A Day in the Life of Mrs. Batters’s Class
Today is Tuesday and it is one of our busiest days of the week. Mr. Wild opens the door at 8.30 to let us come in. We go to our classroom upstairs and unpack our bags. We put our coats on the back of our chairs because we go swimming. Mrs. Batters takes the register to check who is here and we line up ready for the baths. With a partner, we walk downstairs and get on the coach at the front of school. Our swimming teacher is called Mrs. Sharratt. She is very kind. Swimming is really good fun but the water is sometimes cold. When we have finished our lesson we eat our tuck – Tuesday is Fairtrade Tuck Day – and go back on the coach to go back to school. When we arrive back at school we have our milk and order a sandwich if we want one.
Our next lesson is Art or Design Technology, which we have in the Art Room. We are making packages for a new Fair Trade product at the moment. After Art we go back to our classroom ready for Numeracy. Some children go to Mr. Woodward for Numeracy and some stay with Mrs. Batters. We always start our Numeracy lesson with a number game or activity like Bingo. We work in our books or do a practical activity like weighing or sorting shapes and numbers.
After all this hard work, we are all ready for our lunch. We line up and walk downstairs to wash our hands which is very important. We have our lunch in the hall and sit at tables with other children from Year 1 and 2. The Year 3 children are monitors and clear the plates and cups for the younger children. Each week, Mrs. Batters chooses a table of the week. The children on this table get their lunch first and have a Fairtrade cookie in assembly. Our lunches are cooked by Mrs. Wroe and Mrs. Harris who work very hard. We always try to have a clean plate so we can have a lunchtime merit. When we have finished our lunch we play outside or go back to the classroom to read with Mrs. Batters. There is always a lot of equipment outside for us to play with. Miss Wright, Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Hughes look after us at lunch.
At 1.25 we come back inside for our exercises with Mrs. Batters and Mrs. Greenwood. We use the mats in the hall to do our exercises. Some of our exercises are tricky but we always have a go. They are called parachute, sea anemone, the fish and the octopus. When we have finished we line up to go upstairs for registration.
Our next lesson is literacy. We usually start on the carpet where we read a story or look at some information. All our written work goes in our yellow books, except our special writing which is called Exceptional Writing and goes in a special blue folder. Every few weeks Mrs. Batters chooses someone’s exceptional writing to go on display in the entrance hall. Our next lesson is called “Our World” which includes History, Geography and Religious Education. This lesson is always very interesting and we have learnt about Greece, ancient and modern, animals in danger and Fairtrade tea and coffee. We have been learning how to carry out our own research and have pretended to be Spartan soldiers.
At 3.10 we go into our house groups for activities. Our school houses are Elk, Fox and Raven. Our activities this half term are cross-stitch, book club and choir. We have been reading James and the Giant peach in book club and Mrs. Berry always puts on funny voices for characters.
Finally after such a busy day we go back to our classroom when there is just enough time to count our merits for the day and share a story. At 4.00 we go downstairs ready to go home or into Stay and Play with Mrs. Cluskey, Miss Wright and Mr. Lawton. After a quick snack, the younger children stay downstairs and play and the older children go upstairs into the Discovery Room for Homework Club.
By Mrs. Batters’s Class
