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What a fortnight!
22 Dec 2011The last 2 weeks and 4 days have been VERY eventful! We are all exhausted BUT it has been such fun!!! We have had 4 super performances from all the children: We were all very proud of the Foundation Stage Nativity ‘The Christmas Drum’ Years 1 & 2 performed ‘Prickly Hay’ with the beautiful backdrop of St Botolph’s Church Years 3, 4 & 5 sang their hearts out during their performance of ‘The Magical ...
A choir in demand!
02 Dec 2011The St Botolph’s School Choir are in popular demand! They started this year’s ‘season’ with a performance at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. On Sunday, they sang on the gem106 stage for the Christmas Lights switch-on in Loughborough and then on Wednesday were asked to perform in Boots. Later this month, they attend the Garendon Christmas evening and sing to the residents of Charnwood Nursing Home. Next year… the X-Factor!! ...
Held Together Pilgrimage
18 Nov 2011Last week all the staff and children attended a very special service at St Botolph’s Church where we received the Held Together carving from the staff and pupils of Belton Primary School. The carving, which symbolises Jesus, has been on a Pilgrimage for a year, visiting all the Church schools within Leicestershire. It returns to Leicester Cathedral in December.The children were an absolute asset to the school. Their behaviour was excellent and their singing wa...
Faith week - take 2!
02 Nov 2011Following the great success of last year’s Faith week, the decision was made to make this week an annual event. This year, the children have been learning about Hinduism and the celebration of Diwali. The children have been learning about how Hindus celebrate Diwali. The Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children dressed up and learnt some traditional dance. Mrs Chanderina, a visitor to the school, showed the children how to make Rangoli patterns and she created a shrine in the school ha...
A great start
16 Sep 2011The children have all made a great start to the new term and are really settled in their new classes. The children in Years 1 & 2 have been on a visit to the watermill, a walk around Shepshed and been visited by Michael Wortley the ‘magic lantern man’. Meanwhile, Years 3,4 and 5 have been working very hard on their “Lights, Camera, Action” topic and are really looking forward to their Roald Dahl dress-up day!Welcome to our new Foundation Stage children and...
New initiative 2011
09 Sep 2011To support us in moving forward we will be introducing ‘Assertive Mentoring’ throughout the school. Assertive Mentoring is a child-centred, collaborative approach to teaching based on a continual dialogue with your child about their present and future learning needs.It will involve an open and honest discussion with your child about their attainment, achievement and attitude. Attitude is as important as ability!The children will be clear about their learning - wh...
What a year!
15 Jul 2011Another year is nearly over and so much has happened! The introduction of our new ‘Creative Curriculum’ :- inspiration weeks (Multi-Faith/Eco week); more day trips out, visitors in; learning out-and-about in our community; celebration activities (Carnival day/Mediaeval banquet/Chinese New Year) Golden time clubs, regularly supported by Parents An improved behaviour charter and whole-school system Homework to inspire the start of each n...
Alan Sugar watch out!
08 Jul 2011This week we have had an enterprise week for children in Year1-4. The children have had the task of making as much profit as they could – all of which was theirs to then spend/give! The children have worked as teams to generate ideas, products, promote and sell. All I can say is we have some candidates for future Apprentice shows!...
House Jewels
30 May 2011The new names have been chosen for our new House system following a whole-school vote. The children will be ‘Jewels’:Red- RubyGreen – EmeraldBlue – SapphireYellow – TopazThank you to children, staff and parents for all the great suggestions! The competition is now on!! ...
Green day, a success!
27 May 2011Last week was Green Day and we used this opportunity to begin our textile recycling. We had such a good response that we had to ask for an extra collection!!!The money we raise with the textile bank will go towards the next EcoCouncil project - building a pond. ...
Supporting Japan
15 Apr 2011Earlier this week, I was asked by Adam Danvers (Class 3/4KA) if we could send the money received from our end-of-term non-uniform to the very worthy Japanese Earthquake appeal. FOSB were very happy for this to happen and we are all very proud of Adam for such a kind thought. This appeal holds extra support from us too as Mrs Ashworth’s son lives in Japan (very near to where it all took place) and he has recently set up a fund to help with the education of the Japanese children w...
Church Inspection success
15 Apr 2011We are very happy to receive great comments about the work of St Botolph’s school following our recent Church Inspection, in particular…“Very good relationships within a family ethos producing outstanding behaviour and mature learners.”“There are very good links with local churches, clergy and parishioners which the school appreciates and values.”“A team of highly committed staff ably supports the effective headteacher.&rdq...
Thank you FOSB!
01 Apr 2011Our Key Stage 1 playground is looking great! We have to purchase products that meet very strict Health & Safety guidelines. As such, without the huge pot of money raised by FOSB, we would never have been able to afford the colourful trim trail and tyre park.The tyre park cost £2850 and the most recent additions of the trim-trail and play panels, cost £4510!THANK YOU FOSB FOR YOUR CONTINUOUS HARD WORK IN SUPPORTING THE SCHOOL. ...
Ofsted agree - we are a good school!
25 Mar 2011On the 8th and 9th March, we received our 3 yearly Ofsted inspection. This inspection was carried out by three inspectors. They visited 16 lessons led by teachers and higher-level teaching assistants. Meetings were also held with staff, governors and pupils. The Inspectors observed the school’s work and looked at the school’s development plans, the school’s records of pupils’ progress and samples of pupils’ work in English and mathematics. They scrutini...
New website launched!
18 Feb 2011Today, we have launched our new website, packed full with everything you need to know about St Botolph\'s school. A big thank you to Peter Bourne, website developer, and Joe Small, photography student. Let us know what you think.......
Carnival time!
17 Feb 2011Key Stage 2 have had a wonderful week preparing for their carnival parade! They have created masks, grass skirts and streamers, as well as practising their dancing for the parade today through the streets of Shepshed! The children performed to parents and passers-by in the square and then later performed in the playground for more parents! They all loved dressing up - grown ups too!!
Owls fly in to St Botolph's!
16 Feb 2011The children in our Foundation Stage had a special visit today. Two beautiful owls flew in from Manor Farm as part of their current topic work all about animals. There was an Eagle owl and a Barn owl. The children learnt all about how to care for the owls and what they need to survive. They also held the owls which was a very special treat. Later in the week, the children are fundraising in order to be able to sponsor an animal in need of our support...
KS1 Discover Snibston!
02 Feb 2011The children in Years 1 & 2 had a great day out at Snibston Discovery park. They loved their train ride, had great fun in 'Extraordinary' and thought the fashion exhibit was wonderful... ...
Chinese New Year
31 Jan 2011The children in our Foundation Stage loved finding out all about Chinese customs and traditions. They particularly enjoyed using chopsticks, making dragons, Chinese dancing and food tasting… ...
Money, money,money
18 Jan 2011The first school bank was a great success. Shepshed Building Society will be coming to school on the first Tuesday of each month, so keep saving!...
Special job for St Botolph's
14 Jan 2011We have been asked by the School Food Support Service to help them design the next dinner menu, due to go in to schools in the Autumn. Carol Watts and Janet Savage asked the school council to talk to their class mates and find out their ideas for main courses and puddings! Then they'll take our ideas and work with school cooks and dieticians to come up with a menu. We feel very privileged to be asked and look forward to seeing our ideas in print!
Getting in the Christmas spirit!
21 Dec 2010What a fantastic week. We've had 3 superb performances from all our children. Foundation Stage had the real "aaah" factor as they performed 'The Sleepy Shepherd' in the school hall. Key Stage 1 looked fabulous with the backdrop of St Botolph's Church, when they performed 'A gift for the baby' and the voices of Key Stage 2 made the spine tingle when they sang their hearts out during their Christmas concert. It was lovely to have so many parents and grandparents returning afterwards t...
Chatterbots first edition!
21 Dec 2010The first edition of 'Chatterbots', our school newspaper, was a sell-out! Mr Walker and his editing team worked very hard to get the edition out for Christmas. Thanks to Adam for the excellent newspaper name - very clever! We all look forward to the next edition.......
Christmas Fayre
03 Dec 2010This year's Christmas Fayre was a great success. We had performances from our School Choir and Samba band, a special visit from Santa and lots of new stalls. Whilst getting in the Christmas spirit, we also raised £1120 towards the new equipment for the KS1 playground!...
NSPCC Number day
26 Nov 2010Today we all bought in our loose change to fill big numbers from 1 - 10, in support of the NSPCC Number day. We had so much money, we had to make more numbers!...
Children in need
19 Nov 2010We all enjoyed wearing our PJs for Children in need and raised a massive £245 too!...
Eco week, get sorting!
05 Nov 2010This week was Eco week. We want to be a more eco-friendly school and so we started with a waste sort - ugh! We also had a walk-to-school day, a community litter-pick, a travel plan meeting and a reduce-your-waste lunchbox competition......
Out and about part 2!
05 Nov 2010KS2 had a great day out to Crich Tramway museum. They learnt lots to help them with their 'Planes, trains and automobiles' topic! Meanwhile, KS1 were getting 'Hot! Hot! Hot!' following their visit to Shepshed Fire ...
Mini-Olympics
05 Nov 2010Our FS children had great fun during their mini-Olympics. Getting fit whilst raising money at the same time! Well done!...
Helping the Rotary Club
14 Oct 2010Members of Shepshed Rotary club gave us 500 purple crocus bulbs to plant in our Nature area! The croci are planted as a symbol of their work in eradicating polio. Everybody planted bulbs, with holes pre-dug by Mr Docherty. Now we are going to help the Rotary to raise more funds by having Polio as our charity for our Harvest collection....
Jeans for Genes
01 Oct 2010We raised a fantastic £188 on Jeans for Genes day!...
Shepshed Champions
01 Oct 2010Today we were presented with a trophy (coutesy of Shepshed Building Society) as a result of winning the Summer Reading Challenge. We had the highest percentage of pupils complete the challenge set by Shepshed library....
New Golden Time a hit!
01 Oct 2010Today saw the start of our new Golden Time. It's not just choosing anymore...now it's like a club afternoon, with lots of different activities to choose from. We start off with our special SEAL work and then go off to our chosen activity. All of the children mix together from Year 1 to Year 5 and parents come to play too! We do the activity for about 4 weeks and then choose again. There's lots to choose from: Electronics; KNEX; cooking; den building; sewing; craft...to name but a few! Then we...
Getting out and about!
20 Sep 2010The children in Key Stage 1 loved their trip to the allotments this week to see where food comes from. Then later in the week, they walked to the Co-op to see what happens next and enjoyed buying produce for their fruit salad. Key Stage 2 took themselves off to tell their stories in the wood...
100% Attendance
20 Sep 2010This year was our best attendance for 4 years! We hit our 95% target and 16 children achieved 100% attendance awards - Well Done!...
New creative curriculum
10 Sep 2010The start of this year sees the start of a new, innovative curriculum. The subjects will be taught through half-termly themes or one-off inspiration weeks. Whenever possible, we will use memorable experiences and visits to enhance learning and spark creativity!...