Bonjour Year 5 have arrived in France!

Day 1
At 6 o'clock this morning year 5 left Shavington.  There were a few tears, lots of luggage (mostly Mrs Nicholls!), mountains of food and lots of laughter!

We had quite a long journey down to Dover but we kept ourselves entertained by playing games and eating lots of very healthy treats!  When we saw the famous white cliffs of Dover we burst into song, well Nicole and Mr Mitchell lead the way!

We boarded the ferry and had a very smooth crossing. Unfortunately the weather was a bit foggy but we were still able to get some photos waving goodbye to England.

When we arrived in Calais we visited Nausica's aquarium.  We had a whistle stop tour but saw beautiful creatures.  The octopus was amazing! We then travelled on to the chateau where dinner was served. 

We are all very tired from our adventures on day one but very excited about tomorrow.

Love to all 5N x

Pancake Day

Tuesday was our pancake race day, everyone limbered up for the race of the year!  With frying pans in hand and a rather cold unappetising pancake in the pan, each class ran in heats, flipping their pancakes along the course.  Finals were then imminent and the winners were:

Reception:  Jacob Mellor
Year 1:       Mia Watts
Year 2:       Adele Jones
Year 3:       Harry Rowe
Year 4:       Milan Diao
Year 5:       Ben Williams
Year 6:       Alex Peake

Overall winner was Milan Diao.

Congratulations to Mr Pennington who won the teacher's race and took the crown from Mrs Windas!

Tanzania - The Finished Trim Trail!

What an incredible week! The children of Mikumi Town Primary School have been trully inspirational in designing and creating their own Trim Trail. I can assure you they are immensely proud of what they have achieved and the skills they displayed were quite unbelievable.

Our final day in School was without doubt our favourite. After an assembly filled with singing and dancing we worked with the playtime prefects. Soon the Nursery class arrived (86 children!) and the Prefects guided the younger children in using the course safely and taking turns. Throughout the day more and more children gravitated towards the Trim Trail and we were able to step back and watch the Prefects manage the course superbly. 

We also found the time to pop to the local "metal man" who created 2 hoops for us. These were combined with 2 spare Trim Trail logs resulting in new netball posts. A fine display of balance, athletisism and fitness followed as Mrs Penhall and I took part in netball and football matches respectively. After a considerable amount of heavy breathing, perspiration and hands on knees, the 2 minute warm up was finally over! Clearly, we were both surprised to end up on losing teams!

Singing, dancing and speeches followed to draw an end to a week that we shall never forget. 

Please enjoy the photo's below, showing the incredible skills of the Mikumi Town children and our finished Trail. Feel free to find us and ask us anything about our Tanzanian adventure.