Friday, March 2, 2012

Beatlemania!!

BEATLEMANIA!!!

The Upper Secondary students have really got into the 'swing of things' when studying The Beatles as part of their topic on the sixties.

The children have enjoyed learning about the music of the Beatles so much, they decided they wanted to recreate their own versions of some of the most iconic Beatles album covers.

By carefully selecting appropriate props and locations around the school, they carefully arranged themselves to create almost identical compositions - See what you think!!!!



And the long awaited....
'Upper Primary's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album cover.

Romance in the Infant Department!!

Romance in the Infant department

Yes, it’s true..... Love is in the air in the corridors of SBS as the infant children busy themselves with preparation for Valentine’s day. Miss Forbes has been helping the children to create individual greetings cards to send to their loved ones this Valentine’s day. Of course, no card would be complete without that extra special sprinkling of glitter and that all important message of love, and there’s no one we love more than our mums and dads. Well done Infants!

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone from the children at SBS.

Welcome to the Chinese year of the Dragon...

Lower Primary Welcome in the Chinese Year of the Dragon.

The children in the Lower Primary class helped to bring in the Chinese New Year of the Dragon by putting on a fantastic class assembly.

They began by retelling a classic Chinese fable on how a wise old emperor of China decided the order of the animals of which each year is named after, before describing the characteristics of a person born in each Chinese year.

The assembly was brought to a close by the handing out of very special hand-made fortune cookies, complete with individual fortunes, all written by the children of Lower Primary themselves.

The Children of Lower Primary would like to thank Mrs Martinez for helping them to organise their assembly and special thanks also to Lulu who helped bring an element of authenticity to the assembly with Chinese clothes and music. Lulu also designed a very special arrangement of Chinese characters for the school which means ‘the bringing together of a family’, which I’m sure you’ll all agree is a true reflection of the spirit here at SBS. You can see Lulu’s framed gift to the school in the entrance hall by the school office.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Carnival Day at Sierra Bernia...







Friday the 17th Feb was a special day at Sierra Bernia school, where all pupils, and staff, were involved in a carnival day of games, dressing up,parades, and eating sticky toffee apples and hot dogs!!

In this blog are a series of pictures which capture the family atmosphere at the school.
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On the left are 'The Tiger Twins' joining in the fun!! Below right is Lauren of Upper Secondary showing the circus theme of the day ( and selling chocolate pancakes which went down very well !!)








On the left is 'Stan the Magic Man' performing some amazing card tricks which baffled all !!.....



( below right)
.......allowed to be a clown for the day!!




( left)Sofia and Ella joining in the fun of the day!














( Right) The whole Upper Secondary worked hard as team to provide hot dogs, toffee apples, pancakes plus drinks and play the X-Box......hope they made a profit!!






The girls put on a great gymnastic display ( this was one of the few photos where they were caught in mid air!)



All in all a real fun day for all and a perfect way to begin the half term holiday......














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Thursday, February 16, 2012

'what a load of rubbish!'.....



Over the last few months, Mr Westcott's Lower Secondary Geography group have been looking at different aspects of environmental pollution. Recently the group went to a country area near Albir to see how much rubbish people do leave behind. The results were surprising.....





For example one group picked up 4 BIG BAGS of rubbish in a small area of woodland, including tin cans, plastic bottles, cigarette packets ,sweet wrappers plus general paper products...on the left are Sofia, Ella and Amalia with their collection of rubbish......





Here are some photos of the other group who also collecting an amazing collection of rubbish plus bits of glass, batteries and gun cartridge cases. Both groups also found a large amount of dog waste which owners had not picked up...On the right are Kieron, Marcelo,Alex, Ahmar, Charlie and Maxim who also found many different types of rubbish..











Above is Ahmar with a sweet wrapper, one wrapper may not seem much, but the groups found many of these in a small area which soon add up to a large amount.....


Sadly, at the end of the park were a group of recycling bins where, with a bit of thought, rubbish could easily have been put....The whole group took part enthusiastically in the project, and at least they are now aware of the need to recycle rubbish and keep our beautiful environment clean and tidy. The last picture shows the view from the top of the hill where we collected the rubbish. It is the kind of view we all want to save for the future....

Friday, January 20, 2012

'make do and mend' with upper primary....

Mrs Letchford's upper primary group are currently looking at life just after the second world war. Those of a certain age might remember the Governments 'make do and mend' campaign, which was designed to encourage women to do such things as unpick knitted jumpers and reuse the wool, plus alter and mend clothes. The government at the time issued posters such as the examples shown left and above.......

















The upper primary group were then encouraged to try the skills of embroidery and knitting, skills which for today's generation are completely unknown. The following photos show many pupils having a try at these skills, to get a feel of life was like during this time.....





It's difficult this knitting lark!!!!
















Sue helping out......Sue was one of the few staff at the school who remembers how to knit!!!



This was fantastic experience for these young pupils , where activities like these give pupils a feel of what life was like in these ' history in action' activities.........Look out parents, your next birthday or next Christmas present could be a garment made by your child!!