christmas

The Ludicrous Christmas Lurgy

The Ludicrous Christmas Lurgy

December in Horsmarlonerpool was normally a wonderful time of year. Everyone would buy Christmas presents and eat cinnamon buns in the market that was set up in the square where Pepperpot Street meets Candlesmoke Lane. And everyone would ice skate around a special frozen obstacle course on the River Gurgleglug. And people would toboggan down Lomberstack Mountain on the longest and most exciting track in the world.

But this year was very different. A few weeks ago, Pebbles and Crater - the two only really naughty people in town - had invented a dangerous pill that made your right eye blink, and your tummy burp, and your mouth whistle all at the same time. And can you imagine how awful that would make you feel.

WINK. BURP. WHISLTE. All day long!

The Extraordinary Decorations

The Extraordinary Decorations

Every year as it gets closer to Christmas, each class at Half Hitch school decorates their classrooms as well and as imaginatively as they can - with as little help from their teachers as possible. Then, the whole school is allowed to walk into all the classrooms and see what each of them looks like.

The idea is that each class shows off what they’ve been learning that year. So if a Year 6 class had been learning about bright colorful chemicals, maybe their decorations would be a big science experiment. Or if a Year 4 class has been learning about forests, maybe their decorations would be big snowy trees?