Events 1998
Cycling Proficiency
On March 9th, 20 children from year 6 joined a cycling course. The training and test was to see if they could ride a bike properly and safely. Seventeen people passed the test first time round – but unfortunately 3 children failed the first time but managed to pass the second time.
The test involved hand signals, road signs, and traffic lights.
We all got a certificate and a badge and seven people have been invited to receive a special award presented by the mayor in July.
They can take two adults with them and have dinner there too.
Our school is the only school to have more than two people visiting the mayor. You had to get full marks to qualify.
Our school would like to say a big thank you to all the instructors who helped us to pass.
When we heard that the relatives of sailors on the USS John C Stennis were organising a mass baking of cookies for the crew, we just knew we had to support them.
Their aim was to bake 10,000 cookies, which is a huge number, but it didn't take us long to work out that with a crew of 6,200 that would mean they would get less than two cookies each!
So, Operation Cookie Crunch (U.K. detachment) got underway!
We all met with Mrs. Gibbon the school's cook and got to work! It took us a whole afternoon, with everyone playing a part in the operation somehow, whether it was weighing the ingredients, or mixing them, we learned quite a bit about baking in the process too.
It was great fun, rolling out the dough and then cutting out the shapes (photo right) though it was also important work. we had to make sure that everything (including us!) was ultra clean.
At the end of the afternoon we had baked a lot
of cookies, which we then packed carefully into airtight packets of around 10
cookies each.
After that, we packed them into very strong cardboard boxes, with bubble wrap to protect them on their long journey to the USS John C Stennis - you see, our parcels had to go west to America before making the journey to their final destination in the Persian Gulf.
We had baked more than 15 pounds of cookies! several hundred in fact! we were very happy about our work and hope that our friends on the ship enjoy eating them as much as we did making them.
See Hartley's log for June 1998 and you'll see that they arrived safely.
October 1998 - The Tozer Trophy
We'd be the first
to say that we enjoy competitions and like to think that we do our best as much
as possible.
But a trophy is a good incentive, and Mr and Mrs. Tozer, who are school governors, presented the school with what we now know as the Tozer Trophy, which can be won by any of our house teams for attendance.
Mr Tozer is seen in this photograph handing the trophy to some of the children.
December 1998 - Operation Christmas Child
This year, we've learned the hard way just what it's like
to be in a position of need, so when the proposal to send shoe boxes filled
with gifts to children in areas of the world that are hit by conflict, made
us realise that we are still very
lucky.
Everyone helped in some way and in time for the parcels to reach their destination, they were sent on their way - more than 70 of them, each wrapped in Christmas paper and marked 'boy' or 'girl'.
They would find their way to places like Kosovo and children in real need.
The parcels were filled with things that are hard to find in places of conflict, soap, toothpaste and really important stuff like cuddly toys, candy and a sign of friendship.
Some of the
boys and girls put a note inside the box or even a photo' of themselves.
We just hope that they brightened someone's Christmas.
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