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Harvest Festival
Bryony children
donated wonderful
food parcels from
our Harvest
Festival.
Mr Johnson held Harvest assemblies
both sites, singing songs and learning
about the importance of Harvest and of
giving to others. Mr Johnson who
donned his chefs
hat and began
showing the
children how
bread is made.
Year 5
delivered food
parcels to the
residents of
Platters Farm
Lodge.
After singing
harvest songs, the
children and
residents enjoyed a
drink, biscuits and
a chat. Iris, at 93
years old, imparted
some of her wisdom
which the children
found fascinating!
We also met the
great- grandmother of a former Bryony
pupil who recognised our blue and gold
uniform and our polite children instantly.
Year 2 enjoyed delivering the
Infant parcels to elderly residents in the
local area. All remaining donations
were taken to elderly residents of
Esmond House in Brompton and to a
local foodbank. Thank you to
everyone for your generous gifts,
they were very gratefully received.
The children have received several
lovely thank you cards from grateful
Recipients of the food parcels.
To all Parents and Carers, we
present for you our
Autumn Half Term
newsletter.
Firstly, a warm welcome to
our new pupils and their
parents who joined the
Bryony family.
My staff and myself are
readily available if any
parent has any questions or
comments.
This half term has flown by.
Exciting activities have
included: a Pre-School trip
to Riverside; a cake sale for
Macmillan Cancer Support;
Harvest Festivals; Pre-
School and Reception
Parents Open Afternoon,
Parents’ Evenings for Years
1,2,3, 4 and 6, Medway
Schools Cup competitions in
Tag Rugby 7s and Cross
Country Running and our
first Mini Youth Game of the
year, Hockey.
We are very proud of each
and every one of our Year 6
children who took the Kent
and Medway Selection Tests
this term. Well done.
Finally, may I wish my hard
working and dedicated team
of staff, the children and
parents a restful break.
See you all back on
Wednesday 1st November.
Mr Edmunds,
School Principal
Bryony School Autumn Half Term
2017 Newsletter
Editors Mrs Twigg & Mrs Notley
September / October 2017
We were so excited to board
the school bus and get our
seat belts on. Mr Sparks
drove us to Riverside, where
Mr Reid was waiting for us.
We walked to the private
orchard, looking and listening
on the way. Sophie heard a
bird making an alarm call. She
said “I think he’s crying. I
think he’s lost his Mummy and
Daddy.” In the orchard we
used nets to sweep over the
grass. Sienna called “Look,
I’ve got a ladybird in my net.
Come and look everyone!”
Amrita and Luca found three
spiders in their nets. Zac,
Elijah, Amarjeet and Kesi
found small fruit flies in
theirs.
Next, everyone found
flowers, thistledown
and leaves to stick
on their sticky
sticks.
We walked to the
pond for pond
dipping and saw a
stickleback fish,
lots of fast water
boatmen and small larvae. We
saw a dragonfly and butterfly
too. The moorhen swam
quickly away. After lunch
everyone chose a butterfly or
snail to decorate. Then we
walked to Sharps Green Pond
and walked over the board
walk. We saw fox footprints
in the mud and tried to see
the fox in his lair. We looked
out onto the river.
We finished off in the
playground playing pirates on
the pirate ship. We went on
the dragon swing and climbed
the hill to go down the slide.
What a great day!
Mrs Reid, Mrs White and
Mrs Saroya
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Pre-School Trip to Riverside Country Park
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Our current Year 4 entered a
poetry competition run by Young
Writers last term called ‘Once
upon a Dream’ . A selection of
their poems has been published
in the ’Once upon a dream—
Poems from Kent’ in November.
Well done to all the children who took part.
Multi-Sports After School
Clubs Longshore Coaching Services
(LCS) provide an after school club
in the Juniors on Wednesdays and Infants on
Fridays. Activities include: Fustal, Tag Rugby
7’s, Field Archery, Ultimate Frisbee, Kickball,
Uni-hoc, Softball, Basketball, Flag American
Football, Y Ball, Dodgeball, Fencing, Kabaddi
and Badminton.
We also enter inter-school competitions
throughout the year on Saturday mornings
which are organised by LCS. Recent events
have been Tag Rugby and Cross-Country
Running.
After half term there will be an Ultimate
Frisbee Competition on 11th November for
the Juniors and a Super Stars fitness
competition on 9th December for the
Infants . Invitations for these events will be
sent after half term.
Infant French
Club Thank you to Mrs
Jarvis for running a
weekly French Club for Year 2 children. The
children look forward to French games each
week and love receiving their stickers!
Extra Curricular
Poetry Competition
Autumn Term 2017 Page 3
Junior Sports Clubs Junior children have enjoyed Hockey,
Tag/Touch Rugby, Basketball, Gardening,
Razzamataz and Multi –Sports clubs this term.
After half term we are running Junior Arch-
ery and Choir clubs. See your ParentMail for
details
Razzamataz
Theatre Schools
Razzamataz
workshops are run after school on Mondays
for Infants and Juniors . They are an
excellent opportunity to:
· Develop confidence & creativity.
· Promote self-discipline and self-motivation.
· Improve language and musical skills.
· Problem solving; and
· Encourage social interaction and team work.
Jodie, the class teacher has formed a great
rapport with the children this term and the
children have settled in well. The children
have been learning songs and dances and
exploring characters from the West End
Musical Matilda.
Jodie has kindly run workshops for the whole
school this term so that all children could
experience what happens in the after school
club. Please see your ParentMail for details of
the club and how to sign up.
September / October 2017 Page 3
During the summer holidays the Medway
Libraries Service organised a reading
challenge and we are delighted to tell you
that the following children completed this
challenge and all received certificates:
Ethan, Omorinsola, Jadesola, Kian and
Robert. Well done !
Animal Agents Summer
We had an enjoyable
session at the tag rugby 7s
development morning at Fort
Pitt. It was the first
competition in
the LCS Schools
Cup.
Congratulations
to our year 3/4
team who both
their games.
They played some
lovely running
Rugby.
The year 5/6 team played some good rugby too and worked well
as a team but unfortunately this time could not overcome the
other teams they were up against. Well done everyone.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Tag Rugby 7’s
A great turn out
of infants and
juniors for the
Cross country
event this term.
The children's
enthusiasm and
dedication was beyond belief.
Overall we came 2nd out of 5
schools that entered the
competition with
351 points.
Special mention
must go to
Inara, Katie,
Ben, Stanley
and Omorinsola
who won their races and
Phoenix (Year 2)
for completing the 1200m,
Year 4 race!
Well done to all the runners
who took part, it was a great
Bryony School effort.
We are looking forward to
the Kent
Junior Schools
Cross
Country
Championships
at Detling
next month.
Cross Country
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On 29th September. FoBS organized a cake sale at school in aid of Macmillan
cancer support. Parents and children made and donated beautiful cakes for the
event. The year 6 children ran the cake sale at the Junior site while FoBS took
care if the infant sale. Cakes were also sold after school at the gates in Marshall
Road. We raised a whopping £362.32 for Macmillan. Thank you for your generosity and support.
And Finally
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please see our website:
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What’s Coming up.....?
November
2nd - MYG Basketball Yr 6
2nd - Parents Evening 5D
7th - Visit By Magistrates Yr 6
7th - Egyptian Day Year 2
9th - Parents’ Evening 5P
11th - Ultimate Frisbee Yr 3-6
13th - Flu Immunisation Yr R-4
17th - Visit to Fire Station Yr R
17th - Children in Need
23rd - MYG Badminton
December
1st - FoBs Christmas Shop
4th - Carol Singing, Platters Park
5th - Christmas visit to Brook
theatre, Pre-School, Yr R
6th - Carol Singing, Hempstead
Valley
7th - Christmas Dinner Day
8th - Christmas Pantomime Yr 1-6
9th - Superstars Competition YrR-2
11th - Carol Singing, AGE UK
14th - Carol Service Yr 1-6
15th - Save the Children, Christmas
Jumper Day –All
15th - Last Day of the Autumn Term
We have a very high percentage
of parents and carers who park
responsibly around the school
at pick up and drop off times.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, there still are a
few cars at drop off and pick
up times in dangerous posi-
tions despite parking
restrictions being in place.
This sort of parking places
unnecessary risks on our
children, impacts the local
residents and other road
users.
Please observe the safe parking
rules as written in the Highway
Code and respect the double
yellow lines, zig- zags and the
driveways of local residents.
After half term we will be
holding assemblies on road
safety which will include
responsible parking.
We will also be launching a
responsible parking poster
competition amongst the
children. Our local PCSO has
kindly agreed to judge the
competition and select a
winner.
Urging Safe and Responsible Parking
The children are really
looking forward to
dressing up for the
Friends of Bryony
School (FoBS )Halloween
Disco during the half
term on 27th October.
Congratulations Our best wishes to Miss Collier,
our Year 1 teacher, who is getting married during the half term . Miss Collier will return as
Mrs Dyne!
September / October 2017 Page 5