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

• Year 6 Treehouse Theatre - Children on the Home Front

  Wed 12 Oct 2022

  Year 6 had the pleasure of performing their very own WWII themed play-in-a-day based on the real life events of ‘Children on the Home Front’. The amazing Ben from the Treehouse Theatre Company helped to bring our WWII topic to life and focused on the role of civilians who contributed to the war effort whilst at home. The children empathised beautifully with a variety of characters and took their roles very seriously. These included: soldiers, evacuees, shopkeepers and land army girls.

   

  We were impressed with how confidently the children delivered their lines too. There are certainly some impressive actors and actresses within the year group.

   

  Take a look at the photos below to see how in awe the children were of their year group performance.

  

• Diversity Day - The Sikh Faith

  Fri 07 Oct 2022 V. Ellis

  Today, the children at Great Binfields Primary School looked at the Sikh faith as part of their ongoing Diversity learning. 

  Many exciting activities took place across the school from EYFS right up to Year 6.  All the children learnt that the Sikh faith is built upon the humanitarian principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice - which link to British Values and Year 2 made wonderful links to the school values also. 

   

  The children in KS1 learned about the 5 Ks ,which are very important to the Sikh faith, including the Kesh - which means that followers of the Sikh faith do not cut their hair as they feel it makes them closer to God. Year three learned all about the Holy Book of the Sikh faith - Guru Granth Sahib. Excitingly, Year 4 were delivered some samosas, that had brought in as a gift, by a classmate as his family are Sikh and part of their faith includes serving others and providing food and shelter, particularly in the Gurdwara - their place of worship. 

  Year 5 looked into The Golden Temple and made some fabulous models whereas Year 6 examined the festival of Vaisakhi and made Kites in celebration of this.  

   

  The children have really enjoyed learning about the Sikh faith. They were able to contextualise this learning and evaluate it in relation to other religions learned about throughout their time at Great Binfields. 

  

• Goalball Tournament

  Fri 07 Oct 2022 Mrs Fox

  In October, a group of goalball players took part in a friendly tournament to celebrate the sport and to demonstrate their skills.

  The children played in 4 teams of 3 players, with each team scoring goals in every game that they played. All of the children demonstrated the school’s core values of cooperation and resilience during the tournament. Each competitor aspired to play their best and showed respect to the other teams. A very impressive display. Well done to all of you  who took part.

  During the tournament, we were able to make use of the new goalballs and eye masks that were bought for the school by the family of George Wells. Thank you! Great Binfield’s Goalball Players are looking forward to playing against other schools in goalball competitions later this year.

  

• Digital Leaders

  Wed 05 Oct 2022 Mrs H

  Introducing our Digital Leaders of 2022-2023!

   

  Today the children were presented with their badges and their job descriptions ready for another exciting year ahead. We will meet again after half term where their pupil voices will become empowered and they will honestly discuss what they love about Computing at GBP and how they feel they can make it even better! Watch this space..!

  

• Year 3 DT Project

  Wed 05 Oct 2022 Mrs H

  As part of our DT project on 'Seasonal food' we have been busy in the Kids Kitchen making bramley apple tarts. We launched the project by discussing the difference between fruits and vegetables and learnt some super exciting facts such as tomatoes and cucumbers are actually categorised by botanists as fruit; even though we often enjoy them with other vegetables in salads. We created a Venn diagram on fruits and vegetables then used our half-term concept/school value of 'creativity' to design an Eat Well plate with each of the food groups focusing on seasonality. This had great links to our Science work on nutrition. 

  We also wrote recipes, created online bar charts of our favourite fruits and vegetables, researched British apples and created fact files on them and created colourful collages of seasonal fruit and vegetables. We then followed a recipe to: peel, core, cut and stew our local, British bramley apples which were encased in a tart and sprinkled with demerara sugar. Yum! Our final stage of our DT project was to evaluate our tarts and think about how they could have been improved if we were to make them again.

  

• Ooh La La

  Tue 04 Oct 2022

  Yesterday, as part of our topic Ooh La La, the Year 5 children took part in some French cooking and food tasting. As part of their English lessons they made yummy croque monsieurs, which they will be using for writing a set of instructions later in the week. Then, as part of French, the children tasted a variety of traditional French foods and wrote a sentence describing whether or not they liked each item. The children had a great morning!

  

• Ma Humbugs Visit

  Mon 03 Oct 2022 Mrs Osborne

  Today, the year 4 children had a visit from Nicky, the owner of Ma Humbugs Old Fashioned Sweet Shop which is located in Viables Craft Centre. During the visit, she told the children about the sweets, chocolates and fudge she sells at the shop. The children also asked some fantastic questions. The children will now be producing some persuasive posters to advertise the shop in their English lessons. A huge thank you to Nicky for giving up her time to visit us.

  

• Grow a Pound Challenge

  Mon 26 Sep 2022 Ms Rogers

  The FOGB Grow a Pound Challenge is now over and the money has been counted. We are delighted to say that over the summer break Years 4, 5 and 6 raised a whopping £1,158!

   

  The children have amazed us with what they have achieved, and you should all be very proud of them. From lemonade sales, sponsored silences, ‘guess the number of sweets’ games, cake sales, dog walking and entertaining relatives with jokes, to good old-fashioned hard work doing household chores, the children took on the challenge and demonstrated their fantastic enterprising skills.

   

  As you know, there are trophies for the three individual children who raised the most and a reward for the class that raised the most. We are pleased to announce that the winners are…

   

  First place: Max E (Year 6) who raised an incredible £244!

  Second place: Jude (Year 4)

  Third place: Elena (Year 6)

   

  Winning class: Oak

   

  A huge well done to the winners of the challenge and thank you so much for all your hard work! You will be presented with your rewards over the next week.

   

  Regards FOGB

• Year 6 WW2 Day - quick that's the air raid siren!

  Thu 22 Sep 2022

  Today, Year 6 experienced a day in the life of an evacuee! The children took part in a variety of different activities including: sewing, gardening, World War II themed drama and an Anderson Shelter experience. They also delved into a historical artefact box which contained replica items from the suitcases of a range evacuated civilians. The children were in awe of these authentic artefacts. All of the children looked fantastic in their evacuee style costumes and had clearly put in a lot of effort to fully embrace our topic themed day.

   

  During our drama sessions, the children were brilliant at empathising with how civilians would have felt when they heard the air raid siren and discussed how difficult it must have been to be in a constant state of alert. Once they heard the air raid siren, the children took shelter in our Anderson Shelter, which is located in our woodland area. It was wonderful to see them getting into role and taking a moment to truly understand what life would have been like during wartime Britain.

   

  The Year 6 children have been incredibly enthusiastic about the history of WWII so far this term and we cannot wait to delve deeper in our historical enquiry as the term develops.

   

  Take a look at our photos to see what we got up to…

  

• Year 1 Farm day

  Thu 15 Sep 2022

  Year 1 had a very exciting day today! We had a real farm visit our school field as part of our Farm topic. We were able to see donkeys, lamb, piglets, guinea pigs, rabbits, turkeys, goats and much more! First the children were able to explore the animals, including brushing the animals and stroking their backs. We then had a talk from Farmer Sarah and Farmer Liv. They told us all about the different animals and why they keep them at the farm. We were also able to have a go at milking a pretend cow which the children loved doing. Farmer Sarah then taught us how butter and cheese is made and we had a go at making our own butter! Lastly we had a talk about all the different birds including the turkey and the ducks. We then got to stroke them. The turkey felt different to what we expected. 

  The children had so much fun and they even said it was 'the best day ever.' 

   

  We will be writing about our adventure at the farm over the next few weeks.