Well done to all the children who made the this year’s Christmas Production of Classic Christmas Tales a great success. We hope you enjoyed the theme of watching an evening of Christmas television.
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Year 6 get drumming!
The sound of African drums came to BCJS on Friday. Year 6 participated in a workshop where they learnt about different types of African drums and rhythms. They then rehearsed and showed off their new found skills to the rest of the school in a special assembly. They were brilliant! What did you think of their performance? They would love to hear from you.
Follow this link to see more photos of the workshop and performance.
http://bcjsyear6.edublogs.org/2014/11/25/african-drums-come-to-bcjs/
Merit Winners – 28th April 2014
Congratulations to our merit winners this week.
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Name |
Class |
Merit |
| Harry Endacott | 3B | For taking time during the Easter holiday to write a fantastic myth about the Loch Ness monster. |
| Holly Hall | 3B | For being the first person to see the rule in our number sequence investigation. |
| Caitlin Harrison | 3B | For inputting great ideas in Art and working well in a group. |
| Hannah Tagg | 3B | For speaking clearly and confidently during circle time. |
| Ellie Wilding | 3P | For thinking carefully about her description and adding more detail when introducing her characters in her myth. |
| Gustavo Maia | 3P | For a sensible start to the Summer Term. |
| Marnie Doury | 3P | For working hard in maths particularly when learning about roman numerals. |
| Harry Searle | 3P | For brilliant work in science when identifying the differences between living and non-living plants. |
| Abi James
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3C | For great understanding of how animals teeth differ based on their diet. |
| Poppy Wigley | 3C | For a good description of her mythical setting. |
| Bethany Stephens | 3C | For using the success criteria to write a fantastic opener to her myth. |
| Davey Bowen | 3C | For much improved handwriting in Literacy. |
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Name |
Class |
Merit |
| Benjy Coleman | 4J | For getting full marks in his spelling test. |
| Martha Loosley | 4J | For making an excellent start in 4J. |
| Jessica Albury | 4J | For excellent work on dissolving in science. |
| Lucy Scott-Evans | 4J | For excellent work on dissolving in science. |
| Cadence McHugh | 4H | For settling in to Banstead Junior School so well. |
| Jack Clark | 4H | For great partner work when writing their poem using rhyming couplets in Literacy. |
| Aidan Sinclair | 4H | |
| Yasmin Owen | 4H | For typing up the suspense story she wrote last term in Literacy over the Easter holidays. |
| Ben Wakeling | 4S | For beautifully presented work in a number of subjects. |
| Sophie Wigley | 4S | For working well together in a pair, writing and then editing a poem including rhyming couplets. |
| Daisy Marshall | 4S | |
| Laila Winchester | 4S | For listening carefully and being a good role model for all in 4S. |
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Name |
Class |
Merit |
| Nat Smith | 5B | For excellent effort while creating similes in his literacy work. |
| Connie Williams | 5B | For great persistence while solving inverse and balancing calculations. |
| Lana Davey | 5B | For exceptional recall of Spanish vocabulary. |
| Lydia Bearne | 5B | For wonderful use of complex sentences in her literacy work. |
| Charlie Watts | 5B | For an excellent attempt to paint water, showing the difference and similarity between sky and sea. |
| Malachy Malone | 5P | For continuing to work very hard on the presentation of all his work and achieving his pen license. |
| Lottie Sheppard | 5P | For listening carefully in Science and answering questions about sound and vibrations correctly and confidently. |
| Umar Mannan | 5P | For always listening carefully in Collective Worship and RE and providing thoughtful answers and opinions. |
| Tiana Ramful | 5P | For brilliant listening skills in ICT leading to high quality work. |
| Bill Golding | 5S | For excellent work in Maths on fractions and percentages. |
| Lucy Sabin | 5S | For excellent work in Maths on fractions and percentages. |
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Name |
Class |
Merit |
| Iola Schmetzer | 6B | For a fantastic story in Literacy. |
| Hallie May | 6B | For excellent effort and progress in Maths. |
| Finley Donovan | 6B | For an original and creative story in Literacy. |
| David Fellows | 6B | For amazing work on his SPAG level 6 paper. |
| Dominique Gillet | 6J | For amazing work on her Maths with Mrs Pearce. |
| Joe Sawyer | 6J | For 100% effort in all subjects. |
| Lara Jarman | 6J | For incredible independent writing. |
| Tara Freshwater | 6J | For consistently great work in maths. |
African Music Workshop 5th December
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What a wonderful day we had with Jim (and his djembe) from the World Music Workshop. All the children experienced sounds and rhythms from around the world and were enthralled by the different textures and timbres created by the many drums and percussion instruments that were being played. Year 6 showed knowledge and skill when it came to their performances and had clearly learnt a lot from their recent class music lessons on Africa. It was a really special day and I hope it will remind the children of the fun to be experienced from playing music with others as well as developing a love for music in whatever form it is heard. Go to the BCJS Youtube Channel to see the Year 6 video performances but………turn the volume down!
Surrey Arts visit 22.11.13
Today Surrey Arts came in to our school to demonstrate some of their instruments. I really understood what they were talking about. Some of the instruments were as follows… saxaphone, trumpet, flute, violin, viola, cello and clarinet. The person who was like the conductor, but playing as well was called Neil and played the flute. Once they had played their first tune, each one of them came up and talked about their instrument. Most of the songs that they played were tunes from TV programs such as… The Simpsons, The Jungle Book , Mary Poppins, The Muppets and Little Mermaid. Also they did a tune that you might hear in a spy program. Surrey Arts coming in has really inspired me to play an instrument especially the clarinet.
By Josh 6B