Last week, Year 5 enjoyed a visit from Kentaro Saito, who is from Japan, and about to undertake a post graduate teaching course at Exeter University. He provided us with lots of interesting information about Japanese agriculture and harvest customs.
Here is a picture of some origami gifts he made for us.
 
Thank you Mr Saito!
Year 2 had a fantastic time on Tuesday learning how to talk, sing and dance in French.
Singing Petit Jean
Polka style (lots of Saturday night viewing I think!)
Snake dance
Here are a few quotes from their thank you letters.
“Thank you for teaching me some French words because I didn’t know any.” Jodie
“My best dance was the snake dance because we were wiggling around and laughing.” Maia
“Merci for coming. I had a great time…. What dance do you like best?” Isobel
“The polka dance was brilliant because I liked the gallops.” Bea
“The song was great especially when Mr T came in.” Daisy
“Robin was playing the violin. I liked it when Robin played “Pop Goes the Weasel”.” Joshua
“I like the word “Merci” even though I don’t speak French!” Amelia
Year 2 were set the challenge of finding out if the tallest person in our class could run the fastest. So out they went into the playground to investigate. What would your prediction be?
Lining up in order of height
Finding out who runs quickest
Year 2 tried three races and it was never the tallest people who came first. Is that what you thought?
Friday is European Language Day and to celebrate our children’s fast-improving French we thought we’d invite Breton dancer Yannick and musician Robin into school to teach us some dances and some French. Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part in a thoroughly enjoyable day. Here are a few photos of us in action:
 
Merci à Yannick et Robin – c’était super!
We were thinking about misty mountain scenes in Year 4 today and tried to recreate some scenery using black card and tracing paper. The overall effect was perfect and we created some great scenes. Here are a few:
For the ancient Greeks I made a Greek dip called tzatziki (sat-see-kee). Lots of people asked me for the recipe,so here it is:
1. Pour a tub of natural yoghurt into a bowl.
2. Cut up some cucumber very small ad mix it in.
3. Add either garlic or spring onion. It doesn’t matter which.
4. Sprinkle some pepper in and mix again.
5. Chop up some mint and add it to the mixture.
There it is. Eat it with any thing you can dip in it!