Children from Year 5 have written a report to be published in a book to be sent to schools in Bexley.  We were asked by the publisher for a photograph for the cover. We researched photograph tips and then took some fantastic pictures. We selected the best ones to send off, some examples are shown below.

We had a videoconference with our friends in Denmark. We have worked with the school for four years now, so it was like talking with old friends. Children discussed the Olympics and their favourite sports. The children in Denmark were very interested in following: 100 metre runner Usain Bolt; the tennis player Caroline Wozniacki; their Olympic swimmers and their very good handball team.
As before, their English was absolutely fantastic and they chatted away happily with our children.
We look forward to speaking to them again soon.

We had great fun making entries for a “Stop littering ” competition held by the BAB. The example above was made by Julita, Temilope and Kelly using Glogster.

We have set no homework for Easter, but have suggestions of work you might choose to do. We will, as always, reward those who put in that extra effort. You could:

• Use SumDog to practise your mental maths;
• ixl or Manga High for maths;
• Make a glog or presentation about a famous scientist or science (one of our topics for next term is famous people);
• 100 word challenge 100wc.net;
• practice your times tables;
• read, read, read – it’s fantastic;
• make a Scratch project;
• teach something to a younger brother or sister;
• storybird;

Enjoy your holiday; you have earned it.

It has been great fun researching and acting out our Greek Myths. In gruops of four, children performed their play. It was good fun!

The children really look forward to their Monday afternoon PE sessions at the BBA (our local secondary school). The staff are really fun and kind and have coached many different sports.

Rights respecting schools classroom charter
The whole class worked together to make a classroom charter containing our rights and responsibilities. The rights and responsibilities were part of our work about Rights Respecting Schools. We hope that they will make our class an even better place to work.

We are making lots of learning resources about the London olympics. We are hoping that children from around the world will play and learn from our resources. we welcome your comments on the games.

Congratulations to Kelly. We are so proud of her. On Friday she went to the London Mayors office to play the violin and to receive the above certificate. She has won a four year scholarship from the London Major.

A big thank you to Broadus Wood School in USA for all of their fantastic comments on our blog.

Yesterday MrG went to a big computer show for teachers in London. He met MrG from Trevithick School, our quadblogging partner. They discussed lots of ideas and are making arrangements for the children to Skype next week.

My new christmas friend… on Storybird