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The Strange Case of Shirley Holmes and the Zombie Apocalypse

Sat 18 Dec 2021 Richard

What an Amazing Week !!!

Year Six, and the rest of Key Stage 2, have been working incredibly hard, and with incredible levels of motivation, for the last month; we've also been in isolation for three weeks to try and make sure that covid didn't stop us performing .....

..... and we made it !!!

Three exceptional performances to audiences, which we limited to 120 per show, provided an experience that our children will remember forever.

We don't have the words to say how proud we are of all of our children.

The children's attitude and desire to put on the best production possible has been truly inspiring and something that we are privilaged to have been a part of.

This has been an amazing team effort with every child in Key Stage 2, and every member of staff, pulling together to put on our show.

We are intending to put a video of the show on YouTube over the Christmas break so that we can all enjoy the experience again.

Thank you to Mark Harris who took all of these photos.

Gliddon and Squire Results - December 2021

Fri 17 Dec 2021 Richard

These are our latest individual and team positions after three rounds of this year's Gliddon and Squire Cross Country League:

Individual:

Toby ( Year Six) - 1st

George (Year Four) - 2nd

Holly (Year Four) - 3rd

Felicity (Year Three) - 5th

Nathan (Year Four) - 6th

May (Year Six) - 8th

Sam (year Six) - 8th

Arthur (Year Six - 9th

Seth (Year Four) - 9th

Rory (Year Four) - 10th

Teams:

Under Eleven Boys - 1st

Under Nine Girls - 1st

Under Nine Boys - 2nd

Under Eleven Girls - 3rd

Combined Schools' Competition - 1st

Our next race is on Sunday 9th January at Westward Ho!

(Please note that the first race is an hour later than normal at 11.00am)

Christmas Service on the Square

Thu 16 Dec 2021 Richard

We think that it is very important to think about the Christmas message and that’s why the whole school went down to our village square for a Christmas concert beside the village Christmas tree.

We were joined by our vicar, Richard, and over 100 parents and people from the village and we had a very special 40 minutes together.

Our band played all of the music and everyone sang Christmas songs.

Halfway through Sir got a phone call from Santa who said that he couldn’t get the raindeers to wake up.

It was a Christmas emergency because no raindeers means no sleigh and no Christmas deliveries!

We all sang Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer as loud as we could and the sound travelled all the way to the North Pole and woke them up.

Christmas was saved!!!

We all had a great time and would like to wish you a very happy Christmas.

A Really Nice Email.

Mon 13 Dec 2021 Richard

We think that it is really iportant that our children develop things like good manners and we regularly get compliments from the general public when we are out-and-about - which we often are.

I'd like to share this email which was sent by someone who "came across us" when we were having lunch in McDonald's last week after a sports event:

"I encountered a group of children from your school in McDonald's, Bideford, at lunchtime yesterday accompanied by some of your staff.

It was just wonderful, with what's going on in the world today, to see a group of children so well behaved, not shouting and showing off, all dressed immaculately, not a mobile phone between them and they simply sat down without arguing between themselves and waited patiently for their food. They were actually communicating with each other. Even a member of staff from McDonald's commented what a pleasure it was to see a group of children so well behaved.

They were a credit to you, your staff and your school and you should be so proud of the image they portrayed of your Academy."

Gliddon and Squire Cross Cross County - Coxleigh Barton

Sun 12 Dec 2021 Richard

Race three of the season took place today (Sunday 12th December) and although we haven’t got all the results yet it was another great team performance.

Well done Toby (Year 6) who has now won three out of three races in the under 11 boys category, and George (Year 4) who has won two out of three races for our under 9 boys’ team.

We’ll post team results as soo as we’ve got them.

Last Rehearsal - Christmas 2021

Sat 11 Dec 2021 Richard

These photos are from our last rehearsal before we perform next week.

It was a full performance - the only things missing were our costumes and makeup.

We’ll be performing our musical, Shirley Holmes and the Strange Case of the Zombie Apocalypse, four times next week on Monday and Tuesday afternoons and on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

We’ve worked really hard for the last few weeks and now we’re really excited - and a tiny bit nervous as well !!!