School Council

  On the 17th of September 2013, Kayleigh, Lara and Alice went to meet Richard and Jay who were building a memorial loom for Mrs Waite. The decision has been made that we will plant a Willow tree and build an arch, the willow will form over the arch and Mrs White will place a bench inside the  arch if children want to have quiet time to remember Mrs Waite. The purpose of the loom is to remember her artistic personality. Anyone on the School Council will take part in weaving the materials on the loom.

We were thinking about decorating the loom with purple and pink flowers. The loom will have a plaque remembering Mrs Waite and every year that goes by we will change it.

Exploring The Forest

As part of our Literacy work on familiar settings, Year 3 explored the local forest today. To help us develop words to describe our different senses we had fun walking through squelching mud, splashing through puddles, listening to the sounds of the forest and touching things that grow. 
Whilst we walked, we also had time to pick some delicious plump blackberries which we turned into scrumptious cakes ready for the Parents' tea and cake afternoon tomorrow. We hope you enjoy them!

Happy Puzzle Company

Today, every year group had a maths thinking session with the Happy Puzzle Company. Year 5 wrote reviews and Taylor's has been chosen to be displayed on the blog.

Taylor's review
On Monday the 16th of September Dan from the Happy Puzzle Company came to our school. He played fun games with us so we could help an imaginary man called Nathan Bolt escape from Logic Island. We had to put his cargo on his ship by balancing it and we had to move rocks by placing them in a digger carefully. Also, we had to crack a code to win the key for Nathan Bolts helicopter using a cypher. We all cracked the code and he escaped in a helicopter.
We had to show great teamwork working in groups to help him escape. I would give it 9 out of 10 because it was fun and helped us develop our teamwork. 

All of the children enjoyed the challenges set for them and worked very hard without realising they were actually doing maths!!!

Hot Seating

As part of our work on the story of Little Red Riding Hood Year 3 hot seated different characters from the story. First we had a visit from Red Riding Hood and then we each took on the roles of the 5 different characters. We thought of some interesting questions to ask each of the characters and were able to explore their thoughts and feelings . We had some very talented actors!

 

End of Year Awards Assembly

And the winners are .......

House of the Year

All the children celebrated and congratulated the achievements attained by so many pupils.

The winning house team was a hard fought contest, all four houses being within a thousand points of each other.  The overall winning house was ... (drum role please)  OWLS! The trophy was collected on Owls behalf by Emily and Jordan - WELL DONE EVERYONE!



Sports Day trophy
Sports day was yet again a heavily competitive but fun day.  The children thoroughly enjoyed all the fun activities culminating in the ice lolly feast.  On this occasion the trophy was won by Falcons (see previous posts).
 


Attendance awards
We have had great attendance this year achieving more than 95%!  Well done everyone.

Seven of our children had 100% attendance for the whole year - a superb effort.  Harri was the lucky winner of the attendance draw and won an IPod Shuffle.

Peter Edwards trophy
A great honour for the recipient of this annual trophy.  This year that person was Millie - a super sportsperson in a range of events. Her determination, dedication and ambition to achieve is of the highest order. Peter would approve of having Millie's name engraved on his trophy. Well done.

Football

Lads v Dads Football

For the second year running the Dads dusted off their boots and struggled to fit into their shorts! How the lads wished they hadn't! The Dads kept hold of the ball, it was remarked that it was like watching Brazil, and made the school team run around in circles. Mr Freeman-Jones clattered anything that moved whilst Mr Nicholls showed off his artistry on the ball - not bad for a centre half. Mr Brain continued where he left off in 1997 missing several heading opportunities and Mr Winfield showed power and pace. Mr Harris demonstrated great control wherever he played and Mr Barrow was....well, Mr Barrow! At half time the Dad's held a slender 4-3 lead. Enter Mrs Brain, the lads didn't score again whilst the Dads (and Mrs Brain) continued to score 4 more! Mr Brain was heard to remark that 'it was a lot easier than I thought it would be!!!!'

Harvesting, Cooking and Eating!

We have had great fun this week in the sunshine, harvesting our crops. We managed to successfully grow some beautiful potatoes, broad beans, lettuce, onions  and some delicious rhubarb.
After harvesting the only thing left to do was the tasting!
We prepared some lovely summer salad, cooked the new potatoes and an enormous rhubarb crumble. In the afternoon we had a fun filled picnic, joined by Mrs White and Miss Bunn,under the shade of the trees.
What a great topic!