Snack Attack!

As part of our Fairtrade project, Year 5 are doing our bit to change the world! This week, we all wrote letters to David Cameron to try to persuade him to pass a law commanding all supermarkets to sell use Fairtrade ingredients for their own brand products and for other products, wherever possible. Year 5 are also planning and preparing for our Fairtrade Snack Sale. It will be held next Friday at 3:30pm in the Small Hall- please come along and help us support Oxfam's Fairtrade work!

This half term, we are also competing against each other in the Snack Attack challenge! Everyone in Year 5 is working with a team to create a new and original Fairtrade snack. As a school, we will be submitting ONE entry to the national competition- so each team are competing to win the first heat at school. The snack must include Fairtrade ingredients and must appeal to customers. We need to think of an original name for the product; design the packaging; create a logo and produce video, radio and print advertisements.

Here are some of our TV advertisements:

Click the links to view our adverts... 

Space:

Snack On It: https://animoto.com/play/YpvJNILFQxJE5AXXK8A19A
Cool Down: https://animoto.com/play/0zMKovJSXMPsAgkLbhUxug
Cool Down 2: https://animoto.com/play/FlB1YwlpmXnDyJgZ2SkduQ
Crazy Cubes: https://animoto.com/play/nbBhru9Jhrb3jq17dFoMDQ 
Top of the Chocs: https://animoto.com/play/GB2mGqoWO1xgmFwsqAqkUg

Here are some of the Snack Attack teams at work creating prototypes of their packaging:

Here are the completed packaging prototypes:

Come to our Fairtrade Snack Sale next week to vote for your favourite Fairtrade Snack- we'll be sending our winning entry off to the national competition!

Mystery Reader Competition!

Source: thinkwonderteach

It's nearly Book Week at St. Anthony's! We will be celebrating with another fun photo competition. Last year's Extreme Reading was incredibly exciting and we had some wonderful entries!

This year's challenge is called 'Mystery Readers'.

What you need to do:
1. Pick your favourite book.
2. Create a disguise and pick an interesting location for your photo. Remember you must be safe- ask an adult to help you and don't take any risks.
3. Cover your face with your favourite book. You might also try wearing a mask!
4. Ask an adult to take a photograph of you, with your face covered safely.
5. Print the photo.
6. Write your name on the back.
7. Hand it in to Mrs Parrott ASAP!

Some inspiration:

Source: davyhulme

 Source: cheadleheath

 Source: 123rf

 Source: roebuck.herts

The entries will be on display in the hall and the winners from each phase group will be announced in assembly on World Book Day; Thursday 3rd March.

Good luck!

Comic Competition!

 By Luke, Art Editor
http://stanthonyswrites.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/comic-time-competition.html 

Head over to the St. Anthony's Writes blog, to find out the details about a new and exciting comic competition at school. Lots of you are very talented graphic artists and comic creators, so I'm sure you won't want to miss this opportunity!

Click the picture above (designed by Luke in Year 6!) to go to the St. Anthony's Writes blog and find out more.

Good luck!

What a Peculiar Week!

A Guest Post from the Writing Blog

This week has been a strange one at St. Anthony's. On Wednesday night, tiny doors appeared around the school out of nowhere and nobody could explain why! A leading detective was onto the case straightaway, but he needed your help in answering these questions: Who are these visitors? Where did they come from? Why are they here?

After reading a letter from Detective Petitie, you all set out to solve the mysteries, and luckily you also wrote some excellent pieces of writing explaining what had happened. You were a big help to him in finding out what was going on.

We have been very impressed by your super pieces of work, but the mystery remains unsolved as of yet. What do YOU think goes on behind those tiny doors?

Here are some of the highlights of your fantastic writing, remember to click on the pictures to make them larger and easier to read:

Year 1

 Jonas, Year 1

 Annabelle, Year 1

 Amarachi, Year 1

 Siena, Year 1

 Aine and Misty, Year 3

 Klara, Year 4

 Alex, Year 5

 Erhun, Year 5

 Emily, Year 4

Bella and Mia, Year 5

 Natalia, Year 6

Laudine, Reception

Jasper, Reception

We'll add some more fabulous Tiny Door writing next week, when we receive some more submissions! Check out our new display board between the Year 2 classrooms too, to see this work in real life, plus lots more!