school trip

Evie had to be in early yesterday anyway as she had gym trail, so I dropped her off at the school hall and then had a bit of a walk.

Then at 8.45 I signed in and was told to go to the staff room so that I could read and sign the risk assessment form :)

We were then given yellow reflective vests to wear and we were given a pack each (saying which kids were in our group) I had Evies table :)

We then got on the coach (in our groups) and Evie wanted to sit next to me which was nice :)

We got to the Aerozone and the kids were told to sit on the floor and to face the large screen on the wall (us Mums had seats to sit on) and the kids were shown a presentation on the airport :)

I didnt realise that Stansted started out as a US airbase in WW2 :)

The kids then had different thing to do before the special visitors arrived :)

there was paper plane making

dressing up (Evie dressed up as a police woman)

and a map where you have to put the destinations on to

and a science bit - Evie enjoyed the making the ping pong balls float on the upturned air blowers :).

The Visitors arrived...

...it was the fire brigade - they set up the hoses and the kids had to knock a bottle off of a cone with the water :)  Evie said it was her favourite bit :)

Then they put the sirens and the lights on for the kids too :)

Then when the fire brigade was leaving 4 police cars turned up and they were the other visitors :)

The kids got to look inside the police cars and even got to be locked inside one of the vans (like a naughty robber :)), there was also bomb sniffer dogs and the kids got to stroke them...

...I was really proud of Evie because she went up to stroke one of them too :) She normally starts getting upset if a dog comes anywhere near her :)

Then it was lunchtime and all of the groups sat together :)

Then after lunch we went to the viewing platform (a paved area close to the runway) to watch the planes arrive and takeoff (some of the pilots even waved at us) :)

Then it was time to go back to school :)

It was a really great day :)

laminating and reading

Yesterday I was helping in class again :)

I was laminating number squares (a sheet with 200 squares in lines of 10) :)

Then I listened to some of the children reading...

...but halfway through the morning I was told that I am helping on the class trip :)

I have to make 2 packed lunches now (one for me and one for Evie) and bring our warm coats :)

reading and going to the airport but not on holiday

Yesterday I was helping in class...

...I spent the morning after they had their PE session listening to some of the children reading :)

Mrs R was saying that they are having parent helpers in every day now so its hard finding things for us Mums to do :)

When I picked Evie up yesterday afternoon she told me that there was a letter in her bag about a school trip.

So I had a quick read and its going to the airport :) I was making Evie laugh by saying that all of the kids will keep asking Mr J if they are going on holiday :)

glitchy hd

For the past couple of days our sky Q HD has been very glitchy..

...so I contacted them on messenger and we have an engineer coming to look at it next week.

They have put a note on my account detaila about needing to do the school run, so hopefully he/she will arrive while Evie is at school.

Evie enjoyed her school trip yesterday, and she has decided that next time she would like me to do the packed lunch for her! :)

All she told me was was that they did some experiments (one was making a lava lamp) and they had their lunch outside.

She went to sleep quite quickly last night too :)

wedding quarters trip

Yesterday was helping out in class again ;)

After filing away what the kids had done the day before (letter formations and labeling a stable scene) it was English

The kids are currently writing about a scarecrow wedding (Harry O'Hay is marrying Betty O'Barley), and they were saying about what wedding present that their scarecrow was going to make (as scarecrows dont have money), Evies scarecrow Sally O'Straw was making a necklace out of shells and seaweed :)

All of the other kids were writing about them making statues :)

It was then maths and it was quarters this time...

They had to count the number of objects and then say what a quarter of them were.

...Evie found it a bit of a struggle and inbetween helping J (who always asks me to help her) I was helping Evie.

Im pleased to say that the questions I helped Evie with she got right :)

It was then time for me to go home and Evie was back to being upset again (she had been upset earlier too but that was down to saying that she was going to miss me when I went home), L and T both told me that they would look after her :).

And Evie has her school trip today :) and she is sticking with the packed lunch that the school is providing too :)

Hopefully she will eat enough of her lunch to keep her going :)

no school trip for me

Yesterday when I picked Evie up from school I looked in her bookbag (as I usually do) and found a slip of paper inside...

...it said that lots of parents volunteered to go on the school trip so they pulled names out of a hat and I wasnt successful.

I told Evie and she said that she was happy that I wasnt going :)

It means now then that Evie will have to stick with the packed lunch that school will provide her with (as she already said that she wanted it with a cheese sandwich).

I will ask her again the night before as I dont want her telling me just as were going that she doesnt want the school packed lunch that day.

the Y1 walk

Yesterday was the year 1 walk...

...I arrived at the school and told the school office what I was there for, and they told me to go around to the classroom.

So I went in and saw a couple of other Mums and one of them told me to find my bits (there were laid out on a table in piles) and there was a sheet to sign to say that I had read the risk assessment (keep the kids safe type thing).

I then noticed the kids sitting on the floor and Miss B was going through road safety :)

She got them all to go to the toilet (in their tables, Evie is orange :)), and then once they all had their coats on they had to line up (with their grown up) our group was me, Evie, I and J.

We were the second to last group with the teaching assistants group being at the back.

We were looking at different buildings bungalows, semi detatched, victorian terrace house, cottages and maisonettes.  We had to talk about the different characteristics of each type.

I even found out that a manor house nearby had been converted in to 3 houses and then into flats :).

I told me that she lives in a flat and they have to go through a tunnel to park.  J told me he lives in a house and was telling me what each car was...

..it reminded me of brother #2 he knew all of the car badges :)

It was then back to school Evie helped me to take off my safety jacket and wanted me to stay, I told her that I want able to stay and she was ok with that.

I didnt have that long until home time so went home had something to drink then it was back to pick her up again :)

the parent helper ladder

On Monday I volunteered to be a parent helper for the local area year 1 walk this Wednesday.

On Friday when I looked in Evies book bag I saw a slip of paper in Evies home school diary to get there for 1 pm on Wednesday to go through the paper work :).

LOL when I got turned down for Evies school trip in July My mum said that you have to grovel to the teachers to even be considered...

My phone call tomorrow is at 11 am, I just hope that I dont get tongue tied or waffle on too much :)

100 mini beasts

At pick up time yesterday I got to school early so I could see the 2 coaches come back from her trip (there was one for each class).

The first coach emptied (from the other class) then it was Evies classes turn, in typical Evie fashion (although I realise now because she was in Mrs S's group) she was the last to get off :).

On our way home I asked her if she had a great time and she said yes :)

She pond fished with a net and got something green :)

And she looked at mini beasts :)

A's Mum asked her how many mini beasts she saw and she said 100 :)

We had stopped at the playgound at that point.

Luckily there were no mini beasts in her lunchbag (that would have been very typical of her :)).

She has also shown us how crickets jump :)

school trip day

Evie has her very first school trip today :)

I wasnt chosen to be one of the parent helpers - which is a bit of a shame - hopefully Evie will enjoy herself more if Im not there cramping her style :)

And Evie is having a tantrum because she cant wear her school dress!

Evies lunchbag is by the front door and her lunchbox is in the fridge and an icepack is in the freezer (I just have to do her water :)).

lunches and school trip

Last week when Evie was back to school after having chicken pox, there was a letter in her bag about her very first school trip :)

It said in the letter that .the trip can be paid for on scopay its the same system that is used to book her (at the moment) free school lunches.

So I asked Evie if she liked all of her school lunches and she said yes, I then told her what lunch the school will provide for her school trip and she said that she would like me to do her a packed lunch :)

The letter also asked if I would like to volunteer to be a parent helper, so I said "yes" :)

All of her lunches have now been booked and her school trip has been paid for :)