Do a little bit of reading and practice a few tables every day - of course do more if you want to –  but don’t forget this is a time for rest, so that you come back to school ready to put all your energy into the Summer Term.  There are a lot of things happening next term as you can see from the Calendar.  It promises to be a fun and exciting term full of lots of activity.

Have a good holiday and come back rested and refreshed on Monday 23rd April!

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As each child came up to skip for 1 minute there was some enthusiastic counting by the rest of the pupils and some real encouragement for those who found it a bit more difficult!  Everybody’s score of skips in a minute was logged ready for them to take home a certificate and collect their money!

Please try to return as much of the promised money as possible by Friday so that it can be sent to the NSPCC as soon as possible.

Congratulations to all the children for taking part so well and being so supportive of each other.  Well done all of you!

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Here are some of the reports the children wrote on their return.

Kallum reported:

At Snibston we built a lift out of Knex.  I enjoyed this activity.

Tamera said:

first one of the women from Snibston came to talk to us and tell us about the wind turbines.  Then she told us what we had to do.  We had to use cardboard, a plastic bottle, some sand in the bottle and sellotape.  we had to build it –  first my group taped the cardboard windmill to the bottle and we had to see which one would have the least seconds.  My group took 8 secs.  Then we moved onto our next group.

Rahul’s view:

Our 3rd workshop was called Wild Things.  there we learned about animals and where they lived.  Some of the things we learned is that an owl pellet is the animal that the owl eats its fur or bone.  We learned some food chains.  This is one.

Fox – hedgehog – worms – leaves – sun.

As you can see, three very different workshops.  The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and hopefully learnt something as well!

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On 15th March in the afternoon Mr Hitchcock showed us some experiments.  One of the experiments was there was a cup upside down with three matches stuck into bluetac and he set it on fire and there was juice around the cup and all of the juice went back into the cup.  Another one was Georgina was lying on three chairs and Mr Hitchcock was holding a cup of water and a piece of card underneath.  Then he walked across Georgina but the water didn’t fall because before he drilled a little hole into it so it didn’t fall.  then there was a task to do who can build a tower made of paper straws.  whoevere had the tallest tower would win.  Victoria ended up winning and Chris, Tia and Kurren had the tallest tower.

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3-2-1 Shortbread

90g  (3 oz) SR flour

60g  (2 oz) Margarine

30g (1 oz) Sugar

Measure out and melt the margarine in a bowl.  Weigh out the flour and sugar.  Add to the margarine and mix well.  Press into a tin and put in the oven for about 20 minutes at Gas Mark 3.

Let it cool at least a little before eating!!!!

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Mr Cann

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Why not have a look in an atlas and find out where Marseilles, Pau, Bordeau and Blois are? Let me know.

Mr Cann

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Just a reminder of information from the newsletter , please look out any suitable, unwanted books for our second book swap to coincide with World Book Day.  Upper School children have a poem to learn ready for our Poetry Competition - details to follow. 

As the weather will hopefully be warming up now, swimming lessons will resume on Thursdays immediately after half term. 

We hope you have a good break and enjoy your half term.

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