Here are the posts for December 2008

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The performances took place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th December.

The play was started in a toy shop and owned by Mr Wilson. 3A started the performance and were soldiers, rag-dolls, spinning tops and jack in a box’s with some acting and the song Tick-Tock with dancing.

Then 3alpha were paint boxes and danced to a song called The Ribbon Dance, they also did some acting. Soon 4alpha did a dance to the song Thriller and were monsters and then went to sing a song, There Are Monsters About! Then there was some more acting. Next 4A did a dance called We Are Robots and followed it with a song We’re Electronic Games! 4A then did some more acting. 3 alpha then acted the Christmas Story, and lastly 3A did more acting in the toy shop and finally everyone sang Away In A Manger.

Report by Mollie and Jessica W, year 4
 

On Wednesday 10th December St. James’ Speedstacking Teams, 1, 2, 3 & 4 went to St. John’s School to take part in a tournament.

Each team had a member from each year group.

First we did the 3-3-3 stack and Joe and Amy went into the ‘stack off’, however St. Marks’ won.

Then for the last set we did the timed relays and our teams 1 and 4 got through to the final, we were sure to win as it was St. James’ against St. James’ However only one team could win and that team was team 4.

Thank you to Mrs Waters and Mrs Waller for organising the fantastic evening.

Report by Lauren and Lillie.

Team 1; Isobel K, Celly J, Joe W and Luca S.
Team 2; Ben A, Olivia G, Aidan B and Lillie.
Team 3; Phoebe F, Sanjana R, Josh M and Lauren.
Team 4; Gary H, Omar A, Amy L and Haytham S.

On 27th November St. James’ B team played against Claremont B team. Their team had several of their A team playing for them. When the game was five minutes old Claremont scored to make it 1-0. A few minutes before half time Harry got a good through ball to Joe who scored. After half time we battled well and Haytham managed to slot the ball past the keeper. Not long after that the ball was like a pin ball, bouncing off several players but eventually Nathan managed to clear it. Claremont got a lucky goal as it bounced off one of our players and went in. Time was running out and Claremont had a good chance and rolled the ball into the back of the net. The game finished 3-2 to Claremont.

Man of the Match was Sam, who made some great saves throughout the match.

Thank you Mrs Waller for organising the match and to everyone who came along to support us.

Team; Sam, Matthew N, Haytham, Fraser, Nathan, Harry M, Daniel J, Oscar and Joe W.

Report by Fraser and Nathan

On Wednesday 3rd December St. James’ ‘A’ Netball team played three matches at the High School. Our first match was against Pembury and they were fantastic. Even though we tried our hardest, they managed to break through our defences and score an amazing nine goals, with the final score 9-0 to them.

Our second match was against Bidborough and they were incredibly tall and tough. Even with our amazing defence we lost with the final score 6-5 to them.

Finally we played Horsmonden; they were fairly small yet very fast. In the first half we were losing 5-0 to them. But we pulled through the second half thanks to our brilliant shooters Nadine and Eloise, leaving the final score 5-5.

Thank you Mrs Simkins and Mrs Woolgar for taking us and to Mrs Waller for our three very enjoyable matches.

Player of the Match was Suzan.

Team: Lauren, Alice, Emily, Eloise, Suzan, Nadine and Sasha.

Report by Emily and Lauren.

St. James girls had their first match on Tuesday 2nd December against Bidborough. Bidborough scored first but Rebekah soon scored the equaliser with an amazing goal, right in the back of the net. Still in the first half and Bidborough edged ahead again, until our team got together and Rebekah rammed in another goal. At the end of the first half the score was 2-2. In the second half our team did some really good tackling and some great defending especially from Nadine. Unfortunately Bidborough managed to sneak in a few more goals leaving the final score 6-2 to them.

Thank you Mrs Waller for organising the match and to everyone who came along to support us.

Player of the match was Olivia.

Team; Tasha, Olivia, Nadine, Rebekah, Talia, Coral, Madeline and Zoë.
 

The new science room has been finished and handed over to us three weeks ahead of schedule.

Although the new furniture has not yet arrived the children have already begun using the room.

We hope to have the new room fully equipped by January for timetabled lessons to begin for all classes.

We would like to thank our builders ‘Hurstways’ of Cranbrook for managing the work to allow minimum disruption to us all and to the PFA for their very generous contribution of £20,443 to allow us to complete the decoration and to furnish the room.

Paul Chandler
Head Teacher