BULLETIN
Fortnightly Newsletterof Brontë House School
Weekly Awards
18.11.22 Reception Good Work Awards Arjun D and Neela S
Head’s Award
Y1 – Sienna E, Raadhya K, Max B, Bronte W
Y2 – Nathan R, William W, Ibrahim Z, Mikaeel H, Ayrah N, Oscar M, Gino D
Open Morning
A massive thank you to all ouropen morning guides fromYears 5and 6. You were all a real credit to your parents and the school; ourprospective families found you all informative and delightful.
Your Riverbank Needs You!
We are planting our final saplings this Sunday afternoon between 2 and 4pm, please comeand help if you can.
If you can bring a spade and meet at the bottom carpark at The Grove near to the start of the riverside path.
Remembrance Service
Following our Assembly of Remembrance last Friday, the school community came together for the two minute silence in front of the poppy display that pupils had created at the front of school. Grove pupils attended and played the Last Post.
Our Brontë Knitwits worked very hard for six weeks to ensure their homemade poppies were finished in time and proudly showed them off at the service.
18th November 2022
Ashdown Lodge
Reception have been thinking about what they enjoy doing at school and what they are good at. They collected items from around the classroom to help with their
Non Uniform Day
Today was our Children in Need and Odd Socks Day and there was lots going on! Pupils came in an array of non uniform and odd socks, which is part of anti bullying week. Reception are making Pudseybiscuits this afternoon. Thank you for all your donations forChildren In Need.
Pre-Nursery enjoyed their sing and signing sessions. In one of the songs they sang about somelittle ducks.
Nursery have been learning about traditional stories. They went for a walk in the woods and read Little Red Riding Hood and then played WhatTimeisitMrWolf? They had lots of fun exploring the woods.
In ART Club, Year 1 & 2 thought about why wearing poppies is so important at this time of year and then used watercolours to create their own poppy art.
This week in RE Year 2 have been learning the story of the Nativity and then re-telling and ordering the story themselves.
In English, Year 1 were introduced to a naughty little book monster called Nibbles who likes to eat his way through different fairytales. They created a wanted poster to help to catch Nibbles. This inspired the children to create their own monster designs as part of their challenges.
In their topic lessons Year 2 have been starting to learn about The Gunpowder Plot, King James 1 and the role Guy Fawkes played in the plot. They took part in a role play activity thinking about what the different characters might say.
Year 2 were also given the challenge of working out the title of our new English reading text. They were given jigsaw pieces and talked about what they could see on each piece before working out how they fitted together to create the front cover. Above & Below is a beautifully illustrated picture book which explores eight different habitats above and below the surface, with facts about different animals and plants.
This week in Greetings Card Club, pupils used quilling to produce beautiful Christmas cards. They will be learning different methods each week to create cards. These skills can then be adapted to produce a range of cards for different purposes.
Year 3 have been continuing to learn more about Ancient Egypt in their humanities lessons. Imogen in 3B brought in some canopic jars to show everyone and they will soon be learning what they were used for when we start looking at mummification. As part of this topic, Year 3 spent the day at Leeds Museum learning more about Ancient Egypt. They took part in a mummification workshop and also had the chance to see the real life mummy, Nesyamun.
The ability to make accurate measurements is an essential skill. In mathematics, Year 5 have been combining this skill, along with their creativity to produce a picture containing a variety of lines of different lengths. The children were then tasked with assessing their peers' work. They were very strict markers deciding each line had to be within 1mm of accuracy!
This week has been a busy week in the science lab for Year 6. They carried out an investigation to find out which conditions mould grows best in. They put their knowledge of microorganisms and fungi to the test. Following some work on plastic pollution the previous half term, Year 3 decided to recycle one of their old t shirts and made themselves a trendy shopping bag.
Year 4 Henry VIII Portraits
Cross Country
We had a number of Brontë teams involved in last week’s HMC Cross Country event at Barlborough Hall. Great running, excellent effort from all participants and, above all, fantastic team spirit.
Temple Newsam Tudors
Year 4 were a pleasure to take on their day visit to Temple Newsam. They impressed everyone with their knowledge of the Tudors, their enthusiasm, their impeccable behaviour, as well as their dressing up skills!
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