Author: Victoria Gray

On Thursday 21st November, Year 3 took a trip to the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham. After the coach dropped us off we went in and visited the first activity of the day, which was our workshop. We learnt about the different layers in the sea and what marine life would be found at each level.

Once the workshop was finished, we headed down to see the penguins, they were super cute! Next we worked our way through the centre to explore the range of sea life. There were so many different creatures to see! We saw starfish in the rockpools, many different fish in the aquariums, jellyfish, sea horses, rays and some terrapins too! We even saw otters and watched them at feeding time.

As we explored, we crawled through tunnels and gazed in amazement at the variety of sea creatures that swam playfully and glided gracefully in their tanks. At midday, we headed up to the lunch area, we were so hungry.

In the afternoon, we used our time to find specific facts and information about some given sea creatures and continued to discover a range of information.

Finally, we made our way to the Ocean Tunnel. It was absolutely incredible! We walked through a glass tunnel, and all around us were massive sharks, graceful rays, beautiful turtles and colourful fish swimming overhead. It felt like we were underwater! Everyone gasped in awe as a big shark sauntered. It was amazing to see such beautiful creatures up close. 

We’d had a great day, but it was time to go so we made our way back to the coach to journey back to Coundon. What was your favourite part of the day?

For Children in Need this year, the children enjoyed watching the ‘Coundon’s Got Talent’ talent show. They saw dancers, gymnasts, singers, musicians and comedians. It was a fantastic way to start the day. We then enjoyed some chilled time colouring and a cake sale.

This week was ‘Maths Week England’ so year 3 took part in some fun maths activities to celebrate. Over the day we learnt about Tangrams and used them to create some pictures. We also had a go at making our own designs, this was harder than we thought it would be! 

We also looked at how much our names were worth on scrabble letters by adding together the total of each letter. We compared our totals to others in the class. Then to challenge ourselves we tried to use the same numbers but multiply or divide them to find the largest and smallest totals we could make.

Finally we had a number hunt, following clues to take us through a series of addition and subtraction questions, which is the skill we have practised in school over the last couple of weeks.

On Monday 21st October, Miss Valentine and Mrs Gray took a squad of 8 girls from years 3 and 4 (who play for Mr Boardly’s girls football club) to take part in some 6 side fixtures.

Upon arrival, we went into the sports hall, where we were greeted by the organisers of Coventry School Games and 4 guest speakers. 

Kare Adenegan – GB Paralympian 

Marianne Botterill – Sky Blues in the Community coach and community cohesion manager

Chelsie Giles – Team GB Judo

Amelie Perkins – Team GB Under 19 Water Polo and past School Games Coventry West attendee. 

These athletes were here to discuss their journeys as women in sport and to answer any questions any of the girls had. 

After that, we headed out to the pitches where COACH valentine warmed up the girls with some drills and then we played 3 of the 27 schools that were taking place. Our team have only played together on one occasion prior to the day, despite this, they worked really well as a team!

The scores were as follows:

 1-1 (Coundon v stoke) 

2-0 loss (courthouse green V Coundon)

1-0 win (Coundon V southfields)

Well done girls for representing the school so well. You really upheld all of our school values. 

Mrs Gray 

Wednesday 6th November

A squad of 8 Year 5 children were chosen to represent Coundon Primary School at the ‘Values’ dodgeball event against 15 other schools. These values events aren’t about how well the children play the game, instead they focus on the respect, honesty and teamwork showed by the players. These judgements are made by the opposing team at the end of each match using a points system. Our squad played incredibly and represented the school well, unfortunately we didn’t make it to the next stage. The children still enjoyed themselves and were lucky to have had the opportunity to take part. Well done!