Clubs
Each term, we run a wide range of different clubs in school for our pupils. These are either run by school staff or by external providers. We aim to give our pupils new experiences and change the clubs through the year, so we can offer a club for all. Recently, these have included: Karate, ukulele, sewing club, Eco Warriors, sports, Thursday Fun Hub and Animal club. We also run a Military Kids club for children from service families. Over the year, 78% of pupils have attended a club at Bedale Primary.
Dance club has been very popular, we even took part in a dance competition and came 2nd! We are very lucky to have experienced dance teachers who show the children exciting routines and give them the chance to create their own styles.
We have a variety of sports clubs available, including multisports, athletics and running, encouraging pupils to be active and healthy. We take part in competitions throughout the year and are very proud of our pupils’ achievements. Over 51% of our pupils attend a sports club within school
We encourage the children to follow their own musical talents, with the choice of pop choir, choir and recorder club as well as music lessons which are available through the music hub. The recorder club had the great opportunity to perform at the Christmas fair, showing great perseverance and dedication.
If pupils have a passion for being creative, we encourage them to attend sewing, crotchet club or computer art. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning how to sew and crotchet, which is a great life skill, and created wonderful masterpieces, e.g. pieces of fruit, scrunchies and waist coats.
On Wednesdays, Mrs Ball and Miss Jefferson meet the SEND pupils at lunch for Wellbeing Wednesday, where they can play, paint and be creative. It’s a great time to talk with friends and discuss any worries they have. It’s fantastic that this year, 71% of our SEND pupils attended a non-sports club as well as 49% attended a sports club. We always welcome new ideas for clubs!
Our Eco Warriors are having a great impact in school and are helping to make a difference in our school environment and community. This academic year, we were presented with the Green Flag from Eco Schools, which is an award for excellence in environmental action and learning. Their role is to encourage the other pupils to engage in their environment by allowing them the opportunity to actively protect it and make it more environmentally friendly.
This year, we focused on these topics: marine, school grounds and water. The pupils have recycled plastic lids to create a marine mural, which the pupils are very proud of, created fact files about marine wildlife for reading areas and learnt about the impact pollution has on these animals. We also invited Yorkshire water to discuss how to reduce water waste in school, so we can encourage everyone at school to not waste water. The Eco Warriors have planted each class a spider plant to make the air cleaner and planted some fruit and vegetables as part of our healthy schools.
As a school, we supported the Samartian’s Purse Christmas Shoebox Appeal, the pupils showed great compassion collecting gifts and wrapping them up to be sent off to children with very little. We are so proud of our pupils.
Eco Warriors have recently written fantastic, witty letters to David Attenborough about how as a school we can be environmentally friendly, we can’t wait for a reply!
Please see below photos from all our clubs and the wonderful voices from our pupils.
This is what our children think...
Club Leaders
We are delighted that some of our older pupils have volunteered to help support our clubs, the teachers are grateful for their help and they are doing an amazing job!
Wellbeing Club
On a Wednesday lunchtime, children are invited to join Wellbeing Club with Mrs Ball and Miss Jefferson. It is a delightful club as children come along from EYFS all the way up to year 6. They eat lunch together, chat and play in the wrap around care classroom. The children play so nicely together, and it is a lovely opportunity for the children in the older years to play with the younger children. It is heart-warming to see how caring and nurturing they are towards each other.
The club runs all year and in the summer months the children have enjoyed playing football and practising their performances for the Wellbeing end of year show.
There are so many lovely activities, this year they have loved painting, drawing, playing with playdoh and small world toys. One of their favourites is to play 'teachers'. Some children enjoy coming along just for a chat about their week and things that they are doing at home. We love to hear about their holiday plans, siblings, pets and their hobbies.
Build the Bible Club
Multi Skills Club
We have been having lots of fun at Year 2 Multi Skills club! Thank you to our amazing Year 6 sports leader, Noah who has organised and delivered lots of fun activities this week.
Eco Warriors Club
Recorder Club
Athletics Club
Fun Hub
Pop Choir
This club has gone from strength to strength, everyone enjoys learning the new weekly songs. The choir even visited Costa coffee in Bedale for a performance.
Sewing club
