Welcome Back All! We’re glad that you’ve all made it back safe and sound- however you managed to get here. I, for one, am really glad that Mrs. Smith made it back in one piece. I had worried that she was going to have to swim from Newcastle to Amsterdam!

If any of you have got any interesting stories about how you finally got back to the Netherlands, feel free to share them with us on the blog.
Moving on to other matters; this half term is an extremely busy one, with one thing or another. Firstly, on Tuesday, we’ll be holding auditions for parts in our production of Bugsy Malone. A sign up sheet was stuck on the Y6 notice board today. If you would like to audition for a main part (you can audition for more than one), then just sign your name in the appropriate space on the sheet. Be warned that we will be asking Blousey, Tallulah and Fizzy to sing solos.
The songs are, as follows:
Fizzy: a few lines from ‘Tomorrow’.
Tallulah: a few lines from ‘My name is Tallulah’
Blousey: a few lines from ‘I’m Feeling Fine’
SATs
We’ll be doing our Year 6 SATs in the week of May 24th. Please see the SATs page on this weblog for the dates and times. As we tell our children every year, Mrs. Smith and I don’t want anybody getting worried about these papers. They’re nothing to be scared of and you’re all more than able to tackle them!
Taster Lessons
At this point in the Year 6 school year, we begin to think about transition to Secondary School. Before any of you move up to Year 7, we would like to give you a taste of what life will be like there so, in the coming weeks, you’ll be going to the Secondary School and having some lessons with the staff that will be teaching you next year.
However, before September, you will need to think about the extra language that you would like to learn. These choices have to be made quite quickly. For that reason, we’ve arranged for you all to have an early taste of Spanish and German. Tomorrow, (Tuesday), Mr. Anderson and Ms. Busch from the Secondary School will be coming to our building to take you for a lesson in each subject. Mr. Anderson will work first with 6B, teaching them Spanish while Ms. Busch will teach 6S some German. They will then swap around so that we have all had a chance to see which we prefer. This will happen tomorrow from 11.30 to 12.30.