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

• Year 1 Have Gone BANANAS!!

  Fri 12 Oct 2018 Mrs Harvey
  On Wednesday, Paul from Fyffes banana warehouse visited year 1. He taught us lots about the journey bananas take. Can you remember any of the interesting facts? What is a bunch of bananas called? A hand. What do they call a single banana from the hand? A finger. Did you know, they put a net over bananas whilst they are growing so they do not get sun burnt?

  

• Year 2 Subway visit

  Thu 11 Oct 2018

  Yesterday, in Year 2, we had an exciting visit from Subway. This was to support our topic Funny Bones. We have been looking at healthy eating and how much fat is in certain products. This week we have been carrying out a project to design a low fat sandwich. We were very surprised with how much fat certain items had in them. Subway then came in to discuss this further and we were able to create our sandwiches! We were taught the correct way to make a Subway and how to wrap them safely so that we could take them home. Year 2 had a brilliant time and we learnt lots about what is in the food we eat.

  

• Totally Tennis come to GBP

  Wed 03 Oct 2018 Mres Holdsworth

  On Wednesday 3rd October, we were fortunate enough to be visited from Phil at Totally Tennis. Years 1, 2 and 3 had a great time in the autumn sun shine playing a range of super fun games, including basketball tennis and tennis keepy uppies!

   

  Everyone really their morning with him and we each received a certificate for how hard we had worked. We also received an invite to a free event on Saturday which lots of us attended.

   

  Thank you Phil for rejuvenating our love for tennis - we can't wait until the summer now when we consolidate what we have learnt!

  

• Table Tennis Competition

  Tue 02 Oct 2018 Miss Hunt

  Eight children from Great Binfields represented our school phenomenally today in our first ever table tennis competition. We were up against some tough competitors to say the least but the children kept their heads held high and battled on through their subsequent games. In total, the children played between 4 and 6 rounds, each consisting of three games against their opponent, with the first to 11 points winning the set. We played against children from St Mary’s and St John’s Primary Schools and really showed them what Great Binfields had to offer. Some of the children that competed have only been in my table tennis club for a matter of weeks so it was brilliant that they felt confident enough to represent our school and gain a little more experience to the variety of tactics and speeds that can be played during the game. Well done Great Binfields! I am incredibly proud of you all.

  

• Treehouse Theatre (Year 3)

  Mon 01 Oct 2018

  Year 3 have had a great time today taking in part in their Victorians 'Play in a Day'. Not only was it fantastic fun but we also learnt lots of new facts to add to our growing knowledge of the Victorians. Have a look at some of our photos and check out our class page later in the week to see an update from some of the children!

   

   

  

• Easy Fundraising For Schools

  Sun 30 Sep 2018 Ms Rogers

   

  Did you know that whenever you buy anything online - from your weekly shop to your annual holiday - you could be raising a free donation for Great Binfields Primary School? There are nearly 3,000 retailers including Amazon, John Lewis, Aviva, thetrainline and Sainsbury's, who will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to Great Binfields Primary School to say thank you for shopping with them.

  It's really simple, and doesn't cost you anything.

  All you have to do is:

  1. Go to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/greatbinfieldsprimaryschool

  2. Sign up for free 

  3. Get shopping - your donations will be collected by easyfundraising and automatically sent to Great Binfields Primary School. It couldn't be easier!

  There are no catches or hidden charges and Great Binfields Primary School will be really grateful for your donations. Please feel free to pass this onto your friends and family members.  The more people we have using this, the more funds we will receive for our children.

  Thank you for your support.

• Harvest Display at Tesco

  Thu 27 Sep 2018 Ms Rogers

   Thank you KS1 children for creating these superb scarecrows for the Tesco Harvest Display. Mrs Harvey must have had fun popping these up for everyone to see and admire. I think they are brilliant and would definitely do the job of scaring away birds trying to eat the seeds/crops. I hope you will all go and see them too. They are on the window just opposite the opticians.

   

  

• EYFS have been busy playing

  Tue 25 Sep 2018 Ms Rogers

  Our new EYFS children have all in been in school now for 3 weeks and I must say, they have made an incredible start. The vast majority have settled extremely well and are enjoying the activities planned for them each day. It has been lovely seeing our new children bond with our EYFS team as well as the rest of the school during their free time at lunchtimes. So, so many of our older children have been great role models and have been so kind and caring when our new children have needed a little assistance. I am sure that their parents are finding that they are extremely tired when they get home as they have been very busy at school.

   

  

• Forest Schools start again

  Mon 24 Sep 2018 Ms Rogers

  As you can see below our Forest Schools Programme has started again this year with Willow and Maple Classes enjoying the challenges as well as exploration opportunities available to them. All children will receive a 6 week block of Forest School sessions throughout 2018/2019.

  

• Year 1 Farm Visit

  Thu 13 Sep 2018 Ms Rogers and Mrs Harvey
  The children in Y1 really enjoyed and learned so much yesterday from their farm visit. The children asked so many great questions as well as answered lots of the questions posed too. This visit really helps our Y1 children get into their 'Food and Farming' topic and as you can imagine, they absolutely loved grooming and petting our visitors! It was great to see. Can you remember any facts we learnt from our visit? Such as, the name of a female goat, chicken, pig and sheep? We really pleased with the politeness the children showed towards the visitors and were very lucky that the rain held for us!