We are delighted to announce, Bloxwich Academy Primary have been awarded the ‘Gold School Games Mark’ award for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success. 

Some of our successful school sport achievements this year have included: 

The KS2 Girls football team being unbeaten in all games played across the academic year! 

Boys and girls winning football tournaments at Beacon primary school without losing a game! 

An amazing turnout for both boys and girls’ football & rugby clubs increasing participation for all! 

At Bloxwich Academy Primary we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. As a school, we are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community. We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer. 

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year. 

Ms Shepherd would like to thank all the staff at Bloxwich Academy Primary for their dedication to teach outstanding PE lessons and taking their own time to offer a wide variety of extra-curricular activities. To all the parents and children for their hard work and efforts achieving this award – we couldn’t have done it without you! Special thanks go to Mr Baugh and Miss Machin for overseeing, organising and leading the PE throughout the year. Well done for all your hard work! 

We look forward to applying once again in 2023! 

Years 1 – 6

Will return to school Tuesday 6th September, normal school hours.

Nursery

Tuesday 6th September – Wednesday 7th September 2022.

You will be invited to come into nursery with your child to look at their classroom. There will be a short 10-15 minute meeting with your child’s teacher so we can get to know you and your child better before starting nursery.

Thursday 8th September 2022

1 hour nursery session for all nursery children 8:40-9:40am

Friday 9th September 2022

2 hour nursery session for all nursery children 8:40-10:40am

Monday 12th September 2022

3 hour nursery session for all nursery children 8:40-11:40am.

Reception

Wednesday 7th September 2022

Children who attend Bloxwich Academy nursery to start full time.

Wednesday 14th September 2022

Children from outside settings to start full-time and join children who attended Bloxwich Academy.

Year 4 have had a fantastic couple of weeks! We have been getting involved in lots of activities in our recent residential and we have also been smashing out our summer term tests.

For three days, Year 4 have been getting actively involved in some of the amazing activities that Woodlands outdoor activity centre had to offer. After arriving, children got to unpack, familiarise themselves with the buildings and even have time to play a couple of games of table football and pool.

After a quick bite to eat, we got into the activities! The assault course, zip line, archery, canoeing and other activities over the 3 days were so enjoyable and the children had an absolute blast! After a long day of activities, children had some free time to play football, pool and table football whilst waiting for dinner. Hot chocolate accompanied the children before bed. After a long and tiring day, eventually, everyone was in bed, ready to be up nice and early the next morning to do it all again! Year 4 definitely enjoyed the visit and some children even managed to conquer some fears and challenges that they thought they would never get the opportunity to do!

For this year’s Sports Days on Friday 24^th June and Tuesday 28^th June, children are asked to attend school in their PE kit. If you have a t-shirt in their house colour, children are welcome to wear this instead. You can find your child’s house on the list below, and the corresponding house colours are as follows.

Brindley – Blue

Stephenson – Green

Telford – Yellow

Watt – Red

This morning, we spent time with Nursery children and parents as they enjoyed a picnic on the playing field, serving cake and squash in between the fun and games. We then made our way up to the Keystage 2 playground and helped out with their street party style lunch. It has been such a lovely occasion, and we wanted all the children to have a special memento to take away with them. Over the past few weeks, we have been busily creating the below commemorative Jubilee keyrings which we today handed out to every child. We hope that these will be a little gift from Friends of Bloxwich that will stay in their keepsake box forever, and hope they will look upon with fondness in years to come.

Happy Easter from all of us here at Friends of Bloxwich!

Today has been fabulous! We have spent the morning hopping around from class to class, delivering chocolate eggs to all the children at Bloxwich Academy Primary. As you can see from the pictures, we had a fantastic reception from the children who were really excited to see the Easter Bunny and helpers; we can’t tell you how much we love seeing the children smile!

We have also had an incredible response to our ‘Guess the Eggs’ competition and the chocolate hamper raffle. Overall, our Easter activities have raised over £340.00 which will go towards future events for the children. We could not organise these fun, memorable experiences for the pupils at Bloxwich Academy Primary without your support, so a massive thank you needs to go out to parents.

We hope you all have a fantastic Easter break and we look forward to sharing or plans for the summer term with you very soon!

Year 2 have had a brilliant couple of weeks. The children have been working very hard on their reading skills and it has been a pleasure for us to see them improving so much.

As the final week of the half term has arrived, the children have been completing their newest writing unit – persuasive postcards. We have used the book, Meerkat Mail, as an inspiration for this unit and the children have impressed us greatly with their creativity. This week, the children have written their own postcard persuading the reader to visit Bloxwich Academy.

Mrs Watkins’ maths group have been learning all about fractions in their mathematics, Miss Azad’s maths group have been finishing off their place value to 100 unit and Mrs Gandhi’s maths group have been looking at their addition and subtraction unit. Well done to all the children for their effort and hard work this week.

We have been coming to the end of a couple foundation subject units and have been having lots of fun being creative with their final projects. In R.E., we have been learning about Losar (a New Year’s tradition for Tibetan Buddhists). We have completed this project this week by having our own, small New Year’s class party and working together to create our own cham dance. The children and teachers really enjoyed this! The children created flower sculptures at the end of their Art project, using paper plates and felt tips to mimic the sculptural designs of Yayoi Kusama.

Well done on yet another fantastic half term, Year 2! Have a safe and happy Easter holidays. We look forward to welcoming you back to school next term!