Hi guys!
Thank you so much for you letters you wrote to me! When I received them it really put a smile on my face and it was lovely to hear from you!
I hope all of you are enjoying being in year 6 and being top of the school! And I hope you are all still being fab and working hard!
I'm really well but have been very busy at my new house and new school. Me and my husband are living in a lovely house right next to the army barracks, and 5 minute drive to the gorgeous Tudor market town of Saffron Walden. I have a year 5 and 6 mixed class and have 16 children in my class (7 year 6's and 9 year 5's). When I started there were only 14 children in my class but since then two new girls have started. However, one little girl is going to be leaving after half term as her dad is in the army and is being re-posted just like my husband was, and so that means she will have to move. The school I work at now is called Finchingfield Primary and is a tiny little school in a tiny, but very pretty, village! There are only three classes in the whole school (about 56 children in total!) - and they are made up of children from reception year to year 6! So it is very different to West Earlham!
Our topic has been The Aztecs last term, and this term we are learning all about The Ancient Greeks (can you remember this topic in year 5?). We had a Greek Day where we all dressed up and a man from Horrible Histories came to spend the day with us and taught us a lot, as well as having a lot of fun! Your topics in Year 6 sound fab! I hope you are enjoying them!
I hope you all had a great Christmas, too! Our school all went to the pantomime just before Christmas and, despite being the smallest school there, we still managed to be the loudest! I also taught my new class how to sign Silent Night (can you remember this?) I flew over to Germany before Christmas to visit Miss Manhaardt for the weekend and had a lovely time. She is very well and enjoying teaching in Germany, though she says the German children are quite naughty and she misses the West Earlham children! When I landed in Germany it was really REALLY snowy! Miss Manhaardt and I did a lot of Christmas shopping in the German Christmas markets, which were all lit up and looked very magical! We also had a lot of fun slipping and sliding in the snow and ice whilst trying to do our shopping! During the Christmas holidays, Miss Manhaardt flew over to England for a few days to visit her friends. I picked her up from the airport (as I live very near to Stansted airport now) and she stayed at my new house before travelling to visit her friends. It was lovely to see her again and I showed her the letters you sent to me - she said it was very sweet of you all!
My husband and I got a kitten just before Christmas. His name is Bandit and he is a Bengal. He is a very affectionate cat who loves to follow me and my husband around everywhere (including when either of us has a bath!), loves cuddles and is extremely playful. He can be a bit naughty sometimes (he pooed on my bed when Miss Manhaardt came to stay and he pooed on my sofa a few days later - I was NOT impressed!). We are training him to go to the toilet on the toilet at the moment (Yes, it can be done! And yes I know you will think I am mad!) rather than using a litter box and he is nearly fully trained - he is a clever boy! He is not so much a kitten any more as he is growing bigger and bigger every day. Bandit is a little bit of a strange cat, however, as he has a very unusual fascination with water! He loves it!
I will send Mr Biddle some photos to share with you. Anyway, I hope you are all really well and are working your hardest with the run-up to SATs. I know you will all do great and will do me and Mr Biddle, and yourselves proud! Just think how good you will feel when they are over and you can relax, knowing that you have tried your hardest! Good luck, take care, miss you guys and hope to hear from you all again sometime soon.
Love from Mrs Daynes x
Love from Mrs Daynes x
you cat lookes nice mrs danyes :):):):):):):):):)
ReplyDeletei midss you teaching us about stuff at school. btw youre cat looks nice
ReplyDeleteyour class is tiny by the way
ReplyDeleteWe are having a lovely time in year 6.
ReplyDeletethe pressure of the sats is getting higher and closer. Year 6 is not as hard as i thought its ok however hard at some times and your cat is really cute i have 2 cats and 1 kitten they are really naughty ha ha they are very play full though. All of our class misses you teachin us!!
lol :D
ReplyDeletexd lol
ReplyDeletecute cat
ReplyDeleteHi i love your cat i like the name to !!!!
ReplyDeleteMiss u teaching me
ReplyDeleteMiss u teaching me and are hole class
ReplyDeleteMy mum got marired at that place
ReplyDeleteLooks like you have had a good time with your husband and your new school and they are cool pics :) :P
ReplyDeleteHi i really do miss you it is a shame you cant come and visit. Your new school sounds great everyone is well over here. The other week we went to gressing hall for a Victorian trip. Everyone dressed up we looked so cool. While we were there we had to solve a murder. It was very exciting! We and my friend from colman are raising money for red nose day. We decided on car washing for a small donation. Are parents have sorted evrything out and we have a awsome top each for red nose day. I hope you are well and having as much fun as we are. All my love Olivia xxxxx
ReplyDeleteI really miss you Mrs Daynes you've been a great year 5 teacher throughout a few years and its a shame you can'tvisit us at our school now but we hope you have a great time at your school and at home with your cat.
ReplyDeleteSean Innes
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs Daynes I found out what High School I'm in and I'm in City Acadamy :) I wish you could teach us again at WEJS to bad you had to go and teach another school because I miss you :( six people in our class are Darren Shan fans and those people are me,Dracey,Lewis Fitt,Ethan,Brandon Croll and Ben Hallett. At the moment I'm reading the saga of Darren Shan and I'm on book 8 and all the other 7 book's I've read are realy good and I've only got to read 4 more book's to read and then I can read the newest Darren Shan book called Zom-B.
hi!nice to here from you.i hope you had a great christmas too.your cat looks just like mine.
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ReplyDeletehi mrs daynes we miss u so much it is coming up to SATs and we r very nervous!!!!!!!!!!!! we love your cat it is really cute and come back please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we now u cant come back but we would love u to !!!!!!!!!!!! thank u for being the best teacher ever and what you have teached us we will never forget !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope u have a good life with your family xxx
ReplyDeleteI miss you very mush i wish you could come back to west earlham my borw said if he could meat would
ReplyDeleteHI u look nice in your wedding dress.
ReplyDeleteand your cat is cute
Hi guys and girls! Its Mrs Daynes here! Its so great to be able to read all your messages on here and be able to write back to you! I love reading your comments! I hope you are all well! You can all breathe a HUGE sigh of relief now that the SATs are over. I hope you didn't worry yourselves too much over them but I also hope you tried your BEST! I'm sure you were all fab :)
ReplyDeleteI've been busy busy busy - in the middle of helping my Year 6's prepare for the SATs we had an Ofsted inspector come to visit our school for two days. But it all went really well. I've been up to Norwich a couple of times to visit friends and family and to go shopping - I keep an eye out for any of you guys and girls! In fact I think, Aiden, I saw you at Gt Yarmouth pleasure beach the other weekend, when I went there for the afternoon with my friends!
I hope you all enjoyed a great Easter holidays. It was my husband's birthday during the Easter holidays and so to celebrate we went skiing - for the first time! I absolutely loved it, although I couldn't walk for a few days afterwards, my legs hurt so much!!
My kitten is not a kitten anymore - he has grown so much (and is fully toilet trained now, clever boy!!) He loves playing outside in our garden, now that the weather is better.
What have you all been up to? What have you got lined up for next half term? Anything exciting? Me and my class are off to the Warner Bros Studios Harry Potter studio tour after half term as part of our next topic. We are also going on our week-long residential trip in July (Mrs Daynes can't wait to try zorbing!!)Oh and me and my class are going to be busy busy after half term rehearsing for our summer production - I have chosen Pirates of the Curry Bean! Should be a lot of fun! We had a very exciting event happen recently in the village which my school is in - sky1 were filming for a whole week for a new comedy called Chickens - it was set in WW2 times so they had to change a lot of the village to make it seem old-fashioned. Modern things had to be removed such as the double-yellow lines on the roads, and they turned a tea rooms in the village into a really old fashioned green-grocers. I took my class to have a 'nose' at the film set (hoping to see and get an autograph from one of the imbetweeners stars as two of them are playing the main characters in the new comedy!) and we were lucky enough to be invited onto the film set by the producer who took us around and explained all the props etc to us. I didn't meet an imbetweener though :( but it was a very exciting week in the village!
A few more days and we will all be having a well-earned rest. :) And then not long for you guys until you are off to high school! Are you excited? Are you all going to city academy?
I would love to hear any of your news! Take care all of you and looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Mrs Daynes x
hi mrs datnes im going to city acadamy and im looking forward to it SATs wernt as hard as i though then would be !
Deletei think i done good in my sats and i now also have a website now well its more of a blog but are well go on my page on the writing blog called alec's mystrys and then the first link then you are on it i'm still having lots of fun you should come back .
DeleteHi Mrs Daynes i am going to city academy .
DeleteI really miss u i'm glad sats are over areyou comingto visit us?
I am going on holiday on the 27th of may to mayorka and i cant wait.
Hope to hear from u soon Emma!!!
hi mrs daynes its morgan im going to city academy i hope you and your husbond are ok.I am going on holiday friday 24th may to the satuday 3rd of june im going to hemsby and staying in a caravan for the week :). i went to the libary yesterday with caylan and cayda i got this book called "im still not a loser" its really good im up to page 85 so far :).miss u mrs daynes xx
DeleteYour cat must use the Big toilet now. And when it is july I will get my SATs results and if I get level 5 or 4a I will get a pug dog!!! From Ben C
ReplyDeleteyep sats was very hard hope to see you again
ReplyDeleteEthan and Sean here we think we did well on our SATS and we think your cat is cute and your calss is very small. Your life is very cool.
ReplyDeleteI think i did very well in my sats and i found them really easy and we had a little party after to celibrate.By the way tazmin has left.i have missed you so much and i never wished you have left.i want you to come back and see us all.
ReplyDeletei saw you at gt yarmouth. it sounds like you are having a graet time. i hope to see you again soon.
ReplyDeleteMrs Daynes,the sats were alright at the begining and we had a fabulous party at the end ☺. When I go to high school where my brother is, I hope he doesn't annoy me there aslo its glad that your kitten (cat now) is potty trained so it doesn't pee everywhere.
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Hi Mrs Daynes
ReplyDeleteI still sad that you went but if I'm superlucky, I might try a ask my mum (Sarah Melton) to take me if you tell me where you live.
Please visit as soon or I'll soke my eyes
We have a new kid in our class called Tommy and it gets confusing because there are two Tommys now.
ReplyDeleteTazmin left our school now but she did have the star of the week award before she left
ReplyDeleteHi i have missed you so much and hope to see you soon its unfortunate that tazmin left though it sounds so col to got to the warner bros studio and the harry-potter studio. where is your new school that you are working in now? and my aunt has had her baby and named her sophie and my bro was being silly yesterday and hurt his arm and now he has to wear a splint(silly boy) haha . i am a bit nevous about going up to the academy because there are lots of bigger kids there looking forward to your next e-mail
ReplyDeleteMaddie x
Hey Mrs Daynes i hope you are allright i am fine here i finally finished my sats(Yey). They were super hard i felt like the world was on my shoulders(It was Hard). Now the work is getting easyer and your cat is adrobible say hi to your husband from me!
ReplyDeleteyeah i did try my best in my SATs i thought that they were easy and hard but i got through them really quickly afterwards we had a greatyear 6 party it was a really fun party and we watched a film called the lightning theif it was good but i had already watched it,and we have got a new boy called tommy and he is really cool and it is reaaly confuseing because we have got to tommys in our class now he suports the same football team as me (man united)yeah.
ReplyDeletebranden croll
Hello Mrs Daynes.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed my half term. I saw soccer on the sands at Yarmouth. I really enjoyed that. A football club called East Coast Rovers (who was called Porto) as it was the Champion League.
By Alex
hi everyone its morgan holdsworth i miss every on aspechiy u mrs daynes xxxl
ReplyDeleteHello Mrs Daynes
ReplyDeleteIt's Alex writting from City Academy Norwich.
I really miss you and this school.
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