Weekly School Newsletter
Notes from the Music Room 8
Notes from the Music Room 8
Sorry this should have been posted last week, 11.11.21
This week (8 -12 November) the music room has been focusing on Christmas! With Mrs. Kessel-Fell classes are learning their songs for the Christingle service on 7th December to make sure everyone is in fine voice to be heard around the school grounds. Choir are continuing to learn a range of songs and have started a new song, well done everyone!
Mrs. Roberson enjoyed hearing the pbuzz and recorders all learning Jingle Bells. All instrumentalists are sounding great and hopefully you’ve enjoyed hearing your children playing the pbuzz at home too! Music Community Group started a Christmas piece this week, they sightread Carol Of The Bells brilliantly before playing through the other pieces that they’ve learnt. Great work everyone!
The Bomere Beagle – Issue 1
Hi everyone! I am proud to publish my Newshound Club’s first issue of their school newspaper – The Bomere Beagle.
A dedicated group of Year 5 and 6 pupils have been working hard to explore and write news stories about our school. They will publish the newspaper every few weeks throughout the year.
We hope you enjoy reading it and if you have a story for them, please let us know!
Mr Field
Reading Challenge
Today we are launching our ‘Reading Challenge’ and this time we have linked your child’s reading to several journeys around the world.
It’s not that easy to travel at the moment but we are thinking about people all over the world. Why not read your way around the world with the Reading Miles Global Challenge.
Collect 500 reading miles for every 30 minutes you spend reading, with a parent, carer, or your brother or sister. You could even video call your relatives and read aloud to them. You just need a signature, amount of time read and time you read at. Collect reading miles in a special reading passport on your very own reading world tour – a whopping 33,000 miles in total! Reading counts between 8am and 7pm.
The challenge is split into seven journeys, each of which finishes in a ‘checkpoint city’.
The following resources are available to download and print off to enable you to take part in the challenge.
• A wall map of the world charting the Reading Miles Global Challenge route
• A passport to record the reading
• A certificate for when you complete the challenge
• Postcards which you can complete when you reach checkpoint cities.
• All children that complete the each journey challenge will have their names entered into the draw to win the reading challenge box of goodies. Complete all 7 journeys and you will have 7 entries, so a much better chance of winning.
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The passport will be kept in school and updated by the class teacher.
We hope you will enjoy and support us with this reading challenge.
Kind regards,
Mrs Sallie Roberts – Deputy Headteacher
Values Homework
This month our whole school value is Love. We will be exploring this value through our Collective Worship and thinking about what it means to us and our school community. We will also be thinking about it when we learn about wider events, including Remembrance Day and Children in Need.
At home this month, we would like you to create something with the people in your home, that shows what love is to your family. It is up to you how you show this, for example it could be a piece of art, poetry, music or a video. At the end of November we will upload some of your work onto the website to share with each other.
Notes from the Music Room 7
Notes from the Music Room 7
This week has been Live Music Week for Shropshire Music Service which means that ensembles have been visiting local schools to perform music and teach children about a range of musical instruments. Bomere Heath welcomed the Brass and Woodwind group along with the drum kit and got to see a range of instruments, including the pbuzz, playing a range of music. If your child would like to have individual lessons on any of the instruments that Shropshire Music Service offer, then please follow the link to find out more.
https://www.shropshiremusicservice.org.uk/lessons
Along with watching music played live, both Mrs. Kessell-Fell and Mrs. Roberson started this half term with a look towards Christmas. Choir and Music Community Group started again and are already sounding great! Well done everyone!
Brass and Woodwind Ensemble Performance
This morning we were lucky to have some musicians from Shropshire Music Service come and play a variety of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments for us. We learnt about instruments including the flute, clarinet, saxophone, euphonium and trombone. We also learnt about how to create a beat and accompanied the ensemble as they played We Will Rock You by Queen and how to scat sing like jazz singers. The musicians also played other pieces of music including the James Bond theme and Sweet Caroline which we all joined in singing with!
At the end of the session, lots of the children said that they would be interested in learning an instrument and will have brought a Shropshire Music Service flyer home with them this afternoon. Information about music lessons can also be found at www.shropshiremusicservice.org.uk.
Fire Service Visit
Today, Firefighter Rob from Shrewsbury Fire Station came to visit us in Haughmond to talk about his job as part of our topic ‘Fire, Fire’. Rob talked to us about how to stay safe around fires and what to do if we ever discover a fire as well as the importance of checking our smoke alarms at home on a regular basis.
Rob talked about how to dial 999 and he has challenged us all to learn our address with our grown ups at home, including our postcode, as this is really important information. He also talked to us about the other things he does as part of his job, including rescuing people from floods and cats from trees!
Rob also showed us some of his equipment and his fire-fighting clothes. We couldn’t believe that he only has 90 seconds from when the alarm goes in the fire station to get his gear on and be in the fire engine! Mrs Gregory set us a challenge to see if we can get dressed and ready for school in just 90 seconds!
New reading challenge
Starting on Monday 8th November 2021, we will be introducing the reading challenge. This is an opportunity for the children to win a big prize at the end of term.
This has always been very successful in the past and we hope this one will be too.
Details to follow.
Notes from the Music Room 6 22/10/2021
Notes from the Music Room 6 22.10.2021
It’s been a lovely end to this half term with Harvest Festival on Wednesday. Thank you and well done to all children for singing their songs so beautifully, your hard work each week was really clear to hear and Mrs. Kessel-Fell is really proud of you all.
Choir continued to enjoy singing Shotgun as well as other songs and are sounding fantastic! Rehearsals will continue after half term on Tuesdays and as always, new members are welcome.
Grinshill showed off their recorder skills by improvising melodies which most of the class performed. Stiperstones and Wrekin have continued to learn to play Jingle Bells and have been working hard to produce a clear and controlled sound. It is lovely to see the homemade cases made by children and their families for the pbuzz to go home in, although any suitable bag is also fine. Mrs. Roberson hopes you all enjoy playing your pbuzz over half term.
Music Community Group recapped some of the pieces they have learnt this half term including Star Wars Theme and 12 Bar Blues and started a Fur Elise Mash Up. Rehearsals will continue next half term, Mrs. Roberson is looking forward to teaching you some new music!
We hope you all have a restful and fun half term break.