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March 2013

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ISSUE 6 March 2013

We have had another short (24 days) but busy half term with a wide variety of learning experiences. This issue contains details of some of the highlights from farm visits to sporting success from video diaries to dressing up as funny characters in our Comic Relief meets World Book Day.

Inside this ISSUE: Page 2 Having fun in nursery 4 A trip to Jimmy’s Farm (R2) 6 Mrs Jarvis’ Class 7 Adventures with African Wildlife 8 Baylham Farm 9 World Book Day 10 In the World of Katie Morag 12 Mrs Adleson’s Class in Action 16 Mr Guite’s Class 20 Mrs Cracknell’s Class 22 Mr Woodward’s Class

Page 23 Mr Sampson’s Class 24 ECO Project 25 Library 26 500 words 27 Leavers’ Yearbook 28 Leavers’ Song 29 Basketball 30 Quicksticks Hits a High 31 Netball 32 Year 6 Football 33 News Splash: We Win Again

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Having Fun in Nursery Introduction

Nursery is a fun environment for younger children to learn and play. They have been up to all sorts this term, such as making robots, Easter cards and chocolate nests. They have a lovely time playing too!

Robots The children had fun making robots as high as Mr Raindle (who is quite tall). Jake said, “It was challenging making it higher than Mr Raindle but also fun too.”

Reading Books in Nursery The children have been reading lots of books over this half term: No-Bot (they read this as part of their robots topic), Newton and the Big Mess, Dora’s Chicks and Zoom. They have all enjoyed reading these books especially No-Bot!

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Learning Numbers The children really enjoy learning numbers with games and communicating with other children.

It’s a fun and easy way to learn numbers.

Craft Making in Nursery For Easter, they each made a bunny box for some chocolate Easter nests. They have also made Easter cards and bunnies.

Nursery made many other things but we could not fit them all in this article!

Conclusion We really enjoyed visiting Nursery and writing this article. We hope they can continue the great work!

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Last half term R2 did lots of amazing projects that including; healthy and unhealthy eating, a trip to Jimmy’s Farm, preparing for Easter and they have read a lot of books that they loved.

Jimmy’s Farm On the Thursday 7th of March, all of Reception went to Jimmy’s Farm for a school trip. While they were there they cooked hot dogs and built dens, but their most favourite thing of all was seeing all the different animals.

The most magnificent animals that they saw were cockerels and baby piglets.

Also they really enjoyed building dens out of old cut down trunks of tree.

As well, they loved cooking and eating hot dogs.

They said it was one of the best school trips.

Letters They have learnt how to write lower case and capital letters. They are doing very well considering they are only four or five. Mrs Fitzgerald would like them to remember how to do it!

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Books In the past few days class Reception 2 have been reading many different books that are in the school or have been brought in. These are the books they have read:

Oxford Reading Little Red Riding The Golden Egg Tree Hood

The Three Little Pigs

Easter Because Easter is fast approaching they decided to make lots of little bit and pieces to decorate their houses with e.g. chocolate nest, napkin holders, bunnies, cards and chicks. They accomplished the chocolate nest, by mixing Rice Crispies and melted chocolate together over a warm heat. The napkin holders and the cards were hard to make but they all finished it in the end.

Lucy: I liked making the cards Owen: I liked making bunnies.

Favourite lessons Their best lessons were racing in P.E., making things for Easter and dressing up.

By Ellie and Laura, 6A

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Adventures With African Wildlife and Animals In Mrs Doorly’s Class This half term Mrs Doorly’s class have been learning about farm animals, African wild animals, Antarctica and the North Pole, so as you can see they have been very busy.

Read on to find out more details about their learning.

Some of the children found things challenging such as completing puzzles, elephant paintings and writing about the elephants and zebras. However, we are sure they had a good time doing them as well.

Year 1 have read many books: The Lazy Lion, The Cuddly Duck, The Greedy Zebra, Avocado Baby, Duck In The Truck, I Love Pigs and Enormous Elephant. The class have really enjoyed these books and are looking forward to reading lots more.

This half term they have also had a class assembly which they enjoyed doing, it was all about Mother’s Day. They also sang the Farmer Pete song to their parents and the school. They all really enjoyed it. Because their assembly was about Mother’s Day, they decided to sing a song about it.

Lots of the year 1’s favourite lesson was acting out The Lazy Lion book that they had read. Others enjoyed doing throwing balls to each other in P.E. and others enjoyed learning number bonds to ten and lots more.

Mrs Doorly likes them to listen, hold their pencils properly, don’t chat in lessons and Mrs Doorly was very pleased about this next one, Violet said to smile .

Recently they went to Baylham Farm. They all had a good time and liked looking at the farm animals. Here are a few pictures.

Mrs Doorly also wanted this to be at the end of the article; she said she thinks they have grown up a lot, worked very hard and she said she will miss them all.

By Holly and Yasmin (6A)

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YEAR 1 GO TO BAYLHAM FARM! Mrs Baillie’s and Mrs Florey’s class This half term Mrs Baillie’s and Mrs Florey’s class have been very busy learning various lessons and going on an exciting trip. When we asked Year 1 if they had been anywhere, they all jumped up with excitement and simultaneously shouted Baylham Farm!! We asked them if they enjoyed themselves, but we wished we hadn’t, because everyone shouted, “YES!” really loud!!! They looked at the animals, how they were looked after and treated.

Once they calmed down, we asked them what books they had read. They were Farmer Duck, Lazy Lion, Enormous Elephant and Message in a Bottle.

On Thursday the 28th of March, the class performed an assembly on farm animals and lots of other interesting things they have been learning about.

Also this half term, the children have been learning about different climates in different places around the world. They found out that some places are colder than others depending on where you are. They also looked at the climate in the rainforests. They said it was hot in most of the rainforests but they get a lot of rain.

When we asked what habits of mind they have been using, one pupil said they hadn’t used any, but looking at the displays all over their classroom we thought that they must have used lots of different skills to finish their work and make it look really good.

Finally, they told us about their number work and non-fiction writing using books to guide them. If you get a chance to see them, you will be in for a treat.

All of Mrs Baillie’s and Mrs Florey’s class have been very busy, working really hard on all of their lessons and work that they produced.

Reported by Dan and Henry 

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Recently we have had a series of fun events like Mission to Mars and Comic Relief. The main thing we found very enjoyable was World Book Day. We all wore either non uniform or a costume of a book character. Everyone found each other as a funny, creative or a casual character. We decided to combine Comic Relief with World Book Day to make it more amusing. Most or all of us bought one or more red noses. What Fun! We also had fun eating cakes since they were delicious (because there was a cake sale).

Thoughts about World Book Day Maddy, 6A said: “My favourite part was when we got to dress up and received free books.”

Louis, 6A said “My favourite part of World Book Day was dressing up as an oompa-loompa” Laurie, 6A thought that everyone put a lot of effort in making their costumes!

And the last quote is from Luke: He said that he liked World Book Day because it encourages people to read.

Book clubs (clubs or teachers choice) Some of us have been reading in clubs or books the teacher chose like: Holes, Krindlekrax, Clockwork, The Last Dragon Chronicles, A Series of Unfortunate Events and H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education). We could read as a group or an individual.

The biggest club has been A Series of Unfortunate Events with seven members in total. They are: Rohan, Rahul, Luke, Jake, Jack, Tom and Liam. We do recommend these books and hope you get more interested in reading imaginative books as well as non-fiction books.

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Introduction Mrs Waller and Mrs Slattery’s class have been very busy this half term. They have been learning about a variety of subjects, but mainly about Katie Morag.

Mrs Waller would like most of the children to remember this highlight of the half term.

Katie Morag The class’s biggest topic was ‘The Story of Katie Morag and the 2 Grandmothers’. The children all made a model of the big island using a variety of materials, to help them know what an island would look like from a birds-eye view. Poppy said, “I enjoyed using material for the Katie Morag Island.”

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Learning Shapes in Maths As well as starting their ‘Big Maths’ challenges, they enjoyed learning about all the different shapes.

Although they found memorising the shapes tricky, they persisted. Now they are better and understanding them more. “I like learning about the shapes – it is really fun!” Jack told us.

Favourite Lesson We asked the children what their favourite lesson was and they replied, “Making puppets and watching the Tinderbox”. First, they watched an outside theatre company perform a puppet show of The Tinderbox. Next, the company stayed to help the children to make puppets based on what they had seen.

In conclusion Mrs Waller and Mrs Slattery’s class had a brilliant half term. They have been very busy and also have used a lot of habits of mind.

By Grace and Daisy, 6A

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Introduction This half term has been very short but Mrs Adelson’s class has found out a way of cramming lots in. They have been cooking, reading Katy Morag books and they even presented a puppet show. They have all shown persistence in their work, even if it is hard they have pushed themselves.

Books The books they have been reading are: Katy Morag and the Wedding, Katy Morag Goes Dancing, Katy Morag and the Big Boy’s Cousins. They seem to have taken a liking to Katy Morag (I think)? I wonder which book was the best?

Why don’t you have a look at them?

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The Puppet Show Mrs Adelson’s class have been enthusiastically making puppets using habits of mind such as persistence and they also had fun in showing them to each other. All the shows were super and equally amusing.

Cooking The children have been making delightful, mouthwatering shortbread. Most of them said that this was fun and very, very enjoyable. When we asked the question, they all cheered in enjoyment.

What have they particularly enjoyed?

Most of the children have enjoyed play time, cooking, country dancing, Katy Morag and they have actually had fun in doing their hand writing, which took us by surprise, only joking. The class are very lucky in tasting their shortbread.

By Safie and Zoe, 6A 

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Mr Guite’s Class Creating Our Video Diaries We were learning about Rapunzel A Groovy Fairy Tale and four people were chosen to write a video diary. Those four people were Asmee, Ella, Cerys and Callum (Me). We wrote it down with a white-board pen on a big piece of paper, it took a very long time to do! Eventually we finished and read it to the class. Some people were nervous but they did very well. The next day we were going to be finished so we tried to find a quiet place. We went in the corridor, the cloakroom, and the hall but they were ALL noisy! Except the S.S.C so we went there. We had a practise go, it was okay. Then we did it for real. I went last and we did absolutely excellent! Soon we were in assembly and they were very pleased. I enjoyed it because famous people do it!

By Callum, 3A You can watch the video diaries here: Callum

Asmee

Cerys

Ella

TRADITIONAL STORIES In English we have been learning about traditional stories. One of the traditional stories we have been learning about is Rapunzel, a groovy fairy tale. It is about a mean grandma called Aunt Edna and a beautiful girl called Rapunzel and a boy called Roger. Rapunzel had the most extraordinarily long hair and we had to write it. It was really, really, really fun. After that we had to draw a picture of our favourite character I chose Roger because I like his hair style. I was going to do Edna but I realised Edna was really ugly so I didn’t.

By Louis, 3A

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STORIES What I enjoy most in English; I enjoyed most when we write made-up and already-wrote stories.

Once we had to write a traditional story and I chose The Three Little Pigs. We had to write it in sections for the different pages, when you wrote one section on one page and draw a picture with it.

I like writing my own made-up stories but the trouble with them is I never finish them in the time we have.

We once had to write a story where you make a wish but in the end, you regret it. I can’t remember what mine was called though because I did mine ages ago.

I also liked when we had to listen to Mr Guite reading ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and then we had to write it, but that time I had finished it in the amount of time and I even had time to draw a picture too.

I liked when we listened to a Greek myth about a made-up monster and mine was called a Cheiniconie. The next day we had to write about our monster when somebody tries to fight it. My made-up Cheiniconie is half man, half unicorn, half horse and half dragon.

By Elizabeth, 3A

Traditional stories In English we were learning about traditional stories and we had to choose any traditional story. I wrote the three little pigs. Most people wrote the three little pigs. And after that we shared our books with the year 6 partner then a couple of days later we read it with reception. It was really fun. By Ella, 3A

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The Enormous Turnip Work In English we have been learning about traditional stories and one day we were learning about the enormous turnip and we had to write down what each person said. All the characters are the old man, old lady, little boy, little girl, dog, cat and the mouse. The old man said to his wife, “Please, please, please come and help us pull up this enormous turnip.” Also the old women said to her grandson, “Please will you come and help us pull up this enormous turnip.” The grandson said to his sister, “Please may you help us pull up this enormous turnip.” The little girl said to the dog, “Dog, come and help us pull up this enormous turnip.” Then the dog said to the cat, “Cat, cat come and help us pull up this enormous turnip.” And the cat said to the mouse, “Mouse, mouse, mouse come and help us pull up this enormous turnip.” Then the turnip popped out. From that time I have been better at speech marks.

By Evie, 3A

Beowulf I liked Beowulf because we got to watch the videos of it and got to write different parts for it. My favourite part was part 3 because we got to write a play script for it and I like writing play scripts because you get to write who is saying it. My second favourite part was part 1 because it was the scariest part of them all and the coolest. My favourite bit in the video of part 1 was when Grendel’s arm came off. My least favourite part was part 2 because I don’t really like colouring in but I liked the video not as much as part 1.

By Jimmy, 3A

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TRADITIONAL STORIES This spring term, we have the topic Traditional Stories. My favourite thing I did this term was making a traditional story book.

I made Cinderella, but other people made different ones. A lot of other people made the three little pigs but some made the gingerbread man.

First we had to write the story in our English books then on plain paper. We drew pictures and coloured them in. Last we made a front and back cover.

When we had done that, we went to Mrs. Fitzgerald’s class and we showed her class our books. I enjoyed it a lot and my partner did too.

We showed our year 6 partners too. My year 6 partner said, “I like your pictures.” My partner in reception said, “Wow!” to my pictures. It made me feel proud, and made me know that I had learnt something this term.

by Asmee, 3A

Our Myth In English we had to write a myth. I called my myth Princess Marianne and the Monkey Maniac. We also had to draw a picture of our monster. We had to do the problem and who the monster was and how he or she (in this case it was she) defeated the monster. It was fun and it was a happy ending for Princess Marianne’s family and her.

By Cerys, 3A

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Mrs Cracknell’s Class This term our topic was Traditional Tales. Some of us wrote a sequel to a traditional story and this is Sophie’s own story of Goldilocks.

Goldilocks … What happened next?

One day Goldilocks had breakfast at the bears’ house. Then she went out the door, without the bears knowing. When the bears found out, they were very worried. Mummy bear and Daddy bear weren’t as frightened, worried or scared as Baby bear.

Goldilocks was lost in the woods and Goldilocks cried out loud “I am lost … bears… anyone.” But before Goldilocks could finish her sentence, she spotted a lovely little flowery cottage which was shining beautifully in the sun. Goldilocks knew she would be safe there. She knocked on the door, but no one answered. So she knocked on the door again, but still there was no answer.

So she opened the door, but to her amazement when she opened the door, the door made the loudest sound on Earth. When she got in the house she looked around and all she could see were loads of fox family pictures.

Goldilocks was really happy that it was another animal’s house. She imagined the baby bears and the baby foxes playing together outside in the fresh air whilst the mummies and daddies talked together. As she opened her eyes from imagining, she saw a little black nose sniffing Goldilocks.

Then she saw the baby fox. Next, she saw the mummy fox with the daddy fox - they both had happy faces.

They asked Goldilocks if she wanted to be their friend and she said, “Yes.” So they all became friends and lived happily ever after.

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Kesgrave High School This week we were invited to visit the Year 10’s at Kesgrave High School who wanted an audience for their performances. This is the recount of our outing that Robyn wrote.

We went to Kesgrave High School. First, we got our coats and had to walk there. We went in an underpass underneath the busy road. I was amazed by all the paintings, it made it bright and colourful. As we walked on, I could see lots of cars and some cute dogs and puppies too.

When we got into Kesgrave School someone was covered in snow. I almost got hit with a snowball! The snow was nice and sparkly.

Next, we went to the Thomas Theatre. It had so many colourful lights: pink, green and yellow. There were also lots of seats which were blue.

There were two shows. They were funny but I didn’t have a favourite. The shows had messages that were: 1. Don’t be greedy.

2. Don’t give up on your dreams.

In both of the shows there was music and lights, singing and dancing.

Then we went home.

Robyn, 3B

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This half term, 6A have learnt too many things to count, including fun PE lessons, amusing maths and a great book by Louis Sachar.

P.E In PE, 6A have been doing gymnastics with Mr Fenn. Everyone has made up a sequence including counter balances, different types of jumps and rolls. Laurie said, “I found it fun that you could use different techniques to show how you move.”

Maths In maths we studied measurements with shapes and drew a scale drawing of our classroom, we have never done it before so it was even more fun. Some people didn’t enjoy it like Safie 6A, who quoted “I thought it went on for a bit too long and it got boring”. Mr Sampson is quite pleased with Safie because he wants the children to learn how to use their imaginations more. Boredom is an option.

English Also this term 6A learnt to use the ACE Spelling Dictionary. You have to look for the vowel sound a syllable makes, then look for the letter it begins with, then finally look for the amount of syllables it has. Lots of people thought it was quicker, but then again lots of people liked using a normal dictionary more. Charlie 6A said, “I like the ACE Spelling Dictionary more because it was better to use if you didn’t know how to spell a word”. Rahul 6A said, “I liked both of them and they are better in their own ways” An Afternoon of Sport 6 teams went to 3 places on the 21 st of March. Those teams were: 2 Football teams, 1 basketball team, 2 Netball teams and 1 hockey team. These events were very challenging but all the teams had fun with good results. The basketball team came 3rd in the county the fotball a team came 4th where the b team came 6th in their group, the Netball came 4th and so did Hockey team.

By Charlie And Eddie, 6A

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The ECO project Mr Sampson’s class The ECO project is investigating five topics where the planet needs help. The five topics are Water, Pollution, Amazon Rainforest, Waste and China. The children have to research and then make a poster and a presentation.

Amazon Rainforest The people in the Amazon group are finding out facts to stop people from cutting down the Amazon trees because some of the animal’s homes are being cut down and they could become extinct. The trees used to block out the sunlight so the animals could go in the shade.

Water The people in the Water group are finding ways of how to save Water. They were making a water cycle and a sewer cycle and they also were finding out facts.

Pollution The people in the Pollution group are researching three different things: Land Pollution, Water Pollution and Air Pollution.

Waste The people in the Waste group are finding out how much you waste every day and how it affects the earth and also finding out facts.

China The people in the China group are finding out facts about China so they can learn more about it.

We hope that we can stop people from cutting down trees, reduce waste and also saving water. We are enjoying it.

By Olivia.H 6A

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Library Mrs Woodman, our school librarian, has recently been coming into assemblies to tell us about some amazing new books that we might be interested in. We’re going to remind you of some of the books in assemblies and some brand new ones that the library holds.

One of the brand new books in the library we were most interested in is called, “The Goblin’s Gift” which is the second of series a called “The Tales of Fayt.” The first of the series is “The Demon’s Watch.” The series is written by Conrad Mason. In the books the goblins, elves, fairies and trolls of Port Fayt are being attacked by the League of the Light’s Armada. So they are fighting back with the Demon’s Watch.

In a few of our assemblies Mrs Woodman has recommended us some fab books that you might enjoy. Here are some you might remember from previous Mrs Woodman assembly time: “Knighty Knight”, “Crane Fly Crash”, “The Spitting Cobra”, “The History Keeper” and “The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop.”

Not forgetting “Hero.com” and “Villain.net.” They are both in the same series and here is a quote from Eddie (6A) who is in the middle of the series: “I recommend that you should read these books.”

You can help Mrs Woodman spend more time getting new wonderful books by not messing up the books on the shelves so she doesn’t have to tidy them up!!! P.S: Keep on reading!

By Rohan and Sam (6A)

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500 Words You may have seen the new 500 Words Competition Logo on the school website-

You might have clicked on it too. If you haven't, please do! There are lots of stories to read, all 500 words or less, which were entered into Radio 2's 500 Words Writing Competition 2013. Although you cannot enter any more stories, this competition happens yearly so don't worry, if you didn't get the chance to enter this year, you can enter next year. You could still write a 500 Words story too - we're planning to have our own mini-competition of 500 words stories.

If you did enter, you'll find out whether your story has gone into the next stage of judging by the first week of April. Don't worry if you don't get there- it's a tough competition! If you do make it, congratulations and good luck!

This year the five expert judges are as follows: RICHARD HAMMOND CBBC and Top Gear star DAME JACQUELINE WILSON Multi-award-winning novelist MALORIE BLACKMAN Multi-award-winning novelist FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE Writer behind the London 2012 opening ceremony CHARLIE HIGSON Actor, comedian and author You may recognise some or even most of these names. Good luck!

Reported by Maddy, 6A To visit Radio 2's 500 Words competition website, click the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/500words/2013/

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LEAVERS’ YEARBOOK 2012-13 Last year’s Year 6 decided that it would be a nice idea to produce a Leavers’ Yearbook in addition to the Leavers’ DVD (see page ?). The reason they did this was so that they could have something more to remember Gorseland by. This half term Year 6 have decided to produce one again, so they have begun to design covers, write articles and look at photos of themselves. Yasmin in 6A says, “I think having the yearbook is a great idea. I may not be planning it but I can’t wait for it to be finished and see my friends’ writing pieces inside!” Mr Weatherby runs the Yearbook club on Fridays at lunchtime, although he doesn’t do much work himself - it’s all down to Year 6!

The aim for the yearbook is to include around 30 articles plus a maximum of 140 words about each person in Year 6. Holly in 6A says, “Although I am not involved in the yearbook yet, I am really looking forward to doing my part and all the people doing it have put in a lot of hard work.” The articles will be illustrated with pictures of the children throughout their years at Gorseland, right back to Reception. Also they are going to include their class photos from each year.

Some of the articles included will be taken from the newspaper and possibly adapted slightly to fit the criteria for a yearbook. The yearbook will also include articles about the clubs Year 6 have taken part in including flute, violin/viola, guitar, newspaper club, archery, netball and football. There are many more articles about one-off things too such as Mission to Mars, Project X, the Gutterball Challenge and Snape Maltings (when Year 6 were in Year 4, they were given the opportunity to perform at Snape Maltings Concert Hall). On the Gorseland website there are links to tell you more about these events:Please note that the Snape Maltings pictures are on the old Gorseland website.

There are some things that Year 6 still need to write an article for such as Film Week and Belchamps (although they cannot have written one about Belchamps yet, as they have not been!) but these will all be completed in good time! Although it seems like ages until Year 6 get to high school, they still know that in reality, they only have four months left at Gorseland.  As well as signing T-shirts on the last day of next term, Year 6 are going to leave a few blank pages in the yearbook (which happened last year too) so that they can sign them.

They hope that their yearbook will be as good as last year’s, and if not, even better.

Rahul and Henry in 6A both can’t wait for it to come out because it will be a fantastic memory for them with lots of work put into it.

Reported by Maddy, 6A

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Y6 Leavers’ Song In March 2013, we went to Kesgrave High School to practice our version of King Charles We Didn`t Start the Fire. The following Monday we went back for another practice, then after Easter we are going to record in one of the recording studios at the High School.

In our version we had violins, guitar, keyboards, flute, cornet, singers and the drums. This year Mr Weatherby decided to go up there a lot earlier, so we had some practices because last time they were tight for time and only just got it completed.

Quotes about the song: Molly: I’m really excited because it is the first time the school has done something like this.

Alice K: It was really fun and everyone enjoyed producing the song.

Maddy W: It’s really fun and I really like doing it.

Caroline: it is great fun.

By Jasmine (6B) and Ellie (6A)

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Basketball The basketball we have had 3 rounds and I am going to talk you through them. All the rounds were on different dates and in different places: Northgate, Kesgrave and Westbourne High Schools.

Round One Round one is our first round it decides if we’re going into round two agents the schools in Ipswich who won there round. There were two pools pool one and pool two, we chosen to play in pool one. When it came to the end there were two teams that had won their pools Cedarwood and Gorseland.

Our hearts were pumping loudly because we saw them playing they looked a challenge, but we won we were all so happy.

Round two Round two was even more of a challenge, we were playing agents the people who had won there round, even more frightening Cedarwood was there even though they were NOT meant to be there, luckily they didn’t win their in pool. But this time we were playing against an even harder team they were in our pool we won against them in our pool but we then had to play them again in the round two final. They almost won there was one point in it but we won.

Final Several weeks before the final, we were told that football, netball, hockey and basketball were all going to be on the same day. We all played one of those sports and we were not very happy about it but fortunately all the team was loyal and we all chose basketball as we all realised we had come so far and there was no point giving up now. When we came to the final, not many teams were there and we looked at the other teams that were there technique. Fortunately, it all paid off and we came in 3rd place.

By Safie 6a

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Quick Sticks Hits a High Another victory for Gorseland Primary

On the 4th of March 2013, Gorseland success was announced as we triumphantly won the South Suffolk final of our first ever Hockey tournament. After entering on a “bit of a wild card”, as one of the parents was heard to have said, we played against a variety of opponents including another Kesgrave competitor: Cedarwood. All of the matches were extremely competitive as well as hard fought. Everybody played enthusiastically attempting to dominate the competition.

Participating were eight amazing teams from the surrounding area. They varied from Sidegate to. St. Matthews.

Five of these became our rivals throughout the evening.

We started on a high, winning 2-1 against Hadleigh moving swiftly on to St Matthews. Unfortunately we lost against St Matthews by the skin of our teeth. We continued to play well, qualifying for the semi-final. Our opponents were Moorland Primary school, Ipswich. We won this game and the final against Cedarwood too.

At the presentation ceremony, we were ecstatic as it was declared that we had won the recently played final against our fellow Kesgrave contestants.

A triumphant Laurie, 6A reported that it was a “historic moment”. All at Gorseland are proud of their success.

Finally, we have been invited to the county finals on the 21st of March. We are all looking forward to it as part of the Gorseland is amazing at sports afternoon.

By George and Laurie 6A

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Netball matches against Cedarwood and Broke Hall On the 27th of February we played against Cedarwood. They appeared to be a difficult team. Unfortunately we lost 10-0. They played well and so did we. It was cold and miserable, but we still would give three cheers to the opposition.

Although we lost the day before, we didn’t let it bother us against Broke Hall. Our techniques and skills increased for the next match (also because we had our number one player!). We won 14-3.

Gorseland Netball Team

Our Netball team has been invited to Kesgrave High School for a pyramid tournament on the 21st of March. We are currently teaching a group of Year 5’s to be our second team to take to Kesgrave High School.

By Grace and Daisy, 6A

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March 2013

Year Six Football On the 21st of March 2013, year six were invited to take part in four different sports competitions, which were football, hockey, basketball and netball. The football was at Kesgrave High School, along with the netball, while the hockey was at Copleston High School, and the basketball was at Westbourne High School. All of the people who attended the sports were fanatical about competing in a tournament.

Gorseland sent two football teams to Kesgrave High School, (an A team, and a B team). Both teams put all of their effort into the matches. Ultimately, the B team came 6th in their pool. The A team were in a different pool and came 2nd overall.

It was good, but not as good as we hoped for. The A team’s results were: Bucklesham 0-2 Gorseland A Cedarwood B 2-1 Gorseland A Heath 2-0 Gorseland Gorseland A 2-0 Nacton We came 2nd in our pool out of six teams, which we were pleased with. Additionally, we were through to the 3rd/4th place position. Unfortunately, we lost to Cederwood 3-0, and, as a result, came 4th out of eleven teams. Heath Primary School ended up beating Birchwood 1-0 in the final.

“I think the team played really well. But I was quite annoyed I didn’t score a left footer when I had a chance.” said Ollie.

Ultimately, we were proud of representing Gorseland in the Kesgrave Pyramid Cup competition.

We look forward to another tournament.

By Luke 6A. It was a cold afternoon when some of us went to football at Kesgrave High School where there were 12 teams. The schools were: Heath, Birchwood A, Cederwood A, Cederwood B, Waldringfeld, Birchwood B, Nacton, Beacon Hill, Bealings, Gorseland A and Gorseland B Quotes: “I took lots of pictures and it was fun,” said Rahul.

“I thought it was a good experience,” said Rohan.

“I had a phenomenal time at the football,” said Luke.

The B team played Cedarwood A, Birchwood, Waldringfield, Martlesham Beacon Hill and Bealings and came 6th in the B team’s pool at the end of the day.

By Liam Wilby

The Gorseland Times

March 2013

On the 13th of March we went to Woodbridge Deben pool, to take part in the pyramid swimming gala. We were all really nervous because the previous year 6’s had won 5 times in a row.

There were 21 races plus the two at the end which were just for fun, there were no points awarded for winning them. My races: were freestyle, float relay, (I wasn’t meant to do the float relay but my race got mixed up.)

We competed against Birchwood, Cedarwood, Nacton and Bucklesham and Waldringfield primaries. We came 1st and Bucklesham came 2nd. We won by quite a lot of points.

By Ollie and Matt, 6A

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