St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
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Alex Cotter Writing Workshop (Burnham Book Festival '24)
Years 4 and 6 enjoyed taking part in a writing workshop led by local author Alex Cotter, organised by Burnham Book Festival. They had a Q & A session with Alex before being given the opportunity to show off their creative skills.
World Book Day 2024!
This year, our theme was 'Picture Books'. Children looked at one picture book in their class and created a piece of work around this. They talked about how picture books are important for all ages as they help develop children's imaginations and a love of reading. Below is some of the work they created. Each class also joined up with another class and shared their favourite books.
Year 5- Bramble class looking at the book 'Fear-a Brother Like no Other' and retold this story by creating their own pieces of artwork and piecing each part together to make a whole class film.
Highbridge Festival 2024
Well done to all children in Years 5 and 6 who represented the school at the Spoken Verse competition at the Highbridge Festival. They should all be really proud of their performances.
Burnham-on-Sea Remembrance Parade 2023
Year 6 Production 2023: 'Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies'
Year 6 Camp 2023
Year 6 visit to Bristol Museum and M Shed
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the performance poetry category at the Highbridge Festival. You should be so proud!
World Book Day 2023
World Holocaust Day Service 2023
Burnham-on-Sea Remembrance Parade 2022
After school club have helped to replant the school courtyard. The plants, compost, liners and advice have been kindly provided by Brean leisure Park. Thank you to Mrs Church, Mrs Fabika, Mr Neate and Mrs Broom who helped the children create a lovely area.
Our School Prime Minister and deputy Prime Ministers took their first whole school assembly today, proposing their ideas for the future.
Some of our children have been taking part in the Highbridge Festival of Performing Arts. Well done to everyone who did so well in the performance poetry competition, including two medal winners.
We spent some of World Book Day sharing our books with other classes. Year 4 and Year 6 had a great time reading to a partner.
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World Book Day 2022
Well done to those children who have had their poems selected for publication in the latest Young Writers book, 'This Is Me'.
Burnham-on-Sea Remembrance Parade 2021
Thank you and well done to those Year 6 students who represented St Andrew’s at the Remembrance Service.
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Harvest Service 2021
This afternoon we enjoyed our Harvest Service as part of our Collective Worship and heard poems written by our pupils all about fair farming practices, harvest around the world and fair distribution of crops and food into the community.
Huge thank you to everyone who donated food items for our school donation. If you would like to donate then there is still time as the donations are not being collected until tomorrow so please send your child in with items in the morning.
Thank you to Father Graham for attending the service.
Below are some photos from the service.
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We are really proud of our class poetry. We have used 'The Lost Words' poetry book by Robert MacFarlane (with illustrations by Jackie Morris) as our inspiration for writing our own poetry to show our new class names.
Spreading the Christmas spirit around school with our classroom advent displays.
Fantastic mathematicians taking part in #barvember2020 . Great to hear the buzz of excited maths discussions all around the school. Well done to everyone!
Here is a selection of our poems from National Poetry Day #NationalPoetryDay #MyNPDPoem
Lots of great entries for the Summer Reading Challenge. Can you guess which part of the Challenge they can tick off?
Book Bags for Life Events - Ready for launch in September. We are putting together a collection of books that can be shared with children to support difficult family moments. These books can be borrowed and shared as families. Currently, we have books to support bereavement, family break up and moving home.
Chris has been busy making things in the garden. He has also been growing most of these plants from seeds at the beginning of lockdown. The shelving he made from an old pallet! Very creative! Well done Chris!
Miley is very proud of her chichen itza pyramid!! Well done Miley
First day back and Year 6 PE at St Andrew's. ☺️
Lincoln has worked hard on building a Mayan pyramid
A little message and some music from us at St Andrew's... feel free to sing along! (Please note some of the photos used here were taken pre Covid-19!) Thank you to Miss Davies for putting this together
Lots of our Year 6 children have had fun completing the 'Lockdown SATs' paper given to all Year 6s this week for a bit of fun as it should have been their SATs week. Well done
Fantastic work from Keira in Year 6 all about electricity and how circuits work. Great use of Purple Mash to produce an informative poster too. Amazing stuff. ☺️
Reece in year 6 has made this clock! What a brilliant idea! Well done Reece
Fantastic science experiment from Cerys with Apples
Aidan in 6H and his sister have been busy painting little wooden hearts and making keyrings to raise money to add to Captain Tom's fund raising account. So far they have made £211 from selling them in their front garden! Well done guys
Owen played for his neighbours today to cheer them up what great talent!
Evie has been very busy at home! Great work
Wow great work Cooper! Here is some great information about transport and technology over time!
Rocket Mice
This activity is a perfect chance to challenge that idea, shooting a rocket high into the air by rapidly squashing a plastic bottle launcher. You'll never get this rocket into space – but some real rockets do go fast enough to prove the saying wrong.
We had a very exciting and interesting visit yesterday from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra!!
World Book Day 2020
The whole school enjoyed the visit of professional author, Dan Metcalf. Dan worked with each class, leading workshops and answering questions about the life of an author. He also signed and sold a few books! Dan's 'Lottie Lipton' series is currently being enjoyed by Year 4.
Well done to everyone who took part in the performance poetry category of the Highbridge Festival. We are very proud of all of you. Particular congratulations go to 4D for winning the whole-class Choral Speech category and Freya and Holly, who won gold and bronze respectively in the Year 6 individual performance.
Thank you to those children who took part in the World Holocaust Day ceremony the Frank Foley Memorial (27/01/20).
The latest edition of Young Writers has been released. Well done to those children who have had their work selected for publication.
Christmas Fayre 2019
Santa's Grotto at the Christmas Fayre
A very successful day with our friends from Kenya helping us with this week's Secrets of Success lesson focusing on imagination!
Fantastic opportunity for 3LD who went to King Alfred's 1610 Gym for a Prama session.
Fantastic morning in year 4 with Mel Bex leading a gymnastics session.
A fantastic Sports day yesterday, with a huge number of parents who turned out to support.
The children had a wonderful afternoon competing in their events and the overall winners of Sports day 2019, for the first time in over 18 years was Macmillan House.
Well done to all the children for a great afternoon of sport and to all the staff of St Andrew's who made this such a successful event.
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Our new Reading Areas are looking great! We have also introduced a 'Reading Challenge' for each year group, consisting of some of the best children's fiction - old and new!
Some of you may have heard of 'Lost Words' (illustrated by Jackie Morris) which has become a very popular book. A recent crowd-funding scheme has meant that every primary school in Somerset has been presented with its own copy. There are fabulous illustrations and it's easy to see why it's taking schools by storm. Our copy has arrived! We also have a signed copy of The Snow Leopard, written and illustrated by Jackie Morris, who has left her own personal message. These two lovely books will be on display in the foyer.
