We have made a very strong start to the new academic year and our new children and staff are settling in well to life at William Byrd. Each year team has written a short overview of learning and progress so far.
Since the beginning of term Dolce, our new catering company, have been cooking delicious meals for our children. Booking is easy and can be done online using your SchoolGrid account. If you have not received your login details please contact the school office.
This year William Byrd celebrated Harvest Festival and organised a special Harvest assembly lead by the Reverend Mike Talbot. The Reverend spoke to the children about Harvest and the importance of sharing food and being grateful and thoughtful for what we have.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent in their donations over the past few weeks. We will be visiting the Yiewsley Foodbank soon to donate all the tinned and packaged produce we have collected.
We are very lucky to have received lots of different worry monsters for the children to use to support their well-being during ELSA sessions. These were made and donated to the school by Knit-for-Nowt. We also had some dolls knitted for us with different emotions these were made and donated to us by the Women’s Institution and Brenda and Val from the Rotary club. Jan Presland also kindly knitted us some people who help us. Thank you to all who have supported us.
The teaching of Reading, both the technical aspects of decoding language and the opportunity for children to develop a love of reading, is one of the most important aspects of school life here at William Byrd Primary Academy.
It's been an emotional time here at William Byrd as we say goodbye to our fantastic Year 6 children. They have been a fantastic year group and have coped with the challenges of this peculiar year so maturely. We wish them all the very best for the future and hope they let us know how they are getting on!
Click on the links below to see some special videos from our Year 6 children and teachers:
All of the children worked extremely hard during their sports day events, despite the very hot weather and so were very deserving of the points they earned for their allocated Olympic countries.
Our reception classes enjoyed a virtual safari trip in their classrooms as part of their project ‘The Big Wide World’. The classroom chairs were lined up like those of a tour bus and the children passed all the safari animals with excitement and cheer.
We invited key staff from local secondary schools to talk to our Year 6 pupils about the exciting new journey they will embark on as they move into secondary school.
The aim of these meetings is to talk to the children about the main changes between primary and secondary school, who their new teachers will be and also give them an opportunity to ask any questions or talk about any concerns that they may have moving into their new school.
Thank you to all our visitors for taking the time out and visiting our school.
This month we celebrated reading by having a special William Byrd Reading Festival week. During the course of the week we explored and celebrated books, comics and illustrations.
We held our curriculum Art Day on Friday 9 July. The children planned and designed their own pieces of work inspired by their research into the work and techniques of famous artists. The work was all linked to their class learning, and we’re sure you’ll agree that the pieces the children have created are worthy of the Tate!
For their Rocks, Relics and Rumbles unit in Geography to consolidate their previous home learning, Year 3 have built model volcanoes using our understanding of rock layers, magma chambers and tectonic plate movement to give a detailed impression of what happens when a volcano erupts.
