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Summer Term 2008 |
Twenty20 Match at Hove
17 June
On the 17th June the 1s
leavers left for Hove. The teams were the Sussex Sharks playing against
the Essex Eagles. Sussex batted first after winning the toss and lost a
wicket early on. At the end of Sussex’s innings they ended on 144
all out. During the interval 2 men came onto the square to bowl 3 balls
for £500! In the second innings Essex started well. They ended
the match winning by 3 wickets. The whole evening was a great
success. My highlight of the evening was sitting next to the pavilion
talking to Corry Collymore and the Pakistan international Danish Kaneira.
Tom Gordon-Martin |
Headmaster's Club
For the headmaster's club
this term, the 5s girls are exploring the forest. Last week, we looked
at maps and looked at exciting things like Ashdown House (hurray), East
Grinstead and Brambletye (Boooo) and then played hide and seek. This
week we went to find a heffalump trap.
Actually, there's only
one real heffalump trap on the forest: you might think there are
more but this was the one that Piglet dug and where Pooh hid the jar
of 'hunny', only he'd eaten most of the honey to make sure that it
was honey and not cheese because Christopher Robin told him that
some cheese looks like honey and heffalumps might not like cheese.
And do you know how heffalumps get caught in traps? Well, they're
wandering along minding their own business and watching the sky when
it starts to rain so they look up even further and don't notice the
very deep hole.
So, we found the
heffalump trap and read the story: about how Pooh got so hungry that
he went back for the honey and got his head stuck in the jar. And
then Piglet came along and saw a bear with a jar for a head bashing
it on a tree and thought that this must be a heffalump...only it
wasn't.
Then we walked back to
the bus (with a game of hide and seek along the way, of course) and
we climbed some trees and Tilly Butcher almost got stuck up her tree
(but she didn't) and Georgina Higson-Smith told me a joke about two
men: an Englishman, a Chinese man and a French man (don't you mean
three men, Georgie? Yes, three men) but not an Irishman in sight.
I'd like to tell you the joke but it was a bit rude at the end. And
we did get back for tea, even if we were a bit late.
Oh, and do you know
where the heffalump trap is? Then you'll have to come to Ashdown and
we'll show you.
ART
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Headmaster’s quiz
May 20082M are
re-visiting sentences and nouns at the moment. Do you know the
difference between a masculine and a neuter noun? How would you define a
sentence?...if you can’t do those how about looking up the collective
nouns for the following:
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Doves
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Porcupines
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Crocodiles
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Tunas
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Iguanas
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Tailors
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desert travellers
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magicians
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cobblers
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matrons
The following don’t have
collective nouns but a prize for the best ideas as collective nouns for:
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dentists
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plumbers
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girls
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boys
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ghosts
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suitcases
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trains
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winds
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mathematicians
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headmasters!
ART |
Please don’t believe the rumour…......…that new boy Oliver Line
has beaten the headmaster at Tennis. It was doing the rounds at
breakfast that Oli, new to 4B this term, had beaten the headmaster at
Tennis this morning, two games to zero.
The headmaster is certainly
denying the story and would like to make a few things clear:
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wasn’t a proper match anyway
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It’s nonsense that Oli is only 9: he is 10 (at least)
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is not over the hill, past it or on his way down
- He
will be instructing his lawyers to test young Line for the influence
of performing-enhancing drugs.
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It’s not fair.
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It’s not fair.
The headmaster is
reported to be in his study this morning and is not responding to any
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Maths Challenge
Friday, April 25th
On Friday the 1st IV
Maths team went to Great Walstead to compete in a Maths Challenge.
32 schools entered and four rounds were played. We enjoyed the
relay the most where we raced to complete as many questions as we
could. It was a demanding but interesting day. Thank you to Mrs
Millar for taking us.
Hugo Stewart
On Friday, 25th
April, four of the 1s went to Great Walstead for a Maths Day.
We started off by doing group problems. We then split into two
groups to complete a 'cross number'. One group tried the across
section while the other tried the down.
After lunch we did a
number sequence problem against other schools. Finally we split
into two groups again. The first group completed a problem, ran
up to the teacher, who gave them a puzzle for the other group.
They then ran and gave that puzzle to the other group. It was
really great fun and I'm sure we all learnt a lot.
Caroline Rundell
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Spirit of Cricket
21 April
On April 21st , the boys
who had previously been in the 1st XI the season before arrived at
Cranleigh School with minutes to spare due to some poor map reading in
the car. We were very lucky to have famous present and
retired cricketers to come and talk to us, such as Monty Panesar, Geoff
Miller and Chris Cowdrey.
We learnt about some of
the most debated issues of cricket today, such as sledging and walking
when not given out. One of the most important lessons given to the
audience was to respect, firstly, your opponents, your captain, the
roles of the umpires and the game’s traditional values.
We asked questions before
the lecture about the spirit of the game, but unfortunately, none of
ours were picked to go in the lecture! Mine was to do with the small
advantages teams use such as time wasting and ball tampering.
The lecture was both
entertaining and interesting and we all hope that we could see another
talk in the future.
James Chandler |
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