Our windmills we made yesterday at school.

 Lunch at a mill before going up the mountain pictured in the background.

T-shirts from the host school with the HeHe logo.

Maddison eats Italian pasta! Yummy!!

 The views from Erice were OUTSTANDING!!!!

Still a lovely view.

The end of our outing at Erice at the whispering wall.

What another great day and still the celebration dinner to come!

Ciao for now.



Buongiorno

Well the rest of Sunday was very busy. It included a cultural tour of Trapani seeing lots of lovely doorways and trying to guess what might be behind them.

Along the way we collected a very very friendly companion who guided us on our way. We liked to call him Wolfie! He was the local celebrity dog and was well known everywhere we went.

A picnic lunch in the park was followed by the largest ice-creams we have ever seen and the best we've ever tasted, Kit-kat for Max, Pistacchio for Alex and White chocolate Galaxy for Maddison! Yummy!!

We met the rest of the partner schools for pizza last night taking over at least half of the pizza restaurante.

Monday

What a busy day!

7:45 Breakfast
8:30 School (Normal day really!)
9:00 Greeted at school by ballet dancers and typical Sicillian dancers.
9:30 film show about the salt pans
10:30 Making windmills
13:30 Lovely lunch (more pizza!)
15:00 Meeting the mayor.
16:30 Visit to Yacht Club for rowing competition and tour of an old house.
18:00 Rowing Prize giving, Ben got first prize.
19:30 Even more pizza!!!!
21:30 Bed at last! Zzzzzzzz!!!!

OPEN DAY

Tuesday was our Open Day in school and it was lovely to see so many parents and grandparents visiting the school.  There were lots of activities and creativity within each classroom:

Reception:  A group of children performed in their role play construction area
                  Booking their holidays in their outdoor travel agents, on a ferry, on safari

                 

Year 1:        Life cycle of a chick
                  Collage the life cycle of a chick
                  Writing a creative story about a lost chick

They also had their real life chicks that had hatched the week before.




Year 2:        Creating and making a Tudor house from the Great Fire of London
                   A diary of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London shown on a time line
                   Looking for 3D shapes in their outdoor area


Year 3:         Making Roald Dahl characters in puppets and producing a show
                   Creating our own illustrations in the style of Quentin Blake
                   Watercolouring pictures to decorate the front of new topic books

Year 4:         Made puppets Queen Gertrude and Aphelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet
                   Looking at how Romans built houses, what food they ate and the type of
                   medicine
                   Made peasant family signs that would have been used to advertise their
                   businesses


Year 5:         Made evacuee suitcases and put in items that would have been packed by 
                   children
                   Evacuee identity cards and tags
                   Performed in the Goodnight Mister Tom role play area
                   Compared a WWII suitcase to a modern day suitcase


Year 6:         Numeracy skills - Children given a budget of £2,500 and they had to buy
                   sports equipment and subtract this from their budget
                   Plan their favourite meal and make it using collage on a plate
                   Design a polysterene tyle with a 'Dazzling decade' theme and printing onto
                   paper to decorate topic front covers