The concentration on this little girl’s face is intense as she works out her strategy to get to the middle of the maze in double quick time!

Think about it! Which way shall I go…? This little girl completed the maze in an  amazing 58 seconds!

We are having fun as well as making healthy choices at ‘The One Stop Shop’. These children are working out whether or not they have enough money to spend on the fruit and vegetables, whilst the shop keeper has to add up how much money they need to buy the goods and also work out the change. They have to  think very hard.

For My Money Week we have collected ‘funny money’ so that we can make sure that we learn as much as we can about the different kinds of coins that make up our currency. Here we are using the coins to create our own pictogram. We have to think and work it out for ourselves by looking carefully at the coins and working out the value of each one.

After the visit of children’s author, Tom Palmer, we invited Mrs Cowell into Form I to talk to the children about editing books. She is showing the children photographs of her own children in a book she has worked on.

“Maybe I will be an editor, one day.”

“Oh, there are a lot of words here to read through. This is going to take me a long time.”

Lower I was very excited to be competing in the Maze Challenge. Many of the children had been studying it and trying to work out which way to go.

Which way shall we go?

There’s the middle. Let’s run quickly!

We made it! These children completed the challenge with very fast times and were, quite rightly, very proud of themselves.

The whole school has recently taken part in the ‘Maze Challenge’. They had to look at the maze and work out how to get to the middle in the fastest time. This challenge required them to use their thinking skills in order to succeed.

The overall winners from each class were,:

Nursery - Isabella Lobley in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

LI -Emma Watson in 46 seconds

F1 - Ted Grogan in  37 seconds.

F2 - Eloise Scoley in 31 seconds.

FIII - Millie Wadsworth in 28 seconds.

LIV - Charlie Nendick in 28 seconds.

MIV - Alicia Chambers in 29 seconds.

UIV - Elliot Kenyon in 28 seconds.

This little boy in FIII is the youngest brass instrumentalist at school. He played a duet with Mrs Wood called Going Cuckoo.

This pupil in MIV is preparing for a piano exam in the Autumn Term. He choose to play one of his exam pieces - A Merry, Merry Go Round.

The weather has been very kind to our vegetable plot and gardens-plenty of rain and long hot sunny days. The children had great fun harvesting the radishes. The first crop harvested was the Cherry Belle variety and the children had over 100 radishes ready to go to Chef Lizzie for the salad bar. Now we are waiting for our French Breakfast variety. Hopefully we can harvest them before we break up; if not, then we can harvest them in the first week of holiday school along with our carrots.

Back again after a wonderfully sunny half-term.  This week we made a lemon dressing which we drizzled over a refreshing cucumber, fennel and radish salad.  We reserved a little of the lemon dressing to finish off a warm potato salad, made using Jersey Royals, garlic, Dijon mustard and horseradish; not for the faint-hearted!

The fennel, cucumber and purple radishes were finely sliced.

Mixing the lemon dressing.

Making the potato salad.

The finished dishes.  

How many of them were brave enough to try these?