PTA Pirate Party for Years 1 and 2

Year 1 and 2 were so lucky to have been visited by Gem from CBeebies Swashbuckle at their PTA Pirate Party this afternoon. There was so much laughter and enjoyment coming from the hall. A huge thank you to Gem and all our PTA organisers who raised over £200 to put towards projects at school. 

Prayer Space in School

This week we have been so lucky to have been joined by Naomi, Trevor and all the volunteers at Prayer Space for Schools who have set up in the Rossetti Hall. Each class have two opportunities to visit and have been so inspired to think about how they might communicate through prayer and how we can work together to create our own prayer spaces like these.

Bishop Rose visits Birchington!

Staff, children and Governors were absolutely thrilled yesterday when Bishop Rose came to visit Birchington. Two of our wonderful Year 6 children helped her with Collective Worship and she then toured the school. It was wonderful to see her talking to the children and sharing her life stories with them. We all found her very inspirational. We are really looking forward to her return visit.

STEM Day

We had a fabulous STEM Day here at Birchington! We definitely have some buddying engineers who will absolutely make an appearance on Dragons' Den in the future!

Virtual Author Visit to Year 3!

Yesterday, Year 3 had an amazing opportunity to attend a virtual live author event with Alex Falase-Koya! He is a children’s author who has written the series of books ‘Marv’ and has also co-authored with Marcus Rashford ‘Breakfast Club Adventures’ and as you can imagine, the children were very excited about this as they have either read his books or recognised them!

The children had the opportunity to submit questions prior to the event that Alex could possibly answer live. They all thought carefully about this… here are some of their questions: Why did you become an author? Do you get worried or scared when writing a new book? Who is your favourite character you have created? Was it fun writing a book with Marcus Rashford? What do you like reading?

The children thoroughly enjoyed this and learnt a few tips and tricks for writing their own stories too!

World Book Day 2025

Today we celebrated World Book Day. The children had great fun completing a range of activities including reading sessions with younger/older children, making their own book marks and also taking part in the BBC’s Live lesson.  Mrs Highsted and Mr Forwood really enjoyed seeing all the costumes and chose someone from each class to receive a certificate, although in both Year 4, The Chipmunks, and in Year 6, Thing 1, 2, 3 and 4, the winners were a group of girls.  Everyone enjoyed a really fantastic day celebrating books.

Netball Festival

A massive well done to our lovely netball team who were totally outstanding at last night's festival. Mrs Harper and the TSC coaches were blown away with their enthusiasm, determination and hard work as well as positive attitudes. This is so brilliant to hear!

Y2 church visit

Year 2 visited our lovely local All saints Church today. The children had a wonderful time meeting Rev Mark and exploring inside the Church. The children were able to volunteer to act out a wedding and a baptism so that they really understood what makes these ceremonies so special. They all listened so intently and asked some interesting and thought-provoking questions.  Their behaviour was impressive and they walked very sensibly there and back. We are very proud year 2!

Express Yourself Day!

Today, we celebrated 'Express yourself' day to finish up our 'Good To Be Me' week. Children and staff alike dressed up in anything they chose to - we had unicorns, footballers, children in their pyjamas and we even had a pirate! One child wanted to come dressed as our Deputy Headteacher, and as Mr Forwood heard about this yesterday, he decided to come dressed as the child! 

Safer Internet Day

Today was Safer Internet Day at Birchington CEP School and at lots of other schools across the country. We started off with an assembly all about this year’s theme of ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and other from scams online’ which was run entirely by our E-Safety Reps (with a little preparation help from Miss Kirkpatrick). Children across the school took part in a BBC live lesson, Year 5 and 6 were visited by our local PCSO, there were lots of activities that the children did in class and Year 2’s ‘Come and See’ session was all about Safer Internet Day! There was so much great learning that took place across the school on Online Safety, which is such a key aspect of growing up today.

'Come and See' in Year 3

Today, our Year 3 children had their first ‘Come and See’ session where they got to share their maths work.  These boys showed their work on ordering numbers and division.  All the children enjoyed sharing their favourite bits of work with their classmates, parents, carers and even other family members!

Year 2 Lego Club

We have been having great fun at Year 2 Lego Club with Mrs Wilson. The children have been completing challenges and coming up with some really creative designs. We especially love the pirate boat theme - can the Captain save the boat from being sunk by the Mighty Cracken's tentacles? And we loved the idea of the floating island in the Great Barrier Reef, complete with base camp, bedrooms, living area, hideout and an intricate intruder alarm system! What brilliant imaginations!

'Come and See' in Year 5

On Friday, Year 5 had their first ‘Come and See’ session with their parents and carers. Their first session gave the children the chance to showcase their fantastic writing and spelling work. Mr Forwood was very impressed indeed!

Magic Tricks in Year 1

1BC were so lucky to welcome 6W to their classroom at the end of last week. 6W have been busy writing their own set of instructions to perform a magic trick. The children in 1BC had a go at following the instructions - all magic tricks were successfully performed and the children had a wonderful time together.

Intergenerational time at Highfields!

Today eight of our fantastic Year 6 children went to Highfields Residential Home in Birchington to visit the residents there.  They shared their favourite book and object.  It was a wonderful opportunity to share stories with a different generation and both the children and residents really got a lot out of the afternoon.  Mr Forwood and Mrs Baker were both really impressed with them all – they were definitely the Best of Birchington!

Hard work and determination pays off!

It was so wonderful to see some Year 6 boys today bringing their amazing maths work to Mrs Wilson. They had really tried their hardest to complete some tricky algebra accurately showing great determination and resilience! Well done boys!

School Values Winners!

With over 150 entries to our School Values postcard competition, we have 5 very worthy winners. They will be professionally printed and sent to parents and carers to let them know when their child has really demonstrated our school values, produced a really fantastic piece of work or because we really want to celebrate them for always doing the right thing. Well done Phoebe, Macey, Emily, Eden and Edie!

Maths Enrichment

Some of our Year 5 mathematicians have been invited to visit Ursuline College for two sessions of Maths enrichment activities. During the first session they tackled a range of challenging word problems and then created their own Rangoli symmetrical patterns. They are all looking forward to the second session next week. Fay Shuttle, their Maths teacher emailed today to say, 'The students were an absolute credit to Birchington. Thank you!.'

Aim High Writers Day

Some of our children had a wonderful time over at Cliftonville Primary and Pre-School today at the Aim High Writing Day meeting and working alongside author Sam Gayton.

Rocking Out at the Rock Steady Concert!

We had a real treat here at Birchington today with a real life Rock Steady rock concert. The amazing musicians demonstrated a variety of different instruments such as the bass guitar, keyboards and drums whilst singing lots of different rock songs which the children happily joined in with. What a great morning!

International School Award 

We are so proud of all the hard work and dedication from staff and children here at Birchington to have been achieved this prestigious award!

Fabulous Writers

Mrs Wilson was astounded by the amazing creative writing produced by some delightful Year 5s today. They had such a lovely time reading them aloud. We definitely have some aspiring authors here at Birchington! Well done girls!

Table Tennis Champs!

Congratulations to the amazing children who took part in the Table Tennis tournament at The Ursuline College this week. Mrs Upton tells us that she couldn't have been prouder of their behaviour and positive attitude throughout, coming in a very respectable 4th place! Well done TEAM BIRCHINGTON!

Magic comes to Birchington

Year 6 had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon when Zane the magician came into school as part of the hook into their new magic themed storybook. They really enjoyed seeing a whole range of magic tricks! Thank you Zane!

School Values Competition

Christmas Celebrations

We have had such a wonderful time in the lead up to Christmas with our Christmas Concert and Carol service at all Saints Church, the Year R and 2 Nativity, Christmas Hoops, class parties and the fabulous PTA Christmas Fayre. we wish all our Birchington families lots of love at this very special time of year. 

Christmas Card Competition

Congratulations to Evie, Isaac, Louie, Megan and Zara-Rose for their winning entries into our community Christmas card competition. Mrs Wilson visited their classes this morning to deliver the fantastic news - they (and their classmates) were thrilled! They'll be collecting their prizes on Friday in Celebration and Worship.

Christmas Jumper Day 2024

Community Christmas Card Competition

Children In Need 2024

Our new Prayer Tree

We have a wonderful new prayer tree in our main Reception area. We welcome you to write a prayer, perhaps for a loved one, on one of the leaves and Reverend Mark will take them along to church to be included in Sunday's prayers.

Remembrance Service

We were so proud of all the children who represented our school so well at the Remembrance Service in Birchington and at All Saints Church this weekend. Their behaviour was impeccable with so many members of the public commenting to our staff. Well done team Birchington!

Harvest Celebrations

Throughout the week of our Harvest Festival celebrations our children found out more about this special Christian festival and their Collective Worships were based on the theme of Harvest.

Our Christian Vision talks about showing love and care for everyone. To help us live out this vision we wanted our children to think about others in our local community. Our families were so generous and donated items of food that were displayed in classrooms or year group areas allowing the children to understand more about food and harvests.

We were absolutely amazed by how many donations we received throughout the week and were delighted to donate these to Birchington Baptist Church foodbank. It truly was a super example of Christianity in action! Thank you for all your support!