This page provides a summary of information news about events that have been happening in the school throughout the academic year. Please look at the newsletter section for the current, most up to date infomation: www.stbedewinchester.co.uk/newsletters-1/

• Final Update – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  This is the final update of the school year 2023/2024 and it feels appropriate to use it to share lots of ‘thank yous’.  Thank you to all of the fantastic children who have worked so hard and achieved so much over the course of the year.  Thank you to the wonderful staff team who work so hard to look after every child with love, compassion and enthusiasm and who teach them so well. 

   

  Thank you as well to all of you - our community, we appreciate your support and listen to your feedback with open minds, determined to provide the best education we can for every child who walks through our doors. 

   

  We hope that the summer will provide an opportunity for some rest and relaxation after what has been a very busy but happy year.

• Farewell to Year 6 – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  Our Year 6 pupils shared their team work and talents in three incredible performances of ‘Porridge.’  The children sang, danced, acted and spoke with great confidence and some impressive comic timing, their performances will long stay in our memories.  Our Year 5 pupils provided a fantastic chorus and also danced, cheered and boo-ed with great enthusiasm - well done everyone! 

   

  On Monday morning, of the final week, our Year 6 pupils gathered together with school staff and many family members for a fantastic leavers’ service, sharing special memories of their time at St Bede.  It is always a huge privilege to see their journey through primary school and to see how much they grow as people and as learners, we hope that they move on to secondary school with many happy memories of their time at St Bede.

• Summer reading challenge 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  While the holiday provides a necessary and welcome rest, please try and keep reading as a minimum.  Don’t forget to take part in the annual summer reading challenge.  The theme this year is ‘Marvellous Makers’ and is already up and running in local libraries. More information can be found here:

  https://www.hants.gov.uk/News/230706summerreadingchallenge

• Year 4 French Café – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  Building on their lessons in French, our Year 4 children set up and staffed the French café after school. They did an incredible job putting their carefully learned phrases to good use and in doing so raised an amazing £160 which will be divided equally between supporting the Alliance for Pangolin Conservation and Year 4 funds to buy resources and offset costs of visits and visitors.  Thank you to everyone who was involved in setting up and running the café and to those who visited and supported the venture!

• Year 4 Art Workshop London – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  Miss Maguire, Miss Mayer and Mrs Duck had the great privilege of taking a small group of our Year 4 pupils to London to celebrate some of the work they had created over the summer, working with professional artists.  The children spent the day at the Craftsman’s Guild with another group of children from a school in East London, looking at each other’s art outcomes and working together on a special creative project for the day, working together to design a ‘dream’ play space, creating floor plans, designs for logos and 3D models to represent one of the play features within their space.  The children were delightful company and excellent ambassadors for the school.

   

  Unfortunately, the work the children produced is not available to be seen by the public - unless you happen to be a member of the Craftsman’s Guild - but we were incredibly impressed by the quality of work the children from both schools produced.  

   

  We saw puppets, printing and jewellery produced by the children of St. Bede, stone carving, handmade books and paper mache models made by Sir John Heron Primary School pupils.  Well done to all of the children in Year 4 for the work they produced and especially to the eight children who came to London who engaged so maturely with the artists, the other children and each other.

• Year 6 Book Club Visit – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  At the beginning of July, our dedicated members of the Year 6 Book Club visited P & G Wells Bookstore.  They were treated to a tour of the book shop, even viewing the binding room and the machinery that for many years bound the books purchased!  They then had the opportunity to look through some proofs, browse the shelves, write recommendation cards and even devour some books.

   

  Our avid readers picked a book each as new additions to our school library - ranging from the recent children’s laureate winner, Frank Cottrell-Boyce to the ever popular Skandar series.  Our children were beautifully behaved, engaged and in the words of P & G Wells staff, “delightfully keen.”  Here are some quotes from the children about the visit:

   

  “It was amazing getting to look behind the scenes and learn about how books were bound versus how things are done today.” “I enjoyed looking at all the books and getting the chance to pick some out for the library.”  Well done to everyone involved!

• Year 5 visit to Paultons Park – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  Year 5 pupils enjoyed a visit to Paultons Park to enrich their learning about forces as part of their science work.  Being able to understand how forces are linked to the rides in a theme park made for some memorable learning moments and children enjoyed some time trying out the rides as well.

   

  Some of our Year 5 children have written up an account of their trip for the newsletter- we hope you enjoy reading what Ellie and Sebastian have written:

   

  On Wednesday 3rd of July, Year 5 went on a school trip to Paultons park to enhance their science learning on forces.  At the workshop they went to, they discovered different types of wheels, which are used for the smaller coasters like caterpillar, farmyard flyer and many of the others.  Also, they had so much fun whizzing around on some of thriller rides and smiling and laughing on the not so fast ones. Some of their favourite rides were Cobra, Storm Chaser, Cyclonater, Flight of the Pterosaur, etc.  By the end there were many tired faces and voices, which had started to disappear from all the screaming.

   

  And a big thank you to all the parent helpers and teachers, who helped this fantastic trip run smoothly.

   

  Feedback from staff was that children behaved fantastically and were excellent ambassadors for the school - well done Year 5 and thank you!

• Year 4 Art Workshop – July 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  At the beginning of July, Year 4 were visited by two professional artists, Ruth Martin and Rachel Warr to complete a puppet-making project.  They learnt new printing techniques to create patterns on their puppets and carefully constructed them so that when the puppet string is pulled, the arms and legs go up and down!  These puppets will go on display in London for as part of an exhibition for the public to see.  Excellent work everyone!

• Year 2 visit to Sea City Museum – June 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  Year 2 have been ‘full steam ahead’ in their history lessons in the summer term, learning all about the Titanic.  The children are exploring whether the Titanic was a triumph or a tragedy and exploring various sources of information to help them form their conclusions.  To support them in their knowledge and understanding, and to enable them to begin to make decisions, they visited the Sea City museum in Southampton at the end of June.  The children were such fantastic ambassadors for the school; they were engaged in all the learning experiences that were on offer and behaved beautifully whilst sharing the spaces with members of the public.

   

  Throughout the day, children had a guided tour of the museum and learnt more about the impact of the Titanic on the people of Southampton.  They took part in a workshop involving four different activities, one of the favourites being a science investigation into how the watertight compartments flooded.  The museum staff were so impressed with the children’s knowledge of the Titanic and praised their sensible and thoughtful questions.  Thank you to all the parents who were able to support on this trip, and a huge well done to the children! What a brilliant day we all had!

• Sports News – June 2024

  Tue 23 Jul 2024

  At the end of June, 4 of our pupils participated in the Winchester and Eastleigh Schools Red Ball Tennis Tournament.  7 schools in total participated, hosted by Kings’ in the sweltering heat.  Each player contributed fantastically to the team’s total scores, winning match after match in tricky conditions, against challenging opponents.  Unfortunately for St Bede, they lost out on being the overall winners of the tournament by just 3 points.  One loss, in a fantastic match against Westgate, played at a superb level, meant that they became the overall winners and progressed to the County Finals.  St Bede can be rightly incredibly proud of their second place and the high level of tennis played throughout.  The children we took gelled as a team, showing great support for each other and fantastic sporting behaviour; competitive, but always fair. Well done Edward, Frida, Hector and Georgie.  We are very proud of you.