On Tuesday 17th we had sports day. In the morning the P7 set up a warm up to get our hearts pumping. We then had potted sports. We had stations that were hurdles, chest pass, javelin, long jump, hockey dribble, shuttle runs, and beanbag toss.

We had 5 minutes at each station. When we completed all the stations we got to choose which station we wanted to do again. We each had two adults helping out in our groups. They kept our scores, and later, when we had done everything, including the races, we were told which team had the most points overall. 🙂

On May 12^th the p7s went to have lunch at the high school and try some of the classes. Most people enjoyed the lunches, the options that day were pasta and pizza. The p7s were there from 12: 30-14:30.They tried science, home economics and a scavenger hunt, not everyone got to do all the activities but when they go back in June they will.

Recently the red group in the big room have been learning about BODMAS which stands for: bracket, order, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Mrs Raymond has taught them how to do this. When using BODMAS for a sum, you need to use the order of it to find the correct answer.

For example: (42 ÷ 7) x 2² + 23 = 47 

Wellbeing Wednesday is every Wednesday of school term. Wellbeing Wednesday is a day where you are encouraged to  bring in fruit or vegetables to school for snack.  You can bring in up to 3 pieces of fruit or vegetable, but each piece of fruit or vegetable MUST be different.  You get 5 house points for each piece of fruit or veg.

P1-4 have been doing some science .  We were testing  which things dissolve in water. We tested coffee grandalas , rice , flower salt, stock cube and cornflour .We learned that soluble means that it would dissolve and insoluble meant it wouldn’t dissolve.

On the 27^th of April Senga from Active Schools came in and taught us how to play table tennis. It was a 3 week block that everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Throughout the 3 weeks everyone improved a lot and had a lot of fun. During the 3 weeks we played noughts and crosses, matches (Boyd and Maisy kept the scores), horse racing, balancing game and learned the three points: distance, how you hold the bat, how to stand.

During the lessons every week we were practising our serves, and finally on the last week we got 15/15, meaning everyone in the class manage to do a good serve to Senga.

In the afternoon we walked up  to the hall to do the individual races. When we got there we went into our groups. After the parents came we started the races, the first race was a normal sprint this race was really fast, then the second race was egg and spoon. Then it was the sack race. The older ones had to start lying down and the p1, 2, 3 and 4 got to start in the sack. Then we did the skipping race  and the bean bag scuttle. Lastly we did an obstacle course that the p7s made. To end the day we did one final relay race.  We then found out who won gold, bronze and silver medals.

This term we are doing the Vikings for Topic. For one of the lessons, we did art, and we made mosaics of a Vikings head. It had to include a beard, hair and a helmet with horns. The groups were Embers Rising (Elha, Joe and Jess), Immortal Dynasty (Nathaniel, Logan M and Boyd), Warrior Culture (Sunna, Lily and Alek), Germanic Guild (Ania, Nika and Maisy) and Human Shield (Harry, Isla and Anna).

Ember Rising’s Viking head was called Bob the First, Immortal Dynasty’s was called Mr M B (for “Messy Beard”), Warrior Culture’s was called Barry the Barbarian, Germanic Guild’s was called Tim Kardashian and Human Shield’s was called Toad. We enjoyed using different techniques to make mosaics.

In another lesson we made posters of a Viking Longship, that were drawn and labelled. The groups were slightly rearranged. Embers Rising and Immortal Dynasty stayed the same, but Warrior Culture became Alek, Lily and Harry, Germanic Guild became Germanic Gold, and it was now Ania, Sunna and Isla, and Human Shield became Nika, Maisy and Anna. Embers Rising were given a printed Longship and had to colour and label it, while the rest of the groups drew the whole thing. Germanic Gold and Human Shield had to label and find out about the prow, the hull, the sail, the oars and the shields, while the rest of the groups only had to label and find out about the prow, the sail and the oars. We had lots of fun drawing and finding out about the Vikings means of transport. ♥ 😀