Balsall Common Primary School

Volunteers needed. Please support the Summer Fair. Contact the PTA, BCPS PTA, if you are able to lend a hand. Thank you

Car Boot Sale Heart of England School on Sunday 14 June

We hope you had a lovely half term in the sunshine. We look forward to seeing everyone back in school tomorrow, Monday 1 June.

Volunteers Needed: Help Launch Junior parkrun in Balsall Common!
With the support of Parish Councils and local charities, it is planned to launch a Junior parkrun at Lavender Hall Park for 4–14 year olds this Summer — BUT a pool of volunteers is needed to be in place before they can secure approval with parkrun UK and finalise a start date. We know that many of our pupils love to run and we are reaching out to our school community for your support to help to make a parkrun in Balsall Common happen!
🏃 Support a fun 2km run for our local 4 – 14 years olds
📅 Volunteer roughly once every 3 weeks (flexible)
⏱ Just 45 minutes on a Sunday morning (from 08:45)
🙌 Roles include marshalling, timekeeping & results
No experience needed – full training provided. Parents, carers, grandparents or ANYONE can support the Balsall Common community to launch our very 1st parkrun.
To make a community difference, please contact Peter Wreford on: 07971 877965 or [email protected]

Our school fish aquarium is looking very lively now thanks to kind donations from our parent community.
Many thanks to the Woodruff family, Annabel 5C and Hugo 1R who donated colourful aquarium plants ornamental rock which has added lots of character and colour.
A big thank you to the Priestley family Emma 3P and Sophie RC who have donated many fish now from their aquarium. We were down to around 2 fish at one point so having so many now is such a nice change and very calming and relaxing for staff and pupils.
We would also like to thank Mr Bird for the addition of the Spongebob and Squidward house which causes so much excitement with the children. He is under pressure to try and find Patrick’s house now, fingers crossed.

A message from Mr Mitchell. Before half term, our Year 6 children undertook their SATs tests. These give a set of outcomes relating to reading, spelling, grammar and mathematics – a fairly narrow set of academic measures. Nonetheless, we expect our children to achieve well in these assessments because of their strength of character and all the diligent, hard work they put in over years at our school. I have been so proud of the Year 6 children throughout this week as they have supported one another, given their very best efforts and shown their resilience under pressure. They are FABULOUS!

This would not be possible without the staff team we have here. Obviously, those who currently work in Year 6 have a huge role to play in the children’s success, but so many more have played their part over the years… and I am grateful to them all. As children progress through our school, the care, support, motivation and dedication shown by the staff team here is superb. Whatever the outcomes in tests, we know that the children have experienced the best we could deliver for them.

Today was the last day of this half term, we hope you have a lovely week off and look forward to seeing everyone back in school on Monday 1 June.

Year 6 parents: The best place to keep updated with Isle of Wight action next week is our X account https://x.com/BalsallCommonPS
It's a secure account so you need our approval to follow. If you ask to follow and we can identify your name, we will approve.
If you use a more ambiguous name (ie ) then e-mail into the school office to let us know that it's a parent and we will approve as soon as we can.
We will still be posting key info on Facebook for arrival news, departure times on Friday and ETA for home etc, but X (formerly Twitter) is the main account to follow for daily updates of activities.

We are Team Super Sports, an award-winning holiday sports camp provider. As part of our continued commitment to supporting children and families within the Solihull and Coventry community, we are keen to build positive partnerships with local schools and offer opportunities that promote physical activity, wellbeing, and community engagement through our 7 sports that we offer daily.

Contact us on: [email protected]

Our Year 3 & 4 BCPS Girls football team competed in the Let Girls Play Event where they qualified for the semi finals with 2 wins and 2 losses in the group stage. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be for them as we lost in the semi-final to a very good Milverton side. However, the girls showed great character, passion and communication in all their games and represented the school fantastically.
BCPS Player of the tournament – Hollie B (3H)

Our Year 5 & 6 BCPS Girls football team also qualified for the semi-finals with a strong group stage campaign of 3 wins and 3 draws. The semi-final v Milverton was a very tense and scrappy game which led to penalties. Up stepped Bella L (6N), Libby G (6B) and Libby P (5C) to slot their penalties away. Shout out to Bella F (6B) who saved all 3 of the penalties she faced! We advanced into the final where are girls showed a great spirit after a long day of football. A late goal from captain Bella L (6N) meant we won the final 1-0!
A fantastic event all round and a massive congratulations to all the girls who competed!!!
BCPS Player of the tournament – Bella L (6N)