Manor Park Times

Cool concert!

DASP Concert
Year 4 from Manor Park First School had attended a concert. Loads of children from around Dorchester have enjoyed a DASP concert. The songs are from the Victorian age.
Mrs Page was the leader of the concert and said that the children had tried hard and their singing was lovely. ‘Out on Sundays’, ‘William Brown’ and ‘Cosher Bailey’ were favourites.
The concert took place at St Osmunds sports hall. At 6:00 on Tuesday the children perform in front of hundreds of people. They came dressed up in Victorian clothes. The band was lovely. They had chosen ‘Ine Meene Macaranca’ games which has helped the children work together.
Abi
In one of the songs , Paddy works on the railway. Will Youngs shouted “YOU’RE VERY LATE!!!” We rehearsed it at school [Manor Park School]
Then at St Osmunds and then the real one. Manor Park school were all excited when we went into the sports hall.
All the children left their coats in the art room. Mrs Terry ,Mr Draper and Miss Gorden said we all look super.
Charlotte, Josh

There is a vote going on about what the new Dorchester skate park ramps are going to be made out of. All of the Dorchester schools had to vote out concrete or skate light. Only two people who know about skateboarding could choose. Manor Park’s two children were Barnaby Jordan and Aidan Stark of Year 4 Mr Drapers class. They chose skatelight. The new skate park is going to have fun boxes, mini ramps, staircases and more.
Barnaby
On Saturday 27th March Ma#nor Year 3 and 4 had an Easter football tournament. The tournament consisted of two main leagues, league A and league B the winner of league A played the winner of league B in the final to decide who would win.
By Harry and Milly

Place you’re vote now!!!

Funky football tournament

The one off match

In year 4 and 3 are having a one off match against Charminster, the people from Mr Draper’s class are
Matthew , Robbie , Ben .

Five children from year 4 Manor Park have set up an art club. 10 children from year 1 came to the club and made Easter pots that the children from year 4 are going to put little eggs in.
Mrs Goldsack {Art co-ordinator} helps run this club .The children are very pleased.
Amber
Last Friday, the whole of year 4 had a exciting day making marvellous and wonderful chairs.
At the beginning of the day some children brought in their art things. If they did not have their things, there was stuff in the quiet room. Before they made the proper chairs they had to have a suggestion on a piece of A3 paper and have a plan of what they what they were doing. On the day when they made the chairs it was very exciting and noisy!
By Milly and Laura
Easter Eggs
In our school, people have been bringing in easter eggs for the competition. They decorated them, with all kinds of stuff sequins, glitter and feathers. They decorated them to try and win the prize. Last year Jenna Padial from Manor Park First School won the prize. It was a chocolate rabbit. This year Jenna decorated her one as an alien. Mrs Spiller, Mrs Whiter and Mrs Upton were the judges
of the competition.
Cool Containers
Year 4 made money containers. First of all they planned them and made a little paper one for practice. A couple of weeks later they started to make their patterns and they cut their pieces out of felt. A week later they started to make their containers. Results were absolutely wonderful and now they’re up on display. They make the room brighten up.
By
Josh, Dan and Tobias
Back in time
Year 4 of Manor park first school have bravely scanned a wreckage at the Noth Fort. The year 4 students were dressed up as evacuees, two soldiers checked the children for I.D. cards. Unfortunately they all had the I.D. except the adults. Mr. homer said “It was excellent I liked the school. At the end of the day two boys got caned. Mr. Gould claimed “It hurt.”
By Anthony

Lately Manor Park have been building up a big pile of Banana skins, apple skins, lemon skins and a load of other fruit, and they’ve been doing all this to make some compost. It’s a great creative thing to do.
Joe
All the school with the help of builders are making a pergola. The are also recycling compost. They are going to pour all the compost over the soil to make it rich so all the plants will be able to grow up the pergola and provide shade in the summer when it will be very, very hot and the students will be able to sit somewhere. Here they can sit and read a book and cool off and relax.
Jamie
Stories from Winterbourne Valley
Writing to other Year 4's
We started writing to other year 4's who live in Leighton Buzzard. The name of their school is Heathwood First School. We have been writing to them for 3 weeks. There are 25 in their class. On Friday they came down to Dorset to go on a trip. So whilst they did that they came to Winterbourne Valley to meet us, which was a 3 hour trip. We got to know a lot more bout them, and it was wonderful to meet them. Although we have met them now we still get to e-mail them, and we are all looking forward to it.
By Kathryn and Rebecca
Theatre Tuesday
One cheery Tuesday afternoon a theatre group came to perform a play for us. This play was called Peter and the Wolf. There were two young ladies playing the parts of Odin, Peter, a friend and the wolf. Sonya, Sasha and Kieran were all animals in the play. At the end we sang a song with Odin and Peter, we joined in too! We all shouted, booed, hissed and also enjoyed it!
By Amelia-Joy
Great weather for ducks
One rainy afternoon the school held the annual duck race. Sophie, Lily, Amy and Guy were in the river helping the (rubber) ducks along because they were stuck in the weeks. Thomas was wearing a plastic duck on the top of his cycle helmet. The end of the race was Elissa's road.
The duck for Lily held 1st place, Sophie held 2nd place and Guy held 3rd place. Lots of people were disappointed because they didn't win, in 497 people!
By Guy
World Book Day
One Thursday everyone came to school dressed up as a character from their favourite book. We all had a good laugh and enjoyed our selves. We went in to the hall and Mrs Halsey took our photographs in our costumes.
Some people chose characters who were difficult to guess.
By Sophie
World Book Day
One Thursday on 4th March we all dressed up as a character from a book. We played a game called the Hot Seat in years 3 and 4. A pupil in year 3 and 4 went up in the Hot Seat and the other pupils asked 5 questions, then that pupil sat down and another person came to be in the Hot Seat.
By Michael
Funky chairs
On Friday 19th March Year 4 gave up whole day for DT – year 4 were making chairs. People used different types of materials. Freya Le Helloco made her chair out of marshmallows and stuck them together with icing sugar and stuck silver balls on the sides. Jenna Padial’s chair was made out of pegs she made a cushion to go on it. Eilidh
Ross used designs from different animals and she put whiskers and lots of others. Alex Hoare used bottle lids, and pipe cleaners.
Lottie

Art club!

Take a seat

Compost Pile

This newspaper has been produced by the following pupils from Manor Park School on March 29th 2004:
Amber
Anthony
Charlotte
Joshua
Milly
Samuel
E-mail contributions were received from Winterbourne Valley First School.

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