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.

Easter Egg Hunt

Every year FOBS organise an Easter Egg Hunt for the entire school! This is a great afternoon, that all the children really enjoy.
The younger children had the challenge of finding two halves of an egg, the same colour. These were all hidden in the woodland area of the school. There were extra whole eggs hidden that contained house points for them to win as a bonus!

The older children had much more of a challenge. There were lots of questions hidden all around the school grounds. They had to find them, in order. Then take the first letter of their answer, and figure out and unscramble an Easter related word. This was quite tricky, but they all got there in the end.

Lots of chocolate was enjoyed by all :)

Cinema Club

Every term FOBS run a cinema club, open to the whole school. This is a great opportunity for everyone to relax after school, with their friends. They all enjoy refreshments and a good film!

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.

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.