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Fun Friday’s & Dress Ups!
We wanted to thank everyone for all the great work they have put into outfits for our Book day, Footy Colours day and also tomorrow's 'Bourchier Cup' day. The idea of Fun Fridays in Term Four was to ensure that the kids were all very excited about returing to school...
Spoonville in our Junior Yard
Last week the children in FJS set up a “Spoonville” in our Junior yard! We hope to bring some cheer and happiness to all who pass by and see these colourful characters! The children had a lot of fun creating some weird and sparkly characters! Be sure to say hello to...
Watch out Shark Tank! Kidpreneurs on the loose!
This term our Year Five students have kicked off their Kidpreneur projects. Kidpreneur is a program that teaches our students financial literacy and all the skills that go with starting and running a business. So far our students have formed business teams, designated...
2021 Transition: Story Time at Bourchier
It was great that many of you were able to make our Story Time Zoom session on Friday afternoon. We really enjoyed seeing the faces of some of our newest Bourchier students! We will be running another Story Time on September the...
Fun Fridays!
Who likes fun? Surely everybody! That is exactly what we wanted to bring to everyone with our Fun Fridays. We are in the second period of remote learning in 2020 and have now been unable to be at school since the start of August. Everyone has been doing such a great...
What is it like in…North Korea?
Our Year sixes have been learning all about countries around the world. So far their investigations have led to discoveries about what it is liek to live in contries such as Russia, Germany, and North Korea. Quite often these places are very different in many ways to...
Summarising: What’s it all about?
Being able to read is an extremely useful skill to have. For many people, it is one of life’s pleasures. But what is the purpose of reading? We might read a text to gather information about a topic or idea. We might read a text to learn how to do or make something. We...
What is all this data about?
How many times do wash your hands in a day? How many biscuits do you eat? How many minutes do you exercise? You might never thought about these questions but our junior school have! They have been very busy counting, recording and displaying information (or data)...
Keep those comments coming!
In the last week our school reached a significant milestone, we reached over 100,000 total submissions on Seesaw. During our remote learning periods this year we have averaged around 10,000 pieces of work being submitted each week. While these numbers are mind...
Let’s Keep Reading!
I know we have said it hundreds of times, but here is it one more time....2020 has been like no other! We have been thrust into home learning not once but twice! Even when we returned to school we faced many different restrictions which meant school was very...