Last day!

Thursday was the final day for the children in 3B. They started the day with a lovely merit assembly in which many children received merits for consistent good work and behaviour. Four children got special awards for the amount of progress made in Year 3 and Mrs Bell gave the teacher's award to Mitchell and Brenton, wishing them luck in their new schools.

The assembly was also for saying good bye to Mr Coles who retired after many happy years of teaching, welcome to teaching to Mrs Shaw who qualified as a teacher and good luck to Miss Tyler for her wedding and Mrs Love who is expecting her baby in September. It was a busy assembly.

All the juniors then got an extra playtime as well as refreshing ice-creams. The weather, luckily was sunny and warm. Everybody enjoyed the ice-creams, some wished they could have them more often!

Mrs Bell spent some time putting things in boxes ready for moving day on Friday whilst the children enjoyed each other's company. In the afternoon they watched a DVD before having ANOTHER playtime. Soon it was time to say, 'good luck' to Mitchell and Brenton and 'Bye' to everyone !

Mrs Bell thanked the class for being such a wonderful class to teach. She was touched by the many generous presents and cards she received. Her favourite rewards, however are the brilliant pieces of work the class have produced over the year.

She will remember many special events with pleasure. This year the class have been involved in Family Learning, including a first ever Residential Family learning weekend, we have helped with 3 parents meetings - Maths, Building Learning Power and Learning styles! And we have had a first ever class BLOG! It's been an exciting year, but we all need a holiday now.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, everyone!

Final week!

This week and the last week of the academic year is a 4 day week. Governors have given a very special day to the staff for all the changes for teachers. A lot of teachers are moving into different rooms and so the day will help to get everyone into new rooms. Mrs Bell is wondering how all her stuff will fit into a smaller room!

The Open afternoon was very successful on Monday afternoon. Many parents and children walked around school, looking at displays as well as the new classrooms children would be taught in next year. Tuesday was 'Move up' morning when everybody went to their new teachers for 2 hours. It was very good for the teachers to see their new classes.

Wednesday was great fun, as the class made their sandwiches! First they learned how to use tools safely. We had a go at grating and cutting with sharp knives. It made Mrs Bell nervous. She was pleased when Miss Painter returned from the Parent helper assembly. The sandwiches looked very interesting and delicious. Mrs Childs saved the day by letting us have a cucumber and tomatoes as Mrs Bell had left them in the fridge. Her brain was not working too well, after her night out with the staff on Tuesday! We all went into the Pavillion to eat the delicious sandwiches.

The afternoon brought gorgeous sunshine and a wonderful Planet Family meeting. There were 6 different activities organised and each Family went from one to another. It all ran very smoothly, with children managing one way traffic system really well. The class managed a quick lesson in the ICT suite, looking at the Blog one more time, before choosing an activity they have enjoyed in Year 3.
Thursday is the last day. Mrs Bell spent a long time moving manyof her things into her new classroom, a Year 3 mobile.

Performance Poetry!

This week the class continued their unit of Performance Poetry. Mrs Bell was thrilled with the way the class had attempted their own poems under the title of 'And my heart soars'. Miss Painter and Mrs Bell were choked up when Megan and Ellie-Mai read their their poem about Megan's cat, Tilly who went missing in March. The poem showed the love Megan had for her cat. There were some excellent poems by other children too. Jack had most of his family in tears over his wonderful poem which talked about his family life.

To follow this work, we read 'Bears in Groovy Shoes' and wrote our own poems in that style. Wil and Josh made everyone laugh, not just with the poem, but with their performance. The whole class voted that they should get the merit of the week! Well done, everyone for getting involved in selecting good work for this award.
The week ended with a disco on Friday night. There were lots of lower junior children present at the first disco, which went really well. Everyone looked very smart and happy. Next week will be the last week - we are looking forward to the holiday, but there is Move up' morning and Open afternoon first.

Transition Week

Transition week was specially geared towards preparing children towards changes in the future. Year 3 will begin to think about going into the next year group. For two children, this will mean new schools. Brenton and Mitchell will both be leaving us to go to new schools as they have moved house. We feel sure they will soon settle in. Brenton has been to spend a day at his school already and has a cousin who goes there. Good luck to both the boys.

The class went to spend 2 hours with their new teacher, Mrs Parker. They were very excited and eager to meet her, and found her to be pleasant and happy. This will make the start of next year much easier for them. Some children did suggest that Mrs Bell should think of devious means of getting herself in Y4 so she could teach them again! Mrs Bell has really enjoyed teaching her class and would love to spend a few more weeks with them, but she has to move on too! She met her new class on Friday afternoon. They seemed so small!

The week also brought about the final of Young Enterprise. Everyone has enjoyed the programme. Angela Buckley has been bringing something to do with her job each week. This has been very interesting. Mitchell found it useful as it helped him to deal with his Nanny's death in the summer term. Angela works for Wellings Funeral service and has been very good at delivering the Community programme to 3B. The class made her a lovely card to say 'Thank You'. Angela's item from work this week was BIG! Everyone got a ride in it - it was a great finale to the series of 6 lessons. Thank you, Angela.