Every term we like to share the fantastic talent that we have at William Barcroft! This week we conducted our Spring Talent Showcase and 10 acts were given the opportunity to display their talents to the whole school and the judging panel. We had some fantastic singers, dancers and even gymnasts and it was a pleasure to watch. Congratulations to a winner who received a tasty Easter treat for their exceptional effort on the day.
Our next Talent Showcase will take place in the Summer term so please get practising if you want to be part of the cast.
We held an Easter crafts session after school for parents and carers with the children last week. As you can see, everyone had an ‘eggcellant’ time making a variety of Easter crafts.
Thank you to our parents for your support.
Year 3 loved the science assembly and their workshop on Magic Tricks, Noise and Taste.
Every child was completely engaged and had an amazing, fun time in the hall. They
thoroughly enjoyed using icing sugar and other ingredients to create their own sherbet
sweet.
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed the science workshops this week! 6S loved a very messy slime-
making session using PVA glue and a few other ingredients. We had some very successful
slimes which were very entertaining but also a few mishaps which were hilariously funny! We
also enjoyed making tornadoes with water bottles in a warm up race called 'climate chaos'!
On Friday 15th January, we welcomed a very exciting visitor into school – Jenny McLachlan – incredible author of ‘Land of Roar’, ‘Return to Roar’ and ‘Dead Detectives’! Jenny shared her inspirations from childhood with us and some very funny stories of her imagination running wild when playing in the attic. The children were fascinated with how she was able to create fantasy settings and whole other worlds, her development of plot and characters. Jenny then shared some of her incredible illustration skills with us too and taught us how to draw a character from her book – Stink, The Fairy! Jenny even signed these for us too!
Some of us had our hands bitten by a real dragon (a puppet of course) which hatched while Jenny was with us! How exciting! The children absolutely loved their visit from Jenny and felt inspired to create fantasy worlds and creative stories of their own.
Attendance treat
On Friday 15th December, all of the children who had 98%+ attendance were rewarded with an attendance treat in the hall. The children brought their pyjamas and received a goodie bag, hot chocolate and a cookie made by our wonderful cook Mrs. Munson! A very well-deserved treat for all their hard efforts of getting into school even when they might not have felt amazing! Well done everyone.
The next attendance treat will be at the end of Easter half term.
The ultimate reading prize!
On Miss Stewart has been collecting the purple reading tokens for the children’s home reads from September. Remember, for every 3 reads, the children receive 1 purple reading token. These were all put into a raffle, one per year group, to win a £20 voucher for Waterstones! On Wednesday 13th December, Miss Stewart drew the tokens out of the ‘Ultimate Reading Prize’ Jar. The excitement was unbearable…Here are our lucky winners!
These children will be taking a trip to Waterstones next week to pick out their very own books to take home – how exciting!
Miss Stewart will be rerunning the ultimate reading prize from January-March. Remember, you’ve got to be in it to win it!
William Barcroft does Nativity!
This week our production club put on their own version of Barcroft does Nativity. The club have worked extremely hard- staying late after school to put on a hilarious musical. These children have a real talent for theatre and had many of their parents (and teachers!) in tears at their excellent performance. The play was about a grumpy teacher, fed up with Christmas, and forced to put on the school’s annual nativity play. His love of Christmas is reignited when Hollywood come to see his play! He is supported by the slightly unprofessional and bubbly teaching assistant, Mr Poppy. Children learnt songs such as Nazareth and Sparkle and Shine and even brought the Christmas magic when singing “One Night, One Moment” under candlelight. Children even developed their improvisation skills with each other too. A huge well done to our production club who, year on year, make us extremely proud and impress us with their unbelievable talents. A big thank you to our parents who attended too and for supporting your children learn their lines and songs!
The children have been showing their parents all the fantastic learning they have been doing in school during the Spring term this week. Our fantastically well attended learning showcases give parents the opportunity to celebrate their children’s learning with them and helps give our children an opportunity to perform in our year group assemblies.
