Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Easter Competition
Sat 25 Apr 2020Over Easter we asked you to create an Easter accessory and then send us the pictures of them. It was lovely to see such creative ideas and your smiling faces. Mrs Johnson very kindly asked me to judge but it was an impossible task so I asked my daughter Charlotte to do it for me.
She was impressed with all the entries but she chose 3 first places, one from Foundation and KS1 and two from KS2.
The three winners are..... (drum roll)
Adanya in Reception and Lilly in Year 4 -and Samantha in Year 4 - well done to everybody who entered. Have a look at the photos.
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Home learning examples week 3
Wed 22 Apr 2020Good afternoon all!
We've had lots of excellent examples of home learning sent to us this week already! Please see photographs below.
Well done to Sophie and Rhys who have created their own poems and a special mention to Rhys, who is challenging himself to cycle 20 miles within this month. While doing so, he is raising funds for Kings Mill Hospital and has already overtaken his target. Outstanding effort Rhys, we're all very proud of you!
The Jackson family have been decorating their playroom with drawings (with permission from their parents!)
Excellent work sent in from Luzia. It looks like you're heading for success with your project of saving the planet.
Luzia and Jacob are working together on a sunflower growing competition for friends and family to raise money for the NHS. What a lovely idea!
Well done to Samantha, who decorated a tree in their garden to put a smile on their neighbour's faces.
Year 3 were given the task of budgeting for a family holiday to Egypt as part of their new topic. Esme has gone above and beyond this and has created an excellent plan! You can see this on their own class page.
Finally, some super craft activities completed by the Steel family.
Well done to all of you. Remember we love to see what our pupils are getting up to so please keep sending them to us. You can also keep up to date with posts on our class pages.
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Home learning
Wed 22 Apr 2020Another useful site for home learning is The Oak National Academy. Follow the link: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom. -
Uploading videos
Wed 22 Apr 2020Please upload your video to: https://anthonybekderbyshire-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/anthonybek_anthonybek_derbyshire_sch_uk/EkReZb9HEONMn8d7crw9MDUBNUPLr1GWbMT881tbqYp2hg?e=oQGMCa
Once you follow this link, you will see a list of folders. Select the Headteachers videos file. You can then click the upload button on the top of the screen and upload your video. Please remember to give it a title so we all know who it belongs to, e.g. John R Y1. This process may take a few minutes, depending on the size of your video so don't worry if nothing seems to happen straight away. You will also be able to watch all the other videos in this file as they will be too large to upload directly to the website. I can't wait to see them all!
Please remember, as the link is on our school website, anyone will be able to watch your videos, so when you are uploading them, you are agreeing to this.
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School closure update
Sun 19 Apr 2020Home schooling
It has now been confirmed that lockdown will continue in the same way for at least another 3 weeks which means at least another 3 weeks of home schooling. We have seen some amazing work that you have been completing at home with your child and we thank you for your continued support. We know this is not easy.
Our staff have produced new work packs to give pupils some tasks to do over the next 2 weeks. These are available for collection from the Reception office from Monday 20th April between the hours of 10am and 2pm. Please ensure you follow social distancing rules if there are several people at Reception when you arrive. This will be the last pack that is sent out but please don't worry, we will still be sending you with lots to keep your children engaged but we will ask that any recording is done in the exercise book provided. (We will send an exercise book to children in Nursery,Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 along with the work pack. Children in Reception, Y5 and Y6 have already been given one.)
BBC Bitesize
The Department for Education have been working with the BBC and many teachers and well-known people to help ensure children continue to learn the appropriate curriculum whilst at home.
Visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
These Bitesize Daily lessons launch on Monday 20th April and are grouped in year group order. Like the title says, they offer bitesize teaching clips and activities to follow and should really help to ensure your child continues to learn the relevant objectives. This will also make it much easier when we are all back in school together as each class will have been learning the same things. Your child's teacher will send you a text/e-mail tomorrow to let you know what they would like your child to do. It could be a combination of BBC bitesize, Purple Mash, Twinkl and other projects. This will vary by class as teachers identify what would be of most benefit to your child. It may be that your child is directed to some activities that are aimed at pupils older or younger than their age- this is because staff feel that those activities would best meet your child's needs/ability. Staff will continue to be on hand to support you via e-mail so please don't hesitate to get in touch with them if you need help or advice or if you feel the activities aren't matched to your child. Don't worry, there will still be lots of time for you to do activities of your choice with your child- I don't want the wonderful creativeness we've seen to end!
Keeping in contact
Even though school is closed, it is really important that we keep in contact with you. We obviously care for your child and for you too so staff will make regular contact with you. This will be via text message, e-mails or telephone. Please reply to e-mails so staff know you have received them and please don't hesitate to ask for help and advice. Keep sending work to the staff in your child's class and to me if they've done something you feel is extra special!
Easter fashion challenge
It's not too late to take part if you haven't already done so. Remember, it is anything that you can wear with the focus 'Easter'. Please send your photos to clairesmith@anthonybek.derbyshire.sch.uk by noon on Friday 24th April so Mrs. Smith can judge.
My next challenge
Hopefully, you have all now seen the video message on YouTube from our staff to the pupils of Anthony Bek. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCbDoazbPI). My next challenge is for your child/children to send a video message back! They could even work with their friends (from their own houses of course) and put something together like our staff have! It could be singing, miming, speaking, showing pictures, dancing, acting- whatever you choose. Don't make it too long (no longer than 3-4 minutes) or you will not be able to send it to me! The deadline is Monday 27th April at 12 noon. I can't wait to see and/or hear you all!
Take care and be safe,
Mrs Johnson and the staff of Anthony Bek
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Message from the staff of Anthony Bek
Sun 19 Apr 2020It has been a long time since we've all been together and with the recent news, it is clearly going to be a while longer. We miss you all so much and wanted to share this message with you. A special thanks to Mrs. Braithwaite for pulling this altogether!
Click on the following link and enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCbDoazbPI
Or, go to YouTube and search The Anthony Bek Dream.
My next challenge is on there!
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Free School Meals update
Sun 19 Apr 2020Many of the pupils eligible for Free School Meals chose to have a hamper to cover the two week Easter period. It was my understanding (and hope) that this would be the arrangements moving forward but unfortunately, that is not the case at the moment. It is possible that this might be offered again in the near future but it is not definite.
You may have also heard about the national voucher system. I have been trying so hard to organise this but they have many problems with their systems so this is not yet available to us. Again, this is being worked on as we speak and we hope to see a remedy in the very near future. However, for now it leaves us with just one option- providing a packed lunch each day for any child eligible for free school meals (not universal meals) just the same as we had before the Easter holidays.
If your child is eligible for free school meals and you would like to collect a packed lunch from the main reception each day, please e-mail:
headteacher@anthonybek.derbyshire.sch.uk by 9am on Monday 20th April. You will need to collect your child's packed lunch between 10:30 and 12noon each day.
In the meantime, I will do my absolute best to either get the hampers back on offer again or the shopping vouchers as I appreciate coming to school everyday to collect a packed lunch is not the best option, particularly for those that don't live within walking distance to school or for those needing to self-isolate.
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Home learning examples week 2
Fri 03 Apr 2020Lots of parents have shared aspects of their home learning with us this week. Here are a few from this week that have been sent to me which are wonderful examples of home schooling. Please also have a look at the class pages under the Children's tab for even more. Vinny made an amazing Soup presentation which is too big to upload to our website! His vegetable research powerpoint presentation is also particularly impressive (year 5 page).
We've had our first Parent Crusader award (I'm not sure everyone in the family was as happy!). Well done, Mr. England! We've also had our first consequence- Stevie the cat- I hope to see an improvement soon!
Samantha has continued with our weekly choir practice and Trinity has sent me audio files of her practising a range of songs.
Gary and Lola look they had an amazing time in their craft session! Jessie challenged my knowledge with a very difficult quiz she's made about ocean life (it's lucky I'm a scuba diver!)
Tiger-Rose and Destiny have made a stunning rainbow which I hope is now proudly displayed in their window. Rhys and Sophie have also been making beautiful rainbow cards with messages of love and hope and have delivered them to vulnerable members of the community. Charleigh has shared her rules and cloud behaviour system and Seth has made a beautiful cross to display in his window as well as a family plaque which will be something to remember these times in years to come. The Parson family have also been keeping everyone's spirits up with some amazing dancing!
Many of you might like to try the family plaque (if you have the following ingredients). Mrs Parsons said it is easy to make.
500g plain flour, 250g salt, 250ml water. Mix to a dough. Roll, flatten, imprint. Bake on low for 4-5 hrs.
Remember- we love to see what the children are doing so please keep sending us your special photographs.
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Mrs. Johnson's Tower competition results!
Fri 03 Apr 2020Thank you to everyone who took part in the 'Impressive tower' challenge. Please see the Children's tab- Mrs. Johnson's Community Competition for full details and lots of photographs. I was overwhelmed by the imagination shown and I'm glad I wasn't the judge!
Well done to all! Special congratulations to:
Ivy R 1ST PLACE with a doll tower
Thomas Y2 2ND PLACE with a book tower
Cornelia Y4 3RD PLACE with a lego/figures tower.
Staff winner- Mrs Barnes with her garden furniture tower!
Remember- no tears if you didn't win- (mine didn't win and I'm not crying (much!) they were all fabulous and you look like you had fun making them and that's what counts!
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Easter school closure update
Fri 03 Apr 2020The Easter holidays are almost upon us signalling the end of the Spring term and who could have expected that we would be in the position we are when we began this term? Thank you so much for sending all the photographs of your children taking part in my challenges or completing some really fantastic activities. You are all doing an amazing job keeping your children engaged and we love seeing their smiling faces. I hope you're keeping up to date with photographs on class pages, news section and my competition section.
Easter holiday period
We know the holiday period is not going to be like any other Easter holiday you have experienced but we really hope you find something different and enjoyable to do over this period. We do not expect/want you to continue 'home schooling' your child over this period. It is as important for them as it is for staff to have a break from their usual learning routine during this time. Staff will therefore not be providing work over this period or responding to e-mails etc- they will be having their usual Easter break. Staff will resume looking at e-mails and posting new work from Monday 20th April (assuming school closures continue- we only know what you know- schools are closed until further notice).
All of the websites and activities currently being used by the pupils will of course still be available if pupils really want to do something but hopefully, they will enjoy different activities over this time.
Work packs
The next work pack (paper kind) will be ready for collection on Monday 20th April. We will text to confirm this after the Easter holidays. We will also be sending an exercise book home so pupils can complete any other tasks in it (I know not everyone will have lots of paper or a printer). It may be that we are not permitted to send any more paper copies after this date (depending on how the restrictions change) so an exercise book will come in very handy if this is the case.
Refunds
Many of you are still waiting for refunds for Lion King, Walesby and Whitehall. We are so sorry for the delay. It has been extremely challenging to get funds back into our accounts from different companies to be able to send these. We now know that we will be able to issue these on Monday 20th April 2020. Lion King payments will be issued straight back onto the card that was used to pay for the visit. Payments for Walesby and Whitehall that were made on cards will be transferred back to the card they were made from. Payments that were made before we moved to School Money will be paid by cheque. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation with this.
Take care and be safe.
