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ntroductionBickerton is the best school!!!!But dont just take our word for it!Why not read our version of theschool prospectus? After all, we arethe real experts when it comes toBickerton School! Read on and welltell you all about it...
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Our children
Here at Bickerton the children range from age 4-11 in the five differ-ent classes. Altogether we have 120 pupils in our school.
There are a different number of children in each class each year andusually, there are two age groups in each class. This is how the classes
are organised this year.
In Class 1 there are all the Re-
ception children (aged 4-5) andsome Year 1 children (aged 5-6),
In Class 2 there are some Year1 children and all of the Year
2s (aged 6-7).
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So overall we are a pretty organised school!
Class 3 has all the Year 3children (aged 7-8) and theysome Year 4 children (aged
8-9)
In Class 4, some children are in
Year 4 (aged 8-9) and some arein Year 5 (aged 9-10)
And in Class 5, there are all theYear 6 children and the rest of
the Year 5s.
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Our staff
We have lots of people who work at our school and theyre all
really great!
Mr Sweetnam is our
headteacher. He is very
funny and we think he is
a jolly giant!
Mrs Tudor is our deputy headteacher and she al-
so teaches Class 1. She is full of good ideas.
Mrs Chapman and Mrs
Tedham teach Class 5.
Mrs Chapman teaches on
Mondays and Tuesdays
and she loves cooking.
Mrs Tedham teaches on
Wednesdays, Thursdaysand Fridays. She loves
music and singing.
In Class 4, theres Mrs
Vaughan. She always has
good ideas for science in-
vestigations and art.
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At the desk, we have our
administration officer
Mrs Weaver. She helps us
to organise our trips and
other things in school. We
couldnt do without her!
Mrs Chesworth is a teaching assistant and she
helps lots of children in the school. She also
helps Mrs Parsons to teach PE and she helps
us at lunchtime too. She is really kind.
Mrs Shone and Mrs Latham
are teaching assistants and
they usually work with Class 1
and 2. They are very kind and
helpful.
Mrs Parsons teaches PE (Physical Education) to
Class 2, 3, 4 and 5. She is a very enthusiastic
and persuasive person! She also helps to keep
our school clean.
Mrs Boothby and Mrs Kirk
teach Class 2 and they are
both very friendly people.
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Mrs Billington also helps with
school dinners and looks after
us at lunchtime. She is alwayshelpful.
Last but by no means
least, we have our school
cook, Mrs Jenkins. She
makes the most delicious
meals every day for us.
She is so kind and caring.
Mr Innes is our caretaker and also hes one of
our supervisors at lunchtime. What a busy
man!
We have some other people who come in
to our school sometimes. Mrs Holmes
comes in on a Thursday to teach musicto Classes 1 and 2. She also runs the
school band. Also, we have some teach-
ers who come into school to teach musi-
cal instruments such as the flute, gui-
tar and piano.
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Our school building
At our school, we have five classroomsand we have an infant library and a junior
library. As you come in, we have an en-trance hall, our secretarys desk and Mr
Sweetnams office. Classes 1, 2 and 5 are
in the old part of the school that has been
there for a long time. Classes 3 and 4 arethe new bit of the school! They were built
about 14 years ago. Also, Class 2 and 3had an extension in 2009 to make thembigger. So our school keeps getting big-
ger!
The local areaOur school is in the middle of beautiful
countryside! We have a lot of farms
around our area, so there are lots of fields
and animals. Also we have a church down
the road and we have an ice-cream farm
nearby as well.
In our village, we have a village hall
where lots of clubs are held. People also
have their parties there, like discos. There
is a big hill which people like to walk up
and this hill is called Bickerton Hill. It is
owned partly by the National Trust and its
on the Sandstone Trail, a popular route forwalkers!
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Our school grounds
At our school we have lots of places
to play, including a new play area
that the PTA paid for!
This is our field were we can play games
like football, net and tag. The girls play
Pepsi cola! (Its a song where they do
handstands at the end!) We also haveour sports day on the field.
This is our playground where we
play netball, cricket, tennis and
football.
Our nature area is where we find bugs
and butterflies. It is a nice place to re-
lax. There are benches where you can
sit to admire the wildlife.
The celebration garden is a beautiful
area. The infants use it a lot to play
and work. Class 1 also has a canopy so
they can play outside whatever the
weather!
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The school daySchool starts at 9.00am and finishes at 3.30pm.
At 10.25 we go into assembly and at 10.40, wecome out and have morning break. Our lunchbreak starts at 12.00 and finishes at 1.00 for jun-iors and 1.15 for the infants. Then we have play-
time at 2.15 and come in at 2.30. The infants have
a playtime at 2.30. If we do a club we stay afterschooi until 4.30.
Lunchtimes
At Bickerton we enjoy our
lunchtimes! They are a good timeto eat and catch up with our
friends. We enjoy our food be-
cause they are delicious. Mrs Jen-
kins, the cook, is really kind and
the dinner ladies and everyone
works really hard to make our
lunch hall a friendly place to be
in. Here are some of the thingswe have at lunch: roast dinner,
curry, pizza, toad in the hole, beef
baps and lasagne and much more
yummy things! At our school you
can also bring your own packed
lunch if youd prefer.
When we are not eating, we go
and play outside in the field, na-ture trail, or playground.
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opicsAt Bickerton, we have lessons in lots of different sub-jects like Art, History and Geography, but we learnthrough topics. Usually, all the work we do is based onthat topic. Each term we have a different topic, for ex-ample, this term the juniors are doing Local Lives andwe are learning all about our area, for example castlesand farms. Its fun!
We normally have Maths and Literacy lessons in themornings. These are often linked to the topic too. Ourteachers use games, activities and the interactive white-board to teach us new things.
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In our school, we use ICT to learn and we
have lots of equipment, such as an inter-active whiteboard, desktops and laptops
in every class. We use the desktops and
laptops for lots of things, like playing
Maths games and finding information out
from the internet. We also use digital
cameras to take photos and Digi Blue vid-
eo cameras for filming. We enjoy using
these things and feel very lucky to have
them!
ICT
SPORTS
Our school provides lots of equipmentfor P.E lessons. We do athletics, gymnas-tics, dance and games. In the juniors, wealso go swimming to Whitchurch pool.There are lots of sports events in theyear, such as Sports Day and theSportshall competition . School also or-ganises matches against other schoolsfor football and netball.
School Council
The school council is a group of children who have
been chosen by each class to help a lot with the school.
Once every half term, they meet with Mrs Boothby and
they think of lots of ideas to make our school more
happy and friendly. All of the councillors think of in-
credible ideas for the school like:
Wacky Hair Day to raise money for charity
Cookie Day to buy new playtime toys..and many more!
The school councillors are a really great help!
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AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS
Bickerton holds many after-school clubs. We will tell you
about them now!
FOOTBALL
Football is one of the most
popular sports in the school.
Mrs Parsons runs this club.
Mainly boys play, but also some
girls play as well. In training,
any one can play. Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils sometimes play
competitive games against
other schools.
CHOIR
Choir is a club in which pupils
learn songs with Mrs Tedham
and every year, they go to
Manchester and sing the songs at the Young Voices con-
cert in the MEN arena.
GYMNASTICS
Mr Sweetnam is the teacher of
gymnastics club. He teaches us
the 7 shapes and other amazing
things.
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ATHLETICS
Athletics is run by Mrs Parsons our P.E.
coach. We train hard to do well in compe-
titions and we have tons of trophies to
prove it!
NETBALL
Netball is also run by Mrs Par-
sons.They are doing really well
and have played in a netballtournament and some matches.
MULTI SKILLS
Multi skills is run by Mark Phil-
lips who comes in and teaches us P.E. We have loads of fun play-
ing games and its a good exercise!
BASKETBALL
Basketball is also run by Mark Phillips who teaches us new skills
about basketball and its really fun doing it.
MAGAZINE CLUB
People attend this club to
write articles about what
has happened at the
school for the school pap!
Its run by Mrs Boothby.
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School trips and residential visits
At Bickerton School we go on lots of school trips! All the day trips we go
on are related to our topics. So, for example, the infants may go to theBlue Planet Aquarium if they are learning about water, Wonderland if theyare doing Nursery Rhymes and Chester Zoo if their topic is Animals.The juniors go to places like Blists Hill, Speke Hall and Stapeley WaterGardens.
The juniors also go on residential visits. Class 3 go on a trip to DelamereForest and stay there for 2 nights and three days. They do lots of funthings in the wood, like den-building and orienteering. In Year 4 + 5, you
go on a canoe adventure for 2 days and they camp for a night. Its lots offun! In Year 6 you go to PGL. You stay in Herefordshire (3 hours away!)for three nights and four days doing things like abseiling, rock climbingand doing the challenge course (very muddy!). We sleep in dormitories inbunk beds and usually, we go with Malpas Alport Primary School.
All the school trips we go on are absolutely brilliant!
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niformOur school uniform is great! In the winter we wear a white shirt with our own spe-cial school tie which is navy blue with white stripes, and we can either wear a skirtwith tights or we can wear navy, black or grey trousers with black shoes.
In the summer, girls have the choice of either our blue school polo shirt or a blueand white checked summer dress. The girls wear the polo shirt with a skirt or trou-sers. The boys can also wear a polo shirt and trousers or shorts if they want. We cankeep our winter shoes on or we can wear summer sandals for a change! But if youdont want to wear your summer uniform you can always stay in your winter outfit.
So overall, our uniform is great and everyone loves to wear it!
Visitors to BickertonAt Bickerton, we always have a lot
of visitors who come to the school
and do exciting activities with us,
including art, drama, dance and sci-ence! Recently, we have done wil-
low-weaving with a lady who
helped us to make a squirrel called
Sammy! We have also had people
come in to do a play in a day, such
as Romeo and Juliet and A Mid-
summer Nights Dream.
Links with the church.We are a church school and every day, we have an assembly where we come togeth-
er, listen to stories, sing songs and say prayers. Our vicar Canon Davenport comes into
assembly on a Thursday and teaches us about God, sharing and giving.We also go to church to do an Easter service and at Christmas, there is a Chrisngle
service and another service where we sing Christmas carols outside the church!
Mothering Sunday is a great day to take your family to say thanks to your mum for
everything!
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The PTA stands for Parent Teacher Association. They raise money for our school byholding lots of fun events.
The Christmas fair is held at the start of December and it includes candyfloss and lotsof great stalls. It is really fun!Easter bingo is also a lot of fun and everyone enjoys it, even the teachers! You canalso win Easter eggs if you are lucky!The summer barbecue is when you can come and buy burgers and play games. Allthis happens after our Sports day.
The money they raise helps to buy new things for the school.
ParentsAt Bickerton, our parents are always very wel-
come in school. They can come in whenever theywant, to chat to the teachers, or just to see your
work. Some mums come in to help to hear read-
ers, or work with groups of children.
Once a year, we have Topic Display evening to
show our work throughout the year. Its not only
parents that are welcome, but anyone and every-
one can come to look at the great work weve put
all our effort into! We lay work on tables through
the whole school and some of our work will al-ready be on the walls of our classrooms. Its a re-
ally lovely evening
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BehaviourThe behaviour at Bickerton is very good. The
teachers have taught us well to have good be-
haviour and be polite to people around the
school. We treat people with respect and in the
way we want to be treated. We always listencarefully.
If a child has done something inappropriate or
bad the teachers have to have a word with them.
Most the time everyone is good and kind!
Geng on togetherEverybody in the school gets along well with each other, from the lile Recepons to
the big Year 6s. Its especially true in the lunch hall when the Year 6 girls oen get the
giggles and are a bit noisy! Then, as they get told to be quiet, the teachers burst out
with laughter and are 100% louder than us!At playmes, all you can see is happy faces smiling brightly and if one or two people
are crying it will be because they are hurt and their friends will be alongside them
helping out! Most of the girls sit around chang and nearly all of the boys play foot-
ball.Our school is a big happy family and we love it!
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Well heres what we all thinkI think Bickerton School is great because we have good equip-
ment.
I like Bickerton because there are no bullies and all the teach-
ers are really nice!
Bickerton is a great school because we have lots of different
activities and opportunities.
Bickerton is great because everyone is kind and we have a lotof room to play.
Everyone is friendly and helpful at Bickerton!
I like Bickerton because we always have lots of fun!
I love Bickerton because everyone always seems to be hap-
py!
At Bickerton, everyone is kind, loving and caring. When I
hurt myself, someone always comes to the rescue!
I love Bickerton because if I am sad, people cheer me up.
I like Bickerton because we have many lovely places to play
and hang out with our friends at break, like the nature area,
playground, field and climbing frame.
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I think our school is beautiful!
I love Bickerton because if youre sad, the teachers hug you and
make you glad!
I love Bickerton because everyone is so friendly and we always
help each other if we are hurt. The teachers are really kind too
and they always help us out in our work.
I like Bickerton because of all the sport we do!
I like Bickerton because there is freedom and it is deep in the
countryside.
I love going to Bickerton School because of all the teachers are
smiley and caring.
I love Bickerton because all my friends are really kind and the
teachers help you if you dont understand something.
Bickerton is a cheery place where I have lots of fun and play lots
of football!
I love Bickerton because everyone is kind and happy, the teach-
ers are fun and all the trips are cool!
I love Bickerton because when you arrive, you always feel safe
and at home.
I like coming to Bickerton School because the teachers are niceand treat you as they would treat their own child.
Hope you enjoyed reading our prospectus! Now you know allabout our school, we hope you love it as much as we do!
Class 5(Oct 2012)