Spring Term 2015

Infants Visit
Whittington Castle
Class 1 and 2 went to Whittington
Castle as part of their topic
Castles and Dragons. First of all
they dressed up as peasants and
walked up in a long line behind
each other and up a bridge where
they had to duck down because of
the Arrows. The children all
found this lots of fun. Ellie said I
loved the bit when I went on the
bridge.
They then found out all about the
castle and what the different parts
were used for.
On the tour of the castle they saw
the stocks where you were put in
if you had been naughty and people would throw mud at you.
Then they went back and we
talked about the all the people

who lived in the castle and their

jobs. They also found out about
the food that was eaten in Medieval time such as pigs to eat and
they found out that they drank
beer not water.
Then after lunch they did the fun
quiz. They all dressed up as either a guard, jesters, servant,
welsh raider, lady or wizard. The
guards had to protect the ladies
the jesters had to entertain the
people, the welsh raiders were
stealing things, the ladies were
getting ready for the banquet Leo
said it was fabulous Maisy said
the trip was amazing because I
loved the fun trail and dressing
up. Oliver said the guard had
their own little hide out. All of
them enjoyed it.

By Ruth

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Great Governors Day

By Jazzi and Ryan
Our school Governors were invited to spend
a day with us , sharing in everything we do.
Mrs Weetch, Mr Bourne, Mrs Carman, Canon Davenport, Mrs Latham and Mr Briers
came to look around the school to see what
goes on in the classrooms.

Mrs Carman and Mr Bourne managed to

meet half of our wonderful school. Every
class had a chance to meet, talk to and work
with at least one of our Governors.

During the morning they also joined in with

our sharing assembly where they saw more
First our absolutely AMAZING Year 6s gave of the work going on in each class. They
each Governor a tour around the different seemed to really enjoy this.
classrooms and the rest of the school. After
that the Governors spent some time with the
classes joining in with our activities.
Mrs Weetch and Mr Bourne spent a lovely
time speaking to the children in Class 3
while they were working, while Mrs Carman
had a FANTASTIC time in Class 1 seeing
what our youngest children did.
Mrs Latham
enjoyed
talking
to
the children
in Class 2
and helped
them
with
the
maths
activity!

They also stayed for dinner, if they were

able to and joined us for play time. It was a
really good day and we enjoyed showing the
Governors our school. Mrs Latham said it
has been an interesting and enjoyable morning. Thank you for inviting me.

Defibrillator Training By Annabel and Amelia what you need to do while you wait for the ambuSchool has purchased a defibrillator for the local area
and school with money from the PTA (650), School
(394.50) and the Talent Show 2013 (135.50).
Thank you for your support to help us get one.
The First response team came and gave training to all
the staff at school about what to do if someone is unconscious, then how to use the defibrillator which is
really clever because it checks the heart and tells you

lance. Mrs Vaughan thought the Drs ABC was brilliant which helps you remember what to do if you
find someone collapsed:
D is for check for danger.
R is for check response.
S is for shout for help.
A is for check airways.
B is for check breathing.
C is for C.P.R. (circulation)

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A New
Puppy

By Niamh R.
and Ryan

Welcome to
Sonny and Charlie
By Amelia and Annabel

Recently Fin and Hatty got a new Puppy. He

is a Collie Cross Terrier, is 8 weeks old and is
called Axel. They love him even though he
chews the carpet and sometimes growls and
bites clothes! He is crazy, jumps and loves
his toys such as squeaky frog, blue hippo and
grey rabbit. They let him out in the garden but
he sleeps in the kitchen and gets over excited
in the mornings! He likes to sleep by the fire
on the sofa and when they 1st got him he slept
for ages on Hattys knee.
Fin loves the way he moves and chases me
especially when I run and he runs after me
nipping at my trousers. He is precious and a
good treasure. Hatty said I like the way he
chews Indios clothes and some times chews
my slippers! Axel has a lot of energy and can
even climb up the stairs they have taught him
to sit, come, and fetch well done! What a little
cutie he is.

Sonny and Charlie came to

our school after Christmas.
Sonny is in Class 3 and is 7
and Charlie is in Class 4 and
is 9. We love it when new
children come to Bickerton
and we hope that they felt
very welcome. They seem to
have settled in well and have
made new friends.

enjoy PE a lot! I think the

school is super!
Sonny: The people here are
friendly and I love playing
with people at school in the
playground too. P.E is amazing and lessons are fun.

We asked them what they

thought of Bickerton so far.
This is what they had to say:
Charlie: I like this school so
much. The lessons are fun
and I love playing with
friends on the playground, I

Happy 60th!

By Niamh R.

Canon Davenport, who comes in every Thursday to

do our assemblies teaches us about God, celebrated
a special Birthday recentlyhe let on to us that he was
60!Everyone in the whole school made little cards for
him with a special personal message and a beautiful
picture on the front cover which Mrs Tudor then made
into a big book. Canon Davenport was very touched
and told us he feels like one of the family. It made him
feel very special and it is something he will keep forever.

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Amazing World
Book Day

PTA buys iPads

for Classes

By Amelia

By Niamh R.

On World Book Day we all did very well with our costumes. Miss Gittins was the Bad Tempered Ladybird
although she was not bad tempered at all!
During a special assembly all showed off our
clothes and we saw
what everyone else
was, for example there
was the Ugly Sisters
and Cinderella. Mrs
Morley was Cinderella
before she went to the
ball and Mrs Latham was the one at the ball .

said the children love the

iPad in my class and they
love the new apps I have
downloaded. There are
some really good games to
help their learning. Thank
The teachers have all got you very much to the PTA
new iPads bought by the for buying them.
PTA for the classes. We
have already had great fun
with them taking photographs and playing on
apps to help us with our
learning. Mrs Vaughan

In assembly we found out the winners of the photograph competition where we had to send in a photo of
ourselves reading in an interesting placethere were
some really good places. You
can see who won 1st, 2nd, 3rd
and 4th in the Infants and Juniors in the photos.

Solar Eclipse
Hits Britain
By Annabel and Amelia

We all did lots of fun activities

to do with books and during
the day
we listened to stories read by
some of our mums, dads and
grandmas.

After school the PTA arranged a book swopping session which we loved because there was lots of choice.
Mr Innes
Sophie

The solar eclipse was

AMAZING! Most of us
were able to look at is
through something: Class
4 and 5 looked through a
welding mask that Will
brought in, Class 2 and 1
had it on YouTube and
Class 2 children also went
out side one by one and
with their back to the sun
they looked at it reflected
on a piece of paper from a
paper with a hole in. Class
1 also saw the difference

in the shadows. Mrs

Vaughan was amazed how
cold it went even though it
was still quite light. Her
class enjoyed finding out
about Eclipses.

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Young Voices
By Niamh R. and Annabel
On the 3rd March we went to
young voices. We saw Urban
Strides who are amazing
break dancers. After a practise in the afternoon it was
time to sing to all our Mums
and Dads. When the lights
went out it was pitch black
and all we could see was the
young voices torches and the
colourful lights shining on us.
The conductors name was
David and there was a really

nice girl who had broken her

leg and her name was Lucy
Spraggan from the X factor.
We all loved itit was amazing .
Young Voices went on till 11
pm at night so everybody
was so tired afterwards. We
liked it because there was a
mixture of dancing and songs
and much more. Our parents
thought Bickerton sung well.
We had the time of our lives!

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Peckforton Castle Visit

By Ruth
On the 9th march class 5 went on a visit to Peckforton Castle to see the birds of prey they had as part of
our topic. Joe and Sophie showed us the birds and
told us lots. One of them a Chille Blue Eagle kept
making so much noise and even turned his head upside down. They were amazing. Last and best of all
we got shown Elsa a European Buzzard Owl and we
even got to stroke her, she was softer than soft. We
took an IPad and took pictures of everything, and

then we got taken back to school. It was so fun and

we learnt lots of things, like if an owl`s eyes are orange they prefer to hunt at dawn and evening, if its
blue day and if its black night. We learnt that the
hawk eagle was the best hunter in packs after the African wild dog. We learnt lots of things and we enjoyed it, we wrote thank you letters back to Joe and
Sophie we hope they enjoy reading them. We even
got taken there for free! Thank you Peckforton.

C5 Topic
Class 5 has been creating
new species of birds. First of
all we had to get into groups
of 4. Then all of us had to
use our imagination and
facts we had learnt, to create
a new species of bird of
prey. We sketched what we
thought our bird should look
like. After that we had to
make it out of chicken wire.
Once we were sure it was ok
and that is how we wanted it
we cut up pieces of modroc
we filled a bucket cup or a
draw with water and we
took it outside where our
bird was, we put the modroc
in the water then took it out
and laid it on top of our bird.
We had to do it everywhere

under the wings on the tail

and even under the bird, so
after we had laid it on top
we turned the bird over and
laid modroc under it as well.
We used our fingers to make
it a bit wetter so that you
could smooth the holes so
they did not show. After
they had dried off we had to
paint it the colours we
thought would suit it. first
the main colours then the
details. They looked amazing.
Class 5 have also been making bird boxes as part of
their topic work. Thank you
to the adults who helped us.

By Ruth

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Valentines Disco
By Annabel and Amelia

Just before we broke up

for the half term our
amazing PTA put on a
fab Valentines disco for
us. The infants did lots
of dancing and there
were competitions like
the best dancer and

Like the infants the

juniors did dance too
and had hot dogs. They
had songs like the hokey kokey and compe

titions for the best air guitar and

team dancing. There was the best Michael Jackson imnail painting and face pression.
paints too. They also had
hot dogs and cakes.
It was the best! Thank you to the
PTA for a great disco.

Red Nose Day

Red nose day was great fun for
everyone! We had a big smiley
face in the infant playground
which we had to fill up with 1p ,
2p and 5p coins to send to comic
relief
and all the
pupils in the whole school
loved the idea of hot chocolate and cookie before first
break for only 50p! Yummy!
We all made our faces funny for money! We all
dressed up in our own clothes and brought in our

red noses if we had one and put face paint on our

faces to make them as we said earlier funny for
money!!
We had our red nose day on
Thursday and what fun we had!
Funny hair, funny faces, smiley
faces on our own and on the infant
playground and absolutely yummy hot
chocolate and a tasty
cookie which filled a hole
before first break so
TASTY! Our school had
such GOOD FUN!!!!!!!

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Mothers Day
Assembly
By Amelia and Annabel

The infants put on

an amazing mothers day assembly.
It was fabulous.
They sang songs;
they said what
they love about
their mums and
showed
t h e ir

mothers
day
cards. Lots of
mums had tears in
their eyes and
they all loved it.
All teachers were
proud of the infants.

Canon Davenport QHC

Congratulations
to
Canon Davenport who
has become a Chaplain
to the Queen having
been recommended by
the Bishop of Chester.
He told us that he is
one of only 36 chaplains and he will preach
at one of the Royal
Chapels once a year.
He will hold the post
until he is 70 and he
has become a member
of the Royal Household. He has a special

red cassock to wear

and has a special badge
to wear. He says its
more of an honour than
a job.
On 20th May he will
meet the Queen at her
annual garden party.
(report in Summer
Mag!)

Play in a Day
By Ruth
On the 12th February we did Play in a Day. A person called
Guy came in and year 5 and 6 did it. The play was called
Midsummer Night`s dream. There were lots of parts , the
main parts little parts and narrations, each one very important. This is what it was about, a girl called Hermia is to
marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander and Helena is in love with Demetrius so Hermia runs away with Lysander.
Demetrius goes to find
her with Helena following him. Oberon king of
the fairies is in a fight
with his wife Titania
queen of the fairies. He
gets his elf to find a
flower, he drops the
flower`s juice in her eyes, she will fall in love with the first
thing she sees. Also Puck drops it in Lysanders eyes instead
of Demetrius` eyes.
Titania gets waken and falls in love with Nick Bottom whose
head was turned into a donkeys head by Puck. Lysander
wakes up and sees Helen and falls in love with her. Then
Oberon makes things right and Lysander falls in love with
Hermia, Demetrius falls in love with Helena, and Titania
falls in love with Oberon, and Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius
and Helena get married.
We had a day to practise, and after, we performed it to the
whole school + PARENTS! We did really
well remembering the
lines.
Well done everybody
and thank you Guy!

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Cheshire Phoenix
Simeon Naydenov, Demond Watt, David Aliu and
Coach John Lavery came to Bickerton primary school.
They visited us and told us all about themselves and
what they do. We were split in 3 groups all of them
mixed up with class 4 and 5 children. There were 3
stations; one was the healthy eating one which we
talked about all the healthy and unhealthy foods. The
second one was the smoking one, talking all about
how bad smoking is, and we were showed some tar in
a jar, and trust me you dont want to get that into your
body, so dont go smoking. And another reason you
should not want to smoke is because you will have
2000 bad chemicals in your body. Then we had another station where we played games one group was split
in in 2 so each half could do something. One thing
was we played a little game, we had to try and do like
chestpush to each other and then bounce pass and a
few others and for the other thing we were into little
teams of 4 and we had to do races dribbling with our
weak and strong hand and a few others. Ruth really
got a surprise when Simeon said he was from Bulgaria, she talked to him in Bulgarian with no one understanding what they were saying. At the end we also

By Ruth

played a game what we had to do was we had to clap

exactly at the same time as the ball bounces sometimes it would bounce sometimes it would not. There
were only a few of us left when the remainders played
a different game. They had to clap before they caught
the ball Dylan was the winner and for his prize he got
a basketball. It was lots of fun. Then the week after
Paul Sturgess came. First he took class 4 and then he
took class 5. We were split into teams depending on
how many there were on each class. We did like little
races dribbling with our weak and strong hand. The
team that came first got 2 points the team that came
second 1 point. All of us enjoyed that. Paul is 7`8 foot
and wears shoe size number 18! We all enjoyed our
time with him. Then the week after that Holly came.
But this time we went outside, we were split into teams
of 4 although not really some of us went into 5 some
into 6, We were taught how to shoot which did help
and if we shot but did not get it in we had to run up to
the nearest yellow line and back then to the second
nearest line and back all of us enjoyed it. We learnt a
lot about team work.

Confirmation at St Oswalds
By Callum
On Sunday the 22nd March, 9 children from Bickerton
Primary School went to St Oswalds Church in Malpas
to be confirmed and 2 were also baptised. This followed a series of Confirmation classes by Canon Davenport.
The children were Callum May, Jakob Diamond, Billy
Bryant, Red Morgan, Danny Mosford, Dotty Wingett,
Rachel Johnson, Gemma Dulson and Tristan Weetch.
Because you have to be baptised to be confirmed Callum May and Jakob Diamond were also baptised on
the same day. Confirmation is where you become a

full member of the Church and show your belief in

God.
The Bishop gave them a candle and splashed holy water over their head 3 times, one is for God the Father,
one is for God the Son and one is for the Holy Spirit.
We sung 7 hymns in the service and everybody felt
proud after the service. It is a proud moment that you
should take part in if you have the chance. The Bishop
of Birkenhead was there to confirm them. Callum may
told us he enjoyed it a lot and it is not to be missed
out on.

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Dressing up Day
By Niamh and Jazzi
Dressing up day was a fun day for everyone especially
the infants! The infants dressed up as fairy tale characters like knights, dragons, princesses and princes. Anna
and Elsa ruled the day with the girls!

Class 2 also had a treasure hunt but their treasure hunt

was to follow the clues to find the letters and try to
work out the word that lay there. They also made Dragon story front covers and made an absolutely SUPER
symmetrical shield which they tried very hard on. They
also played a game where they had to capture the prisoner. This involved blindfolding one person and the
other person directed them to go round an assault
course. After all of that FUN they finished the day by
drawing a detailed castle plan.
The Juniors dressed up as people from adventures to
link with their topic Adventures. These are examples
of some of the characters they dressed up as: James
Bond, Polar explorers and Crocodile
Dundee.

Class 1 did a treasure hunt where they had to solve the

clues in different groups and find 6 pieces of treasure
that was the right colour for their group. They also
made fairy wands and fine steeds. A day earlier they
made their own apple pies and on dressing up day
they ate them. They also played games with Elsa and WE ALL HAD A
Anna (Mrs Tudor and Mrs Latham) and the infant li- FANTASTIC
brary was transformed into Arendelle. Last of all they TIME!
had knights challenges too and where they had to defeat a dragon and make Shrek laugh.

Goodbyes

By Niamh S.

When Mrs Eccles and Mr Rich left everybody was upset. We gave
them both a present to say thank you and to
say that we will miss them. We were all upset, especially class 3 who had been taught
by both of them.
We ended the assembly by singing a song
that Mr Rich had taught us, Somewhere Only We Know. We wish them all the best in
whatever they do. We would like them to
come back anytime they want to say hello.

New Born
By Ryan
Ethans mum had a baby called Jacob a few
weeks ago. Ethan (Class 1) has been so excited. Ethan said he looks chubby. Mrs Tudor
and Mrs Lathan went to see Jacob and they
thought he was cute.

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Fantastic Football
By Niamh R.

Our PE teacher Mrs Parsons entered Daniel Mosford, Matty

Bailey, Red Morgan, Bob Vaughan, Jakob Diamond, Tristan
Weetch, Ethan Goldthorpe and Dylan Cotgreave into the FBL
Boys Cup which took place on Friday the 23rd of January
2015 from 9.45am till 12.30 noon at Crewe Alex. The Soccer
Centre had 4 pitches and 3G artificial turf.
4 teams were playing on each pitch and each of the games
were 7 minutes. The first game they scored 3 to 0 the goals
were scored by Red Morgan and Dylan Cotgreave. In the second game they played St Michael's and the score was 6 to 0
the goals were scored by Matty Bailey, Red Morgan and Dylan Cotgreave. They all had great fun and have Mrs Parsons to
thank.

Handball was on the 3rd February 2015 at Bishop Heber

High School, Malpas . This competition was for year 5/6
and it started at 4:00 pm. There were 8 teams split into 2
groups. Our team was Dotty Wingett [captain], Lily Gorman , Rachel Johnson , Georgie Jones, Dylan Cotgreave ,
Matty Bailey, Danny Mosford, and Bob Vaughan [who replaced Red Morgan who was ill]. Thank you Bob.

Handy Handball
By Niamh S and Ryan.

The team drew 3 all against Tushingham, lost 4-2 against

Farndon A and won 6-2 against Malpas. Mrs Parsons said
the team played very well and it was unfortunate they didn't make the semi finals due to goal difference.

Class 3s Dance Spectacular

By Niamh R

On Wednesday 18th March Class 3 put on a spectacular by the whole school.

dance linked to their topic which is Fantastic Mr Fox by
Roald Dahl. They performed at our school and at the The dance was about
Heber! They had a magnificent time including the parents. the foxes moving
slowly through the
The dance was entitled Mr Foxs Journey Through forest, resting at the
Cezanne. In art Class 3 created the backdrop for the dance mountain and then
by interpreting Cezannes forest theme using pastels and slowly moving back
paints.
to the forest.
The children from class 3 made there own Fox masks with
Paper Mache and painted them. They all made a big white At 3:00pm they had the rehearsals at the Heber and the
mountain as part of the scenery too which was decorated by actual performance started at six. They had packed teas and
the childrens drawings of Cezanne.
they all had a great time. Five other schools also danced
then it was finally Bickertons turn. They were all excited
They then dressed in colours inspired by the artistred,
green, brown, yellow and orange. The dance was the set to and they danced really well. Thanks to all the teachers inthe song Somewhere Only We Go which was a recording volved and the children everything went very smoothly.

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Sportshall
By Annabel and Amelia

Sportshall 2!
By Niamh R and Jazzi

The school took part in the Sportshalls event

at Bishop Heber High School on 27th January.
The girls that competed were Millie Smith,
Christy Morris-Barnes, Lily Gorman, Millie
Forster, Rachel Johnson, Tamara Jones, Dotty Wingett, Emily Smith, Molly Tudor and
Georgie Jones.
The boys that competed were Bob Vaughan,
Matty Bailey, Dylan Cotgreave, Red Morgan,
Ethan Goldthorpe, Jakob Diamond, Tristan
Weetch, Casper Armstrong, Danny Mosford
and Fin Davis.
The Events that they took part in were 4x1
hurdles relay, 2x1 lap race, 2x2 lap race, 6
lap paarlauf, 4x1 lap relay, chest push, standing long jump, vertical jump, javelin and the
speed bounce.
Mrs Parsons said the team were FANTASTIC! Their performances were marvellous
and their behaviour was impeccable! We
came 2nd overall, so well done team!

On Thursday the 26th of February Mrs Parsons and Mrs

Morley took the amazing Sports Hall team Matty Bailey,
Bob Vaughan, Dylan Cotgreave, Red Morgan, Ethan
Goldthorpe, Jakob Diamond, Tristan Weetch, Casper Armstrong, Danny Mosford, Fin Davies, Will Beddows, Millie
Smith, Georgie Jones, Emily Smith, Dotty Wingett, Christy
Morris Barnes, Lily Gorman, Milly Forster, Rachel Johnson, Tamara Jones and Molly Tudor to compete in the
Sportshall Athletics Competition at Stanney Oaks Leisure
Centre, Ellesmere Port. This is a competition for all the
schools around Chester and we qualified for it after our first
Sportshall event and were competing against 9 other
schools.
The events were: 4 by 1 hurdle relay , 2 by 1 lap race, 2 by
2 lap race, 6 lap paarlauf, 4 by 1 lap relay, chest push, standing long jump,
vertical
jump,
javelin, and speed
bounce.
The team did their
very best coming
2nd, and Mrs Parsons was very
proud of them.

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Splashing Times

By Callum and Niamh S

Class 3, 4 and 5 have been lucky enough to go on

swimming lessons at Whitchurch swimming baths.
Every year you alternate between years so each year
gets a term and every Monday for 11 weeks they go
to Whitchurch swimming baths at half past 12 the
coach came to take them to the swimming baths. they
learnt how to do lots of new things including the butterfly, the mushroom float and the back stroke even
the breast stroke. Kerry taught all these things to the
shallow end group and our very own Mr Sweetnam or

Miss Gittins taught the deep end group. On the last

day we had a fun week where we got all the massive
floats and we could just play around for 1 whole
hour! We are very lucky to have had the opportunity
to go for these fabulous swimming lessons so thank
you to the swimming baths of Whitchurch from the
whole of the magazine club. We got Miss G to give
us a quote and she said I loved taking the children
swimming. It is fantastic to see how everyone improves week on week.

Science
Week
By Ruth

We had a science week and this is what

every class did.
Class 1: planted beans and did a bit of
colour mixing.
Class 2: best thing to stick the rainbow
fish`s scale on when it is in water, also
which coloured paper loses its dye
when it is in water.
Class 3: Animals including humans.

Class 2s topic this term has been all

about colour and rainbows. In dance with
Mrs Parsons they planned some dance
moves in small groups and then worked
together to plan a whole class dance to
the song Somewhere Over the rainbow.
The children really enjoyed practising
the dance and planning what moves to do.
They were so proud of their dance that
they invited all of their parents to come
in and watch itand they even had special t-shirts to wear so they made the
colour of the rainbow. The parents really
enjoyed the performance. Well done
Class 2!

How living things get their food.

Class 4: gravity and forces. What forces
are, parachute fall dropped it see how
fast it went, for air resistance.
Class 5: salt water. How to get drinkable water from the sea and what to do to
get it drinkable.
We all enjoyed our activities and what
we did, we did learn a lot.

C2 Rainbow
Dance

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The new Mrs Latham

By Jazzi
Here at Bickerton School we have Mrs new Latham Chester University which was the time when she sudwho is attempting to become a teacher. Mrs new Lat- denly bumped into the teacher who was the one who
ham wanted to become a teacher because of an AMAZ- inspired her to be a teacher. Her best memory of our
ING primary school teacher who inspired her to do the primary school to Mrs Latham would be our FANTASthing she wanted. Surprisingly Mrs Latham used to TIC sharing assemblies every Friday which show what
work in a Dentist surgery! And I bet you were sur- all the different classes have been working there hardprised about that! Her opinion on the children in the est all week. The Reason is that Mrs New Latham
school was great she thinks they are very polite, loves these assemblies so much is that all the children
AMAZINGLY kind, work super hard (and by super I look so proud of their work, she gets to see their lovely
mean super!) and finally most important of all they work and that most Schools dont do. Sometimes on the
make every one smile and make Mrs Latham laugh a lot! weekends she loves to take her children out to a theaHer favourite thing to do in Bickerton school is to tre mostly a winter play! She loves the costumes all the
watch all the children having fun at break times and all detail in them and the music showing how the characthe children playing and enjoying themselves and ters might feel inside like scary music if they are
watching them smiling, laughing and most of all making scared of nice sweet music if they feel good. She loves
break times worth it. She has children of her own and going to London and the characters sometimes go to
in the meantime that is her job taking care of her chil- London she also likes the atmosphere inside all the peodren and making sure they go through a good path in ple booing for the guys and you know the rest! She goes
their lives. Before her job at the dentist she went to at Easter and that will be the time to say goodbye!!!!

British
Gymnastics
The 18 children of the
Junior Gym Club went to
watch the British gymnastics, with Mr Sweetnam,
Miss Gittins and Mrs
Chesworth. We went in
the car and on a train. On
the train it was really fun.
When we got there we
went to a museum about
sea ships and the Titanic.
It was so interesting and
also fun.

By Ryan
After that we went to the
gymnastics. There were
all different competitions
like beam, mat, asymmetric bars and the volt. It
was really enjoyable and
interesting. Half way
through we had lunch
then it carried on.

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We all went down to

Bickerton Church for
our Easter Service.
The year 6s told the
Easter story through
drama and the school
joined in by singing
songs that helped tell
the story further.
Some of our mums and
dads came too.

Easter Service
By Amelia

After the story had

been told Canon Davenport gave a talkhe
even had us shouting
King of Kings, Crucify
and He is Risen so that
people walking past
could hear! Everyone
thought our service
was a good start to
Easter.

During the telling of

the story we spelt out
the word EASTER
showing the different
parts of the story for
example the first E
was for Entry into Jeruslam and the R for
resurrection.

Eyes Down, Hands Ready!

By Amelia
On the last Wednesday of term the school had
the annual Easter bingo at Bickerton Village
Hall. It was amazing! You could win an Easter
Egg after you got a line, then after you got a
house. Sometimes we even had 2 lines!

We also played last man standing. This is a

game where you had a random card and stood
up. A number was called and if you had that
number you sat down. The person who was
the last person standing won a special eggit
was really good fun. We also had a raffle and
It was good fun as there were other things you my ticket was called!
could take part in like colouring and making an
Easter garden. If you took part in any of them There were lots of people there and we also
you got a 1st,2nd, 3rd,4th or 5th prize and if had drinks and food and we could colour and
you took part you got a prize too. All the entries make hats.
were really good. There were lots and lots of
It was a great night organised by the PTA.
eggs there!

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Book Reviews
By The Team

Class 4 has read a very interesting book

called I Am David by Anne Holm which
is about a boy escaping from a prison
camp, finding a bundle with a bottle of water, some bread and a compass in which
keeps him going while he is keeping his
freedom. Class 4 have been concentrating
on this book and doing a lot of work in topic about it, and have loved it! Class 4
would like to recommend this book to you
if you are a Junior as its a FAB book!

My Naughty Little Puppy by Holly Webb

Class 5 have read a book called

Journey to the River Sea by Eva
Ibbotson and they recommend you
read this book if you are a Junior.
In our opinion it is one of the best
stories ever. It even won the National Smarties Book Prize and it
won GOLD. It is about a girl whose
parents die in a train crash so she
stays in the MAYFAIR ACADEMY
FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Soon her
teachers find her relatives who live
in the wildest place, Brazil- The
Amazon. She goes to live there with
them they have twin daughters
about her age. She thinks everything will be fine but will it? No
one knows or can even imagine
what adventures wait for her on
the shores of the River Sea. We really recommend you read this book;
its one of the best books full of adventure, humour and warmth. We
are really sure you will love it.

Puppies Online: Treasure Hunt by Jennifer

Gray

When Ellie names the new family puppy Rascal,

she doesnt realise how right the name is. Rascals naughtiness is annoying to the whole family, and Ellie isnt sure what to do. So when
Grandad suggests puppy training classes she
cant wait to get started. Its time for Ellie to
teach Rascal some new tricks, but things dont
go quite as planned. A fun story for any anyone who loves pets.

It is about 3 puppies who are called

Bounce, Einstein and Puzzle. They went on
holiday to a very special kind of kennels in a
lighthouse by the sea! Join these puppies
as they discover an ancient treasure map
and find themselves caught up in a race
against time. Will these dogs with their super skills and their online gadgets reach the
treasure before the evil Mike Dodger?

Thank you again to my trusty team of reporters who work hard every week to bring you
the terms news. Watch out soon for a competition that the magazine team are running
about pets, and next term we hope to have
some puzzles for you to do too in the magazine.
Think you can be a reporter too? Come and
give us a go!