bickerton bulletin autumn 2013
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Autumn Term 2013
Welcome to all the new Recep-
tion children. It is fantastic to
have them all. We have already
spent happy playtimes playing
with them and seen some of theirwork in sharing assembly. We
think all the new children think it
is wonderful at Bickerton as
whenever we see them they al-
ways have nice big smiles on
their faces.
We asked Mrs Tudor what her
new children were like, Class
one are very helpful, happy, set-
tled, kind to each other and fullof mischief.
We would also like to welcome
the other children who have
joined us this year: in Class 3 we
have Luke Madeley and Calum
Rodway; in Class 4 we have
Chap Adams and Class 5 Ruth
Ivanova.
All of our teachers and other staffare always so lovely to all chil-
dren who are new. We all do our
best to make them feel a part and
welcomeI think we have all
succeeded!
New Little
LearnersThe Day the Royal
Navy Visited
BY TRISTAN WEETCHThe whole school started this terms
topic on the sea with a visit from the
Navy .
Eva Carman told us all about what
Class 2 did. Dan and Beth came wear-
ing their full uniform. They told us
about their uniform and showed us thebadge on their arm which showed some
wings. This was because they were en-
gineers in the Navy.
They check and fix the planes. We then
all tried on their hats. It was good fun
and Mrs Vaughan and Mrs Shone said
that we looked good in it. It looked
very big on some of us!
Next we went outside into the play
ground and Beth taught us how to
march like they do in the Navy. We
had to march together and stop when
she shouted Halt!. We werent very
good at it at the beginning, but we got
better. Beth and Dan told us we were
really good by the end.
We then had great fun playing a game
where we had to pretend to fix the
plane, clean the plane and best of allfly the plane.
Each class enjoyed the visit from the
Naval Engineers and learnt a lot at the
start of their new topic.
By Ellie Lunt-Lloyd and
Dylan Cotgreave
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BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL
SadoodbyesSadly last term both Mrs Boothby and Mrs Kirk
left. We had a special assembly for both of them
and we gave them gifts.
In her leaving assembly Mrs B. came in with a box
ready to put on her head, so people didnt see her
crying. We found this funny!
Ross and Jacob were fantastic presenters leading
us through amongst other things, Who wants to be aMillionaire? where of course all the answers were
Mrs B. and making us all laugh with a dance. We
couldnt let her cry the whole time!
We also sang a spe-
cial song and the
Year 6 girls danced
to itthis did make
Mrs B. cry!
We presented cards
and gifts to both of
them so hopefully
they will not forget
us!
Mrs B. gave us a bench to remember her by (and the
Staff were treated too!)thank you Mrs B. We will
never forget either of you and hope you both have agood time. (It has been good to have Mrs Kirk back
with us on supply recently and Mrs B. is settling into
her new school and enjoying the new challenges. She
misses us all though. The Editor)
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Danny has the
Fergus Factor
Last years School
Councillors bought us
lots of toys and games
to play with from the
money you all gave at
Cookie Day. We have
both indoor games for
wet play and outdoor
games.
The marble runs have
been particularly popu-
lar.
Everyone has enjoyed
playing with all the
games, so thank you
last years School
Councillors.
At Bickerton we have an award called
the Fergus Factor which is awarded to a
pupil who is has been abrilliant person orwho has worked extremely hard in les-
sonssomeone who shows the amazing
spirit of Fergus.
This award was set up in memory of Fer-
gus Hunter, a pupil at Bickerton who
showed amazing spirit and courage after
he became very ill. He always had
a smile on his face, was determined to
carry on and became an example to us all.
Last term the Fergus Factor was awarded
to Danny Mosford. We asked Danny how
he felt when he received the award.
I felt so happy and excited and very
proud of myself. I did not think it would
be me and it was a total surprise.
Well done Danny, you deserve it!
We wonder who will be the next Bicker-
ton pupil to earn this special award.
BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND
CHRISTY MORRISBARNESBY RACHEL
JOHNSON
Toys and
Games
Oliver in Class 5 has been performing
The Turn of the Screw. Tom, William
and Sophie have been to watch it and said
it was brilliant. It is a ghost story from the
Shakespeare novel, Much Ado about
Nothing. Oliver also had a treat -watch-
ing the play himself! He absolutely lovedit! Oliver has already got his next play
ready: Accrington Pals. He is looking
forward to that as well. Well done Oliver!
Oliver stars again!
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BY RACHEL JOHNSON
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This year we have another group of amazing SchoolCouncillors. The School Council is run brilliantly by
Mrs Tudor and Miss Gittins. These children all im-
pressed their class-mates who voted for them to repre-
sent the year. The Juniors also had to give a speech
before votes were cast.
Here is the amazing team:
Year 1: Alex Lightfoot and Molly Barber
Year 2: Ava Dilworth and Angus Adamson
Year 3: Jack Tompkins and Ruby Cotgreave
Year 4: Bob Vaughan and Millie Smith
Year 5: Rachel Johnson and Matty Bailey
Year 6: Issie Harman and Sebastian Armstrong
They have had their first meeting and have already
thought of some super events for the school. Mrs
Vaughan asked Rachel if she could share some of the
ideas, but she responded by saying Its a surprisewait and see. If anyone has any ideas for the school,
please let any of these fantastic School Councillors
know and they will bring them to the next meeting.
SUPER SCHOOL
COUNCILLORS!
Once again the love-
ly librarians are
back Issie, Sasha,Sophie and Zoe.
They are going to
make the library tidy,
there are going to be
lots of competitions
and lots of new books.
The competitions are
based on colouring
and puzzles or writingstories. They are go-
ing to make the li-
brary tidy and fun.
There is going to be
puzzles in the library
like word searches
and crosswords. They
have a meeting every
week to make the li-
brary more appealing
and better. Mrs
Chesworth said: I amreally looking forward
to working with the
new librarians. They
are full of fantastic
ideas which will bene-
fit the school. The
librarians will be vis-
iting three libraries
one at Bishop Heber,one in Whitchurch
and the education li-
brary in Winsford.
(see article later in
the magazine)
Thank you
Mrs Chesworth.
LOVELY
LIBRARIANSBY ZOE VAUGHAN AND
SASHA PRICE
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lass 4 have had great Wednesday afernoons doingForest Schools. They have been up Bickerton Hillwith Jason their guide. They have had lots of fun
planning things such as building a village of dens!We began by making shelters by using plasc. We
made them by pung rope between two trees,hanging the plasc over and then ed the edges.
We got in a right tangle
when we tangled our-
selves up and we had to
try and get back into a
circle.Even the rain didnt stop the fun as a big parachute
was put up keeping everyone dry.
While under the parachute the class looked at peo-
ples lanterns that they had made and what had
been found in the scavenger hunt.
The scavenge hunt brought up
treasures such as mushrooms,
dierent types of bark, animal
footprints and holes and Callumfound a grasshopper.
One week they built
dens and carried on with
the ones that were al-
ready started. Gardens
and res were built
around the dens. Thensome of the class went
on a scavenger hunt and
some of them learnt
some knots.
The lanterns were made by using scks, string and
back in class we put on ssue paper.
We asked Bob what he thought about Forest
Schools: It was brilliant fun especially when Jasons
son and daughter came because they helped us nd
more things and we had great fun breaking down
the dens. But it was sad to see them go.
FUN FOREST SCHOOLS
BY TRISTAN WEETCH
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DIRTY DELAMEREYear 3 and year 4 went on an amazing
trip to Fox Howl, Delamere! When we first
arrived, Stella, our fantastic guide, took us
on a walk around Delamere Forest, where wediscovered Wood Sorrel (Wood Sorrel is a
type of edible plant with heart-shaped
leaves). We also found out lots of other in-
teresting things.
Jack Tompkins, Year 3, jumped into a wet,muddy puddle and his face was plastered in
mud; he fell over in it! Jack was moaning for
the rest of the day; even when he was in
dry clothes, he was still moaning!
We slept in epic bunk beds the boys bed-
room had red and yellow stripes on the wall
paper, while the girls had a sheep on theirwall paper with a purple back round.
Food there is delicious especially the bacon
(Breakfast), Tuna sandwiches (Lunch) and
Curry (Dinner). The trip to Delamere was
brilliant, loads of people said that they re-
ally enjoyed it.
BY MOLLY TUDOR AND GEMMA DULSON
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KIPPERS PARTY!
On Friday 13thNovember, Class 1 had a special
visitor. It was our old friend Kipper, backagain! Class 1 had a big Birthday party for him
which they needed to plan for and set up. On the
morning of the party, Kipper was sent to hisGrans for an early present opening session.
The children all worked
very hard with the prepara-
tions, including making
Birthday cards with lovely
neat writing inside for him .
They also had to make
crispy chocolate cakes,
with a secret ingredient,
syrup which made thecakes really sticky. (Dont
tell any oneThe Editor!)
Everyone loved them. Also they made strawberry
jelly, just to make it right! They found it tough to
tear out of the jelly block.
They made a HUGE banner for the party, which
was very colourful and amazing party hats which
were so pretty!
To make the party yummy, everyone brought in
some snacks like crisps and vegetables. Mrs Latham
said that it was the healthiest party that she had ever
been to!!!!
There was lots of excitement as Kipper arrived at
about 11 oclock and this year he was 5
(AGAIN!!!!!!!)
A HUGE box
arrived which
was full of balls
that was given to
Class 1 from
Kipper.
After that the party start-ed!!!! It was FAB and eve-
ryone loved partying! Kip-
pers cake was very yum-
my!
BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND LILY GORMAN
On our field we haveour own Bickerton
Buzzard. He likes to
come in the late evening
and early morning. Mrs
Parsons calls the Buz-
zard Monty. He likes tosit on the climbing
frame and the school
fence.
See if you can spot him
anytime.
BICKERTONS
BUZZARD BY LILY GORMAN
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The librarians set two
competitions -a colour-
ing one for infants and
designing a spooky book
cover for juniors. Win-
ners got a big packet of
sweets obviously Hal-
loween themed.
We announced the win-
ners in sharing assembly.
They were Y6-Lucy
Bourne, Y5-Chap Ad-
ams, Y4-Emily Fowles,
Y3-Ruby Cotgreave, Y2-
Ciaran Dunne Y1-
George Nield and Re-
ception-Beatrice Cundy.
Also everybody who
entered got a mini packet
of sweets - an amazing
60 people entered! It was
a very hard decision.
Our next event will be to
write a winter poem
which will be presented
in the Junior library. Sad-
ly this time it is only for
the Juniors. So we hope
you enjoy this upcoming
event as much as you did
the spooky competition.
Thank you for everybody
who enteredyour crea-
tions were amazing.
LIBRARY INTRODUCES
COMPETITIONS
BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL AND SASHA PRICE
There is a new amazing gang of reporters in Bickertonfor the magazine. Heres a bit about them:
Sophie wanted to join the Magazine because she enjoys it and
loves taking part of it.Likes: Everything
Molly wanted to join the magazine because she loves reading the
magazine and wants to be a part of it.
Likes: Lego Harry Potter. Dislikes: Sprouts
Dylan wanted to join the magazine because he wants to be part
of the Bickerton Bulletin.
Likes: International Rugby. Dislikes: Beetroot
Rachel wanted to join because she wants to be part of it.
Likes: Animals, chocolate and fun. Dislikes: Cabbage, Maths
and Sprouts
Gemma wanted to join because she wanted to be part of some-
thing big.
Likes: Horse riding and Chocolate. Dislikes: Spiders and
Sprouts
Tristan wanted to have his name on the page.
Likes: Football. Dislikes: Sprouts and mustard.
Sasha did it last year so she wanted to do it again because it was
so fun.
Likes: Chocolate. Dislikes: Spiders
Ellie wanted to join because she wanted to learn different skills
and all her friends said it was amazing.
Likes: Her bike. Dislikes: Spiders
Billy wanted to join because when he looked at the magazine he
admired it and wanted to do it.
Likes: Sweets. Dislikes: Baked Beans .
Lily wanted to join because she has always loved Englishand writing reports.
Likes: Horses. Dislikes: Beetroot and Cabbage
Christy wanted to join because everyone was saying that it was
fantastic so she really wanted to join.Likes: Pizza. Dislikes: Maths and Cabbage
So there are the amazing magazine reporters who this year are
going to make a brilliant Bickerton Bulletin. If there is anything
you would like adding to the magazine please let one of these re-
porters knowit is after all, your magazine.
Magnificent Magazine
Reporters
Freya Davies has spent a
long time working with
Mrs Chesworth doing
the Rapid Reading to
help her with her work.
She has now completed
the course having put a lot
of her own time into it too
and she has done reallywell.
We spoke with Freya and
we asked her some ques-tions;
Have you enjoyed it? YesI have really enjoyed it and
it was really fun
Are you a lot more confi-
dent? Yes I am a lot more
confident in my work and a
lot better as well
Has it been hard work?
Yes it has been hard work,
especially when the com-
puter didnt work!
Has it been worth doing?
Yes it was definitely
worth doing.
Mrs Chesworth said What
a star! Freya has been a
delight to work with and
her reading skills have
come on leaps and bounds.
Over the last 18 months she
has worked exceptionally
hard with me at school and
with her family at home.
Freyas determination to
succeed has certainly paidoff.
Well done Freyayou are
a star and we are all really
proud of you.
FANTASTIC FREYA
BY RACHEL JOHNSON
BY RACHEL JOHNSON AND CHRISTY MORRIS-BARNES
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Years 1, 2 and 3 went to
the SeaQuarium in Rhyl and
the beach as part of their
topic.
The SeaQuarium was very in-
teresting and they were intro-
duced to sea creatures from
different sea habitats. They
had a talk
w h e r e
they even
st rokedstar fish.
The children were fascinated
by sting ray eggs known as
mermaid purses (The teachers
were amazed too as we
thought it was a type of sea-
weed!). They also felt a lob-
ster shell. Some of the fish
they looked at were zebra
fish and clown fish. There
were also sharks and a big
tunnel they could walk through
where all the fish were around
them.
One of
the really
fun things
according
to Maisy
Tudor who told us all about the
trip was running with the seals.
They also went on the beach
and were digging a giant castle
and making other sculptures us-
ing the natural things around.
The giant castle even had a so-
fa on it and Maisie wanted to go
to sleep. The weather was so
nice they even had sandwiches
on the beach. Maisie said that
she had a really fun time.
VISIT TO RHYLBY DYLAN COTGREAVE AND GEMMA DULSON
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SCURVY PIRATES
On the Tuesday before the end of the half term our schoolhad Pirate day. There were lots of different pirates present:
Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Hook, Mr Smee and lots of
other truly amazing pirates.
Class 1,2,3 and 4 did a treasure hunt in the Nature area and onthe Field and they had to follow all the clues to find the edible
gold!!!! Classes 1,2 and 3 also had to save favourite buddies
from their classes which had been taken by the Pirates. If they
didn't solve the clues before midday then Bickerton Bear,
Squarky and Monkey would have had to face a life on the seas
with the Pirates. Thankfully, at the last minute the clues were
solved, the map completed and the buddies discovered!
Class 5 did projects on piratesMrs Chapman let us choose
how we presented it. Some children did raps, songs, poems
and quizzes for their class mates to enjoy.
Everyone enjoyed the fun day with lots of Pirate activities and
we would love to have it again!!!!!!
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Class 1 have been busy with their new topic
Ice and Snow!!!They have really enjoyed doing allsorts of interesting work. For example Class 1 really en-
joyed it when Blue came in, Blue is a polar bear, who wore
a blue scarf.
They also enjoyed it when Mrs Latham got the sparkly
white play dough out, They said they had a brilliant time
making all kinds of shapes out of that. Class 1 tried to make
polar bears but it was a bit too tricky.
Also they had been making pictures with potatoes, the pic-ture made a penguin, when they had finished their hands
were covered in paint Mrs Tudor told them to go and wash
their hands.
Class 1 have been making jumping jellyfish with paper
plates, cellophane and finally bubble wrap. They really en-
joyed making these funny creatures!!! They have also en-joyed making snails out of paper plates and decorated them
with pens and crayons. They look brilliant you should go
and see them!
Class 1 have had a blasting time doing lots of different
things with Mrs Tudor and Mrs Latham, thank you for let-
ting them do so much fun things.
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Class 2 have enjoyed looking at lighthouses, crea-
tures in the sea and more recently Ice and Snow.They have loved building igloos, exploring the properties ofice and water and finding out about Penguins, Walruses,Polar bears and Beluga Whales.
Making stained glass biscuits was fun as well as the chal-lenge to float a stone and build the best boat! They also saw
what happened when salt was added to ice. They loved be-ing real scientists when they tried to find out which mate-rial stopped you slipping and which mopped up water thebest.
Class 2 have got some amazing displays which they lovedproducing work for!!! They have a Pirate Stew display, oneon ice and snow with tube penguins and symmetrical paint-ed penguins-some ended up with double-headed penguins(!) and some had symmetrical twins! The tube penguinseven had googly eyes! Class 2 have also produced a SIMP-
LY amazing Display based on The Lighthouse Keeper!The Lighthouse display is on the largest display.One of the really popular things in Class 2 is the Kaplathey have loved making lighthouses, bridges and igloos outof it. It seems that the challenge is to make the tallest igloo
or lighthouse!
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ONCE UPON A TIME
Once the teachers were children too! We asked
them what their best and worst memories of prima-
ry school were!
Mrs Tudor (Class 1 and Deputy Head )
Best: My Infant teacher.
Worst: First day a boy called Steven
who stole my dinner money!
Mrs Latham (Assistant in Class 1)
Best: Meeting new friendsWorst: We kept moving.
Mrs Vaughan (Class 2)
Best: Learning about history
Worst: Semolina with pink raspberry
sauce!
Mrs Shone (Assistant in Class 1)
Best: The Christmas party
Worst: The visit of the Nit nurse
Mr Rich (Class 3)
Best: Break time, football and Cricket.
Worst: Having to do homework.
Miss Gittins (Class 4)
Best: Going on tripsWorst: School dinners.
Mrs Tedham (Class 5)
Best: Being the main part in the school
play!
Worst: Having to drink milkfrozen
in the winter and sour in the summer.
Mrs Chapman (Class 5)
Best: Playing Rounders.
Worst: The uniform which was a
yucky bottle green.
Mrs Chesworth (Assistant in Classes 5
and 4)
Best: Playing Hockey.
Worst: Sewing.
Mr Sweetnam (Head teacher)
Best: Roly Poly Jam Pudding
Worst: The outdoor toilets.
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Mrs Weaver (Reception)
Best: School Dinners
Worst: The Nit nurses
Mrs Parsons (PE teacher and Assis-
tant in Class 1)
Best: Being Captain of the Dean-
ery.
Worst: Nothing (loved it)
Mr Innis (Caretaker)
Best: Playing football.
Worst: The playground was too
crowded.
Mrs Jenkins (cook)
Best: The uniform
Worst: The Nit nurse
Mrs Billington ( Midday Assistant)
Best: P.E lessons
Worst: Exams and the dentist.
Mrs Carr (Midday Assistant)
Best: Swimming lessons.
Worst: Injuries.
Mrs Holmes (Music Teacher)
Best : Playing chime bars.Worst: Slipping on ice in year one.
Mrs Clay ( Music teacher.)Best: Playing in playground
Worst: Being scared of the big chil-
dren.
Emily (Piano teacher)
Best: Going on first residential
Worst: Cutting my knee when play-
ing football
Ian (Guitar teacher)
Best: Delamere
Worst: When I was sick in class.
Revd Anthony Dutton (Curate)
Best: Lake District walking trip.
Worst: Going to school on the firstday.
Canon Ian Davenport (Rector)
Best: Being in the school choir.
Worst: Being left at the school gate
from the very first day of school be-
cause parents were not allowed in
school.
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PUMPKIN FUN
Every year from 20th-31st October
there is a PYO Pumpkin week at one of
our local farms. AND a little bit after
that-till Halloween! We always have a huge
selection of pumpkins and it is always
great fun. We had lots of visitors from
Bickerton School this year!
We got an interview from one of theirhelpers, Maisy:
What did you think about the pumpkins?
They were very fun and you got to have a
look for your perfect pumpkin-you couldnt
leave if you didnt!
What did you mainly do at the pumpkins?
I took wheelbarrows back up on the quad
bike.
Were there any funny bits?Yes, there were two top funny bits.
What were they?
Well, Molly started me giggling by walking
round in socks-then she fell into the saw-
dust lucky dip-it was in an old bathtub!
Next one?
Uncle Gary has this little video camera and
he attached it to a wheelbarrows wheel
and ran through the maze-the solution tothe winding paths!
We look forward to more pumpkin fun next
year.
BY MOLLY TUDOR
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On the 9thof October the parents thought that
they were going back to school but in fact they
had a really fun evening which was so different
to school! Ruth Robson held the evening which was
for adults and they were talking about how to help
children to read and spell. It was held in the schoolhall and they played lots of practical games.
One of the games was called the plural game where
they were given words such as pen or church and
they had to see a pattern: pen would be pens and
church would be churches. The parents found out
that you could tell if you added es or s by the
number of syllables!
Ruth also told the parents the story of the little
red hen with lots of fun actions and EVERYONEjoined in. They
were also told a
story that they had
never heard before
called Monkey see,
Monkey do and
Ruth got the adults
to tell the person
next to them thestory and then they had to draw it on a storyboard.
It was funny because the adults got REALLY, RE-
ALLY competitive when playing a game about con-
traction. The parents really enjoyed the evening.
Mrs Vaughan said; It was good to see the parents
enjoying spelling and reading and it was a fantastic
e v e n i n g
e n j o y e d
by all.
MUMS AND DADS GO BACK
TO SCHOOL
BY RACHEL JOHNSON
QUIZZES AND PUZZLES
If you are wondering where the quizzes, puz-
zles and jokes have gone from the magazine,
then wonder no more. You can find them on
the school website, so you can download as
many as you want for you and your friends.
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Bickerton is, as usual, hosting some
afterschool clubs like :
Magazine club run by Mrs Vaughan!
Mr Sweetnam is doing a fab gymnas-
tics club on Monday.
Football is hosted by Mrs Parsons and
Mr Rich on Tuesday, while
Mrs Chapman does a fab cake club.
Mrs Parsons and Mrs Chesworth aredoing a Netball club for Y3-Y6 on
Wednesday.
Mrs Tedham is doing Choir on Thurs-
day during lunch.
Finally, Mark is doing Basketball on
Friday.
Lots of children are enjoying doing
these clubs-we hope you are doing at
least one of them!
BY MOLLY TUDOR
AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS
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J a n u a r y b e c a u s e t h e y a r e p u t -
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a c h a n c e t o d i n e w i t h t h e
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w e l l a s m a k i n g a v e r y h a p p y
f r i e n d s h i p w i t h o u r w i n t e r y
f r i e n d , B l u e !
BLUE VISITS INFANTS
BY MOLLY TUDOR
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Brilliant Bikers!On Monday and Tuesday the 4th and 5th the
Year 5s took part in Bike Ability. We tested
our skills on our bikes by going round and round in
a orderly fashion, controlling our ride.
Next we did a slow race which we found really dif-
ficultmost of us just went too fast but somewere clever and went round in small circles. We
learnt how to get past a parked car which very
tricky as it was a real car that we were practicing
on!! But eventually we mastered it.
After that we went on the road. Most of us were
quite scared, but there was nothing to worry
about! We moved on to the road outside the
school and we had to cycle from the school to asign and when we got to the sign we had to do a U-
turn in the middle of the road with no help or
signs saying cyclists in training! We were looked
after and safe though. It was very hard but we
got there in the end.
After that we did a couple of challenges which in-
cluded keeping up with the person in front and
many more little challenges. We completed the
course and our homework, and all received a cer-
tificate and
badge to
show we had
passed. It
was a fab
and useful
experience !
BY TRISTAN WEETCH and DYLAN COTGREAVE
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Its this time of year
again -the Harvest is
back and this year Class4 performed a play, and
Class 3 did the prayers.
The play that Class 4 per-
formed was about poor
people in other countries
and how they struggle to
get food enough food to
feed their families.
The play then showed us
how organisations and
individuals are showing
these people how they
can improve their lives by
planting seeds, growing
crops and digging fertiliz-er into fields.
Canon Davenport then
gave a talk and we sung
our Harvest songs. It was
another lovely Harvest
Festival.
BOOK FAIR HARVESTDELIGHTS
BY SASHA
PRICE
On the 4th-7
thof Novem-
ber we had our annual
book fair. There was a
huge amount of books for
all ages to choose from.
Everybody came along at
the end at of the school
day and really enjoyed
picking their own books.
There was a lovely buzz
and atmosphere as people
chose.
There were other thingsto buy as well including
stationery sets, pencil cas-
es and bookmarks.
The profit made was a
whopping 281. Out
of the profit we bought
some new books for the
school.
The librarians chose some
including: You Dont
Know Me, The Look,
The Wombles and Da-
vid Walliams new book
Demon Dentist.
Thank you for anybody
who attended. You didthe school a big favour
and we hope you are en-
joying reading your
books.
BY SASHA PRICE and
SOPHIE FURNIVAL
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At Bickerton we have a
scrumptious variety of
school dinners. For exam-
ple chicken curry and rice,
fish, roast dinner, jacket
potatoes, tomato and
cheese pasta, sausage rolls,pizza, turkey, quiche and
loads more and the deserts
[the list is even longer of
course]: Ice cream, crum-
ble and custard, flap jack,
strawberry mouse, bis-
cuits, chocolate cake, jelly,
chocolate angel delight
and a whole load more.
In fact theres so much
yummy choice its not sur-
prising that most children
have at least one school
dinner every week.
All the meat veg and fish
are all produced locally
and one of the local Butch-
ers are Barrows of Bol-
lington. Mrs Jenkins works
hard making the food from
scratch (just like homecooking!)
As Mrs Jenkins prepares
our lunch delicious smells
float through the school.
By lunch our tummies are
rumbling and our taste
buds ready! A few of our
favourites are Chocolate
flapjack, Fruit crumble,
pizza, raspberry ripple ice
cream roll and roasts on a
Wednesday.
BY BILLY BRYANT
Class 4 ran into the hall when the music people
arrived. They introduced themselves as Incredible
Ian and Magnificent Matt. We worked on building
up a piece by doing each layer which was then
saved onto the computer, until all layers were final-
ly put together at the end. It was so clever and
sounded really good.
They helped us to make a
drumming sound with tap-
ping our knees to make a
Bass drum, clapping our
hands to make a Middle
drum and making a Tss
Noise to be a Symbol.
We thought that Matt and
Ian were very good and
we even played I GottaFeeling to the whole
school + PARENTS!!!
(It sounded amazingThe
Editor)
Everybody in the school has been rushing
off to larks not to get shoes,but to getshoe BOXES! Its that time of year again
when Father Christmas gets stuck up the
chimney CHRISTMAS!
Some children in other parts of the world
dont get presents like we do so we send
them shoeboxes full of things to do, toys and
useful objects (e.g. Hairbrush, clips, tooth-
brush, toothpaste). This year we got 58 shoe-
boxes! Well done, and thank you everyone.
FOOD,GLORIOUS FOOD OPERATION CHRISTMAS
CHILD
BY MOLLY TUDOR
MUSICAL MOMENTS
BY TRISTAN WEETCH and DYLAN COTGREAVE
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SPORTS AT BICKERTONBY GEMMA DULSON
We are taught an amazing range of sports at Bickerton
Primary School and enter many tournaments and compe-
titions. We also have a brilliant, and dedicated P.E teacher
called Mrs Parsons, who teaches everyone how to do them.
In lessons Mrs Parsons teaches us how to do netball amongst
other sports. She sometimes enters us into competitions. Mrs
Chesworth runs a netball club with her too. We also do TagRugby which is a sport that Juniors do mostly. It is when
there are two teams all wearing tags; each team has to get the
tags off the opposite team. We go to tournaments for Tag
Rugby: Years 5 and 6 do one tournament and Years 3 and 4
do the other.
Mrs Parsons and Mr Rich do a football club for people that
want to learn how to play football. We dont normally play
football as a P.E sport -it is mainly a club sport but we do go
to football events.
Mrs Parsons and Mrs Chesworth (What would Mrs Parsons
do without Mrs Chesworth?) take children to many events
such as Cross Country, Orienteering, Deanary, Sports Hall,
Handball and Rounder's.
Mr Sweetnam takes a Junior class to Whitchurch swimmingbaths to learn how to swim each term and he enters us into
the swimming tournament.
We have lessons in Dance, Rounders, Hockey and Gym too,
and Mr Sweetnam has a Gym club.
We also have other teachers in to teach us sports such as
Cricket, Tennis and Basketball.
This year for the first time Bickerton went toHeber High School, to do a big cross country
race. There were 10 other schools, and we came
third!!!!!!
The year 5s and 6s had to run 1,200 meters (thats
the main field and the rugby field.) Whereas the
year 3s and 4s only had to run the main field.
Lucky them!!!!!!! (It still looked a long way !The Editor)It was hard work, but we were all cheered as we
came over the line.
CROSS COUNTRY
BY LILY GORMAN AND DYLAN COTGREAVE
Tag rugby was really good. We scored over 10 tries intotal; we were also really good at defending. Everyone
who took part did really well.
Our Year 6 and 5 team were fantastic -they scored tries
like bull dogs, and we even came 3 rd. The Year 3 and 4team had to play in the pouring rain but still managed to
play exceptionally well.
We had such a good experience with Mums and Dads
cheering us on. It was a really good day to remember
with all thanks to our two wonderful coaches Mrs Par-
sons and Mrs Chesworth.
BY TRISTAN WEETCH
TAG RUGBY
HOCKEY
BY DYLAN COTGREAVE
BASKETBALLBY TRISTAN WEETCH
Mrs Parsons, Mrs Chesworth and Mr
Sweetnam took a group of children to a hock-
ey tournament. The children were split into two
teams and they really enjoyed playing.
One of the teams won one and drew one, and the
other team lost one and drew one. They didnt
get into the finals but they all had a really good
In Basketball we played against 7 other
schools and we played really well as a team and
had great fun.
We won 3, drew 2, and lost 1. We lost to Tatten-
hall 3 : 2, so even that was close!
One memorable and amazing moment was when
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