Hello from New Zealand

Hi There,
Hope all is good, it is nearly assembly time there, but down and around here it is just after 11pm and summer time. If you are in Year 5 and 6 you will all be able to explain why!!!
I will try and post a few blogs while I am here, but I reckon yours will be more interesting.

Avonmore’s Bird Watch

On Friday, the 28th January, Year 6 took part in the Great British Bird Watch with Miss Clement, Avonmore’s environment teacher. We had a sheet to tick off how many of a sort of bird we saw. The pigeons weren’t included because they’re feral. The Bird Watch was created to stop the extinction of birds. Avonmore are proud that they have frequent bird visits and the birds feel comfortable and happy to visit our location.

Avonmore's Epidemic!

Avonmore has been struck down by a viral epidemic. Since Friday 3rd, February, the attendance has plummeted down dramatically! On Wednesday, 98 of 229 pupils were off school record. Apparently, it has been the worst Avonmore has seen in 30 years! Wednesday didn’t just have the most absent pupils- 11 of the staff were off as well! That is roughly 2/3 of the staff and 98 is almost 43% of the pupils. The symptoms are
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Sore chest
• Head ache
• Fever
• Being exhausted

All the teachers who haven’t had the bug thoroughly urge all the pupils to cough into their elbows, sneeze into a tissue, wash their hands frequently and blow their noses as advised by Ms Collis.

Personal Best

On the 2nd of February visitors came to perform ‘Personal Best’ for KS2. It was an amazing performance telling us to keep a healthy diet and do the right amount of exercise. The people performing were from Quantum Theatre. Unfortunately, only KS2 got to watch the performance so KS1 was left out. Children loved the performance and wanted to ask a question each but they had to leave and, according to their website, they are quite famous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What it was about
It was about this girl, Charlie, who had a fit and friendly friend and sports day was coming up so their head teacher said they had to eat healthily for the week and called it ‘Healthy week’! Charlie’s mum didn’t know about it and gave Charlie 3 chocolate bars to eat, 1 for eating while going to school, another 1 for lunch and the last one for eating while coming back from school. Charlie tried explaining to her mum about ‘Healthy week’ but I guess she misunderstood because it was time for school!!!!! She started running but got tired almost instantly! I guess that was how UNFIT she was. Anyway that was only the beginning because it carried on for an hour and a half.

Let it snow, let it snow!

This morning, Avomore’s playground woke up to a blanket of snow. It’s snowing and it’s pouring! Everybody couldn’t wait to go outside and play in the snow today! Everything was covered in white snow. It is way better than last week because last week there was ice and it wasn’t soft but now it is as soft as a pillow. We made many attempts at making snowmen last week but, unfortunately, the snow wasn’t soft enough but today, 10th February, it is wonderful!

De Driscoll rap

In year 5 we learned about Benjamin Zephaniah, who is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer and dub poet. He has written poems for kids, adults and teenagers. He has written books mostly about where he comes from, which is Birmingham, and about himself. He is very honest and uses different words about different people so in some of his poems he makes up words and he says ‘don’t do this, don’t that’. He uses strong and honest words in his writing
Dat teacher safe

She’s working
She’s shouting
VICIOUS
Dashes round here
With a grin pon her face
She screams out
Gallops round
Mekin smirks
She's SAFE
Dis teacher hard
She’s vile
EXTRODINARY
Respect Driscoll
She steps hard
An TEACHERISTIC
When she pas thru
Children in their Desks
Get teached so much
We jus call her
DRRISCOLL