On Tuesday 14th November, we started our Anti-Bullying week and Empathy Action Week with a bang! Local author Shabana Hussain was invited in to read the stories that she has written and to discuss why she became an author, what made her write about bullying and feelings and to talk about the importance of empathy […]
This year we wanted our children to try a new sport- Fly Fishing. Studies have shown that this sport has many benefits. The focused attention and rapid reaction time involved in fly fishing not only strengthens the mind but enables those taking part to experience lower levels of cortisol, anxiety and stress. On Tuesday 4th
Here at Springfield CPS, we took part in this years Beat the Street organised by Alexis Turner at Burnley Leisure (BLC). We started with our assembly and talking about the importance of walking and other ways of being active within our local community (cycling, running etc.) as a school we spoke about the beat boxes
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On Wednesday 22nd March 2023, we took part in an Orienteering (OAA) activity morning. The activities were all based around teamwork, resilience, determination, collaboration and many other skills. The morning, that was organised by Burnley Schools Sports Partnership (Burnley SSP) was fun, engaging and also great for learning new skills.
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On Thursday 20th April, it was Springfield’s first Mental Health Awareness Day. All classes accessed a number of different activities all based around mental health and well-being. We teamed up with Robert at Healthy Heads Education and The Yogi Group. The sessions included: An outdoor session all about resilience with Robert A classroom-based all based
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We were lucky enough to be invited to complete a Mental Health First Aid Training Day on Tuesday 27th September 2022 . We decided to take two children- Bitsy and Joshua- who were chosen due to their qualities within school. The two children along with Mr Coates visited Whitefield Infant School in Nelson, where we were
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Pyjamarama is about getting all children reading and helping them to enjoy it. Because if reading is fun, children will want to do it! We had a range of special activities happening throughout the day across key stage 1 and early years and we even came into school in our pjs! We also had a
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by Dominic Collis – Burnley Express Springfield welcomed the Mayor of Burnley, Coun. Anne Kelly and her consort Mr John Kelly. They were special guests in the school’s assembly where the whole school sang for them followed by the choir singing ‘Candle on the Water’. The Mayor then had the pleasure of presenting Springfield Choir
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by Dominic Collis (Burnley Express) Pupils enjoyed a wonderful week of activities centred on National Storytelling Week Key Stage 2 pupils at the school in Burnley Wood listened to “Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories”, which complemented their study of Australia and the current crisis around bushfires. They used aboriginal symbols to create their own story bracelets and
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This week (29.01.20) we looked at what it means to be respectful. Staying on the theme of attributes, we considered the characteristics and qualities that would be evident in a person that demonstrates ‘respect’. We individually created a mind map and then selected some of our ideas to create a group mind map of our
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On a weekly basis Mr Coates leads and delivers a Health and Emotional Wellbeing programme with a group of boys from Year 5. For the first week (22.01.20) the aims and outcomes for the club were discussed. Following on from this we had a discussion about how we all have attributes that we like and
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We are delighted to announce that we received the Wellbeing Award for Schools- July 2019. The report identified how we ensure that mental health and wellbeing sit at the heart of school life. Here is what the report stated: Strengths identified during verification: Leadership is a key factor in understanding the success of the school
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by Dominic Collis (Burnley Express) The children from Springfield Community Primary School in Burnley Wood took part in a Spelling Bee to decide who would represent will be for a cross school competition. Each class put forward two competitors who had learned spellings related to their year group. The two competitors for each year group
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Pupil at Springfield Community Primary School have been getting involved in conservation and recycling projects as the school aims for the Green Tree School’s Award run by the Woodland Trust. By Dominic Collis (Burnley Express) The Year Six children from the school in Oxford Road, Burnley Wood, have been enjoying the exciting Trout in the Classroom
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Today EYFS and KS1 put on an performance of ‘Whoops A Daisy Angel’ at St Catherine’s Church. A huge well done to all of our angels, shepherds, wisemen and snowflakes for their superb acting. Finally well done to Years 1 and 2, along with the choir, who sang and conducted themselves beautifully. A special thank
Springfield Choir joined QEGS Choir and Vocalise Community Choir for a fabulous musical evening – Christmas Concert Friday 13th 7pm at St Catherine’s Church Our choir sang John Rutter’s The Very Best Time of Year and a piece written especially for us by our Musical Director Mr John Garrett , Christmas Day Joining the other choirs
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As a surprise for our children, Friends of Springfield kindly paid for Trawden String Quartet to come into assembly and perform for the whole school. Our school choir joined them to sing, When a Child is Born and Away in a Manger.
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Twenty four children from Y3-6, who are part of Springfield’s choir sang for an hour at our local Burnley Tesco SuperStore. We raised £177.08 for the Make a Wish UK charity. This charity makes the last wish for termly ill children come true.
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Three children from Year 5 attended a Youth Mental Health Champion Seminar on Wednesday 27th November at Prairie Sports Village. The children were selected after delivering a short presentation about what they thought Mental Health meant and why they would make a worthy Mental Health Champion. Year 5 delivered some very interesting speeches. In the end
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At Springfield we are always finding ways to raise money for local charities. We have recently taken our fantastic choir to Jalna Care Home to sing to residents and also to various places in Burnley, raising money for good causes. Our most recent venture was taking part in a bunny hop for Pendleside Hospice. Pupils
As part of our behaviour policy, we regularly organise a treat for all of the pupils who have consistently shown green behaviour throughout the half term. This half term we took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed outside for an egg hunt on the field. Pupils had to find as many cardboard eggs as
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For world book day, pupils have had a day full of activities. Firstly, the whole school took part in a fashion show to show off their outfits. Back in class, each year group enjoyed a ‘World Book Day masterclass’ where they learnt about different authors and the techniques they used to write their books. Pupils
Foundation Gruffalos enjoyed problem solving how to get the balls from 1 ball pit to another without touching them or going on the ground. We also made broomsticks, inspired by the story ‘Room on the Broom’. Year 1 The Year 1 children went outside during their Science lesson. Our topic is Seasonal Change so
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This week saw the return of MBBC (Mr Brown’s Boys Club). For the remainder of this half term and up until the end of Autumn 2018, 11 boys will be split between 2 groups and will work with Mr Brown every Monday afternoon. The group will focus on improving skills that are not always necessarily
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The Grow your Mindset team came to conduct a whole school assembly for all the children, teachers and parents. They brought with them a giant inflatable brain, which helped get across the message that our brains need exercising every day. As part of the input we revisited how a fixed mindset differed from a growth mindset and even went into more detail about the advantages and disadvantages
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We are so proud of two Springfield students this week. Both girls wrote a story and had it sent off as part of a competition last year. This weekend was the grand final for writer of the year and although they didn’t win overall, they came first and second in Springfield! The books were collected by
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For the third week (25th June) the focus was emotional health and how we can keep ourselves emotionally healthy. The group discussed that all of us have emotional health and keeping this positive is just as important as being physically fit. We then explained that being physically and emotionally healthy can work together. It is
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For week 2 of happiness and health (18th June) the children looked at how we can keep ourselves physically healthy. As the members of the group are avid sports fans, we decided that we would look at using sport to keep ourselves physically healthy. The group split themselves in to pairs and had to complete
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For the past 3 weeks, MBBC have been working on happiness and health (Physical, Emotional and Mental Health) We have been analysing all the things that make us happy and healthy and whether the two go together. On Monday 11th June, we looked at all the different things that make us happy and why they
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This week in MBBC we focused on ‘Teamwork’. The boys already knew a lot about teamwork as most of them played/play in teams. However, this was still an important topic to cover as working collaboratively in a team can sometimes be a difficult thing even as an adult. We started the session by watching a
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Springfield school has signed up to the ‘We are Reading’ campaign and will continue to promote reading throughout the year. The campaign is aimed at all-ages, from babies to grandparents, to encourage reading for pleasure and to improve standards in reading across the curriculum. Some hard working pupils were invited to attend the open event
Mrs Brown organised an extra-curricular trip to Queen Street Mill for the more able pupils in Key Stage Two. Pupils loved learning about the running of the mill, how they powered the looms and also learning a dance, showing the life of a mill worker. They then held a performance, with the help from some
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We have had some fantastic feedback from our new homework style and homework sharing assemblies. The pupils love showing off all their hard work to other pupils and parents and then inviting them back to the classrooms.
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On Thursday 10th May, the newly formed and named (by the boys themselves) Mr Brown’s Boys Club (MBBC) had their 3rd session. The focus of this week’s session was RESILIENCE. The first 45 minutes of the afternoon was spent learning all about how we can develop our own resilience. We started by looking at overcoming
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On the 16th, 18th and 19th of April, the children of Springfield Community Primary School were taught the basic key skills of First Aid, such as calling for help, CPR, how to use a defibrillator and the Recovery Position. Malcolm Sweetlove from Sweetlove Training delivered the course to every pupil across school from Years 1-6.
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On the 16th, 18th and 19th of April, the children of Springfield Community Primary School were taught the basic key skills of First Aid, such as calling for help, CPR, how to use a defibrillator and the Recovery Position. Malcolm Sweetlove from Sweetlove Training delivered the course to every pupil across school from Years 1-6.
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For the second instalment of MBBC we focused on ‘Values’. The session started with a discussion about influences within our lives. We filled in an activity sheet about those influences rating the importance. We all agreed that the biggest influences within our lives were people within our families, then teachers and friends and finally people
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For the first week of Mr Brown’s Boys Club we worked on ‘Self-esteem’. We discussed what it meant, what it is and the benefits of having it, We talked about having pride in what we do and recognising the things we are good at. Having a goal to work towards can help us be proud
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On the 10th April, Healthy Mind UK visited Springfield Primary School as the first part of a three day project that will be conducted over the coming months. The first part of the programme was called ‘Brain child’, this workshop was delivered to all the children across school, over the course of the day. During the
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Streetscene – Year 4 Monday 12th March 2018 On Monday 12th March 2018, Year 4 were visited by Streetscene from Burnley Council. Their aim is to educate people about litter and how to dispose of litter appropriately. We were split into two groups – one group went out litter picking whilst the other group completed
On Wednesday 7th March Luke Ambler attended Springfield Community Primary School to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing. Luke Ambler is a former professional Super League and International rugby league player, playing for the likes of Halifax and Leeds Rhinos. Luke is now a public speaker, speaking in various different settings such as schools,
19th January 2018 This week has been exceptionally exciting at Springfield as the teachers all had a special mission- to get more children reading through story telling! To add to the excitement we also had two visitors in school who conducted some story telling sessions. On Wednesday Alec Williams , a trainer and speaker
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The SWAT ambassadors from Springfield got the opportunity to visit their friends at St James’ Lanehead today, as part of their ongoing work with the schools cluster. On arrival they were greeted by their head girl and boy, who were also ambasasadors. After taking part in worship, our children were split into year groups, so that they
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