Trips,Tricks and Topics We welcome you to a new term with our school reporters. This term will be tremendous, that is a fact! We have lots of reports for you and hope you enjoy reading them. Year 6 will be telling you about their residential to Kingswood, Year 5 will be giving you the gory details about World War II. In Year 4 they have been busy supporting a charity in Uganda and have organised lots of water activities to raise money. The Year 3 children have been learning about their local history, homes and streets and have created a scale model of the village. The Year 2 children eventually made it to Austerfield after attempting to pond dip on a frozen pond! “Classic Kingswood” In March, most of the Year 6 children travelled to Conisborough to attend the Kingswood residential. We stayed in the brand new dormitories which are positioned on the site of the old Earth Centre. We stayed there for four epic nights and five exhausting days. It was jam packed with lots of activities such as: laser quest, zip line, abseiling, aeroball, leap of faith and nightline just to mention a few. Every morning we had a dorm inspection, Jamie says “it was so intense as you could hear them coming from about 5 dorms away and we could sit down as we were so nervous!” Gaby and her friends won the tidiest dorm but Jamie thinks that his dorm would have won the smelliest dorm! Ellie said “I thought that the residential was very good because one morning I saw a pheasant out of my room!” We will remember our Year 6 residential forever and would recommend it to everyone. Ellie and Jamie Woeful World War II Last term we were learning about WWII and we’re here to tell you about the fun that we had when learning about WOEFUL WORLD WAR 2!!! One of the many super things we did was going to Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. Lauren said, “It was very exciting to feel what it was like to be in an Anderson Air Raid Shelter.” Amy said, “I could imagine what people would feel like in the war, like putting our own gas masks on and being a person in one of those jobs.” Mr Harper (also known as Danielle’s granddad!) came in and showed us a very famous Victoria Cross Medal, which was awarded to John William Harper, Mr Harper’s granddad. He was an absolute hero in WWII! He was strong and very enthusiastic about his job and always took it seriously; he must have been brilliant to work with. We learnt a lot about our history. Amy and Lauren Our saviour is water. Last term we were learning about the wonder of water and we investigated the water cycle. We decided to raise money for a charity in Uganda by involving the whole of upper school. We designed water games, a cake sale and refreshments. At the end of the day, we had raised a huge amount of money for the Ugandan charity, which provide resources and clean water for children who live in the country. The charity also helps the children to get a better education so that they can get really good jobs to pay for food and water. We have helped them to create a new healthy life so we should be proud of ourselves for what we have done to help these people in need. Can we please give a massive thank you to Mrs Gibson’s mum who has helped us to create links with this charity and pray that they get the resources they need for the children. Jake and Taylor Becoming a local historian. In Year 3 we have been learning about the history of Hatfield. We found out that it was not a busy
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