Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Christmas Fayre this Friday 4th December - Please do come along!

  Mon 30 Nov 2015 Miss Rogers

  This Friday is our Christmas Fayre starting at 5pm and finishing at 7pm. We really do hope that you will be attending with your family to support this event.

  The Friends of Great Binfields are really working hard to ensure that it is a success and our school staff will also be supporting on the evening.

  This year we are adding a few more new things to entice you. Our School Council are having their very own stall of all things Chrismassy of course. Plus all of our children have been busy last week, making some super Christmas produce to sell too. The standard of produce is really high - It really is! The children have already stated they can not wait to spend their pocket money.

  We are still short of bottles for our Tombola so if you could make a contribution, it would be gratefully received as would some lovely cakes for our ever so popular 'vintagey' cake stall (please can donations be dropped in on Friday morning).

  I will be selling raffle tickets like normal but will also be playing a new game - Guess How Many £1 in the jar. The winner (who is closest) will of course receive all of the contents of the jar - an extra bonus that I'm sure will be most welcome at this time of year!

  Also, a reminder that Christchurch, Chineham have their Christmas Tree Festival on this coming weekend. Great Binfields will be decorating their own tree for display and there will lots of fun things going on for families! More details can be found on the web link below:

  http://www.christchurchchineham.org.uk/content/christmas-tree-festival

  Best regards,

   

  Jules Rogers

• Library Visits

  Mon 30 Nov 2015 Miss Rogers
  Look at our Year 1 proudly parading their new library books. The children walked down to our local library braving the bad weather, where the librarians have been brilliant showing them around the books and read them a story also.

  

• Look what we received!!

  Fri 27 Nov 2015 Miss Rogers
  I am very happy to present you all with this certificate. Thank you to all of you who regularly give to Great Binfields Primary School. Every little bit does indeed help to ensure that our children get he very best. Mrs Brookes has enjoyed getting our new books in the library - they have already proved to be very popular.

  

• Year 1s Fantastic Food Festival

  Fri 27 Nov 2015 Miss Rogers
  Our year 1 children had an amazing morning tasting foods from an array of countries. I am very thankful to our Year 1 team, our volunteers and to our Emtas tutor (a tutor who supports a child in Year 1 who has English as an Additional Language) for making it  that little bit extra special. The children were very brave and tasted all of the foods - many of which they loved. They also learned lots more about the chosen countries  and learned some of their language too. A great day - another memory maker

  

• Year 5 trip to GIST

  Tue 24 Nov 2015 Miss Corcoran

  On Tuesday, Year 5 were invited by GIST to take part in Road Safety Awareness week. When we arrived we were greeted by two of the lorry drivers who start work at 2 in the morning! We then learnt about being safe next to a road especially when lorries are passing. Did you know a GIST lorry weighs 44 tonnes? That's the same as 76 cows!

  We then went down into the car park and had the opportunity to go in one of the lorries to show us what a driver can and can't see. We were even lucky enough to be given a GIST bag, with a pencil, sticker and keyring. We had a great time and will certainly remember to be more safe when we go out.

   

  

• Year 2 travel back in time

  Mon 23 Nov 2015 Mrs Barnhouse
  On Friday, Year 2 travelled back to 1666 and visited coffee houses so that they could share their diaries about the Great Fire of London. Children had worked hard on their diaries, recounting the events of the fire and how they felt. They then visited the coffee house where they paid 1p to have a mug of hot chocolate and a biscuit whilst they read their diaries to each other. There were some great people who visited, including Samuel Pepys, Jane the maid and the Mayor of London to name but a few guests! Children enjoyed reading to each other and could then ask each other questions about how they felt witnessing this enormous catastrophe!

  

• Stubbington day 4 and 5

  Fri 20 Nov 2015 Miss Corcoran

  Day 4 at Stubbington involved lots of wet weather, sandy hands and Celtic chores. In the morning we trudged through puddles to the beach to explore the seashore. Although it was very wet and windy we had loads of fun looking for and collecting sea creatures, such as anemones, mussels and crabs. We then had a sand castle building competition. The sandcastles were superb and you could tell that the children had really thought about their designs. During the afternoon, we had the opportunity to go into the Roundhouse. In there, we were taken back in time to the Celtic era and found out about the past times of Celts. We dressed up in traditional clothes, were given Celt names and painted our faces to ready ourselves for battle! Once we came back from battle, we had a few chores to do, including: bracelet making, creating pots out of clay and deciphering a sentence that was written in the Celtic alphabet.

  After our Celtic adventures, we had another chance to put our 'Mammal Hotels' out into the conservation area to see if we would have any little visitors. Then we practiced our house songs for one last time and enjoyed our final dinner before heading off to the S Factor! All of the houses sang fantastic songs with lots of enthusiasm and effort. The winning house was Foxes who won with a song they had come up with themselves!

   

  Day 5 in Stubbington was our last. Once we stuffed our faces with a final Stubby breakfast  we headed off to go and collect our 'Mammal Hotels'. 7 out of 15 doors were shut and we thought we were in luck! We were so excited to see that the first hotel we opened had a little mouse inside that Sam J and Rhys decided to name Mrs Furball. She was so small -  her body measured 50mm and her tail 60mm! We then opened the other hotels only to discover a snail and 2 slugs munching on the food we had left to entice small mammals. When we got back to our dorms, we packed our bags with our damp and smelly clothes and went for our final lunch.

  We had such an amazing time at Stubbington and everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly. The children challenged themselves further and really worked as a team to succeed in the activities! They definitely deserve a good rest this weekend!

  

• For our Year 6 Parents

  Fri 20 Nov 2015 Miss Rogers

  Dear Parents

  Your children have had a marvellous time; learning new skills and solving problems as well as developing their resilience in wet weather!! They have all been a credit to our school and we are so proud of them. I'm looking forward to hearing all about their adventures next week.

  I would like to thank Mrs Brookes, Mr Wood, Miss Lyddon, Miss Rendall, Miss Corcoran and Miss Collins for providing them with the most super experience - a memory maker. We are very lucky to have such dedicated staff members who go that extra mile for our children.

  We are expecting them all back at 2.30pm today but we will text you once we are pretty sure they are on schedule as there is nothing worse than hanging around.

  Finally your children will come back smelly with a bag full of disgustingly dirty clothes and will probably be a bit grotty after a week of full-on activity. I don't envy your washing machines this weekend and I'm sure many of your little stars will want an early night!

  Happy weekend!

  Jules Rogers

• Maple Class Visit Tesco

  Thu 19 Nov 2015 Miss Lemar

  Despite the wet weather Maple Class had a wonderful afternoon at Tesco today. The children learnt all  about the different logos on food packaging and we had to spot these around the shop. We had to do a thumbs up if we saw the Fair Trade symbol and croak like a frog if we spotted the Rainforest logo, this was great fun. We visited the banana aisle; where we found out where bananas come from and what the different colours of bananas means. An interesting fact we discovered is that a bunch of bananas is known as a hand and a single one is called a finger. For most of us our favourite part was next, we got to taste chocolate! We had to close our eyes and see if we could tell the difference between milk chocolate and white chocolate. Everyone then headed to the fish counter, where we learnt the names of different fish and why it is important for us to eat a range of fish. Some of us were very brave and tasted some mackerel paste and we all opened a banana like a monkey. The trip ended with a story and we all luckily received a goodie bag to take home.  A great learning experience for all for us and we are going to look out for the logos when we next go shopping.

   

   

  

• Year 2 Library visit

  Thu 19 Nov 2015 Mrs Barnhouse
  Last Thursday Year 2 classes enjoyed a visit to Chineham Library. Whilst there, they were shown around the library; the librarians explained how to find different books and showed us all the other activities that were available at the library. Children enjoyed looking at a variety of books and completed some puzzles and activities too. It was great to see children bring along their library cards whilst also having some other children sign up to use the library in future.