Bedonwell Infant & Nursery School

and

Bedonwell Junior School

Merry Christmas!

All of the staff at Bedonwell would like to wish all of our parents and children a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we are really looking forward to seeing you all in the New Year!

Children in Need

Bedonwell took part in Children In Need Day. Children could dress up in yellow, something spotty or in Pudsey outfits. We had competitions throughout the day which helped raise money for Children In Need.

Bexley School Games

Year 3 attended a Major League Baseball LSEAT event with Belmont School. All the children showed our school games values of respect and teamwork - well done!

Also four of our Year 4 pupils took part in the Bexley School Games Badminton Festival. They had a great afternoon and really enjoyed playing badminton.

Year 3 Design Technology - CUSHION making

Year 3 have been busy designing and making their own cushions. They used their sewing skills to help create their cushions and they also designed their own design to go on the front.

Roots To Food workshop

Year 5 had a Roots To Food workshop organised by our kitchen staff this term. The children got to follow a recipe and ended up making a delicious curry, we definitely have some future chefs in our Year 5 cohort!

Year 2 visit to St-Andrews Parish Church

Year 2 had a very exciting trip this term. They visited St Andrews Parish Church and got to meet our local Reverend Sulaiman Shazard. They learnt a lot about the church, listened to a sermon and even got to dress in some of the ceremonial robes - they had a wonderful morning.

Santa Dash

On Friday the 6th December the whole school took part in the daily mile Santa Run! Children completed their daily mile dressed in festive outfits!

Amazing WRITING

Two boys in Year 5 have been working hard in their writing this term. Out of school they have written their very own scary story which has now been published into a book. They have worked really hard and have written fantastic scary stories.

Year 1 Christmas performance

Year 1 had three performances of 'The Magical Christmas Journey’. The children all played their parts brilliantly, they sang their songs wonderfully and said their lines very clearly and loudly. The audiences for all three shows really enjoyed the terrific performances.

FOBS

This start to the academic year has been epic!

So far we have held two discos - Years 3 & 4.

We saw some crazy hair styles on our fundraising day!

We had a really successful fireworks night raising just over a whopping £4000 for the school.

Elfridges was popular and lots of children visited and bought gifts for their loved ones for Christmas. And we rounded up the term with our Winter Fair!

Thank you to everyone that has supported us this year, particularly to our new volunteers that joined to help. A special thanks to all members of staff that helped at the fireworks and Winter Fair and enabled us to be able to run these events.

We wish you all a peaceful break and look forward to seeing all the children at our events in the New Year!

FOBS committee

Year 6 Christmas Carols at St Andrews Church

Year 6 had their Christmas Carol service at St Andrews Parish Church in December. Each Year 6 class sang some festive carols to their parents as well as learning all about the story of Christmas.

Christmas Carols in school

Nursey, Reception, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 all sang some wonderful carols in school to their parents. They all sang beautifully with some carols performances including the use of sign language alongside the singing.

Christmas Dinner and Jumper day

All the children and adults got to wear their Christmas jumpers on Christmas dinner day. The children loved wearing their santa hats and the Christmas dinner was wonderful.

Santa visited the School

On the last day of term Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 had a very special visitor come round to deliver them some very special class presents!

Rocksteady performances

We had a brilliant treat at the end of this term. Our Rocksteady children gave the school and parents a terrific show of all the instruments they have been playing throughout the term. The performances were amazing.

Always Award

Every week, children who follow our Golden Values in Bedonwell are chosen for the 'Always Award.' The children who receive the award have really impressed their class teacher by showing many or all of our seven Golden Values which are:

Manners, Respect, Teamwork, Stickability, Honesty, Kindness, Calmness.

They can be awarded the 'Always Award' four times throughout the year starting with the Bronze Always Award, then Silver Always Award, then Gold Aways Award and building up to the Platinum Always Award.

Check out some of the children who have achieved the awards below:

Girls Football

The Girls football team started their football league campaign with a loss and then a 2-0 victory. The girls played excellently in their first games together for the school showing great teamwork and resilience. Well done Girls!

Boys football

The Year 6 boys football teams have had a busy half term.

The A team played and won their first league game at Bexleyheath Goals against Royal Park Primary School 8-2! They all played brilliantly and were worthy winners of the game. They will play their next league game in the new year.

The B team represented the school at the Xmas cup competition having won their qualifying game previously, they played against 7 other Bexley finalists and all played brilliantly winning 2 of their 4 games and finishing the competiton 4th out of the 8 teams. Well played boys!

Calendar dates

Diary dates:

Wednesday 18th December – flu nurses catch-up session

Friday 20th December – class parties and last day of term

Monday 6th January – Inset day school closed to pupils

Tuesday 7th January – all pupils back to school

Tuesday 21st January – Year 5 FOBS Disco

Thursday 23rd January – Arctic class assembly 9:10am

Thursday 30th January – Caspian class assembly 9:10am

Thursday 6th February – Pacific class assembly 9:10am

Thursday 13th February – Atlantic class assembly 9:10am

Friday 14th February – last day of half term

Monday 24th February – all pupils back to school

Tuesday 25th February – Year 6 FOBS Disco

Thursday 13th March – Kalahari class assembly 9:15am

Friday 14th March – Mercury class assembly 9:10am

Thursday 20th March – Sahara class assembly 9:15am

Thursday 27th March – Mojave class assembly 9:15am

Friday 28th March – Saturn class assembly 9:10am

Thursday 3rd April – Colorado class assembly 9:15am

Friday 4th April – last day of term

Safeguarding at Bedonwell

School uniform

Please ensure your child is wearing the correct school uniform, please read through the guidance below to see what our uniform expectations are and also see where this can be bought from.

Please see the guidance for school uniform below:

Grey sweatshirt (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Grey sweat cardigan (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Sky blue polo shirt (preferably with the school logo or otherwise plain)
Grey tailored trousers or grey tailored shorts
Grey skirt
Grey pinafore dress
Light blue & white checked dress (summer)
Navy blue, black or grey tights or white socks
Hair bands (small) in school colours only (grey, white or sky blue)
Where hijabs are worn they must be in the school colours of either blue, white or grey.
Pupils should at all times have suitable coats for outdoor wear, to cater for changeable weather.
Footwear must be plain black shoes or trainers.

Children wear their PE kit for the whole school day on the day of their PE lesson (you will be notified which day/s these are). This enables pupils not only to receive maximum learning time for their PE lessons, but also a reduces PE clothing being lost/misplaced.

PE kit expectations are:

Plain T-shirt in their ‘house colour’
Grey school jumper (plain- no branded clothing)
Grey shorts, grey tracksuit joggers or grey leggings (plain-no branded clothing).
Plain black trainers.

The children will be expected to wear their grey school jumper or grey sweatshirt with grey shorts, joggers or leggings and will therefore remain in school colours on their PE day.

It is also essential that trainers worn on PE days are plain black as this will ensure consistency across the school with our uniform expectations.

All uniform mentioned above can be found at Caseys Schoolwear. A link to their website can be found below:

Caseys Schoolwear webpage

X (Twitter)

Bedonwell has our own X (Twitter) page, this page is updated on a regular basis with a range of different events, activities and amazing work the children produce every day! If you have X (Twitter), please give us a follow and like and retweet the posts on our wall.

The link to our X page is below:

Bedonwell X page