Tuesday

We were well until the final stretch of the school year.

Yep, we had a rounders match which I loved.  We also got to paint some nice big, round pebbles.  I did one side as a ladybird and the other as a happy looking fish.  It was great fun, and we were really grateful to our teaching assistant who had collected 60 pebbles, enough for both clsses.

We watched Romeo and Juliet as we're a cultured lot.  We did some colouring too.

It was hot hot hot at gymnastics.  The side door was open which meant Dad and Ned got a good view of me bouncing down the tumble track at high speed prior to my jump into a forward roll.  It ended up a lot more like a flip, albeit onto my bum.

While she was in there, Dad and I sneaked off to Sainsbury's for a sly slush puppie in their cafe.  It was utterly delicious and as it was self service we could have a mixture of blue and red!

We had another family bike ride after tea, a trip off round the estates and nearby alleyways between the houses.

As usual we ended up in the city playground which was cool.

Wednesday

Well it was finally here, the last day ofterm.

The last day of infants school for me too!

We'd got Mum to buy us a little box of chocs for our teachers (Marks ans Spencers, no naff stuff).

I also created a loom band for Mrs Tichband, a really colourful and a very nicely constructed one at that.

We had our usual early finish, straight down the park with Dad, showing off my still exciting big bike to admiring glances even from year sixes.

I stayed on for a football tournament that Mr Gilham had very kindly sorted out for us.  We had a great time, it was a great way to end the term.

I think Mum has got ahead of herself this year and came home with a whole load ofback to school stuff already!  I was dead excited as I can start wearing a proper shirt and a tie in year 3.  I had to unpack it and try it on:

Thursday

First day of the holidays and Mum was off with us.

So a lazy morning was had by all, just what was needed.

But she got the water slide out for us, we love the water slide!

Ali and Robert came round in the afternoon, I leant them a pair of trunks and a towel and they joined in too, brilliant.  Later on we went to Ali's to play in his pool.

And I had a quiet afternoon with the Ipad which I could finally get a look in on while Ned was out.
In the evening I conducted a couple of guided laps of the Croft Mountain bike trail in Swindon with Dad, Andy and Owen.  I loved it, we did about three laps in the end.  I was hitting all the jumps and drops full on, unlike Owen and Andy the big chickens.  I only fell off right at the end after a session of silly skidding started....

Friday

I had Amie round to play, we played on the water slide, although she didn't go for it quite like the boys had done yesterday.

I disappeared round to Roberts for the day.  We had a Nerf war, played XBox and went to McDonalds for lunch and a McFlurry.

Amie and I had a very picnic at the park with mum, the council had just dropped off a fresh load of bark chippings for the playground that had yet to be sprinkled around.  It made an excellent climbing feature:

Once Amie had been dropped off home, Dad had finished work and Ned returned from Robert's we packed up the camping stuff, picked up Andy on the way and made our way to Woolacombe for the weekend to stay at Twitchen House Campsite.

We'd been warned the traffic might be a bit sticky and we could be in for a long journey.....

But it turned out that it wasn't bad at all really.

We were down there while it was still just about daylight, even with a stop for food (an outrageously expensive Costa's in a service station, it was nice though).

We were a great help setting up camp for pretty much the first time ever.

Yeah, we have a good idea of what needs to be done now, and inwhat order Dad wants it done.

Not only that, we can't wait to get tucked up in our super cosy bedroom for a lovely sleep.

Saturday

We had a great sleep, and a bit of a lie in really.

Yeah, compared to other campsites we've been to, everyone seemed to be late risers and there wasn't much early morning noise.

We had breakfast outside in the early morning sunshine, mulling over our plans for the day.

We decided on beach in the morning, swimming pool in the afternoon, bbq for tea and then an evening walk.

So off to the beach we went.  It was a lovely big beach and there was hardly anyone else there.

We set up camp and headed straight for the surf.  

I was all over it, catching waves left right and centre.

I didn't fare quite so well, kept sliding off my board and generally finding it all rather hard work.  Once I ditched the board though it was much better, just jumping the waves.

Lunch was next on the agenda.

We sent Mum, Ned and Andy off with a wishlist.  Dad wanted a pasty and I wanted a jacket potato with cheese.  A tall order, but they delivered!

Yeah, and we got chips too, what a result.

We had a few games of kingball:

Dad was shockingly bad.

I was feeling rather creative, I kickedthings off with a picture of a cat, constructed entirely of letters:

Then we undertook a crocodile, he looked rather happy and even cuddly rather than snappy:

The texture work I did on his skin was really rather good.  We certainly got a lot of comments from passers by.

And then I went small scale, for this mouse:

Beach well and truly done, time to head back to the campsite and the pool.

We do like a pool, especially and outdoors one.

Add some nice sunshine, a nice bit ofgrass to put our blanket down on and a long conversation about what we'd spend a massive lottery win on and I was loving it.

We made our way back to our tent, there were quite a few people pitched up now so we spent the afternoon hanging out with a load of girls who were now our new neighbours, doing loom bands on the grass bank.

We had a barbecue for tea, mostly chorizo and bread rolls for me of course.

After that we went for a walk, down to the beach through the woods.

It was about twenty minutes, all downhill.

We found a little cove and did some skimmers:

Then we made our way back up, which was of course all uphill....

It was quite a slog.

And I blamed the effort required for making me get up to be sick at 1am.  Luckily I made it out of the tent.....it was a proper good hurl too.

Sunday

I woke up like nothing had happened the night before, I felt fine, which was a relief for everyone.

And another lie in was had, very civilized.

Another one of our neighbours turned out to be Amber from my other year group class.  We loved showing each other our tents.  What a coincidence!

The tent had to be packed away, we were even helpfull during this task as well as setting up.

Once that was done Andy disappeared off for a surf while we hit the arcade!

The 2p falls were the biggest attraction.

I managed to win a smiley keyring then gave all my left over coins to Ellis.

I was trying to win a sparkly strawberry keyring and with Ned's extra coins I managed that too! Thanks Ned.

Next up was the Pacman smash air hockey.

We love this, like air hockey, but much more crazy, with loads of pucks.

Anyway, it was Dad and I against Mum and Ellis.

And after a whole load of frenzied pinging and whacking we ended up with the following score:

An amicable draw!

In our role as unofficial swimming pool testers we had another dip in the outdoor pool before then sampling the indoor pool too.

It was very nice, there was a sauna too which we were actually allowed in.

We decided it was time to leave and went for a pub lunch, there were lots of lovely little doggies sat with their owners.

After that it was into Woolacombe for a bit of shopping (a couple of t shirts) and an ice cream overlooking the sea.
But try as we might, we couldn't really hang on any longer and we had to go home.
The drive back went quickly enough and we were home in time to watch some rugby sevens at the Commonwealth games and enjoy a mum's toastie.

Monday
A whole week at Dragon club, I was pretty excited about the whole thing.
I was a bit more hesitant, but still up for it on the whole.
To make matters even more exciting we had to ride there with Mum.
It was pretty cool riding there, we did very well and got there really quick.

We had a fun day, playing on the adventure playground.
Scooting around the playground on the buggies and scooters and trolleys and any combinations inbetween.
I watched frozen with some of the girls.
And I played football and tennis.
So pretty good all round really!

Tuesday

I had a bit of a rubbish day at school, I got blamed for a few things that weren't my fault, it got me on a bit of a downer.

Then it was gymnastics, pretty much the hottest day of the year and one of the other girls swiped my bottle and drank my water.  I was not impressed at all.

It was just as well Andy came round for tea and to babysit me to cheer me up.

Yes he was, I had the school play to perform in and mum and dad were coming to watch.

Technically its the year 6's leaving play so us year 5's were there in a supporting role,to dance and to sing.  I still gave it my all though and really went for it, in fact, I really enjoyed it and the show went off really well.  It was a version of Romeo and Juliet, so pretty highbrow stuff.  The musicical numbers were a lot less traditional though (a reworded version of lets get ready to rumble and I predict a riot for example), accompanied by a number of dance routines including this line dancing number to achey breaky heart:

We were in green and members of the Montagu household.  The rousing finale was a singalong to the Bee Gees Tragedy which we delivered with real gusto.

Indeed they did, I could hear it at home in bed!

Wednesday

We'd also been busy preparing for our end of term performance of the Jungle Book.  Today was our first show and it seemed to go really well.

After school football had pretty low numbers, all the year 6's and a chunk of the year 5's cried off to save themselves for the evenings play performance.  Still it was good fun with less of us, I got to have a go in goal too.

So in the evening I was off to perform again for our last night of the show.

And I got take mum and dad to my classroom for my parents evening.  I declined the offer of joining them when they went in with my teacher Mrs Jackson though.  Maybe I should have gone in though, it sounds like she had nothing bad to say about me at all.  She even told them that I didn't have a bad bone in my entire body!

I disagree of course, as I suspect would Mum and Dad.

Mrs Jackson is leaving our school at the end of term, I suppose having to deal with Ned and then me has taken it's toll on her.  I'm sure she'll be missed by future classes , she's done a really good job on both Ned and I.

Thursday

Day two our play, Mum came along to watch and for the first time ever snagged a seat on the front row!  How awesome was that?

Here I am with all my other Vultures:

I delivered my lines loud and clear and played them for plenty of laughs.  I loved it.

We had our end of term dance production session too.  We all did well sourcing yellow t-shirts to make look like minions for a dance to happy.  Dad reckoned it was by far the best one we'd ever done.

We also did a far more artsy dance to a song called the glow, which was also well recieved:

I missed it all though, as I was at our end of term disco.  Glowsticks, crisps, squash and very pink faces.  This was my last afternoon school disco, once i'm in juniors it'll be all about the friday night ones!

We were finished tea pretty early, it was a lovely evening so Dad suggested we go over to the Craven Arms for a drink and a play on the playground.

Great idea, met with universal approval, off we went.

It went downhill pretty rapidly though, we started squabbling....

Yeah, then I managed to kick my football straight at the table with all the drinks on it.  Mum got a pint of coke over her lap and her also her phone. Whoops, not my finest hour.

We went home.

Straight away.

Friday

I had my sports day, the weather was good and Mum said Anne was coming along to watch too, how cool was that???

I did okay, but according to Mum all the other kids started on the 'steady' rather than the 'go' of ready, steady, go!

It was just cool to be outside and enjoying ourselves, especially chucking handfulls of cut grass at everyone under the class gazebo's.

After that it was the joint schools family picnic, we'd got used to the idea that no one was coming for us and were happy we would be spending our time with our teachers and our other unfortunate family-less friends.

So we were blown away when Mum turned up!

Yeah, we were, it was brilliant.

We had a lovely picnic, rounded off with a much needed ice cream on such a hot day.

Yeah, I spotted what was happening straight away and got to the front of the queue!

Mum didn't stay all afternoon so we went back to class, I did a poster about loom bands.

And we watched a few films (jungle book again) and made an awesome elephant mask.

Yeah, we were both really pleased with how it all worked out in the end, nice one Mum!

We rode down to meet mum from work as she had her bike.

We took a picnic and headed into Victoria Park with it.

It was ace, we ate, we rode the skatepark, we played on the park.

Then we rode home with Mum in tow as well.

Her bike has been a great purchase.

Saturday

We didn't really have any plans for the weekend.

So after a few ideas were considered, we started off with a bit of bowling.

We hadn't been for a while so we wrre dead keen.

My game was a bit patchy, a bit hit and miss.  I got into it in the end though and sorted my technique out.

I did very well, scoring 100. I was super pleased with that.

We had a go on the arcade, 10p falls for me.

Air hockey for me, I let Ellis play, and then she went and beat me!  

We were even allowed a candy floss from the well cool machine thst makes it while you watch:

I suggested a visit to Pets at home on the way home.  We loved watching the dogs having a haircut.

The cute rabbits an guinea pigs.

The fish and even the cats that were there for re-homing.

But despite our best, heartfelt lobbying and pleading we weren't allowed any sort of pet.

Not even a fish or two.

After lunch we headed for the library, again by bike.

We were dead keen to start the summer reading challenge.

I was even more keen when I found a section of sports theory books, I got one on mountain biking and BMX and one on netball.

I plumped for more animal based stories.

We did a little bit of shopping.

And I did a little bit of modelling:

Yeah, the entertainer for yet more loom bands!

We then rode home and all got stuck into our new books.

By tea time we'd both read two each!

We had worked up an appetite, so a trip to Pizza Hut was most welcome.

The official excuse being that it was a reward for our excellent school reports.

Sunday

Day two without a plan.

How about a trip to Aldershot Lido then?

Yeah, it was pretty cool too. A big old outdoor pool, with a couple of flume slides.

Chuck in a load of lovely trees and an expannse of plush green grass to set up camp on, a sandpit and we were loving it.

The water was actually pretty warm, of course I was first one in!

We hit the slides and played a lot of ball too.

You were even allowed to dive! 

And I got Dad to throw the ball up for me so 

I could go for some dead stylish diving headers.

There was a late afternoon fly past of the Red Arrows too.

Yeah, really low in formation right accross the middle of the pool, it was awesome.

We headed home after spending all day there for a quick barbecue for tea.

Monday

The wind down has surely kicked in at school for end of term, we bought all our work books home from this year.

I had my end of term dance performance, lets get ready to rumble and an indian inspired number.  I'm not really one for following the dance moves to the letter.  I do relish the freestyle sections though.

I came home from school and watched a documentary on the last flying Lancaster bomber.  

We watched loads of music videos after tea until it was bedtime....

Tuesday

It was the last of our 10 week swimming course with ths school.  We were all braced for a fun week like we have at out of school lessons....what we actually got was a load of relay races instead.  Fun week?  I don't think so!  Epsecially when the others down the shallow end got to play water polo.Last To continue our transition to Juniors we got to have lunch time at the Junior school.
I did such good work in the afternoon (for Mrs Wright no less) that I got picked to make a card for a visitor who was leaving, I loved doing that.

It was Evies party after school and while Ned was at netball I had Dad all to myself to paint my nails then dry them with the hairdrier.  I also sought his advice on eye shadow (he said not to use any) and he helped neaten up the edges of my lipstick.

The party was at her house, the highlight had to be the Pinata, which I smashed to smithereens scattering the contents everywhere.  It does help to be a bit heavy handed now and again!

I was also quite prepared to get involved and put myself forward to be decorated as a snowman, by being wrapped completely in toilet roll.

Wednesday

We've had a long spell of not getting ready in the mornings.
Yeah, most mornings have ended up rather tense affairs.
So today we got up really early in an attempt to sort this out.

It was a good idea, although we didn't quite achieve our aim as we just slouched about for longer!

I had a Netball match after school so had to miss football club.  I didn't mind.  We played St. Finnians school who were a bit late getting to our school due to traffic.  It didn't matter though as we had a warm up game amongst ourselves. 
I had to go and watch too, which was well boring, until Harry turned up and we went to the adventure playground.
I also got my words for our end of year school play, the jungle book.  We have to do our vulture song 'acapella' you know.

Thursday

I got up nice and early and watched the second installment of the documentary about the battle of Bannockburn on the Iplayer, it was really interesting.

Friday

As it was sports day and Mum was coming to watch, we could have a lay in!
Yay!

Sports day itself was really good, even if I did keep getting pipped to the line by Alastair in our races, still I got lots of second places.  In the house points we started off well in the lead, but it didn't last long and we had to settle for third overall by the time all the results were in.

Ali came for a sleepover Friday night.  We had a great time, even though I told Dad he liked peperroni pizza and cheesecake.  He didn't like either.  Oh dear.  We went down the park for a bit and we geeked out on Monecraft and played a bit of Xbox too. 

I helped Dad put up one of our old tents he was intending to use at the weekend.  I found it hilarious, it looked so small, I told him he'd never fit in it.

We decided a DVD was a good way to round out the evening but nothing in our home library seemed to quite fit the bill.  We took a trip to Tesco to see what they had and after much well reasoned discussion settled on Robocop.  Ali wanted action, I wanted laughs.  Dad also put a double Mr Bean DVD in the basket for me to watch another time with Ellis.
Yeah, we love Mr Bean.

I didn't quite make it to the end of the film before I nodded off.......but we were no trouble at all, very well behaved.  All Ali asked for was our Wifi code for his Ipad, he can come again!

Saturday

Dad packed his bike stuff and his funny little tent and disappeared off with Andy and Owen.

A bike trip!  I wasn't jealous though, they were only going downhilling.

I had a lovely lazy morning.

I still had Ali round of course, we played some more Xbox and ate Coco Pops.

They cleared off down the park or something so Mum and I popped into town for a bit of a girly shopping trip, it was lovely.  I made sure I took horsey along for the ride too:

We had a lovely day, and ended up just sitting in the garden enjoying the sunshine in the afternoon:

With Mum in control for tea time it was a free for all.
Mum and I had fish fingers and chips.  Deelish.
I requested a salad, yes, a salad, mum had no trouble 'cooking' that for me.

Sunday
A slow start, a chance to catch up a bit afte the sleepover and what have you.
Dad came back mid morning, he was in one piece and had enjoyed his bike riding I think.
I had Williams party at lunchtime, a Go-Kart party as well, how cool.
I was a bit jealous it has ot be said but I tried my best not to show it.  We went for lunch with Ellis which meant McDonalds was a no brainer.  Due to a mix up at the counter, I ended up with a quarter pounder rather than my usual cheeseburger.  It was massive and try as I could, I didn't quite manage it all.
The party was brilliant, we drove, we played driving games likes cops and robbers but quite how William managed to win 'best steerer' award is a bit of a mystery to me, he hit the inflatable course boundary at least three times!
I went out and about with Hugo in the afternoon.
And I snuggled up with Mum and Dad to watch Beethoven 2 on telly, how perfect!
It was the day of the world cup final, and I really wanted to watch it.  But with an 8pm kick off and the possibility of extra time and maybe even penalties it was looking like a late one.  I hit the whingometer hard, saying all my friends were watching it.  It was eventually agreed that I could watch the full 90 minutes and then go to bed.  So I was desperate that one of the teams would score within that time, they didn't.  I had to go to bed with it still 0-0.  I was not happy.

Monday

I got up dead early to watch the conclusion of the match on I-Player so at least i'd look like i'd stayed up for it at school.  The German goal was very good.

Wednesday

We finally finished the last story in my wishing chair book.  Which was brilliant, but also a bit rubbish really.  I've really enjoyed the stories and it's got me well and truly into proper chapter books.  I'm having a pirate one now that Ned got me for my birthday.

Thursday

We were all set for an Ellis free night....

Yeah, it was Amie's birthday party and then a sleepover.....or so we thought.  The party was certainly on, making pizza in Pizza Express.  But the sleepover wasn't until Friday night.  No wonder Amies mum looked puzzled when I turned up at the party with an overnight bag.

So after dance we had to still go and get her.

The party was great fun, we loved making pur pizza's and best of all eating them!!!!

Seeing as we were all together after tea, we made the best of it and had a bike ride to the city playground.

Friday

The real day of the sleepover.  I took my overnight bag to school which was all properly exciting.  We were going straight to Amie's from school, which turned out to be quite a walk!

So, what did I have lined up for an evening of Ellis free entertainment? Film night at school, but with a film Ellis would have loved, Frozen!  And not just that, a Frozen sing along!

I ended up getting a makeover from some of the girls:

They also gave me some rather lovely pink nails too.

Which started a bit of a trend with the boys........

I heard a rumour that Mum and Dad actually went out on their own while we were both otherwise engaged.

How dare they go and enjoy themselves!

Not that I was bothered, I was having a great time, we did make up and made our own hairbands before watching Gnomeo and Juliet and drifting off to sleep.

Saturday

Ellis free morning, free reign of the telly and the Ipad.

Yeah, like I ever cause him a problem with his entertainment.

I was still at Amies, I was pretty impressed with myself, I was a bit nervous in the build up it has to be said but it was great fun.

Having said that, I was still very pleased to see Mum and Ned when they came to pick me up.

In the afternoon it was time for rounders.

Yep, family and friends had been rounded up and we were meeting on the cricket field at Donnington for a picnic, with a bit of rounders thrown in too.

I had been super excited in the build up and couldn't wait to get started.  We had a batting practice session on the bank, Max certainly had his eye in.  I took a bit longer to get up to speed but was soon giving it a right old whack.

I played with Darcey in the park instead.  I got her going superfast on the roundabout which she loved.  Probably a good job auntie Christine didn't notice though......

We loosely arranged some teams and got going.  The disadvantage of suddenly being able to give the ball a bit of a whack is the possibility of getting caught out.  I fell fould of this more times than I care to remember.  I wasn't that bothered though, I enjoyed being a 'runner' for numerous members of the team that found it all to much (naming no names here).

I drifted in and out of the game, assisted by Mum, it was actually pretty fun. 

The main purpose of the day though was to have a get together and have some fun, which we certainly achieved.

Yeah, good effort everyone, same time next year then?

Sunday

After yesterdays exertions on the rounders field, we had a bit of a lazy morning.

We did, but then someone mentioned Hollycombe!

This induced unparalleled levels of excitement in the household.

Yep, genuine whoops of excitment.  We love Hollycombe.

It took a while to get there, so we had a power nap.

And as it doesn't open until lunchtime we had a lovely picnic in the grassy car park, next to the cute donkeys in their field.

Which was somewhat disturbed by a rather forceful peacock trying to help himself to my ham baugette.

It was hilarious.  He abandonned the baugette, shrieked and jumped on mum's lap (Ned, not the Peacock)

Dad shooed him off, he tried his luck at the next picnicking family.....

So, we headed straight for the Razzle Dazzle, even though it took a while for the bloke to get it wound up, it was soon spinning and tilting and squashing the adults on the outside.

At least this time I stayed on the seat!

There was no real waiting for rides of course, just hop on and have fun.

We loved the mirrors as well:

And the haunted house was great fun:

We had to go round several times.

We even got Dad on the big wheel, he claimed to enjoy it too!

We got the swingboats to go super high, despite a woman telling us we were doing it wrong....

Check the height lady, I think NOT!

The carousel was great, no seat belts, no having to sit with adults:

We drifted back to the car for a drink and a cookie.

It was lovely laying on the blanket, looking up at the clouds floating on by.

We couldn't find any amusing patterns in them though.

And then I got wrapped up in the blanket and put in the back of the car:

It was quite tricky wriggling free!

Feeling refreshed we went back in for a bit more action.

It was quite a tight fit in the little cars, but I loved them anyway:

We rounded the day off with a trip on the railway, sat right at the front so we could see what the driver was doing.

Monday

Whole school shuffle day!

This meant that the whole school bumped up a year to spend some time with their new teachers in their new class rooms!

We had to draw a picture of ourselves and list the things we liked for our new teacher Miss Stubbs.  I listed 'visiting the steam fair' as my number one.

I got to spend some time with Mrs Buxey, my new teacher, she seems great so far.

I also got my school report.  It started off like this:

Ellis is such a lively, fun and confident member of our class and it has been wonderful to watch her mature and develop this year.  She always manages to make the adults in the classroom smile.  

Before going on to the specific subjects, which were all equally encouraging. I was very pleased with it, so were Mum and Dad!