Different

As I drove into the car park at the supermarket in London. It looked terribly different; the doors were off their hinges and were squeaking like an out of tune violin on note E sharp. The windows were smashed like grass, which had just been mowed on a summer’s day in the morning.
I searched briefly to find a parking space along the ripped road. I couldn’t see a living person around in the car park; it had been the easiest parking yet. I could hear a few tills beeping from inside the supermarket, like lasers beaming down to Earth. As Big Ben struck 12 the sky began to darken. I crept along the road to the squeaking doors of the supermarket.
I entered; gripped with fear.
There were a few people in the fruit section (where I was), I turned to the diseased pears…
Then I heard a cracking sound behind me, the diseased fruit started to fall off the rack. I turned around again to find a hole; behind there was endless black!
Black!
Black!
Crash went the fruit falling to the floor.
Crash.
Crash.
Crash.
As pears fell into the hole, they disappeared faster that the light, I clung on a fruit rack for dear life.
It was no use!

I got pulled in…

Daniel Pickles on Mars

And then it happened, the rocky red ground began to quietly crack. Suddenly the flaming red ground broke and Daniel Pickles our hero fell into some Martians’ unfriendly head quarters inside the red planet Mars.
He saw a N.A.S.A lazer gun on the floor, lying in front of him, filled to the top with Robinson’s non added sugar apple & blackcurrant Ribena (a deadly drink to Martians). As he picked it up he thought of braveness and royalty.

Two Martians with smooth black skin, burning red eyes, rusty old gladiator helmets and greasy old fur coats had come racing around the corner to investigate the noise.
With a
ZAP!
ZAP!
ZAP!
The two Martians fell to the ground.
Dead.
Unmoving
Silent.
Daniel Pickles was safe, but not for long…
The emergency alarm started ringing, a voice called out, “All Martians report to the control room, Daniel Pickles is here!” Daniel ran, ran for his life. The Martians were a few metres from him.
BANG!
They tried to shoot him, Daniel looked back and then…
SMACK!
“Oh great, a dead end!” The Martians had caught up with him. A Commander came up to him and said, “Drop your weapon now Pickles!” ….
© 2008

Class 2 EXCLUSIVE!

Class 2 have been studying Kenya as part of their topic work on Africa. They created some amazing Art and politely visited Class 5 to invite us to take pictures. We were happy to go and practise using a digital camera!

Class 5

The Kirifuri Waterfall At Mt. Kurokami In Shimotsuke Province

Year 6 are dealing with it

Year 6 have started to record the progress we are making towards a greener school. You can read about their findings here

6 x 7 = ?

Don't forget to practise those multiplication facts!

Here is a webpage that will help you.

The Iron Man & Class 5

Earlier this month Class 5 began studying imaginary worlds by looking at different settings and comparing them to each other.

Below is a sample of work for those parents who are unable to see the children's display work in class. This work was a response to passages taken from The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S Lewis.

Two pupils used a digital camera to take pictures of paintings inspired by those settings.

Down the cliff the Iron Man came toppling, head over heels.

CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!

From rock to rock, snag to snag, tumbling slowly. And as he crashed and crashed and crashed
His iron legs fell off.
His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms.
His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out.
His great iron head fell off.
All the separate pieces tumbled, scattered, crashing, bumping, clanging, down on to the rocky beach far below.
A few rocks tumbled with him.
Then
Silence.
Only the sound of the sea, chewing away at the edge of the rocky beach, where the bits and pieces of the Iron Man lay scattered far and wide, silent and unmoving.

Only one of the iron hands, lying beside an old, sand-logged washed-up seaman’s boot, waved its fingers for a minute, like a crab on its back. Then it lay still.

While the stars went on wheeling through the sky and the wind went on tugging at the grass on the cliff-top and the sea went on boiling and booming.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.
Just before dawn, as the darkness grew blue and the shapes of the rocks separated from each other, two seagulls flew crying over the rocks.

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in the middle of a wood.

There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in that country. There was not a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.

Our imaginary world

We created a scene in an imaginary world, we used our whiteboards to make notes about the atmosphere. We wanted a serious atmosphere, Mr Short did his at home and showed it to us.

We had about 5 minutes to get ready, then we had to be quiet for the camera! I was very keen because I find it quite hard to think what to write. My friend was a little nervous because he felt like he was on television!

Later we watched most of the films, some people were a little shy so they watched theirs later.

We're going to write our story soon. We might make a class book!

We are studying Tudors with Mr Short!

This is a website I found. Go on www.usborne-quicklinks.com it has Tudors games and facts!

Received 28.1.08

Dear Mr Short and class,

I am just writing to say a big thank you for the fantastic card I received today. I love the false teeth in the middle!!! I love the card so much I am going to put it on display in the main entrance. I am glad you enjoyed yourselves and I know you'll never forget the legend of the false teeth!

It was a pleasure to have you here at the sewage works and you were a real credit to your school.

Keep up the good work.

Yours Sincerely

Mark Stead and Dumpy

Mr Short writes: Well done Class 5, of course I expected nothing less! I'm glad you enjoyed your time at Hayden with Mark.

We have a new hall

We can't wait for...

We are really excited about having Jeremy Strong come to our school as he is one of our favourite authors. Our new hall will be much more useful than our old one! We are so pleased that Jeremy Strong will visit personally and open it for us. The choir, recorder players and drummers are preparing for this great event!

We have lots of questions to ask!

Class 5

The Legendary False Teeth of Hayden

If you would like to hear about this legend you will have to ask someone who went on the trip with Class 5!

Sewage Stew!

With the help of Mrs Harris & parents Class 5 visited Severn Trent today!
Each child had their own favourite activity but they all agreed that sorting the sewage was good fun! What was your favourite moment?

Problem Solving

Today (the 8th/9th) we were trying to solve leapfrog, it was so much fun doing it! We eventually worked out that 2x2 = 8 moves, 3x3 = 15 moves, 4x4 = 24 moves, 5x5 = 35 moves, 6x6 = 48 moves and 10 x10 = 120 moves (which was the whole class!)

Then we looked for patterns and recorded them (like the picture above.) 3 x 3 was very hard for some people. (The picture is 2 x 2)

Class 5

Maths - Triangle Song

Crazy Christmas Science: It's SNOWING... in Class 5

We had fun this morning when it snowed in Class 5! We enjoyed it so much we visited other classes to show them our experiment.



Mr Short writes: it was interesting today, whilst setting up our experiment I asked the children to draw a picture of a scientist. Without exception every child drew a picture of a middle aged man, with crazy hair and glasses - and no, it wasn't me! We discussed reasons for not drawing a picture of a woman or someone younger. We decided that we shouldn't be put off science or anything else that people might not expect us to do because of our age and gender.

Year 4, 5 & 6 Quiz

Mixed teams - here are the results.

Biscuit Billionaires - 50
Eggheads – 49 ½
The Santanators - 48
The Diving Dolphins - 47
Ben’s Gang – 46 ½
Snowflakes – 45 ½
Team Spark - 45
Jammy Dodgers – 44
Lindel – 42 ½

A poem from our trip

THUMBELINA

Tiny princess,

Heroic journey,

Underground field mouse,

Miniature person,

Born in a flower,

Escaped from a toad,

Little person, big heart,

Icy sparrow just alive,

Nobody is shorter,

A handsome prince awaits.