage them to have a go this weekend!  The programme has been proven to help children with their reading and the games and rewards are very motivating.

If you do not know your child's log in details please contact the Admin Team.

REMINDER: The Preloved school uniform shop is still open!

Our new uniform price list HERE.

Please contact us under the following email bpsuniforms@outlook.com for all requests, with your child’s name and class details.

We will deal with the requests on a 1^st come, 1^st served basis.

NOTE we are only taking used uniforms with the new BPS logo.

Please bag them up, label the bag '2^nd hand uniform' and drop all bags into the school office.

Thank you 

Maike, Suzanna, Grace & Vanessa

Otley Carnival Poster Competition

It is the 40th anniversary of the Otley Carnival! To mark this event, children are invited to take part in a Poster Competition. Submit a poster design that can be used in the Otley Carnival Programme. See details below:

Have a lovely weekend.