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Here's the wonderful Grumpy Frog by the wonderful Ed Vere. Enjoy! 

We've really enjoyed our final full day at Abernant.

Sessions included archery, orienteering, low ropes, fencing, survival skills and stand up paddle boarding.

This evening we all headed out into the darkness for a night hike which allowed the children to make great use of their torches.  It…

In the week that we celebrate International Women's Day, here's a truly inspiring, inspiringly true story from Africa, about Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work protecting the environment in her home country of Kenya. Enjoy! 

Once again the weather has been kind to us here at Abernant.  We spent this morning on the lake learning new skills and improving our ability to to use canoes and kayaks.   

In our Canadian canoes, it was all about teamwork and sharing strategies for the different games we played on the water. …

Day 2 of our residential visit started with a cooked breakfast. Some of us may also have enjoyed extra toast, multiple bowls of cereal and some fruit. We wanted to ensure we had lots of energy for our hill walk in the morning.

The hill walk took us about two and a half hours.   We had a proud…

Year 6 send their greetings from sunny (yes, really) Wales!

After an uneventful journey, we were delighted to arrive at Manor Adventure with plenty of time to store our bags and enjoy a site tour before our first activities.

Today we split into two groups for the activities with group 9…

We're on the final day of Share A Story and it's a book from the Starlings booklist - this one's from Rudyard Kipling's classic, The Just So Stories. Hope you like it! 

https://youtu.be/T9lpod6RnME

 

Happy World Book Day! Thursday's story is the Firework Maker's Daughter, by Philip Pullman (on the Kingfishers booklist.) Enjoy!

It's a story from the Owls book list tonight - enjoy Chapter 1 of The Iron Man! 

Another lovely day of Book Week done - time for another story! Tonight Mrs Higgs is reading a story by Nick Butterworth, who's an author on the Robins booklist. Don't forget to listen out for the code word at the end and come and tell Mrs E tomorrow! 
 

Show us what you're reading this week! We invite you to #takeashelfie showing us your bookshelf, or a collection of books that represent you. You can be in the picture or not. You can share them with us via email, or on the PTA Facebook page, or bring in a printed photo of your shelfie!  

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