Dear farmers,

There is a meeting for parents, carers and children on Thursday 28th September at 3.10pm to explain the procedures for the visit and to give out medical forms and clothing lists.

The meeting will be in the Year 5 classroom.

Welly Alert: make sure your wellies for the farm are full length, they should be close to knee height, anything less will be unsuitable - some of the streams and mud is pretty deep!

Clothing lists are on the Year 5 and 6 class pages, please make sure we have your medical forms back as soon as possible.

We had a visit from the local library team today to promote this year's Summer Reading Challenge - Animal Agents.

Each Wednesday in August there will be free packed lunches available at the library as well as a host of free activities. Why not come along?

To complete the challenge children need to read 6 books, they can collect stickers to complete a book of clues to discover who the baddy really is! Will you be a secret agent?

On Wednesday morning at 6am the school's council members from Year 6, 5 and 4 met to begin their journey to London. We travelled by train to Paddington, then took black cab taxis to the Royal Palace of Westminster. We saw some amazing buildings on the journey there.

Our tour of the Houses of Parliament was fascinating. We discovered that the Robing Room is only used for 1 day a year, when the Queen comes to open Parliament. We saw huge portraits of previous kings and queens in the Gallery. We even stood directly above the spot where Guy Fawkes had tried to blow up parliament hundred of years ago!

The House of Lords was fabulous - the statues were solid gold!

After our tour we took part in a workshop to consider questions like 'Is it sometimes OK to break laws?' and 'Should everyone be treated the same?' It really made us think, especially when we had just been finding out about Emeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes.

Our MP, Luke Pollard, came to meet us and told us a lot about his new job representing us all.

We then went on the Tube to the Science Museum which was incredible!

When we returned to Paddington we went to Paddington Bear's statue and bench and bought our tea which we took on the train.

After a really long day, we finally returned to school at 8pm.

Our garden project has been shortlisted for a Tesco Bags of Help award.

In order to assist us with this, please vote for us in Tesco stores until 28th January

We will be consulting on our admission arrangements for 2018/19 through Plymouth City Council. The consultation will be live between 19 December 2016 and 29 January 2017. If you wish to find out about our policy or make any comment, please visit www.plymouth.gov.uk/admissionconsultation

Mount Wise are currently working towards becoming a Centre of excellence for Financial Education. We are committed to developing financial education for all children across the school. We aim to provide children with the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage their money well. Click here to find out more https://www.pfeg.org/