Our before and after school club, the Balgowan Buccaneers has grown in popularity over the two years that it has been running. We are currently accepting applications from parents whose children will be starting at Balgowan in September 2021. If you would like a place at Buccaneers from September, to avoid disappointment, I would encourage you to submit an application as soon as possible. Places are filling up on a number of evenings. Information regarding the club as well as an introduction letter, registration forms and booking forms can be found on the school website under ‘Balgowan Buccaneers’. If you have any questions please email the club at buccaneers@balgowan.bromley.sch.

We came to school dressed up as evacuees ready for WWII day, everybody was really excited!!! Firstly, we did Make Do And Mend and in it we did bunting, we sewed using patterns and fabric such as felt (people did crowns and flags) and we used beads and bows to decorate our masterpieces. When we came in from play, we made postcards as if we were an evacuee from the country side/seaside. We were told by Miss Willis that we needed to keep it as positive as possible so our parents wouldn’t worry about us. After lunch we all changed our shoes and set off to the field. Discovery and Endeavour started by lighting a fire using flint and seal. 

On March 8th, we celebrated British Science Week at Balgowan and what a week it was! Each class took part in an activity based on this year’s theme which was ‘Innovating for the future,’ such as classifying types of plastic by their properties so that we can recycle them correctly, creating robot bugs to help the future and playing heard immunity Jenga to understand the effects of passing germs on to others. We also had some help from our amazing parents who offered to virtually talk to the children about their jobs in STEM – this was a great way to raise the profile of science and challenge children’s stereotypes as to what scientists are! There were also some activities held at the