Junior Travel Ambassadors final meetings for Summer Term

Some members of the JTA did a road safety inspection this week where unfortunately they still spotted a few idle parked cars outside the school entrance. Idle parking not only causes more air pollution but wastes your fuel and therefore your money. Also it makes it hard for the buses to get through and pass down the road.

They also discussed the letter they received from a local councillor who is going to help put forward our case.

Finally they looked at the many road safety posters we received from children right through from Nursery up to Year 6 - here are some of our favourites! We will use them in our continued campaigning next year!  Well done to everyone who took part!

Competition for free tickets to Royal Museums in Greenwich

 

Photo shoot at the Cutty Sark!

 

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Royal Museums Greenwich are looking for families with children aged 4-10 years to take part in a photo shoot at the Cutty Sark on Saturday 4th February. The images will be used in marketing for Easter, Halloween and Christmas family campaigns. As a thank you for their time families will get free tickets to visit any of the sites at Royal Museums Greenwich and a copy of the photographs afterwards. Families interested in starring in the photo shoot, please contact Rebekah Matus: rmatus@rmg.co.uk

 

Ochre House has a brave, fierce and loyal new member......

The Ochre House captains met our new friend this week. They've promised to show all the values, they've agreed to take part in the Fun Run, they'll make appearances at the school fairs and have pledged that they will do all they can to make Ochre House a roaring success this year and get some Yellow ribbons on display!

However as yet our new friend doesn't have a name! So send in your suggestions for a name for our new Lion mascot and we will vote for their name together in our next house assembly.

International Evening Poster Design Competition finalists

This week the Manor Way International Ambassadors Team from our Pupil Leadership Groups met to decide which design should be selected to feature on the posters and tickets for the International Evening event on Thurs 24th March. Children from across the school submitted entries; here are some of our favourites, voted democratically by the Intentional Ambassadors Team children.

Wait and see which design was voted the very best of all these 6 lovely designs.

House Team Bake Sale at Manor Way

After school on Wednesday at Manor Way, a house team bake sale competition was held. 

Well done and thank you to everyone who baked delicious goods or donated items for their house stall to sell, and also to those who supported their house by purchasing sweet treats. Also a big thank you to the house captains and parent helpers who came to get involved and helped organise the event. 

The pounds will also be converted into house points - so keep an eye on the website for the next totals update!

Library competition

Greenwich Libraries are running a drawing competition. 

If you are under 8, post a picture of your drawing, tagging #GreenwichLibrariesCompetition, with your name and your age by the 18th of December.

1st, 2nd & 3rd place will win a bag of goodies.

#Greenwich #loveyourlibrary #competition

Click here to visit Greenwich Libraries Facebook page for more information.

Plumstead Library, and most others, are open now and over the holidays. Just remember to wear your face masks and socially distance!

Click here for information for Greenwich Libraries

Junior Language Challenge 2019-2020 - what a year!

Each year children from Bannockburn  take part in the Junior Language Challenge.

This competition, known as the JLC, invites children from Key Stage 2 to play online language games using the Utalk website and app, where they compete to earn points as their language skills improve.

Each year we do very well and, whilst this year the JLC did not run as it usually does (without the live finals and very tense atmospheres!), we have had some amazing achievements in the competition.

This year we had 4 children make it to the final rounds: Natalia and Karan (Year 6), Eryk (Year 4) and Amber (Year 3). A record number of other children entered this year and took part in Round 1; each entry costs £5 with the money going to the charity 1Billion, so we raised a huge amount of money by entering too!

Mrs Seaton will be making contact with all those who have won one of these 3 prizes for their efforts:

• Bronze Certificates: as congratulations for becoming a Regional Finalist.
• Silver Certificates: for our Finalist Champions, who gained full marks for their Round Two language. They will also be awarded 2,500 uCoins, to be used to unlock the topics and languages of their choice.
• Gold Certificates: for those children who managed to gain full marks in both Round One and Round Two. For this incredible achievement, these Champions of Champions will be rewarded with a Gold Certificate and 10,000 uCoins to be used on the uTalk app as they wish.

If you think you might be one of the lucky ones who has earned a certificate (or maybe even some uCoins to spend on your future language learning!) then get in touch with Mrs Seaton via the learning toegther email address and she will send you more information about how to claim your prize.

Well done to everyone who took part this year and if you want to take part next year, speak to Mrs Seaton in September when she has more information.

Indigo and Emerald House Assemblies

This week Indigo and Emerald House Teams had their cross-site House Assemblies at the High Street Site. After a brisk walk over by the KS2 children from Manor Way, Indigo and Emerald House Assemblies were led by Mr Griffiths and Mrs Sammarco, who wore her super special, spangly emerald jacket!

Mr Griffiths told Indigo all about a young blind pianist who has overcome his sight problems to become a famous, inspiration musical genius! The children got to watch a video of his amazingly impressive skills and talked about they can use him as inspiration for their dreams and aspirations.

Mrs Sammarco shared different things and people who inspire her, and reminded the children how they can inpsire her with their running by taking part in the annual Fun Run on Sunday 29th March. She also announced an art competition (she is inspired by lots of artists) to design a masterpiece for the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square - ask your teacher for more details if you would like to enter!

Year 2 Ochre - Circus Tricks!

As a reward for their success in last year's house competition, Ochre house team members were invited to Manor Way to take part in a circus skills reward workshop with a professional circus artist. 

The children watched some displays by the performer and then got to have a go at different types of juggling, balancing and even got to try and walk along the tight rope!

Mrs Seaton was pleased to see so many happy excited faces from her Ochre Team and hopes that this year, all children (in all the houses!) get lots of house points for being amazing children!

'Explore Learning' Writing Competition - A chance to change the world!

This week at Bannockburn we launched our writing competition at Manor Way! This is in conjunction with 'Explore Learning' and many schools across the country will also be taking part.

The theme this year is 'A chance to change the world'. Children have been tasked to write their own 500 word story around this theme and we are very excited to see what they come up with! Children will be writing them in school however they will also be able to edit their stories at home if they wish. The closing date will be Thursday 2nd May.

The winner receives a family trip to Disneyland Paris and £500 pounds worth of books for the school! 

We have fantastic writers at Bannockburn, so I am eager to see if we have a winner among us! 

It is even judged by Alesha Dixon from Britain's Got Talent who has written a series of books about a character called 'Lightning Girl'. She even visits the school if a child from Bannockburn wins!

Next Tuesday, KS1 will have their launch assembly to learn all about this Nationwide writing competition.  

Good luck everyone!