Author: Contijn Jacques

Bus

In the morning at 07:15 we stepped on the bus and drove in half an hour to Thornhill. When we got there we waited on school for around 30 minutes because school started on 9:15.

Science

We started with our risk assessment in science. After we knew all the risks in science we started to talk about what we do in science last time we made paper rockets ! And in the last ten minutes we lighted some Bunsen Burners.

English

In English we got dictionary’s and a word scrabble to improve vocabulary. And we had a small book with some games to improve our spelling also we had a listening story with questions every 5 minutes of the story.

Spanish 

We had a quiz with questions about Spain I wasn’t the best with it but i had quite a few answers right.

French

We also got a Quiz about France how well you know about France. It was about everything in France French cheese (Brie) , Monuments, Cities And it’s President.

Maths

In Maths we had to colour in football strips and look how many different combinations there are. (Pretty Boring)

Information Technologies

In IT we had a kind of quiz the teacher said 5 words and we had to guess where he is thinking about and that for every word ! we went on the computers and played Kahoot a quiz where we pick a answer like guess the music or guess the food and the person with the most score wins and it was amusing and enjoyable.

By Contijn And Esmae

 

 

Hello Contijn again. This blog is about Gala day. A few weeks ago me Hannah, Olivia and Kaitlyn started with our ideas for gala day. We wanted to do some sponge throwing and have slushies so we did both ! we started with our design and started with making a frame (we never used it) . After a while we found out that it wasn’t really working so we wanted to do a wash line with a tarpaulin on top but it was to windy so we did it on the side of the greenhouse.

The day (Gala day)

We had our blender ready to go and had a cool box filled with ice and we started. It went really fast we had 4 customers for sponge throwing in 5 minutes !!! The slushies worked good as well.  After a while we doubled the price because miss Dale was up for sponge throwing

The end of gala day

We sold some more slushies and I made a extra £5 pounds at the end because miss Dale wanted to empty a bucket with cold water on my head 🙂 .

(I had a nice Slushie at the end)

– Contijn

 

 

This blog is about Residential. Last week we had residential for 3 days Monday morning we went to Galloway activity centre with P5-7. we started there with setting everything up our tents and put our stuff inside, the staff gave us a tour and 30 minutes later we started with our first activities.  They started with dividing the big group in two smaller groups the first group started with archery and the other started with laser tag after a while we switched around.

Archery is harder than it looks you have to put the arrow on in a position, you have to give the arrow power in a different position and you have to aim properly. But I did pretty well shot next to the bullseye :D.

Laser Tag wasn’t that difficult you had a gun with a scope and you had 2 teams and just try to shoot the other team. (it was fun)

DAY 2  (Water activities, Climbing wall, giant swing)

After a cold night we started with the water activities we had to wear a wet suit and a life jacket. The group that started with laser tag on day one had land activities in the morning and water in the afternoon. The group that started with archery had water in the morning and land in the afternoon.

They divided the groups in two again so 50% of the people that had to do water activities in the morning started with paddle boarding (me as well) and the other 50% started with the giant slide.

Paddle boarding : Around 10 in the morning and after some explanation we we’re getting the boards. We had to make partners but there was no one left so I had a board for myself 🙂 . We had to walk into the water till our knees and jump on the board and stay on our knees with our paddle in our hand. We we’re ready to start and weeeee. I controlled the board pretty fast after a small 10 minutes we we’re allowed to go further on the log. When we we’re at the middle of the log we we’re allowed to stand up I and that was the more difficult part but if you’re up its pretty easy to stay up. After a while we went to a wooden platform in the middle of the log (where me and Bailey jumped in the water) And after a small 10 minutes at the platform we went back to land.

Water slide : After much fun with the paddle boards we went to the giant water slide. They we’re putting water and soap on the slide (and on people) . And yeah it was just having fun and slide and do races.

Land activities on Day 2

With the land activities everyone that started with archery on day 1 was together again we started with the climbing wall. It was a wall with stones and you had to climb to the top and press the button I clicked one of them.

After the climbing wall we went to the giant swing !!!! I was going with my little and Kohdie we we’re going on the highest with a surprise but he started counting from 3 to 1 and I thought this ain’t a surprise ! But he did this -> 3….. And we went it was pretty fast !

In the evening we started with pink tail there we’re a few hunters and they had top chase the people with a pink tail (a pink tissue) and took the tail of them when you tail got grabbed you are a hunter as well I started as hunter in the first round. In the second round I got caught pretty fast. But in the last round is started hiding with Liam, Esmae And Kaitlyn one time Ramani saw us and started coming but he never saw me so I was just chilling till the end.

Day 3

On the last day we had the dragon boat race we had some explanation in the morning and we started the race the first round was close but we lost. The Second round was close as well but we lost again and in the last round against the group that started with laser tag on day one. And it was close as well but we lost again so yeah that was the dragon boat race.

Disclaimer : The soup wasn’t even close to tasty .  (same for the chicken nuggets and chips)

LEAVING

We had to leave on day 3 as well (sad). We packed our stuff including the tents and we hopped in the bus again and it was a pretty fun ride as well !

 

 

This are some beautiful pictures of Residential.

– Contijn

Last Wednesday we had the first part of our town trip, One of the tasks was in the library and we had to choose 5 books that we recommend for the reading hub (we secretly added 1 more) .

Our first book is spot 50 dogs you can take it outside and look for different dogs! Also it gives you some tips how you can see which dog is which.

Our second book we recommend is Winnie’s midnight dragon a small boy and his cat that we’re woken up (at night) by a baby dragon.                                   

The third book(s) are from Alex Rider Snake head and crocodile tears.

Our fourth book is Fair Shares it’s about a bear and a fare are trying to reach some good looking pears but they realise they need some help.               

Our fifth recommended book is ranger’s apprentice it’s about a boy that no one in the castle wanted to have for a job but a mysterious man of the group named the ranger’s they are fantastic with bow and arrow and the only man they work for is the king. (there are 16 books)                                                                       

Our sixth book is the hunger games is about 12 districts every year 2 kids from every district have to fight in a arena and only one kid can win.                             

This we’re the books we recommend !

-Contijn, Ramani. Kye, Alexi, Caspian, Rhona, Talia, Findlay And Azari

Hello Contijn here today i’m talking about my old school in the Netherlands and my current school (holywood primary). There are lots of different things in between the schools but if i’m going to tell you guys all of them this blog should be to long so here are 10 differences between the 2 schools.

1. Population of a school is one of the biggest things i had to get used to in my old school there we’re 350 kids that is next to Holywood so much.
2.  Outside was a lot different as well on holywood we have a lot more free time, On Friday we have big break and you can choose for how long you lunch an for how long you play. (we have 40 minutes lunchtime)
3. Classrooms/devices On my old school we worked the last years for 90% on laptops it was nice, but i don’t care what we’re doing writing and books or laptops ( we are doing a part on the computers on holywood as well)
4. Lunches, In the Netherlands you don’t have the choice to have school lunches everyone is taking there lunch and in lunchtime we have 30 minutes eating 30 minutes outside you don’t have the choice to eat for example 40 minutes and play 20 minutes outside.
5. Outside learning, In the Netherlands we never had real outside learning.
6. Art, Here in holywood we don’t have that much art lessons On my old school we had every week 3 times Some lessons.
7. Own work, On holywood you can work on your own and get a choice to do your own thing in The Netherlands it was you are doing this you are doing that and you have to work alone!!!!!!
8. Time, On my old school school started at 8:30.

Music, Here on Holywood we just started with Music and in the Netherlands we had in the first 5 tears music every week 2 times and after that you stop with music (strange)

10. Playground, On holywood we got hills and a big field, In the Netherlands we had stone with wood chips and a wooden shed.

A long blog today but it was fun

-Contijn

Hello Contijn again today i’m gonna show you my clay monster where i talked about a week ago. If you loom at my post from a week ago you can read that my monster had a tail and extra horns. They broke im gonna try to glue it when i take it home. The picture shows my monster.

Not a long blog today but it shows my monster !

Contijn

Hello Contijn here.

Today i tell you about the clay monsters we made on big Thursday. It was easier than i thought. You start with making a ball of clay after you did that you make a hole in it with your finger. When you did that you start forming it into a cup or something. And after you did that you can start with the eyes and tongue and more things. And it was fun because you can do a lot of things you can add some horns an maybe extra eyes. Mine Has 3 eyes and a huge forked tongue And lastly some extra horns and a small tail. Now the name his name is Slabberdabber Taddaa beautiful name i think. That where all the things i wanted to tell you about my clay monster

Contijn.

The black moon moth is a book that I’m reading at the moment. The book takes place in Scotland. One of the most important characters is professor Gadling. Professor Gadling is a pear-shaped man with a large beaky nose and a double chin…there are actually seven professors in the book. In the begin of the book there is a man sneaking in someone’s house in the mid of the night he wants a book. And the owner of the house has that book. He saw the book and grabbing the book aggressive but then the owner is in his back! But the thief is prepared. He grabs his razor-sharp knife. And if you want to know how the prologue ends you have to read the book. In chapter 1 Professor Gadling has a lecture and after that they just stopped and decided to go have dinner in a Italian restaurant. In chapter 3 on there way to the restaurant they meet a old man in his 70s. He said he wants to show something to the Professors. So they eat dinner with Wilfred. This were the first £ chapters.

Contijn