Harvest Festival

Bryony children

donated wonderful

food parcels from

our Harvest

Festival.

Mr Johnson held Harvest assemblies

both sites, singing songs and learning

about the importance of Harvest and of

giving to others. Mr Johnson who

donned his chefs

hat and began

showing the

children how

bread is made.

Year 5

delivered food

parcels to the

residents of

Platters Farm

Lodge.

After singing

harvest songs, the

children and

residents enjoyed a

drink, biscuits and

a chat. Iris, at 93

years old, imparted

some of her wisdom

which the children

found fascinating!

We also met the

great- grandmother of a former Bryony

pupil who recognised our blue and gold

uniform and our polite children instantly.

Year 2 enjoyed delivering the

Infant parcels to elderly residents in the

local area. All remaining donations

were taken to elderly residents of

Esmond House in Brompton and to a

local foodbank. Thank you to

everyone for your generous gifts,

they were very gratefully received.

The children have received several

lovely thank you cards from grateful

Recipients of the food parcels.

To all Parents and Carers, we

present for you our

Autumn Half Term

newsletter.

Firstly, a warm welcome to

our new pupils and their

parents who joined the

Bryony family.

My staff and myself are

readily available if any

parent has any questions or

comments.

This half term has flown by.

Exciting activities have

included: a Pre-School trip

to Riverside; a cake sale for

Macmillan Cancer Support;

Harvest Festivals; Pre-

School and Reception

Parents Open Afternoon,

Parents’ Evenings for Years

1,2,3, 4 and 6, Medway

Schools Cup competitions in

Tag Rugby 7s and Cross

Country Running and our

first Mini Youth Game of the

year, Hockey.

We are very proud of each

and every one of our Year 6

children who took the Kent

and Medway Selection Tests

this term. Well done.

Finally, may I wish my hard

working and dedicated team

of staff, the children and

parents a restful break.

See you all back on

Wednesday 1st November.

Mr Edmunds,

School Principal

Bryony School Autumn Half Term

2017 Newsletter

Editors Mrs Twigg & Mrs Notley

September / October 2017

We were so excited to board

the school bus and get our

seat belts on. Mr Sparks

drove us to Riverside, where

Mr Reid was waiting for us.

We walked to the private

orchard, looking and listening

on the way. Sophie heard a

bird making an alarm call. She

said “I think he’s crying. I

think he’s lost his Mummy and

Daddy.” In the orchard we

used nets to sweep over the

grass. Sienna called “Look,

I’ve got a ladybird in my net.

Come and look everyone!”

Amrita and Luca found three

spiders in their nets. Zac,

Elijah, Amarjeet and Kesi

found small fruit flies in

theirs.

Next, everyone found

flowers, thistledown

and leaves to stick

on their sticky

sticks.

We walked to the

pond for pond

dipping and saw a

stickleback fish,

lots of fast water

boatmen and small larvae. We

saw a dragonfly and butterfly

too. The moorhen swam

quickly away. After lunch

everyone chose a butterfly or

snail to decorate. Then we

walked to Sharps Green Pond

and walked over the board

walk. We saw fox footprints

in the mud and tried to see

the fox in his lair. We looked

out onto the river.

We finished off in the

playground playing pirates on

the pirate ship. We went on

the dragon swing and climbed

the hill to go down the slide.

What a great day!

Mrs Reid, Mrs White and

Mrs Saroya

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Pre-School Trip to Riverside Country Park

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Our current Year 4 entered a

poetry competition run by Young

Writers last term called ‘Once

upon a Dream’ . A selection of

their poems has been published

in the ’Once upon a dream—

Poems from Kent’ in November.

Well done to all the children who took part.

Multi-Sports After School

Clubs Longshore Coaching Services

(LCS) provide an after school club

in the Juniors on Wednesdays and Infants on

Fridays. Activities include: Fustal, Tag Rugby

7’s, Field Archery, Ultimate Frisbee, Kickball,

Uni-hoc, Softball, Basketball, Flag American

Football, Y Ball, Dodgeball, Fencing, Kabaddi

and Badminton.

We also enter inter-school competitions

throughout the year on Saturday mornings

which are organised by LCS. Recent events

have been Tag Rugby and Cross-Country

Running.

After half term there will be an Ultimate

Frisbee Competition on 11th November for

the Juniors and a Super Stars fitness

competition on 9th December for the

Infants . Invitations for these events will be

sent after half term.

Infant French

Club Thank you to Mrs

Jarvis for running a

weekly French Club for Year 2 children. The

children look forward to French games each

week and love receiving their stickers!

Extra Curricular

Poetry Competition

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Junior Sports Clubs Junior children have enjoyed Hockey,

Tag/Touch Rugby, Basketball, Gardening,

Razzamataz and Multi –Sports clubs this term.

After half term we are running Junior Arch-

ery and Choir clubs. See your ParentMail for

details

Razzamataz

Theatre Schools

Razzamataz

workshops are run after school on Mondays

for Infants and Juniors . They are an

excellent opportunity to:

· Develop confidence & creativity.

· Promote self-discipline and self-motivation.

· Improve language and musical skills.

· Problem solving; and

· Encourage social interaction and team work.

Jodie, the class teacher has formed a great

rapport with the children this term and the

children have settled in well. The children

have been learning songs and dances and

exploring characters from the West End

Musical Matilda.

Jodie has kindly run workshops for the whole

school this term so that all children could

experience what happens in the after school

club. Please see your ParentMail for details of

the club and how to sign up.

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During the summer holidays the Medway

Libraries Service organised a reading

challenge and we are delighted to tell you

that the following children completed this

challenge and all received certificates:

Ethan, Omorinsola, Jadesola, Kian and

Robert. Well done !

Animal Agents Summer

We had an enjoyable

session at the tag rugby 7s

development morning at Fort

Pitt. It was the first

competition in

the LCS Schools

Cup.

Congratulations

to our year 3/4

team who both

their games.

They played some

lovely running

Rugby.

The year 5/6 team played some good rugby too and worked well

as a team but unfortunately this time could not overcome the

other teams they were up against. Well done everyone.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Tag Rugby 7’s

A great turn out

of infants and

juniors for the

Cross country

event this term.

The children's

enthusiasm and

dedication was beyond belief.

Overall we came 2nd out of 5

schools that entered the

competition with

351 points.

Special mention

must go to

Inara, Katie,

Ben, Stanley

and Omorinsola

who won their races and

Phoenix (Year 2)

for completing the 1200m,

Year 4 race!

Well done to all the runners

who took part, it was a great

Bryony School effort.

We are looking forward to

the Kent

Junior Schools

Cross

Country

Championships

at Detling

next month.

Cross Country

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On 29th September. FoBS organized a cake sale at school in aid of Macmillan

cancer support. Parents and children made and donated beautiful cakes for the

event. The year 6 children ran the cake sale at the Junior site while FoBS took

care if the infant sale. Cakes were also sold after school at the gates in Marshall

Road. We raised a whopping £362.32 for Macmillan. Thank you for your generosity and support.

And Finally

Keeping your child safe online

Please do take a look at the UK

Safer Internet Centre for a wealth

of advice and resources to support

parents as you support your child to

use the internet safely,

responsibility and positively.

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-

centre/parents-and-carers

For more information,

including on our policies

,

please see our website:

www.bryonyschool.org.uk

What’s Coming up.....?

November

2nd - MYG Basketball Yr 6

2nd - Parents Evening 5D

7th - Visit By Magistrates Yr 6

7th - Egyptian Day Year 2

9th - Parents’ Evening 5P

11th - Ultimate Frisbee Yr 3-6

13th - Flu Immunisation Yr R-4

17th - Visit to Fire Station Yr R

17th - Children in Need

23rd - MYG Badminton

December

1st - FoBs Christmas Shop

4th - Carol Singing, Platters Park

5th - Christmas visit to Brook

theatre, Pre-School, Yr R

6th - Carol Singing, Hempstead

Valley

7th - Christmas Dinner Day

8th - Christmas Pantomime Yr 1-6

9th - Superstars Competition YrR-2

11th - Carol Singing, AGE UK

14th - Carol Service Yr 1-6

15th - Save the Children, Christmas

Jumper Day –All

15th - Last Day of the Autumn Term

We have a very high percentage

of parents and carers who park

responsibly around the school

at pick up and drop off times.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, there still are a

few cars at drop off and pick

up times in dangerous posi-

tions despite parking

restrictions being in place.

This sort of parking places

unnecessary risks on our

children, impacts the local

residents and other road

users.

Please observe the safe parking

rules as written in the Highway

Code and respect the double

yellow lines, zig- zags and the

driveways of local residents.

After half term we will be

holding assemblies on road

safety which will include

responsible parking.

We will also be launching a

responsible parking poster

competition amongst the

children. Our local PCSO has

kindly agreed to judge the

competition and select a

winner.

Urging Safe and Responsible Parking

The children are really

looking forward to

dressing up for the

Friends of Bryony

School (FoBS )Halloween

Disco during the half

term on 27th October.

Congratulations Our best wishes to Miss Collier,

our Year 1 teacher, who is getting married during the half term . Miss Collier will return as

Mrs Dyne!

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