BICKER PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND EARLY YEARS

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25th Anniversary Celebrations

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This term we are delighted to be celebrating 25 years of teaching and learning, here at Bicker Prep.

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The school started with just three pupils and has gone from strength to strength during the intervening years. Our willingness to be 'forward thinking' in order to ensure our pupils are well-prepared for the modern world together with a respect for traditional values and methods, enables our pupils to flourish into mature, polite young people who make the transition to secondary school having achieved high academic standards.

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The school has always enjoyed an holistic curriculum, which is firmly grounded in the outdoors - we were teaching 'Forest School' long before Forest School became a by-word for outstanding Early Years education! With our own adjacent Environmental Area, private Nature Reserve as well as a school garden accessible from every classroom the children enjoy first hand experience of the changing seasons, adventurous play as well as managed risk.

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As we celebrate 25 successful years we look forward to the future with excitement and look forward to welcoming many more children over the next 25 years!

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Raising Money for Charity

The NSPCC will be our chosen charity for the Autumn Term 2019. 

As well as the wonderful work they do to help children across the UK, they work with us in school to help us to teach children about staying safe. They lead workshops for Year 6 children in preparation for transition as well as E-safety workshops for parents.

We are looking forward to our 'Wear Something Green for Buddy' day on 6th November, when Mrs Douglas from the NSPCC will be coming to lead assemblies in school.

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Pupil News

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We were delighted that all our children choosing to sit the 11+ examination in 2018, achieved the score required for entry into Lincolnshire Grammar Schools.

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Not all of our children opt to sit the 11+ examination and we are delighted that children and their families tell us they feel well-supported in making an informed decision when faced with secondary transition.

 

Our children feed into a wide range of secondary schools and we encourage children and parents to visit a number of secondary schools in their area.

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Please see below for links to some of the Secondary Schools we feed into. 

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Performance and Public Speaking

 

At Bicker Preparatory School and Early Years we place a high priority on building confidence through public performances. 

 

Every Christmas our Foundation Stage children put on a musical Nativity for parents, grandparents, other family members and friends. Each child has a role to play, most with speaking parts and all join in with singing and dancing.

 

Our Upper School children put on a pantomime. Every child has a speaking part and older children sing solos and all are expected to memorise their lines.

 

Church services throughout the year, as well as the annual Prizegiving Ceremony held at the Village Hall, enables children to develop the confidence they need to

'shine' at secondary school. 

 

Many of our children are chosen as form captains or team representatives  when they move up to secondary school and we receive glowing reports from the schools we feed into. 

                      Dates for your Information

 

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11+ Tests - 2019 test dates will be available shortly. Further details will be posted in the New Year.

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Please click on the links below to access up-to-date information on 11+ arrangements, as well as Open Days for Year 5 and 6 children, directly from each school's own website.

 

Boston High School

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Boston Grammar School

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Thomas Cowley High School

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William Lovell Church of England Academy

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Spalding Grammar School

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Spalding High School

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Horncastle Grammar

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Sleaford High School

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St George's Academy

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Carre's Grammar School

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King's School, Grantham

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Lincoln Minster School

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Bourne Grammar School

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Bourne Academy

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 Events Calendar

 

Headteachers Termly Newsletter to Parents

click below to access link

Summer 2018

Wednesday 5th September

Children return to school. 

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Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th September

Bicker Steam Threshing Weekend

Tuesday 11th September   

Discovery Sport sessions begin for children from Reception to Year 6

Thursday 13th September

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Class 3 Nature Reserve trip

Friday 14th September

11+ VR test

Friday 21st September

11+ NVR test

Thursday 27th September

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Class 4  Nature Reserve trip

Monday 1st October

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R/Y1 athletics at the B-Hive

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Thursday 4th October

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Foundation Stage Nature Reserve trip

Monday 8th October

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Year 2/3/4 athletics at the B-Hive

Thursday 11th October

Class 5  Nature Reserve trip

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Monday 15th October

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Class 5 athletics at the B-Hive

Wednesday 17th October

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Break up for Half-Term Holiday

Wednesday 31st October

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Pupils return from Half-Term Holiday