Last Wednesday, to end their enterprise business topic, Year 3 held a lolly sale at playtime. All companies had their selling strategies planned and stall signs ready, with big ideas of making a lot of profit. There were 12 companies in total across the year group and all competed against each other to sell the greatest amount of lollies. Luck was on their side, the sun was shining brightly and the Springbankers were hot and thirsty for an icy treat! Each group were very professional with their customer service skills and handled taking money and giving change with confidence. The lollies were a sell out and everybody commented how delicious and refreshing they were!

The Year 3 children had lots of fun taking part and are proud of the profit they have made. We are now in talks about how we are going to spend our hard earned cash before the summer holidays.

Once again, the children had worked hard on the design (choosing the theme of the Tour de France), sowing and planting the box and also writing up a diary of their work and ideas for the Veg Box Competition and we had been selected with 14 other schools as a finalist from the 200 schools who had entered the competition.

The children went to the Great Yorkshire Show on Wednesday, 9th July and, as part of the judging, had to be questioned about their horticultural skills by a famous garden writer, Martin Fish.  The children answered questions very proficiently and obviously knew their stuff.  The judges were very interested in the experiments which the children had undertaken to see how best we could keep slugs and snails off the veg plants. 

After the judging the children were free to spend the rest of the day enjoying the show.  They watched some show jumping and a cattle show, enjoyed some cheese tasting and spent hours in the craft marquee making everything from bread to chocolate lollipops, lavender bags, corn dollies and recycled bracelets from old crisp packets!  Later on the children enjoyed sumo wrestling and an army problem solving course. 

The sun shone all day and the children had a great time.  Sadly, we didn't win the Veg Box Competition this year, but we were highly commended for our entry and won "best decorated box" so we didn't do too badly!

Our 'HAPPY' video has hit the headlines this week after being included in the Yorkshire Evening Post!

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35 of our children from Years 4-6 took part in 'The Big Sing' last week at Leeds Town Hall. We joined hundreds of other children from Leeds schools to sing songs from 'On Yer Bike', a selection of songs about the Tour de France written by Alan Simmons. He was there himself to conduct a workshop and performance of the songs. Our children were impeccably behaved throughout the afternoon and sang their hearts out! They sang the French parts and the tricky harmonies brilliantly and have come away inspired to take part in other singing events, the next big one being The Young Voices concert at Sheffield Arena in January. A teacher from another school commented on the enthusiasm and confidence with which the children sang. We were very proud of them all!  Thank you to Mrs Ashley-Cooper and Mrs Goddard who spent their own time practicing the songs with the children in preparation for the event and to all the parents who no doubt helped the children at home too. 

All the hard work has paid off for the 10 children from Years 5 and 6 who took part in The Finale Concert this week at Leeds Town Hall. After a long rehearsal on Tuesday night, the children took to their seats on Wednesday night to fill the Town Hall with a truly amazing sound as they sang the songs from 'On Yer Bike'. They were joined by other young musicians, including a wind band, steel drums band and a strings orchestra. For the final song, 'Le Maillot Jaune', all of the musicians came together to produce a spine-tingling piece of music. The children looked smart, behaved beautifully and sang with pride. They were a real credit to our school and should be very proud of their achievements.

Sports Day was once again a fantastic example of sporting values and achievement with the children demonstrating their well-known determination and encouragement. Heavy rain half an hour before kick-off threatened to scupper plans but some hastily re-organised events meant we were able to get underway with minimal delay. There was much cheering throughout from the winners to the runners up and it was all done in good humour and friendly rivalry. Again our young athletes showed just what they are made of and the future of our already successful indoor and outdoor athletics teams looks very rosy indeed (much to Mr Chapman's delight!) Congratulations of course go to our eventual victors, Panthers, for their ultimate triumph but the competition owed everything to the valiant performances of those children in Tigers, Jaguars and Lions - well done everyone!

Well done too to the boys pairing of Joseph Edmonds and George Hargrave who won the Barry James Trophy and Hannah Stubbs who claimed the Callum Johnston trophy; both of which are awarded for sporting excellence over four years at Springbank.