Well done to our excellent football squads in yea 3/4 and year 5/6, for playing well and being a great team! 3rd place, when there's so many teams from the Cooperative Trust in the tournament, is an excellent achievement - well done! Thanks, hugely, to Julian Matthews, Matthew Woodeson and Mat Turner for coaching over many weeks, and for spending [...]
We've just received a letter from Fay Bowler and Mark Juby, the Principal and Chair of Governors, at Braunton Academy. It explains some of the decisions the Governors have been making over the past year about applications for year 6 and overall school places. We've just started our new 1/2 term school value of 'We Are A Community' and it [...]
We've now got a link to a recording of our recent Online Safety session. If you'd like to see this... please get in touch via email to Jo, and we'll email back a Zoom link and password. If you did see it, do please let us know what you thought of it. Our website's earlier blog below... Do you [...]
I emailed some joining instructions on the 7.2.2022 (4pm) for tomorrow's Online Safety session. I hope you've received these instructions and are able to join us tomorrow. It starts at 8pm, but The 2 Johns suggested you logged in from 7.45pm to ensure you had entry. I have heard, it should last until 9.30pm, so do please make sure you have a [...]
Do you know what effect COVID-19 Lockdown has had on your child? Do you know what media sources your child forms their opinions from? Do you know that self-generated images are now common among children in Years 5 and 6 across the country? Do you know that Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite are not as safe as you might think? Do [...]
Something we're currently monitoring in school is that some children are playing games at playtime that could be related to the Netflix show, Squid Game. Whilst the show itself is rated 15 and is unsuitable for viewing for any and all of our children, it appears that there are now online games (eg. Roblox), memes and social media (Tik Tok [...]
A wonderful after-school athletics competition with (and against!) the other schools in our Cooperative Trust. It's been a very long time since our last inter-school competition! Well done team... Excellent effort and brilliant teamwork! [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Braunton School has its Open Evening next Thursday, the 23rd September for our current year 6s to have a look round. To manage this safely, the Academy are staggering entry for the Primary Schools with Georgeham (and Kingsacre and Marwood) allocated the arrival time of 7.30pm, and limiting numbers from each household to the Year 6 child and two other [...]
We received many, brilliantly and very uniquely crafted handprints in to school earlier this week. Thanks to everyone who sent them in... below, is a gallery of photos of them! These will come together with other school children's handprints from the Braunton Learning Cooperative Trust, and will be on display on Friday, on the Tarka Trail, timed for the start [...]
