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

De Cotten Collis
Dat woman hilarious,
She’s gifted,

DJ-ing
Cums round here,
Wida glint in her eyes.
Loves bling!!!!!!!
Beams around,
She’s shopaholic
Spreading love all round

Dat girl spends money
Incredibly Intelligent
She’s ICE-Bound.
Purple =Fav colour
She’s a cheese eating mouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hangs Cooking !!!!!!!!!!!!
She’s Marvellous
Rules the world with
Robby Williams!
Raps with Jay-Z
Reads 3 Books a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People in the school luv them so much them just call them
The Best!!!!!!!
By:Khulan

Our New Safety Buzzer

After the Christmas holidays the staff and pupils returned to a new addition to the front door of Avonmore School! Already the adults have problems remembering to always press the button before going out.
How it works:
Basically an adult inside the school has to open the door and the children can’t. The teachers thought it was much safer to have a buzzer at the front door so children get out without permission.
We have taken a video of Vanessa, our school’s receptionist, speaking about the buzzer.
We also asked three parents about the safety buzzer. Here is a summary of what they said:
What do you think about our new safety buzzer?
1. Good
2. Amazing
3. Fantastic because it is high up
Do you think your child is safer at school?
1. Definitely
2. I don’t really know
3. Yeah it’s a good idea
Do you think that the school made a good choice putting the buzzer there?
1. Yeah
2. Really good choice
3. Good idea

Avonmore Christmas Production

The Christmas production (Goldilocks and the 3 Witches) is over now and it was a huge success! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it including the cast. It was even more hilarious performing it when everything came together, like the acting and audience reactions, than was expected. The characters and their costumes were a big part of the atmosphere of the play and really added to the laughs (especially the ugly stepsisters!)
It was a really fun and amazing experience that the Year 6 pupils will carry on with them to secondary school! I think it was a really unique play that not just the year 6s will have fond memories of but the whole school too. It’s such a shame that each class only gets to do one acting production. The play was a great contribution to the last few days of a wonderful year at Avonmore!

Last Day of 2011

On the last day of school before the Christmas holidays, we had a disco with our professional DJ: DJ Cotten! It was fantastic! All the curtains were closed and there was a real disco ball! The KS1 had one in the morning and KS2 had one in the afternoon. Everyone said they had a BLAST!! The songs were a very good choice and none of the children were upset.

KS1’s disco
In the morning they danced and danced with their friends jumping up and down enjoying the music. Their dancing was great! They were doing all kinds of dancing (street dancing, hip hop and conga.) After all the dancing they were up for a surprise: Santa Claus was coming to wish them a very Merry Christmas and give them special presents! The children couldn’t keep in their excitement when they heard that Santa Claus was coming to give them presents.Everyone had a great time and the children left with a smile on their faces.

KS2’s disco
In the afternoon the KS2 had a disco: we absolutely had an amazing time. There was a game of pegs when some people had pegs and had to peg someone without getting caught. Everybody loved it! The music choices were great. A major event happened when a horrible song came on. It was.........’Baby’ by Justin Bieber. Everyone jeered and covered their ears. It was a fantastic end to the last day of 2011 at Avonmore!