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• Admirals Gym Week

  Fri 26 Sep 2014 Miss Banks
  Every afternoon this week Admirals Class have been learning new shapes in gymnastics and learning how to put them into a sequence. They learnt the star, straddle, pike, tuck and straight shapes. When linking their moves together they all learnt a log roll and some children learnt how to do a teddy bear roll. Everyone had a great time learning the new shapes to create their own paired sequences. This afternoon Skippers, Swallowtails and Emperors were invited to watch as well as parents, grandparents and anyone else who wanted to watch. There were a few nerves but Mrs Allonby said it was a fantastic performance and she awarded everyone 3 house points. She also said that Admirals had set the bar high for Swallowtails and Emperors class. Our next gym week will be after Christmas where we will be using the shapes we have learnt to perform on the wall bars. We are very excited for that!

• Emperors Trip to Harry Potter Studio

  Fri 26 Sep 2014 Amelia Allonby

  Emperors trip to Harry Potter World

  Have you ever wished to fly on a broom stick?

  Well you can now!

  At Harry Potter World your dreams come true! When Emperors went it was truly magical. Slowly we had walked into the entrance hall, surrounded by the eyes of the famous characters staring down at us. Although you may have to wait, it’s worth it. You walk into a room, and on the walls there are six screens that show a video about JK Rowling. Then you walk in to a cinema, they show a video introduced by the top three characters: Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Then, to everyone’s surprise, the screen rolled up to reveal two towering, golden doors. They were then opened to unveil…. 

  The magnificent great hall where there were costumes that the characters wore in the films. The guide also revealed secrets like the actor that played Hagrid had a body-double, as the actor was only six foot two and the producers didn’t think that was big enough to be a half giant. Next, we saw the Gryffindor common room it looked incredible, after that we went to Dumbledore’s office which looked amazing, also his chair looked really comfy. Soon, we arrived at Hagrids hut, at first glimpse I only saw the very random items such as chairs hanging from the top of the hut, then I saw Hagrids dog it looked very realistic. Quickly, we reached the green screen area, when we got to the area we sat on a green bench and they made it look like we were in the flying car that features in the movies. After lunch we went to the amazing Diagon alley. We saw Gringotts bank and Ollivanders (where harry got his wand from). Finally, we went to see the touch screen activity it let us explore Hogwarts and watch it being constructed. Overall we all really enjoyed are time there and we would all recommend it.      

  By Matthew and Lily 

   

  Please go to Emperors Class Page to view the photos of our fantastic day (there are over 100)!!!

• School Text Messaging Service

  Thu 18 Sep 2014 Mr Jamie Dodson
  Yesterday we sent out our first text message. Speaking to some of you this morning the feedback was very positive. If you have any thoughts on this new school service please let me know as we are currently sending out the texts as part of a free trial!

• Phonics Information Evening

  Wed 17 Sep 2014 Miss Banks
  Thank you to everyone who came to our Phonics Information Evening tonight. It was great to see lots of new and familiar faces. All of the information can be found in the curriculum section on the website along with some of the handout information. As always, if you have any questions please ask Miss Jackson or myself and we'll be happy to help. 

• Top Reading Tips

  Tue 16 Sep 2014

  As our Guided Reading gets underway here's a link to a website with some top tips for parents and teachers!

   

  http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/956-paul-jennings