Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Dear friends!

We wish you all the pleasure
That Christmas time inspires
Along with the fulfillment
Of all of your desires.

Snow!

Dear Russia,
We are DM EP CB HP JR BM
In England we are meant to be having snow, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. It should be very fun. The weather forecast is often wrong, so we aren't getting too excited. If it does snow and it snows a lot, we might get a day off school.When it does snow I have snowball fights and go sleighing . I have a trip up to the ski slope to try on some real snow. I make a snowman and have snowball fights with my sister, we make the most of it because it hardly snows here. I normally have to wear 5 pairs of socks, it is so cold!!! I wear lots of layers and I still get cold!!! We are not used to snow like you are! How do you cope with it? Some people are more used to it than others. The reason we get so excited is that it hasn't snowed here until this January and February. We had THREE days off school then, it was AWESOME!!!

How much snow do you think you have?

We have not had any snow but we are supposed to have snow on Thursday also it has been very cold.

How long do you think it takes for the snow to melt away?

Do you have much snow?

What is the most  popular food in your house?

Do you think the snow is fun?

Have you ever been blocked in by the snow?


Does the whole of  Russia have snow right now?

How many times a year does it snow?

At school

What do you do a lot at school?
Do you do outdoor activities at school?
Do you have Christmas the same time as us?
How long are your play times?
How long do you stay in school?
What time do you start school?
We do maths and english every day  but not on a Friday.

We have lunch at 12;00 but on Friday 12;15 and
finish school at 3;15.
What colour do you like?
On Friday we have a spelling test and a times table test.

Merry christmas!

Here at Heron we have been looking forward till christmas.These are what we are hoping to get

Shannon - A dog, money and Clothes
Tasmin   -  Jaffa Cakes, A new phone and Clothes
James     - A Bike, Laptop and the new Ipod Touch.
Tyler       -A load of Lego, an end-less supply of Sweets and some Dvd's
 Lydia     - A new phone.
MERRY CHRISTMAS

What We Are Going To Do Today

To Russia,

Hi this is HP, DM, BM, CB, EP AND JR.
Today we are going to do english, maths ,guided reading, ICT and French. We enjoy all of them! In english we are going to video the group reciting a story.Unfortunately, some people are having a bit of trouble rembering the story. In maths we had an assessment, it was quite hard and our maths teacher went through the questions we went wrong on.Although we struggled to remember these at first, we now understand them better and hopefully will get them right next time.French, we are learning how to say  about your brothers and sisters . In ICT we are making a power point presentation. It is a postcard home about our new life-style as evacuees. CB & EP are not looking forward to Maths!!!

BYE BYE!!! : )

Christmas Eve

Billie Jae: I am going to a wedding as a bridesmaid  on Chistmas Eve.

Luke Ellis: On Christmas Eve I leave a pie and a glass of milk for Santa.

Dayna Howe: It's my dad's birthday on Chistmas Eve.

Dru Knight:We get our family together and have cookies and the adults have wine.

Kieran Winfield: We have a big meal with my family

Re: Hello from CB!

Hi,
Me and my mum went to Blackpool and stayed in a hotel near the beach. In the morning on Saturday I did a solo dance in the Winter Gardens. My friend was in the same competition as me and we were both nervous together. When the dance was over I was out of breath. I ran to my mum to get a drink. I was still tired after 10 minutes! The man announced who had got though to the next round, unfortunately I didn't get through but it was a great experience. After I got ready to do a team dance. We were first, Amy did our make-up and finally the moment arrived we danced our very best. In the middle of the dance we got out of time and therefore we came last in the competition. When we had done our dance we went out shopping for make-up. We bought lots and it cost a lot of money. When we went to bed we watched the remembrance of the people who lost their lives fighting at war. After 30 minutes we went to bed and in the morning woke up and had a wonderful breakfast. In the afternoon I did a pairs dance with my dance partner Jess. We did our dance but we didn't get through to the next round. We got on the train to come back home and it took us 4 hours! I had a great time and really enjoyed myself.

Bye from CB

rugby

Hi my name is Ryan and Iwent to a rugby tournament at the weekend. In the first match I scored a good try.

The Carnival

Hi, my name is Bethany my  favourite subject in school is art.
What is your favourite subject.

Hi my name is Kym , and on Saturday I went to Glastonbury to watch the Carnival. The Carnival is where people go on big floats,with lots of lights and music.

Our questions

Where in Russia is your school?
What does your school uniform look like? (If you have one)
What days do you have off school?
How long are your holidays?
How long are your play times?
How many children are in your school?
Do you have house colours at your school, if yes what are they called?
What topics do you have?
What type of tests do you have and how often do you have them?
How many years do you have at your school?
How many lessons do you have a day?
Do you have interactive white boards in your school?

Handy craft club!

Hi this is
SG,TH,LA,JH,TM and SE

In our Handy craft club we have been learning how to make pompoms, french knitting, cross stich, rag rugging and knittig! We are also selling pompoms for our dragons den challenge / enterprize thing! At the moment we are doing really well with our dragons den challenge as we are getting ready for our movie premire. It is going to be alot of fun as we have already sorted out our jobs, we already think our ideas are going to be a success. What have you been doing lately? Is your school doing anything similar? 

Are Winter From HP

Dear Russia,

It is almost christmas about six weeks. It never snows here but the weather men say it could happen. You are so lucky that you get snow in Russia you get a white christmas almost every year.

From Hannah

Hello from CB

Dear Russia,

This weeked I am going to Blackpool to do a dance competition. I have got lots of pretty dance costumes and acssosories. We are going the train and I get  a day off school. I am having fish and chips for tea.

From CB

Favourite Subject

Dear Russia,
OUR FAVOURITE SUBJECTS ARE...
EMILY:ART
Chloe:Maths
Hannah: Music
Dani: Literacy
BEN: P.E :)
Jack:Physical Education : )

Bye from Heron

Poppies

Dear Russia,Every year, the Poppy Appeal goes round with  poppies. Two people go round our school and they ask us if we want to donate money for a poppy. The whole of England do it too, we raise loads.Its are way of saying thankyou to those who fought the war. Every year at 11 o'clock on 11th November, there are two minutes silence. We remember those who died. It will be tomorrow when we have to do it. For the past weeks people in the Poppy Appeal comitee bring poppys through the whole of England. These poppies are used to help us remember people who have been badly injured whilst trying to save our lives.
Bye from Heron.

Our Christmas

On Christmas Day we decorate our homes and get presents.

Luke wants a phone for Christmas.

Dayna wants her room decorated and some DSgames for Christmas.

James wants a new DS for Christmas.

Billie wants a new Wii and new DS games for Christmas.

Kieran wants the new World Of Warcraft pc game for Christmas.





What do you all want for Christmas?

Halloween

On Sunday it was Halloween. Halloween is when everyone dresses up as witches and devils and goes trick or treating. In my bag I had loads of sweets! I dressed up as a Werewolf.I carved a pumkin, they are supposed to look scary, mine did not go very well. As I carved the pumpkin I got very messy, me and my brother got seeds all over us and in our hair! At Halloween it is traditional to tell scary stories and I got very scared! :(. Do you have halloween and go trick or treating?I hope you do , it's real fun. We ran out of sweets when people knocked on our door.halloween is great fun we loved it!

Bye from BM,JR and CB

THE BIG WRITE!

Our school is taking part in the big write where everybody in the school has to write about a chosen subject.
The first piece of writing we had to write was about our best day of our lives. We could of written it a bit different! We all had 45mins to complete it.We had to write it in a style of a letter, it was a bit nervracking but we got through it... but luckily we skipped Literacy. It woke us up a bit though because we were tired from halloween, Trick or Treating Sunday night! We were all stuffed from the sweets that we collected.We are surprised that none of us had a stomach ache the next day.
Do you belive in HALLOWEEN!
Bye
From TM, SE,SG,JH, TH and LA.

Teddy supporting Gloucester Rugby

On Saturday the teddy went with me and my best friend to Kingsholm rugby ground to watch Gloucester play Rovigo at rugby.  Gloucester won 90-7.  They scored 14 tries.  I wanted Glouceter to score 100 points but they didn't. The teddy was really glad that Gloucester won.  After the game we ate fish and chips for tea from the chip shop.

To Russia From Jack

I am going to tell you about my time with the monkey. On the Friday night I got the monkey I went to take my sister to a club that she goes to every week. I had to get an early night because I a football match the next day. When I woke up I felt very excited. Unfortunately, my team lost 6- 1. On Saturday afternoon I went for a bike ride with my friends. On Sunday morning I played with my nieghbour. In the afternoon I played another football match. With a bit of luck, we won 3-1. On Sunday night I watched some of my favourite programs on t.v. What do you do on the weekend? From Jack.

Dogs

Our teachers are called Mrs Smith and Mrs Penman. They both have a dog. Last Sunday they took their dogs for a walk together. This is Molly on the left and Millie on the right.

 The dogs are female and really like each other.
Can you guess which dog belongs to which teacher?

Music lessons

In our music lessons we have been singing along to World War 2 songs like the White Cliffs of Dover.
We have some people who sing and others who play musical instruments. What do you do in music?

The weather

What is your weather like today?
It is a bit dull here and it is beginning to get colder.

From Sam

What are your favourite subjects at school?
How old are the children in your class?
Have you been on any school trips recently?

Literacy

Hi

In Literacy we have written autobiographies and biographies. My biography was about Winston Churchill. What do you like doing in class?

Netball

Hi

We have a netball club at school and we have been having lessons on a Thursday. We have a match against another school and it will be really good fun.
Do you have netball lessons?

Science

My name is JR and in Science we have been doing experiments about which are the best black out curtains. Do you enjoy Science?

My Birthday!

It is my birthday today but I could not take the teddy home so I took a different teddy home. I have taken a picture of him outside TenPin 10 and on my Trampoline.

Thank you!

Thank you for all of your comments - your English is excellent. I will show all of these comments to my class next week. Well done everyone!

More photographs

It was a very exciting day and we learned a lot about life in the 1940s in Britain.

Some of our photographs from our trip.

We had to look sad because we were pretending that we were being taken out of the cities into the countryside where it would be safer. This meant that we would be leaving our families behind and we didn't know if we would ever see them again!

We had all made gas mask boxes, ID cards and ration books. We had to show these to the staff in the museum.

It was funny because we were allowed to arrest our teacher because she hadn't brought her pretend ID card!

Unfortunately, we had to let Mrs Smith and Mrs Penman go free. We needed them to take us around the rest of the museum!

STEAM Trip

Today we went on a school trip to the STEAM Museum. It was very interesting and we learnt loads about World War Two. We were dressed up as evacuees. We pretended to get evacuated and went on a trip to meet our new mothers. It was good fun but our gas mask boxes and name labels got a bit annoying by the end of today!

Our classroom

This is the wall at the back of our classroom. A boy from a secondary school came in and painted it for us. He is a brilliant artist! This is London and St Paul's cathedral during the Blitz in the Second World War.

Autumn

 

The trees are still mainly green but some are beginning to get red and yellow colours too.

Science lessons

 

In Science we are studying light this term. What are you studying?

Harvest Festival

We have had our Harvest Festival celebrations this week. They were fun!
We were celebrating the food that we have and each year we have a guest speaker.
This year the gentleman who came to talk to us was very funny. He had lots of outfits and he kept changing out of one and into another - we all laughed.

He started as a shop keeper (selling bread), then a lorry driver ( to bring bread to the shop), then the miller (milling the wheat to provide flour) , then the farmer ( to grow the wheat). It was all about who we should say thank you to for our bread. The farmer said that he couldn't grow the wheat if there was no sun and we should thank God for the sunshine. It was very clever!

How was your weekend?

We are all going out next weekend.

Dru is going swimming, Dayna is having her best friend around her house.
Kieran's grandparents are coming over on Sunday.
Billie Jay is going to her grandparents.
Luke is going to his uncle's for the day to see his very big TV.
James is going to see the trains on Saturday.

Hello

In art sessions we have been learning how to draw different faces. What sort of things have you been doing?

From Leah, Kayleigh, Alex, Nathan and James

Leah - It is my 11th birthday party at Tenpin Bowling on Saturday.

Kayleigh - I am going to Leah's party on Saturday.

Alex - Me and my cousin are going to Drayton Manor next week (lots of roller coasters).

Nathan - Last week I went bowling with my family.

 James - In the summer holiday I went to my friends party at Cattle Country.

Questions

Hello everyone

We have some questions for you - we hope you don't mind.


Do you have nice shoes?

Is it nice living in the biggest country in the World?

Is it expensive to live in your country?

Is it hot or cold there?

What sort of toys do you have?

Do you have lots of sport centres?

Do you wear a school uniform? What colour is it?

Do you go for swimming lessons?

How many schools are there around you in your city?

What type of food do you eat?

What style do you write in?

What do you write with?

Is your classroom big and colourful?

What is it like having some of your country in Europe and some in Asia?

Thank you!

St George is the patron saint of Russia

We have found out an icon of St George.


St George is also the patron saint of Russia and its capital Moscow. On icons he is usually represented sitting on a white horse and killing a big snake.

Students,
Russia

Some information about the patron saint St George

Hello friends in Heron school!
Here is the information about St George. We have found it in the Internet.

Who was St. George, and what did he do to become England’s Patron Saint?
Very little is known about St. George’s life, but it is thought he was a high ranking officer in the Roman army who was killed in around AD 303. It seems that the Emperor Diocletian had St. George tortured to make him deny his faith in Christ. However despite some of the most terrible torture even for that time, St George showed incredible courage and faith and was finally beheaded in Palestine. Stories of his strength and courage soon spread throughout Europe.

The best-known story about St. George is his fight with a dragon, but it is highly unlikely that he ever fought a dragon, and even more unlikely that he ever visited England, however his name was known there as early as the eighth-century. In the Middle Ages the dragon was commonly used to represent the Devil. Unfortunately many legends connected with St. George’s name are fictitious. St. George, so the story goes, killed a dragon on the flat topped Dragon Hill in Uffington, Berkshire, and it is said that no grass grows where the dragon’s blood trickled down!

St George is patron saint not only of England but also of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow.
St George is also patron saint of scouts, soldiers, archers, cavalry, farmers and field workers.

The 6 year students,
Russia

The lion is called George!

St George 

 

 St George is the patron saint of England.

Wales Scotland and Ireland have different patron saints.

Can you find out any information about our patron saint?

TM and the Tiger play guitar..!

Здравствуйте Russia,

This is me and the Tiger playing my electric guitar at home. Hope you like the photograph.

TM

Me and the Tiger from russia

Me and the tiger from Russian messed about on the computer after that I had a name for her - Ruby. Me and Ruby fell asleep with other teddies like Spotty, he is the  one with all the spots, Bobby ,the big brown ted and last but not least  Poppy a young rabbit from Bristol. We were going to go on the trampoline, but it was too wet.We played fetch with Gizmo my dog and watched Horse power.

Hello to our friends in Russia

Hello everyone!

We are the children in Year 6 at Heron primary School and this is our first week back after the summer holiday. We have just started in Year 6. In July we were still in Year 5.
We have met your tiger and we will be sending you messages about him.

This is the first time that we have been allowed to add messages from home. We have talked about the kind of things we should write. We have also had a talk to our teacher about good manners, accurate punctuation and editing our work.

If we make some mistakes we hope you don't mind too much. When we have written comments our teacher will check them for us.

We hope to get to know you all this year.

In England we are not allowed to put our names beside our photographs and that is a problem. If we put our initials then our teacher can send your teacher a list of names and you might be able to work it out.


Ok - we will write soon. Hope you enjoy writing to us.

Bye!