Sponsored bounce

Year 2 had great fun on the bouncy castle today, during our sponsored bounce.
All of the money will go towards making our school even better, so please make sure you bring in your sponsorship money as soon as possible!

Year 2 - Over and Out!

Year 2 have had a very exciting week. On Thursday we performed our Leaver's Assembly to our parents and friends, and today we have had our Leaver's Party. We played lots of fun games and danced to all of our favourite music. We particularly enjoyed wrapping the adults up in toilet roll. What a fantastic week! Thank you to FOBs for making our party happen.

FOBS Sponsored Walk

It's our Sponsored Walk today and we're still doing it despite the weather so come along and join in all the fun and help raise money for our school.

'Let's Cook!' Autumn Term Home Learning Project

Our Home Learning Project this term was entitled 'Let's Cook!'.

Each child was able to put a scrapbook together about cooking and preparing food at home.

Some children even bought in their fabulous creations!

Each scrapbook could contain things like receipes, photographs, and shopping lists for instance.

All the children worked very hard and we were so pleased with the results!

A big well done to all the children of Belle Vue - your scrapbooks were fantastic!!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

New whiteboard easels!

We would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful FOBs who have bought new whiteboard easels for the classrooms. The teachers and children are enjoying using their new boards to help them with modelling and sharing good writing.

Move over Spielberg!...

The children of belle Vue would like to say a huge thank you to FOBS for their recent purchase of three FLIP video cameras for curriculum use. The children are really looking forward to improving their speaking and listening skills by videoing themselves and critiquing their performances. Who knows, maybe the next Hollywood blockbuster will be filmed here!

Summer is here!

Good luck and best wishes to all our Year Two Leavers, and we'll see everyone else in September.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!

SUNFLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Sunflower Home Learning Project has ended.

The children treated us all to an exhibition this Friday to show us what they'd been up to this term.

As you know the project was to grow a Sunflower and keep a scrapbook of how it all went including any photos, tables, graphs, writing and pictures that each child wanted to include.

The exhibition was FANTASTIC! The children had made such an effort, and the results were wonderful so thank you to all who took part and hopefully you will continue to enjoy your sunflower over the summer.

Pictures from the Federation School Fair!

Belle Vue News!

Quick update on the school news for you:

* The Federation School Fair was a great success! We had lovely weather and lots of fun! We raised just under £1500 in total for FOBS and FONS to share. It was a lovely day and we were even treated to some dancing shows put on by both schools! Thank you to all that helped make the day so much fun and we look forward to next year!!!

* Roll up! Roll up! - Don't forget that tickets for 'Cirque de Normandie' at Aldershot Park can still be bought from the school office for £5 each. Performances are on 18th July at 2.00pm and 6.00pm.

* Last day of term is Wednesday 22nd July and (after a lovely sunny summer!!) children return to school on Monday 7th September.

* As there will be FOBS (Friends of Belle Vue) members' children leaving Belle Vue School this year, we would love to hear from you if you can spare any time at all to help FOBS next year. Even just a little time is very helpful. If you are interested please see the school office or feel free to call our FOBS Chairperson Lucy Marlor (07903889931).

Recent News and Reminders

* Our FOBS Sponsored Walk managed to raise just under £400 for the school, so thank you again to all who took part.

* This Saturday 13th June is the annual Federation School Fair at Belle Vue School (11 - 2pm). It would be lovely to see everyone there supporting Belle Vue and Newport Schools.

We would still love to hear from you if you can spare any time to help on the day, please contact Lucy Marlor, a FOBS member or contact FOBS through the school office for further info.

We have lots of fun planned including a coconut shy, raffle with FANTASTIC prizes, bouncy castle, BBQ, hook-a-duck, craft stalls and some special treats from the children.

We have 'booked' the good weather for Saturday so hopefully the sun will be shining on us! See you there!!!!

* We hope the sunflowers are doing well !! Don't forget if your plant has died, it is fine to plant another. The children are very much looking forward to showing their exhibitions on the 10th July (in the children's classes from 2.40pm - 3.00pm). And we will, of course, show the results on the blog.

A Day To Remember

As we noted on a previous blog post, our new library is now OPEN!

On the 23rd March we held an opening ceremony and invited the Mayor of Rushmoor, Councillor Alan Ferrier, to officially open the new library.

Escorted by Year Two School Council members he visited all our classrooms and enjoyed talking to the staff and children.

A plaque is on the library wall to commemorate this special occasion.

It is a wonderful learning resource for the school and the children are really enjoying using it.

The Activemark Award

We can proudly announce that the school has achieved the Activemark Award from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
This reward has been given for exceptional delivery of the National School Sport Strategy. We were commended on the commitment we have to high quality regular PE and sports activities.

School Projects!

This term's Home Learning Project is another interesting one - 'Grow a Sunflower!'

Each child in the school has planted a sunflower seed in a pot to grow at home, and there will be an exhibition on the 10th July to see the results! (you don't need to bring in the sunflower, but we're hoping to see some pictures).

A notebook or scrapbook can be used to present the work and some activities include measuring the sunflower as it grows, taking pictures, researching how to grow a sunflower and drawing pictures along the way.

We hope the children enjoy the project and we can't wait to see the results!

What have we been up to recently??

We wanted to take the opportunity to share some pictures of the beautiful work the children have been doing recently.

We have many wonderful displays around the school at the moment and we wanted to share some pictures with you.

As you can see, the children have been working so hard and they are very proud of the displays, and rightly so!

Well done everyone.

Summer Fair!

Just a quick reminder that the Belle Vue and Newport Federation Summer Fair will be held on Saturday 13th June 11am-2pm at Belle Vue School.

Please come along to show your support for both schools, and also to have fun!!

There will be plenty to do and see including bouncy castles, refreshments, a Fire Engine!, hook-a-duck, raffles and prizes.

Let's hope for lots of sunshine too!! - See you there!

FOBS Sponsored Walk - 25th April

Both Belle Vue and Newport children enjoyed a fancy dress sponsored walk to raise money for FOBS on Saturday 25th April.

Thank you to all those who came along to support FOBS and the school - we were very lucky with the weather in the end!

The children walked as many laps of the school as they could to 'earn' stamps, some even managed to do some laps BACKWARDS!!!

There were refreshments available including lots of hotdogs and cups of fruit!

We are still collecting the sponsorship money, but will let you know the final amount raised asap.

Thank you again for taking part and helping to raise money for the school.

Reminder - Thursday 19th March

Don't Forget!

Tomorrow (Thursday 19th March) FOBS are holding the Easter Eggstravaganza!!!

They will be in the school hall from 2.30pm and there will be lots of Easter activites for the children to take part in;

* Easter Raffle (to be drawn at 3.30pm)
* Chocolate Easter Nests to buy
* Easter crafts and activites
* Plenty of Easter games
* Uniform Sale

So please come and join us for some Easter fun....

Red Nose Day

'Do Something Funny For Money!!'

The whole school wore mufti for the day on March 13th, and came to school equipt with red noses, wacky hair and hair boppers all in aid of Red Nose Day.

The children each made a small donation to come to school in their own clothes and we are pleased to say that we managed to raise £137.55.

Well done everyone!

Alongside the fundraising the children were able to enjoy the day by having a bit of fun along the way. There was plenty of joke-telling, and some examples include:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get to the other side!

Knock, knock

Who's there?

Doctor

Doctor Who?

See! You already knew!!!

The children really enjoyed 'doing something funny for money', and we're sure the charity will be very grateful for our contribution.

Thank you.