We were invited to take part in a dance festival at Barnhill Community High. This was a great celebration of dance with performances from primary schools across the borough, focusing on the theme of British Values.
Years 5 and 6 worked extremely hard to learn their street dance choreography and performed their routine successfully. A big thank you and well done to Ms O’Connell and everyone involved.
Our school has joined the government’s National School Breakfast Programme ( NSBP), which is being delivered by the charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast.
As a NSBP school we are pleased to offer a healthy school breakfast, available to all at our Early Byrds Breakfast Club from 7:45am Monday - Friday.
For World Book Day this year the whole school got busy decorating their classroom doors based around a book of their choice.
All classes did a fantastic job and we were pleased to announce 4B as our competition winners; their door was based on Roald Dhal's famous book The BFG . Well done 4B!
Staff and children had fantastic day dressing up as their favourite book characters on World Book Day this year. Children engaged in various book-themed activities and enjoyed exciting story telling sessions across the school.
A big thank you to Asda who kindly donated a book to each class and to the team from Heathrow who joined in with the celebrations at William Byrd.
On Wednesday 6th March Year 6 children enjoyed a Maths Reasoning day. The day was packed with exciting and engaging activities involving real life scenarios, linked to reasoning skills.
There was a budget activity, where the children had to work out the cheapest deal for a year 6 trip. A fruit cocktail activity, linked to fractions and percentages. All the children really enjoyed making their cocktails and drinking their creations at the end of the activity.
In addition to this, children were measuring their heart rate before and after exercise, looking at the mean as an average. They compared results and created a table or suitable graph to show their findings.
There was also a gift bag activity related to fractions and percentages of amounts. Gift bags were made and will be delivered to catering and admin staff to show our appreciation as a Easter gift.
Finally, we had a circuit in the middle of the hall to explore the impact of exercise. This was a fun packed day and the children learnt a lot about reasoning in our world.
Year 6 finished the day of by completing reasoning questions in a fun activity. They used timers and a leader board to record the fastest time or response.
Thank you to the Year 6 team who organised a successful day that was enjoyed by all. We hope we can hold many more workshops like this in the future.
This term Hawks (Established in 1981, one of the largest and most successful BMX racing clubs in London) have started delivering BMX lessons across the school.
The children have really enjoyed the lessons and learnt some expert tips and tricks riding their BMX bikes. Below are some pictures of our Year 5 children in action.
Over the half term our playground has been transformed into a very vibrant and exciting space for children to play and develop their skills as well as encourage their social interaction.
This project has been made possible by funding from the Hillingdon Community Trust funded by Heathrow. Hillingdon Community trust is an independent grant making trust. It supports projects in the six southern wards of Hillingdon; Botwell, Heathrow Villages, Pinkwell, Townfield, Yiewsley and West Drayton and currently receives all of its funding from Heathrow Airport Limited.
We successfully placed a bid for £7500 which we combined with our own school fundraising to create this amazing play space for our children.
Many thanks to both HCT and our families. Our children are thrilled about their new playground and have been enjoying their playtimes to the fullest.
Our playground now has a; 12x12 Table Square, Maths Maze, Target Throw, Follow me Dance Routine, Fitness Adventure Trail, Phonics Pond, Four Square (ball game), Hopscotch and Mile of the Day marathon kids.
Nursery children had lots of fun making raspberry flapjacks on Valentine’s Day as part of their Healthy Cooking Week. The treats looked amazing and tasted delicious. During the week the children also learnt about healthy eating and made their very own healthy eating plates.
On Wednesday 13th February the whole school enjoyed Art Day. The focus of the day was British Values. Each year group created their masterpieces around their given British Value.
The whole school from Reception to Year 6 participated in a range of skills from drawing, chalk, painting, collage and 3D letters using coloured moss! Donated kindly by the Heathrow Community Fund.
We saw some amazing art across the school from our talented children. Everyone enjoyed the day and all the children got the chance to show off their creative skills and unique imaginations.
We have been very busy this week learning about the importance of E-Safety.
The whole school have learnt about how to keep themselves safe on-line, by having a specific E-Safety lesson every day.
Our Year 6 and some of Year 5 children enjoyed an E-Safety and Tolerance workshop from ‘Just Enough’. They learnt about E-Safety through engaging role play and how important it is to use your voice when it comes to keeping safe.
During the week we also invited parent/carers into school to talk about E-Safety and how to keep children safe on-line. Thank you to all the parents that attended. If you were unable to attend please click on the link below for the E-safety presentation.
We finished of the week with the Head and Deputy Boys and Girls delivering a fantastic E-Safety assembly to the whole school.
We have been lucky to have volunteers from Heathrow come into our school and listen to our children read once again this year.
This is an enjoyable experience for both our readers and the members of Heathrow. We would like to say a big thank you to Heathrow for their continuous support and dedication to our school.
We were pleased to hold two Year 6 SATs workshops for parents/carers on Monday 28th January. It was great to see so many parents/carers in both sessions who enjoyed a cup of tea and tackled Year 6 SATs questions. Our Year 6 children were amazing and helped our parents answer some tricky questions.
We hope you all found the workshop useful and it gave you a good insight to what the SATs expectations are and the types of questions children will be asked.
We understand this is an important time for Year 6 children and their families so please do not hesitate to contact the Year 6 team if you need further SATs support or advice.
