We have been designing and making healthy sandwiches. The end product tasted better than expected. The children said ‘It’s the best sandwich we have ever tasted!’ No need for mum to do the cooking anymore then…

This term, Form 3 have been learning songs and playing games with a little French clown called Zozo, who travels in a hot air balloon with Moustique, his cat, and Fleur, the flower who sits in his hat.

On Wednesday May 5th, the children proudly performed ‘Zozo’s French Party’ for an invited audience of parents and grandparents.  They had learned their parts well, and performed with confidence and enthusiasm. It was a lot of fun for everyone!

Form III have been looking at different types of rocks. Rocks fall into three categories:

• sedimentary
• metamorphic
• igneous

One of the children has made a volcano. Here he is proudly displaying it on a beautiful sunny morning.

Do you know which category of rock lava would fall into?

A short story, written as a homework task by Philippa Robinson.

Please click on the following link to view it. (Acrobat reader is required)

The crow and the fox

On Monday 30^th November 2009, on a very cold day, Form III travelled to Skipton to visit the castle.

We have been studying the Middle Ages in our history lessons and needed to know what it would be like to live in a castle. On the way to Skipton we saw some spectacular sights as all the fields had been flooded due to the extremely heavy rain. In some fields we couldn’t even see the tops of the dry stone walls.

When we arrived at the castle, a tour guide showed us around and gave us some very interesting information about the history of the castle. We climbed into arrow windows to see what it would have felt like to be an archer. Once in the window we could see for miles and miles and could appreciate what an excellent defensive position the castle occupied.

After a picnic lunch we travelled back to school and were treated to some lovely hot chocolate from Chef Lizzie – they didn’t have that in the Middle Ages!

Form III has been looking at different sources of information. As part of our literacy lesson we listened to, then wrote, our own radio broadcast. The children worked in groups of four to write a script for a broadcast about garden birds. These photographs show the children ‘performing’ their broadcasts for the rest of the class. We had a lovely time and the broadcasts were excellent.

Dr Zaman came to visit Form III. We are doing a Science topic on ‘Teeth and Eating’. Dr Zaman came  and gave us lots of information about looking after our teeth. He also gave all the children a ‘goody bag’ with tooth brushes, toothpaste, timers and all kinds of lovely things. Did you know that if a shark loses a tooth it grows another one, and another, and another, and another…………..?

How proud we all were when The Royal British Legion presented one of Form III’s pupils with a certificate, in appreciation of the excellent work carried out over the last five years on behalf of the Poppy Appeal.

These two girls brought their special Eid clothes to school. They told us that they wear these beautiful clothes to celebrate the end of Ramadan. All the children were interested and had lots of questions about the Eid celebration. 

As part of their study of the local area, Form III visited Manor Heath’s Jungle Experience. We talked about the park as it was before it became a park, when it was actually the grounds of a very large mansion house. The children were amazed by the heat and humidity in the Jungle Experience and, unlike the terrapins and other creatures that we saw; they would not like to live in a jungle after all!