A Special Video from the Staff at William Byrd
Published 15/05/20
Staff at William Byrd created a special video for parents and children during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Read MoreVE Day
Published 10/05/20VE Day or 'Victory in Europe Day' marks the day towards the end of World War Two (WW2) when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end.
In honour of VE Day this year our children at school created paintings to celebrate the 75th anniversary. The children created an aeroplane stencil and then used sponges to paint around the aeroplane to create a cloud like texture using the colours red, blue and white of the Union Jack.
Read MoreSports Relief
Published 13/03/20Children and staff came to school dressed in their sports clothes to help raise money for Sports Relief on Friday 13th March . Throughout the week children played many games including: Bean bag toss into hoops, skipping rope challenge, fitness circuit, javelin, shot putt, discus throw, penalty shoot-out, hockey, football, basketball, bowling challenge, noughts and crosses and capture the flag.
During the daily mile time slots all classes took part in the whole school challenge of completing 236 laps of the playground as a class. Class teachers recorded how many laps their class completed and the class with the most laps received a prize.
Read MoreYear 1 Visit the Magical Toy Museum
Published 09/03/20A facilitator from the Fresh Water Theatre visited our Year 1 children on Monday 9th March to give the children a history lesson all about toys of the past and present.
Read MoreScience Week
Published 09/03/20William Byrd really enjoyed science week! We had a range of experiments taking place within the school from planting seeds in different environments, learning about insulators and conductors and animals that camouflage just to name a few. All our mini scientists were able to make predictions, observations and explain why some things occur as well as talk about changes.
Read MoreThe Riot Act Safety Workshop
Published 06/03/20The Riot Act Theatre Company visited school on Friday 6th March to perform "Death at the Bus Stop"
The theatre company delivered important educational messages to the pupils through their performance.
The project taught the children key transitional road safety skills, enabling them to become safe and sustainable travellers, raising awareness of:
➢ The importance of good road safety skills around roads and buses
➢ Highlighting distractions such as phones, friends and peer influence
➢ Motivating students to identify acceptable and unacceptable behaviour around roads
Each child filled in their own incident report and examined an accident scene in which a young person has been hit by a car after getting off a bus. Using live drama, multi-media and an interactive set the children listened to witness statements, looked for clues and questioned key characters to find out what happened and how it could’ve been avoided.
Read MoreWorld Book Day
Published 05/03/20We celebrated World Book Day with style this year; the whole school including the staff got dressed up in their favourite book characters and everyone looked great!
Read MoreYear 6 SATs Workshop & Support
Published 26/02/20We were pleased to hold two Year 6 SATs workshops for parents/carers on Wednesday 26th February. It was great to see so many parents/carers in both sessions. We hope you all found the workshop useful and it gave you a good insight to what the SATs expectations are, the types of questions children will be asked and how you can support your child at home.
Read MoreNursery Planting Daffodils
Published 24/02/20Sounds of happy and excited children came from our Nursery garden as our children got busy preparing for Mothers Day by planting daffodil bulbs. Over the coming weeks children will be able to see where flowers come from and watch them grow.
Read MoreDesign Technology Day
Published 12/02/20It was Design Technology Day on Wednesday 12th February and the whole school was busy planning, executing and then making their Design Technology masterpieces.
Read MoreWilliam Byrd Singing on Good Deeds Day
Published 11/02/20Good Deeds Day is a day of mass student volunteering where hundreds of students from Brunel University London and Uxbridge College perform numerous ‘good deeds’ in the Pavilions Uxbridge, INTU Uxbridge and Uxbridge Town Centre/surrounding areas.
The students give their time to the local community and raise funds for the Mayor of Hillingdon's Charitable Trust.
Read MoreE-Safety Week
Published 10/02/20We were very busy learning about the importance of E-Safety between Monday 10th February and Friday 14th February.
The whole school learnt about how to keep themselves safe on-line, by having a specific E-Safety lesson every day.
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.
Please click on the links below to learn more about E-Safety.
USEFUL E-SAFETY LINKS
Think You Know - Education Programme From NCA-CEOP
https://www.thinkuknow.co.ukHot Topics For Parents - Key Digital Issues
https://www.childnet.comKeeping Your Child Safe Online
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/