Last day of term.

Goodbye Mounts. I REALLY enjoyed teaching you this year. Keep up that great attitude and class spirit and I’m sure you’ll all go far in Year 6 and beyond.

There may be some occasional updates on this site over the holiday if I find some fun links.

You can always make contact through the comments boxes. The WordPress app updates to my tablet every half an hour or so, though I won’t be checking in during my week in Italy (I’m off to the opera in Verona in August).

Come back and visit the new blog at http://www.grousebridgewater.wordpress.com 

Have a great holiday everyone….

Even more Design & Technology Puppets

Another batch of puppets went home today. Here they are in all their glory:

More Design & Technology Puppets

Some more Greek crafts from Greek Day

Here are some more of the craft items that the children made in the Agora on Tuesday.

Some End of Year Awards

Congratulations to Fin W, Meadow and Freddie who all received the school’s top ranking of a 5 star athletic award in assembly today.

Also well done to Louis and Maddie are now fully trained on the SAFE Internet course and were awarded their certificates.

Freddie has also received a certificate from Hertfordshire County Council for 100% attendance over the whole year.

Well done everybody.

An Offering to the Goddess Athena

Oh Goddess Athena, please accept these offerings from your Athenian citizens, and continue to look after our glorious city and protect us from the Persian army….

Greek Day

Today the whole of Year 5 came to school dressed as Greeks. We spent the morning in apprenticeships, learning different crafts in the Agora.

In the afternoon we celebrated the Greek victory over the Persians with a banquet. Mounts performed the story of Medusa, with Luke playing the title role and Libby as Athena.

A reminder about Blogging guidelines for our new contributors, readers and their parents

We are all really excited to have our class blog and share the story of our year. Keeping the blog a safe a secure place to work is very important. Through the use of the blog the children have the opportunity to develop their understanding of online safety and how to behave when on the web.

We have a few simple guidelines that we need to keep to in order to make the most of our class blog.

* Children are to only use their first name when commenting.
* Parents who leave comments are asked to use their first name only so as not to identify their child. Or post comments as “Harry’s Mum” or “Megan’s Grandfather”.
* All posts will be checked by Mr Heritage before they are published to the blog.
* All comments are moderated by Mr Heritage before they appear on the blog.

If you have any more concerns about the security of the blog then please contact me through the diary.

Mr Heritage

* Guidelines adapted from Alex’s class blog, who got them from Tom Barrett – many thanks

Move over Mounts, Grouse class are in the House….

As Mounts spend the day with their new Year 6 teacher, today we say a big welcome to the new Year 5 Grouse class who will be taking their place.

Hello to Sam, Jamie, Ethan, Amelie, Naomi, Kaitlyn, Georgina, Garin, Josh, Molly, Sam, Jasmine, James, Charlie, Annabel, Nika, Lily, Alicia, James, Nayana, Alice, James, Delphie, Jamie, Yoan, Matty and Mollie.

We look forward to seeing lots of your work published online at our new website: www.grousebridgewater.wordpress.com

We hope that as the old Mounts go into Year 6 they will continue to leave comments on our blog. Of course anyone from the old, old Mounts class who will have moved on to Ashlyns: please do come back, visit the site regularly and leave us some comments every now and then.

Thank you Maddie, Evie and Amelia

What an amazing thank you present from Amelia, Evie and Maddie: the key to my own sports car. I’m off for to test drive it this weekend….

Some DT Projects

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Wimbledon Champion

Anyone else feel inspired by Andy Murray today? Mr Heritage’s sister knitted this version of our new Wimbledon champion.

Cheers Melody

Fin

A Bugatti Veyron Supersport breaking the speed limit in a blur of fiery red,

A purple banana smoothie made of the first purple banana, yum!

A first bite of a snail,

The holder of the world record for the 110m hurdles,

James Bond’s Aston Martin,

I could do Gangnam style from the age of one,

Cooler than cool,

Hotter than a minion from Despicable Me.

Louis

A Lamborghini Aventador breaking the speed limit,

A parallel universe made out of floating water glistening in the light,

A pasta tree which is five centimetres and you eat whole,

A crushed up carrot in a delicious carrot cake,

A tennis ball hit and signed by Andy Murray in the Wimbledon finals,

I am Ironman’s suit.

My part time job is being Monjolor (Thor’s Hammer),

I’m cooler than ice,

I am hotter than the Great Fire of London.

Evie

A Ferrari, windows flashing in the sunlight,

A universe, still out there somewhere,

The first bite to the last of the finest Calamari in the world,

That thrilling moment where you take off to clear a giant hurdle.

I can walk in thin air,

Cooler than cool itself,

Hotter than hot itself.

Skye

I am the caravan that me and my mum go for adventures in,

An inventor like Joseph Bazalguette,

A blood orange to make your tongue twist,

A judo champion that defeats everyone,

A pixie from Oz Great and Powerful,

I can make the world rest in peace,

Cooler than a mermaid’s touch,

Hotter than a witch’s cauldron.

Freddie

I am a sparkling leaf green Mr Bean car speeding into a tree,

A live purple pineapple dodging incoming knives,

The first taste of a holy, award-winning fish finger with custard,

The last racket in Andy Murray’s bag,

The last suit that Iron Man blew up,

I can make money grow on trees,

I’m cooler than anything that’s cool,

Hotter than a million suns.

Maddie

A red gleaming Ferrari, speeding around corners,

The biggest tropical fish in the world,

Scales shimmering in the sun light.

The last fruity Mento in the pack waiting to be eaten,

The finishing hurdle of an Olympic athlete,

I can jump as high as the moon,

Cooler than epic,

Hotter than the Earth’s core.

Katy

A Ferrari speeding through red lights,

The first rocket to touch the moon,

The first taste of fresh lemon drizzle,

A new Beth Tweddle winning gold.

A Smurf from the Smurf Movie,

Cooler than a breeze in the wind,

Hotter than a volcano exploding.

Amelia

A Jaguar driving by,

A hidden jewel growing deep in the rocks,

The chocolate chips in the cake,

The springs in a trampoline,

I am the magic that hides the path,

I am cooler than the frozen north,

I am hotter than a white light.

Izobella

A Lamborghini gleaming in the sun while breaking the speed limit,

An undiscovered fruit sunbathing in the sun

I would be a Chinese food,

A famous runner.

I am a Despicable Me minion

I can do a handstand for a day.

Cooler than Gary Barlow,

I’m hotter than the sun.

Louisa

A Range Rover as white as snow,

an undiscovered person,

the first bite of a red hot spicy masala

a jumping hurdler,

Hermione from Harry Potter,

I can predict the future.

Cooler than Bruno Mars

Hotter than boys.

The Six Worst Excuses in the World by Fin

1 The dog ate it.

2. I dropped it in the dog bowl and the dog ate it.

3. I dropped it and unfortunately it landed on explosives and an extremely big explosion happened and the dog ate it.

4. Zeus loved my brilliant homework and boomed as loud as a billion opera singers singing as loud as they can “I want that amazing homework”, but I fought off the god and was too strong for him, but then the most awful thing happened…. the dog ate it.

5 The world set on fire and I grabbed my amazing homework to try and save it, but an elephant as big as my dad stepped on me, but I kept the homework safe, but then a wave of black ink came out of nowhere. I swam through through the ink holding the homework above my head, but then a bloated dog ate it and an even more bloated dog ate that dog, and an hugely overweight dog ate that one, then that dog had a heart attack and died and my dog drank the ink, ate the elephant, the hugely overweight dog and my homework.

6 I would give my teacher a banana instead. Actually that one works rather well.

Luke’s Movie

Here’s something Luke made at home.

Fruit Wars

Xavi and Cameron made this short film outside of school one day using Lego Moviemaker:

Freedom

Following our discussion about Freedom on Monday’s lesson, what do you think about Freedom?

What is Freedom?

What should you have the freedom to do?

What should you be free from?

Does Freedom mean that you have certain responsibilities or duties? Can you ever really be truly free?

Was Odysseus free to follow his own path in the stories or was his life controlled by the Gods?  Are you free to make your own decisions?

 

The Six Worst Excuses in the World by Jessica and Millie in Marlin (after Claire Bevan)

No 1: The dog ate it.

No 2: I put it on the desk next to the doggy treats and the dog jumped up like a flying bird and accidentally ate it.

No 3: I was practising my tap dancing and I was like a pro, when I trod on it and it flew into the air and into the huge volcano at the end of my road and flew back out and the dog ate it.

No 4: I was singing on my karaoke and I was as good as Lady gaga ad I was kicking and dancing when suddenly it flew onto the lamp shade and my dog flew like a dragon and ate it.

No 5: I was on my way to the moon and I was nearing the sun and I was allowed to go outside with my homework when my dog pushed me and I let go of it and my dog tried to save it but instead he ate it.

No 6: Mrs Liverside, I know I’ve not got my homework, but I’ve got a present for you instead: SUNGLASSES!!!

The Six Worst Excuses in the World by Ava in Marlin (after Claire Bevan)

No 1: the dog ate it.

No 2: I finished it then it poured down with rain and it got soaked, when it was dry, the dog ate it.

No 3: I accidentally dropped it in the toilet and then my dog ate it.

No 4: A giant as big as a sky scraper came and raided our house for my homework and then he got arrested and the dog ate it.

No 5: Suddenly Neptune appeared, he wished our house away, we washed up in California on the beach, the homework dried and a piece of talking cheese ran away with it, so my dog chased it, demolished the cheese and then ate it.

No 6: Here is a ticket to see England play cricket in the finals against India. Actually that one works rather well.

 

 

The Six Worst Excuses in the World by Abbie in Marlin (after Claire Bevan)

No 1: The dog ate it.

No 2: A big ugly pigeon came through my window and took it, but he dropped it and the dog ate it.

No 3: Santa came and saw my homework and took it to give to my teacher, but he dropped it down the black chimney while he was climbing up it and my greedy dog ate it.

No 4: We were baking and we accidentally got my homework mixed with cake ix, it was as slumpy as slime, it was gross and pink and my annoying dog ate it.

No 5: The muddy hand from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ came and took it off my clean kitchen side, as clean as a hospital ward. I grabbed it and put it back on the side, my dog jumped up and ate it.

No 6: Here is a pen from America with your name on it. Actually that one works rather well.

[Spellings and punctuation amended by teacher]