Spring Term 2015

Infants Visit

Whittington Castle

By Ruth Class 1 and 2 went to Whittington

Castle as part of their topic

Castles and Dragons. First of all

they dressed up as peasants and

walked up in a long line behind

each other and up a bridge where

they had to duck down because of

the Arrows. The children all

found this lots of fun. Ellie said I

loved the bit when I went on the

bridge.

They then found out all about the

castle and what the different parts

were used for.

On the tour of the castle they saw

the stocks where you were put in

if you had been naughty and peo-

ple would throw mud at you.

Then they went back and we

talked about the all the people

who lived in the castle and their

jobs. They also found out about

the food that was eaten in Medie-

val time such as pigs to eat and

they found out that they drank

beer not water.

Then after lunch they did the fun

quiz. They all dressed up as ei-

ther a guard, jesters, servant,

welsh raider, lady or wizard. The

guards had to protect the ladies

the jesters had to entertain the

people, the welsh raiders were

stealing things, the ladies were

getting ready for the banquet Leo

said it was fabulous Maisy said

the trip was amazing because I

loved the fun trail and dressing

up. Oliver said the guard had

their own little hide out. All of

them enjoyed it.

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By Jazzi and Ryan

Great Governors Day

Our school Governors were invited to spend

a day with us , sharing in everything we do.

Mrs Weetch, Mr Bourne, Mrs Carman, Can-

on Davenport, Mrs Latham and Mr Briers

came to look around the school to see what

goes on in the classrooms.

First our absolutely AMAZING Year 6s gave

each Governor a tour around the different

classrooms and the rest of the school. After

that the Governors spent some time with the

classes joining in with our activities.

Mrs Weetch and Mr Bourne spent a lovely

time speaking to the children in Class 3

while they were working, while Mrs Carman

had a FANTASTIC time in Class 1 seeing

what our youngest children did.

Mrs Latham

e n j o y e d

talking to

the children

in Class 2

and helped

them with

the maths

activity!

Mrs Carman and Mr Bourne managed to

meet half of our wonderful school. Every

class had a chance to meet, talk to and work

with at least one of our Governors.

During the morning they also joined in with

our sharing assembly where they saw more

of the work going on in each class. They

seemed to really enjoy this.

They also stayed for dinner, if they were

able to and joined us for play time. It was a

really good day and we enjoyed showing the

Governors our school. Mrs Latham said it

has been an interesting and enjoyable morn-

ing. Thank you for inviting me.

Defibrillator Training By Annabel and Amelia

School has purchased a defibrillator for the local area and school with money from the PTA (650), School (394.50) and the Talent Show 2013 (135.50). Thank you for your support to help us get one. The First response team came and gave training to all the staff at school about what to do if someone is un-conscious, then how to use the defibrillator which is really clever because it checks the heart and tells you

what you need to do while you wait for the ambu-lance. Mrs Vaughan thought the Drs ABC was bril-liant which helps you remember what to do if you find someone collapsed: D is for check for danger. R is for check response. S is for shout for help. A is for check airways. B is for check breathing. C is for C.P.R. (circulation)

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Welcome to Sonny and Charlie

Recently Fin and Hatty got a new Puppy. He is a Collie Cross Terrier, is 8 weeks old and is called Axel. They love him even though he chews the carpet and sometimes growls and bites clothes! He is crazy, jumps and loves his toys such as squeaky frog, blue hippo and grey rabbit. They let him out in the garden but he sleeps in the kitchen and gets over excited in the mornings! He likes to sleep by the fire on the sofa and when they 1st got him he slept for ages on Hattys knee. Fin loves the way he moves and chases me especially when I run and he runs after me nipping at my trousers. He is precious and a good treasure. Hatty said I like the way he chews Indios clothes and some times chews my slippers! Axel has a lot of energy and can even climb up the stairs they have taught him to sit, come, and fetch well done! What a little cutie he is.

Sonny and Charlie came to

our school after Christmas.

Sonny is in Class 3 and is 7

and Charlie is in Class 4 and

is 9. We love it when new

children come to Bickerton

and we hope that they felt

very welcome. They seem to

have settled in well and have

made new friends.

We asked them what they

thought of Bickerton so far.

This is what they had to say:

Charlie: I like this school so

much. The lessons are fun

and I love playing with

friends on the playground, I

enjoy PE a lot! I think the

school is super!

Sonny: The people here are

friendly and I love playing

with people at school in the

playground too. P.E is amaz-

ing and lessons are fun.

By Amelia and Annabel

By Niamh R. and Ryan A New

Puppy

Canon Davenport, who comes in every Thursday to

do our assemblies teaches us about God, celebrated

a special Birthday recentlyhe let on to us that he was 60!Everyone in the whole school made little cards for

him with a special personal message and a beautiful

picture on the front cover which Mrs Tudor then made

into a big book. Canon Davenport was very touched

and told us he feels like one of the family. It made him

feel very special and it is something he will keep forev-

er.

Happy 60th! By Niamh R.

By Amelia

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On World Book Day we all did very well with our cos-tumes. Miss Gittins was the Bad Tempered Ladybird although she was not bad tempered at all! During a special assem-bly all showed off our clothes and we saw what everyone else was, for example there was the Ugly Sisters and Cinderella. Mrs Morley was Cinderella before she went to the ball and Mrs Latham was the one at the ball .

In assembly we found out the winners of the photo-graph competition where we had to send in a photo of ourselves reading in an interesting placethere were

some really good places. You can see who won 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Infants and Jun-iors in the photos.

We all did lots of fun activities to do with books and during

the day we listened to stories read by some of our mums, dads and grandmas.

After school the PTA arranged a book swopping ses-sion which we loved because there was lots of choice.

Mr Innes

Sophie

Amazing World

Book Day

The teachers have all got new iPads bought by the PTA for the classes. We have already had great fun with them taking photo-graphs and playing on apps to help us with our learning. Mrs Vaughan

said the children love the iPad in my class and they love the new apps I have downloaded. There are some really good games to help their learning. Thank you very much to the PTA for buying them.

PTA buys iPads for Classes

By Niamh R.

Solar Eclipse Hits Britain

By Annabel and Amelia

The solar eclipse was AMAZING! Most of us were able to look at is through something: Class 4 and 5 looked through a welding mask that Will brought in, Class 2 and 1 had it on YouTube and Class 2 children also went out side one by one and with their back to the sun they looked at it reflected on a piece of paper from a paper with a hole in. Class 1 also saw the difference

in the shadows. Mrs Vaughan was amazed how cold it went even though it was still quite light. Her class enjoyed finding out about Eclipses.

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On the 3rd March we went to

young voices. We saw Urban

Strides who are amazing

break dancers. After a prac-

tise in the afternoon it was

time to sing to all our Mums

and Dads. When the lights

went out it was pitch black

and all we could see was the

young voices torches and the

colourful lights shining on us.

The conductors name was

David and there was a really

nice girl who had broken her

leg and her name was Lucy

Spraggan from the X factor.

We all loved itit was amaz-

ing .

Young Voices went on till 11

pm at night so everybody

was so tired afterwards. We

liked it because there was a

mixture of dancing and songs

and much more. Our parents

thought Bickerton sung well.

We had the time of our lives!

Young Voices By Niamh R. and Annabel

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Peckforton Castle Visit

On the 9th march class 5 went on a visit to Peckfor-

ton Castle to see the birds of prey they had as part of

our topic. Joe and Sophie showed us the birds and

told us lots. One of them a Chille Blue Eagle kept

making so much noise and even turned his head up-

side down. They were amazing. Last and best of all

we got shown Elsa a European Buzzard Owl and we

even got to stroke her, she was softer than soft. We

took an IPad and took pictures of everything, and

then we got taken back to school. It was so fun and

we learnt lots of things, like if an owl`s eyes are or-

ange they prefer to hunt at dawn and evening, if its

blue day and if its black night. We learnt that the

hawk eagle was the best hunter in packs after the Af-

rican wild dog. We learnt lots of things and we en-

joyed it, we wrote thank you letters back to Joe and

Sophie we hope they enjoy reading them. We even

got taken there for free! Thank you Peckforton.

By Ruth

Class 5 has been creating

new species of birds. First of

all we had to get into groups

of 4. Then all of us had to

use our imagination and

facts we had learnt, to create

a new species of bird of

prey. We sketched what we

thought our bird should look

like. After that we had to

make it out of chicken wire.

Once we were sure it was ok

and that is how we wanted it

we cut up pieces of modroc

we filled a bucket cup or a

draw with water and we

took it outside where our

bird was, we put the modroc

in the water then took it out

and laid it on top of our bird.

We had to do it everywhere

under the wings on the tail

and even under the bird, so

after we had laid it on top

we turned the bird over and

laid modroc under it as well.

We used our fingers to make

it a bit wetter so that you

could smooth the holes so

they did not show. After

they had dried off we had to

paint it the colours we

thought would suit it. first

the main colours then the

details. They looked amaz-

ing.

Class 5 have also been mak-

ing bird boxes as part of

their topic work. Thank you

to the adults who helped us.

C5 Topic By Ruth

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Valentines Disco

Just before we broke up for the half term our amazing PTA put on a fab Valentines disco for us. The infants did lots of dancing and there were competitions like the best dancer and

team dancing. There was nail painting and face paints too. They also had hot dogs and cakes.

Like the infants the juniors did dance too and had hot dogs. They had songs like the ho-key kokey and compe

titions for the best air guitar and the best Michael Jackson im-pression.

It was the best! Thank you to the

PTA for a great disco.

By Annabel and Amelia

Red nose day was great fun for

everyone! We had a big smiley

face in the infant playground

which we had to fill up with 1p ,

2p and 5p coins to send to comic

relief

and all the

pupils in the whole school

loved the idea of hot choco-

late and cookie before first

break for only 50p! Yum-

my!

We all made our faces funny for money! We all

dressed up in our own clothes and brought in our

red noses if we had one and put face paint on our

faces to make them as we said earlier funny for

money!!

We had our red nose day on

Thursday and what fun we had!

Funny hair, funny faces, smiley

faces on our own and on the infant

playground and absolutely yum-

my hot

chocolate and a tasty

cookie which filled a hole

before first break so

TASTY! Our school had

such GOOD FUN!!!!!!!

Red Nose Day

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The infants put on

an amazing moth-

ers day assembly.

It was fabulous.

They sang songs;

they said what

they love about

their mums and

showed their

mother s day

cards. Lots of

mums had tears in

their eyes and

they all loved it.

All teachers were

proud of the in-

fants.

Mothers Day

Assembly

By Amelia and Annabel

On the 12th February we did Play in a Day. A person called

Guy came in and year 5 and 6 did it. The play was called

Midsummer Night`s dream. There were lots of parts , the

main parts little parts and narrations, each one very im-

portant. This is what it was about, a girl called Hermia is to

marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander and Hele-

na is in love with Demetrius so Hermia runs away with Ly-

sander.

Demetrius goes to find

her with Helena follow-

ing him. Oberon king of

the fairies is in a fight

with his wife Titania

queen of the fairies. He

gets his elf to find a

flower, he drops the

flower`s juice in her eyes, she will fall in love with the first

thing she sees. Also Puck drops it in Lysanders eyes instead

of Demetrius` eyes.

Titania gets waken and falls in love with Nick Bottom whose

head was turned into a donkeys head by Puck. Lysander

wakes up and sees Helen and falls in love with her. Then

Oberon makes things right and Lysander falls in love with

Hermia, Demetrius falls in love with Helena, and Titania

falls in love with Oberon, and Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius

and Helena get married.

We had a day to practise, and after, we performed it to the

whole school + PAR-

ENTS! We did really

well remembering the

lines.

Well done everybody

and thank you Guy!

Play in a Day

Congratulations to

Canon Davenport who

has become a Chaplain

to the Queen having

been recommended by

the Bishop of Chester.

He told us that he is

one of only 36 chap-

lains and he will preach

at one of the Royal

Chapels once a year.

He will hold the post

until he is 70 and he

has become a member

of the Royal House-

hold. He has a special

red cassock to wear

and has a special badge

to wear. He says its

more of an honour than

a job.

On 20th May he will

meet the Queen at her

annual garden party.

(report in Summer

Mag!)

Canon Davenport QHC

By Ruth

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Cheshire Phoenix

Simeon Naydenov, Demond Watt, David Aliu and

Coach John Lavery came to Bickerton primary school.

They visited us and told us all about themselves and

what they do. We were split in 3 groups all of them

mixed up with class 4 and 5 children. There were 3

stations; one was the healthy eating one which we

talked about all the healthy and unhealthy foods. The

second one was the smoking one, talking all about

how bad smoking is, and we were showed some tar in

a jar, and trust me you dont want to get that into your

body, so dont go smoking. And another reason you

should not want to smoke is because you will have

2000 bad chemicals in your body. Then we had anoth-

er station where we played games one group was split

in in 2 so each half could do something. One thing

was we played a little game, we had to try and do like

chestpush to each other and then bounce pass and a

few others and for the other thing we were into little

teams of 4 and we had to do races dribbling with our

weak and strong hand and a few others. Ruth really

got a surprise when Simeon said he was from Bulgar-

ia, she talked to him in Bulgarian with no one under-

standing what they were saying. At the end we also

played a game what we had to do was we had to clap

exactly at the same time as the ball bounces some-

times it would bounce sometimes it would not. There

were only a few of us left when the remainders played

a different game. They had to clap before they caught

the ball Dylan was the winner and for his prize he got

a basketball. It was lots of fun. Then the week after

Paul Sturgess came. First he took class 4 and then he

took class 5. We were split into teams depending on

how many there were on each class. We did like little

races dribbling with our weak and strong hand. The

team that came first got 2 points the team that came

second 1 point. All of us enjoyed that. Paul is 7`8 foot

and wears shoe size number 18! We all enjoyed our

time with him. Then the week after that Holly came.

But this time we went outside, we were split into teams

of 4 although not really some of us went into 5 some

into 6, We were taught how to shoot which did help

and if we shot but did not get it in we had to run up to

the nearest yellow line and back then to the second

nearest line and back all of us enjoyed it. We learnt a

lot about team work.

By Ruth

On Sunday the 22nd March, 9 children from Bickerton

Primary School went to St Oswalds Church in Malpas

to be confirmed and 2 were also baptised. This fol-

lowed a series of Confirmation classes by Canon Dav-

enport.

The children were Callum May, Jakob Diamond, Billy

Bryant, Red Morgan, Danny Mosford, Dotty Wingett,

Rachel Johnson, Gemma Dulson and Tristan Weetch.

Because you have to be baptised to be confirmed Cal-

lum May and Jakob Diamond were also baptised on

the same day. Confirmation is where you become a

full member of the Church and show your belief in

God.

The Bishop gave them a candle and splashed holy wa-

ter over their head 3 times, one is for God the Father,

one is for God the Son and one is for the Holy Spirit.

We sung 7 hymns in the service and everybody felt

proud after the service. It is a proud moment that you

should take part in if you have the chance. The Bishop

of Birkenhead was there to confirm them. Callum may

told us he enjoyed it a lot and it is not to be missed

out on.

Confirmation at St Oswalds

By Callum

Dressing up day was a fun day for everyone especially the infants! The infants dressed up as fairy tale charac-ters like knights, dragons, princesses and princes. Anna and Elsa ruled the day with the girls!

Class 1 did a treasure hunt where they had to solve the clues in different groups and find 6 pieces of treasure that was the right colour for their group. They also made fairy wands and fine steeds. A day earlier they made their own apple pies and on dressing up day they ate them. They also played games with Elsa and Anna (Mrs Tudor and Mrs Latham) and the infant li-brary was transformed into Arendelle. Last of all they had knights challenges too and where they had to de-feat a dragon and make Shrek laugh.

Class 2 also had a treasure hunt but their treasure hunt was to follow the clues to find the letters and try to work out the word that lay there. They also made Drag-on story front covers and made an absolutely SUPER symmetrical shield which they tried very hard on. They also played a game where they had to capture the pris-oner. This involved blindfolding one person and the other person directed them to go round an assault course. After all of that FUN they finished the day by drawing a detailed castle plan.

The Juniors dressed up as people from adventures to

link with their topic Adventures. These are examples

of some of the characters they dressed up as: James

Bond, Polar explor-

ers and Crocodile

Dundee.

WE ALL HAD A

FANTASTIC

TIME!

Dressing up Day

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When Mrs Eccles and Mr Rich left everybody was upset. We gave

them both a present to say thank you and to

say that we will miss them. We were all up-

set, especially class 3 who had been taught

by both of them.

We ended the assembly by singing a song

that Mr Rich had taught us, Somewhere On-

ly We Know. We wish them all the best in

whatever they do. We would like them to

come back anytime they want to say hello.

By Niamh and Jazzi

Goodbyes By Niamh S.

Ethans mum had a baby called Jacob a few

weeks ago. Ethan (Class 1) has been so excit-

ed. Ethan said he looks chubby. Mrs Tudor

and Mrs Lathan went to see Jacob and they

thought he was cute.

New Born

By Ryan

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Our PE teacher Mrs Parsons entered Daniel Mosford, Matty Bailey, Red Morgan, Bob Vaughan, Jakob Diamond, Tristan Weetch, Ethan Goldthorpe and Dylan Cotgreave into the FBL Boys Cup which took place on Friday the 23rd of January 2015 from 9.45am till 12.30 noon at Crewe Alex. The Soccer Centre had 4 pitches and 3G artificial turf.

4 teams were playing on each pitch and each of the games were 7 minutes. The first game they scored 3 to 0 the goals were scored by Red Morgan and Dylan Cotgreave. In the sec-ond game they played St Michael's and the score was 6 to 0 the goals were scored by Matty Bailey, Red Morgan and Dyl-an Cotgreave. They all had great fun and have Mrs Parsons to thank.

Handball was on the 3rd February 2015 at Bishop Heber

High School, Malpas . This competition was for year 5/6

and it started at 4:00 pm. There were 8 teams split into 2

groups. Our team was Dotty Wingett [captain], Lily Gor-

man , Rachel Johnson , Georgie Jones, Dylan Cotgreave ,

Matty Bailey, Danny Mosford, and Bob Vaughan [who re-

placed Red Morgan who was ill]. Thank you Bob.

The team drew 3 all against Tushingham, lost 4-2 against

Farndon A and won 6-2 against Malpas. Mrs Parsons said

the team played very well and it was unfortunate they did-

n't make the semi finals due to goal difference.

On Wednesday 18th March Class 3 put on a spectacular dance linked to their topic which is Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. They performed at our school and at the Heber! They had a magnificent time including the parents.

The dance was entitled Mr Foxs Journey Through Cezanne. In art Class 3 created the backdrop for the dance by interpreting Cezannes forest theme using pastels and paints.

The children from class 3 made there own Fox masks with Paper Mache and painted them. They all made a big white mountain as part of the scenery too which was decorated by the childrens drawings of Cezanne.

They then dressed in colours inspired by the artistred, green, brown, yellow and orange. The dance was the set to the song Somewhere Only We Go which was a recording

by the whole school.

The dance was about the foxes moving slowly through the forest, resting at the mountain and then slowly moving back to the forest.

At 3:00pm they had the rehearsals at the Heber and the

actual performance started at six. They had packed teas and

they all had a great time. Five other schools also danced

then it was finally Bickertons turn. They were all excited

and they danced really well. Thanks to all the teachers in-

volved and the children everything went very smoothly.

Fantastic Football By Niamh R.

Handy Handball By Niamh S and Ryan.

Class 3s Dance Spectacular By Niamh R

Sportshall

The school took part in the Sportshalls event at Bishop Heber High School on 27th Janu-ary.

The girls that competed were Millie Smith, Christy Morris-Barnes, Lily Gorman, Millie Forster, Rachel Johnson, Tamara Jones, Dot-ty Wingett, Emily Smith, Molly Tudor and Georgie Jones.

The boys that competed were Bob Vaughan, Matty Bailey, Dylan Cotgreave, Red Morgan, Ethan Goldthorpe, Jakob Diamond, Tristan Weetch, Casper Armstrong, Danny Mosford and Fin Davis.

The Events that they took part in were 4x1 hurdles relay, 2x1 lap race, 2x2 lap race, 6 lap paarlauf, 4x1 lap relay, chest push, stand-ing long jump, vertical jump, javelin and the speed bounce.

Mrs Parsons said the team were FANTAS-TIC! Their performances were marvellous and their behaviour was impeccable! We came 2nd overall, so well done team!

By Annabel and Amelia

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On Thursday the 26th of February Mrs Parsons and Mrs

Morley took the amazing Sports Hall team Matty Bailey,

Bob Vaughan, Dylan Cotgreave, Red Morgan, Ethan

Goldthorpe, Jakob Diamond, Tristan Weetch, Casper Arm-

strong, Danny Mosford, Fin Davies, Will Beddows, Millie

Smith, Georgie Jones, Emily Smith, Dotty Wingett, Christy

Morris Barnes, Lily Gorman, Milly Forster, Rachel John-

son, Tamara Jones and Molly Tudor to compete in the

Sportshall Athletics Competition at Stanney Oaks Leisure

Centre, Ellesmere Port. This is a competition for all the

schools around Chester and we qualified for it after our first

Sportshall event and were competing against 9 other

schools.

The events were: 4 by 1 hurdle relay , 2 by 1 lap race, 2 by

2 lap race, 6 lap paarlauf, 4 by 1 lap relay, chest push, stand-

ing long jump,

vertical jump,

javelin, and speed

bounce.

The team did their

very best coming

2nd, and Mrs Par-

sons was very

proud of them.

Sportshall 2!

By Niamh R and Jazzi

Class 3, 4 and 5 have been lucky enough to go on

swimming lessons at Whitchurch swimming baths.

Every year you alternate between years so each year

gets a term and every Monday for 11 weeks they go

to Whitchurch swimming baths at half past 12 the

coach came to take them to the swimming baths. they

learnt how to do lots of new things including the but-

terfly, the mushroom float and the back stroke even

the breast stroke. Kerry taught all these things to the

shallow end group and our very own Mr Sweetnam or

Miss Gittins taught the deep end group. On the last

day we had a fun week where we got all the massive

floats and we could just play around for 1 whole

hour! We are very lucky to have had the opportunity

to go for these fabulous swimming lessons so thank

you to the swimming baths of Whitchurch from the

whole of the magazine club. We got Miss G to give

us a quote and she said I loved taking the children

swimming. It is fantastic to see how everyone im-

proves week on week.

By Callum and Niamh S Splashing Times

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We had a science week and this is what every class did. Class 1: planted beans and did a bit of colour mixing. Class 2: best thing to stick the rainbow fish`s scale on when it is in water, also which coloured paper loses its dye when it is in water. Class 3: Animals including humans.

How living things get their food. Class 4: gravity and forces. What forces are, parachute fall dropped it see how fast it went, for air resistance. Class 5: salt water. How to get drinka-ble water from the sea and what to do to get it drinkable.

We all enjoyed our activities and what

we did, we did learn a lot.

Science

Week

By Ruth

C2 Rainbow

Dance

Class 2s topic this term has been all

about colour and rainbows. In dance with

Mrs Parsons they planned some dance

moves in small groups and then worked

together to plan a whole class dance to

the song Somewhere Over the rainbow.

The children really enjoyed practising

the dance and planning what moves to do.

They were so proud of their dance that

they invited all of their parents to come

in and watch itand they even had spe-

cial t-shirts to wear so they made the

colour of the rainbow. The parents really

enjoyed the performance. Well done

Class 2!

The new Mrs Latham

Here at Bickerton School we have Mrs new Latham

who is attempting to become a teacher. Mrs new Lat-

ham wanted to become a teacher because of an AMAZ-

ING primary school teacher who inspired her to do the

thing she wanted. Surprisingly Mrs Latham used to

work in a Dentist surgery! And I bet you were sur-

prised about that! Her opinion on the children in the

school was great she thinks they are very polite,

AMAZINGLY kind, work super hard (and by super I

mean super!) and finally most important of all they

make every one smile and make Mrs Latham laugh a lot!

Her favourite thing to do in Bickerton school is to

watch all the children having fun at break times and all

the children playing and enjoying themselves and

watching them smiling, laughing and most of all making

break times worth it. She has children of her own and

in the meantime that is her job taking care of her chil-

dren and making sure they go through a good path in

their lives. Before her job at the dentist she went to

Chester University which was the time when she sud-

denly bumped into the teacher who was the one who

inspired her to be a teacher. Her best memory of our

primary school to Mrs Latham would be our FANTAS-

TIC sharing assemblies every Friday which show what

all the different classes have been working there hard-

est all week. The Reason is that Mrs New Latham

loves these assemblies so much is that all the children

look so proud of their work, she gets to see their lovely

work and that most Schools dont do. Sometimes on the

weekends she loves to take her children out to a thea-

tre mostly a winter play! She loves the costumes all the

detail in them and the music showing how the charac-

ters might feel inside like scary music if they are

scared of nice sweet music if they feel good. She loves

going to London and the characters sometimes go to

London she also likes the atmosphere inside all the peo-

ple booing for the guys and you know the rest! She goes

at Easter and that will be the time to say goodbye!!!!

By Jazzi

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British

Gymnastics

The 18 children of the Junior Gym Club went to watch the British gymnas-tics, with Mr Sweetnam, Miss Gittins and Mrs Chesworth. We went in the car and on a train. On the train it was really fun.

When we got there we went to a museum about sea ships and the Titanic. It was so interesting and also fun.

After that we went to the gymnastics. There were all different competitions like beam, mat, asymmet-ric bars and the volt. It was really enjoyable and interesting. Half way through we had lunch then it carried on.

By Ryan

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We all went down to

Bickerton Church for

our Easter Service.

The year 6s told the

Easter story through

drama and the school

joined in by singing

songs that helped tell

the story further.

Some of our mums and

dads came too.

During the telling of

the story we spelt out

the word EASTER

showing the different

parts of the story for

example the first E

was for Entry into Je-

ruslam and the R for

resurrection.

After the story had

been told Canon Dav-

enport gave a talkhe

even had us shouting

King of Kings, Crucify

and He is Risen so that

people walking past

could hear! Everyone

thought our service

was a good start to

Easter.

By Amelia

On the last Wednesday of term the school had

the annual Easter bingo at Bickerton Village

Hall. It was amazing! You could win an Easter

Egg after you got a line, then after you got a

house. Sometimes we even had 2 lines!

It was good fun as there were other things you

could take part in like colouring and making an

Easter garden. If you took part in any of them

you got a 1st,2nd, 3rd,4th or 5th prize and if

you took part you got a prize too. All the entries

were really good. There were lots and lots of

eggs there!

We also played last man standing. This is a

game where you had a random card and stood

up. A number was called and if you had that

number you sat down. The person who was

the last person standing won a special eggit

was really good fun. We also had a raffle and

my ticket was called!

There were lots of people there and we also

had drinks and food and we could colour and

make hats.

It was a great night organised by the PTA.

Easter Service

Eyes Down, Hands Ready!

By Amelia

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Book Reviews

By The Team

Class 4 has read a very interesting book

called I Am David by Anne Holm which

is about a boy escaping from a prison

camp, finding a bundle with a bottle of wa-

ter, some bread and a compass in which

keeps him going while he is keeping his

freedom. Class 4 have been concentrating

on this book and doing a lot of work in top-

ic about it, and have loved it! Class 4

would like to recommend this book to you

if you are a Junior as its a FAB book!

Class 5 have read a book called Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson and they recommend you read this book if you are a Junior. In our opinion it is one of the best stories ever. It even won the Na-tional Smarties Book Prize and it won GOLD. It is about a girl whose parents die in a train crash so she stays in the MAYFAIR ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES. Soon her teachers find her relatives who live in the wildest place, Brazil- The Amazon. She goes to live there with them they have twin daughters about her age. She thinks every-thing will be fine but will it? No one knows or can even imagine what adventures wait for her on the shores of the River Sea. We real-ly recommend you read this book; its one of the best books full of ad-venture, humour and warmth. We are really sure you will love it.

My Naughty Little Puppy by Holly Webb

When Ellie names the new family puppy Rascal,

she doesnt realise how right the name is. Ras-

cals naughtiness is annoying to the whole fam-

ily, and Ellie isnt sure what to do. So when

Grandad suggests puppy training classes she

cant wait to get started. Its time for Ellie to

teach Rascal some new tricks, but things dont

go quite as planned. A fun story for any any-

one who loves pets.

Thank you again to my trusty team of report-

ers who work hard every week to bring you

the terms news. Watch out soon for a compe-

tition that the magazine team are running

about pets, and next term we hope to have

some puzzles for you to do too in the maga-

zine.

Think you can be a reporter too? Come and

give us a go!

Puppies Online: Treasure Hunt by Jennifer

Gray

It is about 3 puppies who are called

Bounce, Einstein and Puzzle. They went on

holiday to a very special kind of kennels in a

lighthouse by the sea! Join these puppies

as they discover an ancient treasure map

and find themselves caught up in a race

against time. Will these dogs with their su-

per skills and their online gadgets reach the

treasure before the evil Mike Dodger?