Welcome to your newsletter for week ending July 5th 

Well it's been an incredibly busy week here at BVP. We've had our transition sessions this week with children spending time in their new classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday we held our Summer Concert which was fabulous (read below for more information) and today we had our Sports Morning and finished the day with our usual Values Assembly, which is always a great way to draw the week to a close. 

Teachers have been busy writing 'end of year' reports and these will be coming out to you at the end of the day on Monday. As a reminder, we have our Open Evening on Wednesday next week- no need to book an appointment, just come along to have a look at your children's work and ask any quick questions about the report. (If you need a longer discussion, please arrange this separately via your class teacher.)

What's Coming Up

Values of the Week

Today the teachers presented Values Certificates to the following children for demonstrating Collaboration.

This Year's Sports Day Winners are....

1st Sycamore

2nd Beech

3rd- Oak

4th- Maple

This week's winners are:

* ASHA (Reception) - RR

* AXEL (KS1) - 2T

* ATTIE (KS2) - 6GW

Our Walking Superstar 

Our amazing Ellie G has raised an incredible £685 for Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Ellie and her brother Jack both signed up to complete a 10k walk for the charity and absolutely smashed it. The whole of the BVP family is very proud.

The JustGiving page is still live if you would like to add to their impressive total: https://shorturl.at/HiIMQ

Join Our Dance & Gymnastics Club!

We are pleased to be able to offer the children of BVP the chance to join our extra curricular Dance and Gymnastics clubs.

Dancers will learn technique and routines in a fun and supportive environment with the opportunity to perform in our summer show. While gymnasts will learn how to warm up and stretch safely. They will work on building strength, flexibility balance and endurance; as well as working on their tumbles.

KS1:

Gymnastics – Tuesdays & Fridays 8.00 > 8.50

Dance – Thursdays 8.00 > 8.50

KS2:

Gymnastics – Wednesdays 8.00 > 8.50

Dance – Wednesdays 15.20 > 16.20

To enrol your child, please register them at: https://stardust-dance-academy.class4kids.co.uk

For any enquiries, please email: [email protected]

Many thanks, Stardust Dance Academy.

Summer Concert Success!

This week 70 of our pupils put on a wonderful summer concert and kick-started the emotional send off for the fabulous Mrs Vaughan. The whole of the BVP family could not be prouder of our budding musicians.

Here is what Mrs Vaughan had to say:

"What an amazing concert we had! Although supported by their peripatetic teachers, this concert was theirs and theirs alone. I stood reflecting how amazing these young people are.

We awarded our Year 6 musicians - who have demonstrated true community musicianship - with this years Music Award. Huge congratulations to every one of them, we are so proud of you.

As this was my final concert at BVPS, it was always going to be emotional. All was fine until our wonderful Year 6 guitar group played a surprise piece - ‘Cavatina.’ This had me in tears and will remain with me for a very long time. The gifts and speeches were humbling and I can’t thank everyone enough. Thank you to Mrs Taylor, Mrs Morson, Ms Scott, Mr Ali, Mr Reed, Ms Reid and all the staff who helped make this such a wonderful occasion."

Music Lessons this term – update for violins and violas

Most music lessons will finish next week (w/c 8^th July), however both brass and violins will have their last lesson on Wednesday 17^th July. This is due to the fact that there are no brass lessons next week, as Mr Ali is conducting in the Symphony Hall and Ms Scott’s lessons were cancelled this week due to the city-wide transition day.

Stopping Music Lessons

If you are stopping music lessons this term, or leaving school please can you return your instrument to the school office clearly labelled with your child’s name as soon as possible.

Digital wellbeing is important for our children. 

The following poster provides helpful information and tips to help you achieve this:

Make your own ice cream!

Did you know you can make homemade ice cream in a bag in less than 10 minutes with just milk, salt and ice? You don’t even need a freezer! Experiment with different flavours and toppings to find your favourite ice cream dessert.

Ice cream is made up of droplets of fat from milk jumbled up with millions of tiny crystals of ice and pockets of air.

You will need:

• A large bag of ice
• Salt
• Milk – any kind of milk or non-dairy drink will work
• A tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence – optional
• Resealable bags
• Tea towel

Instructions:

1. Pour a cup of milk into a resealable plastic bag. Add the sugar and vanilla essence (or just use flavoured milk ). Make sure the bag is properly sealed.
2. Half-fill a bigger sealable bag with ice and add a good amount of salt.
3. Put the milk bag into the ice bag and give it a good shake.
4. Keep the milk in contact with the ice as much as possible.
5. Keep rolling the ice over the milk. The ice in the bag will get VERY cold, so put a towel around the bag to protect your hands.
6. Check the milk after 5 minutes. It should be a similar consistency to ice cream. If not, keep going for a bit longer.

Why does it work?

Pure water freezes at 0°C. The addition of salt lowers the freezing point by a few degrees. This means when salt is added to the ice in the outer bag, the ice (which is at 0°C) is above its freezing point, so it starts to melt. Melting needs energy which in this case comes from the milk mixture in the inner bag. Heat energy is absorbed from the milk making ice crystals form between the tiny fat molecules.The more salt that is added to the ice, the lower the freezing point. For the ice to melt, heat must be absorbed from the surroundings ( in this case, the milk mixture ), causing it to freeze.

Pastoral Survey- Thank you!

Thank you to those who were able to complete the Pastoral Survey this week. We have found your feedback extremely useful as we strive to improve Pastoral support. Alongside what’s working well, we are aware of specific areas that require improvement and these are already being addressed for September. These include, ensuring that our families are aware of Pastoral care and have a good understanding of what that means, what support we can provide, as well as making the process clearer for how to access support. We want to positively impact all of our children and we are dedicated to increasing the number of children able to access the Team and our pastoral rooms, (The Cottage, The Den and The Burrow.)

What is Pastoral Care?

Pastoral care is the provision the school makes to ensure the physical and emotional welfare of all children..

A successful pastoral care programme means that your child is safe, happy, listened to, involved in their school community and able to perform to their full potential. Relationships are strong between school and families and difficulties are identified and the necessary steps taken to provide the appropriate support. Pastoral care is more than just the Pastoral Team, it is the ways in which the whole school, through it’s values, curriculum,  policies, and relationships with staff, support and develop  the mental health and wellbeing of all students. This is from the morning greeting at the door by teachers to celebration assemblies, PSHE lessons and much more.

My Happy Mind

As part of our commitment to the mental health and wellbeing of the school community, in September we are excited to be launching a whole school Mental Health and wellbeing programme. My Happy Mind is NHS backed and it’s mission is to ’give children the preventative strategies, skills and tools they need to thrive.’ Next week we will be sharing full details!

We can be contacted through the main office or directly by email at- [email protected]

The Pastoral Team

Steph Kovacs and Daniel Purcell

Fresh seasonal salad bar and fresh bread available daily, as well as a daily selection of fresh fruit and fruit yoghurts.

And finally...

It's a short and sweet 'goodbye' from us this week. As always, do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss anything at all. Have a good weekend folks! 

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is the responsibility of everyone in our school and at all times we consider what is in our children’s best interests. We work to ensure our children are safe and cared for and by doing this we are protecting their health and development and preventing them from harm. If we are worried, we will raise concerns, share information, and take prompt action with the aim of ensuring families receive the right help at the right time.

Missing Keepsake 

Have you or someone you know, lost the keepsake below? If this is yours, please come to the school office to collect it. 

Thanks, BVP

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