School Newsletter : 14 March 2025

Get Snapped Reading & WIN a £5 Book Fair voucher! 

Our annual book fair will take place from Friday 28th March to Friday 4th April. To create a buzz around it there will be a competition from Nursery to Year 6 to promote our children’s love of reading and the vast number of reading opportunities that we all have in our daily lives.

To enter the competition, all pupils need to do is to send in a photograph of themselves reading anything – a favourite book, comic, recipe, menu, instructions, signs etc – and anywhere, at home, at play, or even out and about.

All photographs will be displayed in classrooms and reading areas around school and all submissions will be put into a draw to win a £5 Book Fair voucher! There are 5 vouchers to be won, and the lucky winners will be announced in assembly on Monday 24th March.

Due to the large numbers of photos we hope to receive, we would really appreciate it if photographs could be printed off and brought into class. If this is not possible, photos can be emailed to office@burdettcoutts.co.uk

We look forward to seeing all your lovely photos, and thank you for your support.

On Wednesday 12 March, 19 members of the Choir Club across Years 6, 5, 4 and 3, were invited by Westminster School to sing in a concert at the Royal Festival Hall. We sang a piece by Vivaldi, in Latin, called Dixit Dominus. It is quite long and extremely difficult with many fast notes.

The concert was conducted by Mr. Tim Garrard, Director of Music of Westminster School, and we sang with other children from his school and from other schools in our district. Burdett-Coutts was the only primary school invited to sing.

It was exciting to be performing with a large orchestra playing, and to see hundreds of people come into the massive concert hall to listen to us. The lights on the stage were dazzlingly bright and we knew that we were being watched by many, many people. We are enormously privileged to be invited to be part of musical events like this in one of the biggest concert halls in our country.

As part of Science Week, Years 5 and 6 took part in an engaging and exciting workshop run by Imperial College. Pupils met a real life inventor and learned about ‘The Great Exhibition‘ in Crystal Palace in 1851.

They worked collaboratively to create their own prototypes for inventions which they showcased at the end of the workshop. Some of these included an automatic fish feeder, an innovative robot which will do your household chores, and a walking stick for the blind that vibrates when objects are close by.

It was lovely to see the children working so well within their teams and being so engrossed in their learning.

A massive thank you to the scientists Alex and Hayley who ran the workshop. The winning invention will be displayed at the Great Exhibition Road Festival on 7-8 June 2025.

Spring has sprung! 

Although it has been cooler this week, the🌼daffodils are blooming and the cherry blossoms 🌸 🌺  are looking lovely around our streets and parks. Although maybe not so much fun if you suffer from hayfever!

Our Easter Bonnet competition is launching on Monday, so fire up your imagination and get crafting.

Parents, please only provide essential assistance to your child’s Easter Bonnet design. As before there will be a Parent Entry table again, so please feel free to join in with the fun, by submitting your own Easter Bonnet so you can work along side your child.

Happy Crafting 🙂 🐣

This Friday 21st March is Red Nose Day!

It’s an extra special celebration this year, as it will be the 40th anniversary of Comic Relief, making it a wonderful occasion to celebrate! That’s 40 years of raising money and supporting many thousands of charities.

The theme this year will be Celebration – What Makes Us 😊 Pupils can come dressed up as any character they wish, theme, hero, inspirational figure – as long as it’s an outfit that makes them happy!

To wear a costume/outfit on this non-uniform day all pupils will need to bring in £2 donation. This will go towards this year’s focus of supporting those in need during the current cost of living challenge and related core issues such as food poverty and homelessness.

During lunch time, pupils will be able to partake in two games, at a cost of 50p each.  These will be Pin the Nose on Biscuit 🐶 (Don’t worry – it’s a photo!) and Guess the Red Sweets in the Jar 😋 We will also be selling cupcakes at the end of the day for £1. These will be available to purchase when you collect your children.

Thank you for supporting this important fundraising event.

We look forward to seeing everyone’s ‘HAPPY’ costumes and outfits next Friday😊

Woof woof everyone!

Wow what a busy week it has been in school! There was an exciting trip out to a farm (although I really wish I could have gone with Nursery), amazing singing taking place in school and also at the Royal Festival Hall.

I don’t know about you, but I am loving the longer days ☀️ I can get to the park after school with it being light enough to be off the lead, running and chasing the a ball, which is so much better than being on the lead and doing street walks. All I can do then is bark at the foxes, which I must admit I love to do!

I had an amazing time celebrating my birthday last Sunday. I was very lucky, and throughly spoilt to receive some lovely gifts.

I also spent the whole day out at Wimpole Estate which is a lovely National Trust Property near Cambridge. They had an 🐣 Easter Egg Trail and many baby animals to see in the farm area. I spent most of my time 🐶 running around the fields and swimming in the lake. We also had a picnic YUM 😋

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and see you next week 🐶

Biscuit X

Please ensure that all children wear a jacket to school, and have a hat. Gloves and scarves are optional, but are highly recommended as it starts to get much colder.

All pupils should now be wearing their full winter uniform and no longer in their summer uniform options, including PE uniform.

Please ensure all items of clothing including jumpers and sweaters are named!

Many thanks for your continued support.

As Mathematicians, Year 2 have been busy exploring the concept of mass. They began by revisiting their prior learning, comparing objects using the language ‘heavier’ and ‘lighter’, and using cubes as a non-standard unit of measurement. This helped them develop an understanding of weight before being introduced to standard units. Pupils were introduced to grams and kilograms, using real weights and balance scales to deepen their understanding. They worked on estimating mass by comparing everyday objects to known weights. Reading scales accurately was a key focus and they worked hard to understand how to interpret values, even when the pointer landed between numbers. By the end of the week, they applied their knowledge to problem-solving activities, using bar models to decide which calculations to use.