Trip to Magna Science Exploration Centre

As part of our celebrations for British Science Week 2023, we went on a trip to Magna Science Exploration centre. We had great fun exploring the old steel works an working our way through the activities in the earth, fire, water and air pavilions. Our day was topped off with a brilliant workshop all about light to help up with our science learning for this term! 

A great day had by all! 

Celebrating the NSPCC Number Day!

On Friday 3rd February, the whole school dressed up as digits to join in with supporting the NSPCC Number Day. Inspired by the story 'Inch by Inch', classes explored measures including creating their own units of measure. The day ended with a child-led Collective Worship to celebrate and share the events of the day. Well done to everyone for raising over £100 for NSPCC!

Oak 6 Open Afternoon

We loved having the Oak 6 parents in to schoool on Monday 14th Novemeber to share our writing projects. This term we had written auto-biographies and it was a fabulous chance to reflect on our time at Kikrby and our lives so far. Thank you to everyone who came, we hope you loved reading them as much as we loved writing them. 

Residential - 2022

This week, Oak 6 have had an amazing time at Horstead House on their residential. They have loved taking part in all of the activities and have shown determination, encouragement and fabulous team work.

Well Done, Oak 6! You were a pleasure to take away.  

Construction Week

We had a brilliant time learning all about the different industries and job roles in construction today at Lincolnshire Showground. 

Shout Outs - 23rd September

This weeks wonderful winners. 

Well done to everyone this week, we loved hearing all about your learning. 

Signing the book of condolence

Our Holy Communion Service

Listening for week 3

The French people remember Queen Elizabeth too.

Shout Outs - 9th September

A huge well done to everyone who got a big shout out this week. 

Raising Aspirations - Careers Day!

We had a wonderful afternoon talking to people from lots of different businesses about their roles in the working world and the skills and qualities they need to fulfil them. 

A huge thank you to all of the volunteers that came in to talk to the children about their roles. 

'Dustbin Doris'

We had an exciting visit from the Rhubarb Theatre company who performed their show, 'Dustbin Doris'. 

We loved watching the amazing actors on stage and discussing the environmental themes after the show too. 

THANK YOU! 

Church Schools Festival - 2022

We had a lovely day at Lincoln Cathedral, attending the Church Schools Festival. A brilliant celebration of our church school family. 

Sponsored Reading Week!

Thank you to everyone who has sponsored us throughout our reading week! We have loved having time to just enjoy our books. We can't wait to have lots of new reading books in school. 

Summer Residential 2022

Oak 6 had an amazing time on their residential at the start of term. Lots of fun was had and memories were made. We took part in lots of activites, conured some fears, worked as a team and laughed our way though our two nights away at Hautbois Activity Centre in Nolfolk. 

The Hobbit - Theatre Production

To end our Access All Arts Week with a bang, we had M&M Productions in to perform their rendition of The Hobbit. The show was exhilarating and left us with lots to think about when it comes to conquering our fears on the next steps of our journey. A huge thank you to Miss Day for organising this special surprise.

Coming soon: Access All Arts Week

During the week commencing 6th June 2022, we will be taking part in Sky's Access All Arts Week. 

Butterfly Release!

 What a lovely learning experience - growing and releasing our butterflies!

NSPCC's Number Day

Thank you to everyone who took part in the NSPCC's Number Day back in the Spring Term. Together with other schools who took part, nearly £350,000 was raised which will help to run Childline.

Well done to all of the Kirkby number stars!

Ukraine Fundraiser!

The money has been counted, and Oak 5 are very pleased and proud to announce that the final total raised during our fundraising day was a staggering £343.75!

Thank you to everyone who supported our special day to raise funds for the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.

Young Voices Concert

Everyone was very excited as we attended Sheffield Arena for our Young Voices Concert.

We performed with thousands of other children and sounded amazing. It was a fantastic experience and we are already looking forward to next year!

Oak Five Ukraine Fundraiser

A huge well done and a big shout out to our fabulous children and staff in Oak Five for the amazing fundraiser they held for Ukraine, on Friday 29^th May.

Our Oak Five children came up with the ideas, organised the stalls, spread the word and created some fabulous memories for us all with the help of their brilliant staff team.

We are so proud of you all!  

Thank you to everyone who got involved in any way to support these wonderful, kind and caring children to take action and make a difference. 

Good work - 22nd April

This week our sharing worship was led by members of our school council, and they were brilliant. We loved hearing what everyone had been doing to celebrate Earth Day and there were some fabulous plastic pledges, leaflets, sea creature designs, eco-school designs... even a song!

Well done to all of our wonderful children who earned themselves a Big Shout Out certificate this week.

Amazing drumming workshop

All the children in school today had a fantastic time at our African drumming workshop learning how to play the djembe. Such enthusiasm and joy was great to see as well as amazing team building skills, working together to play in time with each other.

Thank you, Dave from Louder than Life.

Amazing French writing

Chestnut 2 class learnt about the body in French, then they drew faces to describe in French. They wrote descriptions in French on postit notes to stick on the pictures.

Thank you Mystery Readers

Lent Workshop with Reverend Helen

Comic Relief 2022

Oak 6 loved taking part in the Love Monster dash and spoon and nose race to spread awareness for Comic Relief

New Books for World Book Day 2022

⭐️ 📚 NEW BOOKS 📚⭐️

We are so lucky to have all been bought our chosen books for World Book Day! All of the children across the school chose a new book for the library to celebrate 25 years of World Book Day. We received ours yesterday and were so excited! Each book has a beautiful sticker in it, showing who chose it. We can wait to read them all! 📚⭐️ 

World Book Day - 2022

Oak Class have loved celebrating World Book Day this year. Each class chose a theme and in Year 6, we were transported to Hogwarts and enjoyed thinking about all things Harry Potter. 

We loved strutting our stuff on the catwalk and showing off our costumes; being sorted into our Hogwarts Houses; taking part in our Muggle Studies sessions; completing our very own potions sessions session; sharing books with children in Key Stage 1 and talking all about the books we love! 

Author Workshop - Emma Carroll

The children in Oak 6 loved starting their World Book Day celebrations with an author Zoom from Emma Carroll. She gave us some great tips and definitely inspired some future authors. We even got a sneak preview of her brand new book. 

Pedal Ready!

This week, our year 6 pupils have loved taking part in their bike ability training. The have learnt a whole host of new vocabulary and useful signals to keep them safe when they are out and about on the roads. 

Good Work - 25th February

Maple

This week, Maple shared a brilliant song, all about beat and rhythm.

Chestnut 1

Chestnut 1 shared what they had learnt about their focus artist: Picasso. They have created some beautiful artwork inspired by him.

Chestnut 2

Chestnut 2 demonstrated some of their brilliant learning in RE. Some children had chosen to make their own versions of the Torah. As well as this, their shared their learning about 2D shapes, including some new vocabulary: vertices.  A very busy week in Chestnut 2!

Willlow

Willow transported us to another world with their amazing setting descriptions. They had used some fantastic similes and metaphors!

Oak 5

Oak 5 took inspiration from their favourite beaches and coastal locations and practised their sketching skills. They has used their skills fabulously to create a range of tones and textures.

Oak 6

Oak 6 shared some of their emotive writing based on the book ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan.

Brass lessons

Concentrating hard in our brass lessons

Languages magazine

Some of our pupils had their work puplished in a magazine spotlighting high quality language work in primary schools,

Kirkby school prayer song

We started learning our school prayer song this week in Worship through song.

NSPCC Number Day

On Friday 4th February, we had a great time supporting the NSPCC with our number day. 

Good Work - 4th February 2022

This week, our sharing worship was led by our maths club.  The children loved sharing all of the activities they took part in on NSPCC Number day.

The maths club taught us some cool facts about the numbers we see every day. Did you know that: every odd number has an e in it? 40 is the only number spelled in alphebetical order? 4 is the only number spelled with the same number of letters as it’s value? And of all of the numbers from 1-1000, 1000 is the only one with an ‘a’ in it.

Maple

Maple told us all about their investigation into the different colour smarties in a tube. They organised and presented their findings in all sorts of ways and showed off their fabulous subitising skills.

Chestnut 1

Today, Chestnut 1 were exploring shapes that are all around us in the world, including symmetrical buildings and shapes they can see in a beehive.

Chestnut 2

Chestnut 2 have been thinking all about statistics today. They visited every class in school, collected their data and presented their pictograms and tally charts to the whole school.

Willow

Children from Willow shared the work they have been doing on word problems this week. We were transported to their shop and they helped us to make some purchases, making sure we got the right change.

Oak 5

Oak 5 shared the work they have been doing on probability today. They designed some fantasic games based around chance.

Oak 6

This week in maths, Oak 6 have been making alegbra their friend! They shared the main rule of algebra with the shole school: follow the rule/pattern!

John WIlliams - composer

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. He has composed many soundtracks for blockbuster movies such as Star Wars, Superman, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter.

Good Work - 28th January 2022

This week in: 

Maple

This week, Maple shared their car wash for bikes that they had designed and written about – their writing was excellent!

Chestnut 1 

Chestnut 1 shared their learning about maps. They had drawn some brilliant maps  explained routes from their homes to some very exciting places.

Chestnut 2 

Chestnut 2 were very excited to share their work on tally charts this week. It was very well explained.

Willow

This week, Willow shared their success at their hockey tournament. They did brilliantly and showed fabulous sportsmanship. Well done, Willow!

Oak 5 

Oak 5 shared some of their wonderful work about space this week, explaining lots of information about the planets and the moon. They also shared some of their work from geography and explained how coastlines erode.

Oak 6 

This week, Oak 6 shared their amazing version of Emily Coxhead’s Happy News. We loved hearing their everyday hero nominations.

READ ALL ABOUT IT - Oak 6 Newspaper

This week, Oak 6 have written their own newspaper inspired by Emily Coxhead's Happy News and it is  BRILLIANT! 

Read our first issue here.

Good Work - 21st January 2022

This week in:

Maple 

This week Maple shared their wonderful drawings of the world and the most beautiful things in it, including: volcanes, robins, the trees and the flowers. 

Chestnut 1

Chestnut 1 shared their wonderful writing from this week about: their pets, adventures, Star Wars and even one about Hogwarts. Lots of golden Headteacher's stickers could be spotted on their work!

Chestnut 2 

Chestnut 2 shared their beautiful letters to Earth inspired by their book Dear Earth.

Willow 

This week in Willow they have been writing some brilliant persuasive pitches for the Dragons from Dragons Den. No doubts that the Dragons will be fighting to invest in their new robot creations after hearing these pitches.

Oak 5 

Oak 5 were very proud to share their wiritng from their individual writing project. A class full of budding authors of the future. 

Oak 6 

Oak 6 shared all of their favourite parts of this week: going on their trip to the National Space Centre, writing news paper reports about the Red Eye Virus, comapring animals in the UK to those found in hot deserts and learning all about fractions, decimals and percentages.  

Well done to all of our children this week. 

BLAST OFF! - Our trip to the national space centre.

Year 5 and year 6 set out on a mission to find out all they could about space! the visited the National Space Centre to inspire their learning for this term and everyone has a blast.

The children loved exploring the universe, the solar system, sopace travel and space oddities in the interactive gallerys; having their very own tour of the night sky in the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium  and climbing the 144steps to the top of the rocket tower. 

We had great fun launching our learing for this term and can't wait to find out more! 

BLAST OFF! - Our trip to the National Space Centre.

Year 5 and Year 6 set out on a mission to find out all they could about space! They visited the National Space Centre to inspire their learning for this term and everyone had a blast.

The children loved exploring the universe, the solar system, space travel and space oddities in the interactive galleries; having their very own tour of the night sky in the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium and climbing the 144 steps to the top of the rocky tower. 

We had great fun launching our learning for this term and can't wait to find out more! 

A Big Shout Out 2021

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Seesaw

We use Seesaw digital portfolios with pupils in all classes to ensure parents are able to keep in touch with what is happening in our classrooms. Such a lot goes on in school every single day and we are passionate about sharing as much of that with our parents as possible.

Seesaw offers a window into our classrooms and places children right at the heart of the process. Our pupils post most of the content, choosing what they want to share with you and when they want to share it. When a post is published, you receive a notification and can comment on it providing a two-way communication between school and home. Our children love seeing the comments coming back following a post and parents really enjoy knowing what is happening in school.

If you have not yet consented and signed up for a Seesaw account, please speak to your child’s teacher.

Don’t miss out on all the fabulous things your children do each day!

Seesaw

We use Seesaw digital portfolios with pupils in all classes to ensure parents are able to keep in touch with what is happening in our classrooms. Such a lot goes on in school every single day and we are passionate about sharing as much of that with our parents as possible.

Seesaw offers a window into our classrooms and places children right at the heart of the process. Our pupils post most of the content, choosing what they want to share with you and when they want to share it. When a post is published, you receive a notification and can comment on it providing a two-way communication between school and home. Our children love seeing the comments coming back following a post and parents really enjoy knowing what is happening in school.

If you have not yet consented and signed up for a Seesaw account, please speak to your child’s teacher.

Don’t miss out on all the fabulous things your children do each day!

Seesaw

We use Seesaw digital portfolios with pupils in all classes to ensure parents are able to keep in touch with what is happening in our classrooms. Such a lot goes on in school every single day and we are passionate about sharing as much of that with our parents as possible.

Seesaw offers a window into our classrooms and places children right at the heart of the process. Our pupils post most of the content, choosing what they want to share with you and when they want to share it. When a post is published, you receive a notification and can comment on it providing a two-way communication between school and home. Our children love seeing the comments coming back following a post and parents really enjoy knowing what is happening in school.

If you have not yet consented and signed up for a Seesaw account, please speak to your child’s teacher.

Don’t miss out on all the fabulous things your children do each day!

Seesaw

We use Seesaw digital portfolios with pupils in all classes to ensure parents are able to keep in touch with what is happening in our classrooms. Such a lot goes on in school every single day and we are passionate about sharing as much of that with our parents as possible.

Seesaw offers a window into our classrooms and places children right at the heart of the process. Our pupils post most of the content, choosing what they want to share with you and when they want to share it. When a post is published, you receive a notification and can comment on it providing a two-way communication between school and home. Our children love seeing the comments coming back following a post and parents really enjoy knowing what is happening in school.

If you have not yet consented and signed up for a Seesaw account, please speak to your child’s teacher.

Don’t miss out on all the fabulous things your children do each day!

Please support our super cyclists!

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/rick-cassell-1?utm_term=jr6ZzJpwK

We would all like to extend a massive thank you to Mr Cassell and Mr Eke who will completing their ride on 16th October and we wish them the best of luck (and some good weather) for the big day!

Setting up a new community!

A brand new Oak class is a brand new community. At the start of the year we have looked at Lord of the Flies. It is about how a new community works. We went to the nature reserve and pretended it was a desert island like in the story. We mapped the area and tried to find things that would help us to survive. As well as objects, we thought about what skills and personalities we might need or want.

Summer Stories!

We all hope you are thoroughly enjoying your holidays! We can’t wait to hear all about the fun you’ve been having!

Aye Aye island

Get set for a thrilling journey to the South Seas and Aye Aye island. Oak class are ready to perform the end of term show. Here's a synopsis to get you in the mood...

What a clot! Lord Archibald Ffolliot-Fluffit just wants to study the fruit of the world. When the Co-op can no  longer meet his needs he decides he must set sail to foreign shores. It’s a shame he’s not too careful who he travels with. There are pirates in these parts! Will his friend Jack be able to rescue him with the help of the ambitious Horace Brewster?

Horace Brewster longs to be a captain in the Royal Navy, but he has an embarrassment in his family. His brother Herbert is a horrible pirate captain; obsessed with keel-hauling and keeping up to date with modern piratical         practices.  Just maybe there is money to made out of the odd-looking stowaway on Herbert’s ship.

When Horace learns of a pirate conference on Aye Aye     island he sees the chance to lead his rag-tag crew of         reluctant sailors to win glory by ridding the seas of all       pirates. Will Archie be caught up in the fight? Will his friend Jack be able to save him? Will Herbert ever manage to    pronounce Ffoliot-Fluffit?

 THIS IS AN EX_PARROT!

Finished cam toys

We have now finished our DT project. We made cam toys that required amazingly accurate measuring and cutting skills. We have had to learn from mistakes and solve problems as we go in order to make them work.

Delicious food!

The Farm Kitchen visited today. We all took turns to help make a delicious chicken curry. Most of us have gone home determined to make another one for tea this evening!

Outdoor Empire

We have had an extended outdoor learning time. We explored the British empire to see what was good and what was bad about it. We built shelters to suit the different countries and explored what resources came from the various parts of the empire. What a day!

Design and Technology

We are well on our way with making toys that require cam shafts. We are measuring VERY carefully so that all the component parts fit together perfectly.

Sharing assembly

We invited parents in to school today to share some of our most recent work. We covered outdoor learning, history, RE, science, values, art and more. We even made the parents learn some sign language.

Transition project

We worked with some 6th formers from QEGS on a geography project. They showed us what geography looks like in secondary school and we learnt lots about fair trade and the clothing industry. The QEGS students were brilliant and it was nice to see some old faces who were at Kirkby many years ago!

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Please click on the Roving Reporters tab to find out what has been happening in school this week!

Woodside trip

We have had an amazing day out at Woodside Falconry centre. We have learnt lots about how different animals are adapted to suit their habitats.

Cathedral trip

We had a great day out at the Church Schools Festival in Lincoln Cathedral. We learnt sign language, and how to carve stone. We also had a go at being choristers as well as a guided tour and a huge collective worship with other church schools from around the county.

Climbing Wall

The climbing wall finally arrived today. It was sooooooo much fun!

A Terrifying Adventure in the Nature Reserve!

We are so lucky to have the Nature Reserve on our doorstep. It provides us with so many learning opportunities. Today we covered Maths, English, Art and PE. As you will see in the gallery, the children's happy faces say it all.

This morning we went on an adventure to find a 'beast!' The children were thrilled and completely engrossed. We definitely have some budding actors in the class. As a result of such enthusiasm, we have ended up with some truly incredible story writing! 

Show Time!

I think we can all agree that the children in Chestnut 1 were fantastic in their assembly. This morning, they enjoyed telling us all about how proud they felt and how much they enjoyed it.

One parent has even challenged us to see how long we can plank for!! We will try and let you know. :)

Well done to Chestnut 1, from your very proud teachers. 

Garden fun

We have had a great time orienteering and playing wide games. A HUGE thank you to Mr and Mrs Hilton who kindly let us use their wonderful garden.

pollination experimentation

We have been conducting experiments to see if an artificial flower will attract insects. When compared with a control it was clear that our flowers were very attractive to all sorts of creatures.

Matchbox Artists!

We are delighted to announce that Anita Mortimer, owner of Mortimer's Art Gallery in Horncastle and an artist in her own right, will be judging our matchbox decorating competition. She has also agreed to display some of the mini matchbox masterpieces in her gallery window! Wow!

For more info. see http://www.mortimerart.co.uk/

We would like to extend a massive thank you to Anita for sparing the time to visit our school and share her expertise with us, especially as she is very busy preparing for her own show. Her work will be on show in Horncastle this weekend.

Fishy Business!

Chestnut 1 and 2 enjoyed some creativity yesterday! 

The objective was to make a fish tail for one of the group and the rest was up to them.

I am sure you will agree that the results were pretty impressive. 

Science time

We have been experimenting with the best conditions for growth of a plant by setting up a fair test. We are going to compare the control condition with the experiment condition.

We have also learnt about the reproductive process on plants. We dissected flowers to find all the different male and female parts that make new seeds.

Science time

We have been experimenting with the best conditions for growth of a plant by setting up a fair test. We are going to compare the control condition with the experiment condition.

We have also learnt about the reproductive process on plants. We dissected flowers to find all the different male and female parts that make new seeds.

Chestnut 1: A Special Visit Inspires Us

We're having an amazing week full of learning, and as always the best parts have been those that developed from the children's interests.

We have written recounts and non-fiction pages, designed our own shells using concentric shapes and tessellation. Our wonderful children even linked tessellating patterns to our maths work on doubling. There is no limit to their creativity and their ability to make links in their learning. To think all this came after a visit from a little creature called Bambam the tortoise... how wonderful!

This week we have taken our maths work outside and made arrays using the natural resources around us. We used the photographs we took to form our independent maths challenge for the week.

The children are also excited to begin our new reading incentive, so be sure to ask them about it and support them at home to 'fill their bookshelf' each week. 

Good Luck!

Wishing Grace’s mum lots of luck for the London Marathon tomorrow!

We will all be thinking of you!

Thank you for supporting us in this amazing way - you are fabulous!

Vacancy for Class Teacher

We are looking for a new class teacher to join our wonderful team!

Please see our vacancies page for more details!

Colour mixing with a difference

We used the colour wheel to create our own colour crosses. Then we decorated some of the trees in the nature reserve with gently blended colours.

New topic

We have begun our new topic on LIFE - LIKE LEMONS AND LEMMINGS with a hunt around the nature reserve.

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We are disappointed

We were really upset that our climbing wall has had to be cancelled due to vandalism. We have written letters to the vandals to express our thoughts. We hope that somehow the culprits read them.

Forgiveness

We have been looking at the importance of forgiveness. These figures show the things we like about ourselves (written in red) and some of the bad experiences we have had. The things we have done that have upset others are written in pencil, and the things others have done to upset us are written in black. We can't undo the bad things but we can forgive them or ask for them to be forgiven.If the pencil or pen is crossed out, it means that thing has been forgiven. 

There have been mistakes, but I have forgiven and been forgiven. What's left is me.

Chinese dance

We spent a day learning about Chinese dance stances, such as the dragon, the crane, the bear etc. We then put them together into a dance that helped us to control our movements and sense of panic under pressure! It was exhausting.

Book day

We have been enjoying "Billionaire Boy" by David Walliams. We have learnt a lot about money and its value.

We have also made up some silly book titles using David Walliams' list of comedy names in the chapter about Peter Bread. For example...

A visitor's guide to Egypt by Rhoda Camel

Most dangerous explosives by Imogen Dynamite

How to be a singer by Carol Singer

A family Christmas by Wayne Dear, illustrated by Mary Christmas

How to stay safe by Justin Case

We have also been inspired by Walliams to help Mrs Trafe with her menus. For example would you like to try some of the following...

Starters:

Lizard soup from a tropical island served with Royal Queen snot salad.

or

Grand cheetah spit taken from Africa, served with the finest stilton cheese. Worn, hand-knitted socks.

Mains:

Dead giant rat that is fat and is served with huge eye balls with a serving of human poo.

or

A puff pastry, filled with the finest spider legs freshly collected from Costa-Rica at sun rise. Served with shredded anaconda skin and freshly pickled Japanese eye ball salad. 

Dessert:

A melt in the mouth frog sponge with extrordinary mouse and honey bon bons.

or 

Toe nails from the biggest man on Earth served with frog urine jelly.

Drinks:

Ear wax milk shake (fresh or out of date)

or

Snail trail smoothie

Book hunt

We joined with Willow class to do a book hunt in the nature reserve.

More core values

Click on the gallery to see a sample of our core Christian values work that we have been doing in circle time. As we produce more, we will add it to this gallery.

We will be closed Friday 2nd March

Due to the adverse weather conditions, school will remain closed Friday 2 March for the safety of our pupils, their parents and our staff. Travelling in and around Kirkby on Bain is just not safe and we are not prepared to risk your safety. Please stay safe and we will see you next week.

SNOW SCHOOL!

We hope you are enjoying the snow - we would love to see what you have been up to! Can you send us some photos?

If you are running out of ideas why not try these...

How long can you make a snowball last indoors?
How quickly can you make a snowball melt outside?
Build a funny snowman
Make an artistic snow sculpture
How long a tunnel can you make in the snow?
Try painting snow with coloured water (use food colouring?) or paint
Build a sledge using only junk materials
Build the most impresssive looking sledge
What else can you think of? Get creative and send us your ideas!

Send your pictures to

maple.class@kobps.lincs.sch.uk

chestnut.class@kobps.lincs.sch.uk

willow.class@kobps.lincs.sch.uk

oak.class@kobps.lincs.sch.uk

We will remain closed tomorrow, Thursday 1st March.

Take care and stay safe!

We are closed today!

Due to the weather and driving conditions in and around Kirkby on Bain, we are closed today.

Your safety is more important. Enjoy the snow - have fun and take care!

We are closed again tomorrow

Please note: School will remain closed Thursday 1st March

Core values

We have been doing circle time on our core Christian values.

These friendship flowers show us that we can see qualities of a good friend in everyone. We each had a flower and eight random people wrote one thing they admire about us on each petal. It felt good to be told nice things about ourselves. It also helped us to realise that it's easy to be friendly towards each other even if we aren't all best friends.

WOW! What an amazing space WOW day!

Today in Maple, 18 astronauts and aliens arrived wearing incredible costumes and were set 12 space missions to complete.

They ranged from creating a colour splat solar system picture, to making a rocket take off using baking powder and vinegar, to getting your face painted, to making a pizza planet.

The children all had a space mission card and ticked off all the missions they managed to complete.

We all managed to make a pizza planet and had fun putting the toppings of our choice on and even more fun eating them!

The final mission, number 12 was the most important. It was to have great fun. Everyone achieved that one!

A Visit to Dino Park!

We were astonished this afternoon when a mystical door appeared in our classroom! Despite the surprise, the children couldn't wait to step foot through the door to explore. We are so excited to write all about our adventures tomorrow... What did they discover?

Mary Celeste

What happened on board the Mary Celeste? Have a look at our freeze frames. Can you work out what some of our ideas were as to what went on?

Messy mountains - the FINISHED PRODUCT!

Having learnt to read contours to make the mountains, we learnt about the different environmental zones on a mountain. As you climb a mountain the scenery changes. We used this to decorate our models. Then we put them together to create a mountain range.

Messy Mountains

We have made paper mache mountains. First we learnt to read contour lines on a map. Then we selected an area from a map of the Cairngorms to make a 3D model of. It was pretty messy!

Superhero Wow Day!!!

The children had lots of fun today being superheroes.  They began the day by cleaning up the classroom of kryptonite.  The mission was to clean up all the kryptonite using only a straw!  The superheroes managed it just in the nick of time.

The next mission was to rescue Captain America's shield.  The only problem was they had to get through a maze of lazers and try not to ring the bells.  Lots of superheroes managed this.

Mission 3 was to free Spiderman from the icy den he was frozen in.  The superheroes worked in groups to decide how they could set him free.  There were lots of ideas -using hammers to get him out, spoons, forks but the idea that worked best was using warm water to thaw the ice.  Spiderman was SAVED!!!

There were lots of other activities as well throughout the day, including designing superhero passports and creating comic strips on the laptops.

A great day was had by all!!!!

Rainbow Day - an update!

I am sure you will be aware of the valuable work that Rainbows Hospice do from previous correspondence and via your child/children following discussions in class.

They make a massive difference to the lives and emotional wellbeing of many families, including one of our own. We are delighted to have been able to make a contribution to help them continue their great work. Our recent fundraiser raised £99.58!

Our pupils will be finding out more about Rainbows Hospice in school and will have a chance to ask questions when a representative visits us to collect our cheque. It will be brilliant to find out about their work first-hand.

We have already supported many charities this year. If anyone has a cause that is important to them, especially if there is a direct connection to our pupils, please let us know. We would be very happy to help if we can.

Investigating shadows!

As part of our science work, we have been exploring shadows and how we can change the size of the shadows.

a wonderful Greek feast

At the end of our topic on Ancient Greece we made and tasted some Greek food. There was loads of measuring to do and changing recipes using fractions. Fun maths!

Today we have been exploring the dark!!

We began thinking about what is different about night and day. 

We worked out that the sun gives us our light and when it is daytime, it lights up our world.

At night our country is facing away from the sun. So we have to find other sources of light! 

We decided to explore this and so went into a dark cupboard! We were not afraid of the dark and sang a song to help us be brave!!

We tried lots of different things to make light in our dark cupboard. 

Ask us to tell you what we discovered!!

Exciting Times!

Our recently qualified playleaders are now a well-established part of our lunchtime breaks; we have some new storage for exciting equipment and our playground is beginning to evolve!

Watch this space for further developments!

If you have any pipe, cable reels, large boxes, milk crates, cardboard tubes or any other exciting bits and pieces that our pupils might enjoy building with or investigating, please let us know.

Welcome Back and Happy New Year to you all!

We would all like to wish you a very happy new year and to wish you lots of happiness and joy for 2018!

It was lovely to see the usual morning stream of excited children enthusiastically making their way into school and the classrooms have been alive with holiday memories.

School is alive again!

Merry Christmas to you all!

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a fabulous new year from all of us!

We hope you enjoy your holiday and we look forward to hearing all about your highlights in January 2018!

Take care and stay safe...

with best wishes and kind regards from all at KOB!

Friday 8th December: Christmas Fever hits KOB!

Christmas Carol Service and Nativity

Wow! What a wonderful day!

Two spectacular services have really sparked our Christmas spirit... photos to follow!

Well done everyone - you were all amazing!

Well done to our fantastic footballers!

Congratulations to our fantastic footballers who made it to the U11 finals in Sleaford yesterday. They played brilliantly, earning 4th place overall. Well done to all of you!

Well Done! We raised £99.41 for Children in Need!

Many thanks to our School Council Representatives for organising and advertising our event.

Just in case you missed it on the newsletter!

Today's Trip!

Maple are in the Horncastle News this week!

The First of our Flutter!

Thank you!

Well Done and Thank you!

Thank you for rising to the challenge!

Well done and thank you to everyone who took part - I hope you all got your certificates!

We are pleased to display the 'prototype' version of our official school thank you card!

This is a collaborative card created from 5 different designs submitted by children of different ages and we think it looks amazing!

Our successful design team were: Elsie (Oak), James (Chestnut), Eryn (Chestnut), River (Maple) and Sam (Oak).

Unfortunately, we didn't get an entry from Willow until this morning and the design had already been created. Don't worry Willow! More challenges to follow! 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend! Stay safe and have fun!

We're back!

It has been wonderful to welcome our children back to school this morning.

They have breathed life into the classrooms and school itself.

We hope you all had a fantastic summer!

What a show!

The wonderfully talented children in Oak Class presented their version of Bugsy Malone today in St Mary's Church. There were some fabulous performances including excellent solo singing parts. For more photos, please visit the picture gallery.

A beautiful day for sport

The children took part in a variety of sporting activities during sports day on our school field including running races, obstacle races, egg and spoon, skipping and slow bicycle! They competed in their house groups with Magpies (blues) gaining the most points during the morning. After the sporting events, the children, parents and staff enjoyed a picnic together. After lunch, there was a surprise for Mr Morley (who will be leaving the school at the end of term) as each class sang a song they had written themselves.

For more pictures, please visit the picture gallery.

Our prayer walk

Friday 26 May 2017
Term 5 ended with a very special prayer walk. Revd Roy joined us as we walked from the school hall and through the church yard stopping at different places to say a prayer. Each class had written their own special prayer to say. The prayer walk finished with the Lord's Prayer; a beautiful end to term on a beautiful day.

Peacemakers

Monday 22 May 2017
The children in year 4 and year 5 have undertaken high quality peer mediator training delivered by external specialist, Phil Bence. This training forms part of our peacemakers approach in school. To find out more about this, please visit our peacemakers page.

Wide games, orienteering and bear hunts!

Thursday 11 May 2017
The children in Oak Class visited a kind neighbour's garden to do some orienteering and to play wide games.

Meanwhile, the children in Maple Class ventured into our amazing nature reserve to go on a bear hunt. They had to tackle all kinds of obstacles including mud and snow storms. They couldn't go under them or over them so they had to go through them!  

Our brilliant year 5s!

Friday 5 May 2017
This week, all of the children in year 5 took part in Bikeability.  Over the two days, they learned how to ride a bike safely on the roads and all of them achieved both level 1 and level 2 -  an amazing achievement!

An amazing visit from an Olympic athlete!

Szandra Szogedi, an Olympic judo athlete, visited our school. Szandra talked to the children about her experiences including taking part in the Olympic Games in Rio. She talked about nutrition, respect, dedication and not giving up. During the afternoon, Szandra led the children through a variety of sponsored exercises. £250 of the money raised went directly to our school.

A beautiful Easter service

Tuesday 28 March 2017
The children in Chestnut and Willow led a wonderful Easter service in St Mary's Church. They put on a performance of "Amazing Love", a classic retelling of the Easter story. To see more pictures, please visit the gallery.

A sea of red on Red Nose Day

Friday 24 March 2017
On Red Nose Day, the children raised money by coming to school dressed in red, as one of the noses or in a weird, wacky and wonderful outfit. Everyone looked great!

Good news for the birds!

Friday 17 March 2017
The children in Willow Class have been busy making bird feeders for the school's cairn garden...

Books, books, books!

Thursday 2 March 2017
To celebrate World Book Day, the children (and staff) dressed up as a favourite book character. As well as this, there was a whole school "book swap". Every child in the school was able to choose a new book to take home and enjoy. Thank you to all our families for supporting this idea so enthusiastically.

Shiny new wall bars!

Wednesday 22 February 2017
The children returned to school, after a week's holiday, to find that some brand new wall bars had been installed in the school hall. The money to pay for the apparatus was raised by the children themselves who took part in various sponsored events last year. JB's Sports, our external sports coaches, generously donated some money towards the cost too - our thanks go to them. The wall bars will be used during physical education lessons by children in all of our classes.

Space wow day

Thursday 9 February 2017
The children in Maple Class have enjoyed a fabulous day full of space missions and adventures including: playing the paint splat game; making a rocket to be fired using a straw; launching a rocket using vinegar and baking powder; making moon sand and exploring with it; making moons using puffy paint; calculating and building to play the "build your rocket" game; writing an astronaut log whilst lying on the floor and writing on the underside of a table and making pizza planets - yum yum!

For more pictures please visit the galleries.

Dance, artwork and food

Thursday 26 January 2017
The children in Oak Class and Willow Class have enjoyed working with Sunita Patel of the India Experience to create wonderful dance, produce beautiful artwork and enjoy delicious food. Their work will culminate in a wonderful collaborative performance with children from the other schools in our partnership. This will take place at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness on 30 March.

Let's play ukulele!

Friday 13 January 2017
The children in Willow Class enjoyed a brilliant whole class ukulele session today. Their first lesson took place last week and lessons will continue up until Easter.

Busy learning at the start of a new term...

Wednesday 4 January 2017
It's day one of a brand new term and the children in Maple Class have been busy planning their new role play areas!

Happy New Year

Monday 2 January 2017
Happy New Year to all of our families. The new term begins on Wednesday 4 January... 

Happy Christmas!

Tuesday 20 December 2016
Our Christmas carol service took place in St Mary's Church. During the service, children in Oak Class read from the bible, some children performed Christmas carols on flute, clarinet and piano and others shared special prayers they had written. All of the children sang Christmas songs they had been learning and the children in Maple Class performed a wonderful traditional nativity. For more pictures from the service, please visit the galleries.

All of the staff and governors here at Kirkby on Bain would like to wish all of our families a very happy Christmas. We look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Wednesday 4 January 2017.

What a busy week!

Thursday 8 December 2016
This week has been a wonderfully busy week at our school.

On Monday, some of the children attended a lovely Christingle service at St Mary's Church led by Revd Margaret.

On Tuesday, Willow Class enjoyed a brilliant Roman wow day that included a decadent Roman feast.

On Wednesday a child in Chestnut Class had a haircut in aid of the Little Princess Trust and our year 6 school councillors visited the Houses of Parliament alongside school councillors from other nearby schools.

Today, the children in Oak Class took part in the Church Schools Carol Concert at Lincoln Cathedral.

Tomorrow, some of our children will be singing in the carol service at the Woodhall Spa Christmas market.

What great week, with much more still to come before Christmas!

Oak's amazing pizza project

Friday 2 December 2016
This week, the children in Oak Class have been learning science, design and technology, English, maths and much much more through their brilliant pizza project. On Monday, they evaluated shop-bought pizzas. On Tuesday they gathered data and planned their very own pizzas. On Wednesday, they made their own pizzas and enjoyed eating them! On Thursday, they designed mini pizza boxes and on Friday they created TV adverts. Wow - so much learning...and fun!

Healthy week

Friday 25 November 2016
This week has been "healthy week" in school and the children have worn their PE kits all day, every day. Each morning has started with twenty minutes of exercise in the playground and various health related activities have taken place in classes.

Saxon wow day!

Wednesday 16 November 2016
The children in Oak Class enjoyed a wonderful Saxon wow day. During the day they dressed up as Saxons; developed their archaeology skills; explored textiles; learned about weapons and enacted a battle. For more pictures of the day, please visit the gallery.

We will remember them

Friday 11 November 2016
Today, at 11 o'clock, the children and staff stopped to remember all those who have died in wars around the world. Eleven chimes were sounded, the poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon was recited and everyone stood in a circle for a period of silence.

Plans afoot in our nature reserve

Wednesday 2 November 2016
At the last Nature Reserve Group meeting, the representatives from each class decided that the following meeting should take place in the nature reserve itself so that they can make plans for the academic year. The children had lots of ideas for the reserve including re-development of the "learning lounge" area and the creation of a brand new "butterfly garden". Watch this space as the children may soon be asking for some help from parents and members of the local community!

Our harvest festival

Tuesday 18 October 2016
Our harvest festival took place today at St Mary's Church. During the service, the children in Maple Class performed a "Little Red Hen" rap, the children in Chestnut Class sang "Big Red Combine Harvester", Willow Class read some of their harvest poetry and the children in Oak Class shared their harvest anagrams and enlightened us as to who does all the work at harvest time! Thank you to all of the parents and carers for the generous donations of food that will be taken to the Nomad Trust, a charity for the homeless.

People who help us

Tuesday 11 October 2016
The children in Chestnut Class enjoyed a brilliant "wow day". They spent the day learning about people who help us. Some children dressed up as doctors and nurses, some as fire-fighters and police officers and others as teachers. During the day, they explored a real police van and listened to its siren, they learned about first aid and how to sign using British Sign Language.

Beautiful stones

Monday 3 October 2016
The new children in our school laid a special stone on our cairn today. Some of the stones had been decorated whilst others had been chosen for their natural beauty. Some were found on the beach whilst others were collected from the garden. All of them were special and were laid on our cairn to represent a sense of belonging to the school.

Unstoppable!

Tuesday 27 September 2016
Children in years 5 and 6 represented the school in the JB's Sports inter-school league football tournament. Our team won all of their matches and ran out winners of the tournament overall. This qualifies them for a place in the regional finals!

Lots of sand and gravel!

Friday 23 September 2016
Oak Class have been learning about how land use has changed in the local area and on Thursday they visited Woodhall Spa Sand and Gravel to find out about it first hand. Please visit the picture galleries to see more photographs.

Celebrating achievements!

Friday 16 September 2016
In today's "good work" assembly, we heard all about the learning opportunities and achievements that have taken place this week.

Lord of the Flies

Friday 9 September 2016
This week, the children in Oak Class have been learning about forming a community. As part of this work, they acted out scenes from William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" in our wonderful nature reserve.

Lots of smiles

Monday 5 September 2016
A brand new academic year begins today!

It was wonderful to see all the children arriving at school this morning. They are already settled and have begun learning new and exciting things.

Flag competition winners!

Tuesday 30 August 2016
The summer break is nearly over and the new academic year is nearly upon us. A new school year is always exciting as we think about all of the wonderful learning opportunities that lie ahead.

During the holidays, some of our children went to Wolds View Garden Centre in Horncastle to officially unveil their new flag which was designed by one of our children and is now flying high outside the garden centre. The school will receive a £500 voucher to spend on plants and equipment which is fantastic news. We're so proud of our competition winners! Here is a link to an article in the Horncastle News.

All of the staff here at Kirkby on Bain are very much looking forward to welcoming the children into school on Monday 5 September.

Dream on

Wednesday 20 July 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Oak Class decided to put on a production of "Dream On", a modern day version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as their end of year production. There were some wonderful performances and the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Please click here to view more photos.

Delicious and refreshing!

Wednesday 13 July 2016
The children in Willow Class have had a fantastic "enterprise week" this week. Their aim was to make a profit by selling delicious and refreshing summer snacks and drinks. They have carried out surveys, marketed their products (including amazing radio adverts), created their products and then sold them to the other children in the school who were very impressed!

Join in the fun at our summer fete!

Tuesday 5 July 2016
The annual Friends summer fete takes place this Friday after school (3.30-6pm) in the school hall and on the playground. There will be a variety of stalls and games to enjoy. Many of the children will be running stalls including Chestnut's cake stall. Here is a message from them:

Please come to Chestnut's cake sale. We have lemon drizzle, Victoria sponge, chocolate cakes, ice cream cakes, cake pops and gingerbread men. 

Poster below designed by Katie:

Happy days!

Thursday 30 June 2016
All of the children took turns to vote for their preferred name for our new after school provision today. The event helped the children to understand how democracy works. The winning name was "Happy Days" which was suggested by a child in Maple Class.

"Happy Days" club is open every weekday and provides child care for the children who attend our school. Please click here to find out more information including prices. 

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

Thursday 23 June 2016
Maple and Chestnut enjoyed a brilliant day at Skegness today. Maple went to the Skegness Aquarium and Chestnut visited Natureland before meeting up for fun on the beach and in the sea.

A very wet "nature day"

Tuesday 21 June 2016
On Monday, all of the children took part in a variety of "nature themed" activities on our Nature Day. There was den building, squirrel courses, pond dipping, natural art, potato printing, bug hotel investigations and moth trapping. The day went on despite the rain and although everyone got wet, lots of learning took place as well as plenty of fun!

For more pictures, please visit the picture gallery.

Sponsored fun!

Thursday 16 June 2016
The children took part in their chosen sponsored event this morning. Some danced, some skipped and some took part in a gruelling obstacle course on the field. All of the children performed superbly. We are raising money for some PE wall bars in out hall which will enhance our gymnastics lessons.

All sponsorship forms and collected money should be brought into school by Friday 1 July please.

Flower investigation

Friday 10 June 2016
The children in Oak Class carried out an investigation to see if artificial flowers attracted insects in the same way real flowers do. They made their own paper flowers then set off to find out...

Did you know that Victorians invented afternoon tea?

Friday 27 May 2016
Oak Class have been learning about the Victorians. This week, they made treats to enjoy their own version of a Victorian afternoon tea!

Church Schools' Festival

Tuesday 17 May 2016
Oak Class attended the Church Schools' Festival at Lincoln Cathedral. During the day, they made a church organ, acted out a poem and were given a tour of the amazing building. After lunch, they took part in a very special service during which our school banner was paraded. To see some pictures of the event, please go to the Galleries.

Pre-historic discoveries!

Tuesday 10 May 2016
Willow Class visited Flag Fen in Peterborough. They did lots of exciting things such as making interactive time-lines and bronze-age clay pots. They listened to a story in a round house and looked at some real artefacts from pre-historic times. To view more pictures, please visit the Galleries.

Bikes in the sunshine

Tuesday 3 May 2016
Children in year 5 undertook their "bikeability" training today. They learned how to ride a bike safely on the roads.

Maple Class: party planners

Monday 25 April 2016
Last week, days of planning culminated in a superb party wow day in Maple Class. The children planned and prepared for all aspects of the day. This included baking their very own cake from scratch all by themselves. For more pictures, please click here.

Gathering evidence in Willow Class

Friday 15 April 2016
In Willow Class, the children are learning about history from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age. This week, they learned how to gather evidence without relying on written information by (very carefully) exploring the classroom bins for clues!

Roll back the stone

Tuesday 22 March 2016
The children in Chestnut and Willow took part in a wonderful production as part of our Easter service in St Mary's Church this morning. There were some fine acting performances as well as great singing including impressive solos and duets. To view some pictures, please visit the galleries.

A delicious enterprise week

Thursday 17 March 2016
This week, Oak Class took part in an "enterprise week". They decided to make and then sell a variety of delicious Asian cuisine in the school hall to the other children and staff. The children planned the event from start to finish and even managed to make a small profit. To view photos of the event, please go to the gallery.

Tree planting fun

Wednesday 9 March 2016
This week, artist Christopher Wiles provided all of the children in our school with the opportunity to plant a tree on a 2.5 acre site on the Scrivelsby Estate as part of the Woodland Project. The project aims to engage people from across the county in the creation of a new woodland habitat. The children really enjoyed the experience. To view photos of some of the children planting trees please go to the gallery.

Egyptian wow day

Wednesday 2 March 2016
This week, the children in Willow Class enjoyed a fantastic wow day with an Egyptian theme. During the day, they explored "Tutankhamun's tomb", made Egyptian jewellery, translated hieroglyphics and discovered artefacts in the sand.

Superheroes!

Wednesday 10 February 2016
The children in Chestnut Class enjoyed an exciting superhero wow day today. They dressed up as a chosen superhero, rescued teddy from the web maze, saved the classroom from the kryptonite the evil Dr Draco had put everywhere and wrote invisible messages using lemon juice.

Our hall is officially open!

Monday 1 February 2016
Today, our wonderful new school hall was officially opened by The Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, Bishop of Lincoln as part of a very special collective worship in the hall itself. All the people who had helped to make our new hall a reality also attended as well as parents and local residents. For more pictures, please visit the gallery.

Multi-skills

Tuesday 26 January 2016
This term, some of the younger childen in our school have been enjoying multi-skills. The club is run by Mr Brown from JB's Sports and takes place in our new school hall.

Violins galore!

Tuesday 12 January 2016
Today, all of the children in Willow Class enjoyed their first whole class violin lesson. It will be great to see how they get on over the coming weeks!

A wonderful first week back at school

Friday 8 January 2016
The first week of the new term has been brilliant. The children and staff have enjoyed using our new school hall (for examples, please view our Twitter account below) and the children in Chestnut have explored their brand new outdoor learning area (pictured). We are all looking forward to an exciting term to come...

New year, new hall!

Sunday 3 January 2016
The governors and staff would like to wish all of our families and the local community a very happy and peaceful new year. 2016 has begun and a brand new term at school starts on Tuesday 5 January, following a training day for the staff on the Monday.

Exciting news! Our brand new hall is officially ready to use (see pictures below). Over the coming weeks, we will be adding furniture and equipment to our hall using money we have raised thanks to amazing support from the children and their families. We may need to raise money for specific items for our hall in 2016 so watch this space...

Happy Christmas

Thursday 10 December 2015
Our annual carol service took place today at St Mary's Church. There were readings, carols, a Christmas ensemble and the children in Maple Class performed a wonderful Nativity. To see more pictures from the service, please visit the gallery.

Learning through play

Friday 4 December 2015

The children in Maple Class have decided to build a Santa's Grotto in their role play area. Not only have they had lots of fun, they have also learned lots too. They have written letters to Father Christmas and they have estimated the size of wrapping paper they will need to wrap a present.

 

Look at our beautiful school hall!

Friday 20 November 2015
We are all getting very excited about our brand new school hall. Everything is on track for it to be completed by Christmas! In 2016, we will use the hall for some of our PE lessons, to eat our lunches, for collective worship and for school events to name just a few things. Our recent sponsored run raised an amazing £2174.85 for the hall thanks to the support of our wonderful parents and children.

Children in Need

Friday 13 November 2015
Today, the children and staff dressed up in aid of Children in Need. There were super heroes, book characters, film characters and the staff, for some reason, were all dressed as dominoes! We also had extra visitors to the school as lots of teddies, many of whom were dressed up too, were brought into school. We raised a grand total of £190.40 for the charity!

We will remember them

Wednesday 11 November 2015
At 11am today, all the children, staff and volunteers gathered in the playground to remember all those who have died in wars. One child sounded eleven chimes after which a period of silence was observed. At the end of the silence another child read "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon.

Running for our school hall

Tuesday 3 November 2015
Today, all of the children, the staff and lots of parents and other relatives took part in a sponsored run to raise money for our brand new school hall which is due to be completed by Christmas. Mrs Scarbro led everyone in a fantastic warm up then we all ran, jumped, hopped, skipped and side-stepped around the school field. Some even attempted three-legged laps!

The Kirkby Voice has arrived!

Thursday 22 October 2015
Today saw the launch of the "Kirkby Voice", a brand new school newspaper. It contains a variety of interesting articles written by members of our Press Gang club run by Mrs Ward. The first edition went on sale today and by the end of the day extra copies were needed as it was so popular! Pictured are just some of the proud Press Gang club members.

A Greek feast

Friday 16 October 2015
Oak Class have spent two mornings preparing a Greek feast. The children cooked five different dishes and then dressed up in togas to enjoy the banquet.

A healthy start to the day

Tuesday 6 October 2015
This week is our "healthy week". The children have learned about keeping healthy in a variety of different ways and the staff and children have started each day with twenty minutes of exercise!

New stones have been laid

Monday 28 September 2015
Today, our special cairn ceremony took place. All of the new children brought a stone to school to lay on the cairn. Each stone had its own story. One came from Spain, others came from the beach and some from the garden. Some had been beautifully decorated and others had been inscribed with names. To see more pictures of this event, please visit the gallery.

Vikings!

Thursday 24 September 2015
This week, Willow Class enjoyed a wonderful wow day during which they were immersed in the world of Vikings! During the day, they dressed up in Viking clothing, took part in a battle, investigated artefacts and named their own Viking village. Visit the gallery for more pictures.

Everybody's building!

Tuesday 8 September 2015
The children in Maple Class have been inspired by the new school hall that is being built right next to their outdoor learning area. First-hand learning in action! 

Thank you for all the smiles in our school

Thursday 3 September 2015
How wonderful it was to see all of the children arriving at school today for a brand new academic year at Kirkby on Bain! The children in Maple Class had a great first day and already seem very settled and happy. Children in the rest of the school are already engaged and ready to learn. We can't wait for the exciting learning opportunities to come...

Back to school soon!

27 August 2015
All of the staff here at Kirkby on Bain are very much looking forward to welcoming the children into school on Thursday 3 September.

Another academic year draws to a close...

Wednesday 22 July 2015
The academic year concluded today with a very special leavers' service at St Mary's Church during which we said farewell to all the children in year 6,as well as Mrs Stow and Mrs Beardmore who we shall miss very much. The children shared their memories of the school and we were treated to some lovely musical performances. End of year trophies and shields were awarded too. Yesterday, a wonderful talent show took place. You can view more pictures of this in the gallery. The talent show was followed by a brilliant year 6 barbecue in the EYFS outdoor area.

Thank you to all of the staff, governors, Friends, parents and carers and of course all of the children for another great year at Kirkby on Bain. We hope you have an enjoyable summer break and look forward to welcoming to you back to school on Thursday 3 September.

Ocean Commotion

Wednesday 15 July 2015
The children in Oak Class gave a wonderful performance of "Ocean Commotion" in St Mary's Church today. There were some spectacular acting and singing performances including some amazing solos. To view more photos, please visit the gallery.

Who turned out the lights?

Friday 10 July 2015
Today was the Lincolnshire schools "Switch Off Challenge" at Kirkby on Bain and in many other schools around the county.  The children and staff switched off unnecessary lights, appliances and devices in an attempt to save as much energy as possible, Pictured are the school's Lincolnshire Carbon Ambassadors (LCAs) pointing out our "go for it green" stickers on the light switches and some of the posters the children have made.

A fine day for sport

Wednesday 1 July 2015
Last week, the children took part in a wonderful sports day. Great technique and skills were shown during the event as well as lots of perseverance and resilience. After the races, the children, staff and parents who were able to attend, enjoyed a picnic lunch together. To view more photos of the event, please visit the gallery.

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

Tuesday 23 June 2015
Last week. the children in Maple Class visited Skegness. While they were there, they went to Natureland where they saw lots of wildlife including seals, penguins and meerkats. They also enjoyed a wonderful time on the beach which involved walking through some really squidgy mud! To see some more pictures of the trip please visit the gallery.

Nature day

Wednesday 17 June 2015
All of the children took part in a wonderful nature-themed day today. The children chose from a variety of exciting outdoor activities led by teachers and external specialists from the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. There was den-building, natural art, mini-beast hunting and nature walks. Many of the activities took place in school's fantastic nature reserve. To view more pictures of the day, please visit the gallery.

The campers return!

Monday 8 June 2015
The children and staff from Oak Class returned from their exciting camping trip to the Peak District on Friday. They were a little grubbier than they were when they set off on the previous Tuesday but had lots of exciting stories to tell. Please visit the gallery to view some pictures of their experiences.

Nepal Earthquake Appeal: toast and toys

Thursday 21 May 2015
The children in Maple Class decided that they would like to support the Nepal Earthquake Appeal. They organised a toast and toys day in school. They sold second hand toys that had been kindly donated by families in the school and they made toast to order for the other children in the school. A fantastic £113.33 was raised! To view more pictures of the event, please go to the gallery.

  

Singing for charity

Friday 15 May 2015
One of the children in year 5 sang for charity today. She decided to do a sponsored sing to raise money for two charities: The British Red Cross, the school's nominated charity of the year and Cancer Research; two very worthwhile causes. The crowds gathered after school to enjoy her brave and wonderful performance on what was a fine, sunny day! £312.35 was raised.

 

Bikeability

Tuesday 5 May 2015
Children in year 5 undertook their "bikeability" training today. Amongst other things, they learned how to ride a bike safely on the roads.

Learning together

Wednesday 29 April 2015
Working and learning together is very important to us at Kirkby on Bain. Pictured below are some of the children in Chestnut Class working together this week to solve a mathematical problem.

An exciting new term...

Thursday 16 April 2015
Welcome back to a brand new term at Kirkby on Bain. The staff here are very much looking forward to the variety of exciting learning experiences planned between now and the end of the academic year. Already, the children are becoming immersed in their new topics. Pictured are two of the children in Maple Class exploring their “soil kitchen”

Happy Easter

Thursday 26 March 2015
At our Easter service in church, the children in Chestnut and Willow performed "Resurrection Rock", a re-telling of the Easter story. The performance included singing, solos and some fine acting performances! At the service Rev Margaret gave out palm crosses to every child and member of staff. Please visit the gallery for more pictures of the service.

Term ends on Friday 27 March for the Easter holiday and re-opens for children on Tuesday 14 April. The staff and governors at Kirkby on Bain wish all the children and their families a very happy Easter.

Red Nose Day fun!

Friday 13 March 2015
Today the children and staff made their faces "funny for money" as we raised money for Comic Relief. It was also a non-uniform day. Lots of children wore red and others came dressed in a variety of wonderful outfits. To see more pictures, please go to the gallery.

Sporting success!

Monday 9 March 2015
Our brilliant Quicksticks team took part in an inter-school Quicksticks competition today. They performed superbly and came away winners! Congratulations to all of the children from all of the schools who took part and thank you to JB's Sports for running the event.

A school full of book characters...

Thursday 5 March 2015
For World Book Day, the children and staff dressed up as book characters. There were some wonderful costumes! As well as this, lots of the children entered a book cover design competition. Congratulations go to Tamara Frost-Phillips, Amy Pye, Tristan Cull and Annie Roberts who were the winners. The entries were judged by Kath Fairs from The Book Fayre in Woodhall Spa and each child received a book token as a prize. To view more pictures from the day, please go to the gallery.

Fun maths in Chestnut Class

Friday 27 February 2015
The children in Chestnut Class have been enjoying a variety of mathematical activities both inside and outside the classroom.

Welcome to the smoothie bar!

Thursday 12 February 2015
The children in Maple Class decided to create a "smoothie and juice bar" role play area in their classroom. They have been writing recipes and menus in their play and, this week, they made real smoothies using a variety of exciting and delicious ingredients.

Snow!

Tuesday 3 February 2015
Snow has fallen in Kirkby on Bain and the children have been enjoying themselves!

Enter the Dragon's Den...

Wednesday 28 January 2015
The members of the School Council and the Nature Reserve Group gave presentations to three of our parents today. The children asked for money from the Friends Committee to buy new playground toys and storage as well as bat boxes, insect hotels and owl nesting boxes for our nature reserve. All three of the dragons were "in" so the children were successful in their bids! For more photos, please visit the gallery.

Be safe, be seen

Friday 23 January 2015
Today, the children dressed in bright, colourful, fluorescent and reflective clothing to raise awareness of the importance of being seen in the dark. The day was organised by our two Junior Road Safety Officers, both in Oak Class. They selected three children in each class as being the most bright and reflective and Carole Hatt, Road Safety Advisor, joined us to help present the wining children with their prizes.

Woodland project

Monday 12 January 2014
Artist, Christopher Wiles worked with all of the children today as part of the Woodland Project which is part funded by the Arts Council England through the National Lottery. The aim of the project is to engage people from across the county in the creation of a new woodland habitat to coincide with a solo exhibition of his Photorealist Paintings and Drawings at the Collection, Lincoln in 2016. He is working with a number of schools and community groups across Lincolnshire and each participant in the workshop programme will produce a piece of work to be shown during the exhibition. Today, the children drew a picture of something they like or enjoy or a picture of what they would like to be when they grow up on a single leaf which was then stuck onto a wonderful tree display (pictured below).

What's cooking?

Wednesday 7 January 2015
At the moment in Maple Class, the indoor role play area is an exciting cafe. Whilst playing, the children write menus, take orders and payment, enjoy delicious meals and prepare the meals for the customers in the kitchen area.

Happy New Year!

Sunday 4 January 2015

All of the staff at Kirkby on Bain would like wish the children, parents, carers, governors and members of the local community a very happy New Year.

Happy Christmas!

Wednesday 17 December 2014
Our annual carol service took place on Monday in St Mary's Church. There were readings, carols, a special Christmas ensemble and the children in Maple Class performed their wonderful Nativity. Pictured are the children in Maple Class arriving at the church for the afternoon performance.

On Tuesday, all of the children and staff went, by coach, to Coningsby Community Centre for a fabulous Christmas feast organised by the Friends. Thank you to all the parents and other volunteers who donated or helped on the day.

To see pictures of the carol service and the Christmas dinner, please visit the Gallery.  

Term ends on Thursday of this week. School re-opens on Tuesday 6 January 2015. All of the staff at Kirkby on Bain would like wish the children, parents, carers, governors and members of the local community a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Roman wow day

Friday 5 December 2014
The children in Willow Class enjoyed an exciting Roman themed wow day today. They dressed in Roman clothing and participated in Roman based activities throughout the day including a magnificent feast! To see some more pictures of the day, please go to the gallery.

Also this week, Chestnut Class organised and ran a very successful toy sale as part of their enterprise week. They raised a fantastic £63.70 which will be donated to LIVES. To see pictures, please visit our gallery.

Operation Christmas Child

Friday 28 November 2014
This week, a pile of beautifully wrapped presents were collected from school by the charity Samaritan's Purse. The gifts will be transported abroad and given to children in need around the world. Some of the children who donated the presents helped load them onto the van!

Super Saxons

Friday 21 November 2014
Oak Class enjoyed a wonderful "wow day" today which was kindly subsidised by the Friends. The children took part in a Saxon themed day. They dressed up, explored textiles, weaponry, archaeology and learned about daily life. They even re-enacted the battle of King Ecfric. Please go the gallery to view more photos.

What a super day!

Friday 14 November 2014
To raise money for Children in Need, we had a non-uniform day.  Many of the children and staff came to school dressed as superheroes and some brought their favourite teddy to school. Everyone gave a donation and all of the money raised will go to the Children in Need charity. We raised a grand total, including sales of wrist bands and key rings, of £226.95! To view more photos from the day please visit the Gallery.

We will remember them

Tuesday 11 November 2014
At 11am today, all the children, staff and volunteers gathered in the playground to remember all those who have died in wars. One child read "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon after which a period of silence was observed. At the end of the silence another child sounded eleven chimes.

Our nominated charity

Monday 3 November 2014
Recently, Chestnut Class have been learning about the Red Cross which is this year's nominated charity. They have learned about treating emergencies including how to put someone into the recovery position. The children will be thinking of ideas to raise money for the Red Cross in 2015.

Dingle dangle scarecrow

Tuesday 21 October 2014
Our harvest festival took place today in St Mary's Church. A wonderful selection of food was donated by the parents and children including tins, packets and wonderful fresh vegetables and fruit. The food will be donated to the Nomad Trust, a charity for the homeless and Eastwood Lodge Care Home in Woodhall Spa. During the service, as well as celebrating harvest, we remembered those who died in World War One to mark 100 years since the war began. Each class either sang, recited poetry or read historical letters. Maple Class sang "dingle dangle scarecrow" (pictured).

What's going on in our nature reserve?

Friday 17 October 2014
This term, Chestnut Class have been working in the school's nature reserve. They have been enjoying some exciting team building activities including "leaf bingo".

Red, white and blue

Friday 10 October 2014
Today was “Red White and Blue” day in school to raise valuable funds to help the work of the three main service charities: Royal Navy & Royal Marines charity, ABF the soldiers’ charity and the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. The children came to school dressed in red, white and blue clothes and some are taking part in a “design a bookmark” competition with the opportunity to win a book token. The Friends held a cake stall after school and have kindly donated half the profits to the charities. The whole day was organised by our Service Family Liaison Officer, Sharon Scott.

Our cairn has grown bigger!

Wednesday 1 October 2014
Today, our special cairn ceremony took place. All of the new children and staff brought a stone to school to lay on the cairn. Each stone had its own story. One came from the Falkland Islands, one came from Scotland, others came from the beach and some from the garden. Some had been beautifully decorated and others had been inscribed with names. To see more pictures of this event, please visit the gallery.

Round and about

Friday 26 September 2014
This week, Oak Class visited Woodhall Spa Sand and Gravel where they learned about how the environment is used and changed as part of their "round and about" local studies topic. For lots more pictures, please visit the gallery.

Let's make music!

Thursday 18 September 2014
This week, the children in Willow have started to learn the ukulele. Tim Brain from the Lincolnshire Music Service will be delivering whole class ukulele lessons every week until just before Christmas.

What's inside us?

Thursday 11 September 2014
In science, Willow Class have started learning about what is inside our bodies. They took turns to draw around each other using chalk on the playground.  Then, they drew pictures, inside the outline, of what is inside the body including the skeleton, the brain and the heart.

First day at school

Thursday 4 September 2014
Today is the first day of a brand new school year. The children arrived looking smart in their uniforms and excited to be back at school (just like the staff). The new children in Maple Class had a wonderful morning in school. Amongst other things, they spent time exploring our newly developed outdoor learning area. For more pictures, please go to the Maple Class page.

The end of the school year...

Wednesday 23 July 2014
The school year came to an end today culminating in an emotional Leaver's Service at St Mary's Church.

Yesterday, at our annual talent show, lots of children took part and treated us to comedy, singing, acting and magic. To view some more pictures from the show, please go to the gallery.

Thank you to all of the parents and carers, the governors, the Friends committee, the staff for their tireless commitment and creativity and to all of the children for being so wonderful. Enjoy the summer break!

School re-opens to children on Thursday 4 September.

Pirates of the Curry Bean

Wednesday 16 July 2014
The children in Oak performed "Pirates of the Curry Bean", a show packed full of jokes. There were some wonderful performances including some very brave solo singers. Congratulations to all involved for putting on a great show! To view more pictures from the performance, please visit the gallery.

A musical extravaganza!

Wednesday 9 July 2014
Our music themed day was a wonderful success with a range of musical opportunities for all of the children taking place throughout the day. The children took part in a singing session in St Mary's Church; a Taiko (Japanese drum) session and a brass instrument session during the morning. In the afternoon, parents and members of the community joined the children to enjoy a wonderful jazz concert performed by the Lincolnshire Youth Jazz Ambassadors. To view some videos and more photographs of the day please go to our Music Day page.

A beautiful day for sport

Wednesday 2 July 2014
Our annual sports day took place today. There were running, egg and spoon, sack and obstacle races to name but a few. The children in year 6 took part in a slow bicycle race and some of the mums and dads took part in the parents' races. We all enjoyed a lovely picnic after the event. Please visit the gallery for more photos.

Trips galore!

Friday 27 June 2014
This week, every class in the school enjoyed a school visit. Maple and Chestnut went to Skegness where they visited Natureland then had some fun on the beach. Willow went to Abbey Farm where the children learned all about sources of food. Oak went to the Lincolnshire Life Museum and travelled back in time to find out about life in the olden days. To see the pictures, please visit the gallery.

Enterprise day

Thursday 19 June 2014
It was Enterprise Day in Oak Class today. The children used their mathematical, creative and entrepreneurial abilities to design, make, advertise and sell a wonderful selection of friendship bracelets to the other children in the school.

Celebrating nature

Wednesday 4 June 2014
Today was "Nature Day". The children worked in mixed age groups throughout the day on a range of exciting nature themed activities including "Rainbow Walk", "Land Art" and "Survival" in school and at  the school's nature reserve. The day was a wonderful success despite the rain! Please visit the gallery for more pictures of the day.

Church Schools' Festival

Friday 23 May 2014
This week, Oak Class visited Lincoln Cathedral for the Church Schools' Festival. Whilst there, they enjoyed taking part in bee-keeping, candle-making and bell ringing. They were also given a guided tour and shared in a special collective worship at the end. The children are pictured below standing outside the cathedral.

Term 5 ends today and school will be closed for a week. School re-opens on Monday 2 June.

Oak go orienteering

Friday 16 May 2014
In a week of tests, Oak Class found time to enjoy orienteering in the garden of one of the residents in our village to whom we are very grateful. The children also took part in some art work whilst they were there. For more pictures, please visit the gallery.

On your bike!

Thursday 8 May 2014
Children in year 5 undertook their "bikeability" training today. Amongst other things, they learned how to ride a bike safely on the roads.

Hunting in our nature reserve...

Friday 2 May 2014
The Friends organised and ran an exciting Easter egg hunt in the school's nature reserve today. Lots of children joined in the fun and raised lots of money for school in the process.

Fluffy visitors!

Friday 25 April 2014
Some beautiful fluffy chicks came into school today! They visited every class during the afternoon so that everyone could see them.

Welcome back to school!

Tuesday 22 April 2014
The new term is underway at Kirkby on Bain. Lots of exciting topics and events are planned and will take place over the coming weeks...

Amazing Love

Wednesday 2 April 2014
Our Easter service took place today at St Mary's Church. Chestnut and Willow performed "Amazing Love", a musical version of the Easter story, to a packed church. During the service, the children read prayers and Rev Margaret gave each child a palm cross. School closes on Friday and will re-open for term 5 on Tuesday 22 April. Happy Easter to all our families from the governors and staff!

Family service at St Mary's Church

Sunday 30 March 2014
The family service at St. Mary's Church, Kirkby on Bain was a great success celebrating Mothering Sunday.  The children had fun making Mothers Day cards for all the ladies in church and concluded with an impromptu game of Pooh Sticks at the river to round off the event.

Mad March Hair!

Friday 28 March 2014
To raise money for their nominated charity, Diabetes UK, the children and staff came to school with wacky hair and wigs today. It was called "Mad March Hair" day and there were a variety of weird and wonderful hairstyles to behold!

Sport Relief

Friday 21 March 2014
Children, staff and parents took part in a fun run in aid of Sport Relief at the school field. The aim was to run around a circuit as many times as possible in as many different ways as possible. There were some extremely creative and imaginative ideas! To see some photos of the event please go to the gallery.

Colourful celebrations

Monday 17 March 2014
Oak Class celebrated Holi today as part of their India and dance topics. This involved lots of colourful power paint and fun!

Chess success!

Tuesday 11 March 2014
Some of the members of our excellent chess club entered the Midland Chess Championships earlier this month at Nottingham High School. The children represented our school superbly and came away with medals and certificates for their achievements.

Book week

Monday 3 March 2014
Book Week is in full flow! Our book recycling stall is thriving already. Thank you to all those children (and parents) who have donated unwanted books to the stall. Photographs of children reading in unusual places have started coming in too. You can view some of these and other Book Week activities in the gallery. The children will be coming to school dressed as a book character on Thursday which is World Book Day.

Term 4 begins...

Monday 24 February 2014
Term 4 is underway and the children are already fully engaged in their learning. Pictured are some of the children in Chestnut Class enjoying maths!

Space...

Thursday 6 February 2014
This week, Oak and Willow went on an exciting visit to the Space Centre near Leicester. They visited the planetarium and enjoyed special space-related shows.

India wow day!

Friday 31 January 2014
This week, the children and staff in Oak enjoyed a wonderful wow day. The India themed day included storytelling, an introduction to Hindu ceremonies and beliefs, creating Rangoli artwork, dressing up in traditional Indian clothing and Bollywood style dancing. Please go to the gallery for more photographs of the day.

Whole class violin lessons

Friday 24 January 2014
Willow class have been enjoying whole class violin lessons every Friday this term. Each child has their own violin to take home so that they can practise. Some of the children were confident enough, after only three lessons, to perform for the whole school during our "good work" assembly today.

Superhero day

Wednesday 15 January 2014
Chestnut Class enjoyed a wonderful wow day today. Their topic this term is "superheroes" and today was "superhero" day! The children (and staff) looked great dressed up as their favourite superheroes. During the day, the children cracked codes in the superhero lair and engaged in problem solving and team building when evil Draco invaded the classroom with Kryptonite jelly! Please go to the Gallery to see more photos of the day.

Our world and beyond

Friday 10 January 2014
This week in Willow, to launch their “our world and beyond” topic, the children enjoyed a recruitment day for future astronauts. There were different tasks to undertake including building and testing rockets, problem solving, exploring chemical reactions and writing letters of application to NASA. Pictured are some of the children testing their rockets.

Our Nativity

Monday 16 December 2013
Our Christmas Carol Service took place today in St Mary's Church. Children from Oak Class read from the bible and there were flute, clarinet, violin and saxophone performances too. Maple Class performed a wonderful Nativity during the service. Please click here to see Mary's solo and go to the Gallery to see more pictures.

Glow in the dark day

Tuesday 3 December 2013
Today was "glow in the dark" day. The day was organised by our Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) to raise awareness of the importance of being seen when out walking or cycling in the dark. There were a variety of wonderfully bright and florescent outfits in school. Pictured are the winners with our JRSOs.

Mmm...freshly baked bread

Wednesday 27 November 2013
The school has been filled with delicious smells recently as the children in Chestnut Class have been baking bread. This exciting activity is linked to their "Fire, fire!" topic. The children have been learning about the Great Fire of London which has included finding out about the bakery that was in Pudding Lane.

Children in Need

Friday 15 November 2013
To raise money for Children in Need, the children could choose whether to dress up as a teacher, to come to school in pyjamas or in casual clothes. Some children also brought in their favourite cuddly toy for the day. All of the money raised will go directly to the Children in Need charity. To see a few more pictures, please visit the gallery and look out for us in the local papers!

We will remember them

Monday 11 November 2013
Everyone in the school gathered in the playground this morning to remember all those who have died in wars. The children and staff stood in a circle and, at 11 o'clock, eleven chimes were sounded. After a period of silence, a child in year 6 read a verse from Robert Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen".

Rangoli patterns

Friday 8 November 2013
Willow class have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. They drew beautiful Rangoli patterns in our Cairn Garden.

A "spooktacular" disco!

Friday 1 November 2013
The Friends organised and ran a Halloween themed disco. Pictured below are the winners of the fancy dress competition. The event raised £180.60 for the Friends. Thank you to everyone who came along and to those who helped make the event a success.

A Greek feast!

Thursday 17 October 2013
This week, the children in Oak Class prepared then enjoyed a grand Greek feast as part of their "It's all Greek to me" topic. Please visit the gallery for more pictures.

Harvest around the world

Wednesday 9 October 2013
Our harvest festival took place today in St Mary's Church. The theme this year was "Harvest Around the World" and each class contributed to the service in different ways. Maple Class sang a special song, Chestnut sang and read poetry relating to the Caribbean, Willow presented news reports about harvests around the world and Oak Class focused on "food miles". Our thanks go to the parents and carers who were so generous with their harvest gifts. The donations will be given to The Nomad Trust, a charity for the homeless, and to Eastwood Lodge, a care home in Woodhall Spa.

Chess at Kirkby on Bain!

Saturday 5 October 2013
Our school hosted a county-wide chess event today. Schools from all over Lincolnshire came to Kirkby on Bain to take part. The day was led by Keith Palmer, an expert chess coach. Well done to all our players who achieved so well during the day. Please visit the gallery to see more pictures.

Special stones

Wednesday 2 October 2013
All of the children in Maple Class, and those who are new to the school, took part in our Cairn Ceremony today. They each laid a special stone on our cairn. Some of the stones had been decorated, some engraved, some left plain and others with messages written on. Some of the parents and carers joined us for this special ceremony which takes place each year.

Exploring a tunnel

Friday 20 September 2013
Willow Class have been reading "The Tunnel" by Anthony Browne. They have been writing about what it might feel like to be in a tunnel. Some of the children made their own tunnel to explore!

Time for some role play

Friday 13 September 2013
The children in Oak have been learning about the early life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. They focused on use of body language whilst role playing what they had learned.  

Smiley faces on the first day!

Thursday 5 September 2013
All of the children, including those in Maple, have settled in beautifully and there is already a real sense of purpose and a “buzz” of learning throughout the school. The beginning of a new school year is a very exciting time. All of the staff here are very much looking forward to the exciting opportunities for learning that will be taking place in the coming weeks and months.

A brand new school year is about to begin...

All of the staff here at Kirkby on Bain are very much looking forward to welcoming the children into school on Thursday 5 September.

The academic year draws to a close...

Tuesday 23 July 2013
The academic year ended with our leavers' service which took place at St Mary's Church. At the service, we said our fond farewells to all of the children in year 6 as well as some other children who are leaving the school. We also said goodbye to Mrs Redwood, Miss Sinha and Mrs Jackson who has taught at the school for the last 22 years. She is pictured below presenting her gift, a bird box with wireless camera, to the children. Yesterday, "Kirkby's Got Talent" took place. Please go to the Gallery section to view photos of this exciting event. School closes today for the summer break and re-opens on Thursday 5 September 2013.

Mrs Jackson's garden party

Thursday 18 July 2013
A garden party took place on the school field to celebrate the wonderful teaching career of Mrs Jackson, twenty-two years of which have been spent at Kirkby on Bain. As well as all of the children and staff in the school, lots of parents and ex-pupils also came along to the event. After a picnic, the children performed music, poetry and even a rap. Some spoke about memories of their time with Mrs Jackson. During the afternoon, Mrs Jackson was presented with a beautiful wooden rocking chair for her garden which was a gift from the parents. Mrs Jackson will be much missed by all at the school but the governors, staff, children and parents wish her a long and enjoyable retirement.

Tudor day

Wednesday 10 July 2013
Today was Tudor day in Willow Class. The children dressed up as characters from Tudor times. They learned to play, and dance to, Tudor music and enjoyed a special banquet. The children shared their "wow day" experiences with some of their mums and dads who joined them at the end of the day.

 

Sports day 2013

Wednesday 26 June 2013
Our annual sports day took place today. Events included traditional sprint races, egg and spoon, obstacle and the year 6 slow bike race. The children also enjoyed watching their mums and dads take part in a fast walking, bean-bag-on-the-head race! After the sporting events, we all enjoyed a picnic together. There are more photos to see in the Galleries section!

A trip to the seaside

Thursday 20 June 2013
Maple Class visited Skegness today. They enjoyed looking at and finding out about the animals and fish at Natureland during the morning then went onto the beach in the afternoon where they paddled and played on the sand. Please go to the Galleries section for more photographs.  

PGL 2013

Monday 17 June 2013
Oak Class have arrived at PGL Caythorpe and have already braved the high ropes. They also enjoyed a spot of rifle shooting. For more photographs, please go to the Galleries section.

Raising money for charity

Wednesday 12 June 2013
Today was a charity day at school.  The children in Oak Class organised a selection of stalls which the rest of the children in school took turns to browse. The money raised will be divided equally between Action Aid and the Air Ambulance, the children's nominated charities.

Art on a sunny day

Friday 7 June 2013
The children in Oak Class developed their observational drawing skills using different media today when they visited the gardens of Dr and Mrs Hilton. For more photographs, please visit the Oak Class page.

The beauty of nature...

Wednesday 22 May 2013
All of the children in school took part in an exciting nature themed day today. They chose from a variety of exciting activities including a river walk, investigating mini-beasts, nature art activities and willow weaving, fruit tree planting and den building in our nature reserve.

Oak Class go orienteering

Wednesday 15 May 2013
In a week full of tests, the children in Oak Class also found time to go orienteering. To see more pictures, please visit the Oak Class page.

Happy birthday to us!

Thursday 2 May 2013
Maple class enjoyed a brilliant "wow day".  The children planned and organised a wonderful birthday party day. Every child in the class wrote invitations and party food lists and wrapped their own presents prior to the party. On the day itself, the children dressed up in special clothes, played party games, had their faces painted and had a lovely meal.

Bikeability

Tuesday 30 April 2013
Children in year 5 have been taking part in "Bikeability" over the last two days. They developed their control of a bike and learned how to be safe on the road.

May the forces be with you

Tuesday 23 April 2013
Willow class have been investigating friction. They used force meters to measure the number of Newtons needed to drag 1kg weights on different surfaces in and around the classroom and Cairn Garden.

Exploring St Mary's Church

Friday 19 April 2013
At the end of the first week back at school after the Easter holidays, the children in Chestnut Class have been exploring St Mary's Church. They drew sketches of the altar, the font, the bell and the organ. They also admired the beautiful stained glass windows.

Roll back the stone

Tuesday 26 March 2013
The children in Chestnut and Willow starred in a production of "Roll Back the Stone" as part of our Easter service which took place at St Mary's Church today. School will close for the Easter holiday on Wednesday and will re-open on Monday 15 April. The governors and staff wish you all a very happy Easter and look forward to welcoming the children back to school in term 5.

 

Red Nose Day

Friday 15 March 2013
The School Council decided we should have a “pyjama day” to raise money for Comic Relief. The children came dressed in pyjamas and onesies. Some brought slippers and dressing gowns and lots of children styled their hair in a “just got out of bed” look!

The streets of London

Wednesday 6 March 2013
Today, all of the children in key stage 2 visited London. The coach left school at 5 o'clock in the morning and arrived in London just after 10am. The children visited Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. They took in many of the sights including 10 Downing Street and Big Ben. They ate a picnic lunch in St James' Park and then enjoyed a fantastic cruise along the River Thames. Click here to see some more pictures.

What's that coming over the hill?

Friday 1 March 2013
After six weeks of lessons, Willow Class have created a wonderful dance. The children thought carefully about how monsters would move and the facial expressions they would have. They worked in groups to create a sequence of movements which they combined to make the final dance set to "Monster" by Automatic.

Wow day in Chestnut

Thursday 14 February 2013
In Chestnut Class, the topic this term has been "Tartan-tastic". Much of the children's learning has taken place through the Katie Morag series of books by Mairi Hedderwick.  Today was a Katie Morag "wow day". The children dressed up as characters from the books, took part in a fashion parade and made "porridgies" (pictured). In the afternoon the children enjoyed a brilliant ceilidh!

War and peace

Friday 8 February 2013
The children in Oak have been busy creating wonderful pen and ink artwork based on fashion in the 1940s linked to their "War and Peace" topic.

Felt making club begins

Friday 1 February 2013
This week, felt making club began. Children from all year groups, including our reception class, enjoyed the first session in which they made a felt sausage! What will they make next? Click here to view other clubs we have in school.

Breakfast week

Monday 28 January 2013
Last week was Breakfast Week. Local farmer, Jo Nelstrop, came in to school to talk to the children about where the food we eat for breakfast comes from. Amongst other things, the children had a go at milking a pretend cow and making butter. Don't forget, we have a brilliant breakfast club which offers a delicious healthy breakfast included in the price. This club is open to all children from 8am. 

Snow School

Monday 21 January 2013
Unfortunately, school was closed today due to hazardous driving conditions but in its place was our online "Snow School". Click here to see some of the beautiful and creative snowy photographs that were emailed throughout the day.  

Time to face the dragons

Friday 18 January 2013
The Nature Reserve Group (NRG) delivered a presentation to members of the Friends Committee today in a "Dragon's Den" style event. The children have worked hard, alongside Kevin James of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, to prepare a management plan for our reserve which includes planting fruit trees, wild flowers and installing a new foot bridge and benches. The "dragons" were very impressed with the presentation and awarded the full amount requested totaling £800.

Snow fun!

Tuesday 15 January 2013
Snow has fallen on Kirkby on Bain and the children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring, creating, building and simply having fun. Pictured below is a "snow owl"!

A new term...

Tuesday 8 January 2013
A new term in a new calendar year has begun. The children, including some newcomers, have settled quickly into their classes and there is a sense of purposeful learning around the school. We look forward to some exciting times at Kirkby on Bain in 2013...

Happy New Year

Sunday 6 January 2013
Happy New Year from all at Kirkby on Bain. The staff are very much looking forward to welcoming all of the children back to school and to all that 2013 brings. School re-opens on Tuesday 8 January.

Happy Christmas from all at Kirkby on Bain!

Friday 21 December 2012
School closes today for the Christmas holiday and will re-open on Tuesday 8 January 2013. All of the staff at Kirkby on Bain would like wish the children, parents, carers, governors and members of the local community a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Emergency!

Wednesday 12 December 2012 (12.12.12)
Today, the children in Maple Class were visited by a rapid response vehicle. The visit was arranged as the children had decided earlier in the term to have a hospital role play area in their classroom. Don't worry, Mrs Scott is ok!

Our tree has arrived!

Tuesday 3 December 2012
Our beautiful Christmas tree, which has been donated to school by the Butlin-Hodgson family, was decorated today by the children in year 6.

Chess festival at Kirkby on Bain

Saturday 24 November 2012
Our school hosted a county-wide chess festival today. Schools from all over Lincolnshire came to Kirkby on Bain to take part in this wonderful event. The day was led by Keith Palmer, an expert chess coach and refreshments were provided by the brilliant Friends Committee members. Well done to all our players who achieved so well during the day.
  

Safari picture competition

Wednesday 21 November 2012
Our School Council were keen to support an ex-pupil of the school who will be undertaking a conservation project in South Africa shortly working with the charity Operation Wallacea. As well as the non-uniform day that took place, they decided to organise a safari animal drawing competition. All of the entries were brilliant but only three could win a prize. The winners are pictured below. Congratulations to them and thank you to everyone who took part.

Bring a bear to school

Friday 16 November 2012
Today, the children arrived at school accompanied by some special friends. For Children in Need this year, we decided to raise money by making a donation to bring our favourite teddy bears or cuddly toys to school.

Look what we've grown!

Tuesday 13 November 2012
In the summer term these budding gardeners bought pumpkin and sunflower growing kits at the Willow Mini Enterprise day. They followed the instructions and their seeds grew! They are holding their prize-winning plants. The children in Willow class used some of their proceeds from the Mini Enterprise day to fund prizes of book tokens for our two winners.
 

An exciting start to term 2...

Monday 5 November 2012
Oak class have started the new term with some exciting activities. They started the day with a history trail around the village then created some wonderful autumn art using the natural resources they found in our beautiful nature reserve.

A healthy harvest

Tuesday 23 October 2012
Our harvest festival took place at St Mary's Church today. Each class performed a song (or rap) with a healthy theme. Some of the children shared some prayers and all of the children new to key stage 2 received their very own bible presented by Canon Alec Boyd. The service began with a procession as the children entered the church carrying their contribution. A beautiful display was created at the altar. The produce will be distributed to the Nomad Trust, a charity for the homeless, and to a local care home.

Racing for life

Friday 19 October 2012
Our "healthy week" ended today with a Race for Life event. The children have been involved in all kinds of health related activities throughout the week including a twenty minute whole school exercise session each day. Today, children, staff and parents ran a mile (some even further) on our school field to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

A healthy start to the day

Tuesday 16 October 2012
Every day during our Healthy Week, the children have taken part in a vigorous twenty minute PE session!

Friday family fun!

Friday 12 October 2012
At the Beetle Drive, organised by the Friends, a fabulous £92 was raised. The winner (pictured) has reluctantly agreed to share her prize with her brother and sister! Thank you to everyone who came along to support the event. Why not join us for the next fun-filled family event? Bingo takes place on Friday 23 November straight after school.

Special stones on our cairn

Tuesday 2 October 2012
All of the new children in school, including everyone in Maple Class, have laid a stone on our school cairn. The stones were chosen by the children and each one had come from somewhere different. Some had come from their own gardens, some from local woods and others from different countries around the world.

Fighting fit

Monday 1 October 2012
Chestnut Class enjoyed a brilliant "wow day" in school today as part of their "fighting fit" topic. All of the children (and staff) dressed up as people from the emergency services and were visited by a real nurse, a first responder and a herbalist.

Freeze frames

Friday 21 September 2012
Oak Class have been studying Alfred Noyes' poem The Highwayman. Can you tell who is playing which character in this freeze frame? Click here for more photos.

Let's build a petrol pump

Wednesday 12 September 2012
The children in Maple Class have decided they need a garage and petrol station role play area in their outdoor learning environment. Visit the Maple Class page for more photographs! 

A brand new school year begins

Monday 10 September 2011
What a wonderful start to a brand new year at Kirkby on Bain! The first day of school at the start of a new academic year can be an emotional and exhausting experience not only for the children but the parents too!  The school though is full of happy, smiling faces. The new reception children in Maple have settled in brilliantly and are enjoying exploring the classroom and outdoor area. In Chestnut, Willow and Oak there is a buzz of excitement and we are all looking forward what promises to be a great year at school.

Not long left to vote for us...

Please vote for our school to win £5000 to further develop our nature reserve. You can vote by clicking here. Simply click on “vote now” and follow the instructions. You can also vote from your mobile phone by sending “VOTE LN1” to 61119. Text messages are charged at the standard network rate. Please ask friends, family and colleagues to vote too. Many thanks for your support.

The end of another academic year

Friday 19 July 2012
So another academic year draws to a close in our thriving school full of happy children. The year ended with our Leavers' Service in St Mary's Church during which the children in year 6 recalled some of their memories of Kirkby on Bain. School closes today for the summer and re-opens on Wednesday 5 September.

An Olympic production!

Monday 16 July 2012
Oak Class put on a brilliant production at St Mary's Church today called "Olympics: The Naked Truth". Not only were the audience treated to great entertainment but also to a wealth of facts about the history of the Olympics from its beginning in Greece to this year in London. Well done Oak Class!

Willow enterprise day

Wednesday 4 July 2012
The children of Willow class set up stalls in the classroom and prepared to welcome customers on their mini enterprise day. They made; pumpkin and sunflower growing kits, apple and peanut butter bird feeders, decorated plant pot holders, garden themed bookmarks and they grew tomato plants from seed. The day was a great success with all products sold out! A big thank you to all our customers!

Olympic torch comes to Kirkby on Bain!

Wednesday 27 June 2012
There was great excitement in school today as all of the children had a chance to hold a real Olympic torch. Carol Jaggers, who ran with the torch in Ingoldmells today, paid a special visit to our school this afternoon.

A trip to the beach and a special cathedral visit

Friday 15 June 2012
On Thursday of this week, Maple and Chestnut went for a wonderfully sunny trip to Skegness which included a visit to Natureland. Oak, meanwhile, represented the school at the Church Schools Festival at Lincoln Cathedral. Click here to see a video of one of the group activities.

Fun on the beach!

Beautiful sounding bells at Lincoln Cathedral...

Our new playground shelter

Monday 11 June 2012
During the holiday, our brilliant new playground shelter has been installed. The children in the School Council have been involved in this project every step of the way. They have made all the decisions about how big it should be, how it should look and have even attended meetings with a number of contractors who were providing quotes. My thanks go to the Friends for generously funding the whole project.

A wet but happy celebration!

Thursday 31 May 2012
Children, staff, parents, grandparents, carers and governors celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a special picnic on the school field. Despite the rain, an enjoyable time was had by all. Each child was presented with a commemorative coin, a gift from the Friends of the school, to mark the occasion.

NRG put in waymarkers

Wednesday 23 May 2012
Today, some members of the Nature Reserve Group installed waymarkers in our nature reserve. Kevin James from the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust worked with the children and provided all the necessary equipment. Our thanks go to him for his generosity and continued support of the school.

Three-legged orienteering

Friday 18 May 2012
During a week of tests, Oak Class found time to enjoy some three-legged orienteering!

Shiver me timbers!

Friday 11 May 2012
Children in Chestnut Class have carried out floating and sinking investigations this week as part of their "shiver me timbers" topic.

My grandad's grandad

Friday 4 May 2012
Children in Oak Class painted fantastic life-size Victorian characters today as part of their topic: "My grandad's grandad"!

How does your garden grow?

Monday 23 April 2012
This term's gardening topic in Willow Class is well and truly under way! The children, dressed in their gardening gear, gave our Cairn Garden a superb make-over today.

 

A brand new term...

Tuesday 17 April 2012
Welcome back to school! A brand new term is under way. We are looking forward to a very busy but exciting few months ahead of us...

Oh happy day!

Tuesday 27 March 2012
Our Easter service, led by the children in Willow and Chestnut classes, took place today in St Mary's Church. The children told the Easter story and sang a selection of hymns. Term 4 ends on Friday 30 March. The school re-opens for children on Tuesday 17 April. Happy Easter!

How many laps can you do?

Friday 23 March 2012
The whole school, children and staff, walked to the school playing fields today to take part in the Sport Relief Mile. Some walked, some ran, some jogged and some even chose to cartwheel around the field!

Our school prayer

Friday 16 March 2012
During collective worship this week, we have been celebrating the fact that our school prayer is one year old this month. All of the children in the school at the time contributed their ideas to it.

Dear God,
This is our school.
May the sun shine brightly on its doors.
Thank you for all our friends
and for those who work together
to teach and look after us every day.
Thank you for all the smiles in our school
and for keeping us safe,
learning together for life.

Amen

Wow!

Tuesday 6 March 2012
Willow class went on an amazing visit to Humber Bridge. They described the bridge in a word-web, they sketched the bridge and then, after a delightful picnic lunch, they carried out a traffic count.

World Book Day

Thursday 1 March 2012
We have been celebrating World Book Day in lots of different ways this week. Yesterday, we had a whole school story-telling session. The school staff led sessions in every room, one even took place outside, and the children chose which two they would like to attend. Willow class have had a "Big Read". Everyone in the class brought in their favourite books (including all the adults in class) and spent half an hour just reading for fun!

What does clay feel like?

Friday 24 February 2012
The children in Maple class were exploring clay today. They learned about where it comes from, what it feels like and what it is used for. They have made some interesting creations including a clay snowman, a birthday cake and a football.

Term 4 is underway

Tuesday 21 February 2012
Welcome back to school! Term 4 has only just begun and already the children in each class are busily involved in their new topics.

A snowy end to term 3

Friday 10 February 2012
As term 3 draws to a close we are surrounded by lots of snow. We have already reached the half way point of the current academic year. There have been many exciting activities and learning opportunites and many more still to come! School is closed now for a week and will re-open on Monday 20 February 2012.

A church school celebration

Thursday 2 February 2012
To celebrate 200 years of the National Society, whose mission it was to found a church school in every parish in England and Wales, we held a special collective worship in St Mary's Church. Since July, a beautiful candle has been on a journey around all the church schools in our diocese. During the service, we officially "handed over" the candle to Mr Whalley and two pupils from St Andrew's CE Primary School. 

Wow day in Oak!

Wednesday 1 February 2012
This term the children in Oak Class are learning about India. They enjoyed a special "wow day" funded by the Friends Committee. The "Indian Experience" led by Sunita Patel involved dancing, learning about culture, art and religion and decorating the playground with beautiful rangoli patterns.

The year of the dragon

Thursday 26 January 2012
Maple class celebrated Chinese New Year by preparing a delicious Chinese meal. They chopped vegetables then added some soy sauce, chunks of pineapple and some noodles. Mrs Scarbro used a wok to cook up all the ingredients the children had prepared to make a wonderful, tasty dish!

How does a "Snoozatron" work?

Friday 20 January 2012
Willow class have been learning to write explanations. They watched "Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions: The Snoozatron" then wrote about how it worked. After that, the children acted out their explanations. Click on the image to view their video!

Beware: Kryptonite!

Friday 13 January 2012
Chestnut Class launched their new superheroes topic with a dressing up "wow day". During the day the children learned a superheroes song, made superhero Top Trumps cards and took part in Dr Draco's Kryptonite Challenge!

Oak class solve a mystery

Friday 6 January 2012
Oak class have been attempting to solve the mystery of the Mary Celeste. They thought of different possible scenarios then created a "freeze frame" depicting each scene.

Happy New Year

Monday 2 January 2012
Happy New Year from all at Kirkby on Bain.                                                                        

Happy Christmas from all at Kirkby on Bain!

Friday 16 December 2011
Father Christmas visited our school yesterday. He arrived during the Maple and Chestnut Christmas party. While he was with us, Father Christmas talked about his sleigh, his reindeers and his elves then he gave each child a present!

School closes today and re-opens on Wednesday 4 January 2012. We would like to wish all the children, parents, governors and members of the local community a very happy Christmas and and a peaceful New Year.

A very special Christmas celebration!

Monday 12 December 2011
Our Christmas Carol Service took place at St Mary's Church today. The service featured a variety of musical performances, readings and a nativity performed by the children in Maple Class.

The beginning of Advent

Thursday 1 December 2011
Today we lit our special Advent Candle for the first time. We also lit the first of the four red candles on our beautiful Advent Wreath. Over the coming weeks, we will be celebrating Christmas in a variety of ways. Our Carol Service takes place on Monday 12 December at 1.30pm and 6pm in church and we will be enjoying a wonderful Christmas lunch served up by the Friends Committee on Tuesday 13 December. On Wednesday 14 December we are all off to the pantomime and on Thursday 15 December we will have lots of fun at the Christmas parties!

Sir Peter Tapsell lays a stone on our cairn

Friday 18 November 2011
Sir Peter Tapsell MP and Father of the House of Commons, visited the school. He met with our school council who asked him questions about being an MP, meeting the Queen and visiting 10 Downing Street. The children then took Sir Peter on a tour of the school and presented him with a gift; a bookmark that had had a beautiful pattern sewn onto it by Ben Lee. The visit ended with a cairn ceremony. Sir Peter laid a special stone from his garden on our cairn and the school councillors said our school prayer.

Musical fun!

Monday 14 November 2011
Kirsty Mead from the Rhubarb Theatre Company  came into school to do an exciting music session with each class. This is part of a music project in which a number of other local primary schools are taking part. Each school in the Horncastle Area Extended Schools cluster group has been allocated a country or continent as the basis for the theme of these music sessions and ours was “North America”.

11.11.11

Friday 11 November 2011
The whole school gathered together in the playground at 11am for period of silence today. One child rang a bell chime eleven times to mark the beginning of the silence and another child read the poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon at the end.

Having fun and learning in reception

Friday 4 November 2011
There have been lots of exciting things going on in Maple class recently. The children have been weighing and sorting. They have enjoyed playing in the construction site and bakery role play areas and they have used a variety of instruments to accompany the "Hairy Scary Castle" song. If you have a child who is starting school in September 2012, please come and visit our school on our open day which is taking place on Thursday 24 November between 9am and 12pm. Our school councillors would love to give you a special tour!

Giving thanks...

Tuesday 18 October 2011
Each class performed in our harvest festival today in a church packed full of parents, grandparents and other visitors. The service began with a procession of children bringing their contribution to the altar. All donations will be given to Centrepoint, a charity for the homeless. The children's nominated charity for the year is the Dog's Trust and the collection, which was a total of £82.16, will be given to this worthy cause.

New stones have been laid

Thursday 13 October 2011
All of the new children at our school, including all of the reception children in Maple class, laid a stone in our special garden at the annual cairn ceremony today. Each stone had been carefully selected and some of the children talked during collective worship about where it was from and how they had decorated it. Parents of our new children joined us for the ceremony and some of the staff at Kirkby on Bain also laid a special stone of their own.

We've passed...again!

Wednesday 5 October 2011
At Kirkby on Bain Church of England Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that all pupils are equipped with the basic skills needed to succeed. The Primary Quality Mark Award recognises good practice and progress in basic skills in schools nationwide and we are proud to announce that today we have again been awarded the Primary Quality Mark (for the fifth time!). For more information, please see the basic skills section of our website.

Beautiful trees!

Monday 26 September 2011
A beautiful selection of tree photographs have been taken by some of the children here at Kirkby on Bain. You can view just a few of the entries in The Forest. Over the next few days, each class will vote for their favourite picture and the winning photo in each category will be used as the class logo on the school website.

Exciting news!

Thursday 22 September 2011
The Friends were successful in their bid for £2500 to pay for the new staging and to buy a brand new sound system for the school and church to use. The Brewster family represented the school at the grand presentation (pictured). The money was donated by the Lincolnshire Co-operative to celebrate 150 years of its existence.

Are you a budding photographer?

Tuesday 13 September 2011
To celebrate our new class names, we are having a photograph competition for the children who come to our school. There are four categories: "maple", "chestnut", "willow" and "oak".  All entries should be of trees or leaves from one of the four categories. The children may enter any of the categories regardless of which class they are in. One photograph from each category will be chosen as the winner and the winning photograph in each category will be used as the class logo on our website. All entries should be emailed to admin@kobps.lincs.sch.uk or brought into school clearly marked with the name and age of the photographer. The closing date for this competition is Monday 27 September 2011. Good luck!

Smiley faces on the first day back!

Monday 5 September 2011
The school was full of smiles on the first day of the new academic year. All of the children settled back into school life quickly and the new children in reception enjoyed a wonderful first morning in their new classroom. There was lots of talk about the new class tree names and Oak class even wrote a poem. Go to the Oak class page to read it for yourself!

The new school year begins soon...

All of the staff at Kirkby on Bain are looking forward to welcoming the children into school for the start of the brand new academic year which begins on Monday 5 September.

Our School Prayer

The end of our school year...

Friday 22 July 2011
The academic year ended by bidding farewell to all the children in year 6. In September, they move on to their new secondary schools. At the end of term service in St Mary's church, awards were presented and each child in year 6 recalled a memory of their time here at Kirkby on Bain. We wish them well as they move on into a new phase in their lives. School is now closed for the summer and will re-open for children on Monday 5 September 2011.

Kirkby's Got Talent!

Wednesday 20 July 2011
Forty-six acts took part in our annual talent show today. A whole host of talents were on display ranging from singing, dancing, jokes, role-play, playing musical instruments and magic! Children from reception to year 6 took part. The show was organised and run by the children in year 6 who did a superb job. What a lot of talent we have in our school!

Sports day 2011

Friday 8 July 2011
Despite the threat of rain and even thunder storms, sports day went ahead as planned. The winning team on the day was the "Greenfinches" House but all of the children were brilliant throughout the morning. They competed in a variety of races including egg and spoon, sack and obstacle. After the fun of sports day, the parents and children enjoyed a picnic together in the sun.

200 years of church schools

Saturday 2 July 2011
Staff, governors and families from Kirkby on Bain Church of England Primary School attended a service of thanksgiving and celebration at Lincoln Cathedral. The special service was to commemorate 200 years of The National Society whose mission was to found a church school in every parish in England and Wales. The Right Reverend David Rossdale, Bishop of Grimsby, preached the sermon and is pictured with Mr Morley and the children who represented the school.

The perfect day for a cold, wet sponge!

Sunday 26 June 2011
The annual summer fete organised and run by the fantastic Friends committee, led by Joanne Brewster, was once again a huge success. There were a variety of interesting stalls and exciting games to browse and the hot dogs, burgers and milkshakes were very popular. A superb total of £2648.21 was raised! All of the money will be used by the Friends to enhance the provision for all the children here at Kirkby on Bain. A massive thank you to all members of the Friends and to everyone who supported this event. 

"Baboon on the Moon"

Thursday 23 June 2011
Since the beginning of term 6, all classes in school have been using a short film called "Baboon on the Moon" as the basis for their work in literacy, maths, art, science, drama and many more subjects besides. In this picture, one child took the role of Baboon and walked through the "conscience corridor". He listened to the reasons for and against from each member of the two teams. He eventually made the decision to take the job on the moon based on the reasons he had listened to.

Our brand new "bug hotel"

Monday 13 June 2011
As part of our Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Day, the children created a "bug hotel" in the garden. Kevin James from the charity worked with groups throughout the day to make the magnificent structure. The children also signed up for a range of other outdoors activities including "minibeast mayhem", "talking trees", "walking on water", "outdoors in" and "outdoor circle time". £77 was raised which will be donated to the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Can you think of a name?

Friday 10 June 2011
Our brand new breakfast club began this week. The children have enjoyed a variety of exciting and fun activities each morning not to mention the delicious breakfasts! We are currently running a competition to decide on a name for our breakfast club. All suggestions should be brought to the school office. The children who come to the club are the judges and will soon be deciding on the winning name!  

Bob's the best!

Tuesday 7 June 2011
Congratulations to Bob Buffham, our school bus driver, who has won "Best Mini-bus Driver of the Year". Bob was nominated by the children from Kirkby on Bain who are brought to school each day by Bob.

"Some are born great..."

Friday 27 May 2011
Class 3 are currently reading Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". The children have enjoyed art work, drama and a range of literacy based activities all inspired by this famous play. "If music be the food of love, play on..."

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Parry!

Wednesday 18 May 2011
Exciting news! Mrs Parry has had a baby boy called Iwan. He was born on Friday 13 May and both mother and baby are doing well. Pictured is the winner of the Friends' "Baby Parry" competition.  He was the only person to correctly guess Mrs Parry would have a baby boy on the 13th May, he is pictured receiving his prize from Mr Morley.  Our congratulations go to Mr & Mrs Parry on the birth of their son.

The launch of felt making club

Thursday 12 May 2011
Felt making club began today amongst a range of other after school clubs on offer this term. As well as the felt making club, the children have been able to choose from cricket, rounders, film, art and craft, chess and guitars.

Intergalactic PE!

Monday 9 May 2011
Class 1 enjoyed an exciting 'inter-galactic' PE lesson with  an external coach which involved developing their multi skills using footballs. 

A beautiful day for cycling

Tuesday 3 May 2011
Children in year 5 learned to ride safely and responsibly by taking part in "Bikeability". The course included an assessment of riding skills and some on road cycling. The course is designed to improve cycle control and introduce children to riding on the road. The "Bikeability" instructor praised all of the children who took part. He congratulated them all on their excellent behaviour and for working so hard. 

Here comes the bride!

Thursday 28 April 2011
The children celebrated the royal wedding by taking part in a "wedding" of their own. The "bride" and "groom" were transported in style to the church in a beautifully decorated wedding cart. Afterwards, parents, carers and grandparents joined the children and staff for a celebratory picnic on the school field.

Resurrection Rock!

Tuesday 5 April 2011
The children in Class 1 and Class 2 performed their version of the Easter story at St Mary's church. Class 3 and Reception class joined in with the groovy songs! Parents, grandparents and members of the church congregation attended this special service.

Caythorpe update - Thursday

A message from Mr Fuller:

"What a brilliant day! Children have leapt from the top of a 10m pole to catch a trapeze and swing with astonishing lack of grace through the tree tops. Most reached the top; all challenged fears of heights and everyone was justly proud of themselves.

We have been rock climbing and completed team challenge courses which involved helping each other over cargo nets, through tyres and across swings. We then repeated the exercise whilst tied together!

Fencing has revealed some excellent swords-men and women. We have even enjoyed a whole afternoon of sunshine. 

After tea we are looking forward to “wacky races” and another game of ambush (more crawling through the mud trying to sneak up on the other team in the dark!).

Once again the children’s cooperation, teamwork, encouragement and all-round good manners have made me proud to be their teacher. There has not been a spare second in the day and the children are all exhausted but still loving every moment of PGL. We shall be sad to come home tomorrow – sorry mums and dads!"

See more photos of the residential!

Caythorpe update - Wednesday

Class 3 have arrived safely at Caythorpe. They have settled in and are having a good time.

Below is a message from Mr Fuller:
 
"Arrived in the dry but it soon began to rain! We were not daunted and began with a scavenger hunt to get to know the site, this was followed by a game of “fishy fishy” and then we were off to our activities: Raft building followed by raft sailing, followed by raft-falling-off and open air swimming! In addition there was all-aboard. Teams of 3 climbed a 10 metre pole with obstacles in the way to reach a 50cm x 50cm platform on which all had to stand at once and then leap off suspended by a rope held by our team members. So far we have had a fantastic time, all children happy, wet and muddy! Really supporting each other, displaying excellent team work. Before tea (pork chops or shepherd’s pie) we played “passport to the world”. Looking forward to “ambush” after tea – a massive game of hide and seek over the site in the dark."

Let's dance!

Red Nose Day in school ended with a fun-filled disco, arranged by the Friends Committee, at Roughton Hall.  As well as some groovy dancing, several games were played including musical bumps and a very long conga!

Plate spinning, juggling and a funny clown!

Our circus skills club ended this week with a show for the parents. Plate spinning, juggling and hula hooping are just some of the activities and skills the children have learned over the last seven weeks.

What's going on at the gym?

The children in Reception have decided to create a gym in their outdoor role play area. They need to fill in their membership cards before they can start using the exciting range of fitness apparatus they have made out of the construction equipment.

Action Aid Day

Wednesday 9 February was Action Aid Day at Kirkby on Bain. Our aim was to raise funds to support a community in a village in Uganda. Every month the school donates an amount of money to the charity Action Aid to sponsor a girl called Rispa. Her community worker writes to us regularly and Rispa herself draws us pictures that we show to all the children in our school. The money we raise is used, amongst other things, to support the community to grow crops to provide enough food.

Action Aid Day was a “non-uniform day” The children decided that they would like to have a wacky glasses competition so, at playtime, as well as selling cakes, the children took part in a “wacky glasses” parade showing off the imaginative glasses they had made at home.

The children in Class 3 planned and organised a variety of fundraising activities which the rest of the children in the school enjoyed throughout the afternoon. This included a lucky dip, a second hand book stall and a challenge to cover a map of Africa with 1ps and 2ps.

The children had lots of fun but were also aware that they were raising money for a very good cause.

The total raised was £270.94! Thank you to all our parents and carers for their generosity.

Class 2 visit to Lincoln

Class 2 went on a visit to Lincoln today. They learned about road saftey and the Romans! They also conducted a survey. They asked shoppers about their reasons for visiting Lincoln.

Football taster session for Class 3

Lincoln City Football Club delivered a football taster session today for all the children in Class 3. The children played a variety of games which helped them to develop basic football skills. The children demonstrated excellent sportsmanship throughout the session.  

Term dates for 2011/12 are now available to view

Term dates for 2011/12 are now available. These can be accessed below and also in the newsletter section of this website.

Please click here to see the list of term dates for the next academic year.

Please click here to see a calendar showing the term dates for the next academic year. 

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

As a result of the generosity of all the parents, grandparents, carers and other visitors to our Christmas Carol Service, we raised £139.98 for the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust which is our nominated charity for the year.

Christmas parties

Our Christmas parties have been a huge success this year. The children dressed up in their best clothes and played a variety of party games. There has been dancing and lots of delicious party food provided very generously by all the parents and carers. There was even a visit from a very special guest!

Pantomime visit

Our visit to the Newark Palace Theatre to see "Sleeping Beauty" was enjoyed by all. The pantomime caused great excitement and made for a really "Christmassy" experience. Thank you to all the parents and carers who waited so patiently as we arrived back later than expected from the show. 

Christmas Lunch at Coningsby Community Centre

All the children and staff enjoyed a superb Christmas meal courtesy of the Friends Committee. The whole event was masterminded by the Chair if the Friends, Mrs Brewster. Mrs Stow was "head chef" and the meal itself was prepared and served by a team of fantastic voluntary helpers including some of our very kind parents.

Christmas Carol Service

Our Christmas Carol Service in St Mary's church was well attended by parents, grandparents and other carers. There were woodwind, brass and bell-ringer performances. Nine lessons were read by Class 3 and the children in Reception retold the Christmas story in their Nativity. Class 2 and 3 recited poems and all of the children sang some beautiful carols.

Commissioning Service

Director of the Diocesan Board of Education, Canon Peter Staves, was amongst the guests at our Commissioning Service led by Revd Canon John Moore in his last service with the school before his retirement. Mr Morley was presented with an inscribed bible as he was officially welcomed to the school by the children, parents, staff, governors and members of the congregation. Please click here for more photographs of the service.

Snow School

Thank you to all those of you who responded to our online "snow school" idea.  Some beautiful snowy photographs have been emailed in. Click here for more information about "snow school"