Bessacarr Primary School

Pupils across the whole school danced their socks off to help raise funds for an Eco-Area in school. We are trying to raise money to purchase a greenhouse, garden tools, vegetable planters, wheelbarrows, water butts, compost bark and hopefully chickens and a chicken run. The Eco team are very excited about this project and can't wait to get started!

To celebrate World Book Week, Mrs Varley and Mrs Mynett held a fun family quiz based around our favourite childrens books. Children, parents and grandparents enjoyed a number of rounds including pictures, songs, quotes, general knowledge and a slightly chaotic "Where's Wally?" round. Well done to the Rossalls who were crowned overall winners!

We celebrated World Book Week this week! Children enjoyed story telling sessions, special assemblies, writing and art competitions and, of course, dressing up as their favourite book characters or words! What a brilliant way to celebrate Bessacarr's love of reading!

Children across school showed off the skills they have learnt during their Rocky Steady lessons this term. Each band performed a different song with different children on drums, guitar, keyboard and vocals. The children performed for parents and their classmates and were very proud of how far they have come so far. Well done to all who participated!

Today, KS2 held a Christmas Fair to sell their enterprise projects. Children made and priced products and will get to keep any profits made to buy something for their class. Year 3 made delicious, festive biscuits, Year 4 made Christmas baking kits and Christmas crackers, Year 5 made a variety of beautiful Christmas decorations and Year 6 made wax melts and Christmas cards. 

KS1 performed their Christmas Nativity, 'A Miracle in Town' to parents this week. They sang beautifully, did actions and delivered their lines loudly, clearly and with expression. We were so proud of each and every child involved!

Art club were lucky to have artist, Melanie Bellis working with them today. She showed us her amazing art work and some different printing tools and techniques. The children loved exploring the work of a real life artist and following the process alongside her.

🎸🤘This week is the TTR England Rocks Competition. It will run from Monday 14^th September, 07:30am to Wednesday 16^th November, 19:30 for Years 3-6.🎸🤘

How does it work? From Monday 14th November to Wednesday 16th November, students can compete against others across England in answering as many multiplication and division questions correctly as they can. The winning school and class will be based on the highest average number of correct answers per student.

THERE ARE SOME AMAZING PRIZES AT STAKE:
The top 3 classes based on average score will receive an Amazon gift card.
1st place: £100 gift card
2nd place: £75 gift card
3rd place: £50 gift card

All you need to do is log on to https://ttrockstars.com, play (up to a maximum of 1 hour per day) and earn points for your class! Can your class or our school reach the leader board and win prizes?! Fingers crossed 🤞!!

Today the whole school kicked off Anti-Bullying week by wearing odd socks to school! During the week, the children will be learning about what bullying is, why it is wrong and what we should do if we see bullying happening.

Year 2 enjoyed a brilliant day out at the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield today to enhance their history learning about the Great Fire of London. Both classes learnt so much about how life in the 1600s was different to life today- including how fire fighting has changed. We saw real life artefacts and enjoyed exploring old fire engines and trying old different uniforms and equipment from the past.

This week, we appointed 12 new, fantastic reading ambassadors to help us out with all things reading around school. Here they are - ready and raring to go!
To take on this prestigious role, children were asked to fill in an application form explaining why they wanted to become part of the team as well as to share any ideas on how they could make an impact! They were amazing! There were so many brilliant applicants - over 60 infact - all with such incredible ideas that it was so difficult to narrow it down! We are so proud of all of the children and overwhelmed with their enthusiasm. What a credit to our school!!