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At the start of each year, the Belham asks you for your
generous voluntary contributions to the school fund. The
voluntary contribution scheme is vital for the school to
be able to provide many extra-curricular activities for
our children, as well as enriching our in-school provision.
Whilst we are currently not in a position to be able to
do all of the usual exciting activities that the children have
come to love and look forward to, we are still planning
creatively in order to enhance the learning experience
for our Belhamites, ensuring a broad and balanced
‘glittering’ curriculum, fulfilling our school vision.
Even though there has been an absence of school trips
this year, we have continued to enrich our curriculum in
many other ways, including inviting visitors to the school,
online workshops and talks, sporting and musical tuition,
activities, and resources (above and beyond the statutory
requirements), and the purchase of additional resources
for the classroom to ensure that lessons are practical and
engaging. Whole school events, such as the art exhibition
and our themed weeks, have all been bolstered by these
contributions.
These are tough times, no doubt, and we are most
grateful for all contributions as they allow us to continue
to provide the best learning opportunities for our pupils.
A letter will be sent to parents at the start of next week
with further details. I would like to say a big thank you in
advance for any donations that you are able to make.
THE BELHAM BUZZ ISSUE 188| 22 JANUARY 2021
Head of School: Ms Liz Cohen | Email: [email protected] | Tel: 020 8353 4290
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY EVENTS RUN BY EXTERNAL PROVIDERS (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL PRACTICES AND CLUBS) ARE NOT ENDORSED BY THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE
CLASS DOJO STATS HEAD OF SCHOOL’S NOTE
Week 11th January – 15th January 2021 Messages sent home - 881 Stories shared - 7,970 Skills celebrated - 243 Positive feedback - 100% Well done everyone!
Creative Reflection Time next week will be about:
Burns Night
A big round of applause to Daniella, James, Olive and Peggy who all took recorder exams just before Christmas. They were the guinea pigs for our trial of the new Music Teachers’ Board exams that are recorded at school and uploaded online rather than playing in front of an examiner. After a couple of technical problems, everything went smoothly; the children equipped themselves extremely well and everyone had fabulous results – all merits and distinctions. Bravo! Nancy Wayman Head of Music
YEAR 3 – ROMERO BRITTO PORTRAITS
Blue Peter have launched a YouTube channel Blue Peter on YouTube at CBBC and for entertainment outside of home-schooling hours now we’re in lockdown. If you are interested you it’s completely free you just need to subscribe via this link – https://www.youtube.com/bluepeter
BLUE PETER ON YOUTUBE
RECORDER EXAMS
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY EVENTS RUN BY EXTERNAL PROVIDERS (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL PRACTICES AND CLUBS) ARE NOT ENDORSED BY THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE
THE BELHAM BUZZ
Head of School: Ms Liz Cohen | Email: [email protected] | Tel: 020 8353 4290
ISSUE 188| 22 JANUARY 2021
YEAR 4 – EXPLORING MOOD IN BEOWULF
POEM OF THE WEEK
Look out for our feature ‘Poem of the Week’ coming to you every week, once again, in the Belham Buzz. Each week we will include a short poem for you and your family to read and enjoy. Our teachers would love to see Belhamites reading the poem aloud and performing it with their own special touches. If you would like to send your child’s performance poetry to their class teacher, you can upload it to their ClassDojo portfolio. This week’s poem of the week reflects the themes of the natural world and fantasy. Read it aloud with the children and encourage them to recite part or all of it, using rhythm and expression to bring it to life. They could even add actions and perform it in role as the ‘King of the Dinosaurs!’
Meet the FOB Committee and Class Reps on the Belham website http://www.thebelhamprimaryschool.org.uk/friends-of-belham.html
Contact us [email protected]
THE FRIENDS’ FRIENDLY
ISSUE 94| 22 JANUARY 2021
Lockdown gallery - Ice decorations
Peter (year 2) & little sister Imogen made ice decorations last week, inspired by the Creative Reflection and Imogen’s Okido magazine. “We collected various colourful organic items (flowers, leaves, seeds, fruit) and put them in a cupcake tray, with a piece of string; added water; and froze them. The resulting decorations lasted for a morning outside on our bare tree.”
Please share your own creations! We would love to be able to share more home creations and works of art that you have made, so if you have any images we can share please email them to [email protected]
Friends of Belham Recipes
Are you bored with cooking the same old thing? Do you have a much loved family recipe you would like to share? Please SEND US YOUR RECIPES!!! We would love to feature a recipe of the week in the Friends’ Friendly. This week we have a big thank you to say to Linda (mum of Michael in Year 2) who has sent in two fabulous recipes! We are featuring her tomato soup here. If you have a “go to” family recipe that your children love, please email it to [email protected] Our plan is to put all the recipes onto a website that so that people can access them easily. If we get enough recipes we would LOVE to publish a Friends of Belham cookbook which we can sell to raise funds for the FOB. So write down your recipes now! Here’s a template in case it’s useful. http://bit.ly/FoB_Recipe_template
Online Shopping
EasyFundraising This will generate donations for FoB at many online retailers. Create an account in support of FoB here: https://bit.ly/FoB_EasyFundraising
AmazonSmile Friends of Belham is now also registered with AmazonSmile. 0.5% of the purchase price will go direct to FoB. On a computer you must shop via smile.amazon.co.uk for this to work.
Belham community corner:
Do you run a local business? Please email us if you would like to include a mention of your business here so that we can support our community.
FRIENDS OF BELHAM RECIPES
#2: CREAMY TOMATO SOUP By Linda Condron
Introduction:
This is a really easy soup to make and a favourite with the kids in our house. It can easily be suitable for veggis or vegans if you substitute the chicken stock pot. Great served with nice fresh bread for lunch (or garlic bread for a treat). You can freeze what you don’t need for another day or it will keep in the fridge for 2 days.
Good for:
Children to eat
Vegetarians (with adaptation)
Vegan (with adaptation)
Ingredients (serves 6 - 8)
1 onion 3 cloves garlic Olive oil 3 carrots 2 sticks of celery Chicken stock pot/cube (Or vegi/vegan alternative) 220ml boiling water 8/9 large ripe tomatoes 1 tin chopped tomatoes 200ml (1/2 tin) Coconut milk Fresh Basil (if you have it)
Method
1. Chop the onion and garlic and add to a large pot with some olive oil. Start to sweat them on medium heat.
2. Chop the carrot and celery and add to the pot. Cook on medium heat for 10 mins.
3. Add the boiling water and stock pot (or crumble a cube in) to the pot.
4. Chop the tomatoes in half (you don’t need to remove the core) and add these and the tin of tomatoes to the pot. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Do not be tempted to add more water. The coconut milk is coming.
5. Add the basil and coconut milk to the pot and cook on low heat for 5 mins.
6. Blend until smooth. 7. Add salt and pepper to taste.
FOB Uniform Exchange
Whilst we don’t really want to encourage any type of social mixing or transfer of possessions right now, we do realise that some people might be taking this opportunity to sort through old uniform, so please remember to list your unwanted uniform on the FOB uniform exchange. 1. If you have clothes to sell, fill in the form
below. Clothes must be clean and honestly
described.
http://bit.ly/FoB_2ndHandUniform_SubmitForm
2. If you want to buy, review the form below and contact the seller directly.
http://bit.ly/FoB_2ndHandUniform_Stock
3. Buyer makes a donation to FOB via Justgiving based on the prices in the spreadsheet
https://www.justgiving.com/friendsofbelham
4. Buyer collects from seller’s home. 5. Seller updates quantities on the form once the
item has been collected.
Koru Kids offer code
Rethinking that “I don’t need childcare” thing? Koru kids are offering £50 to FoB and £50 to Belham families when they match with a nanny through their service. Use the code SC1BELHAM in the "how did you hear about us?" section (this is really important otherwise it won't be logged).
https://www.korukids.co.uk
