Monday 14 January 2019

On the 18 December at 1.15pm, HB15 – my class- and HB16 left Loughton School and walked to the local Baptist Church to learn about the Christmas Story.  When we sat down in the church, we first played a game where it was boys vs girls.  Someone asked a question and the first team to bring the picture answer earned a point.  The girls won.  After that, we had some information given by the Nutty Professor about the true meaning of Christmas.  Then, we made some mince pies and left them to cook while we played Christmas songs charades.  It was funny when Mrs Ruggles had to try and do a charade for ‘Little Donkey’ and we were all primed to shout out all the wrong answers!!Later that afternoon, we completed quizzes and listened to a story about geese that explained God’s reason for coming to Earth as Jesus.  It made the meaning very clear.  Finally we left for school and went home with a leaflet and our mince pie.  A great afternoon was had by all.

Giving is better than receiving. This is the saying which the year 6 children decided to follow for Christmas. Rather than receiving individual gifts from their teachers for Christmas, the year 6 children agreed that the money normally spent on these gifts, should be used to give joy and hope to others less fortunate.  As such each year 6 class chose gifts, from Oxfam, to help others more in need than themselves. HB13 chose to buy ‘Super Girl’ – help to empower girls, HB14 chose to buy honey bees, HB15 chose to help with supplying clean water and HB16 chose to contribute to education.  It was a very generous gesture from the year 6 children and one that they fully supported.

On Thursday 15 November 2018, as a part of our WW2 topic, Year 6 went on a journey to Bletchley Park (England’s main decryption and encryption centre) . We took part in lots of activities including Morse and Enigma code cracking, watching videos, taking part in a tour and visiting a mansion. It was an amazing day and we learnt a lot!

Each year, the children spend a number of P.E. lessons, in the first half of the Autumn term, training for cross-country.  At the end of the half term, each year group then has an inter-class competition for their year group.  Year 6 held theirs in the last week before half term.  The boys and girls compete separately and each child receives a placing card as they come across the finishing line – first place receiving number one, second place receiving number two and so on.  The class who has the lowest score, when all added together and an average taken, wins the inter- class competition.  This year, the results were very close.

The children all ran fast and furious, giving it their all. The boys ran 2000m and the girls ran 1500m, so it is a distance!  We were very proud of all their efforts, many achieving their all-time bests.