National Association for Able Children in Education

We are working towards the NACE Challenge Award!  At BCPS we recognise that our More Able and Talented children should be encouraged to develop their attributes, skills and potential within a secure yet challenging learning environment that embraces equality of opportunity and provision.    

Primary Science Quality Mark

We are working towards the PSQM!  Our vision is to provide an exciting and enriched science curriculum that provides opportunities for practical investigations to fire children's natural curiosity and wonder of the modern world we live in.  We believe everyone is a scientist!

Bag2School - Fundraising for our school!

Our children are now becoming much more interested in social action and making a difference to the world around them. They are independently fundraising for children in need around the world and the homeless. We would like to encourage this interest by providing them with opportunities to fundraise without putting financial pressure on our families. We have chosen this scheme for that reason. We are pleased to announce that we have organised a clothes & shoe collection with Bag2School in order to raise funds for Enterprise Week!  This is an exciting week where all children in the school plan, design and create something to sell in order to raise more funds for charity.  Very Dragon's Den style!

Working in partnership with school recycling specialists Bag2School, the School Recycling Competition is taking place in January 2018 will offer £0.40 per kilogram of clothes that registered schools collect. This means that one tonne of clothing could earn your school £400!

The school that has collected the highest amount of good quality clothing per pupil by the end of January 2018 will also receive a special prize of a free textile workshop in addition to money raised.

Therefore could we please ask that you have a little clear out for us!  We will be asking for any donations to be brought into school on MONDAY 22nd JANUARY.  Please note that we are unable to store bags before this date. They accept the following ‘good quality’ items for RE-USE:

• Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s clothing
• Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
• Handbags
• Hats
• Bags
• Scarves and ties
• Jewellery
• Lingerie
• Socks
• Belts
• Soft toys
• Household linen
• Curtains
• Towels
• Bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers)

They DO NOT accept:

• Duvets and blankets
• Pillows and cushions
• Carpets, rugs and mats (including bath, shower and toilet mats)
• Soiled, painted, ripped or wet clothing
• School uniforms with and without logo
• Corporate clothing and workwear
• Textile off cuts, yarns or threaded material

For more information please click on the link below. http://uk.bag2school.com/how-it-works  

Time to read at home! The Jelly Bean Challenge is Live!!!

Reading is a vital part of every child’s education and something we take seriously here at Burnham Primary. To make sure your child learns the reading skills that will last them a lifetime, we teach a range of reading and comprehension lessons each week and offer a well-stocked, exciting library. But, reading means more than this. A love of books is a true love of life and shows a sense of adventure. To encourage the full enjoyment of reading and a lifelong love of books, we are once again running our highly successful ‘Jelly Bean Challenge’. Each class works together as a team to earn jelly beans. These are collected in a display outside the Year 1 classrooms and the year group with the most jelly beans each term wins a special celebration. Last term, this was Year 5, who earned a crazy balloon party. So, how does your child win jelly beans? Simple. Read at home. Each child is expected to read at home daily. This may be with an adult, or older sibling. It could be independently. What is key is the recording of this reading in their School Reading Record. If your child comes to school with a signed reading record from the night before, they get to tick their name off on a class chart. The more of the whole class that reads, the more jelly beans they earn. Each Friday, in our Awards Assembly, we will update the whole school as to which year group is currently in first place. Bonus jelly beans are available for those year groups that read over the whole weekend, so please try to make sure that reading has a time allocated every day of the week. This is a fun, successful scheme, much-liked by all of our pupils, so I’d like to thank you for your continued support of reading at home. If you have any particular questions about your child’s reading, or would like to discuss the books they are, or could be, reading, please contact your class teacher in the first instance. Enjoy all your reading adventures together! Thanks   Mr Patterson Lead Practitioner

Important: PE kit should be named and kept in school at all times.

The children need a t-shirt, shorts and plimsolls/trainers. They also need jogging bottoms, a jumper and trainers for outside. (This will be every other week starting from November).