Bushbury Lane Primary Academy

Over the last week, year 6 have been taking part in our first ever Career’s Week! We have been lucky enough to have lots of visitors come into school from different sectors… business owners, foundation owners, police officers, photographers, prison officers and university lecturers! We have been inspired and motivated by our visitors and hopefully our oldest pupils are now full of hope for their futures before they leave for secondary school…

A huge thank you to all of our visitors, you have made the week truly inspirational!

I just want to say a massive thank you to all the families that showed us support at our Summer Fayre yesterday. It was an amazing day and we cant wait for next year! 🎉☀️

Our summer fayre is all underway! Head on down for a day of fun and prizes! 🎉☀️

If you want to win any of these amazing prizes, then head down to our Summer Fayre on Saturday!

Below are just a snap shot of what's up for grabs, we also have an air fryer and cook book, £100 worth of vouchers and a meal for 2 with a bottle of prosecco.

See you all there!

Raffle tickets are available at the school office and on the play ground at the end of every school day.

Year 5 have been working extremely hard all year in their swimming lessons🏊‍♀️💦 Today the children completed their assessment lesson in which they all did an amazing job! The progression that we have seen since September has blown us all away, with majority of the class now able to swim independently. 5 of the children achieved their 25m award today which is a huge achievement🏆🏅

The children should all be super proud of themselves☺️Well done year 5!

Year 6 have had a fun-filled morning working on their team work skills.. they have worked together through multiple challenges involving balance, water and speed and ended the session with a slip and slide. Everyone was thoroughly soaked through but ended up crying with laughter!

Photography club have really begun to develop their skills of composition and editing this week by learning how to ‘fill the frame’. They have produced some beautiful photographs by taking everyday objects and turning them into something interesting and unique…

Today, as part of their ‘Mixed Media’ art topic, year 5 had a fun afternoon making recycled paper!🎨♻️📝 The children collected up all of our scrap paper from throughout the day and turned it into new, recycled scrapbook paper which they will use later on in their project. Everyone loved getting messy and trying out the different techniques that we learnt about. It was a great afternoon and the children worked extremely hard! We are patiently waiting for the paper to dry out so that we can make use of our creations🖼️✏️

Today, children in Reception got to enjoy their first story and role play club of the summer! After school today, we read The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr. To celebrate the first of our after school club activities, we had a tea party, just like the one in the story. We enjoyed sandwiches, cupcakes, biscuits and “tea”. We even had some tigers who joined us for tea! 🐯🫖📚🥪

Summer Fayre Stalls ‼️

Just a reminder that we still have stalls for hire at this year's school Summer Fayre!

Stalls are £25 for the day!

Please see the school's front office or contact the office via email: [email protected]

Thank you! 😊

🧸🛒🎁 DONATIONS ‼️

We are looking for donations of any unwanted items such as: toys/games or home furnishings for our Bric-a-Brac stall at the school's Summer Fayre.

If you have anything you would like to donate, please could you drop it at the school's office!

Thank you 😊

Before half term, Reception had an amazing day exploring different animals at the Dudley Zoo!

Even though it was a very wet and rainy day, it didn’t stop us enjoying ourselves and having lots of fun seeing the animals. We got to experience seeing animals up close such as tigers, lions monkeys and lemurs!

Children wowed teachers and volunteers at the zoo with all the facts and knowledge they had learnt this year about The Safari animals.

To launch their new topic, On The Beach, reception had a day at Bushbury Beach! 🏖️ We got changed into our beach clothes and had fun building sandcastles in the sand and playing in the water. we even got to ride our pretend donkeys, have a pretend campfire, do some sunbathing and even got to enjoy some ice creams and ice lollies. We had lots of fun! 🏖️🐚🌊☀️🍦🩴

Cadbury World 2024! 🍫🏭

Year 4 have had the best day at Cadbury World today learning how chocolate is made and how it has developed over time!

This trip helped the children create a feel for a real life chocolate factory, although they couldn’t eat the chocolate river like in the book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that we have most recently read!

Thank you for a lovely day year 4! Hopefully you don’t feel too sick after all the chocolate you have bought 🤭🍫🎉

Before half term, Year 2 had their trip to the Botanical Gardens and thoroughly enjoyed it! Whilst there they got to handle and stroke some exotic animals like a hissing cockroach and a tenrec! They then enjoyed the beautiful gardens and saw some amazing plants and flowers, some children even recognized certain plants such as a banana plant.

As part of our 10 Good Deeds challenge, Year 6 have completed a charity car wash today where all money made will be donated to a charity local to us - Compton Care.

The children have had a great time, staff will be driving away with lovely, shiny cars and we’ve raised money for a wonderful cause!

Well done Year 6!

Year 5 have blown us away with their art work inspired by Modern Expressionism this week. 🎨The attention to detail and determination shown throughout this project has really paid off in their final pieces. well done year 5!☺️🎨🖌️

Today Year 1 created 'Thank you' posters and made up sweet goody bags to say thank you to our Police, Fire Fighters and hospital workers for all their hard work. This was part of our ten good deeds!! We can not wait to hand them out to our community heroes!

We have had a very musical week this week at Bushbury Lane.. Year 4 attended Singing in the Halls in the city centre on Tuesday where they sang and danced their hearts out all morning!

Today, we were joined by Wolverhampton Music Service who put on a mini concert for KS2, children listened to and learned about many different types of instruments and had the opportunity to sing along and become inspired by the musicians and wonderful songs they heard.

Proud of our school - our incredible children, our inspirational staff and our supportive community!
What a transformational journey we have all been on!
We are OUTSTANDING!
Go Team Bushbury!💜

School celebrates Outstanding outcome of inspection | City Of Wolverhampton Council Staff and pupils are celebrating an Outstanding Ofsted report – after their school was previously found to require improvement.

Today, Reception ticked off one of their ten good deeds - to use no paper in their enhanced provision! We spoke about the importance of paper and why we shouldn't waste it. We understood we were doing something good for the environment as it stopped having to cut down more trees to use more paper. 🌳We now understand that trees are very important to us and if we want to throw away our paper, we must re-use and recycle! ♻️ We had lots of fun learning in the different areas today such as turning potatoes and rocks into minibeasts, making bug hotels and using our fine motor skills to save minibeasts and worms! 🐝🪱🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🕷🕸

Shakespeare’s Workshop 🎭

Today years 4, 5 and 6 were lucky enough to take part in an interactive and highly entertaining Shakespeare workshop using the children’s ideas to retell the story of a Midsummer Night’s Dream. This wonderful morning was arranged in support of our 11 before 11 promise “Shake it up Shakespeare’.

It was by far our favourite morning at Bushbury, all children and teachers have laughed non stop at the production and it has certainly brought a smile to all of our faces - what a way to end SATs week!!!

All years who took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves and have all found a love for drama and Shakespeare’s work.

Thank you to Sky Blue Theatre Company - you have truely brought the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to life!

https://skybluetheatre.com

SATS Breakfast club is underway and we are all ready to smash the reading paper! Good luck to our wonderful year 6’s this morning, you are all amazing and have no doubt you will do us proud 👌🏼🎉

Year 5 Olympics🏅

This half term, year 5 have been learning about Ancient Greece in their history lessons. Today’s lesson involved the children learning about the ancient and modern olympics. The children then planned and prepared to host their own ‘Year 5 Olympics’ where they took part in a range of different events. The children had a brilliant morning and showed excellent team spirit all round🏅🏆

It is that time of year again! ☀️🎪🎡

Bushbury Lane Academy Summer Fayre 2024!

We had such a blast last year so this year we want it to be bigger and better!

We hope to see you all there having fun. If you want to inquire about a stall please visit the front office for more information.

Thank you in advance for your support!

CRAZY HAIR DAY!!!

Thank you to all the parents and children who made such an amazing effort for our crazy hair day today!

Here are a few snapshots of some of the amazing creations we have seen this morning!

As always, we appreciate all of your amazing contributions!

Yesterday, year 4 enjoyed a very wet but educational visit to Bridgnorth!
Despite the rain, we started our field trip in low town looking at and discussing the river and the features we’ve learnt about in geography! Next, we made our way to the historical cliff railway where the children travelled up to high town. Our next adventure took us around some of the many eye-catching churches that Bridgnorth has to offer! We explored St Mary’s church and met a historian from Wolverhampton who told us lots of interesting facts about both Bridgnorth and our home town! Finally, after lots of talk about history and geography we treated our selves to some sweets from the local, traditional sweet shop and played on the park!
Thank you year 4 for an amazing day - your behaviour was outstanding as always!

We are immensely proud and overjoyed to be able to share the news that we are now an ‘OUTSTANDING’ school. This is something that the whole team has worked tirelessly towards for many years for our wonderful children and community and it is truly special that all of our hard work has paid off. I hope that each child steps into their uniform each morning and stands a little taller knowing that they are a big part of a truly exceptional school 💜

We have had the best week with our Year 6 children! A week of extraordinary experiences and endless laughter. We are returning back to Bushbury with very tired eyes but with happy hearts which hold memories that will last a lifetime ✨ ✅