And action! Bringing a warning story to life - Year 4

Today in English we explored our watery warning story – The Canal – for the very first time. We immersed ourselves in the story by reading it together, then we threw ourselves in the deep end by adding actions to a segment of the story that had lots of drama. We used simple, yet impactful actions to bring the story alive and also to help us remember each part of the text. To wrap our English lesson today, we took it in turns to perform in our groups. We watched and listened respectfully to others and gave constructive feedback so we could all improve.

Our partnership with The Elizabeth Line at Abbey Wood Station

 As part of our ongoing work with the Elizabeth Line, staff from the Elizabeth Line's Customer and Community Ambassadors Team supported with our Summer Fair, where they ran a stall giving out freebies and resources and sharing information about the new services from Abbey Wood Station and giving advice on safe travel on the network.

"Such a fantastic afternoon, with the array of fun and colourful stalls adorning your lovely school playground. It was a joy to meet and talk with your colleagues and school families, and it was encouraging to see such great enthusiasm about the new Elizabeth line railway and learning more about staying safe when in or around the railway."

Out Junior Travel Ambassadors team look forward to collaborating together on more projects with the Elizabeth Line team next academic year as part of our commitment to the TFL Stars Active Travel programme and our encouragement to our families to use the excellent local transport links to visit London and other places.

Collaborative Debate with Alexander McLeod Primary

Today, a group of fifteen Year 5 and 6 children from Bannockburn collaborated with 15 pupils from Alexander McLeod Primary School to prepare for and hold a debate. The question we considered was 'Should children be allowed to vote?'.

We used newspaper articles, blog posts and our own experiences to identify points to support and oppose the debate question. We began our day with a working breakfast of hot chocolate, brioche and fruit while we got to know each other, before putting together our research and sharing our ideas. We nominated key speakers and prepared and rehearsed our arguments in the morning and enjoyed sharing a lunchtime together.

In the afternoon, the Key Stage 2 Bannockburn Debate Pupil Partnerships group came to watch our debate, along with Mrs Seeranj and Mr Clarke (our judging panel). We were so impressed by the thoroughness of everyone's research and how respectfully everyone communicated their ideas- we had a brilliant day!

We want to say a huge thanks to our new friends at Alexander McLeod Primary School- we had a fantastic day working with you and we are already working on a new project for us to collaborate in the future!

Parent Forum 26.09.18- Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Parent Forums yesterday- 'Maths Across the Year Groups'. It was great to see so many of you and we hope you enjoyed the session as much as we did!

Look out for our 'Learning Together' workshops for Maths:

Years 3/4- Tuesday 2nd October 3.30-4.30 @ MW site

Years 1/2- Tuesday 9th October 3.30-4.30 @ HS site