the gorseland times issue 4 dec 12

The Gorseland Times December 2012

GORSELAND TIMES the best newspaper in the world!!

Thank you for looking at issue four of The Gorseland Times.

We have had a busy half term with lots of fantastic learning

happening throughout the school. It has also been the end of an era as Mrs

Seaborne approaches her career change from headship to teacher training and

school support. We hope you enjoy reading the children’s articles.

Inside this ISSUE:

Page Page

2 Great Memories of our head teacher 14 Busy Brain Time

3 The Christmas Fayre 15 Who is guilty?

What makes you proud? 16 Colourful Strips … in maths?

4 Mrs Fitzgerald’s class 17 Soundtrack competition

5 Mrs Adelson’s class 18 Football and netball matches

8 Mr Guite’s Class 20 Swimming gala

10 Mrs Cracknell’s Class 21 Choir are Waiting for Christmas

12 Mr Trinder’s class 22 Children in Need

14 Is Y6 really that scary? 23 Christmas Jokes

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ISSUE 4

December 2012


Great memories of our head teacher

Mrs.Seaborne, we are sure you will agree, has been one of the greatest head

teachers ever since Gorseland opened in 1970. As she leaves at Christmas, we

will all sorely miss her and although there is a new head teacher coming, he will

have a lot to live up to. We hope he achieves as much as she has.

Mrs. Seaborne has spoken in her last assembly. She has decided after 36 years

to take a well-earned rest from teaching children. She has also been

responsible for year 6 film weeks, the M.U.G.A, the astro turf, and Habits of

Mind which all the children have enjoyed immensely.

Mrs.Seaborne will teach teachers when she has left Gorseland and we are sure

she will be brilliant.

The new head will be Mr .Jackson who has had experience as deputy before at

Gorseland and he really looks forward to returning.

If you would like to see some of Mrs Seaborne’s leaving presents, click the

Project X logo on www.gorseland.net.

By George and Yasmin, 6A

The artwork created by the children

for Mrs Seaborne.

http://www.gorseland.net/


The Christmas Fayre This year we are hosting an

amazing Christmas fayre as we do

every year. This year we will have

some new amazing stalls including

some fantastic stalls made by the

pupils of year six and a special trip

from Father Christmas!

There also is a room where you can

buy some delicious cakes and

biscuits and then grab a lovely hot

drink (e.g. coffee, tea or hot

chocolate for children!).

As you know the year sixes are

making some brand new stalls,

these include a Penguin shoot out,

a Selling Stall and a Christmas

Hoopla! These are going to be

made for the children’s homework.

Come along to the farye and have

great fun with Santa and the rest of

the brilliant stalls and games and

then grab a hot drink and cookie or

cake then say good bye to Santa.

I hope I see you there!

By Connor, 6B

We have had the Christmas Fayre since this

article was wrriten. Over £1400 was raised

for Gorseland PFA

What makes you proud?

What do you do in a week that makes you proud of doing? Is it that you can do

a new method in maths or you learnt a new word? It could be anything but if

you are proud your teacher will be proud too. Have fun and keep on going

because you will get there in the end.

Leonie, 6B


Mrs Fitzgerald’s Class Reception 2 had trouble deciding on their best learning this half term. They narrowed it down to the following:

1. We loved doing our show. Our favourite song was Three Wise Kings! We also liked dressing up and singing all the songs.

2. We learned about melting and freezing when we went on our frosty walk. We had lots of wow words and Mrs Fitzgerald was very impressed with our ‘icy’ writing.

3. We have enjoyed making friends with year 2 and worked together to make Christmas decorations to send to Kudawella.

4. We were really good at gymnastics with Will from Pipers Vale. We did good jumping and balancing and it was lots and lots of fun. We learnt to control our legs and arms much better!


Mrs Adelson’s Class KS1 Christmas Show


Christmas

Experience


Mr Guite’s Class

What we did in our assembly

First Louis started us off and talked about how to get to France.

We came up with going by ferry and euro star and plane. After

that we acted out the scene of at Stansted airport and how

they got they. Then we talked about French artists. Then Euan

told us about French artists. Next Holly came up and said

these four people are going to speak conversations in French.

After that Callum came up and told about what happened in

the War. We all stood in silence on Rememberance Day and

thought about what had happened in the War. We heard the

two bangs of the cannon that was at Kesgrave British Legion

Hall. Next, Mr Guite, Elizabeth and Cate sang a special song for

a soldier who died in the First World War. Callum, Holly and

then Robert came up and did commentaries on the Tour de

France, with Mr. Guite appearing on his racer! After that Evie

came up and talked about the French landmarks like The Eiffel

Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and all the other landmarks. Then

at the end I came up and done the last bit of our assembly and

finished off with Hallelujah.

By Beran


Edgar DegasEdgar Degas painted ballet pictures.

By the age of eighteen, Degas’s room became an arts studio.

He was the oldest of all the five children.

Paul Cézanne He normally painted still-lives, he believed everything in the world were

either made of a sphere, cone, cylinder or cube.

He layered his paintings with thick paint.

Auguste RodinHe made sculptures mostly.

He was born in November the 12th 1840 in Paris.

Pierre- Auguste Renoir

He painted about 6000 pictures during his 60 years he worked as an artist. When he was 4 he and his family

moved to the Louvre.

Paul GauguinFirst Paul Gauguin started as a sailor. In 1874 he began to paint on weekends. He has

five children.

Goerges Seurat

Seurat’s style was pointillism. He was quite intelligent. He spent 2 years drawing in black and white.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet is very famous. His style is post impressionism. Monet almost never left Europe except when he went to Germany.

Mr Guite’s Class

Famous artists

by Elizabeth.

Elizabeth’s slideshow is also on the art page of

the website for everyone to learn from. Visit

Gorseland.net and then follow this path:

Learning Zone > Being Creative > Art


Mrs Cracknell’s Class

Year 3 French Day

On our French Day my group went to the French Café. First of all

we had a go at being waiters and waitresses. We served Hot

Chocolate, Croissants, Brioche and Baguettes.

Next we were customers. I sat with Charlie. We read French books

whilst we waiting to be served. I ordered Hot Chocolate and

Croissants- these were my favourite because they were yummy

and tasted fantastic.

By Evie

French Day in Year 3.

Our French Day had a big café. When I went it had Hot Chocolate,

Bread and Croissants- it was so much fun! I had the chance to be a

waitress.

We also played Boules. They were colourful. I was in a big group.

Next we went to the French Market where I sold things like toys.

We also were able to say things like Bonjour and Merci.

Our French Day was just held in the morning. My favourite part

was the Café.

By Robyn


French Day

On the 19th of December we had a French Day. We

played Boules and also were able to visit or serve in a

French Café. In my Boules team there was Cory, Maddie

and William F.

At the café we drank Hot Chocolate (Chocolat Chaud) and

ate some Chocolate Bread (Brioche). We had to talk

French and that was the end of our joyful French day.

By Bailey

French Day We had a French day at the end of December. We played

boules because it is a French game. The boules were made of

wood or metal and were different colours; Red, Blue and

Green. The boules were heavy. The big boules were the

heaviest. The smallest boules were wooden and the largest

boules were made of metal.

In my group there was Evie, Erin, Joely, William, Sam and me! It was great fun.

By James


Mr Trinder’s Class There’s a boy in the girls’ bathroom

This term class 5B read ‘There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom,’

written by Louis Sachar. We thoroughly enjoyed this great

novel. It taught us that even if you have got into bad habits

you still have time to put things right and turn things around.

In this case, Bradley Chalkers is that person. No-one likes him and he doesn’t

try hard at school. He says he doesn’t care but that’s because he doesn’t think

there is anything he can do about it. With the help of a new school councillor,

Bradley realises he does care, and even though it’s not easy and things go

wrong along the way, he manages to change his life completely.

Class 5B gave this book a 5 out of 5 star rating.

By Louis and Ben, 5B

Art about William Morris

We’ve been learning about William

Morris, a famous Victorian artist.

We have been inspired by his art work. He

created pictures of nature using designs repeated 'patterns.

William Morris didn’t like the way that machines were replacing

people to create fabrics and furniture in Victorian times. He

believed that by using accuracy and precision, people produce

work of much higher quality. In class we have been creating press-

prints and reduction-prints in the style of William Morris. We

created designs on polystyrene tiles and printed them onto canvas.

We sold our work at the Christmas Fair. Our class loved printing

this term.

By Mollie and Ellie from Class 5B


The Victorian Times Year 5 has been learning about the Victorians and their lives. In this article we’ll be writing about the how hard life could be in the Workhouse, how fun it could be if you were rich and how harsh teachers were in the Victorian schools.

Rich and Poor In the Victorian period the rich tried

to have nothing to do with the poor. Street urchins, who were orphans living on the streets, would clean all of the manure from the rich people’s path, to earn a shilling or two. In Victorian times, the living conditions were very comfortable for the rich, since they usually lived in mansions such as Christchurch Mansion, which we visited to find out about what it was like to be a rich person living in the mansion or a poor servant, working hard for them.

Christchurch Mansion

As rich children, we learnt how to walk properly and designed our own silhouettes. When we were poor servants, we had to make butter and do the washing. By Saif, Evan and Eva.

The Victorian Workhouse

The Victorian Workhouse was the last place you’d go if you had no other option. Some people would rather live on the streets than go there. The Victorian Workhouse included all sorts of rooms such as: the Infirmary, Kitchen, main Workroom, bedrooms and main Dining room. In year 5 we’ve created our own miniature Workhouse rooms and described them. We also made our own Workhouse stories. Most included people escaping in the end, which is would have been very hard in reality


Is Year 6 really that scary?

Have you ever worried about year 6? Read this article and simply don’t, it really

isn’t that bad. The teachers are friendly and the work isn’t impossible, it is

solvable.

The difference about the work to other years is that you have to think in

different ways to reach the deadline. You have more challenges to overcome

when working in a group. Year 6 gives you a lot more opportunities with

Belchamps, Film week and other projects like the Wallace and the Gromit

soundtrack competition which we have done for the first time this year.

When you are in year 6 you must set a good example to younger children in

and out of the school.

In June most of year 6 go to Belchamps for 5 days and 4 nights. Everybody

going is really excited and can’t wait. Another thing we have to do in year 6 is

SATs. Some of us are looking forward to it and some aren’t!

George, 6A, said “ I have really enjoyed year 6 so far although SATs is a bit

daunting. Every day that passes I know that soon we will be in High School.

Tom ,6A, said ”I think year 6 is an interesting year group to be in as we have

had lots of challenges already.”

So year 6 really isn’t that bad. Be brave and don’t worry because.it is fun and

interesting being the top students of Primary school.

By Dan 6A

In Busy Brain Time we do several things. They are reading, Mathletics, times table cheat

sheets, times tables and card games that help you learn. Only year 5 and 6 do this. You can

do all sorts of card games that are to do with maths, mind games and English. We do this

because it helps us learn how to do maths, English and lots more. We only do this in our

classroom and in the mornings and the afternoons. Sometimes we chose what we do and

sometimes we don’t.

Olivia, 6A


Who is guilty?

On the 29th of November 2012, a

trial was held in classroom 6B to

discover who was guilty for

Krindlekrax, a massive crocodile,

escaping into the sewers.

First, a young boy called Ruskin

Splinter gave a short speech to

say why he accused the seven

defendants of letting Krindlekrax

escape, which was followed by

the Prosecution Lawyers’ (who

try to prove all of the

defendants guilty) opening

speech.

Then the defendants gave

evidence that they were not

guilty one by one. First up was

Doctor Flowers, then Mr Lace, a

school teacher, Mr and Mrs

Cave, the local pub owners and

Mr Flick, who runs the cinema.

At 10:30, a break was taken so

everyone could relax for 15

minutes, before the trial started

again.

Next Mrs Walnut, the owner of

the grocery shop, and finally

Winston Splinter, Ruskin’s own

father, gave evidence.

Afterwards, the Defence

Lawyers gave a closing speech

and then the 12 members of the

Jury went outside the court

room to decide who was guilty

and after a thorough discussion,

they reached an agreement.

When they were all back, the

Spokesperson of the Jury stood

up and announced that the Jury

had decided that the main

defendants involved in the

crime, who were to be later

sentenced, were Mr Cave and

Winston Splinter. The verdict

was given shortly after the trial

and the punishment is doing

classroom duties

By Grace and Jemma, 6B


COLOURFUL STRIPS… IN MATHS?

On the 21st of November 2012 in maths, class 6A were introduced to coloured strips of paper! They were

bewildered about this, and they asked their teacher, Mr Sampson, what was happening.

Mr Sampson explained to the students that you have to, on the pink coloured strip, put a half as a

fraction, and a half as a decimal and finally half as a percentage. Then, on the red, put a third as a

fraction, a third as a decimal, and a third as a percentage. This went on and on. However, some students

found this task really easy, and decided to push themselves. They went on to sevenths, ninths, elevenths,

and some even did twentieths!

Rahul from class 6A said happily, “I felt very confident when I decided to push myself to the next level. I

know I made the right choice.”

Class 6A have now finished making their strips, and they found out that if you put all of them together,

they make the most beautiful wall! So, for that reason, 6A thought it was a good idea to call them fraction

walls.

George 6A said thoughtfully, “I did think they were quite nice.”

Year 6 are now laminating their strips, and they are now looking more captivating than ever!

By Luke 6A

A picture of Rahul’s fraction wall.


Wallace and Gromit sound track competition.

The Wallace and Gr omit sound track competition was a great opportunity

to work with Miss Downey’s class. We had to think carefully to make a short

sound track for the train chase from Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong

Trousers using instruments, body sounds and laptop effects. We all really

enjoyed it and even though some of us didn’t get it finished, we all had fun

learning how to use different instruments and how to put the sound effects

together in a program called Audacity.

“The Wallace and Gromit competition was a good chance to mix with the

other class. I enjoyed the challenge of finding appropriate sounds for the

effects in the clip. We had to make a soundtrack for Wallace and Gromit.

Although some of the sound effects were a tiny bit out of time, the overall

product was great. Some of my group tended to be a bit hard on each other

but we all got along in the end.” Maddy, 6A.

The teachers who helped us were Mr Sampson, Miss Downey and Mr

Weatherby. We are hoping to hear that one of our competitors have come

in first place. You could listen to all of the soundtracks on the Year 6

Wallace and Gromit page soon.

By Ollie and Liam 6A


Football match vs. Sidegate

Gorseland year 6 played a football match against Sidegate away. The score at the final

whistle was 2- 1 to Sidegate but we all enjoyed it. It was disappointing that we lost but we

had fun. We had a good match.

Below are where people played:

The Goalkeeper was Dan

The Defence was Luke, Jack and Henry

The Midfield was Tom, Joe, Kian and Charlie

Up front was Matthew

Henry: I thought our team was brilliant and very good but Sidegate were better.

Dan: We did very well considering we had only played one game beforehand.

Charlie: I thought everyone did brilliantly and because it was my first game it was fun.

Joe: I thought it was really fun and we all enjoyed it.

Jack: Even though we lost we all had fun.

Luke: It was a challenging match and we had to work hard.

By Henry, Jack and Tom

Is it a win for Gorseland Girls?

The girl’s football team was made up of 9 girls: Natasha,

Sydney, Safie, Yasmin, Zoe, Molly, Holly, Daisy and Caroline.

The match was played at Sidegate on Friday the 16th of

November 2012.

In goal was Natasha.

Midfielders were Holly, Daisy, Molly, Yasmin and Sydney.

In defence was Safie and Zoe.


The striker was Caroline.

The Gorseland girls’ team played exceptionally well. They ran

up and down the pitch with all their energy.

In the end the score was 1-0 to Side gate. It was disappointing

that Gorseland didn’t win, but they shook hands and walked off

the pitch.

By Zoe, 6A

Netball match against Springfield

By Holly Dixey

The netball match against Springfield was on 28th of November after

school in the M.U.G.A. To start with both of the teams stayed in their

groups to do a warm up. At about 3:45 we started the match. In the first

two quarters, Springfield scored twice but then in the 3rd quarter we

scored three times so we were in the lead. The last quarter for Springfield

was all about them scoring one or two times more than us for them to

win. In the end, we drew because they scored once but then no one

scored again. So after the match we showed them in to the year six

activity area to have a drink and a biscuit. When everyone had finished

they left and then all there was for us to do was go home as well.

By Holly, 6A


Breast stroking to victory

Year 6 visited Deben pool to test

their speed and stamina to the

limit.

All kitted out in swimming costumes

and speedos, they stepped out to

the poolside ready for the starting

whistle.

They competed in many 25 metre

races including breaststroke, front

crawl, back crawl, sculling, breast

stroke kick and front crawl kick.

Muppet Mistakes

Thomas’s Muppet Mistake: My

Muppet mistake is I had taken 3

swimming hats and because Daniel

hadn’t got one, I accidently gave him

the only one that fitted me so I was

left with a really dirty one and a

really small one.

Graces Muppet mistake: I was too

busy chatting to the person next to

me so I didn’t hear the whistle to

start and I started really late so I

came last.

Jemma’s Muppet mistake: I false

started so the whole race had to

start again.

Sydney’s Muppet mistake: I swam

too slow.

It looks like there were lots of

Muppet mistakes. However, there

were many amazing races and

achievements.

By Jake and Thomas.

We hope Gorseland

Primary School win in

the swimming gala.

Thank you for taking

time to read this

article.

We can’t wait

until the

swimming

gala.


Choir are Waiting For Christmas! Choir and some of the Year 4 children had a thrilling night on Thursday the 6th of December. To raise

money for Tearfund, a charity that helps people to access fresh water in places like Malawi, we were

asked to sing at the Waiting For Christmas concert. Along with St Matthew’s, Trimley St Mary’s, Heath and

a couple of other schools, we sang to a packed audience on stage!

Mrs Taylor, Mrs Harris and Mrs Aldous greeted members of the choir and Year 4, who arrived at the Spa

Pavilion, Felixstowe, with our parents/guardians. We were given a name label identical to another one

given to our parent, who would see us off as we climbed onstage. There was an hour’s rehearsal before

the actual concert, in which we were sorted into proper lines. The tallest, of course, were at the back, and

the smaller people nearer the front.

Surrounded by microphones and cameras, we were seen by the whole audience as the curtains swept

open. In front of us stood a man dressed as an innkeeper, who narrated the story and introduced the

pieces of drama between our singing.

The songs we sang were: Angels Medley, Bethlehem Party, Celebrate, Change the World, Christmas

Prayer, Hallelujah, Joy Medley, Light Of The World, Manger Medley, One Child, Prepare The Way, Ring

Christmas Bells, Son of God, Waiting For Christmas and Water of Life. Luckily we didn’t have to remember

all the words, they were on screens hidden behind speakers and stage curtains!

Laura in Class 6A was in the audience, and she told about her experience: “It was a spectacular night. I

joined in with some of the songs!”

Grace, also in 6A, was on stage. She told us, “I liked using the colourful torches in the song ‘Christmas

Prayer’. The stage looked really cool with the multi-coloured lights!”

Sam, in 6A as well, was a performer too. He says, “I thought it was fun and jolly.”

We also asked someone from 6B their opinion, Bryony, who said, “I really liked the event, but they made

it too long and the stage was too small.”

If you want to listen to the Waiting For Christmas songs, they are all on a CD and DVD. They are £10 each

and can be bought either online at www.waitingforchristmas.org.uk or from the following shops:

Felixstowe: Co-op (Hamilton Rd), River of Life Coffee Shop, Salvation Army Centre

Woodbridge: Co-op (27 Throughfare)

Debenham: Co-op (Chancery Lane)

Framlingham: Co-op (Market Hill)

Ipswich: Co-op (Colchester Rd), St Nicholas Centre (Cutler St), Music World (Queen St)

Bury St Edmunds: St Mary’s Church (Honey Hill), Balaam’s Music (Risbygate St), Abbey News (Langton

Place, Hatter St)

Sudbury: Compact Music (North St)

Kesgrave: Elmers Hardware (Edmonton Road)

Martlesham Heath: Duncan’s Butchers (The Square)

You can also buy it from Newmarket, but the locations are yet to be confirmed. We hope you will buy the

CD and/or DVD as all the money goes to help Tearfund. Thank you.

By Amy and Maddy, 6A

http://www.waitingforchristmas.org.uk/


2012!

What did we have to wear?

The whole school had to come

to school in their pyjamas. Also,

we had to bring one pound to

school, to give children in need

this money paid for us to wear

pyjamas. Unfortunately, some

Year Sixes could only wear

pyjamas for the morning as

they had a football match

against Sidegate Primary

School that day.

What is Children in Need?

As some people may not know,

Children in Need are a charity

to help children around the

world who do not have food and

clean water to drink from.

Girls Aloud are reunited at the show.

What happened in the BBC One

show?

The Children in Need 2012 live

show included some

extraordinary singing and

dancing talents such as

along with the famous horse-

riding dance, Gangnam Style by

PSY, Girls Aloud - Something

New, One Direction - Little

Things, and others.

The well-known song and artwork -

it’s Gangnam Style by PSY!!

By Sydney, Eddie and Adam, 6B

Gorseland raised £772.17 for

Children in Need.


Christmas Jokes

Everyone enjoys a good joke at Christmas, so here are some to get

you rolling on the floor.

Knock knock

Who’s there?

Santa

Santa who?

Santa Claus!

Who likes a good sing along at Christmas?

Carol!

What are brussel sprouts?

Unexploded lettuces!

How does King Wenceslas like his pizza?

Deep and crisp and even!

What are kids’ favourite kings?

Stoc-kings!

I hope that you enjoy using these jokes at Christmas!

Connor, 6B


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