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No 2

Hello and welcome to the 2nd edition of St Mary's Chit Chat! We have been amazed at the volume of contributions we are receiving. A huge thank you to everyone who has al-ready got involved. Reading about what you've been up to has been a great reminder to us of what a wonderfully enthusiastic, cre-ative and kind bunch you are. In this week's edition, look out for some yummy recipes and some new features, along with great pictures and updates from your friends. Remember The Chit Chat is a great way to keep in touch with what we're all doing so please keep sending in your ideas and contributions to Newsletter@stmarysprimary.org Enjoy!

A Message

from Year 4

Let your teacher know if you would like to be a Correspondent

next week!

FREYA CARTER’S BEEN BUSY IN THE KITCHEN

ISABELLA LEWIS FROM WHALES CLASS SAYS THERE’S NOTHING LIKE PUPPY LOVE

It’s non-stop action for Maisie and her sister Chloe!

MRS GAUTREY’S PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB

An amazing 57 people have signed up for photography

club so far with 23 sending in their photos in week one. We

looked at taking a photograph in por-trait and landscape and which worked

best. Here are some that have stood out:

Eva Murray

Sophia Pitt

Sophie Lavabre

Ruby-Mae Butlin

This week we had a go at taking different types of shots. We chose different objects and took a long shot, medium shot, close up and extreme close up—then decided which one worked best. May Allgood and Louis Brereton-Davies demonstrated this well in their sequence of photos.

Dulciebelle Lineker of 4L has been busy nurturing some very special little feathered friends! Here’s her

report!

What do Harry Potter's best friend and his potion pot

have in common?

They are both cauldron.

What do you call a itchy pound coin that

likes Harry Potter?

Quidditch.

Would you like to review a book, film or game?

Send us your write-up and a pic to News-letter@stmarysprimary.org

Don’t forget to include your name and your class!

Alicia Barnett— 4L

Flexible Alicia won a medal for entering a challenge set by her gymnastics club. ‘I had to create a collage of pictures spelling out my gymnastics club name Gymspire and I chose to use my body for each letter. ’

Amelie Wanstall - 5G learning to cook and doing lots of gardening!

Octavia Padley - 5C

Enterprising Octavia has been making bracelets to sell online with her cousin. She says, ‘There are so many colours you can use, this can keep you entertained for hours. It is SOOOOO FUN! ’

Boyd Moffat—Whales Class

Boyd can’t go to Beavers at the moment so he is doing Home Beavers! I miss going to Beavers because I enjoy seeing my friends and doing lots of different activities. So I decided to have Home Beavers! Every Thursday my Mummy and Daddy set up an activity for me to do like I was at Beavers. We have been down our lane and picked up litter, using litter pickers. We filled four bin bags to the top full of rubbish. This was us caring for our environment. I also went to my neighbours house to feed their goats carrots and grass. They have 9 goats! Sometimes the baby brown goat escapes and I help put him back into his field. This was my caring for animals. This Thursday our Beaver Leader Alex set up a Zoom Beaver Meeting. I used my Daddy's laptop and could see all my friends from Beavers. We then played a game. We got to run around the house collecting loads

of things that Alex told us to find. It was really good fun.

Where do sharks like to go on holiday?

Finland

Where do eggs like to go on holiday?

New Yolk City

Thanks to Annabel Luscombe - class 3L for making us laugh with your jokes!

The Day The Crayons Quit - Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

This is a fantastic book for ALL ages, about what happens when a little boy called Duncan finds out through some funny letters and drawings that all his crayons have QUIT and don’t want to be used anymore! I’ve read this book lots of times but I was reminded of it recently as I’ve been doing LOTS of mindful colouring during lockdown. I wonder if you have been too? If so, this is the book for you as through their letters, Duncan’s crayons give him lots of ideas for how he can make them happier again!

A “Quick” Read

Book recommendations from Mrs Quick

Don’t let boredom take over at home! Here’s some inspiring ideas from St Mary’s children….whether it’s high-tec, or getting out the mixing bowl for some baking...there’s always something to do!

Serves 8

225g of baking spread

225g of caster sugar

4 large eggs

225g of self raising Flour

1 level tsp baking powder

200ml double Cream

About 6-8 Tbsp strawber-ry jam

1. Preheat the oven to fan 160 degrees celsius. Grease 220cm round sandwich tins and line the bases with some non-stick bak-ing paper.

2. Measure the baking spread, sugar, eggs, flour and baking pow-der into a large mixing bowl and then beat them with an electric mixer until it is well blended and smooth.

3. Divide the mixture between the tins, level it out evenly and bake in the pre-heated oven for about 25-30 minutes, or until it is well-risen and the tops of the sponges spring back when lightly pressed with your finger.

4. Leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes then turn them out, remove the paper and finish cooling on a wire rack.

5. To make the filling, measure the cream into a large bowl and whisk until it is stiff.

When it is completely cold, sandwich the cakes together with the jam and cream. Lift on to a serving plate and sprinkle with the caster sugar.

Leo Campbell of Whales Class

Victoria Sandwich

“I like baking and one of my favourites was the Victoria sponge, as it is light and fluffy.

This is a recipe from Mary Berry.”

Chef Leo Campbell in action

Seb in 5G has enjoyed researching WW2 and creating a battle scene. While I’ve been at home, I got bored and decided that I would research WW2 by watching National Geographic ( Draining the oceans episode 1) and using my military books to help create a battle scene and learn all about the Nazi's secrets and hidden weapon tactics. They were very sneaky/clever. I built the tank from Airfix.

Jamie Walter’s

1. Who is the author of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”? 2. What is the official language of Brazil?

3. What actor plays Iron Man in the Avengers films?

4. What is the capital city of Belgium? 5. What tree do conkers come from?

Bonus Question 6. The four main moons of Jupiter are named af-

ter wives of which Greek god?

Answers on page 7

Holly Calvert’s Magic Ice Cream! Serves 4—6 You will need—

4 bananas 25g sprinkles

2 tbsp. smooth peanut butter

150g frozen blackberries 4-6 ice cream cones 4-6 chocolate flakes

A blender

1. Peel and slice the bananas into thick pieces and put them in a freezer bag. Freeze until rock hard.

2. Put the frozen bananas in the blender with the other in-gredients—blitz until it has the consistency of ice cream.

3. Serve in cones and add a flake and sprinkles.

The magic is …..there is no ice

cream!

Emma and Annabel Luscombe (Yr 1 and 3 have been following tutorials by Draw with Rob and Art Hub for Kids, and also used their own imagination to draw a still life which they coloured in with bright patterns.

During Lockdown I have been doing a lot of fun activities such as: baking cupcakes and cookies; building forts with pillows and blan-kets; listening to audio books; and a lot of swinging in my swing. Every morning I do my Joe Wicks workout on the computer. Our work is really fun and we are doing WW2 in topic and a book study in English but in maths we are doing a lot of revision. I am finding lockdown quite fun but it is hard to stay inside all day. Emily Wallace 6MG

Tomorrow, Friday 8 May 2020, Britain will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of VE Day when the guns fell silent at the end of war in Europe.

Due to our current lockdown, most VE Day 75 events and street parties have had to be cancelled or postponed. However, we can still mark the occasion and honour the men and women of World War Two.

You can make your own special VE Day 75 ‘Great British Bunting’ to display in your window at home.

Here are all the instructions you need to get started using any paper, cereal boxes, string, ribbon, sweet wrap-pers, felt pens, poster paint you have or whatever you can find.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/england/pdf/ve_day_great_british_bunting_instructions.pdf

You can decorate your bunting with pictures of whatever inspires you, whether it’s those who fought on the frontline or worked hard on the Homefront, or whether it’s a celebration of enduring peace or your own person-al hero. Hang your bunting with pride over the weekend of Friday 8 May - Sunday 10 May and make sure you share your pictures with us!

cream cheese,

Answers

1. Jeff Kinney

2. Portuguese

3. Robert

Downey

Junior

4. Brussels

5. Horse

Chestnut

6. Zeus

How did you do?

Skye Foster has enjoyed hosting zoom QUIZ sessions with her family and friends

She was inspired when her crazy Aunt Gill hosted one with Skye and her cousins.... she is the quiz master called ‘MISS PANTS AHOY’ ... she pre-pares the questions before- hand with her little sister Lyra as her assistant.

How To Entertain Your Dog by Ava Amos 6GM During lockdown dogs need to be enter-tained too, it’s not just humans that need to have fun! Dr Carri Westgarth, a senior lecturer in human-animal interaction at the University of Liverpool said: "Watching dogs makes us happier. Daily allowed exer-cise and indoor playtime isn't just for our dogs' men-tal and physical health, it's for our wellbeing too."

· Try hiding things around the house and let your dog sniff them out. · Switch up their walking routine and if possible, try new places for them to sniff and explore. · Give your dog a harder job to do like finding several treats. · Work on some simple obedience train-ing such as the commands ‘Heel’, ‘Come’, ‘Wait’ · Try using a Kong filled with yummy

treats. · Make some frozen treats for your dog as they are delicious and keep them busy for longer. · Try to make a nice, sunny viewing spot for your dog to see outside and all that’s going on.

· Give your dog something to chew on such as a cereal box

with treats taped shut. · Make them work for their food, you can hide some of it, scatter kibble or even per-

form a trick for some of it. · Use items around you home

to make your dog an obstacle course of their own!

· Does your dog love to play with balls? Try challenging their brain

with a simple ball puzzle- use a regular muffin tray and fill with tennis balls. Your dog will love to take out all of the balls! · Finally, don’t forget to spend some time grooming your dog. It is important for bonding between you and your dog.

Before lockdown, Holly Elrick from 5S won a

poetry competition run by Drusillas Park near

Brighton.

The prize was a family voucher for 4 to visit there in the sum-

mer. Here is her winning poem and a picture of her during a

Sloth Encounter for her Christ-mas present.

Alice Flynn from 4L made this dress all by herself - and made silk gloves to match!

Well done you!

Poppy and Archie along with lots of other people (and other ST Marys pupils) on our road took part in the Park Road marathon on Sunday when the London marathon should have been taking place.

Twenty-six households took part and each ran 1 mile (1 loop of Park Rd) in a relay. We all donated to The Young Carers charity.

It was a lovely event with lots of people on the road coming out to cheer people on and have a chat to neighbours from a safe distance!

POPPY SCOTT-TAGGART OF 5S AND ARCHIE SCOTT-TAGGART OF 5G PUT THEIR BEST FOOT FORWARD FOR CHARITY

Did you guess who got dunked on the front page?

It was Year 3’s Mr Wanstall!

DAISY PARFREMENT OF 4L SAYS ART IS AT THE HEART OF HER DAY

Van Gogh in the making….?

Harry Hickling’s been so inspired by the butterfly artwork set by Mrs Davies, that he’s been creating some more masterpieces! Keep up the good work Harry!

Mrs Legister is…

If you had a super-power what would it be?

My superpower would most definite-ly be the power to heal living things. I think this would be a wonderful power to have, especially in these times

What’s your

favourite hobby?

Gardening and long walks (being outside)

Craziest thing you've ever done?

As I’m sure you can imagine I have done many crazy things over my many years! However, one that still returns to haunt me regularly at family occa-sions is the day we went to London Zoo. I was about 7 years old and the day before my mum and I had been shoe shopping. We brought the shiniest most lovely new school shoes. The next day, I persuaded my mum to let me wear them on our trip to the Zoo. We had a fabulous day Guy the Gorilla threw poo at my dad (so funny) and we had a lovely picnic.

On the way home I took off my shiny new shoes because they were hurting my feet. For some unknown reason I decided to stick one of them out of the window while we were driving along. It was bouncing up and down in my hand in the air stream as we drove through London. Unfortunately, I let go and my shoe flew through the air and out of site. Panicking all the way home, I decided not to mention it hoping that magically it would appear as we drove on to the driveway. It didn’t! My mum and dad were fuming and needless to say they have never never ever let me forget.

Moral: do not stick things out of car windows!

What would you do with a million pounds?

If I had a million pounds, I would spend some of it to buy house with a very large garden. So I could create my own walled secret garden just like in the

book. I do love that story. With the rest of it, I would buy some land to create the most amazing Nature School so that all children could experience the abso-lute wonders of our natural world.

Next week our faithful school caretaker Mr Everett will be taking his turn in the spotlight. So here’s your chance to ask him anything you like!!! Send your questions to Newsletter@stmarysprimary.org

Question to Mrs L from Grace Sexton of 4L:

“Is it true that you are 96 years old?

Mrs Legister: “No. I am in fact, 97 and a half!”