Year: 2011

Blind Dave and his Top to Toe Challenge

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Do you remember when Blind Dave and his guide dog coming to Bearwood Primary?

The answer to that question is mostly likely yes. We all sat in the assembly hall and listened to Dave with our jaws on the floor as he told us about completing his ultimate endurance challenge of 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 different continents. We all thought what a truly amazing achievement! He launched our ‘Opening up a World of Opportunities’ week and told us all that anything is achievable as long as we work hard and believe.

At the moment Dave is undertaking an epic challenge of running and cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End almost 1000miles in 10 days to raise money for Macmillan cancer. While we enjoy the leisurely days of the summer holidays, he runs a 26.2 marathon and then cycles to his next destination – an average of 75 to 80 miles each day. I’m sure that you will all agree this is a superhuman effort by Dave and his marvellous team. To find out more about his challenge log on at http://www.blinddaveheeley.co.uk/top2toe/

Today was Day 6 of his ambitious challenge and he was back in his home town of West Bromwich. How could he not take the opportunity to visit his beloved Hawthorns home of West Bromwich Albion FC! I was astounded by Dave’s wonderful sense of humor despite the pain he must be feeling. It was a privilege to see him!

Blind Dave has set himself a target and I don’t doubt that he will achieve it! What challenge could you set yourself in the next academic year?

What do you think of Blind Dave and his extraordinary challenge?

A letter from Robert Munsch

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Wow! Today we received another author  response. This time it was from Robert Munsch.  I think that it is incredible to think that Meherpal’s letter is now pinned up in Robert Munsch’s writing office in Canada.  We know this information because he states it in his letter.  Meherpal was sent a bookmark and a postcard in recognition of his letter.

For more information about Robert Munsch go to  http://robertmunsch.com/

I wonder who will be next to receive  some correspondence?

Our Brilliant Habitat Boxes by Yasir

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In Literacy, we made mini books about one animal in our habitat then made a poster about the habitat we were doing. I did some researching about my habitat then I put ‘Arctic’ on my poster with information about it. We didn’t use any information that we hadn’t  research and didn’t know, we did everything real because it was all factual information; which means its true.

Then I had a lot of fun  making our habitats! We made it with glue, paint, boxes, plasticine, paper and tissue paper. Which one do you like from the pictures? No matter which one you choose, thank you for reading this!

Writing Competition

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Enter now for a unique chance to have your story made into a published book

‘What’s the Story’ aims to inspire children, aged 7 – 12 years old, to get creative and write a story, of no more than 500 words, about the characters created by Lydia Monks.

The winner and the four runners-up will win Amazon Kindles. The winner will have their story illustrated by Lydia Monks and published by Macmillan in 2012.

For more information log on  to  http://www.itv.com/daybreak/whats-the-story/enter-now/

Plant Investigation

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In class this week we have been planning and carrying out an experiment to investigate what different things plants need to grow and ‘come alive.’ For example, do plants need water to grow?

We are growing cress in lots of different places around school: we have even put some in the staffroom fridge! We will let you know if our predictions are correct.[slideshow]