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• Y6 Easter egg roll

  Thu 24 Mar 2016

  Class 6F has been busy this morning decorating eggs for Easter. After our assembly the children went outside and rolled the eggs down the hill to represent the stone rolling away from Jesus' tomb.

  Everyone enjoyed learning about the story and its significance - and especially rolling the eggs!

   

   

  

• Sainsbury's Active Kids Vouchers

  Tue 08 Mar 2016

  Sainsbury's supermarket is once again running its Active Kids 2016 initiative where customers can earn vouchers for shopping in the store. If you or your family or friends have vouchers we would love to receive them to help contribute towards new sports and cookery equipment for Bedford Primary.The offer is running until May 3rd 2016 and vouchers can be handed in to the school office.

  Thank you!

   

   

• World Book Day - with a Bedford twist!

  Fri 04 Mar 2016
  World Book Day 2016 was celebrated in style at Bedford with members of staff reading to the children - whilst dressed as characters from their favourite book! We had everything and everyone from a tiger, a Queen, crayons, Little Red Riding Hood, bagpipes and even an inflatable horse! The children voted earlier in the week for which book they would like to listen to and groups of children from Reception to Year 6 came together to hear the story. Everyone was really excited about the day and enjoyed listening to stories old and new. 

  

• Year 6 pupils design winning posters

  Tue 01 Mar 2016

  We are very proud to announce that three of our Year 6 pupils, Evelyn T, Brandon-Lee J and Dean B, were among the winners of a recent competition to design a poster for a Police campaign to stamp out the antisocial use of off-road and scrambler bikes.  The competition received over 200 entries and the winners were chosen by an independent judging panel.

  Primary schools in the Bootle, Seaforth and Litherland areas were selected to take part in workshops jointly run by neighbourhood police officers, anti-social behaviour unit staff from Sefton Council and Alder Hey hospital staff. At the completion of the workshops Year 6 pupils were asked to design a poster on the theme of ‘anti scrambler bike use’ in their own time.

  The lucky winners of the competition attended a presentation at Bootle Town Hall which was attended by the Mayor of Sefton, local councillors, the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, former Everton FC players and representatives from Merseyside Police.

  Evelyn, Brandon-Lee and Dean’s amazing prize is a three day adventure weekend at Winmerleigh Hall in the forest of Bowland.

  Their artwork will be made into poster size and will be featured in key points around the Bootle area.

  Neighbourhood inspector Ian Jones said, ‘we felt it was important that we engage with schoolchildren at a younger age to make them aware of the dangers of using off road bikes and the associated links with gangs. The posters the children submitted for the competition are evidence that they feel very strongly about the issue. Congratulations to everyone who got involved as the project enabled many young people to use their time in a positive way.’