Walk to School Week 2023

More than ever before we are encouraging our families to Walk to School, not just for the personal physical and mental benefits, but also for the environment and safety of all our community. here are our local area maps that you can use to plan a route to school that includes more active travel aspects. Perhaps you can park 15 mins away from the sites and talk a little stroll in for the rest of the way? Or maybe you can get off the bus a few stops earlier and have a leisurely walk down the rest of the route?

We are also launching our poster competition to help ask for some road markings outside Manor Way and so look out for your letters soon - get your entries in after half term!

The Gardening Team spruce up Manor Way

 This week the PLG group scheduled to meet and work with Mrs Seaton were the Gardening Team. With Mr Hanks' support and guidance, they planted some new plants in the recently empty flower bed at Manor Way, working in pairs to dig, plant and nurture their plants into the ground. The children also planted some sweet peas which they hope will grow prettily up the cane frames they helped construct. Finally they all took home their very own tomato plant which they are going to take care of. 

What a wonderful way to get ready for National Gardening Week 2023 next week, when we will hopefully having more green-fingered fun across both sites.

Second-hand items sales this March

Two Bannockburn Pupil Leadership Groups,  Eco Squad & Community Champions,  have been working together to organise second-hand item sales at both High Street and Manor Way sites after school this month; all the funds raised from the sales go to the Turkey & Syria Earthquake appeals organised by the DEC.

For our 1st sale, the children unpacked and organised the books, toys and clothes donated for sales at both sites and the sales raised over £50! The children were excited to help members of our global community and to encourage  people to buy and so recycle and reuse items to help our planet.

The next sale (further details TBC) will be a What You Can Spare sale, so you can buy any items you wish ,for whatever price you spare - bring a bag next time and get some bargains!

Nepalese for November!

 Nepalese is spoken by many members of our school community, pupils, parents, teachers and support staff. Plumstead and Woolwich have a for many years had a rich history with the Nepalese community that continues to this day.

Shabbat with Year 3

This half term Year 3 will be learning about Judaism. This week, they learnt about Shabbat, what it means to Jewish people and how they celebrate it. The children created their own Shabbat tables and role played the event. They also labelled the tables to explain the items that were there, such as Shabbat and Havdalah candles, challah bread and a Kiddush cup for wine.

Junior Travel Ambassadors first meetings of the year

This week our Junior Travel Ambassadors, also known as JTA, met with Mrs Seaton to discuss their aims for the year ahead and how they can promote their cause.

Firstly the JTA children from High Street site went for a walk outside the school gates to observe the traffic and vehicles on Plumstead High Street. We talked about the road markings already in place to protect us such as yellow lines, yellow zigzags and  speed circles and then discussed how we can get our pavement safety railings back in place which the council sadly took away!

At MW the team members talked about safe cycling as part of Cycle to School Week and shared local places we can visit and safely cycle there. This includes: Winns Common, Plumstead Gardens, The Thames Path, Danson Park, Charlton Park and we also shared some places further afield like Epping Forest and Hyde Park. Then we attempted to make some physical art to promote Cycle to School Week 2022 - can you work out which word we are spelling out?!

MFL DAY 2022 at Bannockburn

 Both sites at Bannockburn enjoyed activities as part of our annual MFL Day. From Nursery to Year 6, all enjoyed a range of cross-curricular activities including PE, Art, Dance, Drama, Computing and RE. The photos below show what a wonderful day of French and Spanish we had!