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Friday 6 December 2024 Santa's Grotto and Christmas Fair - Dec 2024 What a fantastic Christmassy day we have had today at Walberton and Binsted C.E. School! This morning, Father Christmas paid us a visit and the children chose presents for their loved ones. After school, we had a magnificent Christmas Fair - superbly organised and run by our wonderful PTA! Many thanks to everyone who has made the whole week special with lots of festive treats!
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Magical Christmas Box - Dec 2024 What truly magical singing, dancing and acting this week from Red, Orange and Yellow classes with your 'Magical Christmas Box' performances! Well done to all the children, parents/carers (who made the costumes and helped the children learn their lines and learn the songs) and the infant teaching team for all your hard work in putting this together. Truly magical! Photos of the children performing in the dress rehearsal below.
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Wednesday 4 December 2024 PTA Elves Breakfast - Dec 2024 Thank you to our magnificent elves and our wonderful PTA for organising a delicious 'Elves breakfast' once again this year! The children had a wonderful time eating all the breakfast nourishment! Photos below.
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Monday 2 December 2024 School Council - Christmas Tree decoration - Dec 2024 Thank you to the School Council for helping to decorate our Christmas tree this morning - you did a great job! Photos here.
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Monday 2 December 2024 Christingle - Dec 2024 Well done to all the children from Y3 and Y4 who represented the school so beautifully at the Christingle service yesterday afternoon. As Tim said at the end of the service, you read your parts very clearly and confidently with the message about Christingle as we start the Christmas season. Thank you to Mrs Plater for organising the children in their Christingle presentation.
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Tuesday 26 November 2024 OPAL Play Date with Parents/Carers - Nov 2024 Thank you to all the parents/carers who attended the OPAL play date and presentation this morning led by Kurti Birkenbeil (Senior Mentor for OPAL - Outdoor Play and Learning). It was great for everyone to see how OPAL is developing in our school and wonderful to see the enthusiasm of both the parents/carers and the children in their extended play this morning. Photos below.
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Wednesday 20 November 2024 Henry Adams Christmas Competition - Nov 2024 Yesterday we welcomed into school our friends, Dee and Louise, from Henry Adams who talked to the children about an exciting competition to win Lego by designing a Christmas diorama. More details can be found by clicking below - the Christmas Diorama has to be made from recycled materials and the closing date for entry is Friday 29th November. We look forward to everyone getting creative and making fabulous Christmas dioramas!
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Wednesday 20 November 2024 Y5/Y6 Girls' Football Tournament - Nov 2024 A massive well done to our girls' football team who came second in their tournament yesterday! The team played superbly and, out of 8 games, they won six games, drew one game and only lost one game! They scored some great goals, defended effectively and played with a great team spirit! Well done Walberton girls' football team!
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Tuesday 12 November 2024 Y5/Y6 Boys' Football Tournament - Nov 2024 Well done to our boys in the Bognor Area football tournament this afternoon. In a tournament played at a very high standard, the boys won one match, drew two matches and lost six matches. All the teams played with the right spirit and we were impressed with the teamwork and effort of all the boys who played nine matches with very little break in between each match! Well done boys!
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Tuesday 12 November 2024 Remembrance Day - Nov 2024 A selection of children read out beautiful prayers as we took part in our own Remembrance Day collective commemoration on the playground yesterday, followed by our two minute silence for all those who have lost their lives, and fought for our country, in wars and battles. Photos below.
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Tuesday 12 November 2024 Y4 - Egypt Day - Nov 2024 Blue Class had a great day last Tuesday when they completed their Egyptian topic by having a celebratory "Egypt Day". Alongside making flatbread, the children created their very own miniature mummies, tried their hand at hieroglyphics and played some Egyptian board games. Thank you to all the parents/carers who came in towards the end of the day to look at some of the learning from the Egyptian topic.
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Thursday 24 October 2024 Y2/Y6 Tudor/Medieval Day - Oct 2024 What a fantastic day today for Yellow Class and Violet Class as they combined their 'fantastic finishes' to their topics! The children have been preparing for their banquet all week with cooking in the studio and today they took part in a whole variety of activities including:
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Friday 11 October 2024 OPAL Play - Den Building - Oct 2024 Earlier this week, we introduced den building into our OPAL play. The children really enjoyed building dens and other constructions using their wonderful imagination! (We could do with many more 'loose parts' for even more exciting den building!)
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Thursday 3 October 2024 Y5 - Harvest Service - Oct 2024 Well done to Year 5 for your lovely Harvest Service at St. Mary's Church this morning. Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to support the service and thank you also to everyone who has made a donation. The donations will be taken to the Bognor Regis food bank which is part of the Trussell Trust.
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Wednesday 2 October 2024 Y3 - Butser Farm - Oct 2024 Today Year 3 visited Butser Ancient Farm and experienced many activities first hand, to support their current topic - The Stone Age.
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Thursday 26 September 2024 Y5 - Fishbourne Creek trip - Sep 2024 Year 5 managed to avoid the rain for their trip to Fishbourne Creek yesterday, only getting wet when they actually got in the Creek. Indigo Class learnt how to measure the flow of the water as well as identifying what happens in different parts of the river. On our way to the Dell Quay Classroom, they also saw where the mouth of the River Lavant flows into the harbour. During their walk they noticed coastal erosion and the impact it was having on the wildlife. A great outdoor learning day down by the creek!
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Tuesday 24 September 2024 Y3 - Stone Age Experience Day - Sep 2024 As part of our topic and our English, we often have experience lessons to keep the children engaged in their learning. This morning we have been out in our environmental area, pretending to be stone age people living during stone age times. The children have had to make their own shelters, whittle tools to use and work together to achieve their goals. We also had a fire, to keep us warm.
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Tuesday 24 September 2024 Y4 - Brighton Museum Trip - Sep 2024 Blue Class had a great day today at Brighton Museum where the children got the chance to handle real Ancient Egyptian artefacts and took part in a fantastic mummification workshop where the children learnt all about the embalming process, including how to remove the organs from the body! Photos below.
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Wednesday 18 September 2024 Y6 - Weald and Downland Museum - Sep 2024 Year 6 visited the Weald and Downland Museum today as part of their Tudor Topic. They visited the Winkhurst Tudor Kitchen, Bayleaf Farmstead, Cowfold Barn and Pendean Farmhouse, which was one of the first homes to have proper chimneys in 1586. The children had lots of fun finding out about life in the Tudor times and then finally had time to complete some sketching. We had lots of positive comments by volunteers and visitors about how polite and well mannered the children were too! Well done Year 6 and a lovely day in the Sussex sunshine!
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Tuesday 10 September 2024 House Captains and Prefects - Sep 2024 A big, warm Walberton welcome to our new House Captains and Prefects in Y6 this year! Our House Captains were chosen by their peers and the Autumn Term Prefects were voted in by all the members of staff - well done to all of you for being chosen! We know you will be great role models for our school!
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Monday 22 July 2024 Y6 Leavers' Assembly - July 2024 And so we said, once again, a sad farewell to our Y6 Leavers at this afternoon's assembly. You have been a great class this year - full of character! Hopefully you will all stay in touch and let us know how you are getting on in your next school adventures!
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Monday 22 July 2024 End of Year Church Service at St. Mary's - July 2024 Last Friday morning, Tim led worship in St. Mary's church with a 'summer theme' all about looking after ourselves in the summer, refreshing ourselves and spending quality time with loved ones. Some of the children even got to play some summer games in church!
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Sports Day 2024 Well done to all the children who took part in Sports Day today in glorious sunshine! It was lovely to see all the children cooperating with each other and supporting one another on all the activities both this morning and this afternoon!
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Y6 visit - PC Sibun and Toby Hewson Y6 welcome two visitors yesterday - PC Sibun and Toby Hewson from the Parish Council,
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Y6 - Shakespeare Rocks! - July 2024 What amazing performances from Y6 on Wednesday of their Leavers' production of Shakespeare Rocks! You sang, danced and acted brilliantly! What an amazingly talented bunch you are! Photos below.
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Monday 15 July 2024 VIPs of VIPs! - July 2024 Well done to all our "VIPs of VIPs" today in assembly! It was lovely to celebrate all our lovely VIPs voted for by the children in each class but also by the adults. Well done to all of you - you are a real credit to our school!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Y5 - Greek Day - July 2024 Greek Day
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Thursday 4 July 2024 W&B General Election - July 2024 Our four main political parties: 'Birch Party', 'Oak Party', 'Pine Party' and 'Sycamore Party' held a W&B General Election assembly this morning where the children from each party spoke passionately and persuasively about a range of subjects that effect our school life, our local community, our national picture and our global outlook. The children prepared and made speeches with some great ideas and policies!
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Wednesday 3 July 2024 Transition Day - July 2024 Lots of happy faces on Transition Day today - we're looking forward to seeing you all properly in your new classes in September! Photos below.
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Tuesday 25 June 2024 Y6 Diocesan Leavers' Service - June 2024 What a privilege it was, on a beautiful sunny day, for our Year 6 class to attend the Diocesan Leavers' Service at Chichester Cathedral yesterday. There were 12 primary schools attending alongside many dignitaries from the Diocese, including the Bishop of Chichester. Violet Class, you did us proud with your dramatic reading from the bible yesterday, rewarded with a hearty clap from the whole congregation! You also looked so smart in your shirt and ties, with your full school uniform on! Hopefully, the memories of this service, and your contribution to it, will help you on your journey towards secondary school.