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Nursery children had lots of fun making raspberry flapjacks on Valentine’s Day as part of their Healthy Cooking Week.  The treats looked amazing and tasted delicious.  During the week the children also learnt about healthy eating and made their very own healthy eating plates.

We have been very busy this week learning about the importance of E-Safety.

The whole school have learnt about how to keep themselves safe on-line, by hav​​​​ing a specific E-Safety lesson every day.

Our Year 6 and some of Year 5 children enjoyed an E-Safety and Tolerance workshop from ‘Just Enough’.  They learnt about E-Safety through engaging role play and how important it is to use your voice when it comes to keeping safe.

During the week we also invited parent/carers into school to talk about E-Safety and how to keep children safe on-line.  Thank you to all the parents that attended.  If you were unable to attend please click on the link below for the E-safety presentation.

We finished of the week with the Head and Deputy Boys and Girls delivering a fantastic E-Safety assembly to the whole school.  

We were pleased to hold two Year 6 SATs workshops for parents/carers on Monday 28th January.  It was great to see so many parents/carers in both sessions who enjoyed a cup of tea and tackled Year 6 SATs questions.  Our Year 6 children were amazing and helped our parents answer some tricky questions.

We hope you all found the workshop useful and it gave you a good insight to what the SATs expectations are and the types of questions children will be asked.  

We understand this is an important time for Year 6 children and their families so please do not hesitate to contact the Year 6 team if you need further SATs support or advice.

Year 4 children were challenged to build a habitat in a box which showed two food chains.

They were able to use any materials they liked for the habitat and the animals, but they then had to explain the food chains they had put in the box.

As you can see from the the wide range of boxes in the photographs the children really engaged in the task finding animal pictures as well as models to put in a wide range of habitats from marine environments to grassland savannahs. The children chose to construct bushes trees and many other models from card as well as using readily available natural materials for the ocean floor or the grasslands.

As a final task many children explained to the class the food chains they had included in their habitat.

Our children had a great time building their boxes and these have now been displayed with pride in their classroom for everyone to admire.

It was party time at William Byrd on Thursday 21st December. Children changed into their party clothes in the afternoon and had fun playing games and eating their party food.  Staff and children had a fantastic time.

It was Design Technology Day on Tuesday 18th December and the whole school was busy planning, executing and then evaluating their Design Technology masterpieces.  Year 4 had the opportunity to go to our partner school Barnhill Community High and bake cookies.  The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all and the children did an amazing job showing off their creative and artistic skills.