Lucy plans a story after looking at a picture

After studying a painting by Willem Kalf, called "Still Life with Drinking Horn" the class planned a story to explain where the objects came from.

This is Lucy telling us her plan for her story.

listen to ‘Lucy's reading from her story plan’ on Audioboo

The music festival was a great success

Yesterday's music festival was a great success with six schools from Chelmsford coming together to put on a fantastic performance. I wont give too much away as the children have been working hard to put their experience into words for you. We'll finish it off tomorrow and they'll post it on here as soon as possible.

In The Garden - A Five Sentence Challenge entry from Wesley Tyson

In the sunny days the black spotty ladybirds come to hide. In the Summer you see loads of pretty butterflies. In the Spring gloomy leaves turn to orange or red or brown to fall off trees. If you're lucky you can find some of these creatures I've told you about. So next time try to find some creatures I've told you about.

In The Garden - A Five Sentence Challenge entry from Lucy Armstrong

In Summer you can see butterflies coming out of their cocoons. Also you can see wonderful flowers growing and fruit growing in the trees. You can have ice lollies because it is so warm. You can go on holiday in Summer. Butterflies are pretty.

In The Garden - A Five Sentence Challenge entry from Paige Crozier

In the garden I can see flowers blooking up to the sky. Suddenly a rabbit appears from the bush in the distance. A streaming hot sun appears in the morning. The rooster goes and my clock goes too to wake me up. Barbeques you can have.

An Exciting Week Ahead

It's the beginning of another week and this one has just as many exciting activities as usual, if not more. This afternoon we'll be joining six other schools to put on one massive performance of "The Gingerbread Man" at a local church. We've got the forth installment of our "Body Care Workshop" on Thursday and we'll be starting "Screen to Page" in our Literacy. It is going to be a great week.

Stars of the Week

Our last post for this week is going to be about our superstars.

We don't always have superstars every week but this week three people have really stood out from the crowd.

First of all I would like to introduce to you our Literacy Superstar. This boy always works hard because he wants to do well and improve his writing. Shall I tell you who it is? Maybe I'll leave it until I've told you a little about our Numeracy Superstar. Our Numeracy Superstar of this week is someone who has already received the "Superstar of the Week" trophy. This person is Will Anderson. He has proved to be very quick with his mental maths and during Science was able to change receipes quickly in order to alter the amounts of milk and vinegar so he could make plastic.

Back to our Literacy Superstar. I should put you out of your misery by telling you the winner this week is Ethan Rackham.

Well done to both Will and Ethan. But now, drumroll please......

The SUPERSTAR OF THE WEEK is..............

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it's

Ben West.

His ideas throughout the week and constant desire to do well is an example to everyone. I do believe he has now won it twice!