Events

Illustration Club

One of our after-school clubs in the summer term focused on developing artistic skills to become an illustrator. The children explored illustrators such as Quentin Blake, Joe Todd-Stanton and Rob Biddulph. We also looked at the work of Walt Disney. The children explored different styles of illustration, before having a go at creating their own pieces of artwork.

Our New Library Design

At Bredon Hancock’s, reading is at the heart of our school curriculum. Over the last two years, we have ensured that the children have a great start to their school journey with the introduction of ELS phonics and our new whole class reading scheme. We have also aligned the school books to the correct book band to ensure the children are reading texts that are accessible. Furthermore we have purchased quality texts to share in our English lessons and at the end of the school day in our shared reading time. Our next priority is developing our school library. The children love visiting the school library to change their books to share at home with their parents and we would love to make this more enchanting, exciting and inviting for our children. We have worked together to visualise what our library could look like:

World Book Day 2024

This year, Bredon celebrated vocabulary. The children were asked to come into school dressed as a word and we were blown away by the creativity shown by the children! They had a wonderful day learning about a variety of new words including: flamboyant, iridescent, pollinator, nocturnal, constellation, meadow, reversible, extravagant, sorcerer and maleficent. The children were also tasked to create a paper plate with their favourite book character - we had an array of characters ranging from the Gruffalo, Mr Men and Harry Potter.

Bedtime Stories 2023

We had another successful bedtime stories event this year! The children returned to school with a fantastic array of pyjamas, blankets and teddies, ready for a wonderful evening of stories. The teachers shared a range of their favourite stories with the children under the twinkling lights. What a wonderful event!

Read Gloucestershire 2023

During the month of June, children across the school took part in Read Gloucestershire. The aim of the programme was to read a culmination of 1,000,000 minutes to unlock brand-new book boxes for children in the local community and an extra day of storytelling for children in Gloucester Royal Hospital. Bredon Hancock’s collected the second most minutes across the whole challenge, and were therefore selected to receive a donation of 20 up-to-date fiction books, which we will receive in the Autumn Term. We have also chosen to donate some books to Gloucester Royal Hospital Children’s Outpatients.

Library Overhaul

The staff at school have spent a great deal of time overhauling the library to make it more accessible for the children. The books have now been accurately book banded and levelled, so children can become more independent when selecting their home reading books. The picture book, non-fiction section and poetry section has also been organised! Our next step will be to look into redesigning the library with the children's input to make it an area that they enjoy using. A big thank you to Mrs Goodall, Mrs McGuigan, Miss Dobbs and Mr Boote who have helped with the book banding and sorting of the library.

Sponsored Read

Over the Easter holidays, the children were challenged to complete a sponsored read with a number of different bingo challenges. The challenges included reading outside, reading a book with a blue cover and reading a non-fiction book. Children were also challenged to read in the most interesting place they could find. Thank you to all of the children who took part - we raised a massive £960, which will go towards topic books for each class.

National Storytelling Week

This week, we combined National Storytelling Week with Number Day. Each class had a mathematical based book which they explored and completed activities based upon. Classes shared different stories at the end of the day. Year 3 particularly enjoyed 'The Lost Happy Endings'.

World Book Day - March 2023

This year, the children were invited to dress up as their favourite book character and bring in their favourite book to share. Throughout the day, each class focused on a text by Oliver Jeffers and completed a number of fun activities to share. Some classes took part in the BBC live lesson and learnt how to use effective vocabulary to create their characters.

The children were set a challenge at home to create their favourite book characters using either eggs or potatoes! We were blown away by the effort put in by all of the children and school council deliberated for a LONG time about the winner for each class!

Book Club

At Book Club, the children were given the opportunity to explore new books, as well as talk about the classics. The children were able share about their favourite stories and authors and explain why they were their favourites. We wrote to our favourite authors and sent off the letters - we even had one back after we sent one to J.K. Rowling. We also sent off our front covers to Jennifer Bell after reading her book 'Wonderscape' and designed our own front cover based on our own 'Wonderscape'.

Bedtime Stories - November 2022

The children were invited back to school in their cosy pyjamas, slippers and some even bought their teddies along to take part in our bedtime stories events! The classroom was turned into a magical wonderland with fairy lights and lots of comfy beanbags and cushions for everyone to cuddle into to enjoy a range of stories shared by teachers and the governors! We can't wait to run this event again next year!