Junior Citizen

On Thursday 4th October, year 6 went to Junior Citizens. We learned various things about drugs, public transportation, fires, robbers, not taking things from strangers and putting your seat belt on. It was amazing!!! My personal 2 favourites were the robbery and the drugs. In the robbery, which was a role play, a woman called Tracy pretended to be a robber and grabbed us and asked for our money and phones. We got quite scared even though we knew it was fake. When we were learning about drugs, and while a guy called Kieran was talking about that a lady came in and gave me a package. I had no idea what was in it. To be honest, I thought it was a sandwich but I guess I was wrong. I know this because a policeman came in and opened the package and it turns out that there was cocaine (sugar) in the bag and he pretended to be really mad with me, but that was also a role-play. The last thing that we did was seatbelt safety where we learned the importance of wearing a seatbelt in a car. There was a machine with a seat at the end of it and I was chosen to go sit in the seat. At this stage, I didn’t know what to expect! They told me that it would slide to the other side of the track and push me forward with the force that a car in a crash would have. It was so scary but it was really exciting at the same time!

Year 5’s Trip to the Science Museum

Year 5 has just been on a fun and educational trip to the Science Museum! We went there to learn about space. Everyone’s favourite bit was when we watched the landing of the moon at the IMAX cinema in 3D. It was very realistic and the fun things were the bubbles, smoke and the bit when water squirted from the back of the seats and onto our faces to simulate us landing in the sea. We then experienced how hard it is to pick things up with astronauts’ space gloves, saw what astronauts eat in space and how they use bathroom utilities in space. I think that everyone enjoyed this trip and I am starting to think about becoming an astronaut myself when I grow up!

Autumn changes

The autumn changes have begun and the leaves are falling off trees and the colours of the leaves are changing. Animals and insects are getting ready to hibernate and many people are starting to wear jackets. The weather is changing all the time. It is cold most of the time and people are beginning to have colds. I got sick myself for a few days but am happy to be back!

Year 5 Meets the Lifebus

On Tuesday 2nd October Year 5 went to the lifebus! The topic on the lifebus was you and you’re Friends. We met a woman whose name was Nancy. She was basically the tour guide who taught us all about us and our friends. We also met Tam who, believe it or not, we could see her heart, her lungs, small intestine, and large intestine and so on. But sorry that you had to hear but Tam was plastic! Nancy made us make a feeling diamond where we put the most important feeling at the top and the least important at the bottom. So basically some of the top ones were be proud for what I done and feel my feelings. These are not all of them but these are quite a few. We saw a video where there was two 10 years olds, Sam and Sami. Sami used all of his allowance helping everyone in his neighbourhood so he can get a really cool bike. Sam wanted to ride it but Sami didn’t want anyone to ride it but he wanted to stay friends. He tried being aggressive but that didn’t work. He tried being nice but that didn’t work and he tried being considerate and it worked! After, we met Harold the Giraffe and came back to class. Overall, it was educational and fun!

Harvest Time at Avonmore

The harvest time spirit has come to Avonmore and the whole school is celebrating! We have had a big assembly today. Children from all classes are in a big competition to bring in the most food (all food that doesn’t need putting in the refrigerator, doesn’t go mouldy and doesn’t go off that is) for the Pepper Pot Day Centre, to give to the elderly. But, I bet the kids are more interested in the prize- 20 mins extra playtime! We also have our own harvest produce grown in our garden! Harvest has been a lot of fun and we enjoyed it so much!

Welcome back

The summer months have now concluded and September is here! Throughout the summer holiday some people travelled far across the globe! Some destinations included America, France, Brazil, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Afghanistan. Myself, I went to America and Corsica!!! The start of the new academic year of 2012-13 means that we’re back at school already and working hard. And with the New Year comes some different rules. We have a stricter school uniform, and we look smarter because of that. All of the children have moved up a year. This year I’ve moved up to year 6 so I will have to work extra hard because of the SATS. I’m enjoying the New Year so far and I love the big classroom! It’s amazing looking back at all of the years that I’ve been in, and once this year has passed I will be very sad to leave this wonderful school.

The London 2012 Olympic Games

The Olympic Games were in London from 27 July-12 Aug. First was the opening ceremony which lasted more than 2 hours but it was worth it! It was so beautiful, very well acted and the entrance of the queen was awesome! And, there was even SKYDIVING FROM A HELICOPTER! Supposedly the queen did this (wink wink). After an eventful and thrilling 2 weeks the final medal count was as follows: 1st USA with 104 medals Gold 46 Silver Bronze 29 2nd China with 88 medals Gold 38 Silver 27 Bronze 23 3rd GBR with 65 medals Gold 29 Silver 17 Bronze 19 Hosting the 2012 Olympic games and Paralympics was extraordinary and fun to watch. It was certainly a once in a lifetime event!