St Bede C of E
Primary School
Growing Together
Latest News
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/
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STEM Week 2024
Fri 19 Apr 2024In March, we marked British Science week with lots of exciting learning taking place across the school. The children made themselves into minute timers, investigated making paper flowers open up in water and found out about a range of stereotype smashing scientists. We were incredibly fortunate to be visited by lots of parents who work in the field of STEM who came and spoke with the children across all year groups. Staff and children found the sessions both interesting and inspiring and we are so grateful for the support provided across our parent (and wider) community, it was an incredible experience that will hopefully inspire the children of St Bede in the future.
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Winchester College Maths Challenge
Fri 19 Apr 2024Congratulations to the pupils listed below, who took the Primary Maths Challenge Bonus at Winchester College. These candidates achieved either a Gold or Silver Certificate in the first round in November and were subsequently invited to complete the Bonus Round. Well done to, Caspar, Holly, Sarp, Thomas and Vakare.
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Book Week 2024
Fri 19 Apr 2024At the start of March, we enjoyed celebrating Book Week at the school and took part in a range of activities to promote a love of reading. These included class book swaps where different adults shared stories with children and children shared stories with each other, decorating the front door of classrooms linked to a special book and dressing up as book characters. It was incredible to see so many of you supporting the children taking part in our Book Character parade, thank you to those who were able to join us and to everyone who supported their child(ren) in choosing and preparing the incredible costumes! The entries to the ‘decorate a book quote’ competition are wonderful and adorn the main corridor through the school.
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Year 4 – Viking Workshop
Fri 19 Apr 2024On Wednesday 21st February, Year 4 were lucky enough to be visited a real Viking who lead them through a fun day of activities. Together, they examined artefacts, handled weaponry, staged a battle, studied myths and even re-enacted an authentic Viking burial for a King. Being a Viking is tiring work! Thank you for the children’s incredible costumes – they all looked amazing. We are also thankful to the HSA whose generous funding enabled the workshop to take place.
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Safer Internet Day 2024
Fri 19 Apr 2024On Tuesday 6th February, we marked Safer Internet Day. Safer Internet Day is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology, which calls on children and young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers and more, to help to create a better internet.
Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote at St. Bede and celebrating Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year. Our oldest children, in Years 5 and 6 took part in workshops with the education team from Hampshire Police to help them consider the importance of keeping safe when using the internet. You might be interested in looking at some of the resources for families that can be found on the following website https://www.saferinternetday.org/
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Winchester College Jazz Band Concerts for St. Bede
Fri 19 Apr 2024We were delighted to be visited by CS Jazz from Winchester College in February, who performed to pupils across the school. We were all captivated by the beautiful music and are grateful to the college for their support.
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Year 4 travels back to 878AD
Fri 19 Apr 2024In February, Year 4 pupils were fortunate enough to finish their history learning about the Anglo-Saxons with a visit to the 878AD experience in Winchester City Centre.
They learnt to trade with merchants and barter for goods at the market, they looked for clues to solve ancient runes and created riddles about local artefacts. Everyone had a fantastic time and learnt many new facts to take away with them!
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Sporting Events - Winchester and Eastleigh Cross Country – February 2024
Fri 19 Apr 2024On a miserable February afternoon, twelve of St Bede’s finest runners took part in the Winchester and Eastleigh Cross Country event, held at the ever-slippery Fleming Park. St Bede has previously been successful in this event and hopes were high again as this year the team was packed with exciting runners and plenty of pace.
The races bring together the fastest runners from our local schools, with the top twelve in each race qualifying for the Winchester and Eastleigh team that then go to the Hampshire School Games and race against the very best in the county. Every runner gave their all in very challenging conditions. Each managed good times and fantastic places. Ema and Elsa finished 8th and 9th in their race. Seth (4th), Oliver (5th), Dexter (8th) and Jude (12th) can also all expect a call up to the team that competes in the County Finals. Huge congratulations to everyone!
Stella, Isobel, Emily, Rose, Elliot and Max all ran fantastic races in hugely challenging conditions. Everyone made the top 50, which, in large and unpredictable races, is a great achievement. A big thank you to everyone who participated and showed determination and grit during the race and in their training before the race - this is where all the important work is really done. A big thank you also, to the parents who supported us in enabling the children to participate!
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Traditional Chinese Dance Workshop – Year 2
Fri 19 Apr 2024At the beginning of February, the Year 2 children ended their cross curricular topic about China with a dance workshop. Their visitor Danielle led the children in a number of traditional Chinese dances performed to a range of traditional music pieces. They began with a lion dance that involved some children getting the opportunity to try on the headpiece. The children worked in pairs, following the instructions of how to move their heads and bodies. They were then taught a much slower peacock dance that allowed all of them to use a fan. They had to use precise hand movements and were taught to track their hand movements with their eyes. For the finale, children were split into 2 groups to learn the dragon dance! We were so proud of the children for their teamwork, and for showing our school values. Danielle commented on how impressed she was, not just with the dances, but with how well the children listened, followed instructions and gave their all to the performances! Well done everyone, what great ambassadors! A very fun way to end the topic and the half term!
Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who were able to make donations to allow this enrichment activity to take place. If you have not already made a donation, it’s not too late - via Scopay or Cash to the school office. It really does make a difference !
Year 2 children made some wonderful masks, linked to the 12 Chinese zodiac signs and showed them off to the rest of the school in our worship session. We were also joined by Miss Lai who works in the office who shared with the school facts and traditions linked to Chinese New Year. We are entering the year of the dragon and hope it will be a happy and prosperous year for all who are celebrating.
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Chalking the Door at St. Bede
Mon 29 Jan 2024At the beginning of the term, in our worship time we were remembering that the Christian Christmas story moved beyond the birth of Jesus to the arrival of the Three Wise Men.
To support Church schools and to mark Epiphany, Winchester Diocese sent out resources linked to the custom of Chalking the Door. At St Bede, each class made their own sign for their classroom door, detailing the year we are now in and the letters C, M, and B which stand for the Magi; Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, or alternatively for the Latin blessing Christus mansionem benedicat (‘May Christ bless this house’).
Canon Roly Riem, from Winchester Cathedral, joined us for our whole school worship session and then visited each class to talk with them about their learning, about the door sign they had made and to share a blessing for the year ahead.