Bosbury Memories

Year 6 Leavers 2021

Please see below for a collection of all the memories which our Year 6 Leavers of 2021 shared in their final Leavers' Assembly of their time at Bosbury CE Primary School.

  

 

 

I have been at Bosbury for seven years! I still remember walking down the drive for the first time. I have loads of good memories which I will tell you about below.

On my first day of school, when I was walking down the drive with my brother who was in Year 2 at the time, he told me that I had to do the ‘big kid walk’ where you put a foot in front of your waist every time you walked – I did this for most of my first day!

When I was in Reception, I heard a click in my arm and after that I couldn’t move it, which made me think I had broken it! Miss Cooke phoned my mum and took me to hospital. When we got there, I said, “It feels better now!”. As you can guess, I had not actually broken my arm, which my dad is sure to remind me of all the time!

My favourite memory of Year 1 is when a bird flew into the classroom! Miss Townsend screamed and ran out of the room while my friends and I were laughing! Miss Townsend also sat on her yogurt pot that she had left in her chair, and the yoghurt went everywhere!

In Year 2 I was running on the decking and I tripped over. When I looked in the mirror I had a massive black eye! It was so big that I could barely open it, and this time it did not randomly heal like my arm! I then remember looking in the mirror and seeing a red patch on my eye. I asked my mum if I had chipped a bit of it but she replied no - it turned out that I actually had, and she was trying to put my mind off it!

In Year 3 I had one of the best memories of my life. I entered the ‘Bosbury’s Got Talent’ competition thinking I would not win third or second, and definitely not first! For my act I sang ‘Human’ by Rag‘n’Bone Man. When they announced who had finished third and second place, I knew I wouldn’t win anything as these were the places which I was aiming for. They then revealed the first place spot, and with everyone on the edge of their seats (including me!), they then said it… the winner is… ALEX! I was so happy that I cried! I also went to Young Voices that year and it was amazing.

In Year 4 I went on my second residential. My favourite part was when we went on the high ropes, even though I’m scared of heights! While I was up there, I fell off so I was just dangling there upside down, but eventually I found a way to get back up. I was really happy because even though my fear of heights is still there, I am now more comfortable with it.

Also in Year 4 we had a topic on Vikings and Norse Gods. I was really happy because Norse Gods are my favourite gods! We went on a trip dressed up as Vikings where we went into a forest with lizards and snakes, and we even got to build our own base!

Year 5 was my first year with Mr. Thompson. I knew I would like him because my brother did, and my prediction was right! All his jokes were really funny, and he’s just an all-round really cool person. A boy named Segundo also joined our school when I was in Year 5. He was from Argentina and it was quite hard to talk to him as he spoke very little English. The way we communicated with him seemed a little funny as we had to use hand gestures and basic words. I only had half a year in Year 5 because of coronavirus which made us go into lockdown, but I made the most of the time I had.

In Year 6 I tried to make the very most of my last months at Bosbury School. We went on a school camp out, and also went to the zoo! My favourite part about going to the zoo was probably seeing all the animals such as the lions, monkeys, naked mole rats, giraffes, and even a massive anaconda that was bigger than me!

I always used to look up to the Year 6s when I was little, thinking that they were really tall and cool. It’s weird to think that this is now me (well, apart from being tall!), and I have really enjoyed being a Year 6 at the top of the school. Next year however, I’ll be at the bottom of high school!

I will really miss Bosbury and all the staff and friends I have made here. I think I have had the best primary school experience anyone could ever have. I will thank this school for helping me find my talents and helping me to do really amazing stuff. I will miss Bosbury, but I will always treasure the memories I have taken with me.

- Alex B

 

My time at Bosbury has been great. I have made many friends and learnt a lot of things which I will take with me to secondary school. I will share some of the great memories I have of Bosbury with you below.

Now I think about it Reception was ages ago, longer than I can really remember, but there are a few memories which have stuck with me ever since I joined Bosbury School.

In our first year, my best friend Will and I were a bit tired after spending all lunchtime running around the Key Stage 1 playground, and so when we came in, we asked Mrs. Thompson if, for a joke, we could go to sleep in the book corner. She loved us so much however and said yes, so we actually did! We slept through the whole afternoon! It was a memorable experience and playing in the sand pit was also a lot of fun.

In Year 1 our teacher was Miss Townsend, who is now known as Mrs. Wilesmith. On the first school trip our year had ever been on, she got us to go to the zoo and we were all very excited to see what it would be like. We all kept on saying to her, “When is the trip?” and, “When are we going to the zoo?” all week and when the day finally arrived, we were ready straight away. Before the trip though Miss Townsend sat on a pack of six yoghurts and they went everywhere! We all burst out laughing and even though she didn’t look very impressed, we had a lot of fun!

In Year 2 we started to read a book as a class, and at the end of the day the teacher would read us a chapter or two. Our teacher was again Miss Townsend and we were reading ‘The BFG’. She brought in a ‘snozzcumber’ and it was horrible! It tasted like rotten cucumber and broccoli mixed together! I hate broccoli, and I don’t think anyone liked it!

Another big memory I have was when I was in the Key Stage 1 toilets and I heard something in the toilet corridor. I walked out and saw a bird! Bearing in mind that Miss Townsend was absolutely terrified of birds whereas I am fine with them, I walked into the classroom when I was done washing my hands, and you wouldn’t believe how loud Miss Townsend screamed! A few of the children in class screamed as well, but Miss Townsend then sprinted out of the class and on to the decking! As I was standing there confused about what had happened, Miss Townsend told us from outside to “OPEN THE WINDOWS!” and Will, myself and some others opened them. The bird flew outside scaring Miss Townsend again, but when it was gone she came back inside. We all laughed it off while Miss Townsend was breathing incredibly unsteadily in fear!

Another day in Year 2 when we came into the classroom, we found everything trashed and when we looked, we saw a monkey swinging from the lights destroying everything! We found a note telling us to check the cameras, and we started to theorize what it could have been – a monster, Mr. Smith, or even King Kong!

In Year 3 we had just started Key Stage 2, and it felt like we had taken a big step up in the world. As we started however, we realized it was just another normal year, but there were still many great memories we had with our new teacher Mrs. Walker. One of the best memories was a fashion show where we had to make our own costumes at home. My costume was a robot made from a cardboard box. It wasn’t that comfy, but my mum and I were very proud of it as it took us a long time to make it.

I can’t remember if there were any winners and I can’t actually remember many of the actual costumes, but I do remember them being very creative and weird, and we had a lot of fun making them and doing the show. We also made boats for a Science project to test out how well they float in water, determining which features of the boat make it work well and go faster or slower. We did a race in a blow- up pool and mine actually came fourth, although I can’t remember who won!

Another odd memory in Year 3 was when we had these things called ‘glue licences’, which I’m not sure still exist but we got them when we were deemed responsible enough to use our own glue stick! When I say we would do anything to protect our precious glue sticks I mean it – although in hindsight it does sound incredibly sad!

In Year 4 we had a new teacher Mrs. McManus, and the year was great. I remember a few very fun things that we did – I went on my first residential to West Malvern Outdoor Elements and it was amazing, although a few of the activities were quite scary for me. The worst one was this tunnel which was just about big enough to fit us in while crawling, but I have claustrophobia so I despised the idea, and refused to let myself go in there. Eventually however, I did go in with Will and it was terrifying! Most people say that when you try something that you’re scared of you will overcome the fear, but I don’t believe that as when I got out, I vowed never to step foot in that tunnel ever again!

Another one of the activities was going on something called the ‘King Swing’. I was quite scared as it was incredibly high up and I have a relative fear of heights, but I saw other people going on it and it seemed quite fun. I climbed the ladder up the tree, got strapped to the harness, and kept telling myself not to look down. I couldn’t help it however so I looked down and surprisingly it wasn’t that scary; once I got up there and looked down, I realized there wasn’t much to be scared of - I just jumped off and on to the swing and it was amazingly fun! It felt like flying because I could see all my friends way below looking up to see what I was doing. I felt really great when I was on the swing and I wasn’t all that scared as I had conquered my fear. I realized that my fear of heights was quite silly because some things that I did in the air were great fun!

My personal favourite activity on the residential however was a blindfolded obstacle course. Yes, you heard me right – we had one person blindfold us twice and tell us where to go through tight nets, narrow tunnels and grid arrays of wooden planks. I partnered with Will but made the mistake of putting the blindfold on first, so didn’t get to look at the course properly before going in blindfolded! I crashed into many things, but despite all the falling over and hurting myself, it was great fun and when Will tried it went a lot more smoothly because he had already seen the course from when I did it. In fact, I was confused at first as to how he did it so smoothly without me guiding him!

The second time around I had Hayden as my partner, but, figuring out that Will had done it better as he hadn’t gone first, I sounded kind and allowed him to go first, but it was all part of my plan and when he did it he was exceptionally awful (no offence Hayden!), crashing and falling over, but with my guidance he still did better than he would have done!

When it was my turn again, I was a pro and I didn’t crash into many things. Well, I’ll admit I DID collide with a few things and still fell over a few times, but not as much as last time and to be honest Hayden’s guidance wasn’t great (again, no offence Hayden!). It was really fun however and we all enjoyed it.

Another one of the residential activities was the high bridges which was also one of my favourites along with the wall climbing. On the high bridges we had a partner to tell us if we should carry on and to give us encouragement. My partner was Luke - he was a great partner and encouraged me really well.

We got strapped to a harness that was attached to a singular rope, and there were wooden bridges which were quite unsteady. I fell many times and it hurt a bit as the harness was very tight, and it was incredibly hard to get back on the bridge as every time I tried to grab the bridge to get back up it would flop over to the other side and I’d end up pushing myself down. After many hard attempts however, I finally got up by just about managing to reach one of the ropes which were holding the bridge and pulling myself up from there, but it gave me quite a painful friction burn on my hand.

Another part of the high bridges was when there were two wooden platforms being held up by two ropes which were moving back and forth, and we had to time our jumps perfectly and land well. We would fall off a few times, but I managed to eventually get the jump and landing right and make it to the other side! I got to the part where you had to jump from tree to tree, and when we got back to the ground where you had to climb a small wall there was a jump on to a huge net which was maybe 50ft by 50ft in size! Other activities on the residential included archery, further wall climbing, and the quad pole.

In Year 4 we did many other things like going on a Viking trip and making movies about Norse mythology. I produced a video based on a Norse story with some friends and it was great fun. On the trip, they let us make Viking copper necklaces, go on a longboat and taught us about Norse mythology including how the Vikings lived. It was very interesting and I enjoyed it a lot.

In Year 5 we got a new teacher again – Mr. Thompson! I thought I would like him as he is good friends with our family and his son is friends with my brother, and I was right as he was very funny and a good teacher. He did some very fun things with us, including going to London on a school trip! I liked it as it gave me an excuse to not sleep for one night instead of not sleeping and getting told off – my excuse was, “Well I need to pack!”. It was fun as I just watched Marvel movies because I had actually packed the day before! I also played games and then when it was about 5 o’clock in the morning, my mum got up. I wondered why she wasn’t asleep but then I looked at the time and realized we had to leave!

We got to school very early at 5:30am, but I enjoyed it as I sat next to Will at the back of the bus and slept the way there, although Will did tell me that Jake and Archie were trying to wake me up for the whole bus ride! When we got to London it was very interesting however because we went to the Houses of Parliament.

Soon after this we had to go into a national lockdown due to COVID-19, but it was relatively fun getting to do work on my PC and being able to work at my own pace. Will, Hayden and I went on calls on an app called Houseparty and the Zoom calls which we still did with Mr. Thompson were very fun.

During my birthday I got lots of Lego and I played Uno on an app. It was a troublesome time but we managed to make our way through it. We returned to Year 5 for the last month or two, doing a lot of sports before giving the Year 6 children a fun send-off.

In Year 6 we started off the first few months in school again having Mrs. McManus, who was still a very good and funny teacher! Some of my favourite things were going to the zoo and finding information out about wolves and their eventual extinction. I also liked seeing the penguins because they were cute, although it was very sad to hear that they are also going extinct.

Another of my favourite Year 6 memories was when Mark Sanderson came in and we did stop motion animation about the story of Percy Jackson. Will and I did the scene of Percy and Poseidon fighting, and also one that wasn’t based on Percy Jackson but on an evil sea queen.

Sometime later we had these people bring in some big rigging which we would attach ourselves to via harnesses and then to a rope, swinging around and choreographing a dance for ‘Our Man in the Moone’, which is a book about how there might be life on other planets. It was amazing to do and we all loved it.

Not so long later we started rehearsing for our end of year play which was ‘The Lion King’. I auditioned for Scar and Rafiki as a secondary and managed to get the part of Rafiki. We started some really fun rehearsals, and I soon realized that I preferred Rafiki over Scar as there were scenes where I got to hit Alex with a big stick – this wasn’t the only good thing but it was certainly fun!

We then did the dress rehearsal and performed it to the students and it went really well; we didn’t mess up much and we were all very happy with how it went. We then performed it to the children at Jack-in-the-Box Nursery and then finally to our parents and it went great – I think all the hard work during the auditions really paid off.

One last memorable thing was the camp out. We went camping as a class on the field and went on a big walk which was really tiring. We also went up to forest school, had a campfire and played a big game of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. The camp out was great fun and we all loved it. At the end of the year we also had a party and a water fight!

All of this time at Bosbury has taught me lots of things both academically and personally. It has helped me deal with things that I couldn’t have done without the help and support of great teachers and friends I have met along the way. I will truly miss this school - thank you to everyone for being great.

- Max D (the longest and most thorough Bosbury memory yet!)

  

I remember on my first day of school I was feeling excited and scared at the same time. A few days later I met my best friend Jass. We would play with our toy turtles next to this particular tree every single break.

A couple of weeks went by, and during my first art lesson at Bosbury we were drawing fish for our class topic. I drew a clown fish that looked exactly like ‘Finding Nemo’. We all went to the front of the classroom to place our drawings to dry, and then Miss Townsend came into the room, looked at all the fish and said that she couldn’t believe mine had been drawn by a Key Stage 1 pupil!

Some people then told her that Emily drew it, and I thought I was in trouble as I didn’t know what Key Stage 1 meant! Miss Townsend took me to see Miss Spence to show her my picture, and I got my first Headteacher’s Award!

In Year 3 I remember walking into the classroom and finding a little stick house and stick person. We all went out to break, and when we came back to the classroom, it had been destroyed with tables tipped over and paper everywhere! We also found a dead stick man and a little caterpillar that we all thought was the stick man’s pet. I also remember drawing a logo for the school tea towel that year and I won the competition – I got a massive prize which was lots of new pens!

We also did a fashion show in Year 3 for assembly and I remember making a skirt out of a shirt! There were lots of interesting outfits. My favourite memory in Year 4 was when we were practicing a play which was ‘The Twits’. I was a frog in the background but I had a nosebleed just before going on stage!

I also remember in Year 5 going on one of my favourite trips to the Roman Baths. I remember seeing people with masks and just finding out about the virus. Everyone was so scared and Mrs. McManus did a speech, telling us that it was nothing to worry about. Sadly however, a few weeks went by and we were in lockdown!

In Year 6, lots of exciting things happened, but my favourite thing was camping on our school field. Jass and I slept in my tent, but our tent was on top of an ants’ nest! I picked up this bag and ants crawled everywhere – they were coming from a small hole in the back of the tent! Jass, Flo, Eva. Eddie, Will, Max, Odette, Bethany and Charlotte all got their sliders and were smacking all of the ants – we covered the hole with masking tape but it didn’t really work, because in the middle of the night we had another ant invasion!

We also went to the zoo and I loved seeing the monkeys and the naked mole rats. I will really miss Bosbury School.

- Emily D

 

At the start of my Bosbury experience, after nursery had ended my brothers and I walked down for my first day! As soon as I stepped foot in the classroom I made a friend straight away which was Max, and my journey had begun!

Reception was a long time ago – seven years to be exact. My favourite memory was when Max and I were a bit tired so we asked Mrs. Thompson if we could go to sleep in the book corner as a joke, but she actually said yes – so we did! We slept through the whole afternoon and are mums had to come and wake us up after school – it was quite funny!

This one isn’t such a great memory, but in Year 1 I had my arm in-between a couple of poles in the gate of the Key Stage 1 playground, but what I didn’t know was that my arm was placed where the hinges were, and so the gate would squeeze my arm! When the gate was opened, the other children were pushing on it so it went even tighter on my arm – I started feeling very faint and an ambulance had to be called to school! They took my blood pressure and I had nearly broken my arm!

In Year 2, we were reading ‘The BFG’ and Miss Townsend brought in a ‘snozzcumber’. I was sick in the toilet and let’s just say that it wasn’t very nice! Another memory I have was when a bird flew through our decking and into the toilets – Max opened the door because he went to the loo and then the bird flew into the classroom! Miss Townsend screamed and ran out the other door and we all burst out laughing before opening the window so the bird could fly out!

In Year 3 we did a great fashion show, and although the costumes were quite weird it was good fun. This year was also my first year in Key Stage 2 so we got to go on the Key Stage 2 playground with the bigger children, which was quite a big change from being the oldest in the playground to now the youngest and smallest. It was quite overwhelming but it was nice to have a bit more space on the playground with more things to do.

In Year 4 we went on a Viking trip and made a copper necklace along with other things. It was quite fun as we went on a walk and learnt about the storyline of the world from cavemen to the present day.

Also in Class 4 we went on a residential – it was incredibly good fun as we went on a really high zip line and it was very quick - in fact it ended in a flash! There was another activity called the quad pole where four people had to climb to the top and then stay on a tiny platform with all four up there at once! It was harder than it sounds because there is a pole and then there’s the platform that you have to climb up and around to get on the top, which was the hardest part about it. The amount of activities there were to do was actually mad, but it was so fun for the couple of days we were there. We did everything that was possible to even try and do.

In Year 5 it was the first year in my whole time at school that we had a male teacher. This teacher was Mr. Thompson, the teacher that my brothers were talking so much about so I knew I was in for a treat. What can I say, the first day I knew I was right because he was funny and worked us hard. When we had PE we played cricket and all of my favourite sportswith a good sports teacher who had amazing humour – they were good times.

Also in this year we had Reception buddies. My buddy was Archie Blandford – he was very playful, fun and always happy. One day I was tidying up the cricket stuff from PE and it was ‘Buddy Time’. Archie went to Alex and said that he was sad that he couldn’t find me, but when Alex showed him to me he ran over smiling and laughing! He also hugged me and we went and played football with Max and Albert.

Then we all went into lockdown. The weather was lovely so it wasn’t too bad, but my mum made me do quite a lot of work and we did a Zoom call every Wednesday. We couldn’t go anywhere and it was quite annoying, but this was the point of lockdown - just staying inside so that the virus couldn’t spread even if it still happened.

Year 6 was my last year of primary school. It was quite odd because we had another two-month lockdown, but I was talking to my friends this time and we had two Zooms every day, apart from Friday when we had one.

After that we went to the zoo and had a camp out as well - they were both very good fun. At the zoo we saw all of my favourite animals apart from dolphins, but it was still a really great day. During the camp out Max, Eddie, Alex, Hayden and I were all in my tent and we did a lot of activities.

We also did our end of year play which was ‘The Lion King’, and to be fair it was quite a good performance. We also had a water fight, got our leavers’ hoodies, and we practised our Year 6 end-of-year song with a dance.

And so this is my story of Bosbury School which is ending here. What will happen in high school? I will have to find out! I will miss Bosbury.

- William K

 

There are many great memories I will take with me from Bosbury, including all the little things like seeing Mr. Smith in the morning and our swag way of saying, “Hi!”, and all my jokes with the teachers.

I still remember moving school and skipping Year 1 in Class 1 and going into Class 2. In Year 2 I met my best friends Emily, Eva and Flo. We would play with our teddy turtles at our favourite tree and just sat there talking all break!

Throughout Class 3 there were many arguments and fall-outs that I now look at and laugh at, because they were all caused by the stupidest things! I loved having Mrs. Walker as my teacher and learning all about her musical talents.

I have many memories about Class 4 and 5 and all of our cool school trips. Our school trip to the Roman Baths was soooo much fun, but everyone there was wearing masks and we were so confused – little did we know that this was the start of a global pandemic that caused us to have online school. I also remember going camping with the class and some of the children in Class 4, and the amount of snacks that were taken out of people’s bags was just hilarious!

In June in Year 6 we did a real dance and made our own routines, performing them in front of the whole school for the ‘Our Man in the Moone’ project. In July we then practised our play ‘The Lion King’ and finally got to perform it to Jack-in-the-Box Nursery, Key Stage 1 and the parents. Odette, Emily and I were wearing funny giraffe costumes – we put on sunglasses and headphones and went to bow!

I remember always looking up at the Year 6s and thinking that they were so cool and grown-up, and it’s weird to think that I’m now in that place and will be soon be leaving for high school.

I will miss being taught by Mrs. McManus very much, and I will miss Mr. Ponter and his sense of humour and always making me laugh. I also cannot forget Mr. Handy for finally helping me find something I am passionate about in PE.

Bosbury has taught me to respect all and to have courage. I will cherish my time here and all my memories that I have made.                                        

- Jasmine M

  

Seven years ago, I was bustling with excitement as I skipped down the drive for the very first time. I have so many memories, but where do I start? Well, probably in Reception!

I remember playing in the wooden sandpit and getting sand everywhere! I would sit on the grass and watch the older children play, and I remember thinking that they were the coolest people in the world because they got to sit on the bench in assembly and play on the huge field!

I was likely the smallest in my class as I had just turned four in July, so everyone else in school (especially the teachers!) seemed like giants! In Year 1, I remember writing five lines of squiggles in my book because I had seen it in a cartoon! Gosh, I got into so much trouble!

In Year 2, I had Miss Townsend (now Mrs. Wilesmith). The first thing I thought of when I remembered Year 2 was when they ran out of roles for the Nativity play and added the Spice Girls! I was Baby Spice and wore a feather boa, but when the performance was over, all of the feathers had fallen off!

We also did some tests in Year 2. I needed some extra help which I was NOT happy about, but I was so proud of myself when I finished the test! One of the funniest memories I have was when there was a video of a monkey in Class 2! It was obviously CGI but I didn’t know what CGI was back then, and we all thought it was Mr. Smith in a monkey costume!

In Year 3, I really explored my love of music because my teacher at the time was Mrs. Walker. We learnt how to play the recorder and all had our own recorder number. In Class 3 EVERYONE wanted a glue license, and no-one would let you even touch their precious glue sticks! I remember we also did a fashion show, but it wasn’t an ordinary fashion show – it was a fashion show with clothes made out of recycling!

Year 4 was awesome! We put on a production of ‘The Twits’ at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford. We did a topic on Vikings and got to dress up as them! We also had a lesson on Romans, and someone came in and taught us how to battle other soldiers! I also loved doing Young Voices that year as it was an amazing experience! My favourite part was when everyone put on their little lights and it looked like a night sky! We did a huge Mexican wave which looked really cool!

I also did my first residential in Year 4, which I absolutely loved! I remember going on the rope bridge from tree to tree (obviously I had a harness!), and I decided to dangle from the rope bridge in mid-air! I was waving to everyone underneath and it was so much fun!

I don’t remember much from Year 5, but I remember when we went to the Roman Baths and learnt about the people who used them. We also went to Porthcawl and found out more about the war and how people were forced to live during that time. We didn’t go there just for learning however – we had fish and chips too!

A few months after that we went into lockdown. It was so annoying that we couldn’t see our friends and I found it really hard because we didn’t really have a routine – it was just a bit of ‘do this and do that’! We did have a day however when we all had that funny socially-distanced end-of-term party where we all had to dance in a Hula hoop!

When we finally came out of lockdown it was so odd because everyone was socially-distanced and all the teachers wore masks 24/7… and then we went back into lockdown! This time we were more prepared however, having learning apps like Seesaw and Zoom. I felt like I wrote one of my best stories in lockdown because I was free to take breaks, and I wasn’t in a school environment where everyone was basically writing about the same topic. I’m really proud of that story and I still have it today. We then finally came back to school, and this time we were here to stay!

I was so excited to be in Year 6, but when we got into the term it was actually pretty normal. The most memorable thing about being a Year 6 was probably doing the camping trip! I loved the camping! My tent was too small so Charlotte, Bethany and I got to stay in a bigger school tent all to ourselves! We also ordered food from The Bell!

In addition, we went to the zoo! We got to go inside the lemur enclosure, and one tried to eat my shoelaces while another jumped on Jass’ backpack! They were much cuter than I thought and were so fluffy!

I also loved doing the aerial dance! We would just fly around on harnesses and it was so much fun – we got to choreograph our own routines! We found out what our end-of-year play was going to be early because we were going to do a massive performance of ‘The Lion King’! We practised for weeks but when we finally did it I felt so proud of myself!

When I started at Bosbury I wouldn’t have dreamed of going on stage and performing my part in a play, let alone coming up to the front of the Year 6 Leavers’ assembly and reading my speech!

I will miss everyone I am leaving behind – I will miss Mr. Smith saying good morning to me at the gate and most of all, I will miss the people who have guided me through primary school and helped me get to where I am today. I haven’t just learnt Maths and English here at Bosbury – I have also learnt to be kind and to respect people.

I’ll take all of these things with me when I walk up the drive for the last time.    

- Eva P

 

When starting at Bosbury for the first time I was walking down the drive, not knowing I would be doing this all the way until Year 6! On my first day I was brave and shy at the same time but when I walked into the classroom I made some new friends. I also knew that my sister and cousins would always be there to help me if I got stuck.

Year 1 was really fun because I would meet more new friends including my best friend Olly, who I would always have fun with. We had wars and prisons in the willow dome, building doors out of milk crates! Someone also took my toy in Class 1, but they did give it back!

We would look to the older children and say they are the best because they had a massive field to play on. Before COVID, we would have lunch and Mr. Ponter would call out that Key Stage 1 were allowed on the field today! We also went on a school trip to a farm where we rode around on a tractor.

In Year 2, 99 Club started and I was on the 22 Club, although I tried to tell our teacher Miss Townsend that I was actually on the 88 Club! We also saw the whole classroom in a mess one day with tables tipped over, and we thought either a monkey or Mr. Smith in a monkey outfit had done it, but it wasn’t! We also tried eating ‘snozzcumber’ – none of us liked it, but then again who would like it?

When we entered Year 3 lots of us said that we missed Class 1 and 2 when we used to have stories all the time. In Class 3 however we had a fashion show, as well as a challenge to see who would build the best boat. Mine was made out of a milk bottle and I don’t think it went that far! We also had glue licenses and made sure that no-one touched our glue sticks!

In Class 4 people either went to the Young Voices concert or to a festival, but on that very day I had to have my eye looked at! We then did a topic in Class 4 with Mrs. McManus and I found a chest. We went back to class to open it up and there was an egg inside of it – the class believed that it was a dragon egg and we did a pot of fairness, with people being allowed to take the egg home every day if their name was read out. We also went to Porthcawl in Year 4 and had fish and chips by the seaside!

In Year 5 we had Mr. Thompson, with the Year 6s from last year also being in our class. Mr. Thompson would always give us nicknames, and he called Annie a walrus! I liked learning new facts about World War I and II.

Year 6 was amazing because we had Sports Day, a cricket tournament, a camp out on the field and a trip to the zoo. We saw a massive anaconda which was bigger than me! It also hailed a lot during one forest school session, and getting our Year 6 hoodies was really fun.

A lady called Rachel also came in to perform ‘Our Man in the Moone’ with us with an aerial dance. We all learned new tricks and even though when I didn’t want to do it at first, I was very proud of myself when I did!

We then did ‘The Lion King’ play and even though Alex as Simba had a little stumble, it was a good performance. It was one of the best ever, although the play before that ‘Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits’ was also really funny. The water fight we did at the end of Year 6 was also really cool!

It’s strange to think that all the Year 6s have grown up from Class 1 and are going to high school this year.

- Lewis S

 

I have so many great memories of my time at Bosbury, and so I am going to share my experiences of Bosbury Primary School.

In Reception, my teacher was Mrs. Thompson and the TA was Miss Spilsbury. I joined the school around Easter from a school called Juniper Hill. I came to school for the first time in hat, scarf and gloves and I was too shy to talk! I was very nervous when I joined Bosbury, but in no time I was made to feel at home.

I remember being in the little garden and sand pit in Class 1, watching Key Stage 2 play and thinking that they were so cool – it was like they were celebrities!

In Year 1 I stayed down in Class 1 and met two of my newfound best friends, Luke Hall and Sam. We always sat next to each other at lunch, and even had cute nicknames for each other! This brings me to a memory I have never forgotten. At Bosbury, we had a talent show called ‘Bosbury’s Got Talent’. Mrs. Thompson asked me if I wanted to audition and I thought I should just give it a go, even though I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing! As I stepped on to the stage, I told my joke: “What’s the difference between bogies and vegetables? Children eat bogies!”

After about five seconds, the whole school was laughing! I didn’t know what was happening! I knew I probably wouldn’t win, but somehow I got third place! Later on that year was my first ever Sports Day. I was on the yellow team and we won!

In Year 2 we had Miss Townsend, but most of you will now know her as Mrs. Wilesmith. Every day before home time and in the afternoon, she read the class a book. We read ‘The Witches’, ‘The BFG’ and ‘Esio Trot’. As part of ‘The BFG’ topic, we tried snozzcumbers which were a mixture of cucumbers and courgettes. I tried one and I was almost sick! I was also a shepherd in the Nativity that year.

In Year 3, we started off for the first time in the Key Stage 2 playground and we thought we had taken a gigantic step up in life, but really we were just starting a normal year at Bosbury. I had Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Turnbull and Mrs. Christopherson. In Class 3 we had a fashion show for our class assembly using recycling - I dressed up as a Rubik’s Cube made out of painted cardboard boxes!

We also had our first residential, and one of the activities was a blindfolded obstacle course where your partner had to guide you through obstacles while you were completely blindfolded! As you can probably guess, I fell over quite a few times!

We also did the Young Voices concert and it was an amazing experience. I loved it when everyone waved their torches and did a giant Mexican wave – it was really cool! Everyone was also so desperate for their glue licences in Class 3 and would never let anyone touch their precious glue sticks!

In Year 4, we had Mrs. McManus who had only just became Deputy Head at Bosbury. She was nice, funny and a good listener. We had another residential where we did archery, the quad pole and, as with every residential, a dorm inspection where your group had to perform for the inspectors as well as having the room inspected. My group won!

Later that year, our topic was Vikings and we got to dress up like them for the day. We also acted like Vikings and did den-building on a school trip, and we took it in turns to take home a dragon egg if we got picked to do so. I twisted my ankle that year which wasn’t the best memory, but I met two more of my best friends, Owen and Conor. We also did ‘The Twits’ performance at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford, and I was Mr. Twit and the Roly-Poly Bird.

In Year 5 we had Mr. Thompson who was generous, sarcastic and had a great sense of humour – if you got on the right side of it, that is! During the Transition Day into Year 5, he showed us a really weird cartoon alien and told us it was Mr. Smith! Mr. Thompson always told us jokes that everyone laughed at.

We had a football tournament where I was goalkeeper, as well as a tag rugby tournament. We also went to The Guardian Headquarters and the Houses of Parliament in London.

We then went into lockdown and every Friday we had a Zoom call where we did a quiz, and had to draw stuff without looking. In Year 6, our final year of primary started. We had Mrs. McManus again and went to the zoo, and had a camp out at school where we got to do lots of fun activities. I was in a tent with Sam, Luke, Olly, Conor and Tristan. It was really hard to sleep because the church bells went off every hour!

We also did aerial dancing on the rigging as part of the ‘Our Man in the Moone’ project, and mum organized our Year 6 Leavers’ hoodies being handed out. We had our end-of-year production of ‘The Lion King’ and it was really fun – I was Zazu. We also had a really fun water fight!

I will never forget the amazing memories of my time at Bosbury, and I appreciate the teachers for always being there for me. Thank you for making sure I get a good education, and I will take all of the skills I have learnt with me to high school. I want to thank Miss Spence for being a great Headteacher, and Mrs. McManus for being a great Deputy Head.

- Ollie S

  

I was walking to school down the drive on my first day with my knees shaking but with my sister who gave me confidence. She told me I would know a few people there.

In Reception, I had Mrs. Thompson and Miss Spilsbury. I have lots of good memories, as well as a few bad ones! My worst memory in Reception was when someone put sand in my eye and I had to have eye drops which Mr. Dunn put in for me! One of my best memories however was when we went to a farm with the whole class and I got to milk a cow!

In Year 1 I again had good memories and bad. I will never forget the bad memory where I was winning a race on the playground, and the pupil that was losing tripped me up and I hit my head on the blue metal bars, cracking it open! I also had one really fun memory which was when we went to the zoo and our teacher Miss Townsend sat on her chair – little did she know that there were yoghurt pots there covered by paperwork, and the yoghurt exploded on her when she sat on it!

In Year 2 I had the same teacher as I did in Year 1. A great memory was when we went to the beach and had ICE CREAM! A bad memory at the beach however was when someone did a cartwheel and their foot hit me in the face! We did however get to go in the sea up to knee-height.

Near the end of the year, Miss Townsend got married and her surname changed to Wilesmith. It was weird calling her Mrs. Wilesmith at first, but I soon got used to it.

In Year 3 we had Mrs. Walker for our teacher, and she introduced us to the recorders. I would say I was about average at playing the recorder. On Monday afternoon and Tuesday all day Mrs. Turnbull mostly did art with us, and we also went up to forest school and made acorn necklaces for Mother’s Day. For our assembly, we did a junk fashion show and I remember that I wore Walkers crisps for a jacket with bin bag trousers.

In Year 4 we had a new teacher called Mrs. McManus, and our first topic was the Vikings. We went outside and found a chest and there was a dragon egg inside! We took it in turns to take the egg home, and I can remember that I put the egg by the fire but there wasn’t a dragon inside! We also went to a wood during the Vikings topic and dressed up in Viking costumes.

At the end of the year I can remember all my friends were going up to Class 5 and I was the only Year 5 boy in Class 4, but at least I still had Jass, Emily (who we called Mimi), and Eva.

In Year 5, I knew there were no other Year 5 boys in Class 4, but I still got to see my friends in Class 5 at play and at lunch. Our topic was the Romans and we got to go to the Roman Baths, where we drank mineral water which I didn’t like!

Halfway through Year 5 was Covid, which everyone now knows and hates. It was hard working at home and we had Zoom calls at 8:30am and 1:00pm. I can’t believe that we were off school for half a year!

Year 6 was one of my favourite years, but the bad thing about this year was that we were off school for another two months. When we came back however we did many fun things like a Year 5 and 6 camp out. I was in a tent with Will, Max, Hayden and Alex. A few ants invaded our tent, but it wasn’t a huge invasion!

We then put on a play called ‘The Lion King’ and I was Timon the meerkat. It was my favourite performance yet! A few weeks before that we had an Art Week which was really fun as we performed an aerial dance, doing cool tricks including Will and I doing a partner front flip. We also had a water fight in school just before we left.

I will really miss Bosbury, especially my friends in Year 5 who are now going up to Year 6.

- Edward T

  

My time at Bosbury has been an amazing rollercoaster with many adventures, and so I’ll start with where it all began.

In my first year at school I was very nervous as it was a new chapter in my life. Mrs. Thompson was very nice and kindhearted, and she would always plan fun lessons. I made so many new friends that year playing in the sandpit, making castles, running around and playing tag in the tiny willow dome. We would do all sorts of things in the playhouse and even have parties!

My second year at school was a big step up from the last. We had a new teacher called Miss Townsend, now known as Mrs. Wilesmith, who was very enthusiastic about English as she was especially good at it. We would always do story maps to help us remember plots of stories so we could write our own like them. Like every year, we had some very good trips such as going to the pantomime and watching a really good performance. The best trip was where we all went to Barry Island in South Wales where we went in the sea up to knee-height. A very cool part was when we saw jellyfish which were all different shapes with beautiful colours. The trip to the beach was just so fun and we saw some amazing animals.

The funniest moment I have had in this school was when ,Miss Townsend was coming back into the classroom, and when she was about to sit down there was a packet of yoghurts and they exploded everywhere! We burst out laughing!

Year 2 was another good year with some iconic moments like when a ‘snozzcumber’ was brought into school and it was disgusting. People were sick – it was horrible! Another funny part of the year was when Max was in the toilet and when he came back in the classroom, a bird flew in and Miss Townsend ran out screaming and we were all laughing our heads off – it was so funny! Then there was a CGI monkey who trashed the classroom, and when we came back in after investigating the classroom was still a wreck!

Year 3 was a new class with a new teacher – Mrs. Walker who was soooo nice. It was also a very musical year and we learned the recorder. We performed in a fashion show and my outfit was a Doritos jacket and hat.

The best part of the year was when we had the residential. We did all sorts of things like the high bridges which were indeed very high, and it was really fun. Another activity was the quad pole where you would climb up a pole and stand up, but it would also wobble! There was also the zip line where we would climb a tree and get pushed off it!

In Year 4 a new teacher came to the school, Mrs. McManus. She was very nice and really arty. We had a topic on Vikings which was very fun. We made films about Vikings and mine was about the foods which they ate – it was fabulous!

That year we did another residential where we did extra activities like the ‘King Swing’, which was a really high swing where you could touch the trees – it was cool. There was also a pitch black tunnel where we did not know where we were going. Our dorms were also really good and some of my friends were in there.

Year 5 was an amazing and sporty year. We had Mr. Thompson who was very nice and told lots of jokes, making up nicknames for a lot of people like me who he called ‘Tallulah Fallulah’ – it was so funny! We would do a lot of sport nearly every day.

A fun trip was when we went to London and we had to get to school at 5:30 in the morning. It took four hours to get there, but we went to The Guardian newspaper and did some work on fake news, before taking a trip to the Houses of Parliament and going on a tour around all of the places there including the House of Commons. COVID-19 sadly ruined half of the year, but we still did Zoom calls where we did blind drawing and quizzes which were so fun.

Year 6 was a jam-packed year. Our first topic was the Victorians and we learned about Dr. Barnardo and how he helped people by setting up a free school for poor people. We did some big Victorian-style drawings!

We also did an aerial dance which was so fun, performing a show called ‘Our Man in the Moone’. We also went to the zoo where we saw some amazing animals like lions, giraffes and leopards. The camp out was also really fun – we went on a very long walk and played a lot of football, watched a film and rode around on scooters! We also did some Lego animations which were about Percy Jackson and one that we could make up.

The biggest thing happened when we did ‘The Lion King’ play. It took so many hours to perfect it, but in the end it was great and successful.

My time at Bosbury has been so fun, and I would like to thank the teachers – they have helped me so much and I will miss Bosbury.                                                               

- Hayden W

 

 

I have many wonderful memories from Bosbury Primary School, but there are some that stand out most. I would therefore like to share some of my favourite ones.

I can still remember the day I walked down the school drive, feeling really nervous and wondering if I was going to fit in or make any friends. During Year 4 I was emigrating from South Africa to the UK, and it wasn’t easy leaving family and friends. I was cheered up a lot however by Mrs. McManus’ funny humour and the new friends I had made.

I really enjoyed performing the Roald Dahl story ‘The Twits’ in the pantomime in Mrs. McManus’ class – I was a tree! A year later I became a dual citizen, and in Year 5 I had Mr. Thompson as a teacher and he was awesome. He was funny, kind, understanding and always cheered me up when I was feeling down.

Most of Year 5 however was spent in lockdown, and during this time we had Zoom calls every Wednesday. In these calls, Mr. Thompson would make us draw the funniest things with our eyes closed, and they would always end up in a mess!

My favourite memory from Class 5 was when South Africa won the Rugby World Cup and Mr. Thompson made some really funny jokes about Faf de Klerk. Playing tag rugby with Mr. Thompson was also really fun as well.

Year 6 has been the best, with so many fun things happening such as ‘The Lion King’ play, which was really memorable as I was Mufasa. The school camp out and zoo trip were also great - my favourite animal was the tapir.

I have learnt so many wonderful things in this school, and I will be sure to take all this knowledge to secondary school. I will always miss all the amazing teachers and my friends with their wonderful personalities.          

- Conor W