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  • 8/13/2019 Central Express News - Issue 2

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    Welcome to the second issue of Central Express, your window into the

    life of the school. This has been created by the reporting teams from

    Year 6. They have been getting in to the swing of Christmas and finding

    out whats been happening in and around the school. We hope youenjoy reading the articles we have done.

    The Reporting Team

    In This Edition

    News Item ReportersSchool Council Ellie

    Electric Rainbow Experts Jessica and Leah

    Would You Like Fire With That Bread? Mia and Georgina

    A Christmas WishWriting Competition! Sophie

    Open All HoursAgain! Mia, Georgina, Jessica

    Cat MadnessMiss Fryer Sophie and Kira

    Walking in a Winter WonderlandNativity Kira and Sophie

    Robot Rampage Kira and Sophie

    Vicious Vikings Megan and EllieTerrible Tudors Naomi and Daniel

    Bombing Blitz Joe

    Spectacular Sports Cole

    Carol Concert Georgina

    Children in Need Mia and Georgina

    entralxpr ss

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    School council have done a lot since the start of the half term! As we all know Mr McGuigan

    is retiring as the head teacher and all in all with the short time he has spent in the school he

    has done a great job. School Council had an interview with the people who applied to be the

    new head teacher.We did the interview at Space@. The interview went very well and we will

    now consider that information to find out the new head teacher! A big well done to Mark

    Fletcher, who won the award for the Anti-Bulling Week slogan\poster which is shown below.

    In Year 6, Miss Bates has done a lesson for anti-bulling and come up with some great ideas

    to help!! For example, we said words that are not very nice, for Miss Bates to put on the

    Smartboard and talk about and we discussed why we should not say things like that.

    (Breaking News.Breaking News.Congratulations to Mrs Cooke who will be taking overfrom Mr McGuigan to be the new Head Teacher in September 2014)

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    Year 1 have been studying Electric

    Rainbows in science They have been

    looking at circuits. Mrs Shaw said all of the

    children managed to light the circuit which

    meant they have been working extra hard.

    They have been studying fish and making

    fact files about them. Some of the children

    made collages which went up on their

    display board outside of the classroom in

    the shared area. As part of their topic they

    researched fireworks on the laptops, they

    gathered up the information to turn them

    into leaflets to take home. Year 1 went around the school with partners to find different light

    sources around the school; Mrs Shaw was very pleased when they came back as they could

    tell her a lot about their work.

    In art, the classes have been making

    collages of rainbow fish, first their

    teacher laid out a set of fish asking

    them to choose the type of fish they

    wanted to decorate. They stuck pieces

    of paper and fabrics of many different

    colours on the fish template. Mrs Shawasked them to bring in some fish-like

    materials such as clothes with lovely

    designs on them. They worked very

    hard to make their rainbow fish the

    best in the class. All the rainbow fish

    were stuck on the window together like

    a shoal of fish, brightly made,

    colouring the glass. Also handfuls were chosen to go on the display.

    In their topic they read a story which is now their favourite book, called Wild Fish mainly

    about animals and their talents. They enjoyed the book so much, they wanted to read it

    every single day.

    Mrs Shaw took them into the garden to look at the different types of animals and their

    habitats. The class found all different types of animals in the garden and they found this very

    interesting to do.

    In maths they have been focusing on money problems and subtraction. Mrs Shaw gave

    them work to complete to help them practice the skills they had learnt.

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    Would You Like Some Fire With That BreadThis term Year 2 have been learning about the Fire of London. They have been working

    hard to try and learn as much as they can.

    Lets get messyYear 2 decided to get messy. They made some fab fiery houses

    out of cardboard boxes and tissue paper. Lolly pop sticks made

    great windows, doors and more on the houses. They tried to

    make them look like the houses of Pudding Lane. Once these

    houses and bakeries are finished and put together it will look

    great! Mums and Dads enjoyed it very much as they were asked

    to come in and take part in the building of the houses. There are

    so many creative children in Year 2. Everyone loves a bit of mess

    sometimes.

    Magnificent maths

    In maths, fractions have been their problem. They have been working on fractions and how

    they work. When they finished working on fractions they went on to dividing and multiplying

    difficult numbers. Worded problems are also what they have been working on. They tried

    hard to understand the maths they are looking at.

    Awesome art

    In art they have been creating scenes from the

    Great Fire of London and Pudding Lane. They

    used tissue paper, lollypop sticks and card to

    make the scenes and they looked fab.

    Loveable Literacy

    Samuel Pepys,

    the man who

    wrote a diary from the Fire of London was their main focus

    in literacy. They wrote a diary as if they were Samuel Pepys

    and did a good job. Miss Neil and Miss Talbot chose a piece

    of work. It was hard but they decided on Suzanne who had

    tried really hard.

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    As the blanket of snow covered the small cottage, the pretty girl pushed back

    her curtain of brown hair and stared straight at the stars. A star shot into her

    view as she made a wish, I wish toys would come to life! That night as she

    tossed and turned, Katie who was 8 years old, climbed out of bed and padded

    in to the kitchen to get a drink to help her settle. Meanwhile Amelia, a small

    doll the size of two apples, stood up and walked. In her rubber shoes she

    made no sound and her ringlets bounced happily around her gorgeous chinaface. Amelia blinked and stared through her shiny plastic eyes once more, then

    turned and ran, leaving a minute, clean, white glove.

    Waking up in the morning, thinking it may have all been a dream, Katie ran down stairs to

    the kitchen and saw the glove, her mouth went dry! She swallowed twice, picked up the

    glove and ran, her feet barley even touching the ground to the play room she shared with her

    brother. There standing still on her stand was Amelia as pretty as a picture but this picture

    had a misprint, a clean white glove was missing! Youre real! Katie shrieked

    As real as you are. replied Amelia

    That night Katie didnt even try to sleep, she waited tilleveryone else was

    asleep, crept down stairs and pried open the play room door. Chaos

    formed before her very eyes, solders in a line marching round the room

    and her music box dancer was talking to a jack-in-a-box. The tiny painted

    faces on the oil painting of children were moving. She could almost feel

    the magic in the room! Even the Barbie doll was walking around the

    room arm in arm with Ken. Her teddy was straightening his bow tie and

    smoothing down his copper coloured fur. His eyes twinkled as he

    walked towards her holding out his velvet paws. You really did find

    out! His voice was soft and growly but sounded comforting to Katie. Can every toy come to

    life? she questioned him, (she had called Treacle), he turned away from her Now Amelia,

    did you tell her anything? he asked the pretty doll. She didnt answer looking at her lacy

    socks and rubber shoes. No her voice was barley a whisper she seemed to be wishing

    that the friendly teddy would just turn his attention back to Katie, who was feeling very lost in

    the door way

    Can you finish the story? There is a prize for the best KS1 and KS2

    entry. Just write your ending to the story and give it to the Newspaper

    Club (in Year 6, Red and Orange class). They will read every entry and

    decide on the two winners which will be printed in the next CentralExpress. Good luck and remember Best Handwriting!

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    Open llHours gainOpen All Hours was a TV programme that wason in the 1980s. The show ended in 1985 and

    they have decided to bring it back for a

    Christmas special. Unfortunately Ronnie baker

    died on the 3nd October, 2005 but the actor

    Grandville (David Jason) is up and running

    and ready for action taking over his role as

    shopkeeper. This is a comedy show about a corner shop that sells everything. Other actors

    in the show are, Stephanie Cole and Maggie Ollerenshaw. Well its been a long time since

    the show Open All hourswas on air but its close to Christmas and Sydney Lotterby who

    directs the show has been filming a new Christmas special. The shop Arkwrightsis placedon a street in Balby, Doncaster, quite near to school. The school Central Express newspaper

    crew went down to the set on Clarence Avenue

    to see what it was like. They saw David

    Jason practicing for one of his scenes; he

    was riding an old fashioned bike across the

    set. The crowd was very large and full of

    excited people coming to see the

    rehearsals and maybe the recording of the

    show a little bit later.

    Many people were watching as well so itwas hard to see what was actually going

    on. We interviewed lots of people that were

    there. One woman had been there from

    8am in the morning. WOW! Filming had

    started at 7am and finished at 7pm. Its a

    long day of hard work and determination for

    the actors and actresses. The lady also said

    she has a signature from David Jason. Guess what, the woman is Mrs Wards daughter. To

    remind you Mrs Ward is our old dinner lady that worked here. It was so crazy if you lived in

    the street because when you walked out of your door there were lots of people. Security waspatrolling the street shushing and hushing you because of the filming.

    Soon the new Christmas special episodes will on the TV. Surly, it will be a classic sitcom like

    it always was. Its great that its up and running again on the TV. It should be fun to see what

    the writers have in store and it was recoded right on our very own door step!

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    When teachers are not at school, what do they do? Do

    they power glide, bungee jump or watch The Chase on

    TV? Do they have 1000 cats or a Library? Do they go toparties every night? Yes there really are a lot of things we

    wonder about teachers. We have chosen to eliminate

    some of these questions and expose what one of the schools teachers does in their spare

    time.

    Cats!!!!!

    Year six red class teacher Miss

    Fryer is mad on cats! Miss Fryer

    has around 29 students who are

    all sick of hearing about

    CATS!!! Here is some photo

    evidence of her classroom. This

    picture does seem to look normal

    enough doesnt it? But with some editing we have

    zoomed in! See what we mean cats! Why cats?

    Miss Fryer finds a way to fit cats into every thing

    she talks about the catastrophies of war, in maths

    we do multipulcation, in art she has us drawing cats

    cats, cats, cats - were sick of cats!

    I mean look at her magazine that we found on her desk, Do we even

    need to write the title? itsI Love CATS!

    We thought it would be nice to show you what Miss Fryer is so

    dottyabout

    This is Jacob - wearing the tie that Miss Batesbought him for his birthday! Some of her pupils are

    believing rumours that are circulating regarding Miss

    Fryer and the fact that she may be Cat Woman and is

    probably disguised as a teacher. Now you know what

    Miss Fryer does out of school!

    Look out for our next victim guest to be interviewed!

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    The time has come for Christmas trees and presents. But why do wecelebrate this festive holiday? , because of Jesus the day the Son of

    God was born, but with every individual snowflake that falls from the

    sky there is one excited child getting into costume for the Christmas

    Born to perform

    As you may know, the school performs the Nativity every

    single year, rain, snow, wind or sunshine the show goes on.

    They have the songs too, so its a musical as well. Playing in

    the nativity there are Reception and Nursery children. This is

    really a great thing to do, let alone watch! We were all were

    in the Nativity once upon a time, whether we were sheep,

    cows or even Mary. Whether an angel or a star, the nativity

    moments are more memorable than anything else.

    A Day with the Stars

    Now for the stars themselves, Nursery and Reception. The Nativity was held in

    the hall on the stage (which had to be cleverly assembled beforehand). Mary and

    Joseph were played by Yvie and Kenden and the star was Jessica. They captured

    the part very well and always kept in time with the music. Nurserys singing was

    wonderful and their voices always stayed in tune. The classes performed to the

    whole school but at different times so we all got to see it before any of the parents.

    We watched the dress rehearsal with Mia and Georgina from Year 6. The costumes were amazing

    even though they were plain it set the mood very Christmassy. There actions were right on time and

    there were no jerky movements made at all.

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    Bravo Brava

    There performances were held on the 11th

    December at 2pm as well as the 12th at 9am

    and were extraordinary. The children seemed to be enjoying themselves extremely and

    they got such a loud applause it was amazing. There first performance was for Year

    3 and 4 obviously this would be a lot of pressure but they were perfect

    never putting a hand out of place.

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    Year 3s topic is robots! Robots that move, walk and through down what an

    exciting topic. To make these robots they had to be all kind of scientists/

    engineers and do all this crazy technology stuff. With all that going on, this isreally the topic to beat.

    Marching in to Battle

    Forward, March, left, head Wait, what? These kids

    didnt battle - the robots did! Robot Wars have taken

    place in school. The clashing of metal machines and

    angry androids. Children in Year 3 became mechanicalexperts as they designed their own robots. The work

    they put in was incredible. They started their topic with

    building immense robots out of Lego, Knox and

    construction sets. So these every marched into battle.

    We spoke to Sulaiyman, a boy in Mrs Stephensons

    class who particularly enjoined the robot wars and was

    said to have been very good at it. Next we spoke to a

    young girl who mostly enjoyed making it and she told

    us among other things that her dream robot would be

    pink and have stars on it.

    Iron Man picnic huh?

    The last we heard from Tony Stark aka Iron Man, he was

    avenging the earth alongside the other superheroes. But

    wait, this isnt the Iron Man we were talking about. This Iron

    Man was amonstrous, robotic

    beast said to be dead

    and buried under a

    hill - on Picnic Hill. But

    our sources tell us

    otherwise, as Iron Man has awoken and broken out, disturbing

    a family who had been picnicking there. Year 3 have been

    reporting about this disturbance.

    Our year 3 teachers - Mrs Stephenson and Mrs Bedford - had set the children to work out what hadhappened and why. Now one of these wonderful writers from year 3 (Sulaiyman) will now show you

    with a wonderful piece of writing.

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    Iron Man On The Loose!

    Breaking news

    Saturday 9thof November.

    Last Saturday a boy named Hogarth reported that when he was fishing he had seen

    an iron giant and Hogarth said, Its in Scarborough. The farmers said, every day

    tractors have been eaten. Hogarths dad said he thought he had seen this iron man.

    We will now go back to the farmers now. How big do you think Iron man is if your

    tractors are bitten in half?, I think seven foot. ok we will see you after the break.

    So farmers, you got some new tractors yes but they have

    been. Ok Hogarth we are back to you and your dad ok we

    will see you after the break.

    We are showing you a picture of the iron giant in

    Scarborough cliff so get ready to freak out! Breaking news

    we are trying to get him, so get ready!

    By Sulaiyman Timms age 7

    Well wasnt that great, Thanks for reading Year 3s amazing report and we will report to you

    next time!

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    Vicious VikingsRecently Year 4 has been on an exciting trip to the Jorvik Centre in York, this is a place

    where children and adults can learn about Vikings in an exiting way. Whilst they were there,

    they went on a ride called The Dig. This is a ride that shows you where the Vikings live,

    what they ate, and where they went to the toilet! Another part of the trip was when they went

    into a room with armour inside. A man talked to the children and teachers about what the

    Vikings used the armour for (and not for slaying dragons!)

    When they arrived at school again they drew a picture of Vikings and

    wrote about where they lived and what they ate.

    MathsIn maths the children in Year 4 are learning the grid method so that

    they can times bigger numbers easer! They were also practising

    their numbers on a number line to learn how to use a number line.

    Last but not least, they have been learning how to times by ten, one

    hundred and one thousand, and how to divide by ten, one hundred

    and one thousand too!!iteracyIn literacy they were writing a letter to their parents (Mum, dad, grandparents etc) to

    persuade them to come to their caf. When the caf opened in school they sold pizza,

    pancakes, tea, coffee, biscuits with sugar on and tacos and much more!

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    TERRI LE TUDORSThis half term, Year 5 has been learning about Tudors. Here are some of the lessons they

    have been doing.

    In maths they have currently been learning how to chunk and in the mornings as soon as

    they come in they have mental maths tests on paper.

    Yr 5 has taken turns to monitor in the dinner hall. There are lots of jobs such as scraping

    plates, refiling water jugs and helping little children. They have a selected group of children

    to work with all week then they swap over to more children for the next week.

    In literacy they have been writing about the battle of Bosworth story in their point of view.

    They have been matching up tutor crimes to their punishments. They have also been on a

    residential trip to Whitemoor Lakes, Staffordshire. Here they had the chance to take part in

    all sorts of outward bound activities and for some the chance to sleep away from home forthe first time! All those who went said they enjoyed it.

    In Art they have been painting wonderful portraits of Tudor monarchs such as Henry VIII,

    Anne Boleyn and Mary I.

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    This half term Year 6 are learning about the

    Blitz.

    Magnificent Museum

    Around the beginning of half term, all the

    pupils in Orange and Red class took a trip to

    Doncaster Museum. Inside there are all sorts

    of artifacts and information about the history

    of Doncaster. They looked at the WW2

    section. Everyone had a booklet to fill in. The

    booklet had different questions about different

    events. One of the questions was What are

    allies?. We asked some of the pupils afew questions

    about what their favourite part was. Daniel Bythewaysaid My favorite part was seeing the artillery,

    Parkash Singh said, I liked collecting information in

    the workshop, and Cleo Buck said, I liked the medal

    room,. Bradon Morrhouse-Bones said, I liked

    dressing up in the workshop, This was a great

    educational trip for the children.

    Murderous Maths

    During this half term they enjoyed code cracking. This was a chance for the childern to use

    their knowledge to crack impossible codes. (Therere not really impossible!) At the top of

    their page they wrote the symbols. Some of the symbols had dots and some did not. And

    they had to work out what the symbolic code really meant just like spies in the war.

    Lumanating Literacy

    In literacy we have done all sorts of writing like description, dialogue and much more. Along

    the way year 6 did a bit of role play. We had to react to the sound of the air raid siren. Then

    we acted as a family. The family had a mum, a dad, a sister or a brother and some babies.

    Then we used our acting to help us write a recount of what it may have been like to live

    through the Blitz.

    This is Germany Calling!

    Orange class had the chance with Mr Coan to create a war time radio interview, by writing a

    radio script and recording it using microphones and software on the computer. Some even

    added sound effects to make it sound as if it had been recorded in WW2. People based their

    interviews on evacuees, air raid wardens, Polish Freedom fighters and even Adolf Hitler!

    They really enjoyed bringing their literacy writing to life!

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    Spectacular Sports

    This half term there has been some amazing and unusual sports taking place in Balby

    Central Primary School. Archery, basketball and football have all taken place. So lets start

    off with Archery.

    Amazing Archery

    Recently Year 6 did Archery Cameron Beards

    Granddad came into year 6 as he was willing to teach

    them the basics of archery. Year 6 had to firmly hold the

    bow, pull the string back half way, then let go and hope

    for the best. Owen nearly hit a bulls-eye! Nobody really

    even got close to that (well some people). It looks easy

    but its not! Anyway moving on

    Play Times

    At Playtimes the upper key stage two has a football rota. If you are playing football you have

    to stay on the new tarmac (just recently laid) but if you are naughty, damage the equipment

    etc. quoits, hoola hoops, bouncy balls, you will be banned till next half term and will probablyget a strike so you have been warned! There are three sections to play on. The hoola

    hoop section, quoits section and a football section. The hoola hoop section is the biggest

    part (not including the field). The quoits section is about half the of the hoola hoop section!

    Its Dinner TimeYears 3, 4, 5, 6 all have basketball, quoits, bouncy balls and hula

    hoops. About 50% of the students play with hula hoops and the other

    50% mostly play with balls and skipping ropes.

    So overall, Balby Central is a very active school!

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    Lets Get SingingIt is a tradition for Balby Central Primary School to do a Christmas carol concert. This year there were

    Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 who were performing at St Johns Church on Greenfield lane.

    Year 6

    Year 6 decided to sing Oh Come All Ye Faithful for their very last year of doing this. It took a lot of

    practise but thankfully they remembered their words on the big day.

    Year 5

    Year 5 sang Holy Night and it sounded amazing. They squeezed in as much practice as they could and

    it turned out really good and we are sure you would agree. They were that loud, even year 6 couldhear them in Mrs Moodys class room. Mrs Moody quoted Theirs is amazing!

    Year 4

    Year 4 sang Away In A Manger and tried very hard. Mr Houghton (the year 4 Indigo class teacher)

    couldnt get the tune right so he asked Mrs Stevenson (the singing teacher) for help. It sounded

    amazing in the church.

    Year 3Year 3 sang Love Shine Down, not that you couldnt tell what song they beautifully sang. Mrs

    Bedfords class joined Miss Stevenson class to practice. The first time it didnt go so well but they

    finally picked it up, and it sounded amazing on the day.

    All Together

    The whole of key stage 2 sang Joy To The World and Hark The Herald Angel Sing. Every Monday they

    practiced in the hall to get pitch perfect. On the big day they were able to get up to the stage and

    sing their little hearts out.

    Reading

    In the carol service a Christmas story was read out between the songs. Year 6 were happy to

    help so some of them signed up to read. It was really hard to stand up there and read in front

    of everyone. Balby Central Primary put on a great show once again and we hope we

    shared the Christmas spirit.

    MERRYCHRISTMAS

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    Every year there is a special day. That day is

    Children In Need.

    On Friday 15th

    November, it was Children In

    Need. Our school raised lots of money for

    children needing that little bit extra help. We

    do this so that they can live an amazing life.

    We thought it would be nice, to give you a

    peak where these donations are going to.

    It funds projects working with children and

    young people aged 18 years and under, living in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, who

    are experiencing disadvantage through: Illness, distress, abuse or neglect, any kind of disability,

    behavioural or psychological difficulties or those

    living in poverty.

    All of these things we take for granted like a roof

    over our heads some people dont even have that.We have a lucky, luxuries life that needs to be

    shared with the less fortunate.

    Our school raised buckets full of money; in fact we

    raced 253.54. KA CHING! For the day we dressed in

    spots, dots and stripes. Lots of people dressed up in

    all sorts of clothes but the most popular were

    onesies!

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    Attendance NewsWell done everyone, attendance levels are much better this this year compared to last year.

    Attendance dropped a little bit this half term, but overall we are still meeting our attendance target.The school had 95.8 % attendance for the autumn term, compared to last year when it was 93.4%.

    Our target for the year is 95.5%, so we need to keep working hard to keep our attendance levels

    high.

    We have also seen a reduction in the number of pupils who are arriving late to school. Well done

    and keep up the good work!

    Here is a breakdown of the attendance level for each class this half term:

    CLASS %MORNING NURSERY 88.8

    AFTERNOON NURSERY 87.5

    EMERALD 89.4

    SAPPHIRE 94.1

    WHITE 95.4

    PURPLE 94.9

    CRIMSON 99.1

    SCARLET 92.9

    VIOLET 95.5

    RUBY 98.3

    BLUE 95.6

    INDIGO 93.9

    GREEN 96.4

    YELLOW 96.1

    RED 97.6

    ORANGE 94.6

    Whole school this half term 94.6

    This half term, 212 fabulous pupils achieved 100% attendance, congratulations!

    Please remember . . .

    To phone us before 9.30am to let us know if your child will not be attending school.

    To keep your contact details up to date.

    We are unable to authorise any holidays unless they met the criteria set by the

    Government.

    We are unable to authorise any absence when a childs attendance drops below 95%

    Well Done to

    Crimson Class for the

    highest attendance

    this term

  • 8/13/2019 Central Express News - Issue 2

    19/19

    School Clubs

    We will be continuing to run our very popular afterschool clubs next year for the following

    year groups. If your child wants to re-register for a place or apply for a place, please call to

    reception for an application form.

    The clubs starting from January 2014 are:

    Monday Year 5 & 6 - Football No Charge

    My WorldBy Invitation only No Charge

    Tuesday Year 6 - Multiskills 2.00 per session

    Year 4 - ICT No Charge

    Wednesday Years 2 & 3 - Tocks 1 per session

    Year 5 & 6 -Dance 1 per session

    Thursday Year 1Get Baking 1 per session

    Year 4 & 5 - Tocks 1 per session

    Choir

    By Invitation only No Charge

    Comments Children have made about our Clubs:

    Lets get BakingI

    love cooking.

    Dance ClubIts fun and Miss

    Bates is really good atdancing!

    ChoirGood but its hard

    learning songs but great

    going to Young Voices.

    FootballIts good fun and

    lots of things to do and play

    ICTI love staying with my mates,

    having fun and learning computers

    MultiskillsI really

    enjoy the sports we do

    TOCKSReally good fun and a

    good place to hang out with my

    friends.