Merit Winners – w/c 22nd June 2015

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Congratulations to this week’s merit winners.

Name Class Merit
Thea Johnson 3C For an excellent farm design in Spanish
Lola Olding 3C For great contributions to help create her group ‘Listen’ poem
Connor Courtney 3C For getting more work completed in lessons
Rosie Holloway 3C For good paired work in comprehension when finding answers in the text.
Lulu Baker 3H For producing an excellent ‘Listen’ poem and co-operating well in a team.
Matthew Sheehan 3H
Ellie Kane 3H For an excellent write up of her Brighton trip.
Sonny Beale 3H For writing fantastic poetry that includes rhyme, rhythm and onomatopoeia.
Will Hellings 3P For always taking care over his handwriting in his spelling homework
Teale Pemberton 3P For being an excellent, kind and caring friend on ‘Transition Morning’
Ella Blake 3P For thinking carefully about her actions and voice whilst performing her own ‘Fruit Picking’ poem
Charlie-Ray Foxwell 3P For showing enthusiasm in PE and always trying his best when trying new things

 

Class  Merit
Nia McMannus 4BP For excellent written comprehension answers.
Elsie Wright 4BP For a brilliant poetry book written independently at home.
Lizzy Linklater 4BP For always being the first pupil to return fully completed spelling homework.
Danyal Rees 4BP For fantastic contributions to class discussions in Literacy about Poetry.
Jaylee Haskell 4H For making a fantastic effort to complete the poetry work she missed when absent from school.
Poppy Wigley 4H For a great improvement in concentration and for checking her work carefully during a recent maths test.
Reggie Greenall 4H For a fantastic effort when learning about singular and plural nouns in SPAG.
Maddy Marshall 4H For being very helpful around the classroom during DT.
Simone Banerjee 4J For settling really well into BCJS.
Rhianna Povah 4J For demonstrating kindness towards others.
Chrissy Toffel 4J
Daisy Marriott 4J For being able to order decimals really quickly.

 

Name Class Merit
Katie Neal 5DB For demonstrating an excellent swimming technique.
Lucy Scott-Evans 5DB For showing the class how to multiply by a decimal number.
Alex Adams 5DB For impressing the class with his incredible knowledge of the periodic table.
Scott Adam 5DB For excellent work, while using Scratch.
Olivia Anscombe 5LB For only getting one question wrong during our 12 times tables test
Hannah Jaypalan 5LB For writing a brilliant diary entry to explain the daily life of a poor Mayan
Isabella Cave 5LB For getting the most correct when guessing 5LB’s baby pictures
Jasmine Hunter 5LB
Louise Cushion 5S For always taking part in lessons so enthusiastically.
Natalia Roguska 5S For always trying her best.
Amelia Oram 5S For always trying hard in all lessons.
Ryland Roberts 5S For creating a fantastic diary entry of life as a Mayan.

 

Name Class Merit
Jack Schofield 6B For excellent manners when greeting a teacher from another school.
Alex Dyer 6B For amazing writing on Harry Potter.
Charlie Watts 6B For excellent independent working on his investigation.
Lily Stephens 6B For excellent work on nets.
Reuben Stracey 6J For always being a helpful, enthusiastic and polite student.
Nathan Forsyth 6J For creating an interesting and original TV news report that satisfied all of the criteria of a good report.
Malachy Malone 6J
Umar Mannan 6J
Sam Read 6P For excellent independent working on his investigation.
Zoe Hyatt 6P For writing carefully and accurately.
Shiraz Kirmani 6P For thorough answers in Guided Reading.
Emma Salmon 6P For demonstrating good knowledge in R.E.

 

Merit Winners – Monday 8th June

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Congratulations to our merit winners this week.

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Name Class Merit
Charlie Searle 3C For demonstrating excellent long distance throwing skills in P.E.
Ben Burrows 3C For adding humour in his advert for Banstead.
Ryan Farman 3C For excellent responses in Guided Reading.
Brooke Turner 3C For working so much harder on her comprehension work.
Isobel Wallace 3C For showing good manners when interviewing members of the public in Brighton.
Aimee Eason 3H For confidently asking questions to members of the public when collecting information in Brighton.
Amelie Stampton 3H For cooperating well within their group during our trip to Brighton and representing our school.
Isabella O Brien 3H For an excellent score on her maths quiz.
Emily Menseses 3H For an excellent score on her maths quiz.
Georgia Freshwater 3P For being determined to solve missing number problems in Miss Huggonson’s maths group.
Holly Little 3P For giving clear and logical explanations for her workings out during our missing number problems investigation.
Oliver Longhurst 3P For exemplary behaviour in Brighton and for being very enthusiastic and for ‘Brightoning’ Mrs Marder’s day!
 Teale Pemberton 3P For always being helpful in the classroom and supporting her peers.

 

Name Class Merit
Emily Spilsbury 4BP For continuing PE with great efforts after she had a bad fall.
Erin Barton 4BP For super improvement in her reading!
Marnie Doury 4BP For excellent sewing skills in Art.
Ned Lee 4BP For a beautifully sewn bookmark in Art.
Sophie Burrows 4H For great work in Science when discussing how changing seasons affect local habitats.
Elise Furber 4H
Peter Roberts 4H For making a fantastic effort to improve his handwriting and being more focused in all lessons.
Jess Aldridge 4H For being very helpful to other members of the class during sewing in DT.
Ben Crawford 4J For remembering to try and write neatly last week.
Daisy Marriott 4J For some good answers in literacy.
Cassius Minnis 4J For showing an improvement in his mental arithmetic.
Ella Dore and Hannah Tagg 4J For not being cross with Mrs. Jardine when they had to do something again because Mrs. Jardine had made a mistake!

 

Name Class Merit
Will Day 5DB For producing a great quantity and quality of work, while writing his play script.
Alex Adams 5DB For incredible acting.
Molly Hamon 5DB For bravely singing in front of the class.
Aaron-Jay Hall 5DB For a well written and directed play script.
Isabella Cave 5LB For writing a fantastic play script.
Tom Wakeling 5LB For brilliant reading in our group read
Jasmine Hunter 5LB For an excellent effort to find multiples/factors and prime numbers
Jack Clarke 5LB For always having a great attitude to tasks in the classroom.
Charlotte Palmer 5S For fantastic sentence writing in literacy.
Molly Collins 5S For working very hard on her time-slip story in literacy.
Evie-May Cumberland 5S For a fantastic idea for her play script.
Cheuk Nam Wong 5S For including clear stage directions in his play script.

 

Name Class Merit
Lana Davey 6B For an excellent film review of Paddington.
Eve Endacott 6B For an excellent film review of Paddington.
Charlie Watts 6B For amazing work on our Maths investigation.
Jack Godwin 6B For an excellent design of his bridge in D.T.
Will Hammond 6J For handling situations in a sensible and thoughtful way.
Fahad Al-Maajoun 6J For excellent listening and participation in class discussions.
Venus Salehi Kolahi 6J For excellent work on her non chronological report about bears.
Lottie Sheppard 6J For fantastic enthusiasm and effort in all subjects
Ella Ramsey 6P For writing a fantastic time-slip story in Literacy with Mrs R.
Harrison Catton 6P For excellent work in PE, throwing different equipment and beating his personal best.
Lola Doury 6P For working hard in Numeracy this week, solving problems and being systematic
Bill Golding 6P For thinking carefully about his answers in Guided Reading, making sure he included more than one point.

Banstead May Fayre

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On Saturday, the whole Banstead community had a very enjoyable day at the annual May Fayre. Well done to everyone involved and thanks very much to Mrs Hammond for all of her fantastic organisation.

Merit Winners – w/c 27th April 2015

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Congratulations to this week’s merit winners.

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Name Class Merit
Samuel Bongers 3C For suggesting excellent strategies for battle in the Ancient Greek workshop.
Isabella Spiteri 3C For thinking carefully about  her vocabulary choices in Literacy.
Wai Kwan 3C Working well on her opinion poll in computing.
Vuyo Ngwenya 3C For being more independent in Literacy.
Maddison Shand 3H For presenting a very convincing argument for the next step in battle at the Greek assembly.
Kai Mitchell 3H For excellent acting skills during his role as a Greek leader.
Matthew Sheehan 3H For continuing to use a louder voice in class and showing much greater confidence in his work. Keep it up!
Isabella O’ Brien 3H For really impressing Miss Huggonson with her descriptive language in her adventure story setting.
Kiera Turner 3P For working hard when using the vocabulary accurately when describing the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
Jake Kane 3P For excellent effort when learning the ‘pet’ vocabulary in Spanish.
Holly Salmon 3P For a detailed introduction to her own adventure story.
 Tyler Winchester 3P For trying hard to improve his handwriting and getting his ideas down effectively in Literacy.

 

Name Class Merit
Isabella Okusayna 4BP For demonstrating excellent cricket skills in PE.
Taylor Spurling 4BP For great batting skills in cricket and always keeping his eye on the ball.
Charlotte Jenkins 4BP For great co-operative skills when working in a group to develop a play script.
Danyal Rees 4BP For speedy and accurate work with unusual plurals.
Sophie Burrows 4H Putting her hand up to answer more questions in Comprehension lessons.
Katie Wills 4H For fantastic efforts on the fielding team in PE whilst playing cricket.
Fahad Mannan 4H For brilliant catching skills and always being ready in cricket.
Poppy Jackson 4H For showing a more focused attitude and producing much better work in her Literacy lessons.
Daisy Marriott 4J For excellent efforts fielding when playing cricket.
Rhianna Povah 4J For reading her part in a play with great clarity.
Cassius Minnis 4J For demonstrating a good understanding of the fe3atures of a play script.
Chrissy Toffel 4J For her fluent and expressive reading in a small group with Mrs. Behan.

 

Name Class Merit
Ruby Brett 5DB For settling in well to Mr Booth’s maths set and working hard.
Benjy Coleman 5DB
George Walker-Smith 5DB For always volunteering for jobs in the classroom.
Kai McRoyall 5DB For a fantastic attitude to his work this half term, including completing extra work at break.
Cameron Sulliman 5LB For excellent role-play as Tim from the Highwayman.
Abby Biles 5LB For thinking scientifically about thermal conductors.
Olivia Cresswell 5LB For participating more during Literacy.
Hannah Jaypalan 5LB For a brilliant start to BCJS!
Louis Peckett 5S For careful and considerate contributions during RE
Yusuf Iqbal 5S For creating a well thought-out verse using figurative language based on The Highway Man.
Natalia Roguska 5S
Elise Teraoka 5S For an AMAZING effort at persisting in trying to improve her running stamina over long distances.

 

Name Class Merit
Hollie Wakeling 6B For superb concentration and commitment whilst marking a comprehension paper.
Maddie Sheppard 6B For a great contribution to the class discussion about the forthcoming General Election.
Honey Minnis 6B For a fantastic poem about what it means to be English.
Jack Godwin 6B
Elliemay Gunn 6J For a brilliant first week at BCJS
Lucas Dore 6J For a more focussed approach to his work and excellent contributions to class discussion.
Amelia Atkins 6J For fantastic improvement in her English work.
Reuben Stracey 6J For working very hard in all areas of school and showing great improvement. Also fantastic contributions in lessons.
Katie McGurrin 6P For working hard on her comprehension skills in Literacy lessons, thinking about the clues in the question.
Grace Atkins 6P For working hard to use her maths skills in Geography to create a graph showing temperature and rainfall.
Cameron Farman 6P For working really hard in Literacy last week, analysing poems and spotting poetic devices.
Leah Little 6P For always working hard in Maths, pushing herself to do her best and checking her work carefully.

 

Merit Winners – Monday 20th April

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Congratulations to this week’s merit winners. Unfortunately due to a technical error there is no photograph of our winners this week.

Name Class Merit
 Bobby Andrews 3C For thinking carefully about using different sentence starters in his writing.
Luke Diges 3C For working well with his partner when designing an opinion poll in Computing.
Aniya Patel 3C For trying hard to extend her sentences and make them more interesting.
Brooke Turner 3C For showing more concentration in class which has enabled her to complete more in lessons.
Eloise Watts 3H For showing a positive attitude to all tasks and being a very responsible member of the class.
Luke Smithers 3H For showing great respect for the handling of the Quran and making sure his group followed his example.
Maisie Haigh 3H For showing great bravery and lots of practice when performing a song to 3H on Friday.
Nadim Ahmad 3H
Ella Blake 3P For writing a detailed character description including use of similes when describing her own ‘Wild Thing’.
Amelie Emberson 3P For always having a positive attitude in every lesson and being polite to everybody.
Will Hellings 3P For taking care when presenting his work in all lessons thinking carefully about his handwriting.
 Kacper Roguski 3P For effectively using his knowledge on 2D shapes and applying it when learning about symmetry and the different angles in 2D shapes.

 

Name Class Merit
Erin Jones 4BP For doing her own history research on Vikings at home.
Jude Robbins 4BP For finding his courage to perform a script to all 4BP.
Cameron MaCleod 4BP For sharing good responses in Life Skills.
Marnie Doury 4BP For great expression in her voice during drama in Literacy.
Emily Spilsbury 4BP For being the first member of 4BP to complete her reading wall.
Reggie Greenall 4H For trying hard to use interesting character voices and good expression in their acting during Literacy.
Taylor Hoad 4H
Poppy Wigley 4H For producing a fantastic observational drawing of her school bag in DT.
Peter Roberts 4H For some great work on verbs and adverbs in Literacy.
Ben Crawford 4J For great work on rounding decimal numbers in Maths.
Luke Dale 4J For super contributions in a Life Skills lesson.
Jessica Glynne 4J For excellent pieces of comprehension on “The Mice and the Elephants.”
Tayla – Jane Schofield 4J

 

Name Class Merit
Molly Hamon 5DB For producing a good newspaper report about the Highwayman.
Jack Beales 5DB For working hard to develop his skills in throwing and catching.
Martha Loosley 5DB For working hard in maths and setting herself high standards.
Louie Murray 5DB For being in such a good mood every day and cheering up Mr Booth.
Aimee Turner 5LB For fantastic reading with Miss Mash.
Jessica Ward 5LB For fantastic reading with Miss Mash.
Rylee Palmer 5LB For a brilliant piece of independent writing, re-telling The Highwayman.
Yasmin Owen 5LB For participating more in class.
Roshan Sandhu 5S For being kind and supportive to other members of his class.
Charlotte Palmer 5S For persevering and using running techniques to build up her stamina.
Molly Collins 5S For beginning to try and use scientific vocabulary.
Cheuk Nam Wong 5S For being kind and supportive towards his peers.

 

Name Class Merit
Charlie Wilding 6B For making a fantastic effort with his writing and showing amazing progress! Well done, Charlie.
Connie Williams 6B For mature and thoughtful responses to different poems this week.
Lily Stephens 6B For working hard to improve her writing.
Tahmid Khan 6B For excellent work solving SATs questions on time problems. Well done.
Rebecca High 6J For writing a beautiful poem in RE about her Nirvana including rhyme and alliteration.
Tosin Teriba 6J For improved behaviour and excellent participation in lessons.
Tiana Ramful 6J For excellent work in all lessons, especially English where she has shown great improvement in her writing.
Malachy Malone 6J For working harder in lessons and demonstrating a more sensible approach to his schooling.
Amie Jones 6P For great work on fractions, including simplifying them and finding fractions of an amount.
Zach Emberson 6P For writing a beautiful poem in RE about her Nirvana including rhyme and a clear rhythm.
Sophie Martin 6P For thinking very carefully about the different dangers of electricity and how to stay safe around it.
Lucy Sabin 6P Working very hard on her 2 and 3 mark answers for comprehension questions in Guided Reading.