Here are our four most improved children visiting WHSmiths in Walsall.They each received £10 to spend on books...Well Done!

Any parent of children in Reception or Nursery who has missed the First 1000 Word training and their free book, please call in to the office to arrange another session.

As you can see, the talent just keeps coming and coming here at Rough Hay...emerging stars from Nursery to adult!

Who will win this year?

 If you come to the show you will see.

Have we finally found the real Santa?

The Partners and Staff of Hadens Solicitors invited the choir to carol sing at the Sunflower centre in Darlaston last Monday.As you can see, the children enjoyed mingling and especially enjoyed meeting Santa!

On Wednesday the choir visited the NIA in Birmingham to sing in a concert called Young Voices.Everyone had a fantastic time,especially when Lee Ryan from Blue appeared...the girls couldn't stop screaming!

Some Poundland representatives came to school today to ask pupils their opinions about a new range of Hallowe'en products.Needless to say, the children had a ghost-tastic time!

Here are some of our gifted artists making lanterns as part of a Walsall Art Gallery  project.

What a colourful dinosaur, chalked on the playground at lunchtime by these Key Stage One pupils.

This is Betty, our school dog.Isn't she adorable?The children are queuing up to fuss her and play with her.We've also had a couple of accidents too!

Betty is very much in demand at the moment...putting the 'ruff' into Rough Hay.She has appeared on 'Midlands Today' learning her times tables and is due to appear on BBC 'Newsround' helping Year 6 children write.She has also appeared in the 'Daily Mail' newspaper and on 'Beacon Radio' and 'Radio WM'...talk about being hounded by the paparazzi!

Here are the members of our new school council.The children took part in a special 'Swearing-In' ceremony on Monday in front of their parents.All children promised to represent their class to the best of their ability.

On Friday the children from Reception to Years 3/4 took part in an Indian Culture day.Several children dressed up in saris, others enjoyed tasting pakora, bajis and indian sweets.Pupils from Years 3 and 4 painted mendhi patterns on their hands using henna and made fantastic mendhi collages using beans and pulses.The piece de resistance was the BBC Bollywood style dancing display that took place in the hall in the afternoon - well done everyone!

We were bored,so we decided to write this poem:

"Hey dad,my teacher is over there

you know the one with the curly hair."

"I can't see her, come on lets shop."

"You know,the one with the orange top"

"She has brown eyes and orange hair."

"You would fall in love in one deep stare."

"Oh no theres my head walking towards me"

"come on lets hide it dosen't seem right to see my head shopping at night.

They care for us and stop the chatter.

They realy care and that does matter.

 written by Mollie T

                    Daisy T

                        Jess B 

We watched a production called 'The Walking Cowboy' which reminded us of the importance of road safety and the benefits of walking instead of driving our cars.

What an audience!

Jade class showed us in their fantastic family assembly some disablilties that people ovecome in their lives.They reminded us that even though we may look different on the outside we are all the same on the inside and  really: the only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Aren't their costumes great?

Here is Scarlet literacy group celebrating.

What are they celebrating?

Being super non fiction writers.All the children worked exceptionally hard to produce reports about countries around the world.

Well done everyone.

Look who has been trying their best in literacy.These children's names have been entered into our Wow book and they will receive a special mention in Friday's family assembly.

Today in assembly we talked about Buddhism www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/<WBR>Homework/religion/buddhism. and had a go at meditating.

Some children found this easy and others found it difficult but it is sometimes nice to be quiet and still when we live in such a busy, nosiy world.

Buddhists usually focus on something beautiful like a flower.

We also talked about Songkran-The Thai Water Festival www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/songkran.html and used water to pretend to wash away bad luck.

Photo as promised.

This is the cake(Tarte aux Fruites)-after the accident-scooped back into its container.

It's always a good idea to see the funny side of things. It tasted delicious, even if it looks a bit like a trifle.

Yr 6 pupils having fun with their egg designs!

Today I took two children to Waterstone's bookshop to spend £10 each on books of their choice, courtesy of Walsall Rotary club,(thank-you Mr Speed).The children were selected because of the effort they have made to improve this term.Well done to you both...I'm proud of you!

What do you do if you you have a bad toe and your shoe is rubbing it? Wear your slippers of course! (Nice socks too!)

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Today pupils from Yrs 3 and 4 and the choir took part in a special Easter concert at St Lawrence's Church with Reverend Wills.The children performed exceptionally well and the rest of the school helped them by singing Easter hymns and songs. Here are Mary, Joseph and some of the cast.

Here are three children, sitting on our Dragonfly Bench, enjoying their lunchtime in Halcyon!

The X Factor

It was really good, at first i was nervous but when the audience started laughing, i felt much better.  I went with the flow.  By Jack Hurley (Ben Shepherd)

I thought it was very good and funny, especially when Sharon threw water over Simon. The Acts were brilliant and the judges were fab. By Mollie Fallon (Stage hand)

It was funny, exiting and I felt very proud.  All the acts that took part were brilliant, they showed real guts standing up there singing and dancing. Even Chris Evans (Reece Page)and Peter Kaye (H