Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday

Second day of Sats tests, todays was on reading comprehension.  It was all about Panda's so I felt right at home and I reckon I did very well.

I couldn't really be bothered to go to gymnastics after i'd spent a good hour or so down the park straight from school but Dad made me go anyway.  Actually, don't tell him but I'm glad I went and really enjoyed it.

Wednesday

Sats day three and it was maths papers 1 and 2.

I was quite calm about the whole thing as was really pleased that I solved a shape puzzle that none of my froends seememd to get.  Dad didnt either when I tried it on him at home.

Thursday

Last day of Sats, the hardest maths paper.  I was pretty quiet when I got home after this one, so draw your own conclusions.

As a reqrd for my efforts over the week I got to choose tea.  I devastated Ned by not wanting Pizza Hut and instead plumping for........Fish and Chips!

Hmmmm it was delicious too,even if the portion was so massive I had no chance of finishing it.

In a very rare occurence Ned stayed downstairs long enough to play a board game with us...probably because he couldnt haul his bloated self upstairs after his deep fried battered mars bar he had from the chippy.

We played Flamme Rouge, and it was really good fun.  Until Dad won which wasn'ti ideal.

Friday

As a reward for out efforts doing Sats we had a full year group trip to Goldwell Park for the day.  The weather was glorious so it really couldnt have been better.  The boys spent the majority of the day playng football, yawn.  We did have a really fun game of rounders and also made a constant train of people going down the big tube slide and then running round the climbing frame to join the back of the queue again.

I had a quiet few hours once I was home before film night at school.  The Greatest Showman, singalong version, as a slumber party!  Yep thats right.  It was a good night but I could have dne without some of the annoying singing.

Saturday

Well there was a royal wedding on, so Dad sloped off out on his bike and I took to the garden so Mum could watch it in peace:

I've really been enjoying the weather weve been having for ages now, so much time outside makes me very happy.

Lily Yeomans party in the afternoon, a Nerf party at that, never been to one of those before.  It looked great when we got there, inflatable walls and cars dotted around the grounds and a big white van full of Nerf guns and bullets.  The man doing the party was really good fun and took great delight in writing our names on our water bottles incorrectly.  There were a load of organised games to play but the bullets were much harder than ours at home with a hard plastic tip, so they hurt a bit more.

There was a barbecue running, plenty of fun and laughter and some really nice chocoalte cake. We rounded proceedings off with a pinata in a tree, only two people took a swipe at it before it's head seperated from it's body and it fell to the ground to be ravaged for the sweets within.  I made off with the donkeys body which made a rather splendid hat:

No sooner had I finished there we were off to Joels first birthday party:

We can't believe he's one already.  As usual he was on great form, he's sucha happy little fella.

Happy birthday Joel!

Sunday

Well it's been sunny for ages but the outdoor pool in Northcroft still isn't open.  We fancied an open air swim to trekked off to Cheltenham instead.  It was reasonably busy but we found a nice spot for our blanket and fed our faces with picnic before getting changed and getting i the water.  It was a perfect temperature and you were allowed to dive in so thats a double thumbs up! There was also a rather mad 1950's pre health and safety era slide which was interesting too.

We rounded out the day with an ice cream and a lovely lay out in the sunshine:

Monday

We had a school trip to Bayer's new office in Reading to learn about DNA. We had to take samples of our cheeks and basically spit them into a test tube to perform some anyalysis.  Not sure what conclusions we drew but we did learn that all humans share 99.9% genetically identical.

Lily came round after school and there was an incident of spider induvced hysteria in my room.  Ned tried to help out by trapping it in a glass with a bit of paper underneath......but it broke free again so we summoned Dad to come and bail us out!  Thanks for trying though Ned.