Tuesday

I've been put into a group to do extra maths at school, because i'm good at it, not bad before anyone gets the wrong idea.  It's brilliant, theres only a few of us and we have a new specialist maths teacher.  Even though we did it instead of PE it was still brilliant, apparently we won't always miss PE so hopefully next time it's a subject I don't like and the it will be epic!

Netball was cancelled sue to the rain though, we couldn't go in the hall all it's currently being painted which was a shame.

Gymnastics was on and really good again this week.

Wednesday

Well it was no pen wednesday, which meant we were supposed to be concentrating on our verbal communication instead.

It made art pretty had too, as the pen ban covered pencils, crayons, paint the lot.  I ended up using a clever system of creases to guide my cutting during construction of some lage wings.

I loved the idea of no writing, especially in maths when we played shut the box.

Getting into and indeed out of team Kennet on Wednesday night was a very wet affair indeed, it was chucking it down.

Thursday

A pretty major part of me being so keen on being school councillor was the trip to the town hall to meet the mayor that they alwats get to do.  It was brilliant, the mayors gold chain is made from 18 carat gold and is seriously heavy.  It also lives in a truly epic safe that has number combinations as well as a voice   recognition sytem.  We also learned that the Mayor is the only one in the country that has two mace's for some reason.  I loved it, history and bling.

We had rugby after school, I got to wear my new boots for the first time, they are very bright neon yellow and totally awesome.

And then it was parents evening, I was trying not to let on of course, but I was a bit worried about how it would go.

I wasn't, however misguided that might have been. 

Mine went pretty well, although Mum thinks we didn't get much in the way of detailed feedback.  I'm on target for the standards I should be reaching but sometimes like a chat. No surprises there then.

Mine went pretty well, I still take a while to settle now and again and sometimes i'm still a distraction to others on.  But having said all that, i'm still above my targets and doing well.

I also stayed on as a volunteer to greet the parents arriving at the front door and show them to the classrooms, I loved doing that.

Friday

The biggest news of the week, in my daily report book I got a glowing comment from Mrs Wright.  This is quite monumental news as i've managed to get on the wrong side of her fairly often in the past.

This no doubt helped sway Mum and Dad, on top of the good things said at parents evening into taking us to Pizza Hut for tea. Epic.

Yeah, we love a surprise of this nature, we even got to sit at one of the round tables too, perfect.

We stuffed ourselves silly and saw our dance teacher Becky with her not so little anymore baby.

We also tried some pretty dodgy drinks from the self service drinks fountain, strawberry or lime tinged tango anyone?

When we got home there was a programme on BBC3 about people having their first babies.

They got the husbands or boyfriends to do all sorts of silly tasks to prepare them for the babies arrival.

After a bit of discussion we were allowed to stay up and watch the babies being born so we did get to see them.

Saturday

Mum went off to a meeting meaning we got to stay home with Dad.

But seeing as it was raining pretty heavily his usual default entertainment for us, a bike ride was off the agenda.

We slumped for a while, watching CBBC shows on the Iplayer, until he suggested we might make some brownies???

What a great idea, even if we did have to dash to the shops on our scooters for more self raising flour.

We made a very good job of it of course, they were delicious!

Once mum was done we went to town to pick up Mum's new glasses, we went via the park in all it's autmunal glory:

I hadn't seen Mum's new glasses, but I knew I wasn't going to like them.  I don't know why she can't just keep her old ones, I like those.

A bit later on I rounded up Hugo and Dylan and we came home to have a bit of a Nerf war.

Yeah, it was pretty cool, I was even allowed to play.

It was great fun, until a chair accidentally sort of fell down the stairs a bit.....ooops.  
No damage was done but I felt really bad about it.  We wound the game up pretty quickly and had a game of Fifa on the Xbox.

We had a quiet evening watching strictly and stuffing our Ipods full of new content ready for holiday.

And I came round to mum's new glasses, I quite liked them actually.

Sunday

Bit of a lay in and the off to Eton no less for the first round of the Sportshall Athletics league for team Kennet at the Thames Valley Athletic Centre.

It was a massive big sports hall, but sadly there was no room for me to do any roller skating or indeed gymnastics.

I signed myself up with the team, met up with my mates and then got bumped up to the A team (4 per team, under 11 boys).  Our first event was the obstacle course relay.  In a shock turn events (most of all for him I think) Dad was enlisted to be a judge and had to mark down any penalties incurred on his lane.  And guess who he got on his first race? Me!  I knew he wasn't going to cut me any slack so I had to be on the case.  I only did 4 sidejumps before I set off, realised what i'd done an returned for my regulation fifth in a flash.  Next up was the standing long jump with a new PB I think at 1.83, followed by some agility events and target throwing:

I got pretty bored it has to be said, so Mum and I went out for a wander.  Dad had google earthed the place so knew there was a river near by and bought along a bag of old bread to feed the ducks with.  We eventually found it, after scrambling down a big grass bank and almost ending up in the water along with the ducks.  Sadly for the ducks though, the fresh air gave me a bit of appetite and I ate most of the bread myself.

We finished up with the team relay running race, which was a very noisy and well supported affair.

Once the events had started winding down there was a lot more free space to indulge in some gymnastics practice, there were even wall bars and climbing ropes too.

The scores were soon added up and read out in reverse order, our team didn't get called out until we were declared to be in joint second place, we were well chuffed with ourselves!

Monday

We've been doing electric circuits in science, I love it, it's the best thing ever.

It was Halloween week for after school dance, the timewarp.

Yeah, I really got into it this week, great fun.

When we got home I did some more rollerskating and then carried on with my Egyptian project, a piece about the work of a scribe.

And I went down the park to meet up with Dylan, Ella and Rebecca.

This one seems to have gone unpublished somehow?

Tuesday

It was school photo day, and for the first time since our nursery days we had our picture taken together.
Yeah, it's probably my last Primary school photo as well, so just in time really.  I think I may have ruined it by having my eyes shut or something though.
Netball was conducted during a few rain showers, we ducked for cover duting the worst of the downpours though.

No such problems at gymnastics, being all nicely indoors.  Mum came to pick me up, which gave me the perfect oppurtunity to convice dad that I hadn't passed my Level 1 badge.  He fell for it completely and was unusually sympathetic, which just made tricking him even better!!!

I watched a programme with Dick and Dom about computer games which led me to resurrect the old DS.  It didn't work.  But after a good charge and Dad giving the contacts a clean with a toothbrush it sprung into life.  I'd forgotten just how cool it was.

Wednesday
Well theres been a ban on playing on the adventure playground, apparently due to peoples little brothers and sisters hurting themselves.  How is that fair?  Rubbish.
I was quite pleased to go straight home, i'd slipped over playing Kingball and had jone an excellent job of skimming the top layer or so from most of my knee.  It was a bit of a mess it must be said.
Yeah, it didn't look great......
I had alovely big pad thing taped to it, which did a good job of soaking up the oozy, gooey sludge.  I decided I was okay for Team Kennet though and kept the pad firmly in place.
Yeah, team Kennet was cool indooors again.
It was.
We were allowed to stay up and watch the final of the Great British bake off afterwards.
How cool, even though we couldn't believe Richard didn;t win?

Thursday
I still had a gooey knee.

Friday
We came home and got straight on with our homework, well, for a little while anyway.
Yeah, the lure of the telly is strong, epsecially on a Friday afternoon.
We did get very good comments for last weeks homework efforts though.

Saturday
We went to the Cinema on Saturday morning, despite a load of carping and moaning.
But the film we watched, Earth to Echo was brilliant, well worth going to see.
Then it was on to Waitrose where we annoyed a grumoy old man by standing and talking to Alan and Hayley who we happened to bump into.
I went out on the bike to see if anyone was about in the afternoon. They weren't.

We ended up playing a few board games with Mum while dad popped out on his bike.

I then did some art work, i'm realy into my art at the moment.

Alan and Hayley came round for tea, we were dead excited to have them round.  
I loved showing them my latest moves (no handed backwards roll off the sofa and running forward flip onto the sofa).
And I got to play Agricola again.  I played on my own this time rather than with Dad, although I didn't win, I did do very well indeed.

Sunday
Well, we had a bit of a lie in.  I bust out a few moves with my magic UFO:

And then decided we'd ride into town and have lunch at the pub.
Yeah, a great idea, met by universal approval as well for once.
I had a ham and cheese panini with salad.
I had an adults cheeseburger and chips.
And then we both had a chocolate brownie ice cream sundae.....lovely!
We had a quick play on Victoria Park and then rode home again.
We settled down to watch the Gymnastics World Championships on telly...i've got a looooooong way to go.

I also started a new piece of art:

The Egyptian God Anubis, i've been quite captivated with our current school project as you can see.  Dad had to go to the airport to pick up Auntie Christine and Auntie Trish who had been allowed to go away for the weekend to a wedding.
So while he was gone I made Ellis her tea.
We had a nice bath and a bedtime story.
And I stayed up quite late watching that Guy Martin documentary where he restored a crashed Spitfire.

Monday
What a wet old day, we still went out at breaktime though, made our toast club toast go all soggy!
Our class was a bit emptier than usual, loads of them went off to St Barts for the open morning, more on this later......

It was street dance week at dance club which was good fun.

Ned Even if I did manage to catch one of Ellis' friends with my foot mid way through a cartwheel.

I'm sure she'll get over it.
Going back to the subject of secondary schools, Mum finally managed to get my application through on the wafty website.  So i'm all signed up for Park House, we find out if I have a place next March.  We've all thought long and hard about it and we're all happy with our decision.  It really helped going to the open evenings last year and again this year.  All three were brilliant it has to be said but I think we all felt i'd be happer at Park House, even if the vast majority of my friends are going to St Barts.......

Tuesday

Yep, still loving netball, making the most of it before I go to secondary school.

I enjoyed gymnastics this week too, I got involved in a bit of a dispute last week with another girl which wasn't so good but this week it was all fine.

Wednesday

What with summer now done and dusted we took to the sports hall at Park House for team Kennet.  I got dropped off at Abi's house and went with her this week.

Yeah because we were going to the St. Bartholomews school open evening.  The last one of the school visits before we have to submit my application at the end of the month.  It was good, I was very impressed with it in fact.  I also saw loads of my current school friends there.......I had a lot to take in so didn't get involved in quite as many science experiments as I might have liked.  I really shone in the history department though, I went through the entire quiz on the whiteboard where you had to date historic costumes without any mistakes.  Then I moved onto photo's of significant events of the 20th century, I also got pretty much all of them right, from Hitler, through the Berlin wall, the Twin Towers, Martin Luther King and Margaret Thatcher.  Everyone was amazed, especially Dad.

Team Kennet was ace indoors and it was cool to go with Abi, although it was a bit weird without Ned there.

Thursday

My daily school reports are generally making good reading, there are a few blips of course....

And I got a red card for having a bit of a set two with another girl in my class.  Oops.

I also got three house points from Miss Knowles today for my good sporting behaviour playing dodgeball with some of the younger kids, I threw underarm giving them a chance rather than my usual Ned rocket arm style.

Rugby club numbers after school were up again this week, brilliant!

After tea we had a bit of a shopping trip.

I needed some new football boots.  They had none in my size though.

And I had to get a couple of presents for a couple of friends upcoming parties.

We also had to get some stuff for the school harvest festival....
But no baked beans, as the food bank are apparently over run with them!

Of course, Dad and I found it hilarious to keep trying to buy beans.....

Friday

We struggled in with a carrier bag full of stuff each for harvest festival.

Yeah, we got a bit carried away with the shopping.

We watched the semi final of Great British bake off after tea.  

Dad put the kiss of death on Chetna, saying she might win......she went out!

Saturday

I had the first of my parties at the bowling alley for Adrija.  It was great fun, I scored 115 and came second. I was pretty pleased with that.

While she was having a great time I had to go into town with Mum and Dad, how joyous.  It was a condtructive trip though, we helped Mum finally pick a new pair of glasses.  We also went to Weavers Walk cafe for lunch and the had a fresh doughnut from the doughnut man outside mum's work, they were lush.

We got quite a group of us school mates out on saturday afternoon for a trip down the park, even some of the girls came out too which was cool.

I stayed in and my pestering finally paid off to Mum, it was time for Bubble painting at long last:

It was every bit as fun as i'd hoped it would be, thanks Mum.

I also did some home gymnastics practice, trying to touch my feet on the back of my head:

 

I've still got a little way to go it seems.

Auntie Trish came round in the evening to babysit, awesome!! 

We enjoyed strictly and a little bit of cuddle time:

We even got to watch Through the Keyhole, the worlds funniest programme.

 

Sunday

Bit of a lay in and the we loaded up the bikes and headed for Dinton Pastures.

Via M&S to get some picnic and torment Dad by using the self service checkout.

We didn't actually ride very far, but we did climb some trees:

We had a lovely picnic by the lake.

And I got to remark about how cute every doggie that was out for a walk in the autumn sunshine.

Then of course there was the park.

It was without a doubt the most epic park we've ever been to.

Yeah, it was pretty good it has to be said:

By the time we got home the demo version of Forza Horizons 2 had finally finished downloading.  It was worth the wait, it's brilliant, the full version will certainly be on my christmas list.

Monday

Well I had to dance class after school without Ellis.

Yeah, I was off to my second party, this time for Maddie at Pizza Hut.  We got to top our own pizzas, so I obviously went in heavy with the cheese and then topped that with salami, my new favourite thing after the Newbury Show free samples.

I struggled through dance just fine without Ellis, and then went home to find my new football boots had been delivered.  I was very pleased with them but didn't wear them around the house out of respect for the carpet.