Final day!

Our Finding Fin river study had to be cancelled because of the potential of thunder and lightening so we took part in a CSI case study.

Our final evening entertainment was a camp fire which everyone enjoyed and all had a sore throat because we sang so much!

Picture of enjoyment!

More smiles!

Team Tech - our robot 'Bob'

Team Tech - our robot 'Bender'

Ready for Quad Bikes - the alien has landed!

Determination!!!

Does anyone remember Penelope Pitsop?

We all had a great week, got very wet and very dirty and very tired.  I have really enjoyed doing the blog and I hope you have enjoyed looking at it.  I will burn all the Kingswood pictures onto a disc for each of the children.

Mrs M

Kingswood canoeing

Team Talk!

On our way!

Paddling hard!



Kingswood - third day

Absolutely brilliant day today!  Weather was hot and sunny and perfect for raft building and canoeing on the reservoir.  Mr Atter came to visit us for the day and it was a good job he brought a spare set of clothes because the children pushed  him into the water - as well as Lauren!  We did fencing and archery and Leap of Faith and finished off our computer games in Mission Maker.  Mission Maker is a fabulous programme and the children have asked me to buy it for school as everyone enjoyed doing it.  We also get to bring their finished games back to school.

Raft Building - will it float and stay in one piece?

So far so good!

How many more can we fit on without it sinking?

Oh no!!!

Quick - get the bits before they float away!

Leap of Faith - you do have to have faith - thank goodness for the safety harness!

More photos to follow - please keep watching this space!!!!

Kingswood - general thoughts!

Why do some boys insist on sleeping in their socks?

Where are their rooms so smelly?

Why don't they like having showers?

Why can't anyone remember their water bottles and hats?  Even though we remind them 300 times a day?

More Kingswood photos from second day

Problem solving and it's just starting to rain!

Mrs M forgot her jacket!

Preparing for Zip Wire!

I'm a bit apprehensive but I'm going to have a go!

I did it!!!!

Our first ever successful high zip wire!

We are very proud of ourselves!

Tomorrow we are canoeing and raft building on the reservoir.  We are also doing the leap of faith - watch this space! 

Kingswood - Second day

Another good day - weather fine with a bit of drizzle but nothing to stop us doing the activities.  We started our Finding Fin river study and will continue this on Thursday. We has an aeroball session, a mix of trampolining and basketball - hard work!  Every
one had a go at Jacob's ladder and then we did some problem solving which hinged around teamwork.  Final session was the Zipwire.  Everyone achieved something which was brilliant!

Children were tired last night and they all slept well and didn't wake until 7am!

Aeroball - it's much more difficult than it looks!

Jacob's Ladder - lots of encouragement needed!

And more Jacob's Ladder

Problem Solving

Kingswood 2012

We all arrived safely and the weather is beautiful - so far but rain is forecast for later on in the week.

We are in rooms of four children - not much room so we have to be organised.  We did scrapheap challenge last night and our first session of MissionMaker.

Fire drill!

We have a fair bit of 'downtime' yesterday - time with no planned activities so we could sort out our rooms etc.  We then went to play on the big field and in the woods and we climbed trees, found an old rope and had an impromptu tug of war - boys v girls with other schools watching on enviously.  Ben and Daniel have hidden the rope for later use!

We weren't very high - really!

Our football got stuck in a tree so someone went to get a 'branch' to get the ball down - here is the branch they came back with!  It did the trick despite needing nearly of all to hold it up!

Our 'branch'!

We played on our DS's before finally getting to sleeping at midnight.

Tomorrow we have our river environmental study - Finding Fin on the River Don and then Jacob's Ladder and Mission Maker 2.  Evening activities are the Mini Olympics!











Sleepover!

We had our annual sleepover on Friday with 50 children sleeping in the school hall!  We had a fabulous time and we even managed to watch the football online.

Settling down!



We do get some sleep!

Bad hair day!

Thank you Mrs Camm, Mrs Hatton and Mrs Kearsley for organising and running this event.  It raises a lot of money for the school but I know how hard work it is for you!

Guide Dogs for the Blind

As part of our Living and Learning like a Champion learning and the theme 'Equality', we had a visit from a visually impaired person Ian and his guide dog, Sutton.  The assembly was scheduled to take 25 minutes but lasted 70 minutes because everyone was so interested and the children asked some very perceptive questions about what it was like to be blind and so on.  We all learnt a lot - even the staff!  Sutton knows the word Nationwide when Ian wants him to take him to the building society!  Ian has a braille watch which helps him to tell the time.  Sutton retires at the end of the year and Ian will get his new dog, this time he wants a German Shepherd as he has had 3 labradors and retrievers.  Ian will be very sad when Sutton retires but Ian's brother is going to look after him so he will still see him.  Oscar Hewitt gave the Y6 thanks to the visitors.

Ian, Sutton and Ian's helper giving the talk - everyone was very well behaved!

We all had chance to stroke and pet Sutton!

Year 6 girls couldn't resist Sutton!

 

Finally, did you know that the school sponsor's a Guide Dog for the Blind?  We have a section about this on our school council noticeboard and the Guide Dog Calendar is never on the correct month - it's always on the favourite picture of the person who changes it!