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/

• Year 4 Design and Technology – Pizza, Pizza!

  Fri 30 May 2025

  At the end of November, our Year 4 pupils were very busy making their very own pizzas, lined to their wider topic learning. Here is a report written by Year 4 pupil Joy: ‘We were learning about Roman civilisation in History and linking this to all things Italian, we made fun, tasty pizzas. Alongside this, we found out about Franco Pepe - a world famous Pizza Chef before trying traditional toppings so that we could decide what to put on our pizzas.

   

  We made the dough with only two ingredients - yoghurt and flour. I thought this was very cool and I would like to try it at home! We chose our own toppings so we could personalise the pizza. It was a great experience to share!

  It was really fun and we had a lot of help from the teachers who even bought us ingredients (with the money kindly donated by parents), which was really helpful.’

• Your Time to Shine – Stay Safe

  Fri 30 May 2025

  On Friday 22^nd November, we promoted the importance of staying safe when out and about in the darker winter months and the importance of road safety. Well done to our wonderful Junior Road Safety Officers who have helped lead a worship sharing important messages linked to their area of responsibility.

• Anti Bullying Week, World Kindness Day and Children in Need - November 2024

  Fri 30 May 2025

  The month of November is always very busy as we have our usual teaching and learning, but we also address wider focus days and initiatives. We have thought about the importance of kindness and how to show kindness to each other, but also how to respond when people are repeatedly unkind and how to respond if we see or are aware of bullying.

   

  Alongside this we have also had lots of fun to raise awareness of the work of the Charity Children in Need and were amazed at the generosity of our community, raising approximately £500 through donations, thank you! A special thank you to our Year 6 Heads of Sport who led each class in a dance challenge and this was repeated as part of a lovely outdoor assembly, congratulations to everyone involved.

• Year 3 - Seasonal Crumble success!

  Fri 30 May 2025

  At the start of November, Year 3 have been making seasonal crumbles! They have learnt about different fruits and vegetables that are in season, and tasted a variety, which informed their choice of crumble filling. The children then practised the skills of chopping and peeling fruit and learnt about food hygiene. After this, the children made their crumbles to take home and enjoy! Well done everyone! Thank you to Tesco for their donation of some apples to support our project!

• Year 4 Salisbury Museum Trip

  Fri 30 May 2025

  On Friday 25^th October, Year 4 headed off to Salisbury City Museum. Excited by the double-decker coach that awaited them, the intrepid historians were armed with skills to finalise their understanding of the impact of the Romans on Britain. Despite the rain falling down on them as they walked past the magnificent cathedral to enter the museum, their spirits where not dampened, and they quickly went to work.

   

  There were two different parts to the day, one of them was exploring the Wessex Gallery, which houses artefacts that archaeologists have discovered dating back to the Bronze Age – the children were amazed to find bones as old as 5000 years ago. Using their understanding, they explored the Roman section, finding a central heating system, bracelets, a tomb and even a mosaic floor. The second exploration was handling artefacts as if they were archaeologists, to try and work out what these finds might tell them about the Romans. After this, they got to make their own pottery shard in a Roman style which they have brought back to school to display. Here are some quotes from children who attended the trip.

   

  "It was really exciting to look at some historic items which were older than I can imagine!" William (Alswitha).

  "I liked hearing the amazing stories of historic people that we saw the skeletons of!" Eloisa (Alswitha)

• Year 6 Trip to Fairthorne Manor

  Tue 01 Oct 2024

  It was a real privilege to join our Year 6 pupils at their team-building day at Fairthorne Manor on Tuesday 24^th September.  The common themes of what they had enjoyed most were the camo trail and raft building- both of which involved getting very wet and/or very muddy. The day ended with a campfire, lots of singing and dancing and some fabulous performances from the children, which suggest that this year’s Christmas talent show could be a special one!

• Pupil responsibility posts- Spotlight on the Pupil Leadership Team

  Tue 01 Oct 2024

  Our pupil leadership team are often used as first choice ambassadors - attending community events as representatives of the school, or showing visitors, including prospective parents and employees, around the school. Last year one of the roles our pupil ambassadors enjoyed taking on was attending the service at Winchester Cathedral to welcome the new Bishop of Winchester.  Congratulations to our new pupil leadership team of Seb, Fifi, Ema, Arnie, Alexander and Lilly, thank you for putting yourself forward for this role.

• Pupil responsibility posts- Spotlight on the Pupil Ambassador Team

  Tue 01 Oct 2024

  Our pupil ambassador team have already started their support work across the school this week, taking part in activities based in our Early Years and Year 1 classes. 

   

  Congratulations to our new pupil ambassador team of Molly, Sophie, Emily, Seb, Noah, Sintia, Lizzie, Poppy, Keira and Halle, thank you for putting yourself forward for this role.

• Silver Modeshift Stars Award

  Tue 01 Oct 2024

  We are delighted to report that we have been awarded the Modeshift STARS silver award in recognition of our work towards supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable and active travel. Thank you to all the children and adults who supported the school with this award last year. We look forward to taking part in further initiatives this year and will have news of them soon. A special thank you to Mrs Quincey who leads this work in our school- what a great outcome!

• October is Black History Month

  Tue 01 Oct 2024

  This year’s theme for Black History Month is ‘reclaiming narratives’. Alongside our planned activities for inside the classroom, we are also hoping to meet with some of our parents from minority backgrounds at a coffee morning on Friday 18^th October (after drop off) to find out more about how families feel they could be better represented and supported at school. If you would be interested in joining us, it would be really helpful to know of any resources you have seen or used in your own families to promote diversity and inclusion.

   

  We are proud to say that everyone is welcome at St Bede and would love to learn more about the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the families across our community to inform how we move forward as a school in this area. This year, one of our strategic priorities is linked to our school rule to ‘be respectful’ and will include that we further refine policies, planning, teaching and learning to consider and address diversity and inclusion resulting in respectful behaviours and attitudes. We hope that you can agree that this is an important area for us to explore and address.