Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Welly Planting Success
Sat 17 Oct 2015Yesterday, many of our children ably supported by our super team of volunteers helped to transform our new play area. Thank you to all of you who donated wellies and plants over the past week - as you can see from the picture below, the area looks fabulous and our children have promised to look after it. If they can we will certainly add to it and develop other areas around our school very soon too. I would like to thank everyone who gave up their time - not only did they help with the planting in the new area but many also helped to tidy up our gardening beds around school as well. Thank you Miss Lyddon for organising the troops - our children are certainly already benefitting from being outdoors and school is looking great and thank you Mr Lyddon for popping over to drill them all on the fence. What a team effort!!
More pictures of the children gardening to follow.
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Parking News
Tue 06 Oct 2015The Management Committee at the Chineham Centre has today erected bollards from the Long Stay Car park to the unofficial path to the play park as they have deemed that path unsafe to use.
From today parents have permission to use the South Car Park and then use the footpath from there to school. This is a tarmac path which is very suitable for pushchairs and all pedestrians and we are very grateful to the Chineham Centre for allowing us to use this area for parents to park. It may take time for the traffic wardens to realise parents are parking there to walk to school, so if you should happen to be issued with a parking ticket please bring this into school and we will have it cancelled for you.
However, please note you are only allowed to park and then leave the site between 8.30am - 9.15am and then from 2.45pm - 3.30pm.
If you leave the site outwith these time slots you are liable to receive a ticket and we will not be able to have this cancelled. This arrangement only applies to the South Car Park.
If you would like to display a sign showing you are walking to school we will be happy to provide this for you. Please contact the school office staff for this.
I would ask all parents to try to use this facility where possible. It is only takes a few minutes to walk along the footpath and it will make our school much safer if fewer people try to park in Binfields Farm Lane.
Kind regards
Mrs Worgan
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Minions stowaway at GBP!
Thu 01 Oct 2015I was walking along our corridor about 4.10pm this afternoon after dropping off our rugby players at their league matches and I heard some very excited children in Beech Class. School had finished - what could the children be doing?? After poking my head around the class, I saw lots of minions playing with our children from Puppet Making Club.
I quickly took a photo as evidence of what I saw but I forgot to down load it. Watch this space - photo to follow soon!
They are great puppets children - you should be so proud. A huge thank you to Mrs Davis (and Miss Lyddon and Mrs Barnhouse who assist when needed) for starting up this club - I think it is a real hit!!
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Harvest Festival
Thu 01 Oct 2015Today our children walked into Basing so they could visit St Mary's Church for our annual Harvest Festival. Thank you for all of your contributions. I would like to thank Miss Khan for organising this and for the vicar of St Mary's for leading it. It is important for our children to think about where our food comes from, give thanks in what ever way they wish and donate some food to those less fortunate then ourselves.
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Love of Different Religions Around The World
Thu 01 Oct 2015Earlier this week, all of our children had our first 'Love of Day' of this academic year where we look at themes associated with social, cultural, moral and spiritual learning . The theme for this one was Love of Different Religions around the World. This time we looked at the beliefs of various groups from around the world and as a result not only did our children learn lots but our teachers learned so much too! We do say that everyone is a learner at GBP!
Each year group shared their designated religion learning with the rest of the school during a sharing assembly in the afternoon. It is always lovely hearing how much the children get out of these days and it helps our children to learn how to be more tolerant of other people's beliefs.
Ask your children what they learned on this day and many children made something too.
Thank you to our teachers who once again researched lots beforehand to make this day as informative, enjoyable and enriching as possible.
Photos to follow.
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Year 5 and 6 WWII Day
Mon 28 Sep 2015Today, the Year 5 and 6 children travelled back in time to the 1940's and took part in a variety of WWII style activities as part of their Evacuation Day. These activities included: gardening, sewing, cooking and an army assault course. Everyone looked fantastic dressed up in old fashioned clothing and thoroughly enjoyed the day. Take a look at our pictures to see what we got up to!
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Visit to Festival Place
Fri 25 Sep 2015Mrs Davis and I took 8 children to Festival Place this morning as part of Basingstoke's Recycling Week. Great Binfields entered a competition for local schools to produce a recycled bouquet. Lots of children have spent their lunch times or afternoons helping sort all the materials brought in by children, which were then beautifully transformed into an extremely colourful, vibrant bouquet. We were keen not to add 'artificial colour' such as paint and pens and use materials as they came in...fruit shoots have certainly been a great addition to the bouquet! We handed in our bouquet which will be on display at Festival Place next week (in the shop next to the old Tiger Tiger. Keep your eyes on our website for more information).
The 8 children who visited Festival Place to find out more about their recycling system had a great morning. There was certainly lots to take in, and going behind the doors to the 'other side' we saw how all the rubbish from the shops, offices and restaurants is sorted, packed and sent off around the world! Even the food is recycled and turned back into water that we can drink! (There children weren't too sure about this!)
Have a look at the pictures to see what we were up to!
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Don't forget Basingstoke Green Week!
Thu 17 Sep 2015Don't forget Basingstoke Green Week begins this Saturday with a variety of activities going on throughout the week.
Also, The Tree Council are launching 'Seed Gathering Season' from 23rd September - 23rd October where they are encouraging families to gather seeds, fruits and nuts and grow trees for the future. Have a look here for more information; there are some delicious recipes for you to try at home... especially for blackberries! I know I shall be trying a few out over the coming weeks!
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A letter from Costello Secondary School regarding Open Evening 22nd September
Wed 16 Sep 2015I have attached a letter from the Costello School regarding transfer to secondary schools and inviting you to attend their Open Evening on 22 September. This can be found on our 'Letters' page in the 'Parents' section of this website. -
School Council Chair and Vice Chair Results Are In!
Sun 13 Sep 2015Wow what a close election result it was this year! Each of the four candidates did so well - their campaigns and speeches were excellent.
I am pleased to announce that Thomas is the Chair of this year's School Council and his Vice is Mollie. I know that Emily and Rhys will have been disappointed not to have been successful but they will of course be School Councillors for the year.
Their first meeting will take place early next week after they have received some training. We look forward to working with you all to make our school even better!
