Welcome to Miss Offord’s Blog

Welcome back to school everyone! 2012 is a year that starts with a lot of promise, with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics coming up. At Birchfields there is a lot of promise for the New Year but we will all have to work very hard, be kind, helpful and cheerful to achieve our goals. Let’s make 2012 the best year ever for Birchfields…

Sorry everyone, I haven’t been able to get on the school website for the last 2 nights. Everything went well with the 6F/6W changeover, but the weather is very windy and rainy!! That didn’t stop 6W as one group went climbing and tunnelling at the Cathedral cave while the other 2 groups rowed across the lake. We had an excellent nightline, when everyone helped to complete the challenge and 6W are the best group for showers – so we had time for a hot chocolate before bed. There was a lot of chatting going on in the night and some midnight tidying in one boys room!!!!! We’ve just had breakfast and we’ll be wrapping up warm for the day ahead, there’s just time for some messages:

im really having fun i cant wait to go to the zip wire ismail

Im really having fun and the night walk was really exciting by yaseen

I’m having fun and the cathedral was the most fun. Waseef

We re all having real fun amd i think i like this more than school Mudassar

Im having fun and enjoying myself so is everyone else Ali

i am having such a wonderful time i want to stay here naseem.

just one day and it is awesome and fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hamza

We’ll see everyone tomorrow…

Miss Offord

Hello Everyone,

Here we are again! We had a really smooth trip up ,watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After eating our packed lunches, we went out on a walk around Ghyll Head with lovely views of Lake Windemere and the snow on the mountain tops. There was a little bit of snow so we could all have a quick snowball fight as well as a bit of scrambling and wading through puddles! After dinner, we went out on the nightline, I must say that 6F finished it in record time, although they did have a bit of help from the moon! Room inspection was a great success with 2 rooms scoring a 4…fantastic for a first night. Its nearly bedtime but I hope I can send some messages:

by Bilal,i am having a good time at ghyll head and i am very happy ,having fun!!!

by muktar i have been having a good time plus we had to do this nightline where you have to follow a rope in the the dark

by muhammad we had a great time  i wonder what you re doing.

by joshim we had a great time i miss some of you and we are having a wonderful life

by shuaib;i am having a great time i don’t even want to go back

by abdul:i miss you all and we having a awesome i cant wait for ghyll head to end so i can come back to my family bye

by faris:were having a brilliant time and do let lil bro come in my room and steel my stuff!xox

by zainab:we are having so  much fun and do not let my  big sister not to touch my stuff bye bye!!!

by Mariam s:i am finally here in ghyll head and guess what im having a fantastic time !!!

by Ambreen: I am having an amazing time and i still cant wait for the Zit wire ! i miss my mum lots and i hope she has all my love !

Everyone is having a great time as you can see,

Look forward to seeing 6W on Wednesday

Miss Offord

Disaster! We couldn’t get the fire started last night so we had candles in the fire pit instead! With marshmellows and hot chocolate. We told some scary stories but I think mine was the scariest!!! Everyone had a good nights sleep and we’ve just finished our boiled eggs before packing and going on our last activity. Well done 6D you are learning to listen to instructions, which will help you in school for the rest of the year.

Miss Offord

100% record on the zip wire from 6D, we’re so proud of them especially Jebin, Rehmaan,Yousef and Mharia who overcame their fears at the top of the tower. Our other activity was ghyll scrambling, which is rock climbing through waterfalls!!!!!! It was great fun but we all got very wet… it’s a good job that we’ll be drying off in front of the camp fire tonight and eating marshmellows.Everyone is having a good time, slept really well and are keeping their rooms very tidy. 6D have set a wonderful standard for 6W and 6F to follow.

Miss Offord

Hello everyone from a lovely sunny Ghyll Head. We enjoyed the film Robots on the way here, then we had to walk up the hill to Ghyll Head. After lunch we went on Lake Windemere and used the skills we learned at Debdale to row across the lake and played some games. we will be going on a night hike later, after dinner.

Now for some messages:

miss you mum love shanjeda (not sisters)

miss you all allot love amayna.

hi mum i miss you so much love isha

hi to all not missing you its so much fun love samra

been canoeing really fun.yaqub

had the best time ever.arman

i mum i am having a good time saief.

best fun in years rehmaan

best time of my life yousef.

best time of  my  live  by faisal

i love ghyll head by saira

dear  miss combes we are having so much fun at Ghyll Head see you on wednesday,by  farzana

dear miss combes i miss you so much and we haveing so much fun in Gyll head i wish you was here by sara

dear mrs coombes we are having so much fun ghyll head we miss you so much by sonia

to rose we had a great time and i miss you so much from jebin

to mum and dad i miss you so much I can’t wait till I  tell  you what I did  say hi Maryam xxxxxMharia

dear sisters and i am having lots of fun and i will see you on wednesday from seerat

its me sadia it is Amazing! here and the sun has just set on lake Windermere it looks truely Wonderfull.

its amazing here its so fun i dont want to come back from Neha.

i’m having loads of fun at ghyll head the rooms are huge from reyan

it’s faboulos here and i thas been an exhausteding day and say hello from me to haris from asif.

i am really having fun and say to haris have a great time at bowling from layek and reyan

i thought i was going to have a really bad time but to tell the truth  it was wonderful plus i dont need to worry because the teachers are here to care  plus i hope there there to help you and majedur i hope your having a good time  from hamza

As you can see everyone is having a great time and we look forward to coming here with 6F and 6W in December.

Miss Offord

It has been a really good week this week. It started with our Eid Holiday and then the parties on Tuesday, when everyone enjoyed themselves without getting too silly. I had a marvellous report from the Museum of Science and Industry about the wonderful behaviour of Year 4 on their visits. It was lovely to see so many parents at our Parents Evening and the teachers had a lot of good things to tell them. Today, we held our minutes silence for Armistice Day and everyone was very respectful, including Year 1 (and I know how hard it is for them to be quiet for a whole minute!) Well done everyone, I hope I will have some good things to report from Ghyll Head next week with 6D.

We really enjoyed the visit from the Headteacher and 5 teachers from Beijing Primary Day School this week. We had a lovely assembly with dancing and flowers and lots of presents for the school. The teachers really enjoyed watching the lessons and they would like for more of their teachers to visit our school and maybe even some of their children. We had a planning meeting and discussed some exciting things to do. One suggestion was to put a webcam in the rabbit house so that their children could watch Rosie and Whizz on the internet. I think that would be popular for Birchfields children too!

FAST (Families And Schools Together) is a programme of activities for parents and children run by parents, governors and school staff with help from Save the Children. Our first evening was Tuesday and it was a fantastic success. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved, especially our 39 families, who were all brilliant.

One thing that has made me feel sad this week has been reports of bullying, some children have been really unkind to children in their class and others have been threatening to get their older brothers or cousins involved. This has got to stop. I don’t like to think that any of the lovely children at Birchfields would be mean to others. I am always being complimented by people who work at other schools or members of the public, praising our behaviour. I believe that if you think about how someone else is feeling, you will do the right thing. I hope all of us will make the right choices next week.

I think we are very lucky at Birchfields to have some very committed school governors, who help me manage the school. This week many of them were here until nearly 8 o’clock for FAST on Tuesday and a governors meeting on Thursday. I think sometimes we forget you are volunteers with families to look after, but we really appreciate your contribution to the school:)

It’s National Smile Week this week, so don’t forget to make someone smile this weekend:)

Miss Offord

It’s been a fantastic week this week. We had an amazing final to Birchfields Got Talent which everyone rally enjoyed. A big thank you to all the contestants and to Mr Pickering and Mr Bradley for organising the event. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite on the home page of this website. This afternoon we have our Careers Fair when Year 6 will be able to talk to over 30 adults with different jobs and lets hope it will really inspire them to work hard. It’s been a tough week for Year 6, who have been doing tests, so they really deserve a rest over the holidays! During the holidays, we could all be thinking about which special book character we’re going to dress up as on Friday 4th March – I’ve already decided and a lot of you might guess what sort of character I might be! I wish everyone at Birchfields a very happy holiday!

Miss Offord

Next week is going to be very exciting and busy. It will be Arts Week and I am looking forward to seeing and hearing about all of the creative activities that you will be taking part in. It will also be Birchfields Got Talent!! After our Parents Evenings on Tuesday and Wednesday, Thurs day is an Open Day when Parents are welcome to come into classes and support their children. I’m looking forward to an exciting week and to welcoming all our visitors.

Miss Offord