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Friday 27th June

June 27, 2014/in Mr Spong's Blog/by sadleir2021

Our links with Freman College were well used this week as our Year 8’s went for a visit on Monday and some of their (formerly our) Year 10’s came to us for their Work Experience Week.  For both the feedback has been good and all involved seemed to have had a good time.

Our Year 6’s have been busy doing sport this week, Wednesday saw the High 5 netball team and the boys’ kwik cricket teams taking part in their respective county finals.  Unfortunately neither won but both played superbly with the boys making the semi-finals and the net-ballers narrowly losing to the eventual winners.  There is a more detailed report from Mr Morgan in a separate post.  High 5 netballAlso in sport the Year 7 cricket team came second in their match with Edwinstree, Robbie P top scoring, Lewis W taking a wicket and Emma L bowling very well.

Today was a non-uniform day where the children got to wear a country’s colours whilst making a donation to SoccerAid.  Assembly this morning was certainly a colourful and creative affair – Fellaini wigs – and each tutor group was assigned a country who had made it through to the last 16, why not ask your children who their country is.  The winning country will earn their tutor group a prize.

Congratulations to Lucy A (7JOB) on receiving her Diamond Merit certificate in this morning’s assembly, she certainly has been working tremendously proud and is to be congratulated on her efforts.

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Friday 13th June

June 16, 2014/in Mr Spong's Blog/by sadleir2021

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside….the only problem being I wasn’t chosen to go with Year 5 today as they set off early on their Geography trip to Clacton.  Bucket and Spades were replaced by clipboard and pencil as the children will be working on their coastal studies.  More next week upon their return.

Elsewhere this week there have been the beginnings of two major things: the World Cup in Brazil; and the introduction of a new behaviour management system in school.  Perhaps you might have heard children talking about C1’s and C3’s.  In essence nothing is really changing, our expectations are still the same and in both the previous Ofsted reports the children’s behaviour has been positively commented on – so why change?  As my Grandma always says ‘Your good can always be better, and your better can be best’ so as part of our policy review I involved the School Council to look at a system that is clearer and more consistent for both children and staff as well as helping to strengthen the pupil/teacher relationship.  The result of this is the phasing out of the 6 Stage Behaviour Plan and the introduction of the Consequences Ladder. This was launched in assembly on Wednesday and we will be trialling the system for the remainder of this term, ironing out any kinks ready for September.

This week’s sports round-up starts last weekend at the Herts Schools Athletics Track and Field Championships where Katie L from Year 7 came in 3rd in both the 200m and the 800m, an amazing achievement.  Rounders victories over Edwinstree were achieved by the Year 5 and 6 girls teams respectively.

Curriculum wise my focus has been music this week and Miss Mason has been hard at work, not only in lesson time but in supporting the children preparing for the House Music Competition next week.  Year 5 have been singing and developing their vocal skills by looking at songs from around the world.  Year 6 have been working on the recorder – composing their own group pieces and writing them down using correct notation.  Year 7 are working in groups developing lyrics for their own songs.  Year 8 have been developing their keyboard skills, using popular riffs and chords, extending their use of right and left hand.

Another new regular feature for the Blog will be a Science Club report, this week’s is written by Cameron A and Joshua G in Year 6, ‘Firstly Mrs Bingham showed us some brilliant cell models that previous Year 6’s had made.  Then we talked about the Big Bang Eastern Science Fair Trip  to Duxford and finally we looked at pictures from last years trip.’

Gardening club have been harvesting strawberries and radishes this week – they were very tasty!!

Today’s assembly by Mr Palmen was all about the World Cup, how it actually affects life in Brazil and why some people have been protesting (and not just over the award of that penalty last night!) against it.  Even having visited shanty towns myself in various countries it is difficult to convey to our children just what life there is like and how lucky they are (even as I type this I can hear my own parents’ voices repeating that very phrase to me).  Most of the children’s eyes lit up at the thought of only having to go to school for four years but the harsh reality of life beyond those years is something they can’t quite comprehend and why people all over the world campaign to get better education for their children.  To quote a former pupil of mine in a piece of homework he did about what was the point of school,  ‘At first I thought this would be easy – there is no point. However, when I looked into it, I found that if you didn’t have school it would ruin your life.  It might seem like it is ruining your life now but it is not all for the worse…school is to help you make the most of your life!’

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Friday 6th June

June 6, 2014/in Mr Spong's Blog/by sadleir2021

Today is Ralph Sadleir’s birthday, well…sort of.  Never-the-less we celebrate it with vigour and enthusiasm, with our picnic lunch and traditional sports day afternoon.  It was my first experience of this momentous day in the school calendar and it is fair to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it – in no small part thanks to the glorious weather that had been prayed for by Mr Morgan and Miss Bickerstaff all week!!

The day started with M5’s assembly, which told us about the life of Ralph Sadleir, more of which can be found on the website.  Mrs Hinton also showed some pictures of places the Year 7’s will recognise from their France Trip that were of particular importance today – the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Speaking of anniversaries – this week saw that of the ‘ball of the century’ bowled by Shane Warne, which leads us nicely onto the result from the Year 6 District Kwik Cricket Tournament.  Both teams won all their matches and we now advance to the County round of the tournament.  Not to be outdone on the sporting front, the Year 7 and 8 girls’ rounders teams won their respective matches against St Mary’s.

And so to the traditional sports day – the tension, the drama, the excitement were there for all to see as the children scoffed down their picnic lunches, whose nutritional value had been carefully calculated by Mr Rowe and the Ralphies team to enable peak performance in the afternoon activities.  Each Tutor or Teaching Group had been assigned a Commonwealth country earlier in the week and the children proudly displayed the flags, badges or banners that they had made.  The competition was fierce but the support and sportsmanship equally so.

M5 Winners A6 Winners Pasteur WinnersWaterloo WinnersThe winners:

 

 

M5 – Samoa

 

 

 

 

A6 – Ghana

 

 

 

 

 

Pasteur – Samoa

 

 

 

 

 

Waterloo – Singapore

 

 

 

 

It was a great end to the week and in the immortal words of our eponymous Tudor gent ‘be proud of your achievements but do not let them define you, if you came and tried then you are a winner!!!’

Have a great weekend.

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