Celebration Picnic
We had a lovely day on Friday 20th May when we celebrated our good Ofsted result with all of our friends. It was great to see everyone.
Here are a few photos of our day....
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Thursday, 26 May 2016
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Oliver's Battery Parish Plan Launch Meeting with Input from the Children
On April 1st around 150 residents of Oliver's Battery met at the school for a launch meeting to start working on a parish plan. The hall was very full!
The children from Oliver's Battery Primary School had provided lots of input to share their ideas and work created by pupils throughout the school was on display at the meeting. The audience listened to several presentations and watched a video made by Woodpeckers class to share their ideas on how Oliver's Battery could be improved.
The video was very well received and there were lots of comments on how achievable the ideas were. It is clear that the school is seen as an important part of the community and that input is welcome from all age groups.
The Parish Feedback Video was a fantastic project to bring together the multimedia skills that Dr Gardner has taught Year 3 (Woodpeckers) this year. It was also a valuable opportunity to produce a piece of work with the potential for real impact in the local community.
Every team used Windows Movie Maker Live to edit their video and include photos and some children recorded their voices. Some children chose to work with Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, several drew pictures and then took photos with the LearnPads and included those, some searched for images they could include (and some mastered checking whether they had permission to reuse the images.)
The children from Oliver's Battery Primary School had provided lots of input to share their ideas and work created by pupils throughout the school was on display at the meeting. The audience listened to several presentations and watched a video made by Woodpeckers class to share their ideas on how Oliver's Battery could be improved.
The video was very well received and there were lots of comments on how achievable the ideas were. It is clear that the school is seen as an important part of the community and that input is welcome from all age groups.
The Parish Feedback Video was a fantastic project to bring together the multimedia skills that Dr Gardner has taught Year 3 (Woodpeckers) this year. It was also a valuable opportunity to produce a piece of work with the potential for real impact in the local community.
Every team used Windows Movie Maker Live to edit their video and include photos and some children recorded their voices. Some children chose to work with Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, several drew pictures and then took photos with the LearnPads and included those, some searched for images they could include (and some mastered checking whether they had permission to reuse the images.)
Friday, 24 April 2015
Illustrator Visit
The children had an exciting visitor and got to enjoy a day of illustration, organised by FOBS. We were very fortunate, as we had the excellent drawing skills of a well known illustrator, Tony De Saulles. He came and joined the children for the day to teach them some exciting drawing techniques. Tony is well known for illustrating the Horrible Science series of books. He's been an illustrator for many years, and does fantastic school visits with workshops for the children to join in. His workshops are very interactive, and the children get to shout out what they'd like him to add to his drawing - as well as all drawing along with him.
We were lucky enough to have Tony with us for the whole day, and he did drawing sessions with the whole school.
He started off by drawing a snail on a fork, and then moved on to small fish being eaten by bigger fish! The children found all his illustrations very amusing. He showed them techniques to draw different facial expressions, slime, dangerous creatures, blood - all in his cartoon style.
Most of the teachers also had a go too at drawing - I expect many hidden talents were discovered!
Tony's visit was very inspirational for the children, and we are very pleased he was able to visit us. He left us with all his lovely drawings that we will frame and put up around the school. He also dedicated, to the school, one of his books to go in the library.
We were lucky enough to have Tony with us for the whole day, and he did drawing sessions with the whole school.
He started off by drawing a snail on a fork, and then moved on to small fish being eaten by bigger fish! The children found all his illustrations very amusing. He showed them techniques to draw different facial expressions, slime, dangerous creatures, blood - all in his cartoon style.
Most of the teachers also had a go too at drawing - I expect many hidden talents were discovered!
Tony's visit was very inspirational for the children, and we are very pleased he was able to visit us. He left us with all his lovely drawings that we will frame and put up around the school. He also dedicated, to the school, one of his books to go in the library.
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Fireworks Display
Towards the end of last year FOBS organised a fantastic fireworks display. We had assistance from the local parish council, and many local shops and organisations were kind enough to help out by sponsoring the event. We made the event open to the whole community as well as the school.
It took a great deal of preparation, planning, and flyer dropping, but the event on the evening was brilliant and couldn't have gone better. We were very fortunate with the weather, and it was mild with no rain. There was a brilliant turn out of children and parents from the school, teachers, and lots of local families. The grounds at the school were packed - the turn out was better than we could have hoped for. FOBS organised selling drinks (which we sold out of - there were so many people!) and glow wands, which were a great success with the children. An outside company came in to do the food, so we had a brilliant selection of bonfire night hot dogs, burgers, chips and other items. The catering company also came along with some excellent fair ground rides, which
were hugely popular.
I think everyone would agree that it was a fantastic evening, and we raised lots of money for FOBS to spend on improvements around the school to benefit the children.
Everyone is looking forward to the next fireworks night, which I'm sure will be as spectacular as this one was.
It took a great deal of preparation, planning, and flyer dropping, but the event on the evening was brilliant and couldn't have gone better. We were very fortunate with the weather, and it was mild with no rain. There was a brilliant turn out of children and parents from the school, teachers, and lots of local families. The grounds at the school were packed - the turn out was better than we could have hoped for. FOBS organised selling drinks (which we sold out of - there were so many people!) and glow wands, which were a great success with the children. An outside company came in to do the food, so we had a brilliant selection of bonfire night hot dogs, burgers, chips and other items. The catering company also came along with some excellent fair ground rides, which
were hugely popular.
I think everyone would agree that it was a fantastic evening, and we raised lots of money for FOBS to spend on improvements around the school to benefit the children.
Everyone is looking forward to the next fireworks night, which I'm sure will be as spectacular as this one was.
Friday, 16 January 2015
FOBS Christmas Fair
Thanks to all who helped to make the FOBS Christmas Fair a big success.
The children, teachers and teaching assistants got very competitive with the hampers and they all looked fabulous. The winners were very pleased.
The children, teachers and teaching assistants got very competitive with the hampers and they all looked fabulous. The winners were very pleased.
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