A wheel of words!

The Year 1 class have made a fantastic wheel of words to hang in the writing area. We all like the way they chose words linked to bikes and cycling to dangle from it. I wonder who will make the next unusal 'art and word' sculpture?

It was great to see a small group of boys using the area to solve puzzles in their comics! We'll have to think of more ways to encourage boys to use the area... not just for 'hide and seek'!

One member of staff had recently been to the cinema, and had collected a few of the free postcards they have there. They proved very popular, and the children were almost diving into the yellow box!


I don't know what was being written in this 'secret' notebook, but the other children seemed very interested... and they wouldn't let me have a look!


Miss Proctor

The new school is started...at last!

The school council visited the site of the new school last Friday, and this is what they wrote…

We are excited because we went to visit the building site last Friday. We wanted to see what was happening there and we saw lots of great things. We made friends with the builders who stopped work to talk to us. “You are too early,” joked one of them, “ The school isn’t open yet!”

To keep us safe, we wore safety helmets and Mrs Clarke, Jane and Miss Proctor wore them as well. They looked funny but we were all SAFE. Although the site looked confusing, we think it will look brilliant when it is finished.

When we got there, we saw the foundations where the school is being built. We saw the basic shape of the office building and the classrooms. All of us saw diggers and big machinery. The ground was bumpy, rocky and tricky to walk on. Just as well we remembered to wear sensible shoes!

We are confident that the new school will be a successful build.The School Council would like to thank Mansell for being so helpful.

Written by Keisha, Abbie, Ellie, Bryoni, Chloe, James and Jordan