Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a peaceful, happy and healthy 2016

Friendship, by Jess

What is friendship?

By Jess

ü Being kind

ü Not walking off and leaving your people behind

ü Letting people play with you

ü If someone doesn’t want your friend to play with you, still let them play

ü Help somebody if they fall over

ü Be generous

ü Be a good friend

ü Don’t leave people out of your game – let them join in

ü Be helpful to your friends

ü Don’t argue

ü Be polite and listen to what people have to say

ü Don’t forget people

ü Never hurt anyone.

If you are a good friend, then you will have good friends.

Wise words Jess

Comic strip competition

Good luck to these fine year 5 comic writers, who have worked together to create a fantastic comic strip.

Devizes Lantern Festival

Despite the wet and windy weather, Friday's Lantern Festival was breathtaking.

More incredible work - thank you

I am, yet again, wonderfully impressed by the quality of written and math work this week.

Special Delivery!

How wonderful that Rowde Academy has its very own special postal service.

Christmas deliveries won't be a problem here!

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

We are asking for donations of Christmas shoeboxes for this year's Operation Christmas Child Appeal.

https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/how-to-pack-a-shoebox/

Shoeboxes are being gathered at Rowde Academy, no later than Monday 16th November please.  I will then take all the boxes to the collection point.

Football Crazy!

Our own keen football Lewis met an ex QPR player Charlie Austin last weekend and is now the proud owner of a signed photo and football boot.

I have sent Mr Dyson and Mr Thomas on a mission to find out about these training camps - fingers crossed that we can offer something at Rowde.

More amazing maths

Well done Emily - you have been working very hard with multiplication this week!

We are back to school with a BANG!

I have been visited by so many children this week - sharing their learning, hobbies and achievements.   

The children have certainly returned to school this week a bright as buttons!

Doubling Queen!

Thank you to Emily who brought her superb maths work to show me today.  Emily has been learning how to double two digit numbers.

McMILLAN COFFEE MORNING

A huge thank you to all parents, carers, governors and friends who visited Rowde for the McMillan Coffee Morning.

We raised £462.78 from the sale of the most amazing cakes.  Thank you to the parents, carers and children who donated their time and cakes to make this event so successful.

Equally importantly we had an opportunity to spend time together as a school community.  What a lovely way to spend a morning.

Bright attitude to writing

Thank you to Lily for showing me her well written diary of her weekend. What a busy girl she was!

Pink Friday is back!

How lovely to see so many people wearing pink in school on Friday.

Remember that we have the McMillan Coffee Morning on Friday 25th September from 9am.

We need as many parents, carers, friends, family members as possible to make this a real community event.  We are asking children to bring in cakes and biscuits and they too will be able to come along and buy a cake and a drink during the morning.

How fabulous that Just Kidding in Devizes have designed our very own Rowde Think Pink Friday polo shirts which can be ordered via the school office.  These shirts come in a variety of sizes - suitable for both adults and children.  All profits go to McMillan Cancer Research.

Year 6 Bag Packing at Morrisons

An impressive amount of just over £400 was raised on Thursday when the Year 6 children visited Morrisons in Devizes to help customers pack their bags.

A huge thank you goes to all the staff of Morrisons, who were dressed in pink and had decorated the store with pink balloons in support of our fund raising for Breast Cancer Research... even the Manager was wearing pink!

What a fabulous sports afternoon

Congratulations to Silbury for winning this year's House Cup.  What a wonderful way to end the week!  Well done to everyone who took part - including the parents - and a special thank you to RAFT for refreshments and to Morrisons for the children's ice pops.

Year 4 / 5 Open Evening - Devizes School

Follow this link to the Devizes School Open Evening next week.

http://www.devizesschool.co.uk/whats-coming-up

We will also be holding a year 6 information evening on 15th September at Rowde Academy's school hall.

PINK FRIDAY

What a bright and positive Friday today is turning out to be.  Thank you to each and every child and member of staff who came into school today wearing pink.  How wonderful that we can support Lorraine and Cancer Research together.

Here we are, with our very own pink love heart to Miss Colquhoun for a speedy recovery and return.

Tuesday at New Barn

Today we have made shelters and cooked chicken stew outside. We have also walked the dogs and given them lots of cuddles. All this and it's not midday! 

Comfy dog bed

They seem to think that the dog bed is a comfy option!!!

New Barn 2015

The undulating view from our peaceful cottage. 

Mango Fruit Winders

Our year 5 cookery group made mango fruit winders this week.

The mangos were really fiddly to cut but everyone had fun eating the fruit, probably more fruit went into their mouths than into the food processor!! Not to worry it was delicious fun! 

I did manage to burn a few trays of the mango purée, sorry! We did have some success though and we did enjoy making the winder strips.

I hear that they were very tasty!

Some of my the more creative names for mango winders were: 'Minders' and 'Wangos'!!! Genius!

This is the group making them.