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

• Easter Service and Spring Festivals

  Wed 06 Apr 2022

  Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming Reverend Jonathan to school, via Zoom, who led our Easter Service. 

  Jonathan shared with us the Christian story of Easter and we listened to some fantastic songs too. 

  All the children were in awe of one particular song, which was a rewording of a famous pop song that retold the Easter story. 

   

  The whole school then spent the day learning about other festivals that occur around the world in Spring. Year 2 learnt about the festival of Holi and year 1 drew beautiful abstract flowers, as they had been learning about The Tulip Festival in the USA. Year 4 looked at the celebrations in  Bulgaria called Baba Marta and made Martenisa, whilst Year 3 discovered the how Thailand celebrate their New Year with the festival of Songkran. 

   

  All of the children had a fabulous day!

  

• Let's Go Fly A Kite!

  Tue 05 Apr 2022

  As part of their Design and Technology learning over the last few weeks, Year 1 have been designing and making kites. They have looked at suitable materials, learned how to join the different parts and designed super colourful kites. Today was the final stage when they made a diamond shaped kite. This involved listening carefully to instructions, working cooperatively step by step and demonstrating perseverance when it got a little tricky! Then they all had a wonderful time flying their kites on the field. It was lovely to see the exuberance and delight on the children’s faces as they raced around with the kites swooping, twirling and diving behind them!

  

• Year 4 Easter trail at Christ Church

  Tue 05 Apr 2022

  Yesterday, the Year 4s were lucky enough to be invited down to Christ Church to take part in their Easter trail. The team at Christ Church set up an interesting, interactive trail that shared the key points of the Easter story in great detail, allowing the children to think and ask questions about each stage. The children were able to engage with the various items on display and were even able to contribute to the trail in the form of adding wooden hearts to the tree, to show the love shared between God and Christians, and adding flowers to the cross.

   

  Despite the drizzly weather, the children represented the school wonderfully and listened respectfully and calmly in a very special place. We are very grateful for the ongoing support from Christ Church. 

  

• Year 4 Geography in our grounds

  Fri 01 Apr 2022

  This half term, our Year 4s have been working extremely hard in our Lights, Camera, Action topic. In Geography, we have been working to answer the question 'How accurate are movie settings?' and to explore this, we have been thinking about Encanto and Colombia. We have seen wonderful accuracies in the human and physical features in our learning so far and we are looking forward to extending this into next half term. In Art, we have been working on our photography skills, thinking about angles, space and focus. We decided to combine these two sessions and we took our very own Mirabels (a character from Encanto) out into our school grounds. The job of our Y4 children was to use their photography skills to take interesting and well thought out photos that highlighted how different our local Geography is to that of the Geography in Encanto.

   

  The child had to get into all sorts of positions to capture the right angle and we heard lots of conversations about where to position Mirabel - in the centre third or off to the side? Initially, the weather was gloomy but the sun soon came out for us and we were left with the challenge of using the light effectively in our photos.

   

  We will be using these images next week in Geography. A great session had by all, exploring the wonderful grounds of Great Binfields. 

  

• KS1 Football Tournament

  Fri 25 Mar 2022

  Today, our Year 2 Football Team represented Great Binfields KS1 at a Football Tournament held at The Vyne Community School. Mrs James and Mr Wood were blown away by the enthusiasm, energy and skills of the team. Although, the 4 games played were played for fun and no winners announced, our players wowed and won two games, drew one and lost one - with only one goal being scored against us the whole tournament. We are so proud of you Year 2!

  

• EYFS Mother's Day Concert

  Fri 25 Mar 2022 Miss Khan

  On Friday afternoon the children of Rowan and Beech classes invited their mum's into school to celebrate Mother's Day.  Over the week the children had been busy learning songs and poems, painting portraits of their mum and thinking about why they love their mum.  The children were so excited to showcase their learning and it was brilliant to see how confident they have become.  At the end of the concert the children presented their mum's with a hand decorated jar full of beautiful flowers.  

  We hope that everyone enjoyed the concert and we wish you all a happy Mother's Day.

• Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Festival

  Fri 25 Mar 2022 Mrs H/Francesca/Jessie!

  We are DELIGHTED to announce that yesterday GBPS were the proud winners of the Tag Rugby Festival (also known as the Tudor League). Our Y5/6 team represented the school wonderfully and they certainly didn't give up until they were proud! It was so wonderful to see our field filled with sunshine, laughter and some real competitive spirits! A huge thank you to Roger Filbe for organising and Mr Wood for leading them to their victory (Mr Wood didn't take a breath throughout the whole competition - it was quite tense!). Of course a massive thank you to the other three schools who attended: Fairfields, St John's & St Mary's. Fairfields also won the Sportsmanship and most improved award so a huge well done to them too.  We are so proud of you Y5/6 Tag Rugby Team - you well and truly smashed it!

   

  We are the champions…

  Written By Jessie G and Francesca K

  After a tough start to this year, with covid and all, Great Binfields really pulled through with this year’s rugby league/tournament. After coming top of the league since playing two previous tournaments, Great Binfields were ready to play (and hopefully win) in their home ground. After drawing the first match against St Mary’s, we were determined to win the next few matches.

    Our hardest games were against St. Johns. Our first match that we played with them we lost. However, using our sporting resilience, we then drew our second match against them. We played St Mary’s twice and drew the first but then ensured we won the second! We proudly won both matches against Fairfields, but it was a real tough competition.  

  We scored a total of 32 tries throughout the competition, with the closest second being St John’s with 24. Remi adds, “I feel delighted that we won and the coach of St Mary’s said I was really good at backing up my teammates.” The Fairfields coach complimented Francesca on her excellent Sportsmanship when she comforted one of the Fairfields players. She adds, “I encouraged my team too.”  Isaac also commented, “I think it was a good tournament and I am overjoyed that we won! I’m glad that all the determination paid off”

  The whole team agreed, “We have to say a big thank you to Mr Wood because we couldn’t have done it without him!” Mr Wood stated, “I am so very proud of the way the team played throughout the whole of the rugby season (September – March). They will now represent the Tudor League against all the other league winners in Basingstoke.” Our Year Fives have the momentous task of seeing this through as sadly our Year Sixes will have left by the time of the next Tudor League. Year 4s – get ready to step up! Watch this space!

  

• Year 6 Basingstoke Trail Trip

  Wed 23 Mar 2022

  Wow, weren’t we blessed with the most wonderful weather for our Basingstoke Trail trip today? Not only was the sun shining but the children were absolutely phenomenal throughout the course of the day too. They were respectful, polite and showed a superb intrigue in our local area. Because of this, we feel they were able to gain lots from the trip and will hopefully be able to impart lots of this knowledge when they are next in town with you, further demonstrating what a fantastic day we all had. The children were genuinely surprised to notice and learn so many new facts about our city centre which they had never spotted before yet walked past numerous times!

   

  Our Basingstoke trail included:

  - Admiring the new Lego exhibition within the Willis Museum - this went down a treat!

  - Exploring the beautifully historic St Michaels Church, which has links to both WW2 and the Tudor period (previous topics that we have studied this year).

  - Learning about the tragic tale of Mrs Blunden who is said to have been buried near the Holy Ghost Cemetery. We also visited Thomas Burberry’s grave which is located here too.

  -  Noticing the informative blue plaques dotted around town referencing the importance of a number of locations relating to great historical figures such as Jane Austin.

   

  And these are to name just a few of the historical and geographical activities we took part in today. We also enjoyed chatting with two local artists who had been commissioned to paint the large flowerbeds outside Thomas Burberry’s first shop (what used to the British Heart Foundation at the top of town). They enjoyed sharing their vision with us and explaining how the aim is to bring vibrancy and colour to our local town.

   

  The general public were also in great spirits too and were really happy to see our children out and about enjoying their local area. As part of our Geography curriculum, the children were able to broaden their skills further by conducting a fieldwork study. This involved asking members of the public their thoughts and opinions about Basingstoke. With adult supervision at all times, the children were incredibly brave and approached a wide range of people from our local community in order to gauge a broad data sample. We can’t wait to analyse our results and begin to make some generalisations about the local people within our community and what Basingstoke has to offer.

   

  Take a look at our photos to see what a fantastic day we had J

  

• Year 3 DT week

  Tue 22 Mar 2022 Mrs H

  Year 3 have been showcasing some of our school values this week in both their creativity and resilience whilst creating photo frames. They needed to consider the purpose of the frame (who was it for and why) and think about how this affected their design. They then needed to think about how they would ensure their frames would be 'free-standing'. They explored a range of paper strengthening techniques to help them conclude which method would be the most effective. Yesterday they evaluated Mrs H and Mrs J's photo frames from their houses, this afternoon they planned and begun creating. We can't wait to showcase the end pieces on Friday - what a wonderful homemade Mother's Day gift idea too ;-)

  

• GOAL BALL - Years 4 and 5 experience a new sport

  Tue 22 Mar 2022 Year 4/5

  Year 4 and 5 were very privileged to have Goal Ball UK come to visit the school and introduce the sport Goal Ball to them. The trainer explained the rules of the game and everyone was able to have a go. The school were excited to be introduced to Goal Ball as it is a game specifically designed for those with a vision impairment. It is a sport that all children can access equally. 

   

  Some of our children wrote how they felt about the day:

   

  Goalball is a fantastic fun game for all ages! It's family friendly and if you have a vision impairment this is the game for you!

  Worried you can't play if fully sighted? - worry not! Everyone wears a blindfold. Goal ball is a game that takes place on the ground and is a sport which uses all of your senses particularly hearing and touch. It is a fully inclusive sport that everyone can access. 

   

  An amazing member of Goalball UK, Stephen Newey, taught years 4 and 5 how to play. There are three players on a team, all blindfolded and the aim of the game is to score a goal. The goal takes up the whole of the opposing end. A ball with a bell in is used so that players can hear the ball moving. All players lay on the ground and can use their whole body to block the ball from entering the goal. 

   

  Both year groups thought it was an incredible experience. Soon we are hoping there will be a Goal Ball team at Great Binfields that will get to play in tournaments. 

   

  Some of the children were interviewed and here are their views;

   

  "It was very fun and inclusive, I really enjoyed the day!" Lily Year 5

  "I love how everyone can play at the same level, whether sighted or not. " Max

  "It is a fun filled game that everyone can enjoy! " Pippa

   

  All in all Goal Ball was a fun experience for everyone - We look forward to updating you on our future success in Goal Ball!