Week Beginning 23rd June 2008

Hola! (I don't have an upside down exclamation mark on my keyboard but there should be one at the beginning of Hola)

We had a bit of an emotional roller coster last week with the boys football team. They were beaten on penalties in the semi final of the Penketh Cup by Penketh South. The boys should be really proud of themselves as the they were fantastic and showed great sportsmanship throughout the entire tournament. Well done boys. Thank you also to the parents who came along to all the games and to Mr Buckley for preparing them.

Ten of our Year 6 children also went to St Gregory's to play in a rounders tournament, they played really well and came second, fantastic considering they had no practice sessions before hand. Thank you to Mrs Morgan for taking the children and to the parents who helped us with transporting the children to the High School.

We have another really busy week this week. On Monday evening 20 of our Year 5 and 6 children are taking part in the Primary Arts Network Performance Evening at the Parr Hall. The children will perform poems and a dance. Parents are welcome to attend and tickets can be bought at the box office. If your child is involved in this event they will need to be collected from the Parr Hall at 8.30pm.

On Tuesday our Year 6 children are going to St Gregory's for the day. This is a really exciting time for them as they will be put into the classes they will be in next year. The children have to wear their uniform, some of them have asked if school summer uniforms are ok and this will be fine, whatever you would wear if you were coming to school on a normal day.

On Wednesday, 16 of our Year 5 and 6 children will be taking part in a Steel Pan Drum Workshop at Sir Thomas Boalter High School. They will travel from school on a coach. If your child has been chosen for this event you will have received a letter. Some letters did go out to children by mistake as a supply teacher gave out the wrong ones. If your child received a letter with their name on then they have been chosen.

On Friday all of the Year 5 and 6 children and staff will be travelling to Lymm High School to take part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon'. You should have received a letter by now with the details on. All the children need to attend the event as there will be no staff in school to look after them.
They will need a swimming kit and towel and a PE kit preferably with trainers. The bike and bike helmet will be provided. The children will not return to school until 12.30pm and therefore will all need to have a packed lunch.

I told you it was another busy week! Running alongside all these activities it is also Spanish week and we will be exploring lots of things about Spain. We will look at Spanish culture, geography, history, art, music and language.
We already know a lot about the Spanish language, we will be reviewing our learning and also learning so new words.
We will be looking at 4 different Spanish Artists by using the following website:-
http://www.albany.edu/~jd7111/isp561/artistindex.html

On Thursday all the children will be taking part in a Spanish dance workshop.

The children have been informed that they can come dressed as the colours in the Spanish flag on Friday. As we are attending the triathlon in morning we feel that they should wear something that identifies them as a member of our school. For example they could wear their red and yellow clothes and then wear a school jumper or cardigan over the top while we are out of school. If they have a school cap or coat these would also be acceptable.

That's all for now, make sure you get some much needed sleep for a very busy week.

Year 5/6 Team.