When it was 12 o’clock I was over excited, we started setting the chairs out in four rows. Mr G called the teacher from Beaver Falls, that’s the America school’s name. (Kami)

They booked a camera crew to come and film them and us! We were on TV in America on one of their biggest news called CBS. (Funmi)

At the spelling bee with America I didn’t get a go but I didn’t want to go up because my trousers were ripped. (James)

I was so excited and enthusiastic because we had either an American or an English flag. We waved the flags and cheered for both sides every time even if they got it right or wrong. (Michael)

Later in the spelling bee …. they were winning but I didn’t mind because it was only a friendly so good for us. At the end I think we lost but I am happy for taking part, and goodbye. (Samson)

We took a train to the Imperial War Museum. It was like travelling to me. I felt so so so tired I couldn’t even feel my feet. (Abodunde)

This is it! Today we are going to the Imperial war Museum. I am so excited about it. Guess what? Mollie, my best friend, is my partner. I feel so fantastic.

We went to a blue room it had: guns, swords, bombs, granades and soldiers uniforms. (Tan)

We also saw a flat screen TV that showed vidoes of the D-Day landings. “I wish I had a TV like that in my bedroom!” (Aisha)

Every Friday we have cricket coaching with Joe, a fast bowler at Kent cricket club. All the children really enjoy the coaching and have bowled and fielded excellently. Also in the picture is Lydia Greenway; she is a regular in the England team having made her debut against Australia at the Gabba.

When I arrived at school everyone was excited about the trip to HMS Belfast. Of course I was excited as well. (Liam)

When we got on the train Mr Greenwood told us that our headteacher Mrs Medhurst’s dad was a captain of HMS Belfast! I was so suprised. (Liam)

It was a laugh. It was even funnier when we got close to London Bridge because me and my partner made a new version of the song of london Bridge.

…….wait for it … wait for it …

London Bridge is falling down

Gordon Brown is helping it

Oh my gosh

Tony Blair is laughing

Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha

John Austin is saying

Oh my gosh

Oh my gosh

David Cameron says Oh dear

Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh my lady (Aisha)

My lunch was scrumptious! It tasted so nice, I nearly got fat! (Fernando)

I was sitting next to a window called a scuttle. What a weird name to call a window. After lunch we had some more exploring to do. (David)

Liam tried on a big furry coat, it was so big. Funmi tried on a handsome captains uniform, Mudia is wearing a sailors cloth. It was so big! (Jiaqi)

I really liked HMS Belfast.

I would say 9/10 (Christopher)

Children in small groups discussed the Ten Commandments and wrote down what they thought they were. Then children put the commandments in order of importance in their lives.

We researched how the first Bibles were made. Six hundred years ago monks would work all day in a scriptoria. They would spend their day on a stool with a pen and a knife to sharpen the pen. It would take five years to write one Bible. many Bibles would then be passed to other monks called Illuminators. Their job was to decorate the Bible with pictures (illuminations).

The children enjoyed colouring in a lumination from the Book of Kells. It would not have been fun being an illuminator six hundered years ago.

Above is a page of an illumination by Ryan.

Two weeks snowy easter holiday is over. We start the morning using Activote to test our knowledge of measurement. Literacy starts with handwriting practice where we check we our forming our letters correctly. We then investigate a photograph of children wearing gas masks. We role play a gas mask drill and then draw and label a gas mask.

Our topic work is teh Bible. Children raised questions that they would like answered about the Bible. these were then researched in pairs on the Internet.

Today we began our first Myst adventure. It is a computer game that has fantastic realistic settings. Today children wrote about the opening scene and meeting the wife of Atrus. We had to think carefully about out punctuation.

Equivalent fractions was a difficult idea to grasp but we got there but need more practise.

Our science topic is keeping warm. We found out that using our hands is not an accurate way to test temperature. There were three containers of water. When a child put one hand in hot water and a hand in cold water, count to ten then place their hands in lukewarm water they said that both their hands got warmer, crazy! Just goes to prove hands are not a good way to measure temperature.

A train has three carriages. Each carriage is a different colour. How many different combinations of carriages could there be. We had to use our problem solving skills to solve this. Those children who successfully solved this then tackled the same problem but with 4 and then carriages. Well done to Samson and Aisha for finding a shorter way to solve the problem.

In Literacy we worked in groups to perform actions and sounds to the poem “Last Night I Saw the City Breathing”. There were some interesting performances.

In the morning we discussed, in groups of three, our Christmas holiday. We then shared our discussion with the rest of the class. The most common presents seemed to be Playstation, Wiis etc, DVDs, High School Musical and earings.

Our topic in Literacy is poetry and we shared a poem that included simile. We then made up our own examples of simile to describe a character. Some of the best examples were:

A stomach as wobbly as jelly.

Hair as a soft as a cloud.

Hair as knotted as a shoelace.

A mouth as closed as a locked door.

In the afternoon, as part of our Geography topic, we discussed why people go on holiday. we then thought about where we would like to go on holiday. We then had thirty minutes to research this location on the Internet.