Miss Davey loved meeting her new class yesterday. They had a great day getting to know one another, playing music with the boomwhackers and creating a mini art gallery display based on Peter H. Reynolds's book, 'The Dot'. 

The children have had a lovely day; they have met their new teachers and explored their new classrooms. During our special transition day, the children in year two read ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister and discussed our school value of kindness. We then explored what makes a good friend and wrote recipes for friendship. We used our recipes to create our friendship potions. Take a look at our very own rainbow fish. We shared a little bit about ourselves, created scales and popped them on a whole class fish. 

Congratulations to our Year 5/6 Maths Championship finalist team. The children completed a range of challenging logic, reasoning and number challenges whilst competing against other Dudley Schools. By aiming high, showing great teamwork and applying their fantastic maths knowledge, they finished 6th overall out of the 12 finalists. We are all so proud of how well they represented Lapal's values of perseverance, cooperation and excellence. 

One member of the team even won a special individual prize of 2 tickets to the SpongeBob Musical at Wolverhampton Grand, for his great estimating skills. 

The team also couldn't miss the opportunity to have our photo taken with Mayor of Dudley, Councillor Andrea Goddard, who presented the awards.