More Fireworks!

Fantastic Fireworks

Last Thursday saw the official opening of the Atlantis Hotel located on the Palm Island. The highlight of the launch party, which cost a hefty 20 million dollars, was a terrific firework display. More than 2,000 world celebrities were invited to the event, which began Thursday night and continued into Friday. Among those who showed up were Hollywood stars Robert de Niro, Charlize Theron, Mischa Barton and Wesley Snipes; the Beckhams also made an appearance and Kylie Minogue performed a number of her songs.

Mr O'Brien wasn't famous enough to be allowed into the party but he had a great view of the fireworks that could apparentlly be seen from space. Check out his photographs.

Year 6 Christmas Song

No excuses for not learning the words now or saying my dog ate the sheet!

It’s not about the presents ( but we like those very much)
It’s not about the turkey ( ‘tho it adds a special touch!)
It’s not about the shopping ( believe us that’s not right)
It’s all about a special feeling makes us feel just right

Share the Christmas spirit with all the world today
Show that peace and love can make the sadness go away,
Share the Christmas spirit with your neighbours and your friends,
Thanks to you we know the Christmas spirit never ends.

You can’t beat the Christmas feeling when youre sitting by the tree
Surrounded by the loving of all the family
Share that special feeling with people round the world
To make a happy heart for every boy and girl.

Share the Christmas spirit - - - -

Not everyone’s so lucky not like you and me,
Not everyone has presents and a turkey and a tree,
Not everyone has care and love or somewhere warm to live,
We’re thankful that we’re in this place and glad that we can give.

Hey Keyworth

Hello Miss Lees and Keyworth

We have been soooo busy again finishing our Art for the exhibition. Its all completed now so Mr O'Brien is happy as the swim squad nearly didn't get theirs finished as they had to leave school early to head over to Abu Dhabi for a big swimming gala.

We are loving all the comments that you have been sending, they are great. Thanks Nicole and Ali for all your brill questions and comments. The boys in our class love wrestling and football and want to know what teams you support. Like Miss Lees, Mr O'Brien supports Arsenal! He tries desperately to convert us but there are only a couple of fellow gooners in Rak, Mo and Tom H.

What fantastic poets you all are - we have been told that we are going to read the poetry you have written using Google Docs (very exciting) - we have also been using Google Docs for our writing journals and descriptive writing we would love you to read them if you get chance.

Next week we are looking at poetry as well and we will write about our playtimes too. We are very interested to know what sort of things you get up to in your playtime. Clowns? Sounds very interesting but if Miss Lees is involved then Mr O'Brien isn't surprised! Next week we will also be going to the beach which is just up the road from our school to be inspired to write some poetry. We will post them onto your Google Docs then you can read them.

Your play sounds really fun Vicky Pollard is really funny you should send us over a video when its finished so we can watch it - yeah but no but yeah! Olivia, to answer your questions, it takes about 7 and half hours to fly from Dubai to England and yes, we do have Non Uniform days in fact we just had one to raise money for the Arabian Leopard. We had to bring in 10 Dirhams (our currency) each to wear what we liked and we raised over 4000 Dirhams. Next week we will be dressing up as Americans so that will be fun too.

Its the weekend for us now and some of us are doing some very exciting things. It Tom H's birthday over the weekend and he is having a party, a few of us are going to watch Kylie in concert and some of us are going to watch the firework show that is happening on the Palm Island to celebrate the opening of the Atlantis Hotel. This is a big deal in Dubai so there are lots of celebrities - Mrs Kenny - our fab Teaching Assistant - said her friend saw Robert Di Nero at the airport. What will you guys be doing this weekend?

Well whatever you are getting up to we hope its fun filled.

Happy Blogging Keyworth.

Catherine says...

This week I have been reading famous five by Enid Blyton and they are outstanding!!I have all of the collection on my shelf at home and it took two years to collect them all.I would recommend them very much. The book I am reading at the moment is called 'FiveRun Away Together' and the excitement in it is imense!!So if you are stuck for a good read you know that the famous five is a good read!!
By Catherine Grimshaw.

King of the Week

Hello I'm Euan and I am King of the week and im going to write about what i've been up to.This week I have been doing lots of things such as MYST writing where we have studied a computer game called MYST: Exile III. We have been trying to get inspire some descriptive writing. Also I've have been writing in my writing journal and this is where we get to write whatever we want so I have been doing a guide, to help with an online game called Rune Scape. There is one more thing I have done a painting as you can see below it took me five painstaking weeks to do. Mr O'Brien has proudly hung the canvass up in our classroom and now it is on here for everyone to see.

6POB MYST: Narrative Writing