rabbits

my brother likes rabbits because I love the school and I think rabbites is the best because they get to play and do letters I love rabbits.

The fantastic muppet show

On the 17th me and Mummy and Sophie went to see the muppets in Bath with Susie And Issy. It was a great movie.The muppets had to get alot of money so they could keep their old studio because the bad man tried to rip it a part to keep oil in it but he lied to make into a muppet museum.In the end they raised enough money to save their studio and Walter became a muppet to even he always was one.

Feb half term

I have had a busy half term. On Saturday my dad and I went to the bmx track to do some practicing which was great, On Monday I had swim academy and I was brilliant at swimming underwater.

On Wednesday Mummy, Finlay and I went to junction 21 to play and when I was there I saw Rowan and Kian. Also this week I have been getting things ready for my birthday party on Sunday at the rugby club.

Looking forward to seeing my friends again.

muppets

I went to watch Muppets with Sophie& Holly. There was a man who saw Kurmit the frogs office and wanted to buy it and knock it down to dig for oil! So Walter a big fan of the Muppets went to find all of them to tell them and Miss pigy was in France. So they drove to France and went to the hotel  where Miss Piggy was and asked  the people if they could go and see Miss Piggy but they said no and then the muppets came back in dressed up as a big man  and then they let them in! Miss piggy said sit down and then they fell over and the costume came off and Kurmit told Miss Piggy what was happening and she said no I cant help you.

valentine

Someone posted a letter through the letter box for daddy!!! It was a valentine card, it said I love you and a poem by Tennyson “If  I had a flower every time I thought of you… I could walk through  my garden forever.” It made him very happy.

poem

 

for my mumy and daddy

 

listen to the waves washing the sand.

watch the snow fall on the land

hear the hale stones bounce on the ground

I look at the rain falling down.

my eyes  look at the grey cloud swooping in the sky.

I see areoplanes landing on the ground and who pops out mummy and daddy.

writen by issy ford.

e-safety day

Today has been e-safety day and everyone at Berkley School has been thinking about how to keep safe when we use the internet. We have talked about some of the people that we could turn to if we were worried about anything when we are using the internet.

We have also started to think about ‘Connecting Generations’ which is the theme this year. I have asked the Badgers to find out from their parents and grandparents about what they like most about the internet and what their favourite pastimes are.

What do you like about using the internet? I love researching fantastic games for my class to use in support of their learning. I love being able to keep in touch with my friend who lives in Australia.

Do you know how to keep safe on the internet? If not – ask your children for advice!!!

The fabulous wow day

On the wow day I had a wonderful time!And i really appreciate that some of the mums ,dads , teachers and some other people came and put lots of effert in to it.

Im coming home

I am waiting for my plane back home from st lucia. Mummy has just shown me the pictures from the wow day and it looked good. I have learnt to swim with no arm bands and seen bull frogs and lizards, see you on tuesday.

Fantastic Thursday!

I know that I am biased but if I was aged between 4-9 I wouldn’t want to go to any other school but Berkley School!! The WOW day was a wonderful way to start the week.

 The ‘Jumping Jellybeans’ club took place and some children have been to Forest Schools this week.

This morning  the Badgers went to the sports’ centre for their swimming lesson followed by an exciting science investigation with Mrs Langton involving blowing bubbles !!

After lunch  Badgers class welcomed Dave  and Nick who gave us a Rookie First Aider’s taster session. We spent a brilliant hour learning to apply bandages to one another’s arms and heads. We also learnt how to make a simple sling to support a painful wrist. Hopefully Dave and Nick will be able to run an after school club for us.

Then we put on our old clothes and wellies and went back up onto the field to enjoy all the activities that were built for the Wow day. We got very muddy as it has been raining a bit this week but it was great fun and we’ll be going again tomorrow!!

And – finally – after school was over – a group of children and Mrs Hirons and I stayed to a ‘Photography Club’. Uri, the photographer showed us a whole range of cameras and equipment and we found out all about them. It was really very interesting. Uri made it great fun.

Next week we are going to begin to take photos – then later we are going to mount and frame them, set up an exhibition, learn to market our product and finally try to sell them!!! All the profits going to Berkley School. I can’t wait!

What a great day.

Mrs White

Flash The Dog

I got a new dog and his name is Flash.  We got him 2 days after Boxing Day, he is a Fox Red Labrador.  He has got used to us now, he is really cute and he is funny, he has browny gold fur.  He sleeps alot and plays alot. 

We took him to the vets today to have his injections because he cannot  go outside for walks until he has had them.

I love him lots!

Wow Day film clips

I have just been showing Mr White [who helped put up the assault course on the school field] and my daughter Rosanne all of the brilliant pictures of the day. And at the bottom I found the fantastic film clips that Mrs Hirons has put on for us all to see. Have you watched it yet? Look at all the smiling faces and listen to all the laughter!! What a great day we had.

The art work is looking good too!!!

Mrs White

wow day

We   had    a     wow  day. There   were   paw    prints   in   the   sand   pit.  Also  there   was    a     green   tent, with some candles  and  a   cooking    pot  inside   hanging  from some   sticks. Also there were some  hay bales and  a   big   nest with a massive egg inside it. The nest had a little egg shell aswell and an apple. There were also tyres, and metal spoke hanging from a tree.  Also  there  was  a  slide  with   a  blue  sheet  over  it.  When   you   went   down   the    slide  your  feet  fell  in  to  mud. Also   there   was  a   castle   which   had   a  rocking  chair in it and a big spider web and a wand. Also a  bit of  the play trail had some balloons on it.  Also   there  were  some  christmas   trees   wich  was  a   forest.

WOW DAY!!!

We have just had the  most wonderful WOW Day!!! I think the adults had as much fun as the children!!

This term our creative curriculum topic goes under the umbrella name of  ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. It is going to be primarily a geography based topic made up of a series of  smaller units. All areas of work will be driven by our wish to spend lots of time outside using our environment in as many inventive ways as we can.

So…. we started by building a sort of assault course on the school field. I am sure you will find lots of photos in the gallery. There were huge hay bales draped with cargo nets  making tunnels to crawl through,an enormous tent, ropes strung between trees to swing and climb along, ladders to climb and trampettes to bounce on, there was a marshy area to navigate using stepping stones, a set of tubular tunnels draped with more cargo nets to crawl through, an ‘ ice palace’, a mini forest, a sand pit, and water filled balloons to navigate whilst walking along a rope bridge and more!

We were very pleased with our results. BUT when we came to school this morning we discovered that we had been visited over night by a mysterious creature. ‘Something’ had been using our assault course.

We gave the children a ‘forensic kit’ so that they could search the field for clues. And they found lots!! There was fur of many different colours, there were feathers and something that looked like blood [ but was it?], we found giant footprints in the sandpit and tiny ones all over the place. Something had been trapping giant bugs and putting them in a cauldron and a fire had been lit in the tent – we know because there was cold ash in the fireplace. At the back of the field was what looked like a giant nest! It was filled with leaves and there were some broken egg shells – some of these were hen’s eggs but some were giant eggs.

It was exciting and a real mystery. We returned to school to think about what we had seen and using all our ideas we each drew an ‘identikit’ picture of what we thought the mysterious creature might have looked like. Now we are going to paint them.

What a thrilling time we had – we were lucky with the weather which was perfect and we would especially like to thanks everybody to helped in whatever way. The children will be able to use the assault course for the rest of the week before we dismantle it on Friday. Look out for more pictures and information about all our follow up work!!!

Mrs White

The funest day at school

The day we had today today was fabulous. We were looking and searching on the field for clues about a creature or monster that visited the field. I found some blood and some paw prints. I drew a picture of a colourful bunny dragon. I think that’s what visited the field and I used my imagination. I hope everyone enjoyed the day the same as me.

school tomorrow

I miss rabbits class. I am excited to see henry and elliot tomorrow. I hope its not raining so we can run and run really fast outside.

Happy new year

Happy new year to everyone.  Father christmas came and I was really excited.  He brought me Toffee the Pony and a glowing polar bear which I liked the best.  I went to see Aladdin with Georgia and my granny and gramps and I loved the princess and the genie.  Wishy washy squirted us with water!  I had some Barbie toys which I love playing with.  We saw lots of our friends at christmas and had lots of fun.

what I did at xmas

on christmas  eve I was very pleased that xmas was finally here.We went to the frome flyer with Megan Catilin Cassy James and paul .we were all very Tired when we got home. In the morning we were up about 6am.  We went into mummy and daddy’s room and said our stockings aren’t here where could they be?  Then we looked behind our door and our stockings were there.  I said to mummy and daddy santa tricked us didn’t he.  Then we opened the presents in our stockings and I got stardust, a glowing polar bear light, and lots of other things like instead of a real orange a chocolate orange.  After that we went downstairs and we closed our eyes and there were really really big white footprints on the floor.  Santa has been!  And he had written on my letter.  Let’s see what he brought us …… Maddie I said you could open that present over there and then I will open this big present.  I think it is my main present mummy I said.  I wonder if it is.  I opened it then I screamed and said it is my main present and it was a bunny and I fed it a carrot and then it went to sleep.  I loved xmas the most because I got to spend lots of time with my family and that’s what I love best about xmas.

 

All creatures great and small project – 1

We are designing a wooden elefant and ladybird.

Elefants have six toes.

Switzerland!

We are in Switzerland on holiday.

There is lots of snow.

Grandad  got poorly  and had to go to intensiv care in an ambalans.

And we went to see him. He is feeling betar.

We went sledging.

christmas holidays

Its the christmas holidays and only three days until christmas.I have got only two more windows on my advent calender.I also cannot wait until father christmas comes our house if we have all been good this year.

purple mash

I’ve been on purple mash. its very good. you should go on it.  on purple mash its got winter games on it.

its on kids zone. it is at the bottom of the page .

The party

On Tuesday we had a party and a delicious Christmas lunch and a magician came in and shown us some of his tricks . Then the whole school sang jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way! to try to get santa to come and get him in the classroom and evryone was excited! And luckily he came!

Longleat trip

I went on a Christmas train that took me to see Father Christmas who gave me a present.  I went in Longleat house and I saw Scrooge, Sleeping Beauty, two fairies and Cinderella who was dancing with Prince Charming.  I had my picture taken with them and I told Cinderella ‘I like your beautiful dress’.  It was blue and pink.  Outside was an enormous magical singing Christmas tree.  My favourite thing of the day was writing a wish that I hung on the wishing tree.

purple mash is cool

I went on purple mash this morning.It is cool.I love purple mash.

I especially love the 3d monster game on purple mash.I am going to go

on it more often because it is COOL!

georgia coming to my house

one time  georgia is coming to my house she might sleep over mine we might have a midnight sweets.

we might have a movie.this sunday im going  to the fleat its to see antey Carl and Gogenere

I like school

I like going to school because I like doing numeracy games. I like doing sounds and letters . mrs langton gives me hard ones because when I am big I will know them very well.

Christmas Production

The Christmas Productions are next week and everybody is working very hard!!! KS2 are planning a Victorian style production with singing, poetry and readings. It is a little different to our usual musical but it is taking shape well and I think eevryone will enjoy it!!!

Mrs White

Day trip out

 

On Wednesday I went to glastonbury and I walked up a hill with  a castal on it.I had lunch in a restront and I had a sosig and chips and peas but I only had the chips toby had the same as me and sam had chips  chiken nugets and a sosig and for pudding and I had two scoops  of strarberry ice-cream and toby had the same and sam had toffy with custed on it .After  that we looked at the shops and brout 4 candals.

maddie for tea

Tonight Maddie is coming for tea but first i’m helping Jo and Maddie  set up for the chrismas fair tomorow.After that  maddie and jo will come round me and  me and Maddie might play with my Sylvanian Family which are little animals with clothes on they have a car and a house.

My birthday has now arrived

Today is the 22nd of November and that must mean its my birthday.I am 8 today! I have had lots of presents my main present was a computer which am typing on now. Today I went to lyme regis. I had fish and chips at a pub.We all went onto the pebble beach. I found a big smooth pebble with a hole right in the middle which I am going to make a necklace out of it.

My day at Bristol

To day we had a girlie day out ,we went to bristal cinema and watched Ather Christmas,it was funiest film I had ever seen.After that we went to pizza hut,I had chesey macroni and zoe had a cheese and tomato pizza.

 

 

The oliver twist show

Today we are going to see oliver twist  at our school.I am so excited about it.We are moving out into the library.

Everyone was sqaushed until we were heading down from the library to see oliver twist with two ladies acting.When we got  down.

It was a wonderful show !!!

Maddie with help from Kendra and Evie

 

At play time

 

At play time Malachi,Daniel & Craig plaied tag.Malachi was on it most of the

time.The shed was homes and the fences was to.Craig wasn’t on it at all.

Daniel was on it  once. It was fun.

longleat trip

Today I am going to Holly’s party and we are going to longleat . But first my Nanny is going to take me and Georgia to Holly’s house. I am really excited!

Childrens shoe boxes

On Wednesday in church two ladys came into school to take the shoe boxes away to a very poor country somewhere in Africa.I put in some hair things flannels soap toys sweets toothbrush and toothpaste some colouring pencils and finally a notepad.I hope the children love there shoe boxes because we all put alot of hard work into them.

twin babies

My mum’s oldest friend Nic who lives in Canada had twin boys called zach and alex they are very cute. They were 8 weeks early so are very small and have  to stay in hospital for 7 more weeks.

Operation Christmas Child

Over the last few weeks my classroom has been filling up with shoeboxes wrapped in cheerful Christmas paper. These have been filled by Berkley families as part of the Operation Christmas Child project.

We know that not everybody is as lucky as us so we are always keen to take part in this project. This year our boxes are going to Liberia, which is a country in Africa. It is on the Atlantic coast next door to Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. A civil war in the 1990s destroyed the economy and created thousands of refugees.

And of course many of these people are children who will not normally receive any gifts at Christmas.

This year will be different for at least 57 children because they will be receiving our shoeboxes containing pens, pencils and paper, soap and flannels, toothbrushes and toothpaste, scarves, hats and gloves [ for the cold nights – even in Africa!!], toys [I put a skipping rope in my box], sweets, hairslides and much more.

We have sent them this with all our love and we hope they enjoy the thrill of receiving these gifts from us, and the contentment of knowing that we have thought of them and care for them from thousands of miles away.

Have you made a box of love yet? If not there may still be time – or there’s always next year!

Mrs White



Victorian Trip to Bath

I was so pleased to read everyone’s blogs about the school trip to Bath. I thought the museums were really interesting and I am thrilled to see that the children did too!!!

At the moment Badgers are writing non fiction pages about the challenging jobs that young children had to do during Victorian times. Their ICT skills are developing well and they have been doing a good job with their research and presentation.

Mrs White