Thorp Eco & Web Diary

Thorp won the Oldham Primary School Cross Country Championship for the fourth consecutive year. It is an unprecedented run of success and demonstrates the wonderful “team work” achieved by our runners, staff and parents. Thorp achieved a massive 214 point victory over our nearest rivals and throughout the cross country season several of our runners achieved either medal ranking positions and/or achieved their personal best. Well done to all the children and staff concerned, thank you to parent support on cold and wet Saturday mornings and congratulations to Mrs Farmery for organising continued sporting success at Thorp.
Message to our cross country runners keep up the good work to defend “our” trophy next year!!

On Monday 30th January 2012, Sharon Hall from the Oral Health Improvement Team presented us with our renewal certificate for the  ’Platinum Tooth Friendly Partnership Award.’  Members of the Healthy Schools Committee can be seen receiving the award from the O.H.I.T. 

It’s hard to believe but last week  Thorp’s tuck shop celebrated its first birthday.   Everything was sold at half price including apples, bananas, melon, pineapple and of course grapes (as requested by the children).    Specials for the week included favourites from the past year: strawberries  (on sale last Valentines Day),  mocktails – fresh orange juice and sparkling spring water (last  sold during Wimbledon fortnight) and finally – banana smoothies.  As you can see the fruit monitors got in the party mood  by blowing up balloons and wearing party  hats.   As usual the fruit sold very quickly and by the end of the week there was nothing left. A fun week was had by all.

This yea’r concerts will involve musical items from all the children, in their class groups, together with items from the Training Choir, Senior Choir and Wind Band. The Junior clases will perform “Hosanna Rocks” and the Infants – “The Grumpy Sheep”.

Times for the Concerts

Wednesday 7th December @ 9.45 am – Nursery/Reception, Year 1 ad Year 2 (60 minute Concert)

Wednesday 7th December @ 1.45pm – Receptin, Year 1 and Year 2 and Juniors Classes. (60 minute Concert)

Thursday 8th December @ 9.45am – Nursery, Reception, all Inants and Juniors (90 minute concert)

* On Wednesday 7th December there will be a choir concert at Oldham Baptist Church.

Tickets are available as first come first served basis and a donation of £1.00 per ticket is asked to be made toward school funds.

Year (3) pupils have recently been working on an Art Project based on the work of and with the kind permission and assistance of contemporary artist Ken Storey. The children have used acrylic paints and Indian ink to paint pictures of Liverpool Landmarks such as the world famous Anglician Cathedral, Metropolitian Cathedral, Liverpool Lime Street Station and the Albert Dock  waterfront. Ken has been sent photos of the children’s work and has been most complimentary of their artistic flair and talent: so much so that he has requested a photograph of their work to include on his own website. The children and staff have really enjoyed this project and are delighted and proud of their achievements and their work being published on Ken’s website.

Well done to all the children and budding artists in Year (3).

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We were delighted once again this year that Pudsey Bear was able to visit Thorp Primary School. He was accompanied by his friends and fundraisers from North Chadderton Secondary School and he was delighted to meet all our children. Thank you to all the children and parents who donated their “spare change” to the Children in Need Appeal. By the end of the visit – Pudsey’s collection box was overflowing!! All the children were delighted with the opportunity to see Pudsey and as well as a question and answer session they all managed to greet him individually; with a wave, high five or a cuddle. Well done Pudsey…

Last week Year four went on a visit to Lytham St.Annes, on the way there we were delayed for three hours because of an oil spillage on the motorway; we watched films on the coach and ate our lunch to pass the time.

When we arrived we walked around Fairhavenlake and visited the souvenir shop, we spent some time learning about birds from all over the world and then walked down to the estuary and built sandcastles, we had a competition to see who could build the best one.

Travis, Jake and Bailey won the best sandcastle competition, we would like to say well done to them!

On the way home we did see the area where the oil had spilled out and delayed us earlier in the day, the emergency services had to clean the area up and there was a helicopter flying overhead viewing the disaster.

Even though we were delayed we enjoyed our day to Lytham St.Annes.

Recounted by Chloe and Emily Year Four.

As part of “local democracy week” members of Thorp School Council recently had the opportunity to visit Oldham Civic centre and recieve a personal tour of the Mayor’s Parlour, view the fabulous historic silverware and othe memorabilia in the display cabinets and undertake a “mock” debate in the Council Chamber. Our School Council members met Councillor Anne Wingate who answered a series of questions on the role of the Mayor, the history of the Borough and the operation of the Council Chamber. All the children had a fantastic time and thougfht it was a wonderful experience.

As recounted by several members of the School Council.

 

On Wednesday 12th October 2011, children from Thorp primary went to the Mayor’s Parlour to meet two professional cricketers from Lancashire Cricket Club. There names are Luke Procter and Kyle Hogg.
We had an amazing time and we also got their autographs. While we were there we met the Mayor and the Mayoress. We also had our picture taken with the cricketers and it went in the local press! During the time we were there a few of us asked the cricketers some detailed questions (especially about winning the Championship for the first time in 77 years). We had a great time and then returned to school.
By Holly Marlor, Year (6)

During October year 3 travelled out to Liverpool, the first place we visited was the Anglican cathedral. We were split into two groups and shown some interesting things around the cathedral. Were shown where the choir are situated when they sing, the foundation stone, the font and the cathedral organ. While we were there they were fixing the organ and it kept making lots of strange noises. We also enjoyed the colourful stained glass windows.

While we were in Liverpool we went to the dock and we rode in a strange yellow vehicle lovingly called the Duckmobile. The Duckmobile is amphibious which means it can travel on land, but is also able to travel on water too.  The real name of the duck mobile is the Whacker Quacker.  As we went into the water we had to scream to make the Whacker Quacker go in faster, and to get out of the water we had to sing we all live in a yellow submarine, we had to sing louder so that we didn’t slip back into the water.

While we were in Liverpool we saw many different places and things of interest, we hope you like our photo’s from the day.

Recounted by Bethan, Lewis & Holly from year 3.