Posted 6:08 PM by Phil Bagge

My class enjoyed using comic life to create a comic promoting protecting your password. Comic life is an excellent piece of software which is so intuitive to use.


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Posted 12:21 PM by Phil Bagge

Library Database Accessible by All

We have moved the school library system onto our network. This means that all pupils can access the database of books from any curricular computer. They can search for a book, see if it is already out and check to see where it is in the library.

They can also write a book review on any book that they have read.

Micro Librarian Systems are to be congratulated on such an excellent educational product.

Labels: library

Posted 9:49 AM by Phil Bagge

Year 3 are creating Sale signs using MS Publisher and Word Art.
We might display these in the ICT suite.

Posted 10:58 AM by Abbotswood_Pupil

In year 5 we did a couple of months on msw logo with Miss Hobbs.
I was the first to make a circle.
I also made a shape with about 56 sides.
I called it spyrograph.

Posted 10:45 AM by Abbotswood_Pupil

We looked at Blogging our thoughts on ICT on the internet.

Posted 3:18 PM by Abbotswood_Pupil

Inspiration

Used Inspiration today in science to map the functions of the human ear. It was good fun and the websites about the ear were great. One of the websites had an animated ear.

Posted 3:56 PM by Abbotswood Pupil

Got on the new school network today. Lots of new programs. Created lots of folders to store my work. Looks like fun.

Posted 8:12 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning 7th June

A helicopter landed on our field today! Hazel Wood Infant School walked to us to have their whole school picture taken from the air. It was all very exciting!

Very tidy cloakrooms in year 3!

One of our year 5 boys played in a football tournament in Holland over half term. His team came 3rd out of 16 teams!

One of our year 5 girls came 2nd in the Donkey Derby final.

The girls' athletic team came 2nd out of 7 teams last night. Well done girls and a thank you to Mrs Howard and Mrs Witcome.

Posted 8:07 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning 24th May

There are lots of plants in the sensory garden ready and waiting to be planted.

There were seven clean plate awards presented in assembly - keep up the good work Mr Deeth!

A boy in year 5 has been sent a signed photo of acotr Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter.

Year 6 enjoyed their sports day!

Posted 8:41 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week beginning 17th May

A boy in year 4 brought some seeds in for our sensory garden. Mr Toop, Our fantastic gardener, has grown hem and now they are ready to be planted in our raised beds.

Year 6 sang beautifully at the learning market in Totton on Saturday. Well done the year 6 choir.

Year 6 enjoyed a fun activity week which included an exciting tent day on the field. Thank you year 6 staff for organising such a fun week.

Lucky, the lop eared rabbit, has been found alive and well. She met a boy rabbit on her travels and is now expecting babies!

Year 4 have been concentrating hard to get their year 4 QCA test out the way.

Posted 11:03 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week beginning 10th May 2004

Mrs Best is celebrating having no children in the medical room at the end of lunch! It is a miracle!

The car wash on Friday raised over £200. Thank you to 6N for helping out.

A group of our children represented the New Forest at various sporting events over the weekend. They did superbly and were all awarded lovely medals for participating.

Year 6 were very calm during their SATs this week. The teachers were very pleased with positive attitudes throughout the week. The children enjoyed the biscuit snacks!

Posted 11:00 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week beginning 3rd May 2004

Miss Moffatt took five year five children to a special streetwise compettion. They had a great time and Miss Moffatt was very pleased with their behaviour and attitude throughout the competition.

Year 6 played brilliantly against Oakwood in the cup final. The final score was 2-1 to oakwood.

Posted 10:48 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning 26th April
The boys' football and girls' netball team played brilliantly on Saturday in the New Forest Championships on Saturday.

Three boys in year 6 are part of Testwood united who won the football Hampshire cup. It is huge! They are very proud!

Mr Sulllivan (site manager) has been proving how fit he is (fitter than Mr Heath!)

Ms Brocklesbury did a magnificent job of presenting over 40 star awards!

Well done to the Y6 boys who beat the Y5 boys in a friendly match.
The final score was 2-0.

All year groups enjoyed a fun session with author David Schutte. We were all inspired!

The girls' football team have won their league! Well done girls and thanks to Mrs Howard who manages the team.

Mrs Hone from Banardos came to visit us in our assembly. She gave us a gift of a lovely teddy bear. What shall we name him?

Posted 8:50 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning 29th March

We raised over £400 on our book character day. This will go towards new play equipment for our playgrounds.

Two of our year 6 girls won prizes for the logos they designed for Totton and Eling Town Council. They attended an award cermony at Totton Library.

Abbotswood had a full page spread in the Evening Echo celebrating our successful OFSTED report.

The girls' football team played St Marks magnificently and won 1-0!

Posted 9:12 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week beginning 29th March 2004

Year 3 had a wonderful 1930s experience on Friday 19th March. Children who were dressed up as evacuees were evacuated to Brockenhurst on the train! Other children were dressed as land girls or soldiers and enjoyed a vast range of experiences throughout the day. All the teachers also enjoyed the day and took on new personas as Mr Paine or Ms Strict. The cane was used generously!

On Monday 22nd March, year 3 experienced a world war II day. Mr Bagge took the soldiers through their paces! Year 3 enjoyed looking at WWII artefacts.

The boys' football team played St. Monica's in the quarter finals and won 3-0!

The special year 5 and 6 disco on Friday evening raised £267 for Heart Research. Thank you to everyone who came. The money will be used as sponsor money for Mrs Stephens' husband and daughter when they run in the marathon in April.

Mrs Webb's English set have been sent a letter from 10 Downing Street in response to the letter thet wrote to Tony Blair about homework.

6F are a star class this week. They were the only class out of 23 to all bring back dental forms and the only class not to have any library books outstanding!

On Wednesday, Hector (the dog) and Linda came to our assembly. Hector is a specially trained dog who helps people who are disabled. He understands over 100 commands! We loved meeting Hector!

The boys' football team played in the semi-final against Townhill. We managed to achieve a 3-0 win! Good luck in the finals boys!

The girls' football team played local rivals Calmore this week. They also managed a 1 - 0 win.

Posted 9:49 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning 15th March
Our boys' football team are currently top of the league after Friday night. They played Holy Family and won 1-0! Well done boys.

Mrs Ainsworth is a star. She has put up 5M's water colour display up at the local education office. Thank you Mrs Ainsworth.

Mrs Delgado would like to say well done to Mr Deeth and Ms Boles for managing to return every single one of the library books that they had borrowed.

Our girls' football team played very well against Bassett Green on Wednesday evening. With five minutes to go we were 1-0 up but disappointingly lost 2-1 by the final whistle. A good game girls.

Mr Heath passed his computer course on Wednesday -he was allowed to stay all day and was not sent back to school!

Our boys' football team played Ringwood in the rain! We won 3-1! Excellent effort boys!

Our rugby team also played Ringwood in the mud and rain. Mrs Matthews was very impressed with their efforts. We lost 14-11 by the final whistle.

Posted 10:52 AM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week Beginning Monday 8th March

On Monday and Tuesday year 6 enjoyed two Greek days off timetable! They participated in exciting drama activities and loved doing ancient Greek art and craft. As the Y6 children and teachers came dressed in togas for the two days, they were glad it was not too cold!

Our fantastic netball team took part in a local school tournament and managed to come 3rd!
Mrs Stephens is delighted with their positive attitude and great team spitrit. Well done girls!

The girls' football team played Oakwood school this week and both teams played very well. The final score was 0-0.

A big thank you to the year four team this week for managing the weekly swimming excursion - it was the most complicated week yet bit you managed it - thank you!

Posted 1:10 PM by Mrs Anderson (Deputy Head)

Week beginning 2nd February 2004
The Romans in invaded Year 4!

Year 3 enjoyed making sandwiches in the food tech room.

Year 5 had a fantastic time learning how to play steel drums!

The Blue Peter Sale on Friday lunchtime was huge and raised lots of money. Well done to 5M for organising it!

Week Beginning 9th February 2004

The total raised for Superschool was £3620.15! Well done everyone!

The total for last week's Blue Peter Sale was £112. Thanks again 5M.

The whole school enjoyed a musical assembly in Wednesday's assembly. Well done Abbotswood musicians!

Both the upper and lower school discos on Wednesday were great. Good dancing and behaviour.

On Thursday our cross country team ran really well. Thanks Mrs Howard for taking the team to the tournament at Gang Warily.

Two teams from Year 5 and 5 entered a Bridge building competatition at Foxlease. Out of 18 teams taking part the Year 6 team won the award for best overall structure!!! Well done everyone who took part for such positive attitudes.

Week beginning 16th February - Half Term

Week beginning 23rd February

Mrs Gibbs made the children special star bicuits to say well done for the Ofsted report. The staff enjoyed a wonderful cake at the end of the day!

On Friday it snowed and the whole school enjoyed a wonderful snowball fight at break time!

On Friday we passed our Basic Skills Quality Mark!

Week beginning 1st March

Testwood children came to perform choral speaking to our Year 3 children. They were super!

Year 6 have been making wonderful castles in preparation for making drawbridges in DT. They look very realistic!

Our girls' football team won 2 - 0 against Bitterne Park. A great team spirit in both teams. Well done!

Our cross county squad again ran well. This time it was in the New forest District Cross Country Championships. One of our boys came 3rd out of 120! The rest of the team ran very well too.