Mrs Manic

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Finally(!) The football season is over!!!!

This year Leigh Ramblers Under 9 Tigers had their presentation as Acres Way Kennels, the home of Freddie. Sarah & Richard were wonderful hosts and the BBQ, acres of land, full sized football goals and a hot tub made for a fabby day!

We arrived early so Lee could set up

And once the presentations were all done, it was time to chill or in some cases play!

Bob - Robert's Dad had brought along a load of new water guns that went down very well with the kids!

The Dad's of course couldn't help but get invovled and a rather competitive game of Dad's vs. kids ensued....

Jack, Nicholas and Freddie have been good friends for years now, I hope they stay that way too.

Swim Galas

The summer term is full of extra events and last week I found myself up at the school an extra 3 times to watch the spogs in their year swim galas...

First up was Alex in year 6... He's a good swimmer, but was pipped at the post into 4th place in his boys race..

Cassandra's Year 1 gala was more for fun as I'm still amazed at how many kids still can't swim at the age of 6!

Nicholas in Year 4 smashed it for the 3rd year running winning Best Boy and also just beating Niamh Harkes (best Girl) to win over all Champion of Champion again.

So proud of all 3 of them x

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Simply yummy!

Alexander was very pleased this week when he realised that his strawberries this year had actually ripenend and they could be picked and eaten!

They were truely lush!!

One photo, 20 words..

Year 6 Leavers Production in a few weeks - Alexander is playing the part of Sgt Stoat!

Thursday, 25 June 2015

That time of the academic calendar again

The school summer term always seems to be a bit of a coasting one to me, there's swim galas, borough sports, cricket festivals, etc etc and of course sports day.

As I still have children in both upper and lower school, it ends up being a whole day's event for me... Still there I was cheering on KS1 in the morning - and Cassie did brilliantly in her team, put in loads of effort and had fun at the same time.

She was rewarded when Red House - her house won overall at the end of the morning!

After a picnic lunch on the field, Nicholas was his usual sporting tenacious self, doing well in all of his events and one of the other Mum's even commented that she was suprised at just how fast he can run in the 50m relay sprint!

Alexander hates sports day, mainly as he dislikes any kind of physical sporting event, but also as he tends to be put in a team with children that are not very good at any of the activities - which is kind of frustrating for him... Anyway, he ended up a bit happier as his House - blue won overall at the end of the afternoon.

Thanks to Mum for coming along and supporting the kids too, especially as I felt as though it was my sports day due to having to run from one side of the field to the other to ensure that I could watch and support both boys!

Swim galas next week!!!!!!