KS2 Blog#17

Early Birds go pancake day crazy…!   Wow what a great morning we had for Shrove Tuesday… The children who join us at Early Birds Breakfast club enjoyed delicious pancakes, we had a choice of yummy toppings to choose from, from bananas to golden syrup!   The best part was that some of our great teachers joined us too…There was a lovely atmosphere, the children and staff had a fab start to the day!

The talk on the playground was all about pancakes!   We look forward to our next themed day.   Don’t forget if you would like to join us at Early Birds, you are more than welcome, just pop to the office for a letter or see me, Miss Jewell.

KS2 BLOG #16

Hello and welcome to the 16th KS2 Blog.  All work done by volunteers in their own time,

not edited or amended by myself.  Over to Louis and the boys in the Football Team…

St’ Marys Football Team

Tournament

Y4

 When we played our football tournament We were very excited. The team was Louis, Aiden, Jack G, Jack A, Tom, Max, Matt and Callum. We played Hamworthy, Branksome, Bishop Aldhelm’s and Baden Powell. First we played Hamworthy it was great. Tom scored the first goal it was super. We also scored 5 more goals so we won 6-0. Get in there! Our next match was Branksome we conceded 1 goal. No we did not keep a clean sheet but we did win 3-1. Result ! Third we played bishop Aldhem’s we won 4-1. Last we played Baden Powlles this was the match we dreaded but we won yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees  but only 2-1. So…

we won the whole tournament-we were so chuffed!

By Louis.

KS2 Blog #15

Cross country at Kings Park!!

On Thursday the 16^th of January 2014 we had a cross country race. Unfortunately we didn’t win but we all tried are hardest. It was fun but very hard work as it was a year 6 and 7 race. It was so boggy and muddy that it was like running through a swamp. For the boys it was 2.8 kilometres but for the girls it was 2.5 kilometres! We all got very muddy and we all enjoyed it. Fortunately I didn’t fall over but lots of people did. Somehow Oliver M came 51^st leaving the rest of us behind. I loved it and can’t wait for the next one.

By Sean

Cross country at kings park!

On Thursday the 16th of January 2014 the St Mary cross country team went to Kings Parks. We did the muddiest the hardest cross country race in the world! The race we did was combined in year 7 & 6. The race was 2.8km for the boys and the girls did 2.5km! at the start of the race everyone was pushing to the front we all wanted to win! The race started and Oliver Martin zoomed off leaving Oliver C, Sean, Karl and Tommy trailing at the end of the mob! Unfortunately about 5 minutes into the race Karl fell into a big pile of mud. Seconds later he was back up and ready to win at the end of the race Oliver M came 51^st!

By Oliver

KS2 Blog#14

Hello and welcome to the 14th Ks2 Blog.

Work done on a voluntary basis by busy children-no checking or editing by me.

Over to the girls…

My Taylor Swift concert at the 02 arena!

On Saturday 2^nd of February 2014 I went to a Taylor swift concert at the 02 arena in London. I had a great time. I waited 1 hour to see the vamps, the act that came on before Taylor swift.  They came on and they were awesome. They played 4 songs.

After the vamps the lights turned off and suddenly I saw a shadow of Taylor swift. Then she started singing some of her amazing songs. Such as: 22, never getting back together, love story, stay stay stay and many more. Altogether I was there for 3 hours. At one point I was 3 m away from Taylor Swift. She has done 79 tours all together. As a guest she invited Ed Sheeran to sing one of his songs I loved it. It was 10.30 by the time it finished.   

By EMILY in 6W.

St. Edward’s Sports Day

Yesterday (30/01/2014) me, Molly and others went to St. Edward’s for a sports day. The travel was tiring but it was worth the walk. The kids from St. Edward’s were friendly and jokey and all the games they came up with were really fun. We played games such as Javelin Throw and Cops ‘n’ Robbers for 2 minutes. Finally, after all the fun and games, we thanked the St. Edward’s students for the day and went back to school… for a lovely lunch.

Written by Lizzie D

Today on the 30^th January 2014 me and Lizzy and a few other people went to St Edwards for a sports day. We played lots of games like cops and robbers that is where you have a ball and you bounce it and the the cops try and get it. We also did lots more around the hall like skipping for 1 to 2 minutes and also backwards that was harder than skipping forward.

By Molly

KS2 Blog #13

Hello and welcome to the 13th KS2 Blog (work not edited or amended).

  

Anaerobic Digestion

On the 24^th of January ’14 the schoolchildren of St Mary’s RC CA Primary School got invited to visit an anaerobic digester (A food disposal company) to learn about micro-organisms. As we got to this place, everyone’s nose was being tightened by their hands because of the stench.

We met two people named Philip, who was Portuguese, and Antonio, who was Brazilian. Luckily enough, they could both speak good English. This industrial estate is a highly top secret disposal waste company located in Piddlehinton, Dorchester.

We explored the facility and learned about how it all works, what happens if something went wrong and other interesting facts.  Everyone covered up their noses, but luckily   we could still hear all the great facts.

Apart from the horribly smelly stench, we had a FANTASTIC day at the anaerobic digester. Unfortunately, everybody smelled in the minibus so on the way back it ABSOLUTELY STANK!!!

Also this week, the first ever sports blog from our Y6 Cross Country girls…thanks to Mr. MacCallister for organising all this…

CROSS COUNTRY

Freezing cold, ready to go! our race came round quick. Are nerves took over our body; soon we were at the race line waiting for the whistle to blow. BEEP! The whistle had been blown, my tummy had turned like a rolly polly.I was off!!!Trapcing through loads of muddy puddles, I started to loose my breath.After a while I got back on track wanting to win. At last I could see the finish line it became closer and closer as I sprinted as fast as I could.

A sigh of relief came over me,

IHAD FINISHED MY RACE!!!!!

By Isabel and Samantha

KS2 Blog #12

Hello and welcome to the 12th KS2 Blog.

This week saw a visit from the outreach workers at Monkey World.

http://www.monkeyworld.org/

They visited Y4 who then volunteered to give up their own time to write the Blog below.

(This work is not edited/checked/amended by me-it is all completed in snatched times of a busy day). Thanks to the Y4 children who volunteered to help with this.

Yesterday a visitor came from monkey world and that visitors name was Rebeca she taught us about the monkeys and there habit and where they came from. Their   habit is the rainforest and they need to be saved that is why they have monkey world to save them and   there   home. I can tell you why they need to be rescued it is because a lot of people are chopping down trees and they live in those trees the people that are chopping down trees are digging in the grounds looking for diamonds, gems, gold ,silver, tin and copper which are really rear.

Thank you for listening to this.

By Nyah.

We had an amazing time listening to the person from Monkey world. She said that it first started up by a man called Jim. The first monkey they found was called Amy she was a Chimpanzee. She is still at the park she is 30. She came in at the age of 3. Now they have about 250 monkeys and around 18 different types. They have made climbing frames like tree made of old telephone poles. Because they make nests in trees when there in the wild they made baskets made of old fireman hoses. Monkeys normally live on the equator they do not like the cold.

By Aiden

Yesturday, We had a talk about on “MONKEY WORLD”.

It was a visitor J…… Her name was Rebeca. She talked about the monkeys and where monkeys live.

She was tall and she knew all the kinds of monkeys!.

Then, she talked about the owner of “Monkey World” the owner was called Jim.

She talked about…. Well, a lot of things acculey

Thanks for your time!

By Joe

KS2 Blog #11

Hello and welcome to the 11th KS2 blog. Totally taken over by Molly and Uche!

Peter Pan

Today (15^th January 2014) we had some visitors come in show us a production of Peter Pan. Their production name is called the ‘M & M production’. Every year they come along to show us a theatrical kind of a movie. After the production me and Molly went behind the scenes to ask an interview of Peter pan (Tom)

1. How long have you done this job for?

      3 years. Peter Pan is my last show

2. What is the best show you’ve done?

      All of them for particular reasons

3. Do you like your job?

        I love my job so much

4. How hard is it to work as a team?

        It’s not hard as long as you listen and concentrate

5. Who makes your costumes?

         These people called Helen, Rachel and Steven

6. Who picks the costumes?

           Mitchell and Maggie the owners of the company. There is a variety then they narrow it down to 1 costume.

7. Where do you practice?

             We have 2 weeks to practice and we go to a place called Ayr, Scotland

8. How long do you practice for?

               We practice from 7:00am till 10:pm

9. Have you been to any other schools in Poole?

                 Yes, but 3 years ago 

10. Was our school great at responding and listening?

                 Yes, your school was very LOUD and fun!!

This man was really kind and gave up his time to talk to us. Did you like the show? Comment below!!

By Uche and Molly  

 

KS2 Blog #10

Hello and welcome to the tenth Key Stage 2 Blog. All work completed by children who have given up their own free time.  Not checked, edited or amended in any way:

Historical visit Simon Stone:

Firstly we saw some interesting maps and pictures of ancient Greece then we learned the story of the monster minator. Once we had done that we got into groups and did a seen on the giant monster that killed the king’s sun. Later six people dressed up like solders to guard the gates of the king. Every one dressed up as the people from ancient Greece to fill the seen. It was so exciting !

By Jo.

Tuesday the 26^th November 2013

Today Simon Stone came in to talk about ancient Greece.

We had to dress up and do freeze frames, me and Lizzy did extremely good poses while Simon Stone was telling us what to do next and how to do it.

 

As the Athens had killed the terrible minator, the Spartan king was infuriated so he decided to declare war…

The people of Athens had luckily saved the lives of the messengers because they had sent them a golden box full of pearls and jewellery.

Cronus was a very powerful king of Troy. However, he ate all of his sons when they were being born.

We also found out about when Zeus was trying to name a small town but his problem was that Athena and Poseidon both wanted to name the town after them but it was so hard for Zeus to choice because if he gave it to Poseidon Athena the goddess of war and wisdom would do whatever she could think of  

 

And if he gave it to Athena then Poseidon would be upset what could  he do then he had an idea what if they both had to give the city something and the winner got to name the city after themselves. Poseidon gave the town salt which they could use for cooking and preserve stuff. Athena gave the town olives which they use for olive oil, tooth paste and lots more Zeus had another problem they are both useful   in the end he chose Athena to name the city after herself and that is how Athens got its name.

By Kiara.

KS2 Blog#9

Hello and welcome to the ninth KS2 blog.

Hot off the press-all work done by volunteers in 10 minutes flat-no helping, editing or amending.  Over to the girls for Science Exhibition Day.

A massive well done to Mrs. Mills for organising this at such a busy time of year:

(Click on a photo to enlarge it).

Wow, today has been so hectic. Today year 6 put on a science exhibition and we had so many people come in. Our topic this term in science was the human body and we put on an exhibition for the parents and children of year 3 to see our home-learning projects and work we did in a team at school.

I was in a group with Nichelle and Poppy and we took people’s pulse rate after running and doing a warm-up. We had lots of people come in and after they did there exercise we awarded them with a glass of water and a biscuit, also whoever was the fittest got a certificate. When we were about half way through the exhibition we got a surprise visit from the year 3 pupils who thought they would come and have a look. We started to take out six people at a time but then more and more people wanted to come and we ended up with 15 at a time! After that, we ran out of biscuits (we had two packs) but luckily I had some stickers to give out.

Overall I had an amazing afternoon with the exhibition and I hope we can do it again. I really enjoyed showing my work off to the parents and year 3’s. I think it is a very good idea and more year groups should do it.

By Kitty CC (Year 6)

Fantastic! That’s what it was the Year6 team put on an exhibition to show how well they can work together and shows of our science skills! the whole year got into groups and organise loads of different games and experiments.

Parents and year three’s said ‘’I enjoyed the different types of activities it was all very lively and entertaining-Such Fun. Year three pupils said ‘’it was really fun all the activities were great.

’The year 6 team said that they really enjoyed having a free reign a really want to do it again. Who wouldn’t?

A fun experience I should say and year 6 would say that too. The Games were amazing there were Feely boxes, Pulse experiments, pin the bone on the Skeleton and Quizzes’ think it’s fair to say it was great fun from the whole of year 6.

By Ella  6W

Wow   today has been so amazing at our year 6 science exabishion

There were so many activity’s like a feely box, pulse rate , build the body and so much more  also we had year 3 and so many parents visit to day . Me , Anne- Marie, Kiara and Georgia ran a stall with a feely box and we had allot of  visitors . The children and adults’ all did well touching the things in the mystery box but I think that the children were much better. We left a comment paper and we had so many uplifting comments.

I have to say that today was extremely good and brilliant for all of us and the year 6 staff have been so supportive with our exabishion  and we are all so grateful.

We all hope that we can show our projects again as an exabishion because we all enjoyed today and we would love to do it again!

By Kaitlyn TS       (6w)

KS2 Blog#8

All work written by children who have given up their free time. No editing or amendment from adults:

O.T.T.T!!!

(Our Team Tudor Trip)

On Friday the 29th November, Team Tudor, (us), went on a trip with Mrs. Copley and Mr. Howard to Poole quay. We went around Scaplens Court and Poole museum to get more information about Tudors and what happened in the 15^th century in Poole.

Did you know that there’s a pub in Poole quay called The Kings Head which is based in Tudor times and still running from then!

We also visited the Poole History Museum and met some lovely ladies who we asked terrific Tudor questions to.

They showed us an artistic drawing of ye old Poole in Tudor times we examined it carefully and noticed that the water was closer to the land than we realised !!

After Poole Museum it was time to leave ( owwwh) L. So together we walked back to the mini-bus and drove back to school.

Thank you Mr .Howard