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November 2012

GORSELAND TIMES the best newspaper in the world!!

The third issue of The Gorseland Times is different to the

ISSUE 3 November 2012

first two issues. Mr Weatherby and a team of Y5&6 children started our school newspaper off as a lunchtime club in the Spring Term 2012.

This term all of the children in Y6 have written an article about life at Gorseland and other classes have contributed an article too.

Inside this ISSUE: Page 2 Head teacher ins and outs

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Class Reports Mrs Fitzgerald’s Class Mrs Wallace & Bowskill’s Class Mrs Doorly’s Class Miss Stanley’s Class Mr Guite’s Class Mrs Cracknell’s Class

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Our Learning Goodbye Y5 Y6 visit to KHS Habits of Mind Y6 topic: Heroic Heroes Gutters and Billiard Balls K’Nex Challenge

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Y5&6 Helping Younger Children PALs Change4Life Helping Hands Positive Playtimes Media Clubs Radio and Newspaper Club Video Club

Sports 22 Archery 23-25 Athletics 26 Gymnastics 27 Football Club 28 Netball

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Music Guitars Fabulous Fiddles

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Y6 Film Week

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What does the head teacher think about leaving and much more?

Mrs Seaborne is leaving after six years of being head teacher, what a sad event and will she ever come back to our school? Find out!

QUESTIONS… How are you feeling about leaving our school?

“A bit wobbly, I’m trying not to think about it.”

Did you like being at Gorseland school and why?

“I’ve loved being here because all the people are lovely.”

Are going to get another job? If you are, what would it be?

“I am going to get another job I am going to work with trainee teachers.”

If you were a chocolate bar, which one would you be and why?

I would be a snickers bar because it’s got a bit of everything.”

If you were an animal which one would you be and why?

A cat because they are their own boss and they always land on their feet.”

The lucky winner of the question contest is Mrs Prout. Here is her question…

What is your favourite pop band from the 1970’s?

“I think Dire Striates.”

Jack and Connor, 6B

New man at the top Mrs Seaborne is leaving Gorseland at Christmas time, but who shall get the job of Head teacher?

When Mrs Seaborne resigned from Gorseland, this opened up the job for head teacher. Already the school had gone through one set of interviews but the governors decided there was no one suitable for the job. This shows how hard it is to get the job. ` Two people were interviewed on the 22nd and the 23rd of October by the school governors and the school councillors from

Years Five and Six. Leonie, a Year Six school councillor said she was happy to be allowed to go to the head teacher interviews.

Mr Jackson, a former deputy head at Gorseland, visited the primary school on the day of the interview. This caused some suspicion that he may have been interviewed to be the head.

The next day, at lunch time, an email was sent out telling the parents who the new head teacher was. It was Mr Jackson!

By Adam and Matthew, 6B

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Mrs Fitzgerald’s Class I liked making rockets and learning my numbers. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

blast off!

Owen

I like learning how to use the apparatus and climbing on the squares. – Finley C

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Mrs Wallace’s and Bowskill’s Class The main theme for Mrs Wallace’s and Bowskill’s class is to learn Makaton signing. They can sing or talk and sign at the same time, watching Mr Tumble helps them with this. Some of the children can talk but others need help from their teachers to communicate. So learning Makaton signing is a great opportunity for them.

Aaron, an eight-year-old boy in Mrs Wallace’s and Bowskill’s class, drew this picture of Mr Tumble’s spotty bag and what he would like to put in it. He drew a seahorse, an elephant, a snake and a football.

Their teachers and teaching assistants are Mrs Wallace, Mrs Bowskill, Mrs Grey, Faye, Mrs Chesterfield and Mrs Spalding.

Every 2 weeks they start a new topic. They had a party for someone’s birthday not long ago and they had cake, party food and played games. They also do gym trail. It helps them to follow instructions and also to get themselves dressed and undressed.

By Holly and Yasmin, 6A

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Mrs Doorly’s Class

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Miss Stanley’s Class

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MR GUITE’S CLASS English In English we have been doing story writing & in Story writing we have been doing stories about New Neighbours & other New Neighbours. Also descriptions about a beach. My beach was in Felixstowe.

Maths In maths we have been doing X tables. We have been doing sums like 100 X 100 = 10,000 and lots of tricky sums.

French In French we have been doing conversations like Bonjour ,ca va & comme ci comme ca & merci.

Science In science we have been doing rocks and soils. Our friends have brought their stuff to show. I liked Harrys, it was very interesting.

P.E. In P.E. we have been doing Hockey and Football. I liked it when we played the matches in hockey. We lost 15-5 but our team didn’t mind.

In the football match we won 3-2 and I scored 1 goal and for the Hockey match we had Elizabeth, Harry, Me & Helena. For the Football match we had Callum.M, Euan, Cameron.R.O & Me. It was very fun.

Art In art we have been doing French artists like Claude Monet, Henri Rosseau, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gaugin. Claude Monet was famous but Henri Rosseau wasn’t. I liked painting.

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Music In music Mr Guite brings in his guitar and we sing Country Roads, The marvellous Toy, The penguin song & Grandma, I like Country Rode's. Mr Guite can play it really well I would rate him . And with the musical instrument's we have been doing songs like, a song called lickerty split and on the next bit it is John Ka-Na-Ka-Na-Ka too I a & My Dog is a good dog, I like My Dog is a good Dog. But all the songs are good.

P.S.H.E In P.S.H.E We have been doing Rules, Talents & Perseverance. In Rules we have been thinking about Class Rules & in Talents we have been talking about are talents mine is Football & perseverance we have been writing about what we persevere about mine is Football. I like this because you get to know more about people you do not know lots about.

I.C.T In I.C.T. we have been doing French Landmarks such as The Eiffel tower, and some people did Landmarks like Moulin Rouge, Monet's garden,(Claude Monet.) Place de la concored, Place de la bastile, lordes grotto. It is fun learning about them.

Topic In topic we have been doing French landmarks & also La Tour De France I like Bradley Wiggins. He is very fast. And Mark Cavendish.

They are both British.

Mark Cavendish

by Callum, 3A

Bradley Wiggins

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Mrs Cracknell’s Class Friendship Our class has been learning about friendship and what makes a good friend.

We read a story called ‘Frog and the Stranger’. It is all about friendship. The characters are Frog, Rat, Duck, Hare and Pig. Rat is very kind and hard working. Duck is mean to Rat. Pig is mean and cruel. Hare is very clever. Frog is caring and kind.

The story teaches us that if someone is different to us we can still like them and be friends with them. I really enjoyed listening to the story because it had a happy ending.

By Charlotte- 3B

Learning a new language In Year 3 we have started to learn French with Mrs.Cook. So far we have learnt greetings and feelings and numbers. We have just started to learn colours.

At the beginning of term we learnt how to greet people and ask how they are feeling. I learnt how to say ‘Hello, how are you?’ and respond and also to ask someone their name.

We then started to learn lots of things to do with numbers including matching written words with their digits and word searches. We also made a French hopscotch game and did some sums in French too.

Some French numbers are….. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre and so on.

I was a bit worried about composing a song with the colours in, but when we actually did it I was quite proud of it.

By Matan- 3B.

Our Class Trip To Ipswich Museum Our topics in class were Rocks and Teeth, so we went to Ipswich Museum on Wednesday 24th October to find out more………

Animals First we looked at animals. Lots of people liked the huge, Woolly Mammoth. I wondered how they got the Mammoth inside the museum? Most people thought

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the Red Panda was cute and also the Lion Cub. The Giraffe was so tall with its long neck. Of course all the animals had been stuffed and were not real!

Bones and Teeth Next we saw some bones and teeth. We found the animals Teeth very interesting because they were such different sizes. My group and I spotted some long snake bones in a glass cabinet. We also found some sharp sharks teeth.

Ancient Egyptians Then we went to the Egyptian section where we saw lots of mummies. They were wrapped in linen cloth, which is a type of fabric. There were thin and thick bones in glass coffins too.

Rocks Finally we looked at some rocks. We chose our favourite rock and drew it. My favourite rock was a large mustard coloured rock with a flower-like design on top. It looked like a sea-shell to me!

Birds We all saw lots of types of birds. The most interesting one was The Golden Eagle. It is on e of the best known birds of prey. It has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas.

By Madhu- 3B.

Hockey Coaching We have been taught hockey by our sports coach Mr.Fenn and its been good fun.

We have plastic hockey sticks and little tennis balls and also quite tiny goals, so its really hard to score!

I like being in goal but I worry when the ball comes near to me too fast, especially if it is a great player shooting it.

You have to keep the stick below your waist and also keep the ball quite low so it doesn’t hit your body. If you are right-handed the left hand goes in the middle and you place your right hand over the top.

It’s really good fun having Mr. Fenn teaching us as he is very kind to us.

By John and Henry, 3B.

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GOODBYE YEAR 5!

5A and 5B open the door to Year 6 Back in the summer, we found fun in our new classrooms with our new Year 6 teachers; Mr Sampson and Miss Downey.

Activities for Miss Downey’s class included a memory game from the holidays; guess the false fact and construction challenge involving spaghetti and marshmallows! Meanwhile, Mr Sampson’s class played several games, including ‘Don’t say it!’.

We were relieved to find that we had great fun with Miss Downey and Mr Sampson, as some of us weren’t sure what to expect. Alice Kaplan (a pupil in Miss Downey’s class) said:

“I had great fun playing all the games. My favourite part was making the constructions with marshmallows. “

Everyone in Miss Downey’s class made some amazing coats of arms as well. We drew pictures to show more about us and our favourite things. We then added mottos onto them for us to remember throughout Year 6.

Our mottos include: Mind over matter; passion and determination; Don’t give up, go for gold and Keep calm and stay determined.

The fun continues still in Year 6.

Everyone enjoys the Heroes topic, all of the slightly harder subjects and the wonderful new classrooms and teachers.

By Kane and Samantha, 6B

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Year 6’s Kesgrave High School visit.

On Monday the 8th of October 2012 the year 6’s of Gorseland Primary School paid a visit to Kesgrave High School to take in what it would be like there.

The Maths Lesson.

Class 6A was introduced to a teacher called Mr Rowley, who gave them a taste of what a year 7 maths lesson would be like in Kesgrave High School, whilst Class 6B were taught by Mr Adams. 6A did coding and decoding using braille, as well as solving word problems using Carroll diagrams.

“I thought the braille was awesome but challenging.” -Rahul 6A. “It was a little unexpected when we found out we were doing braille it was much easier.” -Charlie 6A.

“The lesson was awesome.” -Eddie 6A. “I thought the diagrams were easy to understand, but the questions were challenging.” -Maddy 6A.

The Canteen.

Y6’s had a great time eating snacks from the Canteen. The snacks were a variety of choices, such as pizza, sausages rolls, bacon butties and potato wedges. There was also a selection drinks (including fizzy drinks).

The tour of the School.

Some Prefects showed different groups of Y6’s around the High School, which they thought was like a maze! They saw football pitches, the library, the cooking and art area and more. It looked like the Y6’s enjoyed their tour.

By Luke and Sam, 6A.

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HABITS OF MIND Mrs Seaborne introduced Habits of mind to the school in 2007 and has talked about it in assembles often.

We learn about it in class as well and we create pictures and posters about a variety of habits of mind.

A list of some Habits of mind.        

Using all your senses Managing your impulsivity Finding humour Thinking flexibly Persisting Taking responsible risks Being filled with awe and wonder Listening to others.

What they mean.

Persisting: Means carrying on when it is tough.

Taking responsible risks: When you do something and it is risky but you complete it.

Thinking flexibly: Thinking smartly.

Being filled with awe and wonder: Means something that makes you say WOW. Finding humour: Means making something funny in different situations to help you learn.

Managing your impulsivity: put your hand up, don’t kick or punch and remember your manners.

You might not know it but you use some of these Habits of Mind every day. If you would like to find out more about Habits of Mind go to the Gorseland website.

By Matthew 6A

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Heroic Heroes The whole of year six have been learning about heroes. They have looked and researched on lots of different areas and we are now going to take you on a flight over the last eight weeks.

Firstly, we made a display on what we thought was a hero, here is what one of the children thought .A hero puts others before themselves by taking every opportunity to help people who need help.

Cracking Krindlekrax: Year six are reading a book called Krindlekrax where a poor, scruffy boy called Ruskin Splinter wants to become the lead role of the hero in the school play.

“Krindlekrax is a great story because it has a great lead up.” Melody Harris, 6B.

Fantastic film week: Inspirational Heroes Next we got into five different groups and made a poster on a particular Olympic hero which took a long time. Heroes can be fictional or non-fictional.

Mo Farah is a non-fictional hero unlike Superman who is a fictional hero.

On the 15th of October we took on the challenge of film week where we acted out the films we had written, based on heroes. It was great fun!

The only way is pup!

Recently, Kim Lewis (Katelyn’s mum) came into Miss Downey’s class and told a tragic tale about two adorable puppies she had rescued from a terrible home. It made the class feel sad but relieved that they had a new home to look forward to

It is a very exciting topic and it brings lots of fun and creative opportunities for everyone especially for people who act like Mr Nosey, by being nosey in a good way.

Natasha and Holly, 6

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GUTTERS AND BILLIARD BALLS On Thursday 28th of September the big hall was occupied by some mysterious materials that looked like they were more at home on a roof. Y6 attempted the gutter ball challenge lead by Tim, an engineer from B.T., to improve their cooperation, interdependency and D.T skills (Design and technology).

The idea was to build a structure in groups that guided your billiard ball in to a central gutter and in turn to a collecting point at the end. The children had to work well as a team in small groups, as well as in the whole class. The challenge was for all of the balls to line up in order, 1-7. This was achieved by each group sending their ball at the correct time, consecutively along their structure. The time to beat was 10 seconds which was set by the teachers that completed this task previously.

Sam, 6A said: “It was challenging and brain teasing, but I was devastated when our structure broke.”

After the builders had constructed their models, the challenge was on to beat the adults. Tim called everybody to assemble around the centre tube. There were several test runs, before the main event. Tim started the timer and the groups started to deliver their balls. Once Tim announced the time, everyone was determined to improve it.

Finally, on the fifth run, Tim revealed that their time was an amazing 8 seconds, beating the adults by 2 seconds! All of 6A agreed it was a great afternoon.

When 6B had a go, Maddy 6A went with them and commented “I was working with the other class, we argued and disagreed, but at the end we succeeded so it was fun.” Later on Y5 accepted the challenge.

Reported by George and Rahul, 6A

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K’nex Challenge During film week year six had a K’nex challenge while other groups were acting and crewing.

This task was set by Mr Sampson between the 15th and the 19th of October. It lasted half a day and you could work on your own or you could work with other people. Our task was to make a fair ground ride or a bridge.

Here is what people had to say about the K’nex challenge: Zoe said, “You had to have a picture in your mind of what you are going to do”.

Laurie said, “You had to think of how it was going to work and how long it would take to build.”

Thomas said, “I thought it challenging and fun.”

Joe said, “I thought the K’nex challenge was really fun and I enjoyed it very much.”

Henry said, “I think everyone worked really well and Year Six should be proud of themselves.”

Here are some of the pictures of our fairground rides and bridges we made that I think are really good.

by Henry, 6A

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Y5&6 PALS MAKE PLAYTIMES MORE ENJOYABLE PALs is about making children confident to make new friends and to have fun with other children in KS1. PALs stands for play activity leader.

PALs is running to help children make friends and have fun with the P.A.LS equipment bought specially by the school. Children like playing with older pupils, because they find it fun learning new games and making new friends.

PALs look after the children on the KS1 playground and the top field. The children have an option to either go on the top field or the KS1 playground. There is a variety of equipment to use which is held in the bunker for the children. To get access to them they either ask the dinner lady or the PALs. Who runs PALs? Mr Weatherby has been running PALS for around 1 and a half years. Mr Weatherby has improved P.A.L.S by talking some sense into them because some PALs have been messing around in front of the little children and it is not suitable for the children because they will copy our actions.

Reviews: (Louis) PALs is very fun and it’s a good opportunity to play with the little ones and to play penalty shoot outs with them.

(Daniel) PALs is a great activity giving us a big opportunity to play with younger children.

(Matt) PALs is a good chance to bond with the little children.

Pupils have an opportunity to do PALs at the age of 9 and above. This means instead y6’s just doing the PALs, y5’s can do it also so there will be more people for the children to bond with and make friends.

This is a picture of all the Y6 PALs.

By Laurie and Ollie, 6A

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Change4Life Change4Life is run by a group of Year 6 for some children from Year 4. We plan activities without the help of an adult, which helps them build confidence and we help them to work better in a team. The activities are led by a different Year 6 child each week. We are the only school in our area that has Change4Life run by Year 6. We have been doing it for 5 weeks and already it has been a great success.

We have done parachute games, the Hakka, a treasure hunt, blind football and games and we have also learnt how to Dance Like Diversity.

We usually do it on the top field on Tuesday lunch times, but when it is raining we still do the club but in the ICT suite.

Freya- “I have enjoyed all the activities so far.”

Edward- “It’s amazing because of the fabulous Year 6s.”

Abigail-“I like it because we get to do lots of activities.”

Caleb-“It’s fun because we got prizes in the treasure hunt.”

By Holly and Yasmin, 6A

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Year 6 Helping Hands Year 6 have been playing with particular year 3’s to help them become more interdependent and have more fun at lunchtimes.

Helping Hands Year 6 having been playing games that involves others and team work. They are also working with Year 3s to help them understand how to play with others. There is a team of 12 year sixes changing every day on rota.

Quotes from Y6 helpers Grace Gilbert said “Y6 and the Y3 find it really fun” Zoe Knagg said “I find it amazing that we’ve changed someone’s life.”

Jovie Tasker said “I am glad that we’ve helped them have a better break time.”

List of year 6’s who help Jovie, Zoe, Grace, Jemma, Melody, Jasmine, Yan, Leonie and Sydney (6B).

Daniel and Joe (6A)

By Jovie and Zoe, 6B

What impact it makes One of the children we help said, “I am so glad that I have not been to the head teacher’s office.” We try hard to make a big impact on their lives and at school.

Positive playtimes with SSC Year 6 helpers make playtimes fun and easy for teachers and pupils Mr Weatherby and Mrs Chesterfield came up with this club for year 6 and announced to year 6 on the 1st of October that they had the opportunity to play with SSC’s at morning break. Ten people are involved and love the chance to play with such positive children.

What is it like?

Holly said, “It is very fun. I really enjoy it because it’s a different experience that we do not usually get to do.” Everybody thinks they are enjoyable to play with but what does the teacher herself think?

Mrs.Chesterfield, an SSC teacher, told us “The girls are friendly, smiley and fun and SSC love playing hide and seek and it with them. They are a great help.”

What do they do?

Who is involved?

The people who firstly played with the SSC children were Natasha and Alice (6B). They started playing with the children on Monday the 8th of October and said it was fun and interesting to learn their ways.

The other people involved are Bryony, Jasmine, Sydney (6B), Yasmin, Ellie, Zoe, Tom and Holly (6A).

We look out and play with the SSC when we are on duty. It is our responsibility to make sure the children in SSC have an enjoyable break time.

We play a range of games like hide and seek to hot potato and the children are glad to play a different game every week.

By Sydney and Alice K, 6B

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Radio and Newspaper Clubs Newspaper and radio club, which is run

by Mr Weatherby, gives information through writing and speaking. With many listeners and readers, it’s a big hit with everyone at the school.

When will the copies come out?

In newspaper and radio club year 5s and 6s work their socks off to produce the Gorseland Times, which is read by the school, their parents and sometimes grandparents. Gorseland radio, which is listened to by the whole school while they eat their lunch in the big hall, is also a big hit.

“Everyone, there will be a copy on the website and one copy for each class.”

Ben, a Year 5 pupil who goes to the club, said: “It’s really fun because you can make new friends and use the microphones, they’re great!”

We asked Mr Weatherby, the T.A that started and runs the club, a few questions: How do you run the club to make it so fun?

“Well I don’t, the children do everything from deciding what goes in to editing.”

What gave you the idea to start the club?

“I was looking for a new different challenge that will be relevant to classroom learning, that will be a useful life skill and to boost their confidence.”

“There should be one each term, so three altogether.”

Who can listen and read them?

Random questions If you were in Casualty, what injury would you have and why?

“A badly cut finger because I was building some disco equipment with an electronic blade and when I had finished I didn’t realise that it was still on and I cut my finger. It was hanging off!

If you were a cartoon, who would you be?

“Um, that’s a hard one but I think it would have to be Jerry from Tom and Jerry.”

The club is on Monday lunchtime and by what we’ve heard it sounds great! Thanks for reading!

By Jake & Kian, 6B

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Music, Songs and More - Video Club Galore Video club takes place in the ICT suite on Thursdays at lunchtime and is run by Mr. Weatherby. Most of the people in video club did music club in Year 5.

Video club gives Year 6 a really good chance to work with students from the other class. First we looked at some lyrics and spoke about what we thought the song was about without listening to it.

We listened to different types of music. We had to choose one song out of seven. Then we had to find pictures that go with the song which we chose.

We are currently making a video by using Movie Maker.

Eventually we will help make the video for the leavers’ DVD. Here are some quotes from video club members. “Video club is a great club to have at Gorseland because you can listen to the latest music” - George.

“Video club is a chance for the year sixes to make their own videos. Mr Weatherby has put a great club together and I’m hoping it will go on in the future” - Yasmin.

“Video club is really fun because we get to do it all ourselves” - Bryony.

Video club has been running for 3 years now and this is the fourth year. It will hopefully go as well this year as previous years.

Zoe, 6A

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Archery Archery club is for year 6 on a Friday after school and everyone enjoys themselves while doing the sport.

Mr Weatherby runs archery and he makes it fair for everyone. There are several different competitions, for example high score, one in every colour, chasing the colours, killer and most arrows in two colours.

This year Jack, Tom, Ollie, Melody, George and Jasmine are helping year 4 and 5 improve at archery.

It takes about 10-15 minutes to set up all of the stuff. There are two different types of bow. The yellow bows are called jelly bows and they are for beginners. The brown and white bows are called recurves. The highest score you can get is 10 and the lowest you can get is 1.

Rules for keeping safe If someone is in the shooting range do not shoot because you might hit them and hurt them.

You should not run because you might trip over an arrow and hurt yourself.

Do not stand in front of the board when you pull the arrow out.

Here is a quote from Mr Weatherby: “I love archery as it is a sport everyone can participate in. We are in the fortunate position of being one of the few schools that offer another unusual sport to the children.”

“Mr Weatherby makes it fun for everyone,” said Matt in 6a.

“Mr Weatherby teaches archery in a fun and enjoyable way,” said George in 6a.

“It is really fun but Mr Weatherby is a lazy teacher on purpose because he wants you to do stuff yourself,” Melody in 6b said.

“It was really fun and I thought that the sweets where a good thing to aim for,” Charlie said.

“It is really fun,” said Tom in 6a.

If you would like to join archery club, speak to Mr Weatherby.

By Jack and Liam, 6A

ST CHRISTOPHER’S PRU VISIT GORSELAND TO HAVE AN ARCHERY LESSON Some teachers and teenagers came in from St Christopher’s PRU and five year 6 children taught them archery on September the 5th. We did it to give them a new experience.

Here are some quotes.

Ollie. “It was really fun teaching the adults because we don’t normally teach the adults, they teach us”.

Jack. “It was fun and they did really well for beginners”.

George. “I hope the people from St Christopher’s PRU enjoyed the afternoon as much as I did.”

Mr Weatherby. “The children really enjoyed the archery. The adults and the children were really impressed with the way yr6 taught them”.

Tom. “I thought they did really well for beginners”.

The year 6’s thought the visitors did very well as they have never done archery before.

Tom, 6A

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GORSELAND ATHLETES RUN LIKE LIGHTNING On the 12th of October 2012, Gorseland Primary school took part in a cross country run at Kesgrave High School from, 4pm to 5.15pm. There were 4 races - Year 5 girls, Year 5 boys, Year 6 girls, and Year 6 boys. The pressure was on them all with Mr Guite, the Gorseland team coach, winning the last couple of years.

Gorseland got off to a cracking start with the Year 5s winning both the boys’ and girls’ races, but that didn’t seem to make the rain stop.

Coming 1st in both races, Mr Guite had everything to smile about. Now he was just waiting for the Year 6s to prove they were just as good.

Yet again, Year 6 did not let Mr Guite down with the Year 6 boys having the winner, Daniel. This is what he thought: “I’m so glad! Everyone did brilliantly. Well done! We did very well.”

Finally it was time to go home with every single athlete pleased with their result. It was a very good day as Gorseland won again.

By Charlie, 6A

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The Gorseland Cross Country team took part in four different races at Chantry Park on October 17th achieving some great results. All the runners should be proud of themselves.

The Year 5 girls took part in the first race of the day. The Gorseland girls had a great start because all the other schools ran along the wrong path. Alex (5A) started the great results with a very well deserved 3rd place.

The Year 5 boys’ race was next. Other schools had learnt their lesson and ran along the right path proving harder opposition than what was in the girls’ race. Ben in 5A came 9th with a very good run timing his sprint to perfection at the end.

Year 6 had a lot of talent and expectation going in to this race.

They were next but could they keep the standard up that the Year 5 showed? The girls’ race started and you could tell that this was going to be a great race. Well, it really was. Jasmine came 5th and Natasha was just behind in 6th.

The Year 6 boys’ race was next. After lots of practice the boys were hoping to end the 2012 Chantry Park cross country event with an almighty display. The race began and Dan (6A) took the lead quickly with Matt (6A) and Kian (6B) closely behind him. Midway through the race, Joe started to move up the order and took a well-deserved 10th place. Dan came 4th and said after the race, “All of the Cross country team from Gorseland should be proud of themselves with some amazing results.”

So it was a really successful afternoon at Chantry Park and all of Gorseland should be proud as all four teams came 2nd and we were the only school to have every team finish in the top three.

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November 2012

Running to victory Gorseland’s Year’s 4s, 5s and 6s shine in cross country despite rainy conditions Lots of children were taking part in the Chantry park competition for Gorseland School. We found many achievements despite the muddy conditions of the track. All the children were looking forward to the race but because of the rain children doubted if the race was still going to be on.

Unfortunately Natasha fell over because of having a weak knee therefore she stumbled and fell over but she got up and continued running all the way to 8th position Mr Guite and Mrs Rose have been training children to get ready for competitions so Gorseland can win. Fortunately, Alex in the Year 5 girl’s category came 3rd and Ben in the Year 5 boy’s category came 9th, also Jasmine (6A) came 5th in the Year 6 girl’s category. In the final race, the Year 6 boy’s category, Daniel came 4th.

Jasmine said, “I felt proud to represent the school and happy that I did it, but I wouldn’t have chosen to do it in the conditions that we did it in.”

Molly said,” I did it because it is fun and healthy and exciting to go out of school to race against other people I don’t know.”

Jasmine in 6A said, “It was hard because there were about 150 people in each race.”

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

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November 2012

Flip-tastic!

Year 6 were treated to a gymnastics

and something different to do on a

lesson led by Pipers vale coach, Will

Monday afternoon. “Lewis told us that

They started the session with an energetic warm up. Then they sat

he found it challenging but extremely good fun.”

down and were told that they were

Some of the pupils have seen the

going to learn about how to jump and

professional gymnasts doing their high

land. Next, Will numbered them as

standard of training at Pipers Vale.

they stood in a line in groups of three.

They were very impressed and

After that, they had to jump off a

because of that started going to school

bench and land in the proper position.

gymnastics club. It is brilliant so start

The pupils then completed a circuit

TODAY! (Ages 7 and up).

around the hall trying out different activities.

You could also sign up for other gymnastics clubs including Pipers

What it was like?

Vale in Ipswich.

It was a short gymnastics lesson for

By Caroline and Madeleine, 6B

the pupils of Gorseland primary school but afterwards most people had a great big smile on their face. Jasmine (6B) commented, “I thought it was fun

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November 2012

FOOTBALL CLUB In y6 we have the chance to do football club which is run by Mr Sampson, Mr Fenn and Mr Creasy. Roughly 20 to 30 people train every Wednesday lunchtime on the Astroturf. Every week we are improving our football skills. Most of the people who do football club think it is a big success.

During football club we play a whole match. During the match Mr Sampson, Mr Fenn and Mr Creasy explain to us what we can improve.

We have played one game against Heath primary and we played the best we could. Even though we lost 4-1, we really enjoyed playing against another school.

Louis’ view of football club is, “Having fun, scoring goals and enjoying every moment of football club.”

Joe’s view of football club is, “It doesn’t matter what the score is, as long as you have fun and enjoy yourself you will have a really fun time.”

Matt’s view of football club is, “It’s good because you can play with your mates and we have lots of fun playing a whole match.”

By Louis and Joe, 6A

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November 2012

JUMP UP TO NETBALL! Firstly, Netball club is a fun club for year six, since you get to play in different positions, such as: centre, goal attack, goal shooter, goal keeper, goal defence, time keeper and scorer. It takes place in the school’s M.U.G.A. (multi use games area) every Wednesday after school for an hour. It is run by Mrs Rose and Mrs Fitzgerald. At netball there are rules you have to follow these are very simple, these will come up later. Lots of people have joined this club as it`s a sport that many people enjoy.

We warm up first by side stepping, skipping and jogging. After that, we stretch our triceps, biceps, ham strings and deltoids. (Upper arm, upper arm, back of leg, shoulder).

Blue team trying to score.

People in Netball Club.

The rules you have to follow in High 5 Netball are that you are not allowed to move your feet when you have the ball, however you can pivot. If the ball goes over the line, the other team receives the ball. The positions you can play in have certain places you can go, so if you are playing in centre you can only go in the three thirds but not the semi circles.

Goal attack, goal shooter, goalkeeper and goal defence can only play in one semi-circle and two thirds.

To summarise, net ball is a club that is enjoyed in year 6. Here are some quotes about netball club: “It is so fun and it is challenging to remember all the positions.” - Safie “It’s fun because you get to play matches and Mrs Rose and Mrs Fitzgerald give you lots of tips.”- Grace “It’s really fun and I enjoy it. Mrs Rose and Mrs Fitzgerald tell you to have a go and it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t turn out well!”- Holly

Reported by Ellie & Daisy, 6A.

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November 2012

Gorseland Got Guitars A report on what guitar lessons are like in Year 5 and Year 6.

What is guitar like in Year 5?

Guitar in Y5 is like a taster of Y6 guitar if you decide to carry on. You learn the basics like simple chords and the different parts of the guitars. It might sound really boring at first but it gets more interesting once you’ve got into it. Our Teacher, Mr Butcher, is very enthusiastic and enjoys working with us.

Quotes Here is a quote from Zoe K in Year 6, “I really enjoy guitar because we learn cool songs.”

Alice K in Year 6 said, “I really enjoy guitar because we learn modern songs.”

Now here is a quote from Daniel T in Year 6, “It’s cool.”

Maddy W in Year 6 said “It is hard to practice the chords but you get there in the end.”

Here is a Quote from Henry B in Year 6, “I enjoy playing an instrument I haven’t played before.”

Mr Butcher says “It’s amazing, I love it!”

What is Guitar like in Year 6?

You recap on the basics but as it goes on through the year, you start to learn some songs like Chasing Cars and I Need A Dollar.

Jemma Clapson comments, “I really like guitar because Mr Butcher is a great teacher and we learn new things every time.”

Mr Butcher in a Year 5 lesson

By Melody and Jemma, 6B

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November 2012

At Gorseland there are many opportunities to get involved with music and playing instruments such as Violin/Viola, Guitar, recorder and Flute.

Mrs Taber, the violin teacher, has been coming here for 8 years and loves her job.

She is very enthusiastic, organised and works hard to make you the best player you can be.

On Wednesday afternoon she comes in and does a 20 minute lesson which doesn’t seem like a long time but it is surprising how much you can do if you practice.

Mrs Taber spoke to us and said “I’ve had many pupils of a very great standard who have put in a lot of practice so they have achieved high grades. “ You may have seen that each year Mrs Taber and her pupils perform in the summer concert. Playing in this concert improves your confidence. Did you know that only 10% of children in year 6 can play the violin so it is a very special talent?

If you don’t fancy playing the violin then you could join Mrs Taylor’s choir. Two year 6’s said “Choir is great fun, we would recommend it to anyone. “ Warning: Watch out if you are near a violinist because you don’t want a bow in the nose.

Competition: Name the four strings of the violin from lowest to highest. Contact Bryony (6B) or Grace (6A) to win. First three to see us will receive the prizes.

By Bryony (6B) and Grace Harman (6A)

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November 2012

CAMERAS, MICROPHONES, COSTUMESWHAT WERE YEAR 6 DOING? Film Week Year 6 had a fantastic week from the 15th of October, from clumsy footballers to evil computer masters, custard pies to super animals- and as if this wasn’t enough, the fuchsiahaired former ballerina Evil Bob - it’s been Film Week for the Year 6 classes. Evil head teachers, suspicious raisins, missing crowns, strange bubbles and even grammar! Here’s more information.

Year 6 had laptops, pencils, paper and brains to think of a witty, imaginative plot for a hero story. Although this was a tough challenge, lots of people enjoyed thinking of their own idea for a professionally recorded film, which would be shot around the whole school. Rahul, 6A, has given his opinion: “I thought it was a tough challenge – we had lots of agreements despite disagreements – but in the end we came up with an amusing yet serious story!” Find out more about Rahul’s script in Captain Clumsy, headlined as Hero Saves the Day on page ?.

Year 6 also had to focus on props and costumes. Some costumes were simple enough, plain home clothes or a cape, but others were much trickier. Props presented another problem, but it was very minor. Just three of the many props were sweets, an Xbox controller and custard pies. All costumes and props were gathered successfully, we are pleased to say.

Everyone had the chance to get stuck in and take part in acting, script writing, crewing and everything that a film and camera crew need.

Ellie, 6A, says, “It was really fun, especially to be able to hold the boom mic* – but the best part was throwing custard pies in my film Pie Guy**!” All of Year 6 put tremendous effort into making these films the best they could be.

But of course, specialist adult help was required. Year 6 send a special thank you to Paul Press and Megan Ingold, who brought in the necessary equipment and experience to make these films. Without them, Film Week would not have been possible.

5 films were made in each class, all of which were successfully edited. Year 6 had a thrilling (but somewhat embarrassing!) afternoon watching 9 of the 10 films, due to the tenth still requiring edits.

The following nine** articles talk about the films as though they are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that they are all fantasy!

By Maddy, 6A * boom mic- a fluffy microphone that will pick up all sound in filming area. ** A Pie Guy article is not featured in this newspaper.

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November 2012

DR. SAGU DEFEATED! Techno Tom and Jupiter, the bold superheroes, have done it: on the 22nd of October they defeated Dr. Sagu.

Dr. Sagu is an evil scientist who was planning to rule the world and abduct everyone who was in his way because if he can rule the world, he could have the power to be the leader of the gods. His lifelong dream was to rule the world and all the gods.

Dr. Sagu became evil by working on an experiment that went badly wrong. He tried hard, but got frustrated that he wasn’t able to gain any success; and instead of swallowing the bitterness of unsuccessfulness, he started spilling it on the people. How unfortunate he was!

He used his hacking skills to destroy all the security systems in the world. Dr. Sagu did not listen to the advice that he was given, “Intelligence is not a privilege but something that would help someone or something.” Dr. Sagu did exactly the opposite, but Tom and Jupiter would not let that happen.

They entered his secret warehouse and had a violent battle. Tom and Jupiter were outnumbered since Dr. Sagu had his evil vampires but Jupiter knocked them out and Tom defeated Dr. Sagu. They arrested him and the crowd who heard the news cheered for Techno Tom and Jupiter. He is now in the most fiercely guarded prison in the world.

Techno Tom and Jupiter’s true secret identity revealed!

Children have wanted to find out the heroes secret Identities and they are Thomas as Techno Tom and Jake as Jupiter the cyborg!

By Jake and Rohan, 6A Please note: This article is written as though the events are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that it is all fantasy!

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November 2012

WATCH OUT, BOB’S ABOUT. Our number one super star, Katniss, has regained her singing and dancing talent, after losing it to Evil Bob on the 19th October. THE DANCE AND SING TEAM, Super Smooth, Wayne Willington and Groove Girl, saved the day.

Earlier that day, Evil Bob had planted some special popcorn which was designed to remove people’s singing and dancing talent. The reason he did it was because when he was a teenager, he wore a new pink tutu and fell over in his big solo during a ballet show. Ever since then he has hated singing and dancing.

Katniss realised she had lost her singing and dancing talent at a concert in front of 10,000 fans. Some witnesses spoke to us when she realised her voice was gone. They said it was a number one disappointment; they also thought Evil Bob, the Evil mastermind, had struck again.

Katniss had to use the secret signal to get the attention of The Dance and Sing Team. She shouted as loud as she could, “MANGO JANGO!” The super heroes heard the emergency call and went to investigate immediately.

Katniss shocked after she lost her talent.

Wayne Willington told Katniss they were there to help and she should copy him. He did all these great dance moves and without realising it, he knocked evil Bob out, who was creeping up behind him, while doing so. Evil Mevil mind, Evil Bob’s sidekick, started to throw evil popcorn at him.

Wayne picked up a piece of popcorn, EVIL POPCORN, and ate it. Suddenly Wayne Willington could not dance. He tried to sing but he was not that good before! Super Smooth realised that the bit of popcorn must have stopped him from being able to sing or dance.

Evil Mevil Mind popped out of nowhere and told them it was her and her evil boss, BOB, who had made and planted the popcorn. She wanted to help them, because she loved singing and dancing, but her boss, BOB, hated it. She told them to follow her quickly. The heroes looked confused but they followed.

They came to a kitchen, where the sweets had been made. Wayne Willington and Katniss waited outside while Evil Mevil Mind, Super Smooth and Groove Girl went inside.

Groove Girl demanded that Evil Mevil Mind should make some good sweets to bring their talents back. Although Evil Mevil Mind was feeling under pressure, she made the sweets as quickly as possible.

Katniss and Wayne Willington ate the sweets. They tried to sing and dance and they did. The new sweets had brought back their talent. The next thing to do was to get Evil Bob. Evil Mevil Mind gave Bob one of the new sweets, which made Evil Bob dance and sing like he never had before.

While everyone was celebrating their victory, Bob and his bag of popcorn disappeared. The heroes are still searching for him.

By Safia, 6A Please note: This article is written as though the events are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that it is all fantasy!

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November 2012

Commander Liam and Ambitious Ash have stopped the two villains, General Gawky and Captain Clumsy, from making football coach Didia Drugba really clumsy. General Gawky and Captain Clumsy wanted Didia Drugba to get their revenge by making him clumsy because when he was General Gawky’s football coach, he made him wear a skirt and a wig.

The heroes saw the villains at the football pitch, where they were arguing about whose power was better. Ambitious Ash said, “We are here to stop you villains.”

Captain Clumsy said, “RUN.” The heroes ran and ran after them until they stopped, turned around and attacked each other. Then General Gawky knocked out Captain Clumsy.

Suddenly an idea popped into Ambishous Ash’s head, he said, “It’s time to do my super fart!” He aimed his bottom at the villains and POFF! “That stinks!” moaned the villains. They both collapsed.

When they both woke up General Gawky said, “I’m wearing a skirt and a wig.”

“Noooo! Not again!” reacted Captain Clumsy.

Ambitious Ash and Commander Liam said at the same time, “Well Done!” 

By Olivia and Eddie, 6A Please note: This article is written as though the events are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that it is all fantasy!

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November 2012

HEROES SAVE A TRAPPED GIRL! A ten year old girl gets attacked by Colchester Zoo animals!

On Tuesday 16th October 2012, the heroes, Heroic Harmony and Super Sidekick saved a local ten year old girl called Rosy Smith from Colchester Zoo. Rosy was skipping into the zoo entrance one sunny morning when animals escaped from their cage. They trapped the ten year old girl inside the cage.

Meanwhile at Hero HQ the phone rang continuously until Heroic Harmony picked it up. We were told that they teleported to save Rosy. They arrived at the zoo and saw Rosy locked up.

This is what Rosy said after the rescue, “I was terrified that the animals had just flung me inside the cage.”

We were told the animals chased Rosy and the heroes. The heroes had a plan to trip the animals by using a rope that was lying on the ground. Super Sidekick, being one of the heroes, explained this, “As we were helping Rosy to escape, me and my fellow companion Heroic Harmony had the plan stuck in our heads. We were on the case!”

Although the leader of the villains was captured, his accomplices decided to take over schools in Martlesham Heath now, so watch out!

By Amy and Laura, 6A Please note: This article is written as though the events are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that it is all fantasy!

Queen’s crown gets stolen on school visit.

On the 18th of October it was a glorious day, the Queen of England was going to Gorseland school to announce that Gorseland won the sporting achievement of the year award.

School councillor Sophie was showing the

Before any other spy claimed the case, Lola and Lexi flew in and took it. “They did a pretty good job” announced the Queen. The Double L team (Lola and Lexi) discovered the evil mastermind’s lair by using a tracking device then they unmasked the villains.

Queen around when her crown got stolen.

It was said that the three evil villains are Mimi, Zack, and Sophie. Apparently, Sophie brainwashed Mimi and Zack then programmed them to steal the crown.

“We would have got away with it if you spies didn’t start interfering,” growled Sophie.

Sophie is now awaiting trial next week.

By Yan, 6B Please note: This article is written as though the events are real, but we here in Year 6 would like to reassure you that it is all fantasy!

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November 2012

Bizarre Competition to Brain-Sucking Catastrophe Bizarre fruit competition leads to kidnapping of innocent child th

On the 18 of October 2012, a family of three were having a day at the local park. The youngest daughter of 36 year old Charlotte Panic, 5 year old Scarlett disappeared, supposedly down the slide. She says that she was following a small child around her age and that both of them slid into a smelly sewer and something had been attached to her head. “It felt like I was being squished into a small tube when I was in the portal, but it’s all hazy, now.” The eldest daughter, 16 year old Jade, said that her sibling disappeared without a trace, leaving their mother an ‘hysterical wreck’.

Heroic Appearance The distressed mother of the two girls made an attempt to find her child, therefore disappearing down the slide to find her. Meanwhile, at an unknown location, a worldwide hero, Kit-Kat Carrie, ‘sensed’ stress from Charlotte and was soon to the rescue. It is said by an anonymous witness that she arrived at the park five minutes after the disappearance. The hero was late to the rescue as Jade held her up for at least five minutes. Jade said that she merely wanted to have the hero’s mobile number and that she didn’t mean to hold her up.

Slide to the Rescue After the dramatic hold up, Kit-Kat Carrie found a way into the underground sewers and confronted the villains to bring peace to the family. Victoria, who was recently bailed out of prison, was first to be captured, along with her scientific creation, Nugget.

Questioning at the Station The villains were taken in for questioning and Nugget revealed all. “We were going to use the Brain-Sucker 5000 to suck the brain juice out of the smarty-pants’ brain to make a pink raisin.

Then we would suck it out her ear!” The ‘BrainSucker 5000’ was taken for examination in a high security lab by the world’s best scientists. Results of the tests are said to be confidential to the police and scientists.

Prison Sentence Nugget and Victoria were taken to Court and pleaded guilty. Victoria was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnap and possible murder. Nugget escaped from the station but was found on the 20th of October in a deserted alley. Nugget was taken back to the station and was sentenced to 5 years in prison followed by a further 5 years working as a police ‘dog’ for cases of kidnap and murder. When Nugget was told this, it, as its gender is unknown, declared, “Meep! I would be meeping down in Broadway if it weren’t for all you stupid oxygen breathers!”

By Katelyn and Grace, 6B

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November 2012

Teacher trouble turned around Teacher attempts to destroy learning but super powers save the day and the teacher turns a new leaf.

How it started

Miss Spoiler, a 28-year-old teacher at Gorseland Primary School, has changed from her old self, but it never used to be this way!

Before this miraculous change, students had reported incidents such as confiscating phones, sweets and hair gel! She was so cruel people sometimes seemed to see her doing things in front of the children she has told them off for.

middle of the lesson, just after Miss Spoiler had apparently commented on how bad the class were, Ben revealed his secret powers and used them on Miss Spoiler, who suddenly became nice. Everyone was shocked with this miraculous change.

“I thought the cricket lesson was very fun but I don’t think I played very well! I was amazed when Ben came out with that bubbly thing!” said Charlie.

So, thanks to Super Bubble powers, Ben saved the class from Miss Spoiler’s cruel ways and they are now looking forward to a happier time at school.

This unstoppable teacher was bothering students along with parents.

People are told something very unique happened on the 15th October 2012 which involved Ben a student who is a confident body builder.

What was this incident you may ask?

The incident took place at Gorseland Primary School one afternoon, when Miss Spoiler announced that the class were going to play cricket. In the

Miss Spoiler, the teacher who miraculously changed

By Daniel and Thomas, 6B

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November 2012

Head of all schools kidnapped by evil Deputy head On the 17th October at 10:30am, the Head of All Schools was marking spelling tests, but the Deputy, Miss Bullet asked to see the head in the courtyard and when he went there he got zapped by Miss Bullet and her side kick, Sparkles. They took him to the dark forest beside the school because they wanted to take over all the schools.

Luckily, Marigold, his daughter, had seen all.

“Miss Bullet locked me in my dad’s office and I didn’t know what to do. I would normally help my father but I couldn’t, and I felt very annoyed with myself” Fortunately, Captain X and Sparkles were on the case, as they were aware that Marigold was trapped in her father’s office.

First, they freed Marigold and then went off to the dark woods to rescue the Head master.

This Deputy belongs behind bars When the Heroes finally arrived at the dark woods, they found themselves in a rather difficult situation because after they rescued the head, the villains started chasing Captain X and her side kick round and round. Fortunately, the heroes eventually managed to capture the villains by tying them together with a rope.

Miss Bullet and Sparkles got life sentence in jail for their crime and won’t be seen again for a very long time.

By Alice and Jasmine, 6B

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Super hero saves the world

November 2012

After realising what had happened,

from evil Steve and his gang

Grammar Guy suggested a Spelling

Over the course of a week in

differences. The best speller was

October, two rivals went head to head in a battle of grammar versus slang.

Tensions began to rise when

Bee battle to settle their Grammar Guy, who won convincingly by spelling all his words correctly.

Slang Steve failed to spell any of his words correctly.

Grammar guy collided with Slang

In the end of the day, Grammar Guy

Steve on the streets of London.

forgave Slang Steve and they

Steve sneakily swapped the English dictionary for the slang dictionary and put it on Grammar Guy’s desk so that the next time Grammar Guy read the dictionary Grammar Guy would get his English wrong.

became friends.

Reported by Lewis and Eddie, 6B