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The AxholmeAllianceWelcome to the third edition of the Axholme Alliance newspaper. This

newspaper is a collaboration of seven primary schools, under the umbrella of The Axholme Academy, Crowle. The schools, Gunness & Burringham, Althorpe & Keadby, Reedness, St Norbert’s, Swinefleet,

Luddington & Garthorpe and Crowle all came together at the University of Lincoln’s School of Journalism to produce this paper. The newspa-per, is produced in partnership with The Axholme Academy, University of Lincoln School of Journalism (LSJ) & Mortons Print, Lincolnshire’s only independent newspaper printer. April 2015. For more information

visit www.theschoolnewspaper.co.uk

Pupil power gets paper to the press

Althorpe and Keadby Primary School

Pages 2 - 5

Crowle Primary

AcademyPages 6 - 9

Gunness and Burringham

Primary School

Pages 10-13

Luddington & Garthorpe Primary School

Pages 14 - 17

Reedness Primary School

Pages 18 - 21

St Norbert’s Catholic Primary

Academy Pages 22-25

Swinefleet Primary School

Pages 26-29

Contents

Althorpe and Keadby Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

The Great Keadby Bake OffBy William Major

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On Friday 13th March 2015 Althorpe and Keadby Primary School created a Great Keadby Bake Off for Red Nose Day. From Nursery, all the way up to Class Six, pupils at our school baked a variety of cakes and buns.

Nursery, Reception, Year Two and Year Three baked cupcakes, Year Four and Year Six baked a mixture of cakes and buns. Finally, Year Five baked five different cakes. Every single class decorated their cakes differently, some included: cake faces, circus buns and buns with book characters on the top.

Class Six created their cakes and cupcakes from a large Victoria sponge cake. We split the cake into four quarters and then in our house teams we decorated the cakes. Blue team’s cake was decorated with a kaleidoscope of different coloured icing and a range of sweets, including: strawberry shoelaces, marshmallows, white chocolate chips, jelly tots and many more.

On Friday afternoon some of the school governors (Mrs Russell and Mrs Bush) judged all of the cakes and cupcakes that were created by the pupils at our school. In third place were the Greens in Year Six, who won £15 for their class; in second place was Year Four who won £30 for their class and in first place was Nursery who won £50.

I asked Cavan W in Year Six what he enjoyed about the Great Keadby Bake Off and he replied, “I enjoyed creating and designing the Green team’s cake.”

I also asked Natalia B what she enjoyed about the Great Keadby Bake Off and she

responded with, “I enjoyed baking the delicious chocolate cake with the Red team.”

Red Nose Day is a charity organisation that is popular all over Great Britain. It is a day when the generous public give money to charities to help poor people in Africa. When Red Nose Day has ended all of the money that has been raised, will go to projects in Africa and the UK.

The overall amount of money that was raised by the public this Red Nose Day was £78,082,988. Our school are proud donators as we raised a large amount of money for Red Nose Day.

The circus has come to town

On the 20th March some professional circus performers came to visit our school to demonstrate their fantastic skills to Year One and Year Two, as part of their topic work. During the day they learnt to juggle, balance a feather and hula hoop. Parents had the chance to come in and listen to what the children had been learning. The Year One and Year Two pupils showed off their brilliant skills and had a great time.

There was also a photo booth where

On Friday 27th March, the whole school, from Nursery to Y6, took part in the decorated egg competition as part of our Easter celebrations. All of the eggs were decorated to a very high standard using a range of materials. Mrs Dunn, one of the judges, said it was very difficult to pick a winner from each class.

Harvey, a Y3 pupil said, “I created my scene using twigs from my front garden, small plastic animals, purple cloth and plenty of super glue!”

Decorated Egg Competition

By Zoe Whitehead & Natalia Broadbent

By William Major

Keadby’s Greatest!

By William Major

On the 13th February 2015, Althorpe and Keadby Primary had one of their Respect, Excellence and Friendship assemblies. These assemblies were introduced as part of the 2012 Olympics, which were held in London. As a school, we decided to continue celebrating some of the excellent qualities of our students. At the special assembly, instead of awarding pupils with certificates we award them with medals. The year groups that get the awards are Reception, all the way up to Year Six.

Each term we get a special visitor to come and present the awards, In the past the awards were presented by James No-ble (he ran marathons in the desert), Alan Rayment (paralympian), Nathan Togan (an athlete from St Lawrence Academy who is training to be a bobsleigh competi-tor) and many others. Last term we had two footballers from Scunthorpe United who came to present the awards.

Last term 18 children got presented with the medals.

Reception: Sophie, Mia and MadisonYear One: Olivia (x2) and ColeYear Two: Madison and Emily (x2)Year Three: Neo, Mia and LexiYear Four: Lillian and Nicole (x2)Year Five: Bailey, Keira and LewisYear Six: Zoe, William and Ellie

Everybody had a smile on their face at the end of the day.

Eggcellent designs!

Year R’s Red Nose Day cake

parents could dress up with their children and have their photograph taken. They looked really funny!

As part of their homework throughout the term, the children had drawn detailed circus pictures and made some brilliant models. They also had fun designing and building circus tents.

We asked Mason W in Y2 what he en-joyed most about his topic. He replied,

“I enjoyed showing our parents what we have been doing in class.”

We also asked Louie B about it. He smiled and said, “I really enjoyed all the writing we did about the circus.”

We can clearly see that the Year One and Year Two pupils thoroughly enjoyed this topic. The children in F2 and Nursery are looking forward to studying the circus when they are older.


Meet the Busy BeesBy Nathan Ellor

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At Althorpe and Keadby Primary school we have many jobs such as Librarians, Botanist, Assembly Assistant and Peer Specialists that play different roles.

They got their jobs by writing an applica-tion form containing why they should have the job. Peer Specialists were given their tops and jumpers late last year. The colours of our jumpers are based on the peers’ job: Reading Peer Specialists wear green, Writ-ing Peer Specialists wear red and Maths Peer Specialists wear blue.

Peer Specialists have the most important job in the school. There are three types of Peer Specialists. The Reading Peer Special-ists help out Y4 and Y1/2 with their reading skills and to pronounce words correctly. The Maths Peer Specialists help out in Year 4 with their times tables and division skills. The Writing Peer Specialists help out in Year 3 and Year 1 with their handwriting and spelling skills.

Our jobs are one of the most important things in the school.

Librarians have to stay in at dinner time to empty the red box where we put our books that we are changing in the library

and clean the shelves. Whenever the library needs new books

the Librarians go to buy the new books, we have a purple suggestions box and slips of paper which pupils write on to tell us what books to buy.

Reading Peer Specialist Alex G says, “I have been privileged to help improve year 4’s reading skills.”

The Botanist has the job of watering the plants in the class room and taking care of them to make sure they do not die or wither. Our Botanist is Charlie he does an excellent job of watering the plants. He makes sure that the plants do not die or wither his job is very important.

The Assembly Assistants have the re-sponsibility to set up the hall at 10 o’clock in the morning and put everything away when it ends. There are also other jobs to do with assembly. There are the people that count the team points on a Friday.

Students go ExploringOn Thursday 5th March 48 pupils went to Axholme Academy for an ori-enteering competition. Orienteering is a sport where you have a map to find such things as shapes, numbers or let-ters and if they’re numbers you have to add them up. If you have shapes then you will need to put them in or-der to make a word.

William M, who was at the event said, “It is a heart pumping event and brings out your map skills.”

Another eye witness Zoe W has quoted:

“I don’t like working independently, but in a team working together, so I like this sport a lot.”

The most successful pupils from our school were Tyler A and Cavan W who came in 7th. The second most success-ful was Alex G and William M who came in 14th place. St Norberts came 1st and 2nd place, also Crowle Primary came 3rd place.

Sporty Day OutOn Wednesday 11th March two wom-en called Natasha and Helena came to Althorpe and Keadby Primary School from Get Going. Get Going is an or-ganisation that helps people that don’t necessarily like doing sport to get ac-tive. They came to help the Sports Ambassadors with their leadership, communication, equipment, officiat-ing and planning. The Sports Ambas-sadors were Alexander G, William M, Zoe W and Aleisha S, also some others joined them.

One of the ambassadors have quoted: “It was a great privilege to be an ambassador and was a great experience.”

They put us into groups of three or four

and we were given a game card. We took it in turns to set up the games and then we had to explain the rules so the other groups would know how to play it. We had a few arguments, but the rest of it was good. We all enjoyed it though because we got to spend the day out of class.

We thoroughly enjoyed the day with the Get Going organisation and our school hope we can participate in more activities with these people in the future.

Easter ParadeOn Friday 27th March 2015, the whole school took part in the annual ‘Easter Bonnet’ competition. Pupils had to de-sign and make an Easter bonnet. Each bonnet was unique in many ways; the materials most commonly used were: feathers, ribbons, cardboard and small plastic animals.

Lillian (Y4) said, “I felt a bit embarrassed when I was on stage because everyone else’s bonnets were small and mine was huge!”

Olivia (Y1) said, “I felt very happy when it was announced I had won 1st prize. I was feeling proud. Also, my design was shaped like a large carrot; it was hard to balance on my head.”

The results were:

Reception – 1st Molly, 2nd Halle, 3rd So-phie.

Year One – 1st Olivia, 2nd Katie, 3rd Levi

Year Two – 1st Emily, 2nd Lucy, 3rd Warren

Year Three – 1st Bailey, 2nd Freddie, 3rd Harry

Year Four – 1st Lillian, 2nd Maisie, 3rd Harrison

Year Five – 1st Kasey, 2nd Harry, 3rd Mohammad

Year Six – 1st Lucas, 2nd Joe, 3rd Owen

Doncaster Racecourse

By Alexander Goodwin



The Year 5 pupils of Althorpe and Keadby went to Doncaster Racecourse to do maths activities and watch the horses on the 5th February 2015.

The Year 5s rode on a mechanical horse at the racecourse and went in a sauna. They also measured the height of the horse jumps. They calculated the perime-ter of the parade ring with a trundle wheel and the pupils raced using a photo finish at the end of the furlong. The children weighed themselves in stones and pounds (imperial measures) if they chose to.

They prepared themselves with some spare shoes, a waterproof coat and a packed lunch.

I asked Bailey S what was the best part of the day and he said, “At the end of the day we got to ride a wooden horse and it was fun.”

They all had a great time and Year 4 can’t wait to go next year.

Above: two year six pupils helping in the library.

By Nathan Ellor


Successful Swimming

By Zoe Whitehead

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On Thursday 12th March 2015, twelve pupils from Althorpe and Keadby Primary went to a school swimming gala at Riddings swimming pool with Mrs Tate our Head teacher, Mrs Ap-pleyard the Year 2 teacher and Miss Corbin. These are the pupils that took part: Zoe W, Natalia B, Nicole B, Lucy P, Willow S, Millie A, Kasey D, Ca-van W, Bailey S, Joe B, Vinnie B and Cyrus H.

This was a junior event and Zoe got in the final in both of her races - 25m back-stroke and 25m breaststroke. Bailey got in the final in one of his races - 25m front crawl. Natalia got in the final in her race - 25m front crawl. The relays were also very good, over all we came seventh out of eleven schools and two schools drew.

I asked Natalia how she felt when she went for her race she replied, “I was really scared but very excited!”

I also asked Cavan what he enjoyed about it and he said, “I enjoyed cheering people on!”

On a Thursday after school all the pu-pils get a chance to have funded swimming lessons. Each term a group of about forty pupils from Year 1 to Year 6 travel to Rid-dings pool to learn basic swimming skills and are split into groups depending on their ability.

We hope more people will take part in the swimming gala next year and be as successful.

At Althorpe and Keadby Primary school we took part in World Book Day on Thursday the 5th March. The whole school took part dressing up as different and interesting book char-acters such as Mary Poppins, Wendy, Peter Pan, Elsa and Anna from Fro-zen and Tinkerbelle. The teachers dressed up as Pirates, Snow White, Spyro, Captain Hook and Noddy.

On World Book Day the work that we did was based on Peter Pan so we drew a picture, wrote a poem or a story. These will be used to create classroom displays for everyone to enjoy.

When I asked Zoe W what she liked

the most about World Book Day she replied “I liked dressing up as Tinkerbelle the most.”

When I asked Mrs Bot-tamley what was she liked the most about World Book Day she replied, “Seeing everyone in their amazing costumes especially the Lego man in Year 4.”

We hope that we can do it next year too and more people can dress up.

World Book Day FunBy Natalia Broadbent

Having Quick Sticks fun!

On Friday 6th March during school six pupils from Althorpe and Keadby Primary School took part in a hockey tournament at Brumby Hall. These are the pupils that got chosen in our P.E lesson: Zoe W, William M, Kasey D, Charlie B, Jessica R and Tyler A, also Mr Conner who took us. When we arrived at the tournament we got a map of which pitch we were on and then did some warm ups and stretch-es. When all the schools were there we began our first match. We played four matches altogether. Over all we came eighth out of twelve schools.

I asked William what he liked about the day he said, “I enjoyed playing differ-ent schools.”

I also asked Kasey what she liked about it and she said, “I liked being the only Year five who got chosen and the experience of representing the school.”

Our school enjoys taking part in sport-ing activities and we hope to take part in many more.

By Zoe Whitehead

Keadby has Danceathon for Charity

By Natalia Broadbent

At Althorpe and Keadby Primary School we had a Danceathon in the school hall on Friday the 13th Febru-ary.

If you wanted to take part in the event you took home a sponsor sheet and tried to get as many sponsors as you could to raise money to buy new things for school such as toys for the play leader shed to play with at playtime.

At the Danceathon we enjoyed fun par-ty games, dancing and had lots of sweets and drinks. In total pupils danced non-stop for forty five minutes and overall we raised £659.32.

When I asked Cavan what he liked do-ing most he replied, “The dancing was my favourite.”

We all hope we can do this next year to raise even more money.

The Best Trip EverOn November 21st to the 23rd the vast majority of pupils from Althorpe and Keadby Primary School in Year 5 and 6 went to a place called Robin-wood in Todmorden, Lancashire.

Going to Robinwood was a sensational time with skills and thrills involved. At the start of the activities a few people were scared but they conquered their fears and did really well.

The activities included the Mighty Gi-ant Swing which everyone enjoyed once they got going, the zip wire which was great fun, also there were challenges in-cluding the Dungeon of Doom which gave a few people big shocks because it was dark and scary. There was also the Crate

Challenge which improved your teamwork skills, the Knight’s Quest which was very puzzling, and there was the Piranha Pool which was frightening but all groups man-aged to complete it successfully. There was also caving, a nightline where we had to go round a course blindfolded, Archery which everyone was highly skilled at, the dreaded trapeze which was a big jump but the vast majority made it safely (even the teachers joined in) and finally there was an adventure playground.

The food was nice every time. We had spaghetti Bolognese, and pizza. I asked Alex G how the food was and he replied, “the food was delicious and there was a different meal every day so it was a wide selection.” We brought some money be-cause on the final day there was a tuck shop that they arranged with cheap pric-es.

We had dormitories for boys and girls, there was an average of 7 in a room and everyone had a giggle. I asked Aliesha S how it was overall and she said, “It was fun and a great experience.”

Overall we had a great time and every-one would love to go again.

By Cavan Waite

Above: Year 4 on World Book Day


Keadby Kids put Through their Paces!By Aleisha Smith

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SmileysThe smiley chart is Althorpe and Kead-by Primary School’s reward system.

The smileys came into our school before Christmas and we swapped our merits for them. The merits were similar to smileys but they were stickers we put in the back of our blue books. The teachers give out smi-leys if we are good, get on with our work, do good work and many more reasons. When we get 100 smileys we get treats like mov-ies, games and sweets! We also get special bronze, silver and gold stickers every 100 smileys we get. This term started in Jan-uary 2015, and a few pupils have 100 al-ready.

Children at this school love to use the smiley chart to get 100 smileys and hope to reach that amount every term.

On Friday 13th March some lucky Year 3 and 4 pupils got to travel to The Axholme Academy to take part in an Athletics competition.

They took part in field events: Speed bounce (where you jump from one side to another), five strides (where you take five huge steps and see how far you can get) and chest pass (it’s where you have a ball,

hold it up to your chest then throw it as far as you can).

They also did some running races and one child from our team won all of their races, (hurdle relays, relay races and sprint running.) The team came third but sadly didn’t make it into the Humberside Games, however we were still proud of them.

We spoke to two children, one from Year 3 and one from Year 4, their names were Mia M and Cyrus H. Mia said, “When we found out that we had come third we were

all really happy but a little disappointed as we knew that we didn’t make it into the Humberside Games.”

Cyrus said, “When our school was called out for third place I was really ex-cited but we knew we needed a second or a first place to be in the Humberside Games, but it was fun.”

Next year we will have a new set of Year 3 and 4 pupils. They will all be hop-ing that they will be chosen to take part in the competition and will hope to gain their place in the Humberside Games.

On the 12th March some Althorpe and Keadby pupils took part in a choral competition at the Speech and Drama festival but, throughout the rest of the week we took part in the solo competition.

The choral happened at a place called The House, the solo took part in Frod-

ingham Hall. A solo competition is where one child or adult goes onto a stage and does a performance of any kind. A choral competition is where a group of people perform as a group.

There were a lot of people involved but the main prize winners were: Kai M (Y3) came first, Emily N (Y3) came second, and Olivia R (Y3) and Aleisha S (Y6) came third.

Kai said, “I was shocked when I found out that I had come first. I wasn’t expect-ing a place, I was very happy.” Kai then went onto another competition to try and get the overall winner but he didn’t succeed.

Emily said, “I felt very surprised when I came second because I thought I was going to get third. I was very pleased.”

Olivia said, “I didn’t think I was go-ing to come third but I was very excited when I did.”

The poems that the solos performed were The Grey Horse, Fireworks, Sum-mer Thoughts and The Lonely Dragon.

The Choral poems were called The Cow in the Storm (by Richard Edwards) and Holiday To Remember (by Javace Finn). The choral group did very well as we got a certificate of merit and we came away with second place. The teachers that took us were very proud of us and we were too.

All the pupils at Althorpe and Keadby School are very excited to see if they will be chosen to take part in this fun event next year and maybe take home first prize.

Running at GoxhillBy Aleisha Smith

On the 11th March some Year 3/4/5 and 6 pupils went to do a run at Gox-hill.

The total run was 1180 metres; the team of girls came fifth and the team of boys came first, but our whole team came third overall. We spoke to two children that ran. Their names were Luke M and Megan L.

Luke said, “When we found out that we had come third we were all really happy as it was a really hard run.”

Megan said, “When we were told that we were placed third we were all so happy be-cause the run was really hard to complete but no one gave up and we all ran to the finish.”

We were really proud of our team when they came home with third. They were very happy with their place and went back to school pleased with their work.

The places that we were most proud of were Cavan W who was the first boy home in sixth place and Harry B who came eighth, for the girls it was Annalise M who came twelfth.

The school are hoping to do this again and all pupils are excited to see if they will be chosen to represent their school.

By Aleisha Smith

Singing with the stars

A Poem to RememberBy Tomas Soles

On the 12th March 2015, the whole school from Nursery to Year 6 were working out calculations because of World Maths Day. Everyone was working out puzzles linked to the new Nursery extension. Key Stage 1 were working on tessellating patterns, which is a pattern of shapes which fit perfectly to-gether and also weighing activities. Key Stage 2 were working on costs, perimeter and area as well as measuring activities.

We also buried a time capsule under the nursery extension. Every class donated to the time capsule. The things that were put in in-cluded: a jumper, a smiley, some money, a handwriting book, a pen and pencil, a photo of each class, a minion and some toys. Each class went out to have a look at the build and every class wrote a report about what life was like as a child in 2015.

We hope that in the future the capsule will be dug up and give people an interesting incite to 2015.

World Maths Day All Adds Up!By Cavan Waite

Crowle Primary Academy: Axholme Alliance April 2015

Horrifying school childrenBy Katie Whittington and Alex Ogle

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Crowle Primary Academy hosted a (very scary) school dress up day on October 22nd, to celebrate Halloween.

All of the children from Reception to Year 6 gave the teachers a fright by com-ing to school in their Halloween costumes.

Even the teachers joined in with some funny outfits! Mrs Hegarty (Year 6 teacher) dressed as a cat, with cute little pink ears! What would you be?

In the morning Year 6 did some scary maths, they were doing fractions out of

pumpkins, it was very hard. After that they watched a scary movie

about dolls; the children had to base a piece of their own writing on the film they had experienced, adding additional detail.

Eventually the bell made a spooky sound, and year 6 went into the hall, it was all covered in fake cobwebs!

The dinner was: hotdogs, scary pasta and for dessert there was pumpkin shaped ice cream!

Every Friday, for following the Golden time rules, school pupils have 30 minutes of golden time; where everyone can play provided they have not lost any Golden Time. Some of Year 6 went indoors to do some pumpkin colouring, and they could cut

them out to take home. Grace, 11 years old, dressed as a dead

school girl, she said, “It was good to see all the other children in costumes and having a lovely time.”

Jack, 10 years old, said “It was really fascinating and fun. If I had to rate it I

would definitely say 9.5 out of 10!”Lucy, 11, said “The lunch was so nice I

had seconds!”It’s a shame that it was Year 6’s last

Halloween at primary school, because they really enjoyed it, and most of them said they would do it again any day.

The Year of the Sheep has begun and to celebrate the occasion Nursery and Reception had a Chinese themed day full of excitement.

The children started the day out with a very simple activity, they said the register in Chinese; this small activity is very handy for learning languages.

The children went on to dress up as Chinese people; this gave them the feeling that they were really in China. After that joyous activity, the children made four different paper creations: dragons, lions, fans and lanterns. While

they were playing in the sand, small fortunes were lurking - a small strip of paper with a fortune on it.

At lunch time the children tried lots of different Chinese food. Nursery learnt how to use chopsticks, which was a challenge. After that, they got to learn the dragon dance and the lion dance, during this they used the fans they had created to dance with. Near the end the children enjoyed a magical story about Chinese New Year.

New year, new fun for reception

Read all about it! We love booksAt Crowle Primary Academy we’ve gone a little book mad! All over school you can see children reading. We really have been immersed in books recently!

This enthusiasm started with the revamped libraries and was encouraged when the Scholastic Book Fair arrived.

Each class had the opportunity to browse the book fair prior to purchasing a book. Y6 thoroughly enjoyed curling up with the latest Tom Gates, or reading how to move forward in Minecraft with the latest building encyclopaedia.

The book fair also raised lots of money for school, which was used to purchase new books for the school library.

By Daniel Young, Alex Ogle and Katie

Whittington

By Katie Whittington and Alex Ogle

Left: Travis is bitten by the reading bug.Right: A difficult decision for Grace.


YOUNG VOICES 2015

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On Monday 19th January 2015, Eagle Owls went to the Sheffield Motor point Arena to take part in an all children choir called Young Voices.

Young Voices combines the power of singing together as one, with accompaniment from a wide range of musicians and artists, to create an amazing performance. Altogether there were 2363 children attending the event!

We arrived at the arena for around 2pm, rehearsals started straight away. We were introduced to the singers and the conductor (David Lawrence), and then we were singing our hearts out for 3 hours, although it only felt like two minutes.

We then had a quick break for tea before we were straight back into the arena for the main performance. The atmosphere was electric as we searched for our parents in the audience. Then the performance began!

Lucy Spragon sang Unsinkable, Tom Millington sang Radio Gaga, Mic Lowry sang I wish and Heart of Yours. We all danced with Urban Strides, it was amazing to see Andy from the DVD!

We had an amazing day! It was fabulous to be part of a huge choir and sing to a real audience.

By William Howden and Harley Armstrong

Above: Year 6 pupils who took part in the Young Voices 2015 choir.Below: Elisha White, Holly Watson, Connor Gregory and Harry Armitage

Year 6 boys: William Howden and Harley Armstrong.

Crowle Primary visit Wilderspin

As part of our history topic on the Victorians we visited The Wilderspin School in Barton.

We arrived at the school and were instantly in character, as a Victorian school teacher greeted us!

She ran through her expectations for the day and led us into the schoolroom to take part in ‘Eyes to the front’, where we went back in time and experienced a Victorian classroom and a very scary school teacher, she even made the adults jump!

Boys and girls sat separately, boys on the right, girls on the left. We had to squash into our space. With three children on each seat!

Two children arrived late for the morning session; the teacher demanded an explanation for their tardiness. One child had a runaway pig, the other a sick parent.

The teacher showed no sympathy! School in Victorian times was very different to life in our classroom today;

William had to write with his left hand behind his back as he is left handed, left handed children were forced to use their right hand in Victorian times.

In the afternoon we had a work shop based on Victorian photographs, ‘The camera never lies’. We looked at photographs from the Victorian era and then we had some photos taken, just like we were Victorian pupils!


William Howden dressed as a Victorian schoolboy

Boys and Girls dressed as Victorian children

Sports Hall Athletics!

On the 21st November 2014, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from Crowle Primary went to The Axholme Academy to take part in the Sports Hall Athletics.

There’s also an activity called standing long jump where you stand on a line and jump as far as you can.

Mrs Fawcett chose which pupils would take part in each event, although this was tricky as all the participants were great athletes.

It was a tight tournament! Crowle and Winteringham were neck and neck in the last race for the win. Unfortunately we were beaten, but we had our heads up high. We were proud of our effort as each member of the team worked their socks off!

It was an enjoyable morning at The Axholme Academy. We interviewed some of the children who took part in the event.

“I was amazed and also shocked to get into the final.” Morgan said.

“I was proud of myself and the team.” Grace enthused.

1st Winteringham

2nd Crowle Primary

3rd St Norbert’s

4th Luddington

5th Althorpe and Keadby


On 13th November eight people from Crowle Primary Academy went to Alt-horpe and Keadby to play in a Quick Sticks tournament. Other schools were there too like Luddington and Garthor-pe, Althorpe and Keadby, Eastoft and Winteringham.

There were two teams that took part in the event.Crowle team A; Harley, Holly, Jack and Ellie. Crowle B; Morgan, William, Grace and Alex.

Quick Sticks is a game of sport you play with two teams of four battling out for the ball, so they can score, which is similar to hockey. To score you have to be inside the box. If the stick goes above knee height this is a foul and you are only allowed ten minutes of playing time.

Crowle B came first as they won their league. They drew one and won the rest. Crowle A came fourth in their division as they won two, lost one and drew one.

We interviewed some children from the winning team to see how they felt. William said “I’m amazed that we won because we weren’t the favourite team as everyone in our class thought they would win. I also felt I worked hard and played hard.’’ Grace said “Amazing, I felt elated that we won. We worked hard as a team to get to our goal.’’

I felt like a winner that day, I would like to go to another Quick Sticks tournament again with the same team and the same effort!!

Turbo Quick SticksBy Josh Clark and Morgan Cross

Super cinema visit

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In October as part of the Into Film Festival Year 6 went to the Vue cinema in Scunthorpe to watch The Book Thief and Year 4 and Year 5 went to see Rio 2.

Watching the book Thief gave us great ideas for our writing based around WW1.

Shantell said “I cried a bit when Leisel’s friend died.” Holly also cried a bit, actually nearly all the girls cried!

Y6 also went to a WW1 museum in Scunthorpe to get weird and gruesome facts to help with their learning about WW1 in writing and in class.

The museum also has helmets, caps, uniform and a bun-ker with a camera in it. It had all the features and smells like rotten cabbage but it was a good class trip. Harry said “It was a good experience and I learnt loads of facts.”

Jumping Jeans for Genes day

Jeans for Genes day was hosted by Crowle Primary on the 19th of September to help raise funds for research into genetic diseases, such as brittle bone disease.

The pupils had the chance to wear jeans to school and the school asked for a voluntary donation of a £1.00.

We raised a whopping £202.63 which will help people with genetic diseases, so they can buy the medicines and medical equipment they need.

I interviewed some children and asked them, do you like wearing jeans to school?

Isabella said, “She liked it because everyone didn’t look the same.”

Cool coffee morning for Crowle pupils

On Friday the 6th February the children and their families enjoyed popping in to our coffee morning run by the FOCS. The whole school

took part in the Coffee Morning to raise money for the school.

It happened at Crowle Primary School and lots of the parents and staff baked cakes and brought them into school to sell.

All the children went into the hall, one class at a time, to buy cakes and drinks. Lots of parents and grandparents attended the event.

Every year we have a coffee morning so we can raise money for our school.

We raised a magnificent £343.60 which will help to buy lots of new things for the school.

By Jack Crofts

By Connor Gregory

By Ellie Holmes

Right: The film the pupils went to see, The Book Thief, starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and Sophie Nelisse

Above: A delicious aray of buns and cakes.

Golden time is a reward system to encourage all children to keep their golden time.

The most amount of time the pupils are given is 30 minutes. Children that break the golden rules lose 5 minutes and the children that follow the golden rules will keep all their golden time instead of losing it.

If you lose part of your golden time you will go into a class room to make up the time you have lost in class, you must sit in silence.

This takes place every Friday at 2.20 pm-2.50 pm on the KS2 playground.

You can go outside and play with your scooter or bike which you can bring from home.

On your bike you must wear a helmet so if you fall off you don’t hurt yourself.

Golden Time involves two to three teachers and the Year 3 to 6 pupils.

The creator of Golden Time is Jenny Mosley

and she thought that it would be an excellent idea for children to behave better and be nicer to each other.

Glorious Golden TimeLeft: Crowle pupils eating their yummy cakes

By Gary Eccles & Cameron Burton

Darcey, Grace, William and Morgan were picked as our new Sports Ambas-sadors! Sports Ambassadors are people who help with warm-ups, help other children to learn different sports, sort out teams and help teachers with PE.

In September 2014, the Y6 Ambassadors were chosen. Each pupil who wanted to be an Ambassador stood up and said a speech they had prepared. Then, Y6 voted for two people who they thought would be good lead-ers out of the people who wanted to be one. After that Mrs Hegarty (their teacher) and Mrs Fawcett (sports leader) counted up all of the votes and the four pupils with the most votes became Sports Ambassadors. Finally the Ambassadors were announced, they were: Darcey, Grace, William and Morgan.

A few weeks after the Ambassadors were announced they had a training day at The Pods. They went in the car and travelled to The Pods with Mrs Fawcett. Once they got there they were given a t-shirt and a bag of things they needed to be an Ambassador. Then they were split into four groups with six schools in each team - thirty six schools altogether. After that they got given differ-ent games to lead; this was going to show them how to become a better leader. They did fun and games all through the day. Then they all came back together as one big group and were told that, if anyone saw them do-ing amazing things than four schools (out of thirty six schools) would be put forward for the North Lincolnshire Sports Ambassadors. That meant that they would go to Hull Uni-versity to train and to be amazing North Lin-colnshire Sports Ambassadors. After they were given a bag of equipment they would use to lead games at their schools.

A week later in assembly Mrs. Fawcett told them that they had been chosen to go and represent North Lincolnshire as Sports Ambassadors. Morgan felt amazed, brilliant, shocked and relieved because he got chosen to go to Hull. William felt happy and excited because he was finally going to Hull Univer-sity. Grace felt happy and elated because she was excited to see what would happen next. Darcey felt excited and ecstatic because it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, and she’s in it, and she can’t wait to see what is going to happen next.

A few weeks later it was time for them to go to Hull University. The Sports Ambassa-dors went in a car to Epworth Leisure Cen-tre. Then they got on a bus to Hull Universi-ty. They had a long and busy journey telling jokes all the way. Finally they got there and they walked into a big hall. Then a man gave a speech and started talking about how to become a Sports Leader. They met a man called Daniel Caines, he was a 200m race winner. After that they split into two groups and then they went to different rooms. Then a lady started to talk about Sports Leader-ship. They played a few games and did some drawing. Everyone went back into the main hall and the same man did another speech and thanked everyone for coming. They are now real Ambassadors!!

A few months later the Sports Ambassa-dors started a lunchtime club. The aim of it was to see how many times you could jump over a rope in thirty seconds. Your score would be written down, and then next time you did it you had to try and improve your score. Then at the end of the term the Sports Ambassadors would say who was the best boy and best girl in the school for being most improved, and then they would win a certifi-cate. Each Thursday lunchtime, the Sports Ambassadors have run their club. What will happen next for the Sports ambassadors?

Meet our Sports Ambassadors

By Darcey Ford and Isabella Couch



Remembrance Day marked

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Remembrance Day is important be-cause it helps us to remember all the people who died in combat.

This year is special because it is the hun-dredth anniversary of World War One. On the 11/11/2014 at 11.00am lots of people around the world paid their respects by holding a 2 minute silence.

Before the Year 6 Remembrance service, all of the Year 6 pupils at Crowle Primary started to make poppies for wreaths to place at the Remembrance Service at St Law-rence’s Church in Scunthorpe. Lots of other schools from North Lincolnshire were also at the church service. After the church service they visited the Cenotaph by the museum.

When everyone was in the church we

sang songs to remember the lost souls. The Vicar of the church did a big speech and a prayer. It was amazing to take part in such a big and historical event. Jessica, the Chair of our School Council, laid the wreath in the church next to the grave of the Unknown Soldier.

I asked Jessica the following questions:What was it like placing the wreath?Jessica responded, “It was a great honour

representing the whole school at this amaz-ing event.”

If you could do it again, would you?Jessica replied, “Yes, I would love to do

it again.”The rest of the school, from Y 1-Y 5, also

made poppies for wreaths. On Tuesday 11th November 2014, they went to Crowle Ceno-taph for a service with Mary Stonier, the vicar of St Oswald’s church in Crowle.

On Sunday 9th November 2014, Megan and Daniel, from Year 6 represented our

academy at the Remembrance services in Crowle and Ealand. They laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Ealand to remember eve-ryone who fought in a war for their country.

I asked Megan and Daniel the following question: What was it like to lay the wreath?

Daniel and Megan both replied that they felt very proud of themselves.

By Martin Thorpe-Ortiz

Crowle Primary Academy pupils have started learning how to write code, debug programmes and write algorithms, as part of the new national curriculum.

They have used different methods to achieve this goal; an application called Scratch and a web-site called Hour of Code. The pupils get to make games and make Scratch race, walk, run, fly and change his appearance.

Y6 have moved on from Scratch to a website called Hour of Code it is very similar to Scratch but you have challenges to complete with all dif-ferent characters such as: Scrat, Anna, Elsa, An-gry Birds and everyones favourite Flappy Bird [which is a very pupular mobile game character].

Here is what the pupils from Crowle Primary thought about Scratch and Hour of Code. Adam said “It was fun playing on flappy bird.”

Connor said “I liked Hour of Code because it

was fun doing all the challenges.” Sam said “Scratch was really fun because you

could change the character into anyone/thing you like.”

Hour of Code is a free website to use with no login and is used to teach children brick code, which is very useful.

Our opinion of Hour of Code and Scratch is that they are both enjoyable coding apps that provide hours of fun and learning opportunities.

Computing and programming

Dodge-Tastic tournament success On the 22nd January 2015 twelve pupils took part in the first Dodge Ball tournament held at Althorpe and Keadby primary. Miss Downs (The Axholme Academy P.E teacher) had arranged the first Dodge Ball event for Y5 and Y6.

Each team consisted of six members; we had two teams:

Team One: Grace, Ellie B, Thomas, Josh, Jack Co and Morgan. Team Two: Jess, Taiha, Darcey, Harley, William and Kain.

The event was kicked off by Luddington and Garthorpe vs Winteringham. While we were watching we got really nervous because Winteringham were very good (not as good as us!) and so was Luddington. It was a close call between the two teams but Winteringham were victorious, winning 2-1.

Then it was Team One’s turn against St. Norbert’s. We were anxious as to what was coming; Team One was preparing a face

off against them. During the match we were winning four players to three; then it was four to two; then three to one and finally three to none. Team One won! We had a sudden burst of energy, so the next match we thrashed them!

After we had finished our game against St. Norberts it was Team Two’s turn, they were just as nervous as us. Team two were in a different division where they had to play five games against one team, they played less games than team one. They were playing against Luddington and Garthorpe. We won the first game, then Luddington won the second game, then we won, then Luddington won the last two games; so unfortunately they were out of the competition.

While we were waiting for our next match, both teams decided to play a little game of

catch. Mrs Teanby had a small ball which she threw up in the air and we had to catch it! We had lots of fun with it but then Team One got called for their final match to decide whether we were in the final! All we were feeling was energy and nerves. This was tense; we lost the first match but we brushed it off and carried on pushing and it paid off. We won the next one. This was the decider whether we were going into the final. It was so close; we were winning until this one person got half of us out: we started to panic a little. We calmed down. We did it! Team one got to the final.

We started to prepare for what may come; it all came down to this moment. Team One VS Winteringham1, the Final.

Team one had a great advantage over Winteringham for we won the first game, but when the second game came around disaster struck: Winteringham won. We were both hanging in the balance as it

all came down to the final match. It came down to four players to one. Thomas had the final victorious throw getting the final person from Winteringham out. Screams flew all around the hall! Everyone jumped and cheered! Team One won!

We asked Morgan: How did you feel when you won? He replied: “Amazing, I didn’t think we were going to win!”

We also asked Josh: Were you proud when you won? He replied: “Yes because I think we worked well as a team!”

We interviewed Darcey, we asked her what her favourite part was. She said “Watching and cheering for the other team!”

We asked Jess: what did you think of the day? She replied: “I loved it; even though we lost it was still a great experience!”

By Sam Walker and Robert Atkins

By Grace Kaye and Ellie Berkinshaw

Cadets honouring the 2 min silence

Student playing Hour of Code

The role of a School Council member is to make sure that school is enjoyed and that everyone has a voice and feels safe in the school environment.

The School Council tries to meet every two weeks in order to keep up to speed with the progress of the school. There are eight members of the School Council; a boy and a girl from each class in KS2. They are currently working on getting more chil-dren to have school dinners and improving behaviour in the playground. In order to see what needs to be improved the School Council went on a visit to Broughton Pri-mary School on 21st November.

The School Council enjoyed a wonder-ful lunch at Broughton and then they were shown around the school by mem-bers of Broughton School Council. All of the School Council members attended the event along with the Head Mistress, two Governors, the Head Cook and the Senior Lunchtime Supervisor. They all thoroughly enjoyed the time they spent at Broughton. We interviewed all of the members of the School Council to see what they thought. Jessica Y6 ,Chair of School Council, told us “That it was amazing.” Adam Y6, Vice Chair, said “I loved the food.” Taiha Y5, Secretary, said “The food was delicious it had lots of choice on the main, desert, drinks and the salad.” Kate Y4 told us “The food was brilliant.” Thom-as Y5 said “They had plenty of choice.” Emily Y4 said “There was more choice than we have.” Sam Y3 said “They had lots of options especially the vegetables.” Billy Y3 said “They had a lot of healthy choices like fruit plates and fruit salads.”

All of the children and adults loved their time at Broughton and the two schools have decided to meet up again; Broughton will be coming to Crowle to see their improvements on March 2nd 2015 and hopefully give a warm welcome just like Broughton Primary School gave Crowle school.

On the 10th October 2014, a Badminton competition was held at The Pods. There were twenty two school teams, split into 4 groups. Each game took 10 minutes, with teams playing as fast as possible to try and achieve a better score than their opponent until the time is up then the next person in the team would play against a different person in the opposite team.

The people who represented Crowle Primary were: Thomas, Alex, Josh, Ellie and Grace.

The results were as follows:Crowle v Belton 23\11- a win Crowle v Wootton A 14\31-a lossCrowle v Bowmandale A 27\16- a win Crowle v St. Augustine Webster B 27\10- a winCrowle v Kirmington 20\22- a close lossWe nearly won Kirmington but we lost by two points. Everyone was so

upset and angry that they lost by two points, but we got better when we won St. Augustine Webster by 17!

The pupils who took part in Badminton were all tired and worn out but we were happy with the place we came third. First was Wootton and sec-ond was Kirmington. Unfortunately we didn’t get a good enough score to go to the finals.

Josh said, “Everyone did the best they could and I would rate it ten out of ten. I also liked the feeling that we came in the top three, but I don’t like the feeling that we lost by two points against Kirmington but I knew we didn’t stand a chance against Wootton, but we did our best.”

School Council visit Broughton School!

By Jessica Baker and Adam Millington

By Thomas Lazenby and Jack Cowling

Brilliant badminton

World Book Day is held once a year to celebrate books and encourage children to read. Most schools including our own celebrate it by dress-ing up as book characters. Our teachers dressed up as: Elsa from Frozen, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Hermione from Harry Potter, an owl and a cat from the Owl and the Pussy Cat, Dennis from Dennis the Menace and Mr.Fox from Fantastic Mr.Fox

We also had a special Alice in Wonderland dinner. It consisted of: burger, croquettes, mixed veg, beans, and cheese and egg flan. For dessert we had caterpil-lar cake and jam tarts.

World Book Day happens on Thursday 5th March but we had it on Monday 2nd March because we were already having the themed dinner and it tied in. Most pupils in school dressed up but some people came in school uniform.

After lunchtime we got judged by two people from Scunthorpe United. The winners from each year were:

• Reception: Dillan as an astronaut.• Year 1: Isaac as a Storm Trooper• Year 2: Halley and Jacob as Violet Beaure-

gard and the Gingerbread Man• Year 3: Freya as the Queen of Hearts• Year 4: Ebony as Gangsta Granny• Year 5: Gracie as the Mad Hatter• Year 6: Molly as the White RabbitEverybody looked great in their costumes and eve-

ryone had a great time.

Year’s three to six offer this ben-eficial lunchtime club to help pu-pils who are extremely busy. It enables them to complete their homework and still have time to enjoy time with their families in the evening. Moreover, they can read quietly and start projects; it goes by the name of ‘Homework Club’.

Pupils can give up their lunchtime to complete homework or read. The club is optional, but very helpful. Homework Club in on every Tues-day lunchtime for Year 5/6, and every Monday or Tuesday for Year 3/4.

There are some pupils who attend Homework Club once every half-term; however, some pupils attend regularly, so it can be quite full at times!

I interviewed Isobel to see if she enjoyed Year 3/4 Homework Club. Her answer was, “I like Homework Club because when my friends come round in the evening I have time to play with them.”

Khyah was questioned about how she feels about the useful club: Here is her reply, “I feel privileged because Mrs McCarthy gives up her dinner-time for us. Furthermore, we can also read as well as complete homework tasks.” Many people use Homework Club to create projects, read and chat with their friends. Jonny uses the homework club to read.

Here is a teacher’s view on Home-work Club. Mrs McCarthy explained how she felt about running this ben-eficial club: “I’m in the classroom at lunchtime, so if it helps the pupils, it’s fine by me!”

Homework Club is an excellent op-portunity to complete tasks without the worry of handing it in late. Also, Homework Club is a safe environ-ment to read and talk.

The Feeling Safe Group is a group of pupils from Year 5 and 6 who are dedicated to keeping the school safe.

Members of the group have a tick sheet and they take it in turns to go round checking the school. On the tick sheet there is: all gates locked, all fire exits clear, all cloak-rooms are tidy, used paper tow-els are in the bin, all adults are wearing their badges, playground equipment safe, playground and paths salted(cold weather), first aid boxes, feeling safe board tidy/up to date, tripping hazards.

If there is something that isn’t right the two people put a cross and sort it out; if they can’t sort it out themselves then they will tell a teacher. The Feeling Safe Group have meetings every Thursday which take place outside the Year 3 and 4 classroom while assembly is taking place.

Mrs.Green is the leader of the group and the members are: Jonny,

Esa, Nadia, Ellie, Khyah, Reece, Ol-iver and Grace. I asked Mrs.Green why she put the group together and she answered:” To make sure the pupils feel safe and being able to talk to someone of a similar age.” I also asked her if she thinks the Feeling Safe Group do a good job and she replied:” I think they do an amazing job and are eager and ded-icated to keeping the pupils feeling safe and secure.”

During the meetings the group discuss how to make school more enjoyable. They have come up with a selection of activities to play in Golden Time with Mrs.Green. They are: Britain’s Got Talent, Wii, Lego and colouring.

World Book DayWritten by Jonathan Portess

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Written by Esa Ahmed

The floods: one year onIt has been over a year since the horrific floods of December 2013. The families and residents of the surrounding villages are slowly re-turning to their normal lives, but the memories refuse to leave.

The houses of some people had been flooded. It was a devastating time! The water came rushing over the bank; within seconds the school was filled with murky water.

It took months, but finally, the school was fixed. New tables, new carpet, new everything! A totally new environment!

People have helped the school along the way. There was an empty school that was going to be demolished. Luck-ily, Gunness and Burringham Church of England Primary School managed to use the empty school as a temporary

school. A parent donated many cardboard

boxes to transport the items that were still in decent condition (the school lap-tops, etc.). Moreover, another parent set up a coffee morning, and all of the pro-ceeds were donated to the school. SSE Energy donated some money as well and other donations were made by a variety of people. Without the help of these gen-erous people, G and B would have fallen apart.

I interviewed Alfie W and Joshua about what they liked best about the new equipment. They replied, “We like the new equipment, and the beanbags.

The new stage is also cool.”I also interviewed the headteacher

of Gunness and Burringham, Mrs El-lis. I asked her what had happened since moving back into the school. She answered, “The whole school has been refurbished, we’ve purchased some new books; mostly reading books. Further-more, there is also an adventure play area to be installed this Easter.”

Mrs Ellis was also asked if any work had been done to the river to prevent future flooding. She said, “They have placed some piling to strengthen the river bank; they’ve also demolished the house on the bank.

The horrific flood caused much dev-astation. Even though the flood was extremely terrifying, it’s as if the flood never happened and life continues as normal.

Feeling Safe GroupLunchtime learning!Written by Esa Ahmed

Gunness and Burringham C of E Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

Written by Jonathan Portess


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Gunness & Burringham Church of England Primary School went to watch the pantomime Dick Whitting-ton, on Tuesday 16th December 14:00, 2014. Mrs McCarthy had to dance to all about the base. Here is a quote by Owen:

What was your favourite part? “My favourite part was the song all about the base!”

What do you think about Mrs Mc-Carthy dancing? “I think it was funny because she wasn’t very good at it.”

Who was your favourite character? “Jack the man who dressed weird.”

Would you watch it again? Why? Yes I would watch it again because it was fun and interesting.”

If you don’t know the story off Dick Whittington here is the story: A long time ago there was once a poor boy called Dick Whittington who had no Mum and Dad to look after him so he was often very hungry. He lived in a little village in the country. He’d often heard stories about a faraway place called London where everybody was rich and the streets were paved with gold.

Dick Whittington was determined that he would go there and dig up enough gold from the streets to make his fortune. One day he met a friend-ly wagoner who was going to London who said he would give him a lift there, so off they went. When they

reached the big city Dick couldn’t be-lieve his eyes, he could see horses, car-riages, hundreds of people, great tall buildings, lots of mud, but nowhere could he see any gold. What a disap-pointment, how was he going to make his fortune? How was he even going to buy food?

After a few days he was so hungry that he collapsed in a ragged heap on the doorstep of a rich merchant’s house. Out of the house came a cook.

At that moment the merchant ar-rived back at his house and, being a kindly man, took pity on poor Dick.

When he was fed and rested, Dick was given a job working in the kitch-en. He was very grateful to the Mer-chant but, all as, the cook was always very bad tempered and, when no one was looking, used to beat and pinch him. The other thing that made Dick sad was that he had to sleep in a tiny room at the very top of the house and it was full of rats and mice that crawled all over his face and tried to bite his nose.

He was so desperate that he saved up all his pennies and bought a cat. The cat was a very special cat; she was

the best cat in all of London at catch-ing mice and rats. After a few weeks Dick’s life was much easier because of his clever that had eaten all the rats and mice and he was able to sleep in peace.

Not long after, Dick heard the mer-chant asking everyone in the house if they wanted to send anything on board his ship they thought they could sell. The ship was going on a long voy-age to the other side of the world and the captain would sell everything on the ship so they could all make some money, a thought came to him.

After the merchant had left from the city Dick was on his own again with the mice and rats crawling over him by night and the cook being even nastier in the day because there was no-one to stop her. Dick decided to run away.

As he walked away the bells of all the churches rang out.

Across the other side of the world,

the merchant and his ship had ar-

rived at their destination. The peo-ple were so pleased to see them and were so welcoming that the mer-chant decided to send some presents to their king and queen. The king and queen were so delighted that they invited them all to a feast. But, believe it or not, as soon as the food was brought in hundreds of rats ap-peared as if by magic and gobbled it all up before they had a chance to eat.

Sure enough, to the king and queen’s joy, the next time a feast was prepared and the rats appeared, the cat pounced and killed all the rats as quick as lightening.

The king and queen danced for joy and gave the merchant a ship full of gold in return for the very special cat.

When the ship returned to Lon-don Dick was overwhelmed with the amount of gold the merchant gave him for his cat. Over the years he used his money so wisely, and did so much good for all the people around him and who worked for him, that

he was elected Lord Mayor of the City of London three times. But he never forgot his kind friend the merchant, who had been so honest in giving him all the money that the cat had earned and kept nothing for himself. When Dick grew up he fell in love with Alice, the merchant’s beautiful daughter, and married her. They lived happily ever after; as people do in stories.

However the pantomime was very different because in the pantomime Dick found the cat and Dick went on the ship; also Dick married Alice the merchant’s daughter so the panto-mime was different in lots of ways.

I asked Mrs McCarthy what she thought about the pantomime she re-plied:

“I knew that sitting on the front row at the theatre was a bad idea! Annie Fanny noticed me straight away and I ended up dancing quite a few times during the show. Despite my ‘bad’ dancing, I thoroughly enjoyed the per-formance.”

We look forward to the pantomime December 2015.

Well equipped for playGunness & Burringham Church of England primary school will soon be playing on new equipment and build-ing work commences Monday 9th March. The people who are making the improvements to the playground are Julie Reed (Andrew Percy’s PA) and Andrew Percy (MP). We didn’t even ask them to do it they came in and offered to design a new play-ground and make it for free; hopefully it should be a magnificent playground/adventure area.

The forming of this new equipment will be on Gunness & Burringham’s bot-tom playground. To get all the money Mrs Reed had to submit a letter to the govern-ment and a few weeks later the govern-

ment finally agreed.The playground advancement will

make the children in Gunness & Burr-ingham School enjoy playtime more, this will happen because the children can climb around, and balance on beams. Moreover they will still be really safe because, they are adding padding.

I asked Esa what he thinks about the improvements that are going to happen he replied:

“I’m looking forward to the climbing fa-cilities; it will be good because lots of peo-ple can go on at the same time.”

Summary: Our playground will hope-fully be done in a few days however if it is not it will take around a week. We are looking forward to the changes in our playground.

Sumdog success By Joshua Allen

Sumdog is the key to success in school!Sumdog is an online game site helping

the pupils to learn wherever they are in the world (but they need WIFI)! It com-bines learning with fun.

From Year one to Year six, the pupils log on to their Sumdog account twice a week, one in guided reading and one on Tuesdays. It is a fun activity and it helps the pupils to learn more and it boosts their maths, reading and writing levels in a positive way.

Sumdog is so pop-ular we also log on at home to play the games. If we win the games we earn coins

to buy clothes and items for our avatar. You can also invite friends to play against you in any of the games which provides some competition. I asked Theo the fol-lowing questions ‘what do you enjoy about

Sumdog? Why? He an-swered “ I like all of the games, and I like the fact that if you win the games you get coins and if you answer 200 questions in any competition that the teachers set you win a costume.”

Dick Whittington.

A dance in the pantomime Dick Whittington

By Reece Blanchard

Oh yes he is… Oh no he isn’t

Gunness and Burringham C of E Primary School Axholme Alliance April 2015

Year 6 Boosters By Khyah Shearman

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On a Wednesday morning and a Mon-day night (if the school is closed on a Monday then it will take part on a Thursday night) the Year 6 boosters are taking place in the Year 5/6 class.

Mrs McCarthy is the leader of the Wednesday morning club and the leader of the Monday night club is Mrs Ellis (the Head Mistress). I enjoy the clubs because they boost your levels and confidence in numeracy, English, reading and SPAG (Spelling, punctuation and grammar). One of the reasons everyone likes the club is because we eat biscuits and drink juice.

Molly - Do you enjoy the booster ses-sions that we have in school?

‘Yes, because you are getting that ex-tra bit of learning, if the booster sessions weren’t there we wouldn’t get very good results!’

Nadia – Are you proud of what we do in boosters?

‘Yes because we learn more, I love boosters but detest getting up at 7am, I am a bit stroppy on a Wednesday!’

Nicole – Which session do you like the best?

‘Both you get biscuits and you learn new things that you need to know for S.A.T’s. You get to do practice papers so you know what’s to come in the actual thing.’

Jamie – In S.A.T’s do you think you are going to get your expected levels?

‘Yes because I am trying to do more questions. I am getting help with some questions. When I do boosters I do test papers! Even though I am deaf, I get help from my teachers; I want to get to my tar-get level!’

Nadia said: "We get biscuits in the morning, if I

could make any improvements the only improvement I have is for the boosters to be in school time, you have to get up early!

Mrs Ellis, one of the leaders of the ses-sion said said:

"It allows them to address any problems and concentrate on any areas where they need work with. It lets parents see what is expected from the children and how they can support their children! It enables the children’s learning be a two way process!"

Mrs McCarthy believes that:"It gives them a more personalised ses-

sion which boosts confidence. I think it’s beneficial for the parents to see the test paper and the types of questions there are!"

The dates of the booster sessions are from the 27th April,to the 11th of May.

The after school club focuses on maths particularly on maths. Parents can come but they don’t have to.

The violin group is where pupils who enjoy playing the violin get together in groups of 5-8. They play the violin for twenty-five minutes/35 minutes. They do pieces such as: Under Arrest, Apple -pie and Custard, City Lights and Penny Farthing.

The leader of the group (the violin teacher) is called Mrs Roulson, who teach-es us very well. The least confident group members are: Ebony, Olivia, Marcus, Ry-ley, Harvey, Lauren, Alfie and Kieran. Their lessons take place in the School Hall from 2:25pm to 3:00pm. The middle group have less time as they are more confident. They meet from 3:00pm to 3:25pm. How-ever, the most confident group only meet from 3:25 to 3:45 (20 minutes).

These lessons involve Years 4,5 and 6 who really enjoy violin practice and it is only £2 a week!

The school decided that it would be a good idea to play the violins, when our old violin teacher Mrs Gooing, wanted us to learn an instrument. After that, she start-ed teaching us how to play the violin. Most of us enjoyed it so much that we decided to carry on playing through the years.

“I enjoy using the bow to play the pieces with” said Marcus.

Will you carry on playing the violin in the future?

Ellie replied “Yes of course, I learn lots of new pieces which makes it really enjoy-able.”

Do you think the music teacher teaches you well? Why?

Marcus said “Of course she does! She helps us tune the violin and she helps us remember the notes,”

Do you play any other musical instru-ments?

“Yes, I play the recorder as well as the violin,” exclaimed Tanya.

We all love the violin and hope to carry on for many years. We may even be able to form our own orchestra!

Get your bows at the ready

Everyone sings at Young Voices!By Khyah Shearman

Young Voices took place on the 21st January 2015 this is an event which is performed at the Shef-field Motor-point Arena. This brings all primary schools to-gether and helps grow all the children’s confidence.

All of the children enjoyed this once in a lifetime opportunity. There were 36 children that participated in this thrilling event from this school alone. Despite the torrential down-fall the bus still came and the event was a success. Mrs McCarthy (Year 5/6 teacher), Mrs Atkinson (Year 3/4 teacher) and Mrs Ellis (The Head Mistress) all went and supported and supervised the children.

My favourite part of the entire ceremony was when Lucy Spraggon who took part in X – Factor came out and performed ‘We are Unsink-able’. We sung her new single which at the time of the Young Voices had not been released yet.

Here are a few quotes from the pu-

pils who attended the event:Lauren S said ‘Yes, I would definitely go again be-

cause I enjoyed it very much!’Faye R said:‘Yes, because she is famous, she

still performed with a badly frac-tured leg!’

Gracie S – Did you enjoy Young Voices?

‘Yes I enjoyed it; I enjoyed every

single part of it!’Alice E – Did you enjoy the Young

Voices club? What was your favourite song? What was your favourite part?

‘Yes I did enjoy the club because I enjoyed being with my friends, My favourite song was Pop Medley, it has lots of my favourite songs mixed up in it, My favourite part was where everybody got up and boogied in the song ‘HAPPY!’ by Pharrel Williams, because everyone was happy, and it was very FUN!!!’

This event was extremely fun even the Head Mistress was asked, how would you explain the environment?

‘Very lively and noisy, it was very vibrant everyone was excited and clearly people enjoyed the experi-ence, the relationships between the staff and children are evident but I do appreciate it is a very long day…!’

We got back at 11:30 pm so all the children that attended Young Voic-es were allowed to go to school at 1:00pm the next day.

I had the time of my life and you get to meet new friends and learn how other schools are different to ours.

Assessments - the government’s decisionThe government has changed assess-ments for primary schools.

This started in September 2014, it in-volves all primary school pupils who are in Year 1, 3, 4 and 5, the new system is called The Sheffield Assessment. Year 2 and Year 6 are still on levels because of KS1 and KS2 SATs. In addition, it affects Mrs McCarthy and Miss Haworth because they have a year on assessments and a year on levels. This makes it really hard to keep both years up to date. It isn’t just our school that is affected; it is primary schools all over England.

To know how you are doing, you have a way of working out what level you are. The levels go emerging, developing,

then secure. Then you have sections like writing, maths and SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar). For example, if you were developing in Year 4, it would be D4. And, if you were secure in Year 3 it would be S3 and finally if you were emerging in Year five, it would be E5.

The government managed to plan all this in the summer holiday! The government thought that the assessments would be a lot better than levels.

The staff find it easier to see where to push the children, as well as us knowing

where to improve. Reception is on early learning goal assessments.

Do you like the new assessment?

“Yes, because it helps you know how to improve your work,” Ella replied.

Alfie exclaimed “It’s not fair because you got a great level then you just lost it, and they got to keep it”.

“I am aiming to get D3 on my assessment,” Kara said.

I asked Mrs Ellis in what way does the new assessment help the children?

“It helps children know how to improve their work to get to the next level” Mrs Ellis exclaimed.

The UK government

Lucy Spraggon at Young Voices.

By Madison Drew

By Madison Drew

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Football club takes take place every Wednesday night at 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm for five weeks. It takes place on the bot-tom playground. The aim of the club is to boost the confidence and skills of the players. The pupils who take part in the club pay £15.00 in advance; this works out at £3.00 per week.

The school are lucky to have a Scunthor-pe United football coach called Luke coming to teach the pupils football skills. The ten members of the club are called: Alfie, Josh, Esa, Owen, Reece, Alfie, Olivia, Jamie, Ethan and Jacob. At the beginning of the session all players have to do a warm up to

get their heart pumping fast. The football club does enjoyable activi-

ties in the hour such as: passing, shooting, dribbling, defending and attacking. Players train with footballs and then also have a short football match at the end. Two teams compete in a match at the end of the train-ing session, only one team wear bibs.

A player at the football club answered the following question ‘Do you enjoy football club? Why? Jacob answered “The club is fun and we don’t just practice we have a 5 a side mini game at the end! “

On Wednesday 8th October Year 5 and 6 went to Tropical World in Leeds. We set off on the bus early in the morning at 9:00 am and all the pupils were very ex-cited.

The weather was humid and warm; the temperature was up to 30/40 degrees inside the building, whilst it was around 2-5 degrees outside. The reason why the build-ing was very warm was because the insects, reptiles and butterflies need it to be constantly warm so they can live.

The trip took place because we were learning about the Amazon Rainforest at school. Instead of go-ing to Brazil we went to Tropical World in Leeds! Whilst we were there we explored the surround-ings. There were different rooms like the butterfly house, amazon tank, creature corner and the de-sert house. In each of the different

rooms, we were lucky to see lots of creatures, such as: fish, meerkats, turtles and snakes; we were able to touch the turtles. Also there were mammoth trees with huge leaves, waterfalls with water pouring down and we got to catch butterflies in our palms. They felt tickly as they moved around and we had to be gentle.

After all that excitement we went back to our cabin for lunch and looked forward to our next adven-ture.

Once we’d finished the trip we went to the gift shop which was full of toys and enjoyable items for us to buy.

When we finished at Tropical World, there was a huge field and

Tropical World was ‘Amazon’

This was a picture of us at the waterfall inside tropical world. Tanya,Ella,Alfieand Owen.

By Alfie Whiting

By Alfie Whiting

Kick to Score at The PodsOn the 28th November 2014 eight chil-dren from Gunness and Burringham Church of England Primary School travelled to the The Pods in Scunthorpe to participate in a football tournament.

Fifteen to thirty schools took part from the local area. The eight children were Owen, Reece, Alfie, Josh, Esa, Jacob, Theo and Jamie. The reason this happened was because Mrs Green (Reception teacher) asked Mrs McCarthy (Year 5/6 teacher) if eight children from her class wanted to do a football tournament all morning.

The eight pupils all love football because it’s a fun thing to do.

These are the teams who Gunness and Burringham played and the scores;

St. Norbert’s won 5-1Berkley won 1-0Crowle won 2-0Kirton Lindsey lost 2-0I asked Reece (one of the players) some

questions about the football;

Did you enjoy the football tournament? Why?

“Yes, because I enjoy playing football and I did a trick on someone.”

What was the best bit?When I rainbow flicked someone, (It’s

where you put the ball between your legs and flick it over your head).

It was all tiring work for everyone play-ing football. Esa’s parents donated water and biscuits for all the eight children.

I also asked Esa (one of the players) some other questions;

How do you feel playing your old school Berkley?

“It felt magical to play against some peo-ple I know very well.”

How do you think your team did?“I think we did all right but we could’ve

done a lot better!”

By Owen Faulkner

On the 12th June until the 15th June 2015 twenty-five pupils are attending PGL at Grantham. Moreover, three adults are giving up their weekend to go with the children. PGL is an adven-ture park and activity centre. In addi-tion, the children will be taking a bus for two and a half hours to PGL.

At PGL all the staff are kind and car-ing. If your children are going this year don’t get worried because all the children will be safe. Throughout the weekend the children will be taking part in many activities such as: rock climbing, zip line, raft building, assault course, problem solving and many more.

Every child will be waking up at 7:00am to do the activities. PGL is for age 7 and over. At PGL it will overcome your fears of heights, deep water and going on quad bikes at fast speeds. There’s a diner where you can get breakfast, dinner and tea.

I interviewed Reece to see what he has to say for this year:

Are you excited to go this year?

“I’m extremely excited

because I want to go on the giant swing and find out what activities we’re doing this year.”

What was your favourite activity last year? Why?

“My favourite activity was the zip wire because it went fast and it was high up!”

Be prepared for the time of your life!

Adventure awaits at PGL 2015

PGl adventures

By Owen Faulkner


there was a huge hill which we all ran down and most of us fell over!

We all had fun after a long tiring day and most of us would love the chance to visit again.

I asked Reece what was his fa-vourite animal and if he enjoyed the trip? Reece said, “I enjoyed Tropical World and I liked going to see the meerkats!

Scunthorpe coach helps out

By Owen Faulkner

Luddington and Garthorpe Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

Pupils on song at Young Voices concertBy Kiera Garland

and Charlotte Elliott.

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World Book Day was on March 5th but Luddington School celebrated it on February 5th.

Our teachers had been to a big book-shop in Birmingham with lists we had made of books we wanted.

The books arrived and we all wanted to read them. Everyone dressed up as a char-acter from a book such as Burt’s Burgers, Mad hatter, Elsa, Snow White, Boy in the dress and Harry Potter.

We had to have our Book Day early be-cause everyone was desperate to read the new books!

We got all the new books out so we could see what there was.

The new titles included the Harry Pot-ter series, Billionaire Boy, Candle Man The Society of Dread, Artemis Fowl and many, many more.

There were several thousand pounds worth of books, so it was a lot! Lots of par-

ents came in to look at the new books and to read with their children.

What we thought about the day“It was really good because we got to

read the new books we wanted.” Alfie, age 9.

“It was very funny because I dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood even though I am a boy. “Oliver, age 10.

“I really liked everybody sitting around reading the books and seeing their faces.” Mrs Render.

“I liked looking at all the new books. “Carys, age 9.

“It was good to read some new books and find different series to try. I also liked dressing up as my favourite character. “ Henrietta, age 11.

“I really enjoyed it and I really liked dressing up as my favourite book character.” Mellissa, age 11.

On the 21st January 2015 we went to a Young Voices concert at the Shef-field Arena. Young Voices is a concert where lots of primary schools come to-gether and make a choir. Most of KS2 went along to the event.

There had been snow on the morning of the concert, and we thought that it might be cancelled. Everyone was really keen to be taking part, so we were very wor-ried. The people at Young Voices told us it was going ahead, so we all got on the bus and set off. The bus driver got lost on the way into Sheffield, but we arrived in time for lunch. There were a lot of schools that hadn’t come because of the snow, but we all sang so well it didn’t matter.

When we arrived we had a really long rehearsal with the conductor talking us through all the special things he wanted us to do. We changed into our Young Voices t-shirts afterwards; they were white with the Young Voices logo on them and the year 2015.

Some of the songs we sang included An-drew Lloyd Webber Medley, Pop Medley, Lonely Boy, Dies Irae, Wait For Me, When I Grow Up, Tribute to Nelson Mandela, and many more.

We had all been learning the songs since September. In preparation, we had prac-ticed every Tuesday for an hour. Mrs Smith helped us practice and organised the event The teachers that went with us were Mrs Farrar, Mrs Pullan, Mrs Render and of course Mrs Smith.

On stage there was a conductor to help us keep in time with the music and in be-tween some of the songs there were some

celebrity singers and dancers to entertain us on stage. The dancers reminded us of the moves – but we think the teachers needed that more than we did! We were also able to sing with the singers. There was a teacher choir in Dies Irea and Rock-qiem, perhaps because they were the Latin songs not many teachers volunteered.

We finished at 9pm, so it was a late night bus ride home. Everyone had a bril-liant day!

World Book Day celebrations 2015By Jack Shaw

Luddington and Garthope Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

Powerful poppy challengeBy Tamara Donnelly-Booth

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On the 12th November 2014, all of KS2 made poppies for a challenge. The challenge was to make over 12,000 paper poppies across North Lincolnshire, Hull and East Riding.

The North Lincolnshire Museum sent a pack for us to make 35 poppies. It was like the installation at the Tower of London, only in North Lincolnshire.

We were all given our own kit to make

a poppy. Our teacher, Mrs Render, showed us how to make the poppies before we started making our own. When we started making the poppies it was challenging but also enjoyable; the hardest part was mak-

ing the petals. We asked our families if there was any-

one to commemorate. Those who didn’t have anyone had to look on the Everyman Remembered website and type their own surname in the search box. This brought up the name of a soldier who died in WW1 with the same surname as the pupil. Who knows, one of these soldiers could have been related to them without them know-ing! Every pupil then had the name, rank

and regiment of a soldier which they had to write onto a tag. This tag was then at-tached to their poppy.

The finished poppies were sent to North Lincolnshire Museum in Scunthorpe where they were put on display. It was a lovely means to commemorate the war and involve the younger generation in this way.

On 6th March 2015 most of Class 3 went to a Quick Sticks tournament. The lady who organised the event was called Sarah Burdett. The competition was held at The Pods in Scunthorpe

on the Astro turf. The schools that participated were –

Scawby, Winteringham, Althorpe and Keadby, Lincoln Gardens, Burton upon Stather and us!

We had 3 teams. There were 5 in a team - 3 girls and 2 boys. Team 1 came 6th, team 2 came 4th and team 3 did best, coming 2nd.

Harry- “I thought team 1, the team I was in, played well as a team but our prob-

lem was defence and also injuries.”Charli-Brooke- “I thought that my

team, (team 1) played well but I think that we could improve with the defence. My team was really good at playing together.”

Oliver- “I thought it was a good day. I was in team 3 - the team that came 2nd and we played really well, so I don’t think that we could have improved much.”

Tamara- “I was in team 1. I hurt my thumb but I didn’t give up as I didn’t want

to let the team down, so I carried on. I thought we all played well as a team.”

In previous years our school has always done really well at Quick Sticks competi-tions. We practise a lot in school, and we always try hard to improve our teamwork skills. Team 1 included - Harry, Lewis, Ta-mara, Charli-Brooke and Maddie. Team 2 included - Sam, Jess, Keira, Alfie and Jobe. In team 3 were Oliver, Charlotte, Brett, Melissa and Henrietta.

By Charli-Brooke Lockwood and Harry Davie

Quick sticks teams battle

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In February this year Annabel McCourt from Cut Ltd came into school to help us make a film.

The project was called ‘Into Film’. We talked about different genres of film and then had a dis-cussion in groups to decide what kind of topics we could create a documentary about.

We have recently had a wind farm built nearby, at Keadby, so we chose to make a film about envi-ronmental issues.

Before we started on the film, Annabel let us try out the filming equipment. Some of us were part of the film crew while one person did a ‘piece to camera’. We even had a clapper board. It was very exciting, but not everyone was looking for-ward to seeing themselves on camera!

Annabel is returning in a few weeks time to film the rest of the documentary. It has been great fun so far, and we are all really looking for-ward to seeing the finished film.

On the 23rd February 2015 a visitor came into our school named Stuart Bontoft who is a STEM (science, tech-nology, engineering and maths) Am-bassador.

The first thing he did was show us a PowerPoint of different kinds of fair-ground rides and how they work.

We then worked in pairs and built a pulley out of lego. A pulley is a wheel with an elastic band over it, used for lifting heavy things.

We got into groups of three and were given a leaflet to complete about the Pow-erPoint.

The next day, we planned our ride; each group chose a theme. Some of the themes we chose were: The Beach, Under the Sea, America, Donuts, Food, Sweets and Na-tive Americans.

Later that day we started to make our rides; we had a week to complete them. The types of rides we made included a car-ousel, a ferris wheel, a teacup and swing rides.

The types of materials we used were:Card board fruit box: A base; Sand: To pour on the box for decora

tion; Lolly sticks: To make a toilet, fence,

bins and seats; Wood: To make the rideBottle lids: For the seatBatteries: To make it moveBands: To help it moveOnce completed, our Chair of School

Governors, Mrs. Williams, came into school to judge our rides.

The Donuts ride came 1st The Native American ride came 2nd The American themed ride came 3rd We all enjoyed the week and were very

proud of the rides we made. They looked really impressive and all had moving parts. We learnt a lot about Design and Technology during the week.

Written by Maddie Smith and Samantha Ratcliff

The film club is run every Thursday af-ter school by Mrs Pullan and sometimes Mr Cullen comes to watch. Any pupils from Year 1 to 6 are welcome to come.

The pupils pay a £1.00 fee which includes a snack and drink.

When we have two films and we don’t know what film to watch we have a little vote to see which we prefer.

Our latest film was Big Hero 6 which we all thoroughly enjoyed.

The film is about a boy called Hero who saves the world from an evil villain and his micro bots.

We asked people what they thought about film-club

Oliver said: “I like film club because of the food I eat.”

His favourite film so far is Big Hero 6, but he would have beanbags instead of seats.

Maddie enjoys watching the films and the com-pany.

She says it is just like going to the pictures for real!

Enjoying all the fun of the fairLuddington and Garthorpe Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

Film fans love Big Hero 6

Super fun both in front and behind the camera

Written by Jess Lefley and Alfie Maw

Written by Jess Lefley and Alfie Maw

Luddington and Garthorpe Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

The weedbustersBy Olivia Clark edited by Jack Shaw and

Oliver Webster

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Gardening club is a break time club where some pupils from class 1, 2 and 3 who love na-ture look after the flowers and plants around school, and grow vegetables. We give the veg-etables that we grow to the dinner ladies to use in our school lunches.

To plant seeds we fill a plant pot with soil and then we will make little holes and put the seeds in them. When they get bigger we plant them in the African garden; it is called an African garden be-cause it is the same style as they use in Africa. We use spades, wheelbarrows, forks, rakes, shovels, trowels, plant pots and a composter. The compost-er is a big tub where you put peelings from vegeta-bles and over six years it will make compost soil.

We have got a new garden area where wild flowers are will hopefully grow because that was planted with the special meadow grass seed. We also have a sand pit in the new area for the chil-dren to play in.

In Gardening club we have made a hedgehog home. To make it we raked all the leaves into a big pile.

Last year we had two hedgehogs in there. We have a wild hare which has visited us for the past

two years and tends to eat our grass from around the garden.

The leaders of Gardening club are Henrietta Farrar, Jack Shaw and Melissa Howden.

Here are some of our gardening club members’ views on the club;

“I love Gardening club because you get to look after nature and there are different things to do in the different seasons.

In spring we plant seeds and seedlings, in sum-mer we water all the plants and enjoy the flow-ers, whilst in autumn we rake up leaves, make hedgehog homes and worm homes and collect the produce from our vegetable plants to give them to the cook.” Henrietta Farrar and Melissa Howden, age 11, year 6

“I think it is fun - I enjoy weeding and watering the plants.” James Darley , age 9 , year 4

“I love gardening club because of the things we grow, but also because I can help the badgers by leaving out some of our carrots and water.” Carys Shaw, age 9, year 4.

Luddington and Garthorpe School took part in a dodgeball tournament at Althorpe and Keadby School.

They played Eastoft, St Norbert’s, Crowle A, Crowle B, Wintringham, Althorpe & Keadby.

The Rules of DodgeballDodgeball is a game where you have to dodge

soft balls. If you get touched you are out as long as the

ball doesn’t touch the floor. There are three balls; three pupils run to get

the balls while three stay back. Once they’ve got them they throw them to

the three pupils who stayed back then they can throw at the opposite team.

When the opposite team are out that means you have won but if there’s one left and they catch the ball another player can come back in.

You can only be out if you get hit with the ball from the neck down.

ScoresLuddington 1 Luddington 5-1 Crowle A Luddington 2-5 Crowle BLuddington 2 scoresLuddington 1-5 EastoftLuddington 2-5 St Norbert’sLuddington 0-5 Wintringham

Who WentLuddington 1

Oliver, Lewis, Sam, Brett, Charlotte, Kiera, Melissa.

Luddington 2Harry, Alfie, Jess L, Bronwen, Jobe, Tamara,

Charli-BrookeResults

Luddington 1 came 3rd after losing to Crowle B in the semi-finals.

Luddington 2 came 6th after losing every game.

But it’s not about coming first or second at the end of the day it’s all about taking part – that’s what counts.

Harry: “We played well as a team. Charlotte got hit and I caught it so she wasn’t out and despite some questionable officiating which got Oliver out he handled it well and never gave up.”

Oliver: “I didn’t really like it because the ball didn’t hit me but I still got sent to the side line.”

Despite that, as a team we played very well even though we lost every game.

Samantha: “I enjoyed it because I liked play-ing on my team.”

Melissa: “I enjoyed playing dodge ball because it is a team game and you get to dodge balls!”

Superior at sports

Table tennis8 pupils from Luddington & Garthor-pe, 4 boys and 4 girls went to play table tennis against other schools.

We competed against Reedness, St Norberts and Crowle

Dodgeballers give it their all at Althorpe

By Oliver Webster, Bronwen Steer and Brett Howden edited by Jack Shaw and

Oliver Webster.

Badminton We went to Axholme Acadamy to take part in a tournament, it was a

fun day to get of school.

Reedness Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

By Kian Entwhistle

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Reedness Primary School pupils are in training to stop slouching and to have better posture. Class 3 have been work-ing on their posture to build core mus-cles to improve the way we sit.

We sent letters home so that the pupils could bring space hoppers to school if they wished. On the 2nd February 2015 we start-ed to pump them up; it took a while and the hard work built up our muscles! The reason why we did this was that Miss Harris want-ed Class 3 to have excellent posture. Miss Harris said, “I was fed up of seeing children slouching and swinging on their chairs!”

We interviewed some children from the school they told us what they liked about it. Scarlett said: “IT IS AWESOME!“ Bes-sie said: “It is a good opportunity to improve our posture.”

Altogether it is a good idea to stop us slouching by using space hoppers. The space hoppers are fun and we enjoy it as well as the teachers.

On the 24th October the Reedfleet (Reedness and Swinefleet) girls were sat in their football kit on their way to the Goole cluster football match. The Reedfleet girls’ team who took part in the Goole cluster were: Scarlett, Krim-son, Faith, Jane, Lyla, Shannon, Char-lie and Abbey.

The girls’ football tournament all took place at Kingsway School. Miss Harris and Mr Douglass took the Reedfleet girls to Goole for a fantastic arrangement that Mr Douglass, himself, sorted. Once they got there, they started a match against Park-side. Fortunately the Reedfleet girls won, leading them to victory.

Second of all they then went against a huge school named Kingsway. The scores on the doors against Kingsway were 7 - 0 to

Reedfleet. Abbey Bateman scored five amaz-ing goals. We asked her how she felt and she said “I felt extremely happy when I scored each one of those five goals! They were all very special”. Scarlett Oldridge scored one fantastic goal she said “It was very good and very fair.” Faith Crump scored a bril-liant goal too. Faith said that “It was great fun and we gave it our very best; I’m very proud.”

Then they came across the very last school known as Airmyn, and guess what? They won for the third time!

On the 5th November it was the final: everyone was excited. Miss Harris was more excited than the team. It was at South

Hunsley High School. Once we got there they had about 6-7 matches it was brilliant how they played. Amazingly, they also got through into the semi-finals. It came to the last match, the pressure was on. It was very scary but they all knew that they had made it this far and if they didn’t win, they had still done well as we are a small school. There were equal scores, so it was time for the penalties. They did not win but they tried their very best.

We asked Miss Harris what she thought about the team and she said “I’m so proud of the Reedfleet girls. They did really well to get so far in the tournament especially com-ing from a small school.”

Every Friday all the pupils and some of the teachers go to the hall at 10:30 am for the school award assembly. Awards assembly is when children’s excellent work, behaviour and attend-ance is rewarded.

In awards assembly you can get golden tickets. There are five golden tickets for each class per week and these are given to children who have done good things in the classroom.

There is also the really special ‘Super Star Award’. This is for children that have done something outstanding all week.

Three year six children have the re-sponsibility for setting up the hall for the awards assembly. They have to set out chairs, set out the table with the cloth and all of the awards and play the music.

There is an award that is called ‘Star Writer of the Term’. This is if your work is the best in your class and if it stays the best for the whole term.

Guy Brady said “I love having the chance of being able to receive an award.” Miss Harris, Class 3 teacher, added “I think it’s a great opportunity for the chil-dren to be rewarded for their hard work and achievements.”

At end of term the teachers will draw the raffle and there can be up to ten chil-

dren who will win a prize from the golden raffle bag.

LibrariansAt Reedness Primary School there are

librarians that take care of the library by keeping it tidy and making sure that the pu-pils get a book. Each librarian gets a badge to show that they are one. This year there are two librarians, Katie and Scarlett, who are in Year 6 and are responsible for the li-brary.

By Abbey Bateman

Girls football on the go

Awards assembly

On Wednesday the 2nd March at Reedness Primary School, all the chil-dren took part in World Book Week. The theme was The Wizard of Oz and everyone dressed up as different char-acters such as: the Witches, the flying monkeys, Dorothy, Tin Man, Scare Crow, Lion and much more.

We also did many activities for example: making board games, practising for a scene in the Wizard of Oz and preparing for the celebration assembly. Parents were invited to the assembly to watch their children pre-sent the work they had done in the week.

It was really fun and inspiring when you get to see everybody’s fancy dress and en-courages the children read more. It can also show children that books are fun.

Katie said: “It was a great day.” Guy also said: “It was really fun making the board games.” Mrs Hobson said: “Books are bril-liant; think of all the amazing places you can visit when you get lost in a book. “Ab-bey said: “Books are a fantastic way to en-courage others to follow and admire their dreams.” Krimson also says: “It was ex-tremely eye catching at assembly looking at everybody fancy dress.”

On Friday morning, Class 3 made news-paper reports about the cyclone from the scene on the film the Wizard of Oz. They put as much detail as they could, making it very eye catching and extremely gripping. The reports were full of brilliant words and brilliant vocabulary.

At the end of the week the fun was over.We were all sad.

By Katie Bristow

Slouching Stops!

Let’s get readingBy Scarlett Oldridge


Shake your groove thing!By Bessie Lamb

Every Thursday afternoon the Year 5 and 6 children thoroughly enjoy an invigorating lesson in 1950’s danc-ing. Mr Douglass, GASP PE Advisor, comes in to teach Class 3 from Reed-ness Primary how to perform dances from the1950’s. The class teacher (Miss E Harris) enjoys it too. She says that, “It’s fun, enjoyable and everyone takes part enthusiastically.”

The other children in Class 3 are excited to tell me what they think of their lesson. “It’s lots of fun and I enjoy dancing with my partner,” were the words of Faith and James said, ”I like the way it’s upbeat and the way you have to do lifts.”

This isn’t the first time Mr Douglass has come to this school to teach PE. He is also currently teaching the Year 3 and 4 children a dance linked to their topic of the Stone Age for a competition at The Junction on Tuesday 17th March

and tickets are on sale on The Junction website for £2.50. Mrs Hobson, a teaching assistant, is currently making the

costumes.I have spoken to the children in

Class 2 and here’s what they said, “I’m really worried about going wrong and everyone laughing at me” said Hugo, pupil from Class 2. “The children have worked really hard at what we think is a very complicated dance. I hope they do really well!” said the Class 2 teacher Mrs Booth.

There will be 9 other schools and they will each be awarded points based on the quality of their dance. It is a full day competition and the winner will be announced at the end of the day. The children will have the opportunity to watch the other performances live on the day through video link.

All the children involved are enjoying their PE lessons and Miss Harris is pondering the thought of having a School Games day based on the dancing done in these PE lessons.

Reedness Primary School has start-ed computer coding they use a pro-gramme called Scratch which is basic coding. Reedness uses this programme every Thursday when a very kind lady called Robyn Duckworth who teaches class 2 and 3 all sorts of codes.

The teachers thought Reedness needed to improve their ICT skills but they did not know how good some of the pupils were; one of the best pupils was Tyler Nunes.

Mrs Lawrance, the Head Teacher of Reedness Primary school, was amazed how advanced some of the pupils already were.

The codes are a jumble of letters and numbers but on scratch it is just words you don’t have to type anything you just have to click and drag. This is a picture of basic code

I asked some of the pupils what they thought of it.

“The coding is fun I personally like cre-ating games” said Tyler Nunes

“I like coding random games and using my imagination” said Bethany Lamb

“I think it’s a good way for the children to learn and practice their programing skills in a fun way” said Emma Harris

“I like the creative side of coding” said James Rudd

“The good thing about coding is making funny things and posting and them” said Jodie Gigall

“I kind of like the sounds on Scratch” said Alfie Walker

“I find coding the music is fun” said Kian Entwhistle

“I like the fact that you can do whatever you want” said Krimson Westwood.

On the 10th February 2015, Reedness Primary School celebrated Internet Safety Day and did a load of work on how to be safe on the internet. Internet Safety Day helps to stop the inappropriate use of the internet and they teach pupils how to use the internet safely.

At the beginning of the day we watched a power point that shows how sad children can get when they are being cyber bullied. We found out that most of the social websites are not safe and found out that when they say you have to be 13 to have something like Facebook, they do it for your own safety because other people might not be that nice and they can say things that can make you really upset and even put you in danger.

In the middle of the day we had a competition on who can make the best poster about internet safety. We picked 1 boy and 1 girl from each class. The 6 winners got a prize and their posters were shown in our full school assembly. The winners in Class 1 were Harriet and Izak. Sunny was one of the winners in Class 2 and in Class 3 the winners were Bessie and Guy.

We learnt that no matter what always be safe and never give your personal information away. If anything strange happens make sure that you inform your parents or teach-ers.

On the 15th September 2014, Brendan Reilly, a former Olym-pic Athlete, came into Reedness Primary School to inspire chil-dren to reach for their dreams and never give up. It is a na-tional programme that helps children to never give up and Be the Best you can Be. It is the first year of the ‘Be the Best you can Be’ programme and the organisers are hoping that this will happen every year. This is not just for Reedness Prima-ry School, it is happening all around the country and hope-fully you might get an Olympic medallist come to your school.

Brendan Reilly was an Olym-pic bronze medallist and he used to jump in competitions all around the world. He is now retired but he did earn just fewer than 100 bronze medals and a few silver medals.

A small girl named Scarlett said

“It was awesome!” “I thought it was very nice to see an athlete inspiring us” said one of the class 3 girls.

We all made something called a Dream Folder where you draw the thing that you want to be when you are older and then study that. A girl named Abbey made one about being a runner in the Olympics. We wrote something in the folders called the road to success where we wrote the obstacles that we might come across on the way to achieving our dream and finding the solutions for any problems we come across.

We found facts about Brendan Reilly and we made a folder about him.

It was really fun having him in and we really do wish that he would come again. He inspired almost all

of us and we started to work hard, aiming for our dream and never give up on trying to achieve it.

High jump to success

Coding Computer

WWW.Be Safe Online.com

By Guy Brady

By Guy Brady

By Tyler Nunes

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Awesome new play equipment!by James Rudd

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By Jodie Gighall

On the 19th December 2014, Reed-ness Primary School bought some play equipment to improve playtimes.

Of course this was no walk in park and we had to do a lot of fund raising such as a disco and a danceathon. Eventually we raised the magnificent sum of £550. We bought some bouncy balls, rugby balls, jumping equipment, cones and a junior croquet set.For the danceathon we had to dance for two and a half hours. It was tir-ing but great fun. I spoke to Class 3 about what they thought of the equipment. “I think that it improved playtimes,” said Bessie Lamb. “I think that because there`s more equipment to choose from, it im-proves play time,” said Tyler Nunes.“It’s really fun to play with,” said Krimson Westwood.I think the right equipment was

chosen. Play time has really improved,” said Jodie Gighall. In the end pupils did like the play equipment and are always lining up to get out the equipment to play

Class 3 are learning how to ride their bikes safely by taking part in a pro-gramme which is called Bikeabil-ity. Bikeability took place on 16th and 17th of October where we passed our Level 1 certificate and badge and we will be taking our Level 2 certificate before Easter. We started off in the playground and then went on the road; it was exciting when we went on the road but we were not allowed to go past Reedness village.

For our Level 1, we got some cones out and put them on the ground and then we weaved through them with our bikes. We then went on the road and they told us to be sensible because of the traffic. We did lots of things like riding at the side of the road and signalling.

Here are some quotes from the children and staff:

“Bikeability was re-

ally fun but it was a shame for the people who did not do it,” Jodie Gighall

“When the people did Bikeability the people who did not do it found it so quiet in the classroom,” Bessie Lamb

“Everyone one has done so well so far. I am looking forward to them getting their Level 2 badges,” Miss Harris

“I think it was so fun. I did enjoy it but unfortunately the teacher’s hand got bit-ten and swelled up so we are carrying on in summer,” Faith Crump

“It was fun and exciting. The bit I en-joyed the most was going on the road,”

James RuddCurrently, Class 3 are

looking forward to com-pleting our Level 2 cer-tificate and badge. We are practising really hard so that when the women come, we have some more experience.

These are the boys football players. From left to right Alfie Walker, Guy Brady, Kian Entwhistle, James Rudd, Kye Westwood, Howard Wotton, Keen Faxon,

Benji Dannatt, Ryan Watton.

GOAL!!

Let’s get Bikeability

Children at Reedness Primary school enjoy their new equiptment.


India comes to ReednessBy Faith Crump

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International week started on Mon-day 20th October 2015. All the school started to learn about India. An In-dian lady came in to show us Indian dancing and Class 2 joined in with Class 3. The lady demonstrated differ-ent types of dances and then all the pupils copied her.

Mrs Lawrence decided to do about India and Class 3 did some research about Hindu-ism which is a religion in India.

For lunch, the pupils of Reedness Pri-mary School had curry, rice, onion bhajis, samosas, naan bread, chappatis and pop-padoms. They only had it for the last day of international week the children really liked it. Some parents came but not were there only four.

Class 3 and Class 2 also learnt how to say goodbye and hello in in Indian.

Every single pupil of Reedness Primary School made a tie-dye t-shirt. We all enjoyed it we used elastic bands and some of us used beads to get a different patterns.

Here are some quotes about what they thought about International week asked

Class 1 first.“At lunch we had Indian food. My favour-

ite food was the poppadoms,” Emilia“I liked the rice,” Lucy“I liked the Indian dancing,” Alexi“I liked it when we made the tie-dye shirts.

It was great fun making different patterns and colours,” Tyler

“I liked the whole day - it was amazing,” Harriet

That’s what Class 1 thought. This is what Class 2 thought about it:

“I enjoyed trying the different types of In-dian they were really nice,” Summer

“I liked doing the tie-dye t-shirts,” Kiegan“I didn’t really like the Indian food,” Rosie“I liked doing the dancing because I was

the leader of my group,” ElliotThat was what some people from Class

2 thought about international week. We also asked Class 3:

“It was pretty fun because we did it for a week not a day,” Jodie

“It was great fun to see everyone in-volved. I particularly enjoyed seeing the chil-dren learn some Indian style dancing,” Miss Harris

“It was great fun and every one enjoyed it. My favourite thing was the tie-dye t-shirts,” Kye

“I like being able to try the different foods

and I liked doing the Indian style dancing,” James

Reedness Primary School had the best day. My favourite thing was the dancing and the tie-dye t-shirts. That’s the latest news about international week. For some more in-formation check out the Reedness Primary School web site.

On the 25th June 2014 most of Class 3 went to High Adventure in Cowling near Skipton. It was a three day trip and the children stayed overnight at the centre and came back on Friday 27th. The pupils took part in a wide variety of events and were upset to leave but enjoyed the time that was spent there.

Everyone was excited on the 25th June because on that morning most of Class 3 would be traveling by minibus to High Adventure Outdoor Education Centre in Cowling near Skipton. The journey took 2 hours but it gave them chance to take in the view. Once they got there they were greeted by two instructors and show to their dormitories. The children were then told to unpack and get changed for their first activity, canoeing. The journey to the lake took a little while but it was a very fun journey and the children had a nice make-do karaoke session.

Once there they had to help get the canoes to the shore before starting the activity. They were heavy but the pupils managed. Three at a time they boarded the thin boats and set off paddling. The instructor told them to paddle to the tun-nel at the other side of the lake. Over at the tunnel the pupils were told to paddle through it and see who touched the side of the tunnel the least. They were then told to turn around and go back out onto the main water and swap into another boat and paddle back to the shore.

Every week we do a raffle and who-ever gets picked or not gets a present out of the raffle prize box and it’s a mystery because you might get picked or not and its exciting and breath tak-ing and scary.

We draw out five and they will be only five winners for the raffle and there are all different prizes like bouncy balls, cars, pencils and rubbers and so on there are lots of prizes.

Miss Harris draws out five raffle tick-ets then they pick a prize the who eve gets picked get to pick a prize out of Mrs Launce’s golden box and you get pencil sets, ballerina pen and Moshi monster toys.

Three children from Reedness Primary School go to The Axholme Academy eve-ry Monday afternoon. The pupils get a chance to go for three weeks. Pupils from Year 5 got the chance to visit first and then it was the turn of the Year 6s.

The mini bus from The Axholme Academy picks up the pupils up after lunch to take them for their visit.

The transition visits show the children what The Axholme Academy looks like and what activities they offer. Also it shows the children what it is like in high school and they are able to take part in lessons with pupils from other primary schools. It shows them the layout of the school and the pupils see where all of the classes are. This boosts their confidence and they learn not to be shy and to ask for directions if they get lost. The Axholme Academy has lots of teachers to meet.

It was exciting to meet other children from other primary schools and Alfie said: “It was fantastic.” I asked Scarlett the following question: what did you find hard? “I found nothing hard; it was all easy,” said Scarlett.

“The Axholme Academy was very exciting, fun and it was amazing” screamed Scar-lett and Guy. We all love and look forward to our visits and we can`t wait until we go.

On Tuesday 4th November, Reed-ness Primary School took part in a netball competition against other small schools in the Goole cluster like Marshlands, Swinefleet, Hook, Airmyn and St Josephs. T h e first match was Reedness v Swinefleet and Reedness scored three and Swine-fleet got one goal. Next it was Marsh-lands v Airmyn and Marshlands got three but Airmyn scored no goals at all.

The second match was on the 28th Jan-uary; we scored seven goals in a closely fought match against Marshlands, but unfortunately and they scored eight goals. Scarlett said, “It is fun to play netball be-cause you can pass to people and you can score a goal and win.”

On the 10th march it was the final and Reedness Primary School came 7th out of 8 schools and if you came2nd and3rd you would get a medal if your first you get a shield with your school name on.

It is a good game and fair to every team and it makes everybody play and lots of people can play at school and we can play for school teams.

Raffle of the week

Reedness to AxholmeBy Kye Westwood

By Krimson Westwood

Netball competition

By Bessie Lamb

High time for adventure

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Exploring Crowle Moors!!

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On the 27th February 2015, the chil-dren of Class 5 went on a trip to Crowle Moors to look at wild flowers and ani-mals. It was a cold sunny day but the weather was perfect for exploring.

The first thing we did was go to a barn full of old and young goats. There was a man and he showed us the goats and let us feed them. There was a poorly goat that had burst its udder and we had to be quiet so we didn’t scare it!

While we were walking, we saw: rabbits, more goats and some sheep. We were hop-ing to see a snake but we weren’t as lucky as last year.

We were given a list of things we needed

to collect; it was like a treasure hunt. We had to look for something:

Spiky - we got burdock and a thistle.Soft - we got moss.For evidence of humans- we got litter

and hair.For animals we got rabbit poo and goat

fur.For wet, we got soil.For dry, we got bark and leaves.For hard, we got slate, rocks and wood.We enjoyed our morning out on the

moors, even though our wellies were very muddy when we got back to school!

We asked Owen Noble aged 11 what he liked about the trip and he claimed: “I

enjoyed seeing the different animals and learning about the world around us.”

Written by Harriet Hall and Ellie-Mae Hasselby Kirk

Edited by Harriet Hall and Owen Noble

Sports Ambassadors visit Hull University!Written by Owen NobleEdited by Owen Noble

and Harriet Hall

On Tuesday 2nd Decem-ber 2014, four lucky Sports Ambassadors (Owen Noble, Toby Poole, Jacob Dunstan and Ella Hamilton) experi-enced many sporting activi-ties at Hull University.

We took part in this great experience to increase our knowledge of playtime games which would be used to encour-age younger children to become more involved in sports.

When we arrived, we wit-

nessed that various different schools have been invited too; not all of them were primary schools.

In the morning, we were asked to write down what makes a good leader. We decided that being a Sports Ambassador is all about having good leader-

ship skills. Once we had completed this, we expressed our opinions to the whole room.

After that, we were given a piece of laminated pa-per with instruc-tions of sporty activities. Our mission was to create a game to be played with

other students throughout the day. Our school’s game was kwik cricket.

After our lunch, we created our game. We located a bat and a couple of soft balls. (We used soft balls so nobody would get injured.) When we had all of our equipment, we finally had our game up and running. The school which played our new

version of kwik cricket looked like they enjoyed it. We enjoyed it too.

Finally, it was the end of our exciting day at Hull University.

We interviewed a child called Rion Long (5) who takes part in some of our activities and he said: “It’s really fun and funny.”

Our visit was a definite suc-cess.Sports Ambassadors leading an activity

for another.

At St Norbert’s we have recently bought 16 new iPads. We also have three new websites they are DB Primary, SPAG.com (spelling, punctuation and gram-mar) and Active Learn!

At the beginning of the year St Norbert’s school got a new website called DB Pri-mary. DB Primary helps the whole school with homework. It is more efficient having homework on DB primary than on paper because it can get lost. DB Primary offers facilities such as learning games, which are fun and educational! You can message your friends, blog, have a calendar, do your homework and much more! One DB Prima-ry user, Harry Healer, said: “It’s good!” Wil-liam Roddis says, “I like personalising my profile.” Toby Poole quoted: “Really good; better than our old website (My Learning Space)!” Lots of children like St Norbert’s new website. We use DB primary for our homework every week, spellings and mes-saging each other.

Daniel Roddis said, “The iPads are epic!” Morgan Gamble said, “The iPads are good!” William Harrison told us, “The iPads are awesome!’

St Norbert’s school has a new website to read books, Active Learn. Active Learn, like DB primary, is fun but educational! You can play games and read books on the same website! We asked Paris Robinson what she thought about Active Learn; she replied, “I think Active Learn is a fun and easy way to encourage children to read!” Oscar Hill told us, “It is very a good website.” Harvey said, “I think Active Learn is a good website help with our reading.” So Active learn helps St Norbert’s school with reading!

Tech StartBy Richard Clark and

Nicky Colebrook

Cool clubs at St Norbert’s school St Norbert’s school offer a wide range of great activities after school as well as before school. A lot of people enjoy the clubs but sadly some people don’t.

Breakfast club is if you have to get to school early and you didn’t have any breakfast. We give some of the most popular breakfast dishes so your child always has some-thing to enjoy. After that, they get to play a range of games like Buckaroo, connect 4, great puzzles, guess who and much more.

On January 27th some chil-dren from St. Norbert’s went to the Eco Conference at County Hall in Beverley. They went because they need to help save the environment (Animals, rain forests and more) from extinction.

They were led into a room where they were taught about animals and that rain forests would be burnt down. After that, they went into a Conference hall where they did role play as the WWF (world wildlife fund) against the government, Oil Company, rural people and the World Bank.

The children were told that the oil company were cutting trees down to get oil for the gov-ernment, but the oil company thought of a new way to transport the equipment they need to get oil without hurting the environment. The government said no because it would cost less money for the oil company. So the government demanded 60million pounds but still used the bad way.

The children tried to think of a conclusion. They managed to agree on one conclusion: the government would have to pay back the £60m they borrowed from the World Bank; the rural people would get the clean water the govern-ment promised; the oil company would get the oil; and the environment would be safe.

The pupils who visited were: Paris, Oscar, Morgan, Owen, Jacob and Courtney who rep-resented their school.

St. Norbert’s and other schools across North Lincolnshire was asked to create an advert for these companies: BMW, Thomas Bell and John Leggott.

Once the winner was announced, they got represented in the newspaper.The winner of the competition for John Leggott College was: Paris Robin-

son from St. Norbert’s Runner up was Olivia Sherratt from Worlaby Academy. Another runner

up, Ella Clark, from St. Norbert’s advertised for Thomas Bell. Again from St. Norbert’s Owen Noble was runner up for BMWEach child received a prize which was an Argos voucher. This was during

the autumn term

Advertising challenge for St Norbert’s

Another mind-blowing trip visited by St. Norbert’s

By Oscar & Charlie By Paris and Courtney

By Paris and Courtney

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STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY STEM!Writen by Oscar Hill and Charlie

McVittiePage created by Faith Singh

and Fletcher Peart

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On the 21st November 2014, Class 5 from St Norbert’s School went to the awesome KC Stadium in Hull. The purpose of the pupils going to KC Stadium was to see STEM in action. When they arrived, they went into a room with lots of other schools in-side and afterwards they sat down and listened to the guide. After that, they went with their teachers to see STEM in action. They did lots of fun activities from making balloon cars to making their bubble bath.

Firstly, the class manufactured the Bloodhound SSC, (a small ver-sion) and they were powered by a balloon. They had a choice of balloon and Sellotape to apply to their small car. Everyone saw a video of the Bloodhound SSC achieve 1000mph and all the staggering qualities that this supersonic car has. Many of them were amazed that it could drive on water and that it could drive faster than a bullet from a gun called the magnum.

Next, the children designed their own work gear for the company called Arco. Some of the children had some really wacky ideas like springy shoes, grippy gloves and lad-der boots. Then they got a bag filled

with lots of fun work gear. Everyone put on their suits and a picture was taken. It was a hilarious picture!

After that, the eager learners made towers out of wooden planks and they had to make it as tall as they could to win a prize. But in order to win a prize, the tower had to survive a gust of wind from a big fan. The group who prevailed were: Charlie McVittie (aged 9), Faith Singh (aged 10), William Harrison (aged 9) and Ellie-Mae Hasselby- Kirk (aged 11). To commend them for their good work they received

rulers and wristbands.Furthermore, the class found out

what type of fingerprint they had. They used a special dust and special paper to find it out what fingerprint they have. The most common fin-gerprint is called an arch and the rarest fingerprint is called a tented arch. Only Paris Robinson (aged 10) has the rare tented arch in our class. Then everybody put their pa-per, that had the fingerprint on, in a key ring and they got to keep it.

Finally, all of them made hover-crafts out of a disc, a balloon and a

bottle lid. Firstly, the eager partici-pants glued the bottle lid to the cen-tre of the disc. Next, the balloon was blown up and placed it on top of the bottle lid. Finally, they let go and it glided across the table. Then Class 5 saw how forces work. They also got to keep the hovercrafts.

I bet they had a fun time at the amazing KC Stadium and they all said it was great. Charlie McVittie claimed, “It was greater than great.”

“I really liked it, ” Jac Plant (aged 10) said. Everyone agrees that it was a fantastic experience.

Students beaming as they try on protection gear.

Faith tells us about the Bloodhound SSC.

Super Stem funOn February 2nd, a STEM ambassador, Stuart, came into Class 5 to do an excit-ing activity. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and maths. We created balloon cars in the design of the Bloodhound, a car which is hoping to break the land speed record. We spent part of the day being taught about cur-rent speed records.

Afterwards, we began inventing the cars. Firstly, we cut out a card template carefully and folded it to make it look car-shaped. Secondly, we added axles (which were made of wood) and wheels. We added balloons and

straws to the cars to make them work; the car is powered completely by wind. Later that day, we eagerly raced the cars to see if the type of balloon we chose affected how far the car travelled.

The long balloons had quicker accelera-tion however round balloons travelled fur-ther. Ella Hamilton, a pupil in Class 5, says: “It was very interesting and I liked racing the cars.” It was an extremely fun day, which all pupils in Class 5 enjoyed.

Eager pupils listening to STEM Ambassadors.

By Jacob Dunstan and Ella Clark

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Striving for a safe school!By Jacob Dunstan and Ella Clark

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In our school, a School Council and a group of Safe School Ambassadors have been elected to ensure the happiness and safety of pupils. These two groups also join together to create the Rights Respecting Steering group. Both groups have weekly meetings to discuss new ideas. In addition to this, the two com-mittees have coordinators and assistant coordinators.

Isobel McHale, the assistant coordinator of the Safe School Ambassadors, quotes, “I enjoy being part of the Safe School Ambas-sador team and I enjoy helping Ella Clark, the coordinator.”

Earlier this year, the School Council de-cided to have a tasting session so that there were new, tasty dishes on the school menu. The group tasted: raspberry cheesecake, fruit kebabs, sausage casserole and many more. Before the tasting day, the School Council asked children what new dishes they would like. William Roddis, the vice-chair of the School Council says, “It was good to know that our opinions are listened to. Also, it was fun to taste different food.”

On the 13th and 16th of January, the SSA (Safe School Ambassadors) completed a cyber-mentor course, which explained about the consequences of cyber-bullying and how

to stop it. Two cyber mentors went into each class to do a lesson on how to stay safe on-line. In each class, we played games and watched informative videos. Karra - a year 1 pupil - said, “We played a fun game which taught us about cyber bullying.”

Marianne- who is also in year 2- said, “The video was useful and I now know what

cyber bullying is.” All the SSA have been to at least one

conference, where they were trained to be Safe School Ambassadors. At playtime, two ambassadors wear yellow hats so that are noticeable to children who feel sad or alone. We like being part of these groups and help-ing others in the school.

Our Safe School Ambassadors attending a fun and informative conference.

It’s a book bonanza!

World Book Day took place on the 5th March 2015, but we celebrated by dressing up the day before. Even the Teachers joined in with the fun: Mr Dawson went as Mr Popper’s Penguin, Miss Tonge went as Robin Hood and Mrs Starkie went as the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. The aim is to encourage children to read more, as it shows them books can be fun.

Before playtime, all of the children went into the hall and each class paraded around in a circle. Mrs Tonge (Head Teacher) chose a visitor to judge our fancy dress competi-tion. Mrs Bassindale chose Daniel in Yr 5 as the winner; he was dressed as ‘Steve’ from Minecraft. In Class 4, the winner was Lau-ren - who was dressed as Pinocchio. The win-ner in Class 3 was Harley; he was dressed as Tintin. The winner in Class 2 was Oscar - who was dressed up as the Jolly Postman. In Reception, the winner was Kacey - who was Cat in the Hat.

All of the winners received a bag of sweets and a £10 gift voucher to spend at the book fayre. The Book Fayre sells books and sta-tionery to parents and their children. The winners of the competition bought books with the voucher they won and with their own money. Before the Book Fayre came to school, children in every class got a £1 gift voucher to spend on the book that they would like.

Chloe Chapman (8) said: “I enjoyed dressing up as my favourite character from my book.”

Olivia Peacock (8) told us: “I thought it was fair because everyone could show the people in school their costumes which they had made or bought.”

Olivia Ferguson (6) said: “My favourite part was when my class were walking round in a circle and showing everyone our beauti-ful costumes.”

Paris Robinson, in Class 5, said: “I thought it was fun and creative and some people made their own costumes.”

By Grace Peacock and Dominic O’leary

Daniel Roddis and Harvey Neasham in their amazing costumes!

On the 25th February 2015, Class 5 from St Norbert’s went to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. They were there for a school trip that the teachers had organised for them because there were learning about sculptures and famous artists.

When they got there, they met the guide who was going to show them around. The children had a look around and had to choose their favourite sculpture and the one they found the most interesting. Most of the children chose the biggest one as their fa-vourite because it was big; it was called the Crucifixion.

They then went into a room where there were trays of clay and they had to mould the clay into a bowl. When they finished, they were given toys and shapes to try and carve their favourite sculptures in the bottom of

their clay bowl. The guide then put plaster in it and then they then waited for it to dry.

After the clay workshop they had a final look at the gallery. They were given glasses that make you see like a fly would see eve-rything and also binoculars. When they fin-ished looking at the amazing art work, eve-ryone said thank you to the guide and they said thank you to all the adults who came and especially Mrs Starkie who took them there.

Everyone really enjoyed the trip because it was fun and exciting. Daniel in Year 5 said, “It was really good and I loved the clay work.” Jac liked the 3D printer because it printed tea pots.

By Jac and Daniel

Art trip inspiration

On 20th September, Anti-bullying week came to our school. The Anti-bullying group made a presentation to tell the whole school about Anti-bully-ing week. From verbal to physical bul-lying; we taught it all.

Ella Hamilton and Max came into Class five to talk about cyber bullying and showed us two PowerPoints. Then James and Ella Clark went into Class four and showed them a Powerpoint containing all they would need featuring videos from CEOP. Isobel and William went into Class three and showed them a PowerPoint also. Then Grace and Harry went into class two and told them about cyber bullying and computers.

Everyone enjoyed our presentations; there were a few giggles but on the whole everyone took it seriously and even thought they were fun as a few of them were light hearted. All of us enjoyed it and now we know how to stay safe when using the internet including what to do if you are a victim of cyber bullying.

We have an anti-bullying group and cyber bullying group at school because we want our friends to be safe and sound in the comforts of school and home. We want bullying gone forever, worldwide!

Anti- Bullying week meets Cyber Bullying

By James and Anna

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Close call for us in quarter final clashBy Toby Poole and Max

Harte

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The Football Team mem-bers are: Max Harte, Jacob Dustan, Owen Noble, Ella Hamilton, Harvey Neasham, Richard Clark, Harry Heal-er, Oliver Crewe, Fletcher Peart, Toby Poole, Daniel Roddis and our coach - Jason Cocker.

The team is mixed up with year 5 and 6. Ella Hamilton- year six - said: “I like being in the team because it gives me a chance to express what I can do. Other children can also help me to improve.” We played other teams from local schools which we won and drew.

On the 28th November 2014, the football team took part in a tournament at Appleby and Frodingham sports ground on

AstroTurf. We were really ex-cited to play our first matches as a school team. We were really hoping to win our first match.

We advanced out onto the pitch to play our first competi-tive game ever; we were nervous but proud.

The tournament started well. We won our first match against stiff competition. We were fired up for the next match which we won easily.

We won five matches overall and drew one other; that’s how we got to the quarter finals. Our success was due to team

effort and great defensive play from Harvey Neasham, Richard Clark and also great goalkeep-ing from Max Harte.

Gingerly, we galloped onto the pitch for our seventh game; it was time for the quarter final.

We started off really well, but before we knew it our opposition scored a great header which put them in the lead. We tried our hardest but a goal was out of reach for us on the day. The bet-ter team won the match.

On the afternoon of the 5th of March we went to the Axholme Academy to do some orienteering. We walked there and once we went inside we were all amazed that there were a lot of children. There were children from several different schools who participated.

It was very fun; we think it was a good ex-perience because some of us had never taken part in this sort of event before. The children we spoke to told us that they enjoyed the ex-perience because it was competitive and fun.

Our school came first and second in orienteering!

Four children enjoy the orienteering.

By Harry Healer and Oliver Crewe

After a four-hour drive from Crowle to Stratford upon Avon, Class 5 finally ar-rived at the birthplace of our country’s most celebrated playwright Wiliam Shakespeare.

We were accompanied by five adults - Mr Dawson our teacher, Mrs Fowles, Mrs Peart, Mrs Harrison and Mrs Wood.

We walked to Shakespeare’s house and spoke about what was around us. Then a lady came and told us about the garden. She informed us that there were wee pits in the garden to cleanse leather gloves.

Then we went into the main room where there was a four-poster bed in the middle of the room.

After that, we went into the workhouse, where William Shakespeare’s Dad, John Shakespeare, worked.

He made leather gloves and had appren-tices who would help him work and sell gloves. He would hang them outside the workshop windows.

Next we went into the dining hall where there were white leather gloves that be-longed to Shakespeare which were resting on the bench.

Then we went to the Royal Shakespeare Company and learnt more about the plays Shakespeare wrote like the Tempest and Romeo and Juliet.

We acted out the Tempest in groups and played parts. Then we played a game like snowball, the first one to the monster won. We then had to act out as statues like kings and monsters and wizards.

After that, we went to Anne Hathaway’s cottage (Shakespeare’s wife) where we learnt more about Anne.

We went firstly into the kitchen and

looked at the cutlery they would have used then. We also went upstairs and almost went through the roof as it was so close to the top of our heads!

Oliver (10) said: “I thought this trip was good.” Anna, also 10, said: “I thought this trip was epic in all ways!”

James (11) said: “This trip taught me a lot and helped me know more about William Shakespeare.”

We were all tired from our one day trip but it was super exciting. The next day we acted as if we were John Shakespeare!

A group acting out the tempest

Our greatest playwright...By Anna Sayles

and James Ferguson

Imagination LibraryThe Imagination Library is a place where children at St Norbert’s can read lots of books that are meant for their age.

They can start when they are aged be-tween 0-5yrs. Children in Nursery went to Crowle Library and Mrs Scotting (the librarian) read them a story that is appro-priate for their age.

As they get older, the children in Nurs-ery get sent home with more advanced books. The reason why they bring books home is so that parents don’t have to buy a huge range of books themselves. They get books every month.

Georgina Healer read a story called Pe-ter Rabbit. That is how the Imagination Library started at our school.

Throwing in the ball the opposition tries to score but desperate defending and

goalkeeping saved the day.

On the afternoon of the 23rd Septem-ber, Mr Percy - our local MP - visited class 5 at St Norbert’s school. Mr Per-cy came in to talk about the local area and how to improve it.

Mr Percy also talked to us about British values and what they were. It was very in-teresting because we could learn so much from one question and answer. We got to ask any questions that were related to the subject like: “What are British values?” and, “How does your work relate to them?”

We learnt about laws in Britain and how these are created. We also explored what might happen if you break the law. Mr Percy said that we could go to prison or get a fine. We talked about how important it is to respect the law.

Then Mr Percy went on to talk about politics and what he would do if we gave him a good idea; he said he would take it to London and tell some very important people, like the Prime Minister!

We thought it was very interesting and really enjoyed it. One of the pupils said, “It was very educational and I liked it.”

Mr Percy came in because our topic for that term was on laws and values. All the class had questions to ask Mr Percy as we really wanted to get as much knowledge as we could.

Mr Percy and the children

By Oliver Crewe and Harry Healer

On the 11th of May 2015, all primary children in Year 6 around the UK will take their SATS test. These tests are to check at which levels children come out as this is to make sure that all children are making the right amount of progress

I’m currently a Year 6 and feel it’s all about revising and doing your best. Our school gives us lots of support and encourage-ment this is very reassuring as I feel nervous and worried at times. The staff are always there for us.

We have extra clubs to help us feel more confident. All the help, hard work and revi-sion will pay off once we have taken the test. Here’s are some quotes from some of the year sixes. Jayne Bardauskas exclaimed “she felt very scared” Howard had said “they are tak-ing over his life as he needs to concentrate be-cause it’s a big event in his life. This can put a lot of pressure of people but as all the sup-portive teachers they can help you through it.

On Red Nose Day, Swinefleet Primary School pupils will pay £1.00 to wear funny and cheeky red noses. All of the noses are different for example Snor-bit, Karate Konk, Smortel, Nosebot, Supernose, Astrosnort, Snout Dracu-la, Snotty Professor and Stripey. Our school has being selling Red Nose’s for a couple of weeks now to make sure everyone gets the chance to donate.

The event will take place on Friday 13th March 2015. By fundraising lots of Red Noses in everyone’s school, if you pay £1.00 you’ll be helping over 300,000 children across Africa into education and learning, and best of all, the UK govern-ment is going to double the money raised by UK schools.

Swinefleet Primary School had a day of ‘Make your face funny for money’ to give to a charity to help children all over char-ity all over the world. Altogether, Swine-fleet Primary School has raised £177.65!

In Swinefleet Primary School we have Positive Play Leaders who are a group of Sapphires that are in Year 4, 5 and 6, helping positive pupils to have fun. At play time 20 children play with two perfect play leaders every day. It hap-pens because children might have no one to play with. We play games such as catch, obstacle course, dodge ball and so much more. Our Playtime Leaders are a wonderful group of children who give up some of their playtimes to help the other children. They organise games and activities for children to take part in.

Some of our pupils have said why they like play leaders. Evie Lewis said “I love play leaders because they give their spare

time for us.” Jessica Burt quoted “I enjoy play lead-

ers because the play leaders have lots of fun with us!”

Howard said “I like play leaders because it gives more children something to do!

Lucy Dean said “I like play leaders be-cause they always have fun games!”

Miley said “I like play leaders because they have good games.”

Sasha said “I enjoy play leaders because they have good games and they are nice to us!”

Harry said “I love play leaders because they play all my favourite game.”

We will do this every day, 5 days a week. I asked some people if they had to choose to improve play leaders what would they do. Kaden said “More games suitable for year 4, 5, 6!”

Keiko suggested “Nothing they are per-fect as they are!”

Riley answered “Nothing!”

At Swinefleet Primary School, in Sapphires class we have been doing Non-sense poems in English. Nonsense poems are a poem that is funny and isn’t sup-posed to make sense.

When we first started Non-sense poems at the beginning of March we started on learning portmanteaus. Sapphires have all being doing nonsense poems with our teacher, Mr Williams for the last few weeks.

Nonsense poems have some-times made up words, which are called portmanteau words, portmanteau words are two

words squished together for example, fantastic and bril-liant = FANTASTILLIANT and Labrador and poodle = LABRAPOODLE.

Here are some quotes from some of the children in Sap-phires about their nonsense poems; Jessica Burt exclaimed “I like my nonsense poem be-cause it is very nonsense just like me”. “Lyla Bardauskas answered “I like my nonsense poem because it is calming”. El-lie Fitz – George said “I like my

nonsense poem because I can make it up about nonsense and I think I’m getting very good at it”

When we have all finished our nonsense poems, we will be decorating them with amazing

borders and also backing them and putting them up on display.

Here’s an example of one of the pupils at Swinefleet Prima-ry School’s nonsense poem just remember it’s (NONSENSE)

When the birds start to swim,And the dolphins start to talk.

As soon as the people have flown away,

The trees begin to walk.

I’m happy but I’m grumpy,I run like a bird.

I think my brain is melting,Because I sat on a cow herd.

Here comes a dat,Who’s turned?

She’s just drunken a rainbow,The moon is her bed.

(Make your face funny for money)Children making funny faces at Swinefleet Primary.

Nonsense poems!

Swinefleet Year 6 revising for SATs

Are you ready to take the test?

Swinefleet Primary School: Axholme Alliance April 2015

By Ellie Dean

Positive Perfect Play leaderBy Ellie and Jayne

By Ellie Fitz-George

Exciting Red Nose DayBy Lyla Bardauskas

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By Ryan

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Throughout this article you will know about the perfect park for children

In Swinefleet, there’s been new play-ing equipment. As we all hope it will be finished on the 9th March 2015. As we would like to inform you they are making a spider swing and an amazing swinging climbing frame. You don’t have to look af-ter your children; the park will look after them. Here are some quotes.

Heidi Symonds: “It is very inspiring and all children love it”

Paris Hudson: “I don’t like it, I love it!” Elliot Wilkinson: “It is an improvement

from our old park as it was smaller than our new one”

The Parish Council funded this park to be built, so bring your children down and have some fun with them.

There’s not just one person at the park like at the old one we all love it, there’s usually 20 children (Or maybe Adults!).There is more things to play with and it’s not been extended by one thing it has ex-tended by about 4 things.

Thank you Parish Council, we all ap-preciate your generosity and kindness for funding the equipment for the park!

Art Attack!Our Art Gallery is based on artists who were famous for painting ani-mals.

Our ideas were collected from the inter-net and other children’s work.

We did this on the sixth of February the week before half term.

All of Sapphires did this and the amaz-ing results went up on display in the hall.

We drew and painted all of the art in our classroom and made frames with card and decorated them with sticks, string

and gold and silver spray paint.The children looked at other art galler-

ies and animal artists then we decided to create our own art gallery.

All our work has been attractively dis-played for everyone to look at. We are very proud of our work.

We painted: koala bears, lizards, el-ephants, tigers, lion and a fox just to name some. Pictures can be taken of our display.

The names of some of the art-ists are Jacques Raymand, Franz Mare and Rich-ard Ansdell all famous for ani-mal paintings.

Everyone en-joyed the project and we would en-courage others to try it.

Perfect Playing Park

Children of Swinefleet will enjoy playing on the new Play Equipment

Art work by Maddy Banks

Everybody was so excited to be taking part in the dance competition. Some of Year 3 and most 4 pupils at Swine-fleet Primary School took part in the competition.

The dance competition took place at Goole Junction which is in the centre of Goole on Tuesday 17th March 2015.

The schools that took part in the competition were Reedness, Boothferry, Airmyn and Swinefleet performing in front of an audience of proud mums

and dads .The children representing Swinefleet in the competition were Evie, Jessica, kaden, keiko, Saule, Gabby, Jayden, Jack, Ricky, Lilly, Maddy, Ellie and

Riley. Mr Douglas organised the competition. We wore black shorts and white tops.Keiko had an umbrella, she was one of the main parts in our group. Keiko was also

wearing a hat and a coat so it would be like she’s singing in the rain. The day was a great success and was enjoyed by all!

Exciting Dance Competition

The Swinefleet Dance Troop

By Evie Lewis and Kaden Hudson

By Ricky Mowton

Breakfast club is held in the school hall and starts at 8:10 am. Mrs Mckone kindly serves toast, cereal and sometimes yoghurts! You can go for breakfast and a chat and when you’ve finished you can play a game of dominos or draw some pictures!

I asked some people what they think of breakfast club.“It’s fun because I can eat my breakfast and play dominos all for £1.50!” Elliot said.“It’s awesome! You can have fun and eat breakfast!” Max saidYou could have jam or butter on your toast or you can have cornflakes, Weetabix,

Rice Crispies, Shreddies or Cheerios. You can even have a little boogie to the radio that is on every day.

Breakfast club


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Sapphires had to produce their induction book. The day we started this was the 6th of January and our targets are still continuing fortnightly. All of sapphires got involved to create a book all about jobs, rewards, sap-phire time and many more.

We started our project by having ‘A Be The Best Assem-bly’ with Olympian high jump-er Brendan Reilly and creating a cover book of a job that we would like to have.

All members of Sapphires got to choose something they thought they needed to im-prove as their target. Whether it was being a better play lead-er, putting your hand up more, improve times tables or using joint handwriting.

Each member of Sapphires got to design their own person-al pages. After a teacher had checked it, we could choose to handwrite it in colourful pens

or type it up on the computer and add things like borders and pictures.

Howard: “I am proud of this because it shows off what sap-phires are.”

Keiko Bedford: “I like it that

everyone worked together to make it

Elliot Wilkinson: “I am proud of this because it shows just how good sapphires are!”

Libby Moverley: “I like it that we all got to create our

own personal pages.”Ryan: “It is a fun way to

achieve our goals.”We did this so new people

who came into our class knew a bit about us.

Bench ball is a team sport with teams of ten players. (6 plus 4 subs) It is set out a little like football with teams on dif-ferent halves on the court. One player from each team stands on a bench and the rest of the team stand on the oppo-site side of the court.

The aim of the game is to pass the ball from person to person heading towards their player on the bench who has to catch the ball without falling off. If the ball is caught the player who threw the ball joins the player on the bench. The team which get 5 of the 6 players on the bench first are the winners!

The first ever tournament took place on the 3rd March at Goole High. The schools that were involved were Reedness, Booth-ferry Airmyn, Kingsway, Hook, Marshlands and, of course, Swinefleet Primary.

The ten pupils that represented Swine-fleet Primary School in the tournament were Keiko, Riley, Jack, Lilly, Jayden, Kaden, Saule, Ricky, Maddy and Max.

The pupils travelled by car to Goole High and felt very excited but nervous as well.

All schools played each other with some very close games. Swinefleet came fourth the wining team was Kingsway. At the end people shook hands and congratulated each other on great performances.

Riley Clow said “It’s about taking part, I enjoyed the games “.

Keane Faxon said” They were all good games , there is no losers everyone is a win-ner”

Investors in pupilsBy Keane and Riley

By Howard

By Elliott and Libbby

P.E Programme Promotion

Benchball Rocks!

Every Thursday morning, some of the Swinefleet Primary School pu-pils (Sapphires), go down to Reedness Primary School’s hall and use their apparatus, under supervision of Mr Douglas(P.E teacher) and Miss Bishell-Wells(Sapphires teacher).

We had to ask the Reedness headteacher,Mrs Lawrence, if we could use their hall because the Swinefleet Primary school hall is too small for the equipment. Reedness had lots of outstand-ing apparatus like; the climbing wall (it had lots of different climbing walls, a rope ladder and two ropes),tables and balancing beams. These were surrounded by mats so we could jump off without hurting ourselves. We all enjoyed using them.Here are some of the pupils thoughts.

Elliot ‘I loved the climbing wall’s rope ladder because it was fun to climb and do balances off.’

Libby ‘I liked the balancing beams because they were fun to do bridges off of them.’

Kieko ‘The rope ladder was fun as it was easy to hang off.’

Kaden ‘The ropes was great because they were hard,but fun, to climb on.’

Ellie D ‘They were good to make bridges on.’Lyla ‘The rope ladders are amazig as there as

loads of different balances.’Jayne ‘The balancing beams are astonishing

as they are good for balances because you can stand on them, go unde them and go over them. ’

Ellie F ‘I love the rope laddders because they are good for swinging and climbing.’

Everyone loves this and they all hope it will cary on throughout the year.

Swinefleet primary school went on an amazing residential at Kingswood on the 25th of March.

I chose the top 5 at Kingswood 5: The first activity was indoor climbing, it was re-ally high up but you got a mega wedgie. 4:

Then we had to get our magni-fying glasses for trail of mystery! We figured out who the sneaky cold blood-ed murderer was. 3: Laser

quest was awesome and scary. “Got you” screamed Ricky. “I’m already out of lives” screamed miss Bishell-Wells you could hear the screams of children getting zapped un-detectably.

Miss Bishell-Wells and Mr Williams versed each other and Miss Bish won. Yay. 2: Abseiling was scary but everyone had a go. I went down 3 times and held a fluffy adorable teddy. It felt like I was in the mili-tary. 1: Finally we finished with some zip lining. Everyone loved it. We zipped through the wind as the instructors were screaming “drop the rope.” It was an adventure for eve-ryone.

All of the activities were fun (except nightline) but I picked these as the top 5. The sapphires thought it was the best resi-dential ever. However I would have chosen campfire if there was enough room or aero

ball but I could only choose 5 so I picked these amazing activities.

People’s opinionsMiss Bishell-Wells said “I liked laser

quest best!”Ricky liked ab sailing bestElla liked night line bestHoward liked zip wire bestShannon liked aero ball.

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On the 25th March, Sapphires class went on an exciting residential to King-swood in Dearne Valley (near Doncas-ter) .

Sapphires stayed for 2 nights. They will be going to gain confidence, bravery, team-work and self-belief.

Some of the activities Sapphires did ab-seiling, laser quest, lowropes, indoor climb-ing, zip wire, archery, campfire and night-line. Before the visit, I asked some class mates how they felt about the trip. Many of the children were excited to get away from home and learn new things. Sapphires are very excited because they will have fun, learn new things and try new activities. Many also think that they will conquer some of their fears.

Some of the students, who have never been to Kingswood, told me what they think

it will be like. Elliot Wilkinson thought “I’m so excited because it’ll be awesome and also I’ll conquer my fear of heights!” Howard said happily “ I can’t wait because it will be ace and it will help me get over my fear of height!”

Max Dowson said excitedly “It’s going to be epic because I’ll be able to stay away from home and gain confidence!” Ryan said “I will try and do all the activities because I think that it will be good to have a go!” Paris Hudson said “I think that my favourite ac-tivity will be laser quest because I want to improve my aiming.”

Jessica Burt was very excited and said “I think it will be breath-taking because I’ll be able to terrify myself!” Heidi Symonds is not

as confident in doing it but she said “I’ll try and do some of the activities but I am least determined to do archery.” This is why we are going to gain confidence. If she gives it a go, maybe she’ll have more self-belief!

In Swinefleet Primary School new members of staff joined and some mem-bers of staff left.

The members of staff who joined are: Mr Williams our trainee teacher who teaches Sapphires class, Mrs Burt who got the job for our new Receptionist, Mr Davey who is a supply teacher and Mrs Bailey who is our new fantastic dinner lady. Mrs Laybourne is a supply teacher for Rubies and she want-ed the job because when she walked into the school she felt like a part of the family and the children were very lovely and kind.

The members of staff who unfortunately left are: Mrs Leach who was the former fan-tastic teacher for Emeralds, Miss Handsard our former dinner lady and Miss Hall our other former dinner lady who left for anoth-er job and Mrs Wilson-Bunston our former Receptionist.

I asked some new teachers what they wanted the job for? They said :

Mrs Burt : When I saw the advertisement for Administration Assistant at Swinefleet Primary I saw an opportunity to be part of

the small and friendly school within the vil-lage I live.

After bringing up my two daughters I felt it was the right time to use my skills and knowledge within an office role and provide my support to the children. I like to work as part of a team and enjoy new challeng-es. Since starting at the school I have been made to feel very welcome, settled into the team, enjoyed working and supporting the children and provided support within the of-fice. My working day is filled with various tasks so I am always kept very busy.

What did the children think of the chang-es at Swinefleet Primary School?

Jayne: Upset because some of my favour-ite teachers left but I’m also happy for them because they have moved on in their life!

Keiko: Upset because people left and happy because new people came to the Swinefleet Primary School family.

Max: I felt upset because I didn’t want

any teachers to leave!Howard: I like the change but it is sad to

say goodbye. Ryan: It was sad to say good-bye but different teachers always come with different ideas.

The article is about after school, lunchtime and extra-curricular clubs. There is lots of choice like cricket, gui-tar S.A.T.S, cooking, chess and film clubs.

All of Swinefleet School children get to choose a club but there are some clubs that have to be only for certain year groups.

Highway to Heaven!

New Faces Of Swinefleet School!

At Swinefleet School years 3, 4 and 5 get to go swimming for one afternoon a week, to make sure we all understand more about how to swim as this is very important, it saves lives. Swimming lessons started on the 21st February and we went every Friday from 1pm until 2pm. Pupils really enjoy and ben-efit from it. We feel lucky to do this as everyone needs to learn how to swim and how to be safe around water.

Swimming lessons take place at Goole Leisure Centre. There is a shallow, medium and deep area and three different groups with a qualified swimming teacher.

The 1st group are the ones who aren’t confident at swimming and are basically beginners. The 2nd group are the children who are getting more confident and begin-ning to swim independently. The 3rd group are the ones who are the most confident and they can swim from the shallow to the deep end doing backstroke, frontcrawl and breaststroke.

The things we learn in swimming are floating, putting our head under water, treading water and we even touch the floor in the deep end. As well as being important it’s great fun. After a few weeks we are al-lowed to play some games in the pool. If we try hard or our swimming has improved than the teachers lets us play some games like push and glide. We do a thing called mushroom floats where you curl into a ball and try to stay above the water for 10 sec-onds.

Swimming is very important and every-one should be taught to swim.

Lyla: thinks swimming is good because it is active.

Ricky: loves swimming because it is fun to splash at the end.

Elliot: it’s very fun doing the fun time at the end.

Ryan: like swimming because it’s good way to exercises.

Paris: I love swimming because it’s fun.

Swim for Life!

Lyla, Ellie F-G, Keiko, Paris, Evie, Ricky, Keane

Mr. Williams


By Shannon McLaughlin

By Kia Bedford

By Jessica Burt

The Clubs are Back in Town!By Saule Butvilaite Brook Robinson

They are on different days of the week and different staff take them.

Children and staff enjoy the clubs be-cause they are fun and they help you learn things you may not get to do.

These clubs last around an hour and film club lasts for an hour and a half. The clubs are free but if you want refreshment you can bring your own. We pay fifty pence for cooking club as the ingredients are ex-pensive but we do get to take our delicious baking home.

In December 2014, Year five and six entered a Young Writers Competi-tion which was a national contest between many schools all over the country. It was based on writing a short story of no more than a 100 words on a topic of our choice. It in-volves the children and it helps them improve their punctuation and use better vocabulary in their writing.

From our school, 19 pupils are lucky enough to have their work published into a book along with many other pupils from other schools. The book will be out at the end of March 2015 and the price

is £17.99. I asked Jacob the following question.

What did you write about? Why did you write about it? Jacob replied, “A goal with a pair of boots and a ball. The boots kept kicking the ball into the goal but it saved them all. I chose it because I like football.”

I asked the Head teacher this ques-tion. How do you feel about 19 out of 23 pupils having their work published in the book ‘Once Upon a Time?’

I am extremely impressed and recog-nise we have children with some great imaginations.

I spoke to Khyah and she told me that she wrote about ‘The Bully Pen-cils’ which was about pencils that went around bullying all the other stationary and the hero of the story was the pencil sharpener. As you can see, some of our pupils have really good imaginations.

We are all excited to have our work published in a book and cannot wait to read them back to our parents.

I am happy because my work is being published and cannot wait to read other pupils work as well

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The front cover of the book with all the published books inside.

Writing Competition at Gunness

SKIP4LIFE comes to the school!!On the 4th February 2015, SKIP4LIFE came to St Norbert’s to encourage us to skip. This activity hap-pened because we wanted to keep fit and learn to skip. We also did it for some fun. We had to skip as many times as possible. This activity was for the whole school from Reception to Class five. It happened in our school hall. SKIP4LIFE goes to many schools!

We all got skipping ropes and skipped to the beat of the music. Our skipping ropes had monitors on them to say how many times you have skipped. Some were skipping ex-tremely fast and you couldn’t see the rope whereas others

were skipping slowly!A willing skipper called Ella Clark (age 11) stated that

she thought skipping to music was fun!Another child who adores skipping is Isobel McHale (age

10) and she said that it is fun to keep fit and skip4life! Mrs Tonge says that she thinks SKIP4LIFE is an enjoyable thing to do which keeps you heathy and makes your heart stronger. Olivia thinks that SKIP4LIFE is very good be-cause it makes us very healthy. Evie Chafor thinks that it is really fun it is also really good people who can’t skip because it encourages them. Andie-rose says that she likes it.

Lilliana says that she really likes it and enjoyed it. Domi-nic thinks that it is extraordinary and fun.

Miss Bullimore says the children really enjoyed skipping. Ella from Reception says she loved it. Eve says she loved it too. Rion says it was fun Aver says it was brilliant.

The lady that encouraged us to SKIP4LIFE came to our school last year; she taught us how to cross skip and double rope skip but this year we only practised forward skip!

We all had an amazing day with SKIP4LIFE!

Recently St Norbert’s received a visit from our local police officer PC South-am.

PC Southam goes into classes and talks about law, enforcement and drugs.

He comes in just to listen to readers and he talks about how you can stay safe.

He talks about certain crimes and he tells how many days/years you would be in prison for.

He has certain equipment on his belt and on jacket. On his belt he has handcuffs, a taser, pepper spray, a baton and on his jack-et he has a radio.

He tells St Norbert’s what’s right and what’s wrong with the help of his assistant Wendy.

He talks about why he wears the uniform

he does. PC Southam comes twice every term. PC Southam puts an end to people who are being rude or littering.

PC Southam helps boys with reading be-cause it is very encouraging and can help boys get off their electronic devices and start reading a book.

We are very fortunate to have PC South-am visit us on a regular basis and he helps us with work and supports in different ways. We enjoy working with him and he enjoys working with us.

We like having him in our school and we are sure he likes coming here.

Pc Southam pays a visit Reach4 RE

By Ellie Mae & Harriet

In our school, we have a liturgy group who plan small masses and assemblies. These people are in Key Stage 2 and they are: Isobel M, Max H, Ella C, Ella SH, Oscar H, Harvey N, Oliver C, Savannah G, Maddison W. Isobel and Max are Chair and Vice Chair. Isobel said, ‘I think the remembrance assembly was good because every child participated in the activity we planned.’ Max said, ‘I think class liturgies are great because every child has the opportunity to plan liturgies.’

The liturgy group gathers peo-ple together to spread what they hear in the assembly. We do this as our mission. Our mission is to show others how the mission could make us better people.

Our teacher said, ‘I think you can improve by creating your own materials instead of the Let Us Pray materials.’ We asked one of our pupils and she said, ‘I think that the lit-urgy group are really impressive with planning and presenting. I like the Remembrance Day assembly because you got everyone doing something and I think it’s really useful.’

To be able to present these liturgies, the liturgy group sometimes needs training. On Wednesday 5th November, the liturgy group took part in a training day. This was called Reach4. Four adults helped us to plan a school assembly on Remembrance Day. We participated in this task for the full day. On Friday 7th November, we showed the school what we had been planning. Reach 4 do chaplaincy training; they came from Not-tingham.

Big assemblies aren’t just what the liturgy group plan. On 20th February Class 5 did an assembly for parents and the other classes. The parents evaluated our assembly so we can improve it next time. One evaluation said our behaviour was ‘excellent’ and our independence was ‘very good.’ The liturgy group are in the process of planning a Lent assembly. More news next time.

By Harry G & Fletcher

By Ella H & Harvey


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DT model makingThroughout February 2015, Years 4, 5 and 6 (Sapphire class) have been mak-ing DT models based on our topic Har-ry Potter. The models were designed around Hogwarts and characters in the Philosopher’s Stone book which we had been reading in class. As a treat, when we had finished we watched the Philosopher’s Stone.

At the start of our DT we were put into groups and given an instruction card about making models. We all had to work as a team and follow the instructions and we had to gather all of the equipment that we needed for a group. We got to look at how they were made and how the CAMs worked so that we could make our own moving models.

We made our own models and we had

to choose something from Harry Potter. We wrote down all of the equipment we needed to make our individual models and then built them. We used egg CAMs, snail CAMs, off-centre CAMs and wheels. We all had to concentrate at the DT model making to be able to then watch the Harry Potter film.

Elliot thought, ‘Making it were really fun DIY’.

Shannon thought, ‘DT was very fun and I would enjoy if we did it again’.

Kia said ‘It was exiting, en-joyable and very creative’.

Paris said, ‘The winding bit when you turned it around was fun and fantastic’.

Libby liked when we got to choose our own because ‘It was fun!’

The project was a great way for us to be creative and work through a project indepen-dently. We looked at examples, planned, made and evaluated. Everyone produced something

to be proud of and it was fantastic for all of the Sapphires to be able to show just what they are capable of!

On Thursday 5th March 2015, was World Book Day. Everyone in school got dressed up as a character out of a book. As a task in our class we had to make up the name of different characters and use alliteration. For example Princess Paris played Pool for Portugal. We also had to write a description for our characters.

We had fun in the hall when all the chil-dren huddled together to hide the four amaz-ing dressed up Where’s Wally. Our Head teacher Mr. May took a photograph of us all.

After break the children and staff dressed up as Where’s Wally and hid, and it was only when our teachers asked where they were that we realised they were missing. Two young children became detectives and were then sent to investigate what had happened to them. They found them hiding under a gi-gantic beanbag in the library. Our teaching assistant Mrs Harrison was dressed as one of the Wally’s she was the only adult to hide along with the other Wallys. It was quite funny because Mrs.Harrison had got rather worried that the teachers had forgotten to send anyone to look for them but eventually they were found.

Some people got their picture taken by the Goole Times and it went in the local news-paper.

World Booktastic Day

By Heidi and Paris

House Captains run the assemblies on Mondays.

They have a timetable so they know what they are doing, and they then go around ask-ing questions to members of their house team to see what their ideas are. If they don’t have an answer they go back to them at the end of the assembly.

If there is time at the end the house cap-tains will ask the little ones what they want to play and then they have chance to play a little game like Chinese whispers or heads down, thumbs up.

The house captains wear badges which are the colour of their House: blue, yellow and red.

The captains for each house are Bessie, Tyler, Abbey, Katie, Scarlett and Kye.

I asked Tyler what he liked about being a house captain and said, “It makes me feel special.”

House Captains play an important role in school because they organise assemblies and allow for all of the children in school to have a say.

Play Leaders run games at lunchtime and help the little children with their problems.

Play Leaders follow a timetable and take it in turns each day so that everyone gets a chance. If Mrs Ritchie thinks they did a good job, she will sign their book and when they get thirteen signatures they get their Bronze award. For twenty seven signatures, they get their silver award and for forty three they get their gold award. The first person to get a Bronze Award was Bessie

Lamb. Mr Butterworth trained the Year 6s and

now Year 5 are starting to shadow them and become Playleaders themselves, so this is all of Class 3.

The Playleaders wear hats so the chil-

dren in the playground can see who they are and can join in the games.

When it is the Play Leaders day they go out of Lunch early to set up the games. Five minutes before the end of lunchtime they pack up the equipment.

House captains take over assemblies

Play leaders help out

By Alfie Walker

By Alfie Walker


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Behind the cameras at the University of LincolnPictures of the Axholme Alliance primary students working in the newsrooms of the Lincoln School of Journalism

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