On Thursday the 2nd of March, Fordcombe played a netball match against Hever Primary school. We had decided the positions. I was centre, Marko was goal keeper, Gracie as defence, Emma as goal shooter and Emily as attack. We had marked our players and we were off. We had the ball first as they got to choose which goal they could shoot from first. It was a few minutes in and Emma decided to shoot and it was a goal! Emma had shot our first goal. Later on we had scored 4 more goals by Marko and Emily. By now it was half time so we had a drink of water and we were ready to play again. Now we were winning by 5 goals. Just then Alice and me had decided we would shoot and it went in. Hever had scored one goal by now so it was 6-1 to us. It was now the end and we finished with juice and biscuits and a big cheer for Hever. Written by Holly.

On Wednesday 1st March, our school choir disappeared off to Pamoja Hall to sing two songs that we had been practicing over the past couple of weeks. There were going to be lots of other primary schools performing with us, singing or playing their own songs that they’d practised. When we arrived, our first impression was wow, this place is massive! Rows and rows of white seats, looking down at the stage we were to perform on. We sat on two long rows, watching all the other schools perform. There were drums, ukuleles, and of course, singing! The time flew by, and suddenly it was us. We walked on stage, and got ready to sing our first song, Smile. It went perfectly! Next, we sung a song called One and a Million. In my opinion, this one was the best. Everyone sang so well! When it was over, everyone gave us a long round of applause. When we were walking off, Emma and Ava even gave their own little bow! By the time everyone walked out, we could feel the happiness and triumph in the air. We, and all the other schools, had done amazingly. Written by Olive.

All pupils had the chance to feed lambs from a bottle - however old you are, you never grow out of the wonder of seeing new-born life.

On Monday the 27th of February Fordcombe played a match against Hever Primary School. In the first moment of the game Hever scored a beautiful volley past our keeper to make it 1-0. They scored 2 more amazing goals until our midfielder Harvey smashed an unstoppable ball into the left corner to make it 3-1. Just before half time Hever smashed a long ball down the field on to their striker’s right foot to make a wonderful shocking goal that snuck past our keeper to make the halftime result 4-1.
As we finished our oranges and quickly glugged our water down we made our way to the pitch to kick off the next half. We had about 6 shots on target but none went in. Hever made a quick goal by a sloppy pass from a defender. They scored a header that bounced from a corner and 2 more volleys that flung from their half in to our half and smashed in at rocket speed. But in that half we had the most possession but we just needed more defenders to stay down so we’d concede less goals. We kept our heads up and when the fulltime whistle blew we spurred each other on with a hip hip hooray and enjoyed a well-earned snack of biscuits and squash. Written by Herbie.

Many thanks to Mrs Saxty for organising a super Book Week last week. From the visit of Welsh poet, Alex Wharton (who played us into assembly with some blues, to a set of performance poetry and then workshops through the day), to a Reading Safari on Tuesday, Character Dress-Up day on Thursday and Book Swap on Friday, it was a busy, enjoyable week. Many thanks to all those parents that joined us on Thursday and came into classrooms to see what pupils have been doing in English—a lovely way to get everyone involved.

Pupils on Wednesday afternoon worked in mixed-age groups on a STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) project to build bridges. We started experimenting with sheets of paper aiming to increase the strength of a span needed to carry weight across a 20cm gap. Limited to four sheets of A4 paper and 15 cm of masking tape, it was an interesting challenge. Cylinders and triangles seem to be the key to building a strong structure. We moved on to creating box girder bridges—again from paper and split pins.