Current affairs at school

22nd April	Building Learning Power. We are hosting a focus evening on Tuesday 22nd April at Beckington Memorial Hall at 7.30 pm. Entry is free however places on the seminar are limited so if you would like to attend, please call the school to check availablility.
20th Mar	Spring term Springmead Sports newsletter
17th Mar	Our campaign to raise £1500 to commission two large, trompe l’oeil paintings in the children’s treatment room and in the x-ray department at the new Frome hospital is now well under-way! Funky Footwear raised £177.16; the teachers/pupil netball match raised £77; Hilarious Headware raised £196.84; the Swell Swimming Session raised £134.40; World Book day raised 185.53; however Gunk the Teacher was by far the most popular event with £230.90 collected. Poor, poor Mr Munckton! The individual class fund raising events have been underway this week and we hope that the £1500 target will be within sight.
8th Mar	The Springmead Choir performed brilliantly at Salisbury's Young Peoples Festival. Performing 'Roller Ghoster' and 'Building' the judge said 'they clearly enjoyed singing this'. in awarding the choir a distinction, he indicated it was an excellent performance, demonstrating a high level of technical mastery and artistic understanding.
14th Dec	Autumn term Springmead Sports newsletter
7th Jul	Amy James wins the Frome Festival's Children's Poetry Competition with an entry that contains a message to us all. Click to read 'Monsters'.
10th Jul	Summer House produced a fantastic performance to win the Sports Day House Trophy. Events were spread across the day with the majority of field events performed in the morning. In their respective years groups, for Summer House: Lucy Hubbart, Zee Thompson and Edward Matthews won the Standing Long Jump; Dodi Swan-Capper won the Vertical Jump, Madeleine Matthews won the 3 Spring Jump, Hop Step Jump and Javelin; Cally Webster won the Standing Long Jump. Huge enthusiasm was generated by pupils and staff watching the Nursery obsticle race. The afternoon's events were dominated by the track with Summer House winners: Emily McCann, Mia Quick, Kara Hughes, Jason Hughes and Madeleine Matthews all combining to help their house win the Trophy for the first time. Jack Robertson was awarded Champion Boy and Holly Parker retained her position as Champion Girl. Click here for images of the day. Click for 2007 track results and 2007 field results. Also available are the Springmead all time sporting records.
9th Jun	Beckington Village Day saw the Springmead Country Dancers in action. Having enjoyed a dance extra-mural club over the Spring term the performers were ready to show off their dance routines and new costumes.
7th Jun	The inter-house swimming gala was hotly contested with some stunning individual performances. Jemima Baughan, Martha Bott, Alex Kamaker and Charlie Herd winning the 5m kicking races. Jemima and Charlie also led the way with great distance on their push and glides. Autumn house led the contest after the small pool races. The 10 metre races were dominated by the Summer house swimmers: Edward Matthews; Jason and Kara Hughes and Dodi Swan-Capper. The 25 metre sprints produced qualifying times for the ASA School Speed Awards for: Holly Parker; Libby Batham; Zac Welsh and George Clayton. Autumn continued in their winning vein in the main pool to take the Alex Beardsley Memorial Trophy. View house gala results here.
23rd Apr	Charity Week has raised an enormous £1568.05 for Mercy In Action. They are sending a representative to talk to the children on how the money will be spent in the Philippines. Well done to pupils, parents and staff!
23rd Mar	The children’s School Council has been busy over the last term and is having a positive influence in different areas of school life. Over the last few weeks they have instigated a playground equipment rota and they are now conducting a survey of the favourite food choices. They will then be looking to work with Mrs Martin to discuss their findings and their suggestions.
7th July	Amy James wins the Frome Festival's Childrens Poetry Competition with an entry that provides a message to us all. Click to read Amy's poem Monsters.
8th Mar	The Year 6 children have come back to school with exciting stories of their trip to France which included time in a French bakery, a visit to a sea life centre, shopping at a French market and an obligatory midnight feast. Their work and photographs will be on display in the dining hall next term for you all to enjoy!
5th Dec	Nikki Honore, a licensed Brain Gym instructor provided a seminar on how Brian Gym makes learning easier for your child with a series of safe, enjoyable, natural movements that prepares the body and brain for learning.
14th Nov	The Maths is Magic parent focus evening led by our Maths subject leaders Myra Wilson and Sally Cox, looked at how maths is taught in primary schools. The suggestions and stratagies on how to make maths fun at home were provided. Try the following child focused webstes: www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths www.funbrain.com www.mathplayground.com www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/
Tue 11th Jul	The beautiful weather crowned the Springmead Sports day. Parents enjoyed a glass of Pimms whilst Springmead pupils tried their very hardest in the track and field events. School houses Autumn and Winter tied as winners for the House Sports Day Trophy. House captains Emily Hotson and James Arbury were presented with the trophy from Mr Munckton. Felix Freeston was awarded champion boy with wins in various tracks events and jump events. Holly Parker was champion girl with wins on the track, jumping and the javelin. Click for 2006 track results, 2006 field results. Images of the day are here.
Thur 6th - Fri 7th Jul	Robin Hood production. The dvd of your child's performance is available from Carolyn Fraser for £10.
Mon 26th Jun	Africa Day - mufti day.  The pupils raised a fantastic amount of £163.50 for the Educating Kenyan Orphans appeal.  During the day pupils enjoyed many African activities such as jewellery and mask making, drawing African objects, African poetry and then Grace Fay made Mandazi doughnuts for everyone.
Fri 9th to Sun 11th Jun	Over 50 headed to Budleigh Salterton for the school camping weekend. The weather was beautiful and much time was spent on Exmouth beach playing soccer, swimming, crabbing building sand castles. With England's opening World Cup qualifier against Paraguay on the Saturday afternoon many of us, in fact it seemed that most of us, crammed into the Finch's spacious tent to watch the game of a widescreen TV. ...and you thought the players looked hot and tired!
Thur 8th Jun	Very well done to Autumn house for winning the inter-house swimming gala! A well fought competition with races in the trainer pool and widths and lengths of the main pool. Libby Batham, Roxy Welsh and Daisy Swan-Capper broke the school girls Backcrawl, Breastroke and Frontcrawl records respectively. View house gala results here.
Mon 15th May	Bazuka Primary School Championships. Springmead faired well at the recent South West regional primary school championship. Although it was the first time the school had entered a team into the competition, our swimming team, James Arbury, Zac Welsh, Holly Parker, Daisy Swan-Capper and Roxy Welsh reduced our expected times for the freestyle relay and the mixed stroke relay by a full 5 seconds, well done team! The full results can be seen at the English School Swimming Association web site. The south west region is division 5.