All the classes had to outdo each other by creating an outstanding trading outlet based around their topic over the previous five weeks. Puffin Class was studying ‘Mountain Adventures’, so they created an Alpine Trading Post, complete with a real Yeti in a cave! They sold Gingerbread Yetis, Big Foot pizzas and snowglobes. They dressed as Austrian Tyrolean dancers, Austrian mountaineers and cave children waiting to be set free from the Yeti.

We had a ‘Guess the name of the Yeti’ competition, and the winner (Ms Glover) won lunch eating Numberetti Spagetti with the Yeti… Ms Glover’s and Mrs Sutton’s classes were studying ‘Britain after the War’ and recreated a Swinging Sixties-style Carnaby Street, selling sixties fashion items and Op art ceramics.

Mr Morgan chose his DT topic to recreate a life-size fairground, where you could have your fortune told by Madame Francesca. Miss Dunn’s class sold ethnic jewellery and refreshments from the Indus Valley, whilst China was the place to get tattoos and admire all the tigers in Penguin Class. The Toucans and Dodos had metalmania with brooches, photo frames and other items on a robotic theme.

Last but not least, Kookaburras and Robins had outstanding displays based on ‘light and dark’ selling glow-in-the-dark products and edibles from the moon. Ten celebrities from the local community were invited to judge the stalls on Best Products, Best Customer Service, Best Overall Trading Post, Best Packaging and Best Costumes.

We all had a fantastic week and in the end, everyone was a winner due to sheer effort, whether they won a rosette or not!

I thought that the Jon Thaxton workshop was brilliant. He talked about how the hitting and the punching were meant to stay in the ring and not outside of it. He even let some of us have a go at hitting him. Then he said that he wanted one of the teachers to go and fight and Miss Brown was the unlucky one but surprisingly Miss Brown hit him down for the ten count.
After, he went round the Y5 classes but the Y6 classes had a meeting with him in the hall, one class at a time. My class went first. He set us a challenge to step on circles marked up to 50 and he set us a time of 25 seconds to do it in. We did it in the end with teamwork. After that, we declared Jon Thaxton a legend!
Lewis 6G

I thought the workshop with Jon Thaxton was really fun because we played a game and we got the best score out of all the schools he visited throughout the week. I really enjoyed it when Miss Brown had to box Jon because she won! Thank you for visiting our school Jon Thaxton!!!
Chloe 6G

Jon Thaxton was great and inspiring to me because he made me think about if you want to do something, if you try hard enough you can do it. I thought that Jon’s workshop was really fun and exciting. He showed us how to feel when we’re trying to do something we really want to do. It had a great atmosphere in the room. In the morning in assembly, he showed us that boxing must stay in the boxing ring. I had a great day with Jon Thaxton!
Rhianna 6G

Lucky claimed ‘Music goes beyond language’. Brundall has a new talent to show. Well done Lucky!
Reporter: Benjamin S.

On the 22nd June 2009 we got ready for our trip to Kentwell Hall .We went to Lavenham at 11:00am. After we got back on the coach we went to Kentwell Hall. We had lunch. After we had lunch we went to get Tudor money then we went through an amazing time tunnel. We were in 1535 and we saw a gate keeper. He said “Shake all your Norwich fleas off “! Then he let us in. First we went to see a man called Blue and he was a Tudor soldier. He told us about the wars. He had done about 15 battles. He showed us his sharp weapons. Then we went to the minstrels who do a dance called the Farandole and you have to do it.

Next we went to the wood turner where he was making a wooden bowls and plates. Then we went to the moat and we fed the carp – you do not what to eat them because they eat sewage! We walked past the Tudor rose maze and then we went inside the giant house where we saw lots of Tudor people going about  their daily lives. We went into a room where Jack stuck his head down the jakes (the toilet). We visited the ale house, bakery, dairy room, lotions and potions room, but best of all, we went in the camera obscura where we could see our friends waving to us as an image on the wall!

We went outside to the herb gardens, the ice house, the bee-keeper’s cottage and the alchemist’s. We tried the stocks, then it was time for another picnic before setting off home on a long journey. We thought the day was fantastic! We will give it five stars.

This duck was just an idea that grew and grew. It started off being a funny and little thought in my head until, for some reason, I asked my granddad for a piece of old chicken wire. Luckily he had some…so I moulded the wire to make a duck. Then I started wandering through the house looking for things I could use. For the bottom part, I ripped up my Mum’s old trousers, and found a green plastic bag for the head and paper for the wings! I hope you like it!
By Libby
Age 11