Mexico comes to visit

On Tuesday 12th October 2010 a lady and a man came to talk to us about Mexico. The lady was from Mexico but the man was from Britain. They chose a few children to dress up. There were so many costumes and resources we needed loads of people to dress up. They told us about how Mexico has changed since the Aztecs were alive. They told us all about how the families carried the babies, about the sungod and the earth god and that every boy in the family had a part of cleaning to do and they told us much, much more. They showed us musical instruments from the past and some children got to play them. Before playtime, some children dressed up and after playtime it was mainly about the instruments. I dressed up as a girl that was writing in a ancient book of pictures, Abubaker was dressed up as a boy who was a farmer and Sasha was dressed as a musician who was playing a very interesting instrument. Everyone had lots of fun!

School Journey

It was the day finally we were arriving at the Isle of Wight. First, we had to say bye to our mums and dads. I slept in the coach for the whole ride. My partner woke me up when we were going onto the ferry. We went to the top deck where it was extremely cold and windy. I was so eager to eat my lunch.
After I ate my lunch I took some pictures of the view. The ferry ride was finshed. It took us 1 hour to get to the house. Finally, we were there. Miss O’Sullivan told us our groups and our rooms.
We did rock pooling and caught a red eyed crab.
After was our big walk which took 7 hours. We got back and had a nice hot swim. We had a nice dinner and a delicious dessert. Our last activity was a campfire. We got home and went to bed. The day had arrived when we were leaving. I don’t remember anything because I slept for the whole journey back too! I was so glad to be back and see my Mum and Dad. I felt relieved. That was my school journey.

school journey

Last week we went on school journey. At first we had to say goodbye to our mums and dads and had to get on the coach. We finally got to the ferry and had lunch. We stood at the front on the top deck and it was incredibly windy. We got to the Isle of Wight and it was really hot. It took about an hour to get to the house and then a little walk.
When we got there we were put into groups to sleep with and then had a tour around the house. We had a practice of the fire alarm going off. We had to go a special way to get out. We had dinner and it was really nice.
We had an activity after dinner and it was very fun. We had face paint and there were two teams-red and blue. The game was called treasure hunt and we had cards that had numbers on them, and we would tag someone else that wasn't on our team, and the one who had the highest card took their card.
After everyone had twenty of the other players’ cards we each received a bit of a map and we had to put all of the pieces together correctly. When we had all of the map there was an x on it and then we had to go out and find the treasure. The person who finds the treasure first wins.
The next day was really fun because we went rock pooling and caught a really big red velvet crab. We got back for the next day and we went on a big walk which took 7 hours, but we learned about stuff like devils chimney.
On the final day and we had to pack up to get ready. But unfortunately we had missed the ferry, so we had to wait there for 2 hours and we had a hot chocolate. We finally arrived back at school. Exhausted!

Football team try-outs

On Tuesday 28th of September year 5 and 6 tried out for the football team. All the boys in year 6 wanted to try and all the boys in year 5 wanted to have a go, too. So, to be fair it was decided that the year 6 boys will be on the team this year and the year 5’s will wait until next year.
There were only 10 spaces so trying out was really competitive. There was a girls team and there were also only 10 spaces so they had to try out their best. There were a lot of schools for the boys to play against but unfortunately, the girls well... there was not as many because many schools don’t have girls’ teams. So, 10 boys from year 6 and 10 girls from year 5 and 6 were chosen for the one, the only, Avonmore Primary football team.
On the 8th October the year 6 boys have a football match against Melcombe Primary. Who knows? It might be good or bad. I’m definitely keeping my fingers crossed!

Last week of term.

It is the last week of term and everything is being prepared for next year. All of the teachers are moving classes except for one. Teachers are working hard to clean up the classrooms. We are having a really fun week and we can’t wait for our disco tomorrow. Yr six are very sad as they are leaving this school to go to secondary school. Have a great summer holiday and please watch our video. Please keep yourself safe.

Sports Week Video

The whole school made an obstacle course to try out for sports week. For this task, Year 5 first got into groups and chose their equipment then they went to the KS2 playground and planned it out. They first drew it down on a piece of paper then the teacher put all of their ideas together then they swapped groups and tried each others different activities out. And in the morning they tried it out together. They all enjoyed it except some of them got confused. They used lots of quoits, hoops, cones, skipping ropes, balls, tennis balls, beanbags and flat cones. For the first activity, they had to throw a beanbag in a hoop and then jump into it. When they got to the last hoop they had to throw quoits onto cones then they had three hoops. After, they had to get a tennis ball into all of the hoops and then had to throw three quoits into a hoop. Next, they had to dribble a ball round the flat cones and then throw it into a up-side down flat cone. For the next activity, they had to skip ten times and dribble a ball through the cones and they had to shoot it into a hoop. For the last activity, the class had to dribble a ball with a hockey stick through the cones and get three beanbags and score them into each hoop. As a class they really enjoyed it.