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• Staff Pantomime

  Wed 19 Jul 2017 Mr. B
  This year's staff pantomime, 'Robin Hood', was lots of fun. Despite being arguably a tiny bit under-rehearsed, it was well-received by the children, who laughed in all the right places (and some of the wrong ones). The staff learned an important show-business lesson - you don't need a decent script or to learn your lines, as long as you do silly dances and squirt the audience with water pistols!

  

• Tour de Garforth

  Wed 19 Jul 2017 Mr. B
  Five children from Strawberry Fields took part in the second 'Tour de Garforth' this week. They cycled around all the local schools collecting children and then on to Lotherton Hall and back. It was a scorching hot day and the children displayed admirable determination and resilience. The ride finished with a 'victory lap' around our playground. Thank you to Cycle Leeds, who organised the event, the children who took part, and Ms. Sanders and Mrs. Robinson who accompanied them.

  

• Key Stage 1 trip to Robin Hood's Bay

  Thu 13 Jul 2017 Mr. B

  Today Key Stage One, lots of school staff, and some very helpful parent (and grandparent!) volunteers travelled to Robin Hood's Bay. The day could not really have gone any better! Everyone had an absolutely fantastic time and the sun shone all day. We played in the adventure playground and enjoyed fish and chips from the shop at the top of the hill. The children were very excited by the fossil shop, and many bought souvenirs to take home. We also had lots of fun investigating rock pools, looking for crabs and collecting shells.

  The children's behaviour was exemplary throughout and everyone went home with a smile on their face. What a great day!

• Rounders tournament

  Thu 06 Jul 2017 Mr. B

  On Monday we took a team of boys and a team of girls to Garforth Academy to play against other local schools in a rounders competition. In total, four schools took part.

  In the boys' tournament, we lost the opening game against an incredibly well organised East Garforth team. Following that, we won our remaining two games, scoring bonus points in each because of the number of rounders we scored. In the end, the boys' team finished second.

  The girls won their middle game, and also managed to pick up a bonus rounder. They finished tied for third place with St. Benedict's.

  After their performances against our teams, it was not a surprise that East Garforth ended up winning both tournaments! Congratulations to them!

• Year 5 trip to Dove cottage by Emily Lupton and Amber Roberts

  Tue 04 Jul 2017 Emily Lupton and Amber Roberts

  On Thursday 29^th June, all the year 5’s from Strawberry Fields went on an amazing trip to Dove cottage in Grasmere to learn more about the famous poet, William Wordsworth. For most of this term, we’ve been learning all about William and his weather poetry which is known all over the world. We have studied his poems closely all term and have written our own stories and poems where the weather plays a big part.

   

  A few weeks before the trip, some people from the Wordsworth Trust came to tell us more about Wordsworth and what inspired him in his work. These people were called Holly, Katherine and Bernadette and taught us much more about William Wordsworth than our teachers had taught us.

   

  When the day of the trip finally arrived, it was a long day. We all got to school by 7:45 and got back at 18:30, later than we planned to get back. The coach journey was just under 3 hours but felt like a year each way. The whole journey was worth it though because in the end it was a brilliant day. The three activities we did were a poetry walk; where we stopped off at places and wrote down poems for different seasons, Dove Cottage Tour; where we experienced what it would be like to live in William Wordsworth’s house and what every room was and finally the poetry lesson; where Holly threw words in the air and we had to make our own poems with them.

   

  Over all we had a brilliant day full of fun and adventures everyone enjoyed!