William Barcroft Junior School
'Success and happiness for every child'
We are very proud of our school, the children, staff and environment and of course the great support we receive from our parents.
For more information, please visit our full website by clicking here.
In a recent parent questionnaire, parents said the following:
99% of parents say their child is happy at William Barcroft Junior School
98% parents say the school have high expectations
99% of parents said their child does well at school
100% of parents say their child felt safe in our school.
Message from the Principal:
Good afternoon everyone,
It really does feel like summer term now that we have the sun shining for us, and it’s been lovely to see the children enjoying their outdoor sports and playing on the field in the sunshine at lunchtimes. We have lots to share this week as we’ve had cricket and football matches, violin performances and the much- awaited school maths challenge to name a few. A big well done to 4V on their maths victory! All four year groups have made me proud this week, with some fantastic contenders for our book of excellence. I’ve also been impressed with year 3 as they’ve all being diving into their salad tasting during their DT project, and with year 5 showing off their violin playing. Year 6 have been producing some fabulous writing, and year 4 have brought me some excellent food chains in science. Well done everyone!
I will also share with you some exciting news from the staff team this week; Miss Footitt will be getting married this weekend and so will be returning after the holidays as Mrs Newell! I’m sure you’ll join me in offering our congratulations and best wishes.
We return to school after the break on Monday 5 th June. Can I remind everyone of the Training Day which falls at the end of the second week back; Friday 16 th June as school will be closed for pupils on this day. There will of course be lots of events packed into our final half term so please keep an eye on the dates on the newsletters and the messages coming out with details as each event nears. Can I ask year 5 parents to look out for a letter coming home tonight with details of the year 5 sleepover.
Please enjoy looking at what the children have been learning and have a lovely half term
break everyone.
S Sargent
Principal
Take a look at what we have been up to...
YEAR 3
We have been working our socks off this week in a variety of exciting lessons. During literacy we have been finishing our writing draft about 'The Lion and The Butterfly". This is our own fable based on the plot of a lonely lion and a terrified butterfly who unexpectedly make friends.
We have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute and we can now read you what time it is! We have also discussed and practised using digital times so that we can read times on a range of devices. Please can you continue practising this with the children during the half term holidays so that they continue to make progress in this area.
This week we have been researching all about how to make the perfect salad during our DT sessions. We took some time to research pre-made salads, we tasted lots of delicious fresh produce and made our own party salad.
YEAR 4
We have been busy in Year 4! In art we have been studying the work of Andy Goldsworthy. After looking closely at his pieces, we had the chance to go outside and try to create some pieces for ourselves. We really enjoyed collecting various natural resources, focusing on colour and shape. In literacy, we have been planning and writing a 'Myths and Legends' story. We have really enjoyed creating our characters and settings for the Myth to take place!
In maths, we are beginning our unit on time. We are revising how to tell the time before moving on to being able to convert between analogue and digital. Our multiplication check is coming up in June so please keep encouraging your child to go on Rockstars!
YEAR 5
This week, year 5 have started a new Maths unit. They have been learning how to add and subtract decimals and find compliments to 1. In Literacy We've been writing persuasively. We have written a letter to presidents around the world to persuade them to stop whaling and argued the reasons against it. We have also done some diary writing as a character from our current book, The Lost Whale by Hannah Gold, and have really enjoyed it.
This week has also been science week for year 5. We have been learning bout sound and how we hear sound, how it travels, how pitch changes and even created our own enquiry question and investigation. In Art we have been looking at Ben Day Dots and have created our own art work in Liechtenstein's style.
YEAR 6
Our week began with Marvellous Monday, a fantastic treat to celebrate the children's efforts in SATs. The children enjoyed a range of activities that they'd chosen themselves: Just Dance, arts and crafts, football, board games, netball and the icecream man even paid them a visit in the afternoon on the field. The children enjoyed music, glitter painting and games - luckily the sunshine held out long enough for us! We've begun writing a non-chronological report on polar bears, inspired by our book The Last Bear! The children have worked really well and focused on their year 6 writing objectives and demonstrating rich vocabulary. In art week, we've delved deeper into sculpture and looked at famous sculptures such as the Angel of the North and Andy Warhol's 'Brillo Box'. We then designed our own sculpture and planned how to create this using a range of different materials and methods. We've also competed in 'maths challenge' focusing on measures - which class will win?
Y5 Musical performance
Year 5 children performed a short musical concert this afternoon for their parents.
They sang and played violins, showcasing what they have learned with Jo and Olivia Townell this year.
Maths Challenge
On Tuesday we held a whole school maths challenge based around the topic of measures. Traditionally, this has been an area of maths that has previously caused a few misconceptions for some of our children, however, we were amazed by how hard they worked and how much effort they had put into answering these questions. It was great to see the children working together as a team to tackle some tricky problems. The all important results were revealed in Wednesday's assembly with class 4V being the winners- huge congratulations to 4V!
The results for each round are published below:
Cricket Festival
23 pupils went to a cricket festival at Havelock Academy. This event enabled the pupils to practice key skills needed to play cricket. We started off with a warm up before going into a simple catching game in pairs. We then played a cricket race to practice running with a bat in hand. Most of us even beat Mr Dawes! After that, we then practiced batting the ball and learning how to hold a cricket bat correctly. We finished with a game of cricket where we applied all of our skills into the game. Massive thank you to Miss Phillips and Mr Dennett from Havelock Academy for the excellent session, we thoroughly enjoyed it.
William Barcroft v Woodlands Primary
On Wednesday, Woodlands Primary came across to William Barcroft to play a football friendly for both year 5/6 girls and boys. Both schools behaved impeccably and we can't wait to face each other again and possibly other schools in our Harbour Learning Trust family. Both games were 20 minutes long with a 5 minute half time break.
Girls Match: William Barcroft 2 v 1 Woodlands Primary
The Barcroft girls got off to a flying start curtesy of Alexise, who fired us in front after 4 minutes. Alexise had a few more shots but these were saved well by the Woodlands goalkeeper. We went into half time with a 1-0 lead. William Barcroft started the second half like the first with a smashing goal by Alexise (as seen in the photo). Woodlands applied the pressure on William Barcroft and this paid off as they pulled one back towards the end of the game. Paige had a great shot which had drifted wide. Lillie-Rose also had a shot which skimmed past the past. Alexise nearly grabbed a hat trick but her powerful shot also skimmed past the post. Great result for our girls as both teams played really well.
Boys Match: William Barcroft 4 v 1 Woodlands Primary
The Barcroft boys kicked off and for 7 minutes, both teams were unable to break each other down with Ethan and the Woodland's keeper making some great saves between them. Eventually, the deadlock was broken thanks to some great footwork from Louie who fired the ball low into the net. 2 minutes later, Robbie scored a fantastic goal of sheer quality with a beautiful volley fired into the roof of the net. William Barcroft went into half time 2-0 winners. William Barcroft were rampant and were looking for more goals. 2 minutes into the second half, a corner was fired in by Louie and Robbie got on the end of it to make it 3-0. A few more minutes later Tobias chased down a loose ball and collided with the Woodland's keeper to make it 4-0. Both boys went in fairly but the Woodland's keeper chose to go off after the collision, due to injury. A minute after kicking off Woodlands pulled one back but it proved only to be a consolation goal. A dominant display from the boys who looked like a different team to the one that drew 2-2 with Woodlands in January.
A massive thank you to Mr Bowden and Woodlands Primary for coming over, it was a pleasure to have you all with us and enjoy a fun afternoon. Such a rewarding treat after SATs. Well done to everyone that played today, you all did fantastically well and yet again have made Mr Dawes very proud!
Community Spirit
These two brothers have been making us super proud whilst out in the community!
Well done boys!
#wbjsinthecommunity
@WBJJuniorSchool
@HarbourLearning
Stars of the Week
This week's stars have been working extra hard in school and have impressed their teachers. Well done everyone! Scroll through the images on the left to see who has received the well deserved golden stars this week.
#wbjspraiseculture
@WBJJuniorSchool
@HarbourLearning
Attendance and Punctuality
Does 5 minutes late really matter?
5 minutes late every day = 3 days lost over a year
10 minutes late every day = 6.5 days lost over a year
15 minutes late every day = 10 days lost over a year
20 minutes late every day = 13 days lost over a year
Registration at William Barcroft Junior School is 8.50am, and we will be allowing children in from 8.40am for some warm up activities. Please do not leave your children on the playground unattended before 08:40am. Doors close at 08:50am. Our finish time is 3.05pm for all pupils.
Reminder to all parents/carers that penalties and fines may be issued for any unauthorised holidays taken during term time or persistent absences.
We have many incentives for your children regarding attendance at our school-ask your child about our 100% attendance trolley!
Please contact the school office if you have any questions. Thank you.
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Can you take photographs in school?
Please ensure if you do take a photograph of your child on school site, that this is ONLY when you are told to do so by a member of staff.
For example: After our Star of The Week assemblies.
General Information
We have a new information rack in our school office with helpful information and advice for our parents.
At William Barcroft Junior School we pride ourselves on having high expectations about the school uniform. Recently we have noticed that a number of children have not been wearing appropriate school shoes. If your child arrives at school without the correct footwear they will be provided with a pair of plimsolls to wear for the day. Thank you in advance for your support
Uniform Direct are our uniform provider for our school and provide a wide range of William Barcroft Junior School uniform available to purchase from the Grimsby store, at 54 Victoria Street (opposite Marks and Spencer Food Hall).
Please do not ride bikes and scooters on the school grounds, this is for children and adults. This is for the safety of our children, thank you.
PE kit MUST be brought to school on your child's PE days,
Year 3 will have PE Wednesday and Friday
Year 4 will have PE Monday and Thursday
Year 5 will have PE Wednesday and Friday
Year 6 will have PE Monday and Tuesday
Summer Term
Monday 5th June-School Re-Opens
Wednesday 7th June - Mini Police awards
Friday 9th June - Class Photo Day
Friday 16th June - School closed for pupils. Staff training day.
W/B 19th June - Y3/4 test week
Friday 23rd June - Y5 Sleepover (details to follow!)
W/B 26th June - Y5 test week
Monday 26th June - Y4 Learning Showcase AM, Y5/6 Sports day PM
Tuesday 27th June - Y5 Learning showcase AM, Y3/4 Sports Day PM
Wednesday 28th June - Y6 Learning showcase AM, 4S Farm visit
Thursday 29th June - Y3 Learning showcase AM, 4BL Farm visit
Friday 30th June - Talent Showcase
W/B 3rd July-Annual Reports out
Tuesday 4th July - 4V Farm visit, Y5 Taster day at Havelock
Wednesday 5th July - Harbour Learning Trust Team Building event
Thursday 6th July - Singing festival
4th/5th/6th July-Toll Bar and Cleethorpes Academy Transition for Y6
Thursday 6th July - Beacon, & Havelock transition day for Y6
Friday 7th July - Beacon & Havelock transition day for Y6
Monday 10th July - Y6 Beach trip
Tuesday 11th July - Y6 Results day
Wednesday 12th-Friday 14th July - Y6 Back to Bear Residential
Monday 17th July - Attendance Treat Trip
Tuesday 18th July - Behaviour Treat Trips, Harbour Learning Trust Talent Event, Y5 trip to Havelock to watch Annie production.
Wednesday 19th July - Production Performances to parents 2pm and 4pm
Thursday 20th July - Y6 Party
Friday 21st July - Y6 Leavers' assembly
Friday 21st July 2023-Break up for Summer Holidays, End of summer term 2pm finish.
Compass Go came into school to deliver an assembly for all of our children on Monday 15th May.
This was part of Mental Health Awareness week regarding anxiety. Looking at tips and strategies to help.
Anxiety is a normal emotion. It is your body's defence system trying to tell you that it feels like you are facing a threat.
If you feel like you or a child need any support with your mental health please speak to a member of our staff.
Thank you.
Follow this link to visit the safeguarding section of our website, and for a copy of our Safeguarding and Child Protection policy. https://wba.harbourlearningtrust.com/our-academy/safeguarding/
Please see below message from the Humberside and Fire and Rescue Service:
As the late Bank Holiday approaches, with the potential of hotter days the appetite to cool off in open water increases. This is a significant risk whilst the weather is so hot
We are therefore asking for your support.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could stress to your children and young people about the dangers of playing and swimming in open water for example; cold water shock, underwater obstacles and transition of waterborne diseases.
Take a look at the video
(right click and select “open hyperlink” and the video will start playing –if you wish you can then select “skip adverts” to go directly to the video)
Further safety information can be found on our website via the link below
https://humbersidefire.sharepoint.com/sites/PreventionProtectionHub2
Online Identity
Who we are in the real world is not always who we are online, but our online identity is important for a multitude of different reasons, e.g. risk management, employment. Internet Matters and Dr. Linda Papadopoulos have a series of 6 short videos plus some guides which discuss the pressures that children face online and developing their online identity. You can find the resources HERE.
https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/online-identity-series/
Cyber Security
The security of our devices and data cannot be under-estimated. With hacking, identity theft, impersonation, fraud and scams all on the increase it is important that everybody has an awareness of cyber security. Internet Matters have a great article with lots of advice and guidance around a range of cyber security topics for parents/carers and their children including phishing, doxxing, cryptojacking and much more, all in a non-techie easy-to-understand format
https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/what-is-cybersecurity/
ChatGPT
Childnet have put together an informative blog for parents/carers to explain AI and ChatGPT, what it can/can't do and importantly, the safety considerations. You can find the blog HERE.
https://www.childnet.com/blog/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-chatgpt-a-guide-for-parents-and-carers/
Supporting Children with Care Experience
Internet Matters have a range of great material to support parents/carers of children with care experience including guides and videos. You can find all the resources HERE.
SENDIASS
SENDIASS provide support for SEND, across education, health and social care.
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Contact SENDIASS:
Call- 01472 326363
Email- ask@nelsendiass.org.uk
SENDIASS website
Healthy Parent Carers
Improving parent carers’ health and wellbeing.
Healthy Parent Carers is a 12 week, group based, online programme. Sessions are two hours.
It is created by and delivered by parent carers.
Courses start in April and May 2023.
To book your place email communityofexperience@kids.org.uk or phone 01482 467540.
NELPCF
NELPCF is a brand new opportunity for having your say and bringing about change and improvement for children and young people with SEND. Led by parents, for parents, passionate about making a difference, we aim to make the voices of parents just like us, heard, right where it matters.
Visit the NELPCF website - external site
Free workshop for parent carers
Book your place on the free support for parents of children with anxiety workshop.
The workshop will cover:
What is Anxiety
What are the signs of Anxiety and how it can make you feel
What are the causes of Anxiety
Different types of Anxiety
Strategies to help recognise and manage anxiety.
Book your place: Support for Parents of Children with Anxiety – North East Lincolnshire Tickets, Tue 20 Jun 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite - external site
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