Spring 2013

SUPER SCIENCE
BY THOMAS BEASLEYEADES, LUCY BOURNE & ISABELLE HARMAN

RED NOSES AT THE READY!

BY SASHA PRICE
On the 15th March, it was time to get the red noses on and have a great time raising money for Comic Relief! We all came in red clothes and some of the Year 5 girls painted peoples nails, sprayed hair, did tattoos and face paint and guess the name of the baby. We also did some fun activities in assembly and it was teachers against school councillors!! The competitions included how many clothes can you fit on as fast as you can, then ring the bell? Who can eat the most dry crackers? Can you fit loads of Maltesers in your mouth then say fluffy bunny? It was so funny! Sebastian Armstrong even entertained everyone with his act juggling red noses! All the money raised for Comic Relief will go to help people who are not as lucky as us, like giving people in Africa a better life, clean water and houses.

Bickerton pupils have been getting down to lots of super science! All the classrooms have new science areas where we can try things out and do experiments and we had lots of fun during our science week! Class 5 had competitions while Class 4 had separated materials and Class 1 made lava lamps. Class 2 met Discovery Dog and investigated the best materials for cleaning up a messy puddle! In Class 3, they were making popping rockets, milk patterns and finding the best bag. We love Science at Bickerton!

The money can prevent them from getting malaria, and help them to live a longer life. If you watched it on the telly, you could see all the daring challenges normal people and celebrities did like Jessie Jay shaving off her hair! But its a great cause so they knew they had made the right decision and we are glad that we at Bickerton helped too!

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AMAZING ART CLUB

BY ZOE VAUGHAN, SASHA PRICE & EMILY EDWARDS This year, lots of people have been doing Art Club with Chris Gilbert and they have had the best time! We have asked some people what they thought of it. Emily F said It is really fun. Chris is really nice. The best thing was the Christmas cards, they werent hard and we got to make the designs ourselves. Anna G said I feltexcited on the first day. Everything is really fun!. Millie added Chris helped a lot. I was so excited when I joined that I thought I was going to explode with happiness! Our Christmas cards were spectacular! Goldie said Chris is very friendly and when you are stuck he always helps you. Rachel J said You get to learn a lot about drawing. You get to do lots of fun stuff. Lucy B said The things I like doing the most are drawing animals. Sophia added We love the glitter pens. Art club is so fun we have all enjoyed it! Thank Chris!

TERRIFIC TATTON PARK

BY SASHA PRICE & ZOE VAUGHAN
Class 4 all went to Tatton Park to have a very interesting day. They got up to loads of exciting things such as getting lost in the maze trying to find the middle! We got really muddy in the maze too. We also went into the mansion and it was so pretty, but we went into the dungeon and that wasnt pretty at all! They said there were ghosts down there so we all freaked out! We asked Mr Rich and Mrs Chesworth some questions: What was the best thing? Mr R: The massive Christmas tree in the mansion Mrs C: Going into the kitchen. What was the funniest thing? Mr R: When the children got lost in the maze! Mrs C: Going into the cellars and watching the children scream about the ghost. What place did you like the best? Mr R: The cafe watching the planes go by Mrs C: The gardens THANK YOU MRS CHESWORTH AND MR RICH. We had a great time!

THE SANDSTONE CHALLENGE

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL On Saturday 4th May, some marvellous mums from Bickerton will be doing walking the Sandstone Trail from Willington to Bulkeley Hill which will be 11 miles. They are doing it to raise money for the school PTA and the British Heart Foundation. They have already been busy going on practice walks. Feel free to join them!

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GOD HAS ROLLED THE ROCK AWAY!

STAR ACTORS AND ACTRESSES!

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL
On the 31st January Year 5 and 6 pupils had the opportunity to participate in Play for a Day and perform a play to their parents and the rest of the school.

Our Easter service took place in school this year and was led by Class 5. They acted out the Easter story and we all joined in with the songs, like Hosanna and God has rolled the rock away (ROCK AND ROLL!) Thanks to Reverend Anthony and to all the parents who joined us for this special service. HAPPY EASTER!

cret was how we learnt it in a day we go over and over again It was called Macbeth. Oliver with only a few breaks. The perplayed Banquo and Joe played son who taught was Guy HepMacbeth. worth he was a superstar and At the end of the day, everybody never got angry with us. loved it and Mrs Boothby thought All Year 5 and 6s really enjoyed It was truly amazing. The seit. Thank you Guy!

EXCITING EASTER BINGO

BY ZOE VAUGHAN
On the 27th March, we celebrated Easter at Bickerton by doing Easter Bingo. You cant do Easter bingo without EASTER EGGS. We had a mask and hat competition and Fin (in class 3) won with his chocolate wrapper mask (YAY!). In the end the VAUGHAN family won 6 eggs yum yum yum yum yum yum. We all had a good time!

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BICKERTON GETS BUILDING

BY ZOE VAUGHAN
We all got busy building when we had a Building and Making Day at school. It was the school councils idea to have a special theme day. They got ideas from everyone and then voted for the best and the winner was Building and Making Day Each class did a different challenge. Class 4 did Saving the Easter Bunny the Easter bunny got bunny-napped and we had to try and rescue him by building a tower so we could see over the trees. We could use construction, paper, tape and straws. It was very hard, but lots of fun. Joes tower was the strongest because even Mr Rich could stand on it! Gemma, Tom and Zoes tower was the tallest because it went up to the roof. Class 2 made a whole model city, while Class 5 made towers using only newspaper and masking tape. Class 3 made giant burgers and pizzas to go with their literacy work. Class 1 had fun building too!

Mrs B said The best thing about Building and Making Day was that it gave everyone the chance to work well together to achieve something. Everyone was very proud of themselves! Bickerton Builders, can we fix it? Yes we can!

TOP TOPIC BOOKS!

BY JESSICA FIELD
We all love our topic books at Bickerton! Theres all sorts in them like science, art and lots of FUN! We all like to share them with the rest of the school in sharing assembly. Here are some of our favourite pages!

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EPIC YOUNG VOICES!

BY SASHA PRICE & ZOE VAUGHAN
Some children from Year 4, 5 and 6 went on a wonderful trip to perform at the Young Voices concert at the Manchester arena. They had been practising and practising for a few months and it took a while to learn all the songs and dance moves. At the concert, they performed with thousands of other children and some special acts. We have asked a few people for their opinions about it: Mrs Boothby went for the very first time and she said I thought it was amazing!! A once in a life time opportunity and a great atmosphere! The practice in the afternoon was hard work, but totally worth it because then, we got to sing with loads of other people and schools. The best thing was when they turned the lights of and all you could see was the torches. Magic! We also asked Sashas mum Elizabeth Price some questions:

We also asked Mrs. Chesworth some questions:

How was it?

Fantastic as usual.

Did you enjoy it?

Yes it was great.

What was your best song?

Musical memories and all of them! The taking part was the best bit.

Did you like the songs?

Yes they were brill.

What was the hardest part?

The practising!

What was the best part of the night?

When the lights went out.

What was your favourite act?

I liked the African childrens choir.

Thank you so much Mrs. Tedham for organising it and to all the rest of the staff who came!

MAGNIFICENT MUSIC
BY ISABELLE HARMAN Years 4, 5 and 6 went to Malbank School to compete in a singing competition. Also Miss Clay (the music teacher) entered us into the saxophone and clarinet competition. The choir sang Roller Ghoster, Any dream will do and Pop idol. They did very well as they were against all Cheshire East schools, well done! The judge gave them really good feedback, including A very confident and strong performance, clearly enjoyed by the students! The Saxophone and Clarinet also did extremely well, they played two songs: Spring at Bickerton and Christmas song. They also played very very well! Well done!

SOPHIE STAYS SILENT!

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL On Saturday 2nd March, Sophie Furnival did a sponsored silence!! She did it for 2 hours and it was very hard but she still managed it. She raised 21.50 which will all go to Comic Relief. She said I did it because I have always wanted to do something to help people in poor countries. (Well done Sophienot sure I would be able to do what you did!! Very brave! - Editor)

BRAINBOX BEA AND FABULOUS FREYA GET FERGUS FACTOR!

BY LUCY BOURNE Every term the Fergus Factor Award goes out and it is awarded to someone who has shown The Fergus Factor. At the end of the Autumn term, Class 3 pupil Freya Davies got it and was very proud! It was Beas turn in the Spring term getting the award on the first day of school Monday 15th April! Bea said that wining the Fergus factor was absolutely AAMMAAZZIINNGG!! We are really proud of them!

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COOL COOKIE DAY

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL & SASHA PRICE
On 14th February, the school councillors held Cookie Day! Everybody brought in cakes and cookies and at the end of the day, we all got to buy them. It was such a great success we raised 185.10!!!!!! We asked some of the teachers how they thought of the day. Mrs Chesworth said I loved it and really enjoyed the cookies, such a big choice! Then we asked Mr Rich what he thought of his first Cookie Day at Bickerton School. He said It was FAB! I never thought it would be soooo busy, and all the cookies tasted and looked

amazing! All the money will be spent by the School Council on new playground toys for infants and juniors. Thank you to everybody who bought cookies!

A DELICIOUS DAY IN CLASS 3

BY TOM BEASLEY-EADES & ISABELLE HARMAN

A man from The Old Fire Station Chocolate Shop in Tarporley came to teach Class 3 how to make chocolate. He bought all the chocolate for them and brought everything they needed to make yummy chocolate hedgehogs with a fondant filling! So Class 3 parents had a real treat that night!

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BRAVE BROOK BITES BACK!

BY THOMAS BEASLEY-EADES & SOPHIE FURNIVAL As you may have heard Brook Hill (ex-Bickerton pupil) had a ski-ing accident and he was seriously hurt. He is now getting better (hooray!) and we have been sending cards and jokes to help him to get better. We have sent him a video too, saying jokes. Mrs B filled two display boards of photos of his time at Bickerton and we sent that to him too. In his rugby club (Whitchurch) where Tom Beasley-Eades goes, they raised money and bought him an iPad. Brook has got a website called www.caringbridge.org/ beingthereforBrookie where you can put loads of posts and even famous people have put their comments and messages on too. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and even Dougie from McFly has put a video on! WOW! Get well soon Brook from all of us at Bickerton!

HANSEL AND GRETEL IN CLASS 2

BY LUCY BOURNE

Note from the Editor

Brooks family have now started The Brook Hill Foundation which has been set up to help with the rehabilitation of children affected by serious head injuries. With the support of The Brook Hill Foundation, we all hope that Brook and others like him will once again return to live life to the full as the able bodied and strong minded individuals they were before their accidents. More details about The Brook Hill Foundation can be found at: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ brookhillfoundation STOP PRESS! Please support our Wear Red for Brook Day on Friday 26th April and donate as much as you can to this worthy cause! - Editor

ON Monday 4th March, Class 2 performed a brilliant play of Hansel and Gretel with a 3D candy house and cage! Harry Weetch and Jess Williams starred as Hansel and Gretel and Niamh Sambrook played an amazing witch and Alfie and Freya were the mum and dad, not forgetting the fantastic band, birds and narrators! It was awesome with great songs too! Personally, my favourite bit was when the witch tried to fatten up Hansel!

PRETTY PRINCESSES AND BRAVE KNIGHTS IN CLASS 1

BY ISABELLE HARMAN, JESSICA FIELD & THOMAS BEASLEY-EADES
Class 1 had fun when they dressed up as princesses and knights and had a medieval banquet! Mrs Tudor answered some questions about this fun event. Whose costume did you like best? Aarons was amazing! Was there a battle against knights? Yes, we have some pictures of them protecting the princesses! Also, the knights had to accompany the princesses around the school. What games did you play? Medieval dancing and everyone told a joke at the banquet! What food did you eat? Very healthy food but we did have a castle cake made by Mrs Carrington. What was your favourite bit? The beautiful behaviour!

COOL CADBURY WORLD

BY ZOE VAUGHAN Class 3 and 4 went on a fantastic trip to Cadbury world. First off all we went in the Aztec jungle and there were models of people that were sort of acting it out but staying still. We saw some real people who were talking about their boat and they said they were holding sheep poo, but really they were holding coca beans! We went past and smelt it. After that, we went through a room and watched a film. In the film they were talking about chocolate and when smoke came up on the screen, out of our seat came smoke and it wobbled! We walked all around the factory and watched how chocolate was made. Then we had lunch but we didnt have a lot of time to eat because we needed to go to The Essence and watch to find out how chocolate was discovered. Then we went in another room and got a cup of chocolate and got a choice of toppings there were: marshmallows, white chocolate buttons, and wine gums, rice krispies and last of all jelly babies. We went in an education room and watched a movie about how cocoa beans travel to the UK.

The lady said who wants to ask a question? Mr Rich put his hand up he said: why do some of the signs say Cadburys world and some say Cadbury world? and the lady said I dont know because the boss says it is Cadbury world! Thank you Miss Gittins and Class 3 for letting us come! We had a great day learning about chocolate. (I am very jealous! Take me with you next time!!! Editor)

GETTING BUSY
BY SASHA PRICE On the7th March it was World Book Day and as usual, everyone at Bickerton dressed up! There were some great costumes on show. In Class 4, Tom Beasley-Eades came as a Womble (Uncle Bulgaria) Sasha Price came as Susan out of Narnia, Emily Edwards came as Augustus Gloop, Zoe Vaughan came as Bellatrix LEstrange from Harry Potter and Christy came as Lucy out of Narnia. Some other good costumes were Ross as Noddy, Sophie as Gangster Granny, Casper as Indiana Jones and Thomas in Class 1 as Wheres Wally. Even the staff dressed up! Mrs Tudor was Cruella de Vil and Mrs Tedham was Burglar Bill. Mr Innes came as Luigi from Mario brothers which was perfect as Class 2s Alex Field came as Mario! We asked Mr Innes how he thought it went and he said Brill! I enjoyed it loads and everybody made a great effort. Every class got to have some parents to come in to read to them, which was nice. Class 4 took their pictures home once they had been laminated. It was so fun and we did a Tiddler story competition when we listened to a story and had to write our own version. There is going to be prizes for the winners! We all had a great day enjoying books and reading! (A huge thanks to all parents for helping to produce such super costumes and especially to those parents who came in to readyou made our day! - Editor)

ON BOOK DAY

OUR CLASS
Class 1 Its been another fun term in Class 1! They even made their own Sainsburys! We asked the children what they have enjoyed most. One of the highlights was their jungle expedition in the nature area. Tom said I liked it because I had to make sure that everyone was ok! and Jemima added that she loved writing about the jungle. Eloise enjoyed listening to the jungle noises and Ellen thought the tree rubbing was fun. Aaron added I liked racing in the pancake race and Cameron said I have enjoyed using our new computer! Cerys is looking forward to having a vets corner in the class next term!
Class 2 Class 2 have been doing lots of tasting and testing this term! They had fun designing and making their own pizzas. Mine was yummy! said Lola. I liked choosing my own toppings. said Beatrice. They also made a pizza restaurant role play Pizza King and made their own salt dough pizzas, signs, and menus to make it really good! Their Hansel and Gretel work was very popular and Ruby told us I loved making a gingerbread house because it was a fun activity with lots of different sweets to decorate it! They also enjoyed acting out the story, exploring the story setting and characters and writing their own stories. Lulu enjoyed making her 3D gingerbread man because she liked putting the stuffing in and Daisy loved it when we made our igloo because we all worked together as a team. Building and Making Day was also popular in Class 2 and Alfie said I liked the police station in our model city while Ted said It was good because we all got to do something different for the city Another highlight was learning about Chinese New Year with Mrs Eccles. Alex said I liked the rice, noodles and prawn crackers! while Jess said she liked all the Chinese food!

HIGHLIGHTS
Class 3 Class 3 have had a great term and they have all loved learning about CHOCOLATE, especially Lucy and Georgie!! Some of their highlights were learning to make chocolate hedgehogs, the trip to Cadbury World and World Book Day. Emily Smith enjoyed designing and presenting her own topic book too.
Class 4 Class 4 have been busy too! They have enjoyed using non-fiction explanation texts and designing their own posters on an endangered species (they had to research it and write it up for display) Their D&T work on Building and Making Day was also popular the SBS (Special Bunny Service) which involved building towers to rescue the Easter bunny. Class 4 have enjoyed their topic work on Changes, looking at themselves and the environment and working in the Science area. They have also had fun playing maths games! Another highlight was their trip to Cadbury World with Class 3. They remembered getting to see how chocolate is made from a pod to the finished bar, eating melted chocolate at Essence and Miss Gittins spilling chocolate down her and having to do parents evening covered in chocolate!

Science activities have also been popular in Class 3, with everyone enjoying investigating in the Science area! Millie has enjoyed learning about polymers in Science and loved investigating which was the best nappy! Sophia loved Science week and Maisie likes the Science big book.

Class 5 Class 5 have had a great term too! They have explored and debated graffiti art and had fun with lot of science activities in the science area. They have been making boats in science too. Lauren enjoyed building marshmallow towers while Yasmin liked making lava lamps. Goldie has enjoyed writing stories and everyone has enjoyed the music lessons playing recorders and saxophones. Taking part in the music competition was also a highlight and doing the Easter service. And the best bit of being in Class 5 this term? Having Mrs Tedham and Mrs Chapman as teachers! said Anna. Fantastic!

SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!

BY ISABELLE HARMAN & SOPHIE FURNIVAL First week back after the Christmas holiday and what a fantastic start, it snowed! Everybody had permission to throw lots of snowballs and Mr Richardson and all of class 4 had a huge snowball fight with everyone joining in! Everyone made a lot of forts too! But in the end Mr Rich said that the snowballs were getting too hard like compacted ice. We asked some people about what they thought about the snow. Mr Richardson said I loved it! It made the school look like a Christmas card. But I did get fed up of falling over and having to wear silly boots! I hated driving in the snow as some people were so silly but I loved playing football and the snow ball fights. Mrs Tudor commented The snow was a bit of a nuisance but it was fun for all the children. Mrs Boothby said The snow is great fun and there are lots of educational activities you can do in it. We made snow sculptures as part of our art lesson! Class 1 pupil Maisie Tudor commented It was great because I loved building the snowmen The snow was great, even though at the end, we all got fed up with soggy socks and gloves!

INVASION OF THE IGLOOS!

BY JESS FIELD As you may know this year were most likely to have a white Easter!!! We were all surprised but happy to get another load of snow just before the Easter holidays! Here at Bickerton, we love having fun in the snow and we have made some fantastic creations! But some people have made the most of the snow by trying to live in it! We have had igloos popping up all over the field and Class 2 worked together to create their own in the celebration garden! Mrs Weaver and Mrs B had even made their own at home and brought us the pictures to see.

MARVELLOUS MUMS
BY LUCY BOURNE On Monday 11th March, Class 1 and 2 did a brilliant performance in front of their mums for Mothers Day. They sang songs and recited poems about mums and even said their feelings about their mums. Mrs B said It was a lovely assembly and I think all the mums loved it because all you could hear was aw! lots all through the service! All the children really enjoyed it too! Class 2 also performed their dance that they had been working on with Mrs Parsons, all about South African animals. Well done Class 1 and 2.

BICKERTON SCHOOL WORDSEARCH

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BY LUCY BOURNE & ZOE VAUGHAN

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FUN CHOCOLATE HOMEWORK GOLDEN TIME FRIENDS

TEACHERS MUSIC TOPIC PLAY MATHS

COOKIE DAY TRIPS SPORTS PARTIES

NEW PEOPLE LOVE , SHOWS PLAY EQUIPMENT

JOLLY JOKES!
BY OLIVER PRITCHARD-JONES & JESSICA FIELD

TEACHER GUESS WHO?

BY TOM BEASLET-EADES & ISABELLE HARMAN

Whats brown and sticky?

A stick

What did the zero say to the eight?

Nice belt

Three men are stranded on a desert island with no food or water but one day a bottle floated to the shore and out popped a genie and he said I will grant you each one wish two of the men wanted to go home and poof off they went but the last man said Its going to get lonely here now I wished theyd all come back. POOF!

We have picked a number of staff and they told us their hobbies. You have to match the hobbies together to match each other. In the next mag, we will tell you the correct answers. Sleeping Walking, sleeping Playing with my children Collecting Zippo lighters Eating chocolate Making cakes Mr Innes Mrs Tudor Mr Richardson Mrs Chesworth Mrs Boothby Mrs Chapman

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

The Spring edition of the Bickerton Bulletin has landed! The term was very short, but we were not short of news to cover, which is why we were a little later going to print! I want to thank my trusty team of reporters, who have yet again worked really hard to finish this terms Bulletin! They have shown real dedication to getting the magazine finished and I am very proud of them. WELL DONE TO ALL OF YOU! And finally, thank you all for reading our creation and being the subjects of it! What a lot we get up to at Bickerton! Please let us know if you have any ideas of stories we can cover in our next edition. Happy reading! Mrs B xxxx

Bickerton Bulletin reporters Back row, left to right: Sasha Price, Isabelle Harman, Thomas BeasleyEades, Sophie Furnival Front row, left to right: Zoe Vaughan, Jessica Field, Emily Edwards, Lucy Bourne

BICKERTONS OLYMPIC HERO

BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL On 24th January, we had a special visit from youth Olympian Lucy Burgess! This amazing girl won a gold medal in rowing for the womens four and a bronze for the womens eight in the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney Only aged 18, this great success was from a Bickerton pupil because Lucy came here! We asked her how she felt about winning and she said It was amazing, the best feeling in the world, especially when they played the national anthem! We asked her if she had any advice for us and she said Keep going and only listen to the positive comments you get. I was shocking at PE when I was at school! It was very exciting to meet her. Sasha said It was really cool seeing Lucy Burgess and her medals and I was amazed she used to come to this school! Mrs Tedham added I was really thrilled that someone from Bickerton has been in the youth Olympics and it is really special that she came back to share the news Go Lucy! Well look out for you in the next Olympics!

CLASS 4S DELIGHTFUL DANCE

BY ZOE VAUGHAN Class 4 took part in a dance festival on Wednesday 13th March and Thursday 14th March at Bishop Heber. They based it on South Africa because of our link activities with Tiger Kloof school this year. It was a wonderful dance called Safari and we had learnt it with Mrs Parsons. We performed it wearing coloured T-shirts and lots of other schools from the area took part. On the first night they called us Tushingham but luckily the next night Mrs Parsons reminded her that we were Bickerton and they got it right! On Thursday, we watched all the dances and Tom thought that the chocolate one was the best and Sasha and I thought the surfing in the UK dance was the best! At the start of the whole dance, every school came on the stage with the banner and ours was the best because it had lights on it from Young Voices. Mrs Parsons has also worked on a version of the dance with the other classes in the school. She said The children performed the dance beautifully with no mistakes and we all had a great time! Thanks to Mrs Chesworth and Mr Richardson for coming along to help too.

FANTASTIC FOOTBALL
BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL

On Thursday 28th February, Year 4 boys went to Kings School in Chester to play in a festival of football. They played 6 games and won them all! They didnt even let a single goal in with their brilliant goalkeeper Danny Mosford. They then went to the next round of the Everton School Cup. A couple of weeks later, they went to the

Everton Youth Academy Training Facility in Merseyside. It was very exciting because they were at the official training ground of Everton FC!! There was loads of schools competing all across Cheshire. They won 2 games, lost 3 and drew 1 and overall, they came 4th. They had a great experience and wish to go back next year! Mrs Parsons said The boys played excellently and behaved very well. Thank you to Gaynor and Mrs Weetch for help with the transport.

RYANS TROPHY
BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL Ryan Hodkinson in Class 2 has won a trophy for good effort in football. We are all very proud of him. Well done Ryan!

NETBALL KNOCKOUT
BY On 6th March some children from Year 5 and 6 went to take part in two netball tournaments. One was a mixed and one was an all-girls. They played against teams from Tilston, Malpas, Tattenhall, Tushingham, Clutton and Shocklach and everyone played really well. The girls team came 2nd in their tournament and the mixed team came 3rd. We asked Mrs Chesworth what she thought and she said I really enjoyed it. Everyone played really well and did Bickerton proud. Everybody really enjoyed it and we all cant wait to play the next tournament. Thanks to Mrs Chesworth for taking both teams as Mrs Parsons was with the football team that day. Thanks also to Mrs Weaver and Mr Sweetnam for helping with the transport.

SPECTACULAR SPORTSHALL!
BY ISABELLE HARMAN & LUCY BOURNE On Thursday 31st January, a variety of students from year 4, 5 and 6 went to the Bishop Heber High School to compete in an athletics event named Sportshall. We were competing against 4 other schools including Tushingam, Tattenhall and Malpas Alport. All the children were allowed to do two track, and two field events. The track events were: 1x1 and 2x2 running, paarlauf(6 laps in total!) and hurdles. The children did ever so well and eventually we field events were: long jump, speed bounce, came 2nd! javelin, chest push and vertical jump. All the Mrs Parsons was ever so happy!

HANDBALL HEROES
BY SOPHIE FURNIVAL On February 27th Mrs Parsons entered us into a handball competition at Bishop Heber. Handball is a cross between basketball, neball and football. We played 6 games and won all of them except one! Wow! Mrs Parsons said The team played magnificently and also really enjoyed themselves. I was very proud. Well done!