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Spanish Curriculum Evening

It was great to see so many of you showing your support at our Spanish Curriculum evening.  We had dancing, art, writing, cookery, music, and much more – all influenced by the Spanish culture. One of the main stars of the show was the tasty tapas, kindly cooked for us by our own Mrs Pitcher.
We are sure you’ll all agree it was a great evening, which gave you a small taste of Spain at Bowmansgreen.
 
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Author, Reader and Mathematician of the Week

Congratulations to:
 
Author of the week:
KS1 – Abigail – 1H
KS2 – Lewis – 5CW
 
Reader of the week:
KS1 – Indy – Rec JD
KS2 – Kaleb – 6HW
 
Mathematician of the week:
KS1 – Leo – 2BC
KS2 – Micah – 3D

Sports News from Mr Sanders 16.03.18

Girls A v Garden Fields
The Girls A team went out of the St Albans Cup on Friday, losing 1-0 against Garden Fields in a very tight match. The only real chance for Garden Fields during the first half was taken well by the centre forward and whenever Bowmansgreen got within range of the goal, their shots were either blocked or saved by the keeper. The second half was one way traffic as the Bowmansgreen girls pushed hard for the equaliser and created several chances which again were either blocked or saved. It was a good team performance despite the score, especially as Lily was missing due to injury, which was a huge loss for the team. It did mean that Jacey got her debut for the A team, coming in to deputise really well.
The final score was 1-0 to Garden Fields but encouraging in terms of performance for the girls who now have a chance to hopefully win the league next week when they travel to play St Peters.
Squad – Emily, Kyeesha, Lucy, Sofia, Marilena, Laila, Lacie and Jacey.
Quick Sticks Hockey scores from the Tournament today.
Bowmansgreen 1 scores from the Quick Sticks Hockey
0-0 St John Fisher
0-0 Cunningham Hill
1-3 Sauncey Wood
0-3 Wood End
1-1 St Dominic’s
2-1 Prae Wood
2-0 Crabtree
2-0 Kings
0-1 The Grove
0-2 Killigrew
Bowmansgreen 2 scores from the Quick Sticks Hockey
1-4 The Grove
6-0 Killigrew
1-1 How Wood
2-0 Markyate
0-1 Cunningham Hill
3-0 Prae Wood
2-0 Wheatfields
0-8 Crabtree
0-2 St Dominic’s
4-1 Windermere
Squads from – Taye, Adam, Dylan, Zak, Jack, Owen, Evan, Kyeesha, Anisa, Emily, Lily, Natasha & Marilena.
 

Breakfast Club News from Mrs Stanley – 16.03.18

Looking forward to Easter, we have started our Easter Egg competition with every child who attends Breakfast Club can enter! Our Spanish Breakfast this morning was popular with Spanish dancing afterwards. With the chicks due to hatch next week we will be very busy feeding everyone.
Remember we open at 7.30am and the last breakfast is served at 8.10am. We welcome all children. Any questions please speak to Mrs Stanley.

KS2 School Lunches

HCL are increasing the cost of a school lunch.
From 1st April a school lunch will increase to £2.45 each day.

Lambing

Lambing
On Tuesday, class 6G went on a school trip to Willows Activities Farm and learnt all about lambing! Did you know, lambs that can’t be fed by their mothers have to be bottle fed up to 7 times a day?
Parents
A female sheep is called a ewe and a male sheep is called a ram. If a lamb is a male, it will be called a ram lamb, and if it is a female lamb, then it will be called a ewe lamb. A cade is a baby lamb that is either an orphan or a triplet.  If a ewe only gives birth to a single, and another gives birth to triplets, the workers will  try to get the single’s mother to accept one of the triplets by rubbing it against the ewe after its birth; this way, it results in the lamb smelling like the parent (which is how they recognise their children).  If a lamb tries to suck from a ewe’s udder, but the ewe is not its mother, then the lamb will start to call for its parents.
Once a lamb is born, the workers will hang it upside down, so that all the fluid inside of it will come out.  It is also important that the lamb comes out head first, otherwise it might get stuck if coming out backwards and will try to catch air but will sadly suffocate. So if it does come out backwards, the workers have to pull it out as fast as possible.  Once a lamb is born, the workers will put a rubber band around its tail so that it will eventually fall off. They do this because in the summer time, when they play on the grass, faeces can get on the end of their tales which could potentially attract flies and disease.  So, they put rubber bands around the end of the tail , so after a few weeks, it will fall off.
Markings
When ewes are pregnant, they get different types of markings in different types of colours on their backs; depending on how many lambs they are having.  An orange spot on their behind signals that they are having triplets.  If the ewe is having twins, then there will be an orange spot on the shoulders.  Finally, if a ewe is having one single lamb, then they will have a blue spot on their backs.  They are labelled 1 to 100.  Lambs are labelled the same number as their mothers.
Did you know a ewe is pregnant for five months?
 
The pregnancy process
During the process of the ewe’s pregnancy, it will go through some strange side-effects.  One of the tell-tale signs of pregnancy is that it will start to make space in the hay with their hooves to make a nest-like space for them to quietly sit down away from all the other ewes and lambs.
We hope you have now learnt a lot about how lambs are born!
 
By Isabella and Megan  in 6G.
 
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Parent Workshops

This term’s parent workshops take place on the dates shown below.  All parents are welcome and are encouraged to come along if you can.
Tuesday 27th March – Esafety

Early Years News from Miss Robbins – 16.03.18

This week
We have been finding out lots of things about Spain. We have learnt some Spanish words and have been trying to use them throughout the day. We listened to some Spanish music and Mrs Flatt taught us a Spanish song. We watched a flamenco dancer and made some paper fans. We learnt all about the Spanish architect ‘Gaudi’ and looked at some of his work around the city of Barcelona. We had a go at making mosaic lizards like the one he made for the park in the city and we even designed and use the big building bricks to make a famous Spanish church. We cooked and tasted Spanish food… omelettes and the yummy churros! It was lovely to see you last night at our curriculum evening and hope you enjoyed looking at our wonderful work.
Next week
Next week we will be starting our work to do with Easter. We will be finding out and about how Christians celebrate Easter. We will be making our own books about things that we are interested in and reading them to the adults and our friends in the class. In maths we will be learning about problem solving.
Eggs
For one of the activities we are doing next week we would be grateful if you could send your child in with a hardboiled egg (or 2!). Thank you.
Workshop
After Easter we will be holding a Reception reading and writing workshop with practical ideas to help you help your child with these subjects at home. I will be sending out a letter about this shortly. For one of the activities we require empty ‘Pringles’ tubes (large). If you have any we would be grateful if you could send them in.

Careers Week

The children have had an enjoyable week learning about all the different careers that are available to them. We have had visitors from finance, insurance, medicine, TV production, a chef, police and fire services, sales, sports, travel, IT, a mechanic, an ex footballer and even a shepherd!
We hope the children came home talking about their visitors. We had great feedback from all the visitors who said the children had listened well and had asked them some great questions. Thank you very much to all the parents/carers who gave their time to make the week so amazing!
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The week finished today with the children dressing up as their future selves in their desired careers.
 
 
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World Book Day

Last Thursday was World Book Day. The children enjoyed an assembly from Paul Stickland and then he took workshops with KS1.
We had some great costumes on Thursday as the children dressed up as characters from their favourite books.
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