rewards, promoting Fairtrade

principles and co-operative

businesses - where members

have more of a say. Our learn-

ers were extremely engaged

and I’ve had lots of comments

about ‘Divine’ and ‘Dubble’

bars since! It’s been fascinating

having conversations with the

young people in our school

about hunger, consumer power

and the differences between

rich and poor nations - it’s

certainly helped our learners to

appreciate the challenges that

global communities face

beyond what we know in Brom-

ley Heath and the United King-

dom. This week, we enjoyed a

super assembly planned and

delivered by a small group of

volunteers from Year 3. Well

done girls - leaders of the

future showing initiative

already.

We’re over half way through

the school year, which is just

astonishing!

Everybody enjoys our ‘Life

Learning’ curriculum lessons

and assemblies. Teachers very

much enjoy seeing learners

grow in a different way too,

through deeper thinking,

reflection, discussion and

debate. We’re really proud of

the way we’ve developed our

Personal, Social and Health

Education (PHSE) with relevant

learning about communities and

lives across our world, this has

proved extremely popular and

really developed our moral and

cultural thinking at all levels right

across our school. This term,

we’re going global at BHJS! Our

theme ‘Who likes chocolate?’

really gives learners a chance to

reflect on and appreciate the

differences between people;

exploring the themes of

globalisation and Fairtrade. Our

launch assembly was, of

course, all about the production

of chocolate! We took the

opportunity to explore rights and

Who likes Chocolate?

Diary Dates

March

20th - Year 6 SATs

meeting for parents 5pm

21st - Joint Maths Problem

Solving Morning with BHIS

w/b 24th - Last week for

clubs

MONDAY 24th - INSET

day

25th - Angelfish to

Badminton Gardens

27th - Archerfish to

Badminton Gardens

28th - Game of Chance

Theatre Production (Safer,

Sustainable Transport)

28th - Local Churches

School Assembly Team

Visit

31st - Drama and Poetry

Enrichment morning, all

welcome! 9 - 12pm

31st - Dance squad to

MaD cluster Dance

competition (Barley Close)

April

1st/2nd - Cavan Scott,

writer and author visiting

2nd - Year 3 to Downend

Library

3rd - DRESS UP DAY -

Book characters!

3rd - Optional Drop in 3.30

- 5pm

3rd/4th - Drama

Workshop, Angie Athay

Hunt

3rd - Christchurch leading

assembly

4th - Spring Tea and

Easter Egg Hunt, after

school

4th - End of Term 4

Tuesday 22nd April -

Welcome back to Term

5!

Bromley Bulletin

Everybody continues to be so

committed and involved in their

learning and I reported how

proud we all were of our

learners to our Governing Body

this week. Progress both

academically and personally

continues to look strong across

the school and we intend to

keep it that way, we were

thrilled that Bromley Heath

Junior School was published in

The Times newspaper as 7th in

the list of top ten schools in

South Gloucestershire last

year. Thanks to all our families

for your ongoing partnership

and support - we appreciate it

and we couldn't be as

successful without you!

Kind regards

Faye Kitchen

Headteacher

Literacy week (w/b 31st March) will soon be upon us and we have lots of experiences planned for the children which we hope will be both stimulating and inspiring. They will also have the opportunity to step inside the world of literature on Thursday 3rd April when they are invited to step into a character’s shoes and dress as their favourite book or film personality!

We will be kicking off the week with a Drama and Poetry Enrichment morning. The children very much look forward to these mornings as it is a great opportunity for them to try something new whilst working with children in different classes, alongside parents and members of the local community.

Cavan Scott, well known author and journalist, will be back by popular demand! On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, he will be working with all year groups, creating exciting science-fiction style stories. Our key theme of Time Travel and Science Fiction will be running throughout our learning during the week. We are also lucky to be able to welcome Mrs Angie Athay-Hunt back into school, working with all year groups to run drama workshops on the Thursday and Friday.

In addition to this, Year 3 will be visiting Downend library during the afternoon of Wednesday 2nd April. Librarian Helen Egarr will be reminding the children about how to use the Dewey system, as well as showing them everything their local library has to offer!

In classrooms, there will be lots of fun activities based around reading, writing and drama, as we all enjoy our love of books and literature together.

Finally, the Travelling Book Fair will be in residence throughout the week so please take the opportunity to pop and in and choose some books from their exciting selection which you can enjoy reading with your children.

Literacy Week - a note

from Miss Speirs...

March 2014

Dr Who Scriptwriter

coming to BHJS!

DONT FORGET - INSET day Monday 24th March

Special Achievements - Congratulations to...

Haydn Humphreys – Most improved at gym (2013)

Frome Side Gymnastics club

Ben Brown – David Lloyd tennis tournament – Gold

medal winner (Downend/Fishponds tennis club)

Alice Williams – Star of the month at Majestic Gym-

nastics club

James Hunt – Tae-Kwon Do, achieved his red tag

belt – Emersons Green

Isaac Spencer, Molly Richardson, Luke Paddon,

Charis Taylor – Silly Hat day raising £166 for

‘Compassion’ in the Philippines

Grade 2 Violin exam:

Lucia Adams Pass (Merit)

Ella Thomas and Molly Davies – Pass

Molly Davies – Grade 1 Musical theatre – Distinction

Grade 1 Merit—Tap

Phoebe Thomas – 25m swimming badge (Kellogg's

ASA Rainbow badge)

Sam Seager-Edwards -20m swimming badge (Filton

Swimming club)

Millie Clarke – Completed a gym trial and been

accepted onto Gloucestershire’s County Gym squad.

Rhiannon Gee – 400m Swimming badge (Kellogg’s

ASA Rainbow award)

Molly Richardson – 25m swimming award

Charis Taylor – 800m swimming ASA silver award

Grace Gregory – 400m swimming award

Sienna Wallington - Swimming Level 1 Bronze

Award

Bella Collin - Swimming Level 1 Bronze Award

William Cooper – 400m swimming award

Alfie Bush - 100m swimming award

Hannah Skidmore – Swimming pre-competition

Level 2 Award

Lucia Adams –

Grade 3 Merit Ballet

Molly Davies – Grade

3 Merit Ballet

Izzy Adams – Grade 2 Merit Ballet

Jasmine Thomas – 1st place in Irish Dancing

competition

£134.81 for Parkinsons raised by Ole Bainbridge

and team

£41 for CLIC and £41 for Cancer

Research raised by Harry Durnell

and team

Challenge, achievement,

improvement and thought for

others. Well done everybody!

INCLUSION NEWS

Supportive Parents

If your child has any kind of Special Educational Needs

(SEN), Supportive Parents offers free and confidential

information and support in a number of ways. Leaflets are

available from the school in reception or visit the website

www.supportiveparents.org.uk

The MaD Legacy

We are entering the second year of Mangotsfield and Downend

(MaD) cluster school events, planned and sustained after our

fantastic year of celebrating the Olympic games in 2012. Again,

we are looking forward to a host of activities at cluster schools

providing opportunities for learners in culture, creativity and

sport. Our dance group have been busy preparing a performance

for ‘Dancing through the Decades’ at Barley Close Primary at the

end of this month - good luck to them! Upcoming events

so far include a Choir Competition at Stanbridge and a Chess

tournament at Emersons Green - other events are appearing

weekly! BHJS is hosting a ‘Gabbler’ competition, hearing learn-

ers’ ideas on a range of issues - good luck to our team Oliver

Woodland, Alice Hassard and Ellie Lester, looking forward to hear-

ing your gabble! Thanks to Governor Sharon Clements for join-

ing the judging panel….look out for the results!

2014 Get well soon......Our thoughts are very much with two of our

support staff members who have been unwell for some time now -

Mrs Lynne Gapper and Mrs Anne Macey. It is probable that they will

not be returning to school until after Easter - our team doesn't feel

complete without them and I know how much the children are

missing them too! Special thanks to our terrific Teaching Assistant

Team who have all found time to take on extra responsibilities in

their absence - keeping things as normal as possible for our children.

Maisie Sheedy Louie Pearce Joe Bainbridge Charlotte Knott Evie Cuthbert Molly Richardson Ole Bainbridge

Gaby Ellis

Grace Gregory

Alex Huggins

Lizzy Ralph

Evie Cuthbert

Maddie Burdon

Hannah

Skidmore

Katie Down

Millie Clarke

Well done to our creative

artists whose work was on

display at the local

‘RESOUND’ centre in

Mangotsfield last week!

Super standard of work on

show and enjoyed by

many...

Interactivity at Bromley Heath Juniors

Thank you to all of the parents who joined us for the most recent Parent Leadership Meeting, where we discussed and enjoyed

listening to all of your views on interactive teaching and learning. An interesting and informative time once again.

At BHJS, we very much want to prepare every child in skills that will last them a lifetime, for secondary school and beyond. In

order to do so, we have been thinking about the bigger questions in life that can lead children’s thinking, including further

opportunities for reflection, empathy and compassion in class, as well as focusing on children’s investigative skills. Please take

the time to look at our proposed rationale on the school website – I’d really like to hear your opinion!

As part of interactive learning strategies and in readiness for the brand new National Curriculum this September, we have begun

to make good use of our new Interactive Learning Centre (ILC) this term. This area consists of a variety of non-fiction texts,

topical and practical resources, different spaces to support a variety of learning approaches, displays to encourage positive learn-

ing strategies and not forgetting the two new iPads, which seem to have gone down exceptionally well with our learners. Our aim

is to make learners independent in their thinking and research - active participants in their learning journey.

As well as supporting our learners during lessons, we hope to encourage its use during the lunch hour and to support children

and parents before and after school – please do pop in and take a look, particularly at our area designated for supportive

parents! Here you’ll find a range of texts and resources that are interesting and possibly useful. This continues to be a work in

progress so, once again, we value your opinion.

I look forward to hearing and seeing you soon!

Miss M kelly.maudsley@bhjs.org.uk

Artists representing BHJS Photographers

representing BHJS

Gemma Wilson

William Cooper

Amber Thomas

Ella Dowding

Joseph Dunlop

Harry Dickens

Liam Douglass-

Rhiannon Gee

Parents and learners in action at

Photography club!