On Thursday 10th June, Elders took part in the Middle School sports day completing 6 different events. This included a long distance run, a 80m sprint, long jumps, speed bounce, javelin and chest push. Different points were scored for achieving different distances and times. In our class both Keeley and Ivan scored the highest points in the whole of Middle School. Well done Elders for your determination and great sportsmanship.
Watch a video here - https://youtu.be/KBhy2DHvLPU
Junipers took part in their sports day and it looks like they had great fun!
Watch the video here - https://youtu.be/JY0mhuglIsM
The teachers were lucky last week to have a coach from Essex Cricket Club come in to teach us some different cricket games - watch out for them in PE!
Poplars class were lucky enough to have their gold-leaf shields chosen to be displayed at the National Gallery as part of the ‘Take One Picture’ project. Mrs Hooper, Mrs Bennett and Miss Stiff attended the opening of the exhibition and were so impressed by all the projects from schools around the UK. How fantastic to see John Bunyan school as part of this special project!
Year six have been working with the Warner Textile Archive to find out about different sewing techniques, decoration and embroidery. The children made their artwork based on Pandora's box which we have been studying in English and across other curriculum subjects.
On Thursday 10th June, Rowans class took part in a Middle School Sports Day. All of the children enjoyed their day and had lots of fun. They were all extremely encouraging and supportive to everyone in their team. Despite a huge team effort, Rowans came 3rd out of the year 3 classes. We were incredibly proud of their resilience and sportsmanship on the day!
Here is a video https://youtu.be/gMTv-uL4kec
Maples had a great week learning about Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds. We learned a lot about mental health and explored different ways we can help manage our emotions and feel positive. We looked at healthy foods and tried lots of unusual fruit and vegetables that are healthy snacks. We were very surprised at the sugar content of some of our favourite drinks. We did lots of fitness and physical activity all week, culminating in our Sports Morning on Friday. The children all worked very hard and encouraged each other to be the best they could be...it was fantastic that the class had the most points of the Year 6 classes and that Courtney and Orlaith won the individual prizes for Year 6.
Pines enjoyed their sports morning, even though parents couldn’t attend, the children gave the best they could and they helped one another. Well done Pines – lots of you achieving your best scores.
Hawthorns took part in the year six sports day - they all had great fun and worked hard to improve on their scores.
A huge well done to all of Year 5 and a special thanks for the kind donations from the staff members too.
The last couple of weeks the children have been participating in lots of different sports in school and outside competing against other schools!
Some children from year 2 and year 4 have been very Lucky trying Parkour.
They had to jump, swing, hang and crouch on lots of different obstacles and even jump onto a crash mat from a height!
Last week 48 KS2 children went to Tabor High School to compete against lots of other schools in cross country!
All of the children showed great determination and didn’t give up.
Congratulations to Thomas, Remi, Keeley, Gracie and Montana who came in the top 5 of their races!
Well done!
Our Approach to the Teaching of Reading
At John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery, we are determined to foster a love of reading for all of our children. We invest hugely in our school library and in books for our classrooms, so that children have access to high quality texts that will tempt them and develop a passion for reading that will last a life time.
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Foundation Stage, including Nursery
As soon as children come to our school, we immediately begin the process of learning to read. In Nursery, the children have daily learning opportunities which introduce them to initial letter sounds, Early Talkboost and the Ultimate Guide to Phonological Awareness programme. In the Foundation Stage, the daily systematic synthetic phonics teaching of Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds provides the fastest and most effective way of getting our young children to start reading. We aim for all children to be blending by the end of the Autumn Term in Reception.. Children are rapidly taught a series of sounds and then apply these to a series of matched books that include these sounds. Our aim is to ensure children feel confident and can fluently read and reread simple texts. Consistent teaching, together with rigorous, regular assessments enable us to identify any gaps in the children's learning as soon as they arise and then put in daily ‘Keep Up’ practice to overcome these barriers. Alongside these phonetically decodable books, children also take-home high-quality fiction and non-fiction books which we encourage parents and carers to share with their children to develop a love of reading. Parents of our younger children are invited to share a story in our library with their children’s class and at this time, the teacher will model the sounds that are being taught and the strategies being used to teach reading.
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Key Stage 1
The consistent teaching of Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds phonics programme continues throughout Years 1 and 2. Our programme is structured in such a way as to ensure the teaching of phonics is systematically delivered and that progress is built on from year to year. By the end of Year 2, it is our expectation that children will be fluent readers and will no longer need explicit phonics teaching for reading. In Year 2, any children that are not at age related expectations will begin the Little Wandle, ‘Rapid Catch-Up intervention. Some pupils start the No Nonsense Spelling programme which allows them to develop their spelling and transfer their phonic knowledge into their written work.
Reading is explicitly taught in groups with a focus on decoding, prosody and comprehension using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds books. Families are encouraged to join us every Monday morning from 8.45-9.10 for ‘Stay and Play’; providing opportunities to engage in learning activities and to share books with their children in our library or classrooms.
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Key Stage 2
By Year 3, most children will be ready to move onto our Accelerated Reading programme. Our children find this highly motivating as they quiz after reading each book and continuously read more challenging texts. The reading strategies of activating prior knowledge, predicting, fluency, clarifying, questioning and summarizing are built upon from Key Stage 1 and promote a more inferential level of thinking. Children have an opportunity to develop these further during our quiet reading sessions and through class studies of high-quality books, as well as shorter text through our Talk for Writing programme. The direct teaching of vocabulary is embedded across the school through Vocab Ninja, where children are introduced to new vocabulary which extends their thinking and enables them to access more challenging texts. Again, any children that are not at age related expectations will take part in the Little Wandle Rapid Catch-Up intervention.
At John Bunyan Primary School, teachers give time to reading aloud to children, so that they can enjoy hearing stories that they might not yet be able to access independently. Many opportunities are created for children to develop a love of reading including our Reading Doorway project where children read a core set of books for each year and collect stamps to complete our Reading Doorway Booklet over their time at John Bunyan Primary.
Families are encouraged to join us every Friday morning from 8.40-9.10 for ‘Come and Read’; providing opportunities to share books with their children in our library and in the classrooms.
Year six have recently made pillows in design and technology: they had to come up with a design to do with World War 2. The children decided to either complete 2, 4 or 6 boxes on their material. When they had their design they transferred it onto their pillows and then used back and running stitch to sew around the pictures, words and letters they had drawn. Once they had completed the sewing they were able to colour in their designs with fabric crayons and pens. Finally, they stuffed the pillows and sealed them up using blanket stitch.
Elms had a great time at their xmas party today - they loved all the party games!
On Tuesday 17th December 2019 we had the annual JBP curling competition.
