On Friday 12th July, we had our fantastic Family Sports Day! The children (and the adults) had great fun completing a carousel of activities including: football, hobby horse jumping, parachute games, golf, tennis, sack race, egg and spoon race, hockey… AND MORE! At the end of the morning, everyone took part in a running race, including the mummies and daddies. We had a great time! Thank you to everyone who came. It wouldn’t be as much fun without you!!

Tolkien watched John Agard perform a couple of his poems and took notes on how he engaged the listener. We then used the same techniques with our performance of ‘The Rainmaker Danced.’ We changed the volume, pace and tone of our voices as well as adding expression and movement! 

This week Reception have been learning all about vegetables. We began the week by reading ‘Growing Vegetable Soup’ by Louis Elhert and having a vegetable tasting session. We then voted for our favourite flavours and wrote shopping lists. On Wednesday, we walked all the way to and from Tesco in Caterham to purchase our vegetables. Finally we used our ingredients to make delicious vegetable soup! We loved the taste (most of us!)

At the end of March, Year 5 had a go at making bread rolls, as part of our investigation into irreversible changes. We mixed the ingredients, waited for the dough to rise, shaped it, waited for it to rise again and baked it. The rolls tasted delicious!

As part of our World Book Day celebrations,  both year 5 classes were visited by a local author – John Press.  He was very impressed with the depth of questions that the children asked him and, as a result of his visit, the children learnt a lot about writing books.  John is kindly making his book-  Return of the Purple Paw –  available on Kindle, free of charge, until Saturday lunchtime should your children like to read it. John has written a number of other books: Soul Boy (his latest) The Mysterious Case of the Mysterious Case. The Curse of the Sherbet Skull Scrambler.