Deliciously tempting smells have been wafting around the Year 5 classroom all day as the bakery resumed action. You must agree that these finished cheese and onion loaves look wonderful!Â
Our proud cooks examine their produce. Will it taste as good as it looks?
 
  Also on a savoury theme – some cheese and onion plaits!
QUICK REMINDER – LEAP DAY DISCOÂ
Don’t forget the Leap Day Disco this Friday 29th February, entry fee – £1.50Â
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Refreshments will be available so don’t forget your pennies!Â
SEE YOU THERE!!!
Here is an update to let you know that all the meetings that have taken place to discuss and plan the Activity Trail are now over, and the work is due to begin next week on 5th March. This long-awaited project has taken a lot of hard work and planning, and the installation was finally made possible by a successful bid for £7,400 grant money from SureStart.           The fund raising that has been going on over the past months and years – thanks to yourselves and the hard work of the PTA committee – has raised the grand total of £6,000. This money and the grant we have been given will all be spent once the Activity Trail is complete, and that is why we feel we must continue to organise new fundraising events, such as the disco on Friday 29th Feb, Quiz Night, Circus etc. We realise that all these events cost money and we all have lots of expenditure, but we want everyone to know that all contributions are voluntary and every amount, however big or small, is very welcome.Â
The cost of the Activity Trail is broken down as follows:
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We hope you will find this blog helpful in keeping you up to date with where all the fundraising money is being spent.  Please continue to support us by helping at the events or, most importantly, turning up to them! All the PTA committee and staff put a lot of hard work and any spare time they have in helping to make these events possible, so please support us in anyway you can.Finally could we possibly ask everyone – mums, dads, children and anyone else – for help in filling out a survey to let the PTA committee get an idea of what fundraising events you would like to take place, when and how often!Â
Many ThanksKaren McHaleChair PTA
Can you help to save some energy?Â
Starting at 6pm on Wednesday 27 Feb everyone in the UK is being asked:
(a) To leave off electrical items which are not in use, and
(b) To leave these items off for as long as possible.
Items which could be left off for E-Day might include:
- Lights left on in empty rooms or overnight
- Televisions left on standby overnight
- Mobile phone chargers left plugged in or
- Computers or printers left on overnight
Over the following 24 hours, E-Day will endeavour to show how even small energy saving measures can be made to add up, and potentially play a part in tackling climate change.
The results will be shown on E-Day’s homepage (www.e-day.org.uk).
E-Day will finish at 6pm on Thurs 28 Feb.
The total savings of money, energy and carbon associated with E-Day will then be calculated and made available in time of the evening news bulletins.
Here is a funny video which highlights what it would be like if we could see what we were doing to the environment:
Did you feel the earthquake last night? I did! Having spent a few years in New Zealand, I think I must be still quite sensitive to Earthquakes as it woke me up straight away and I felt the house shaking for 10 seconds or so.
It was the biggest earthquake to hit England in 25 years and measured 5.5 on the Richter Scale (a method for measuring the size of earthquakes). It was centred in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, but was felt as far away as Newcastle, Wales and Norwich.
 Earthquakes are caused by movements in the Earth’s tectonic plates. If you would like to find out more, then click here.
The children in Year 4 have been learning to programme in HTML which is the language web browsers use to display web pages. It’s quite complicated, but they did really well at school today.
Beth has been having a go at some basic programming too. You can see her efforts by clicking here.
Ben has been doing some extra homework recently and has made a fantastic powerpoint presentation all about Tudor life. If you would like to view/download a copy, then click here.
Well done Ben! I’m not sure about the 8 pints of beer a day though!!
 Year 4 walked down to the Courthouse today.  We were glad to get there in good time, especially as outside it was so blustery.
We were there to to see the Multi-Story production of The Golden Key. The play is loosely based upon a story by George MacDonald, who was a friend of Lewis Carroll.Â
During the play, we met a baby who turned out to be the oldest man in the world, a fish that flies, a beautiful woman who is a grandmother, some fearsome French maids and the terrifying Shadow Master.
It’s a story about Tangle and Mossy – two children who don’t like each other very much at the start of the play but who both find something very precious after their long adventure together – friendship.
We loved this play and would recommend it to anyone who likes a good adventures story.
Year 4 visited Temple Newsam today to find out about the life of servants during Tudor times. It was a fantastic day and we all learned so much!
We were met my Master Sting and Mistress Julia at the gates to the farm:
We were then put to work and shown how to make bread from a sheaf of wheat:
Mistress Julia stoked the fire up while we set to work threshing, gleaning and winnowing the whaet:
We then made ground down the seeds into flour and mixed the flour into a dough:
Next we had a well earned rest and ate our lunch!
We got to see how well we’d done with the bread:
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Our next task was to decipher a letter written from Lady Lennox in Babbington’s code:
Finally, we got to see how vile vagabonds were treated in 1565 (I’ve seen these thieves somewhere before!):
Altogether the day was a great success. Thanks to Master Sting and Landy Julia for all the hard work. We’d thoroughly recommend a trip to Temple Newsam!
For some of us the trip was just too exhausting!:
Circus tickets will be on sale in the playground between 3 and 3:30pm each day between Monday 25th and Friday 29th February, price £5 each.
Cash or cheques made payable to Otley All Saints PTA.
After this date any remaining tickets will be made available to other schools, so purchase your tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Your support of this event would be appreciated.