Celebrating Pupil Work

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Pupils View on St. Anne's School

St. Anne's School, Alderney - Evie C

Introduction
Our wonderful school is nestled on the small island of Alderney within the Channel Islands. Over 130 children attend St. Anne’s. We are the only school on this beautiful island.

Ways we are so unique:

Every week in the summer months, classes get kitted up in their own individual wetsuits, swimsuits and sea shoes and stroll down to the nearest seaside (Braye Beach) for a swim lesson. At high tide we generally practise our entries into the water and at low tide our swimming strokes and/or confidence in the water. The water is occasionally cold but most of the time refreshing!

St. Annes is a ‘through’ school accommodating children from the age of three (preschool) to the age of 16 (year 11) and the additional year 12 for children who cannot go to Guernsey.

From some of our classroom windows, we have a sea view overlooking Braye Beach, the harbour and the famous breakwater. On the other side of the main school building, we have views of traditional houses and their gorgeous flowers.

Local builders have just built us a new phenomenal playground from the money raised by the PTA (Parent Teacher Association). It has been equipped with a climbing frame and slide, spider frame and some exercise equipment. It will be opened sometime this summer term.

Facilities

Here at St. Anne’s we are blessed to have so many amazing rooms. Just a few to name are a large library crammed with books for all ages; an ICT room full of monitors and computers, a large, spotless hall where we eat our packed lunch, on the rare occasion do PE and were most of the special events are held and classrooms with enough room for all the children. Most of the classes are mixed as in year 1 and year 2 are put together and so forth but Reception, year 5 and year 6 are classes in themselves.

Staff

All staff fortunate enough to work here are extremely friendly and happy. Here at our school having fun matters as much as education. Our school motto is ‘Great oaks grow from small acorns.’ Our headteacher is Mrs. W. Wilson and our deputy head is Mrs. D. Dix. Some LSAs work here too, assisting the teachers and children. All of the staff here know the proper definition of ‘fun’.

Occasions not to miss

Every year at Christmas time, the juniors all get together for a handful of fun and competitive games. We play pass the parcel (with a MASSIVELY AMAZING prize); Human Hungry Hippos with skateboards (so fun in my opinion); and we also have a Nativity play where every child ,who is allowed, has their own unique part to play. St. Annes also celebrates World Book Day with all children that want to dress up as their favourite character or in theme. During World Book Day,there are also lots of fun competitions to enter such as The Masked Reader (You win a chocolate bar), Best Dressed (wins bookshop voucher) and many, many more.

Rewards

When you arrive at the school, you are split into three teams either Ortac, Casquets or Burhou.

St Anne’s School By Molly J

Location

St Anne’s is a small school located on a tiny island called Alderney. The island is part of a group of five islands called the Channel Islands. We are part of the British Isles even though Alderney is only eight miles off the coast of France. We are very lucky to live here because of all the stunning scenery that is around us every day.

The Uniqueness of our school

Our school is unique in so many different ways:
It’s the only school in Alderney.
It’s a through school so we stay in the same school from the ages 3-16.
We don’t have a pool in our school so we have to go down to the closest beach to learn to swim. This is what we call sea swimming.

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Features

St Anne’s is extremely close to the beach. You can even see the sand and sea from certain classrooms. It’s around a three minute walk from the back of St Anne’s to the lovely, soft sand.

We have some amazing and spectacular rooms in our school.

The Library ;A calming, quiet, beautiful place to read and relax.
The Hall; It’s a massive room next to the reception. We eat our lunch with everyone there. You are allowed to go home but the majority of the school stay to eat with their friends.
The cooking room; This is a splendid room where we do all our creative cooking lessons. We make spectacular food for our year to enjoy.

We have so many incredible rooms in our school.

Special Occasions

St Anne’s throws the best parties and occasions for all to enjoy.
My personal favourite occasion the school provides us with is the year six trip. This is a trip only for year sixes. We go to Guernsey for the working week. The year sixes do many fun activities during their time in Guernsey.
Once every year at Christmas time, quite close to the end of term, the school has a massive Christmas party for the whole school. The staff set up a massive feast with cake, biscuits, crisps e.c.t … The juniors play a handful of games which are associated with Christmas.

St Anne’s give rewards to pupils who have done exceptional work throughout the week. There is a member of staff who will hold the Assembly to give the certificates to the children. There is a special cup or trophy that is given to a selected child by a kindness post-it note. This is when a child or teacher sees another child being kind or helping someone. We call this cup the kindness cup.

Uniform

Our school (in primary) has a dark blue uniform. You can have a choice of a jumper with the school logo or a cardigan with the logo. It is all very comfortable for us to work in. It has a yellow circle with a gold lion in the middle just like the Alderney flag.

We wear a white polo shirt. This shirt goes well with the dark blue and the white writing which says St Anne’s school. The collar of the polo shirt can be different depending on which company you buy it from. For example some have fancy edging.

We have to wear black on the bottom half of our uniform. You can either wear a skirt with tights or socks and pupils can also wear black trousers.

Playing areas

Our school has recently built a brand new playground just at the back of school where we have our 10:30 break time. We have not had a playground for a few years now and we are all very excited for it to open. It has a huge spider web that is shaped like a pyramid, wooden apparatus with a slide, climbing wall and bridge.

There is an outdoor gym just next to the music hut where we can go to swing on monkey bars and pullups and more.

There is a built-in trampoline in the ground for us to jump up and down on.

The Field

To the left of the entrance we have a gigantic play field. This is a large area of land covered in grass and beautiful flowers. We are only allowed on here if it has not been raining and if that's the case we will play on the bottom playground.

YEAR 7 SONNETS 2023

Sonnet to ‘Love and War’ by Filip