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

• We are looking forward to welcoming back our pupils on March 8th 2021

  Thu 25 Feb 2021 Ms Rogers

  We are looking forward to welcoming back all of our children on March 8th. Ms Rogers has sent a letter to our children on Wednesday 24th February via email so we kindly ask that parents read this alongside our GBP children. A further logistics letter for parents will follow shortly.

  If families have any concerns or questions about our reopening, please email our admin office and someone will contact you soon after.

  Take care everyone, 

  GBP Team

• Let the Music Play!

  Thu 11 Feb 2021 Mrs Irons

  Practical class music of the kind we usually do in the music room has not been possible this term but instead of it being a problem I have used the opportunity to try something new and creative. For each year group, from Early Years all the way up to Year 6, I have planned music enrichment activities that include 3 musical areas:

  Listening & Responding

  Singing & Playing

  Creating & Performing

  Over the last 6 weeks children have danced, drawn and painted to music across all year groups; listened to Peter & the Wolf in Year 2 and experienced Speed Folk for the first time in Year 6;      explored apps like BBC Make some Noise and Incredibox; created our own sounds with toys &   natural objects and even told stories through music. I have really enjoyed looking at the children’s responses to the activities on seesaw and have heard lovely feedback from teachers and parents about how much everyone has enjoyed music making either at home or in school.

  I was especially pleased to hear from Hampshire Music Service that 80% of children at GBPS are currently having online lessons. Some of our in school learners are even having face to face lessons or online lessons in school. Early on in the term I set our instrumentalists a little performance challenge which I can hopefully turn into a mini concert for us all to see in the near future. If and GBPS child wants to sing or share their instrument playing, whatever their level, then please upload a video to seesaw and mark it FAO Mrs Irons.

  We are still singing in school and at home following the latest guidance and the best bit is that at home, we can sing our hearts out with the sound up and the microphone off! Last week Year 5    entered into a lip synching battle over an adapted version of The Bangles ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ and Year 1 learnt to sing like a robot! Whichever way you turn, music is still very much alive at Great Binfields.

  In times such as the ones we are all experiencing at the moment, I believe that music has an      important role to play to whisk us all off to new and imagined lands, bringing us back happier,         calmer and more productive. In the words of a famous singing ex-nun “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens” (Maria von Trapp)

  Happy singing & playing everyone!

   

   

• Battle of the Bands KS2

  Mon 08 Feb 2021 GBP Team

  We have exciting Times Table Rock Stars news for you! Key Stage 2, are you ready to rock? Are you ready to roll out those times tables? Let’s do this! 

  We are launching a VERY exciting tournament on Monday 8^th February for our Key Stage 2 children. Year 3 are going to take on Year 4. Year 5 will compete against Year 6. Who will be victorious and come out top of the leader board with their electrifying times table knowledge? 

  All the children will need to do is log into their Times Table Rockstars account as usual and play the games as much as they possibly can. This will score them points for their year group. Every correct answer in any game type is worth 1 point towards their year group’s score – so they need to keep playing throughout the week. In other words, you can play in Garage, Rock Slam, Soundcheck, etc and earn 1 point per correct answer. At the end of the week these points will automatically be totalled up and the winners will be revealed.  

  The competition runs from Monday 8^th February – Friday 12^th February.  

  The point scoring is time limited (8am-7pm) so that the children aren’t tempted to play well into the night! 

  Remember you need to be in it to win it - try to support your year group by going on as much as possible. 

  Good luck Key Stage 2! Let the battle commence!  

  

• Supporting Reading at Home

  Wed 03 Feb 2021 Ms Rogers

  Alongside our 3 weekly live story sharing sessions, we are really excited to further support families and children in ensuring that our children are reading regularly at home. We also want to guarantee that all of our children have access to age-appropriate texts so that they can practice reading independently. 

  It is so important that our learners continue to read and enjoy reading at home during this time. Reading really does open the doorway to so many other possibilities. Don’t forget that even when we are not in school and even during the current lockdown, reading opportunities are everywhere.

  To support our families in making reading part of their everyday routines, I have  included the following guide as a way of scaffolding your thinking about reading at home and to support parents/carers to keep talking about reading and encouraging their children to do the same.

  Follow the TRUST ideas to talk about anything your child enjoys reading.