Summer is here and the children are enjoying using the school fields as they play on the Eco trail and adventure playground, and prepare for Sports Day. The Cricket and swimming season is well underway.
The quiet area is very popular with its solar powered water feature and sunshade. The Gardening Club have been busy planting up the flower tubs, weeding and looking after their vegetable plot.

Infant topics this term focus on science, geography and history, and the children will be going out for lots of walks; parents are needed to help with these so if you have any availability please contact the school.

The Upper Juniors are studying mountains, and over 50 children are off to France. They leave on 13 June for Stella Plage, South of Le Touquet, where they will be applying their French speaking skills!!

As part of the County Council’s campaign to promote safety, Year 2 have the chance to bring in their bikes for a day on June 9th to learn about cycling safety, whilst Year R will have the chance to develop their road awareness through play.

FOBS has helped the school to provide each class with an interactive whiteboard. These allow all the children to see and interact with websites, CD ROMs, and a range of other resources. Apart from this FOBS has supplied sports bibs and has approved funding for the Adventure Playground.

Happy New Year from all at Brockham School! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead.
The end of last term was as frantic as usual, but thoroughly enjoyable and great fun. Many thanks to all of you who supported our Christmas Fair! It was a superb event and we are all very grateful to FOBS for their organisation and effort. We raised an excellent total in excess of £2,000. The Nativity Play was a delight as ever – it is such a special part of the season for all us proud parents! And the parties all went off extremely well, as did the traditional Carol Service at Christ Church.

So now, as is usual after the excitement and frantic activity of the Christmas term, January is a fairly quiet month. Term starts on the 4th and the children settle back into their routines with the only trip this month being made by Years 5 and 6 to the water reservoir at Bough Beech in Kent. This is part of their topic on water and rivers and they will tour the plant learning about water conservation and purification.

More dates for special events as well as a wealth of other information can be found on our website at www.brockham.surrey.sch.uk .

Alix Smith

January 2005

July 2004

And so we draw to the end of another school year. But our calendar of events is not quite over yet! Who, for instance, could forget last year’s barn dance? Well, we have scheduled a repeat performance for Saturday 17th July, with the band D’Arcy Spice once again playing and calling for us. It was a huge success last year and enjoyed by everyone so do make a date in your diary to come along.

Talking of performances, the school production of “Moving On” takes place on Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th July at 7p.m. These productions are always of outstanding quality, so look out for photographs and details on the website. Also this month there is the District Athletics Tournament at Pixham on the 1st, the District Rounders Tournament at Powell-Corderoy School on the 8th and our own school Sports Day (infants in the morning, juniors in the afternoon) on the 15th.

It is also an important time for those pupils who will be joining us next year. On July 6th there is a meeting for the parents of children entering the Junior Department in September, and on the 14th there is an induction morning for all new entrants (except Reception class). Also, Tuesday 13th July is Open Evening.

Finally, Year 6 have their farewell barbecue on Tuesday 20th before we all break up at 1.05p.m. on Wednesday 21st July. We wish you a wonderful Summer Holiday and see you when school resumes on September 1st!

Alix Smith

July 2004

June is quite an eventful month for Brockham. On the 7th and 8th Years 3 and 4 respectively are spending the day at the Educational Field Centre at Boxhill for an invaluable day of structured activities exploring this wonderful, diverse local environment. Then on June 15th Year 6 will set off on their eagerly awaited four-day trip to France. Year 5 also have a day out on the 23rd, visiting ‘Tate Britain’.

Our sporting activities continue with a Kwik Cricket tournament on Brockham cricket pitch on the 24th, for which we wish our team the best of luck.

The Barnardo’s charity is holding a concert at The Albert Hall on June 25th and we are very proud that our choir has been invited to sing there that evening. Once again we wish them all the best.
June 21st is an Inset Day, which means the children all have a day off! And on the 29th we invite the parents of all children who will be new to the school in September to come and have a look round.

On the last day of the month, not only will our school eco-committee be visiting the Earth Summit Meeting, but the Fire Brigade will also be here to talk to Years 2 and 5, and the whole school will be treated to the music of a steel band in the afternoon!

And finally, our annual Summer Fair takes place on June 26th. This is always a fantastic family event and we invite you all to come along!

Alix Smith

June 2004

April 2004

May is an important month in the school calendar because it is when teachers and pupils alike are tested as years 2 and 6 take their SATS. As ever we are sure that they will all perform to their best abilities and achieve admirable results, but we wish them luck all the same! Year 6 begin theirs on May 10th and Year 2 on May 17th.

Before they sit their SATS, however, Year 2 can look forward to a visit to the National Gallery on May 13th, and our big event this month is the Annual Maypole Dancing, to be held, weather permitting, on the village green.

As usual the school continues to raise money for various charities including Cancer Research and NCH and last term we totalled over £1,000; this is in addition to the money raised by FOBS through such things as an Alphabet competition, a Mother’s Day Sale and the Easter Egg Hunt – all of which goes to the school itself.

Alix Smith

May 2004

March 2004

Last month saw a very successful week’s visit to the Isle of Wight by Year 5. They had wonderful weather and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves, behaving well and with no mishaps!

We also celebrated World Book Week in style with a huge book –swapping event and the whole school dressing up as a character from their favourite book. It was quite a sight and there were some truly amazing costumes. Well done to everybody!

But April will now be a quiet month for Brockham School as we are away for the Easter Holidays from the 2nd until the 19th.

Our major event then, however, is the eagerly awaited swimming gala on the 28th, the first in our new pool!

May we wish you all a Happy Easter!

Alix Smith

April 2004

February 2004

March is a busy month for the school as we take part in a variety of activities from the annual visit by Year 5 to the Isle of Wight on March 1st to the Dorking Schools Group football and netball tournaments for Years 5 and 6. Our choir are also at Dorking Halls on March 15th, while Year 6 attend a Junior Citizen workshop at Epsom Racecourse on 24th March. On the more academic side, we are once again visited by the Life Education Bus for the week beginning 8th March, and Year 4 are attending an Egyptian workshop on March 9th.

Friends Of Brockham School continue with their fantastic work raising funds for the school and have just purchased a number of new reading books for Years 4 and 5. These have all been covered with sticky back plastic by volunteers. Many thanks! And FOBS will be holding a Mothers Day Sale for the children on March 19th.

Arts Week, held in January was a huge success, and thank you to everyone who helped out with painting, writing, reading, sculpture, singing and making and playing musical instruments.

Our Eco-project continues apace, with some great news of generous donations by Alexander Rose Ltd., who have given us three eucalyptus benches for the trail made from environmentally friendly sources, and SITA Waste Management have given a tree – a dogwood – for the area. Also, from the £50 donated by Wyevale Garden Centre the committee is hoping to buy some bamboo posts which can be painted in vibrant colours. The committee is also preparing a newsletter for the school website – school@brockham.surrey.sch.uk

Finally, Congratulations to our indoor athletics team who won the overall tournament at The Ashcombe School against all other primary schools in the area.

Alix Smith

January 2004

Last term was, as is usual for a Christmas term, very busy. As well as all the Christmas preparations we had a very informative workshop on drug and alcohol abuse entitled Feeling High/Feeling Low.

We were also treated to our annual Baroque to Rock concert, and auditions took place for the School Production to be performed later this term.

The Eco School Committee really took off last term too, with the first stage of building the Eco-trail well supported by teachers, parents and pupils all putting in a great physical effort to plant, dig, clear and lay paths. The results so far are stunning, with much more yet to come.

The Christmas celebrations were hugely enjoyed, with the Christmas Fair a great success, the senior citizens enjoying their concert, the parents concealing a proud tear at the Infant nativity production and the School Carol Concert as well attended as ever!

And so we now prepare for a new term, studying such projects as ‘Rocks and Soils’ (the Lower Juniors), which will involve a trip to Dorking caves and museum. We trust you all had a very enjoyable Christmas, and like Brockham School, look forward to a happy, healthy and successful New Year.

Alix Smith

October 2003

September 2003

We return to school on 3rd September and this year we are welcoming not only new pupils but also new teachers to the school:

- Mr Steele, deputy head teacher who will also be teaching Year 6

- Miss Smith teaching Year 1

- Miss Grzeszczak teaching Year 3, and

- Ms Oliver also teaching Year 3, as well as being Lower Junior Co-Ordinator

We trust they will settle in well and wish them all the best for their time at Brockham

Last year saw many fund-raising activities organised by both pupils and Friends of Brockham School (FOBS), all of which have raised a great deal of money not only for various charities, but also for the school itself and our thanks go to all those who have supported us in any way, particularly our Summer Fete.

Towards the end of last year the children began, with great enjoyment and success, to swim in the new school pool, and thi sterm it is our pleasure to announce the official opening of the pool by HRH, The Earl of Wessex on the afternoon of Wednesday 10th September.

Other events this term include a trip by Year 6 to the Isle of Wight, Years 3 and 4 will be visiting Fishbourne Roman Palace and at the end of the month our annual cycling proficiency takes place.

We are also pushing forward with our Eco-Schools Project aim of making our school more environmentally friendly. The project, headed by Miss Harper and Miss Haywood, involves Years 4 and 5 and sets out to investigate the possibility of setting aside and 'eco-area' within the school to celebrate the natural environment. Although as yet the project is in its early stages we are all very enthisiastic and excited by its potential and more information will obviously be available as it progresses.

So another school year begins and we hope it will be a happy and successful one for all our staff and pupils.

Alix Smith

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