We've just received a letter from Fay Bowler and Mark Juby, the Principal and Chair of Governors, at Braunton Academy. It explains some of the decisions the Governors have been making over the past year about applications for year 6 and overall school places. We've just started our new 1/2 term school value of 'We Are A Community' and it [...]
Some of Class 4 came and showed me the lovely bookmarks that they were given for filling up their first page of their reading log. What lovely scratch art bookmarks!
Braunton School has its Open Evening next Thursday, the 23rd September for our current year 6s to have a look round. To manage this safely, the Academy are staggering entry for the Primary Schools with Georgeham (and Kingsacre and Marwood) allocated the arrival time of 7.30pm, and limiting numbers from each household to the Year 6 child and two other [...]
Hopefully, this YouTube link will work. Here's the year 6s on their residential to Lundy. https://youtu.be/zV7nNf9Yc-8
Ok, so we've all possibly unpacked and managed to recoup some sleep now, so I thought it time to download the GoPro footage and have fun compiling a video (it takes ages so bear with me) but also to download the photos and post a blog about the Yr 6's amazing trip! Some interesting points about this trip... Tuesday... a [...]
This video really does capture everything fun about our year 6's residential to London. The children were Kind, Curious, Confident, a Community, Adventurous and certainly Ambitious too. It was also a delight to have taken them and help them through the week!
We’re all back safely, exhausted but happy, with lots of special memories made before we all go off on our next adventure to “big school”. To our parents: your children have been absolutely amazing and should be really, really proud of themselves. They attempted challenging tasks with a smile and determination, even when they were a bit scared. They encouraged [...]
Just leaving Membury Services and since it's raining and we can't play on the green, we're going to be early. ETA 3pm
After a chilled movie evening watching School of Rock, we all settled down for the night (finally, a warm cup of tea!). Until the clock struck twelve and the thundering of elephants on creaky floorboards alerted us to an emergency of the bump kind. Giant floor bed created to cheer up our wounded soldier (how Thea slept through that I’ll [...]
YESTERDAY EVENING"I was the first one asleep!""I was asleep WAY before Miss Sobey checked on us!" BREAKFAST"We had pain au chocolat and croissants!""Oh, it was yummy.""What do you mean, what did you think about breakfast? ...It was divine. The chocolate melted in my mouth and the pastry went crunch, crunch, crunch." SCIENCE MUSEUMArthur was labelled our Crash Test Dummy yesterday [...]
