Eco Warriors

Lunchtime Crunchtime

Eco Warriors are trying to reduce waste at lunchtime by composting fresh food scraps and recycling plastic cups. 

At the moment all of our lunchtime waste is going to landfill, with nothing  being recycled or composted!  We are  trying to change this trend, and are now recycling some of the waste and composting fresh food scraps.

We are weighing up the fresh food scraps and plastic cups at lunchtime to calculate exactly by how much we are reducing the amount of lunchtime waste going to landfill (whilst starting to compost for our allotment at Swaythling Neighbourhood Centre).  Look out for our findings next Friday, 30th March!

Ring pulls

Don’t forget  - we are still collecting ring pulls to help children working on rubbish dumps in the Philippines, so please send in your ring pulls to school.

Eco Warriors, you are doing an amazing job. RESPECT to you!

The Big Spring Sing, Thursday 8th March

Our final performance!

Warming up our voices - Witch style!

                                                                                    Going for Gold at 'The Big Spring Sing'!


Wearing our 'Going for Gold' medals!

 We have been busy rehearsing songs over the last few weeks for The Big Spring Sing and last Thursday were joined by Swaythling Primary and Jenny from Music Services for the big event! We all enjoyed a fun warm up session then rehearsed our 'Going for Gold' songs.The children made new friends at break time before a final performance to family and friends.

Well done everyone for a super performance!

Year 5/6 Rock!

Year 5/6 have been drumming along to a track called 'Lonely Boy' by The Black Keys.

Rock along to the Phoenix class and their video!

Look what we've got!

In year 6 we have been thinking of ways to make us stand out to the rest of the school as year 6 role models. We decided that it would be great if we wore a different jumper to the other children in the school.

We all had a go at creating a design and eventually we chose Nouf's. We voted as a year group on the colours used.   We also did some fundraising so we were then able to purchase the jumpers at a specially reduced rate.

We think they look fab! We'd love to know what you think of our new uniform so drop us a line!

Happy New Year!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school everyone! We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, had a good rest and are ready to start the New Year.

We just wanted to share in a little bit of Good News to start the year. At the very end of the Autumn term we found out that bassett Green is one of the top 20 'Most Improved Schools' in the country! This is according to the published league table results of children leaving school in Year 6 from 2008 - 2011.

This is a really remarkable achievement and one that we feel very proud of.

We are very much looking forward to 2012 and we are sure that Bassett Green will continue to go from strength to strength.

Ah, bless!

Here are some of the children from Year 2 sharing their performance of 'Whoops-a-daisy angel' with the residents of Sunrise Living in Bassett.

We took twenty children to Sunrise and sang songs from this year's Nativity performance.

The residents had a fantastic time and thought the children were really sweet.

We are going to keep up our relationship with Sunrise after our recent assembly from one of our governors about Age Concern!

The builders are back !

'Oh, no!' we hear you say, but this time they're going to be in and out in a week!

We are very lucky to be chosen as one of a handful of schools in Southampton to have Solar panels fitted to our roof!

The panels will generate electricity which will help to reduce our extremely large fuel bill! we'll update you later in the year with how much we've saved.

CHRISTMAS FAIR - Time to get in the christmas spirit.

It's the Christmas Fair on Thursday 1st December.
Come and join us for lots of fun and games to help raise money for the school. We have craft stalls, lots of refreshments, games to play and Santa is coming too! Get a ticket to see Santa from the school gates only £2 each. The fair will open at 3.30, and it's free entry!
We look forward to seeing you there.

Operation !

Today, the children in Years 3/4 invited their parents in to try out their own versions of the fabulous game Operation! The children looked at the original game and saw how it was made. they then designed and built their own version using their DT skills and their knowledge of electric circuits.

This is what one of the parents had to say about their child's work;                                                                                                                                                             "A very clever and thought-out process and excellent hard work. My son enjoyed his project and spoke in length with excitement. This project has given my son an insight into the human body"

Fireworks!

It is that time of the year again where we all look up at the night sky and watch pretty lights and hear loud noises shooting above our heads. However in order to enjoy this time of year safely you must make sure you follow the fire work code. Every year children and adults get injured by not using fireworks correctly, so read the information below and make sure you're not one of them!