Tithe Barn School

Further to consulting the weather forecast for this week it has been decided to hold Sports Day on Thursday 29 July!!!! Hopefully it should be drier on Thursday! 

I apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Tim Buckley

Thursday was the Reception class visit to Chester Zoo. The children have been learning all about animals and looking after animals leading up to the visit.

As I am sure all you parents in Reception will know, the children have been very excited about the visit.

Mrs Bridgehouse went over the rules and the itinerary of the day, while waiting for the coach to pick us up.

All the children were sorted into groups with an adult to guide them, although there was a last minute glich and Mrs Babinska had to step into the shoes of Mrs Rippon (much to the disappointment of Mrs Rippon – who had to wave us off instead).

We had a great journey on the coach to the zoo and arrived at 10.15. We quickly organised into our small groups, so that the children had more of a chance to visit their very favourite animals, and we set off on our merry ways.

We met up as a whole group for our packed lunches and a catch up with all our friends on what they have seen already, what has been their favourite animal and to plan what they would see next after lunch. The weather was being very kind to us and we could eat out on the grass in the sunshine. There was no need for coats at all which was great.

It wasnt long before we were all ready to set off again…..

Far too quickly the time came to set off back home, although by the time we arrived back  we were all very very tired

Here are some of our photos of the day. As some of them have been taken through glass or the animals have been moving quite quickly, they are not all very focused.

They will give you some good talking points and the children can tell you what they are and what they have seen…..

We hope you all enjoyed the summer fair today and we’ll post some more information about any money raised soon, but just to cheer everyone up some more, why not see Mr Buckley getting a little wet at the ’soak the clown’ stand!

 :) Thank you for supplying the video  :) 3 leaf points…

For our “Birthday Bash”, Miss Vose had a great idea and brought  into school some chinese lanterns for the children.

Unfortunately due to the change in the weather this had to be postponed throughout the day on Thursday and eventually was moved to Friday.

We did manage to do test on one Thursday, before the weather changed.

On Friday we did get to light a few of the lanterns but due to the windy weather, we had a little difficulty in keeping them lit long enough for the hot air to fill the lanterns and for them to rise into the air.

It was a brilliant experience for the children and many of them had never seen these before.

As part of our birthday celebrations, staff and children signed up to play a mixed team game of Basketball, with Miss Brown as referee.

This was a great match to watch and from the sideline, children picked teams to support and offered plenty of encouragement to their side. We had Team “Blue” with the bibs on and Team “white” with no bibs on.

It was a very competitive game and it was clear everyone was in it to win!!

Take a look at the determination in this video clip….Mr Blackburn has his mind set on the basket and ball WILL go in…Mr Jones is not having that and is defending to the hilt..Miss Vose joins him in his mission.

I think this section of the crowd are shouting for the “blues”….Nice leaping  block at the end there Mr Tonge

(The password for these videos is the same as usual – If you are not sure, take a look at our limited edition Tithe Barn T-shirts for a reminder!)

I believe the end result was 5-4 to the ……………………WHITE team!