TATTENHALL 2013

We arrived safely at the Tattenhall Outdoor Education Centre at approximately 10.30am.  We were given a guided tour of the centre and then we chose our bunks in the domitories.  It was such a beautiful sunny morning that we went outside and enjoyed playing on the adventure playground.  After 30 minutes of playing, we were all feeling hungry and so we ate our lunch.  Mr Astbury arrived at the centre at 1pm.  He told us some interesting information about the Tudors and then we went on a walk through the village of Tattenhall.  Mr Astbury is like a walking Wikipedia!  He knows lots of things about the Tudors.  He was able to answer lots of our questions.  We now know about Tudor entertainment, food, clothing and lots more.  We wrote it all down in our notebooks before we forgot everything.  Tea was served at 5pm.  We had pizza or chicken gougons followed by rice pudding or fruit.  Lots of us had seconds.  It was delicious.  After tea we were impatient to get into our pyjamas.  Hot chocolate and a story to end the day is perfect!  Lets hope we all have a good nights sleep.

Pancake day

Tuesday was our annual pancake race day.  The winners from each class competed to be crowned overall champion.  The finalist were:

Ethan - Reception
Summer - Year 1
Malachai - Year 2
Chloe - Year 3
Luke - Year 4
Ben - Year 5
Zack - Year 6

Zack won overall and collected the trophy from Mrs Nicholls.

We completed the event with a Mum's race, Dad's race and a toddlers race.  These were run with great enthusiasm and cheered on by all of the children.

The Shakespeare Project begins!

Over the last few weeks year 4 have started their Shakespeare Project 'The Tempest'. Having studied the whole play, they will then be given a small scene to practise and perform at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.

 The play starts with a storm and a shipwreck and the children have discovered that the storm is magical and has been conjured up by a character called Prospero.

In literacy lessons the children have been writing and performing their own spells to change the weather.  So if there is freak weather, we are not responsible!