At the end of May, Year 3 and 4 had an exciting 3 days during their residential trip at a Wilderness Centre! They had amazing adventures including: archery, crate stacking, rock climbing, walks through a forest (making wishes through a wishing tree), problem solving and orienteering, abseiling and even wall climbing!

The children were enthusiastic and eager to take part in all those fantastic activities, without being afraid to push themselves out of their comfort zone. Bravo!

“I loved the tunnel of doom because it was scary and fun at the same time.” Caitlin

“I loved the rock climbing because I got to the top.” Max

“The breakfast was amazing: full English every day!” Alfie

Year 3 and 4 pupils performed their amazing play “Treachery at Traitor’s Quay” twice, in front of a packed hall, in awe of their acting and singing. The whole school went back in time and followed evacuee children in their adventures.

The whole cast acted and sang brilliantly and they were all clearly enjoying themselves. Everybody left singing and dancing the jitterbug!

Mrs Sheppard commented: “I was so proud of the Year 3 and 4 pupils. They all got into character and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.”

“I enjoyed performing in it because it was a funny play!” Ben

“It was hard to learn all our lines but we enjoyed the play because we all got on well!” Finlay

On Thursday 14 February, 18 pupils from the Prep School (from Years 3 to 6) took part in the West Wilts Dance Festival, which took place at The Forum Theatre in Bath. The theme this year, given the date, was of course… love!

The group had developed a dance routine they had choreographed to (“What makes you beautiful”, from One Direction), with the help of Caroline, the Dance Lady, during their Street Dance after-school club.

We arrived at the theatre for an afternoon rehearsal slot and the children loved being on stage straight away. They were immaculately behaved backstage and enjoyed preparing for the show, putting on hair gel and make-up and inflating their guitars! They all supported each other and revelled in the buzz of the event, as they performed in front of several hundreds of people with energy, enthusiasm and big smiles on their faces.

We were extremely proud of them and enjoyed the show.

Year 3 and 4 had a wonderful morning learning what an Egyptologist does, investigating lots of Egyptian artefacts and mummifying their friend!

” My highlights were painting the Egyptian pictures and writing Hieroglyphics.”, Freya, Year 3

” I loved finding new facts about the Egyptians.”, Caitlin, Year 4.

“I loved getting mummified!”, Ben, Year 4.

Bienvenue au café de classe 4!

Classe 4 enjoyed performing their role play in a French café, being “le serveur” and “le client”, and ordering “un café”, “un jus d’orange” or “de l’eau minérale”.

“Bonjour madame, bonjour monsieur. Vous désirez?”  – “Je voudrais un jus d’orange s’il vous plait”. “Très bien. Voilà, “. “C’est combien?” – “C’est 2 euros s’il vous plait”. “Merci et au revoir”.

“I really enjoyed being a waiter”, Alfie M.

“It was fun to be a customer. I ordered a coffee, even if I d’ont really like coffee!”, Ebba.

Technology in our life

We use virtual reality almost every day but it came out in the 1950s by Morton Heilig’s it was called the sensorama.

The first head mounted VR set came out in 1960.

VR headsets have just started to be used in hospitals to take the patients minds off the bandages.

You can attach VR headsets to drones so you can see what you are doing.

You can play a lot games on VR. VR can cost up to £1000 if get a really good one which is brand new.

Technology in our life

Our most used technology is a computer. In 1984, IBM announced the IBM 5155 portable personal computer. In 1986 Radio Shack released the new, improved and smaller TRS model 200.  Computers are very handy they can do many things like you can play games, write reports, write emails and look at Facebook. You should love computers. Did you know, a mobile phone today has more computer power than the computers that sent the first rocket to the moon?  Computers are great, if you don’t have one you are missing out.

BY EVA AND EBBA