What a week it has been. This moment has come around all too quickly! I have been lucky enough to spend the last 7 years at Liss Junior School, working with the most warmest and supportive of people. The children have all been amazing and through them and their families I have learnt so much. […]
On Friday, we all walked down to St. Mary’s Church in the village to hold our annual Carol Service. Some of the children performed a montage of the nativity. Some children read some lessons, poems and prayers. We all sang the carols and Christmas songs. It was a very lovely way to finish the term […]
On Thursday we had our class Christmas Parties. We had a lot of fun playing games such as pass the parcel and ‘how many socks can you put on in a minute’. We had a session in the hall where we could play running about games such as ‘Captains Coming’. After that, it was time […]
We were extremely lucky today to have a very special visitor. Molly’s Dad! (and Mum!). Molly’s Dad ran the Great South Run in Portsmouth in October. This is a 10 mile road race. Molly’s brother, Sam, also ran a few miles in Portsmouth in the Junior Great South Run. Molly’s family wanted to take part […]
We are super proud to announce that Charlie and Billy have achieved their beginners Handwriting Award. They have been working really hard on their handwriting, making it their life time ambition to achieve their handwriting award. Billy and Charlie had to copy a poem and show this with their literacy book to Mr Burford. Mr […]
On Wednesday we had our Christmas Dinner! We all gathered in the hall whilst the teachers served us our dinner and drinks. We had Christmas music playing whilst we ate our festive feast. It was a wonderful atmosphere and yummy food it was too.
This afternoon, we were treated to our Year 4’s, performing their Samaba drumming concert. They have been learning various instruments such as drums, shakers, maracas etc. They have been following lots of different rhythms and have had to listen hard to think about how to keep the beat! They were very loud but made a […]
Yesterday we had a wonderful treat! We all traveled in our minibus to go to see Mrs Glossop at the March Foundation. Mrs Glossop had kindly invited us for a Christmas party. When we got there, we were treated to a Pass the Parcel game. After that, we had a special Christmas lunch of party […]
Our Ugandan friend and teacher, Mr Muhudi came to teach us how to count to 20 in Runyankore-Rukiga. He showed us how to say each word and then we copied him. He also began to teach us the alphabet in Runyankore-Rukiga. We learnt the letters A-G and then the vowels. Before this, we went in […]
It was our last horse riding lesson today before we break up for the Christmas holidays. At the end of our lesson we had a very special visitor. The man himself… Father Christmas!! Because we had all been so good, he gave us all an early Christmas present. As if that was not exciting enough, […]