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Wowzers - what a long term! You all deserve a well-earned break. Please be safe over the Easter Break and remember manners get you a long way! 

Have fun and enjoy and see you back at school on May 5th. 

Miss Lockett and Mrs Kurth 

Dear Parents

Next Term we expect all students to have updated their stationary, as both Anna and I are lending out far too many pens/pencils etc. Please name also.

Your child will need the following:

x 2 pencils
x 1 red pen
x 1 blue pen
x1 eraser
x1 ruler

Thanks in anticipation,


Emma

Some fantastic Easter Art made by Room 1 students. 

Today we learnt how to entertain an audience through describing a person.
We had to be creative with her her origin and life in general.

This piece of writing was written by Will Adams - Year 5
Once I met a dirt poor, vintage woman who lived in a remote aboriginal village in Australia. She was roughly 100 years of age and had been through a lot of hardship. Her name was Betty and she had served her time living as a prisoner of a war camp in the World War. Betty lived in the camp for many years and only received two slices of bread per day. In the camp she made bullets for the German Soldiers, and from this she was caked in gun powder, unfortunately thats why Betty had a darker skin colour to other prisoners and they often made fun of her. Betty had stringy hair that had a silver tint and she couldn't smile because she had sowed her lips together when she went on strike, as she wanted to prove her innocence. Betty had dopy eyes from the gun powder and no longer cared about her looks, she only cared about about her freedom. At the end of the war she was released - Betty was happy for freedom but also sad because she had nowhere to go and no family to love. Sadly on the trip home she past away from a heart attack which was later found out that the cause was from her breathing in too much gun powder which had affected her heart.

Kaleb is on 'leaf -blowing' duty today !!

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Inquiry Challenge

Students working hard on their inquiry project. Their task was to design their 'dream' outdoor play area for Walton Primary. They first began by drawing their design, once this once complete they had to make a 3D model.

Awesome Books

Below are a list of some fantastic books that I have read over the years.  Try get your hands on some!!

Awesome Books:

• 'Girl Savage' by Katherine Rundell.
• 'I Am Not Ester' by Fleur Beale.
• 'The Transformation Of Minna Hargreaves' by Fleur Beale.
• 'The Secret Of Spirits Bay' by Stephen Barker.
• 'One More River' by Lynne Reid Banks.
• 'Pavarna' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'A Company Of Fools' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'Shauzia' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'Calling The Gods' by Jack Lasenby.
• 'The Haystack' by Jack Lasenby.
• 'Escape The Sea' by L.S Lawrence.
• 'Malka' by Mirjam Pressler.
• 'They Came On Viking Ships' by Jackie French.
• 'A Beautiful Lie' by Irfan Master.
• 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime' by Mark Haddon.
• 'First Girl' by Gloria Whelan.
• 'Night Of The Burning' by Linda Wulf.
• 'Throwaway Daughter' by Ting-Xing Ye.
• 'Stig Of The Dump' by Clive King.
• 'Call Of The Wild' by Jack London.
• 'Lucky' by Susan Patron.
• 'The Machine Gunners' by Robert Westall.
• 'AK' by Peter Dickinson.
• 'Dead Dans Dee' by Phyllis Johnston.
• 'X Marks The Spot' by Joan de Hamel.
• 'Over A Thousand Miles I Walk With You' by Hanna Jansen.
• 'Ties That Bind, Ties That Break' by Lensey Namioka.
• 'The Sheep On The Fourth Floor' by Leonie Thorpe.
• 'Mao's Last Dancer' by Li Cunxin.
• 'The Outsiders' by S.E Hinton.
• 'I Am David' by Anne Holm.
• 'Gentle Ben' by Walt Morey.
• 'A Small Free Kiss In The Dark' by Glenda Millard.
• 'Just Jack' by Adele Broadbent.
• 'Holes' by Louis Sachar.
• 'Small Steps' by Louis Sachar.
• 'Revolver' by Marcus Sedgwick.
• 'Peak' by Roland Smith.
• 'Millions' by Cottrell Boyce.
• 'Falling Leaves' by Adeline Yen Mah.
• 'Chinese Cinderella' by Adeline Yen Mah.
• 'Goodnight Mr Tom' by Michelle Magorian.
• 'The One And Only Ivan' by Katherine Applegate
• 'Hating Alison Ashley' by Robin Klein.
• 'The Power Of One' by Bryce Courtenay.
• 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne.
• 'The Cay' by Theodore Taylor.
• 'Charlotte's Web' by E.B White.
• 'The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe' by C.S Lewis.
• 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
• 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
• 'Because Of Winn Dixie' by Kate DiCamillo.
• 'The Reluctant Hero' by Willie Apiata.
• 'Seal Boy' by Ken Catran.
• 'Darby' by Johnathon Faqua.
• 'Polar Boy' by Sandy Fussell.
• 'In My Hands' by Irene Gut Opdyke.
• 'Out Of Bounds' by Beverley Naidoo
• 'Dunger' by Joy Cowley
• 'Mrs Frisbee And The Rats Of NIMH' by Robert O'Brien
• 'Weirdo' by Theodore Taylor
• 'Sole Survivor' by Ruthanne McCunn

A few highlights from Camp

Miss Lockett's Must Read List

Books In A Series:

• The Tomorrow Series (x7 books) by John Marsden.  Must be read in order, starting with 'Tomorrow When The War Began'.
• The Ellie Chronicles (trilogy) by John Marsden.  Is a sequal to the Tomorrow Series.
• Cherub Series (multiple books) by Robert Muchamore.  Must start with 'The Recruit' but it doesn't matter what order you read them in after that.
• Henderson Boys' Series (multiple books) by Robert Muchamore.  Must be read in order, starting with 'The Escape'.
• Alex Rider Series (multiple books) by Anthony Horowitz.
• Hunger Games Series (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins.  Must be read in order, starting with 'The Hunger Games'.
• Hatchet Series (multiple books) by Gary Paulsen.  Read 'Hatchet' first, but can read books in any order after that.
• Mr Tucket Series (multiple books) by Gary Paulsen.  Must be read in order, starting with 'Mr Tucket'.
• 'Once', 'Then', 'Now' and 'After' by Morris Gleitzman.  Must be read in this order.

Bible in Schools

Today with Mr Connolly we discussed how we can make a positive difference to someone. Mr Connolly always shares fantastic values! Thank you Mr Connolly. 

Twitter Magnets

Twitter Magnets

This week we've been experimenting with this cool website called Twitter Magnets.  

It gives you a bunch of random words and the challenge is to build sentences that make sense!  

Here are some of the sentences we've come up with: