New Member Simon Drops In!
New fish Simon!
Hi there everyone!
I hope you all had a great Bank Holiday weekend – I went over to visit my cousins Alex and Karen for the day on Monday. I took my dog Dylan with me, because they love playing with him, and we all took him for a really long walk. Alex spent the whole time throwing sticks for Dylan, and when we got home, they were both exhausted! In fact, within about half an hour, they had both fallen asleep!
While me and my Aunt got started on making dinner (a massive roast chicken – I was in charge of preparing all the vegetables!), my Uncle Will popped out on a mysterious mission and wouldn’t tell us where he was going. He said it was a surprise, and we were all really curious about it! Then he arrived home, with a big bag full of new fish to go in the pond outside in their garden! Check out the photos of the new fish, and of my uncle lowering them into the pond – you have to do it really carefully so that they get used to the new water temperature, and don’t surprise the other fish too much! We all got to name one, and I called mine Simon! He’s the big one on the right! They started swimming about happily straight away, so I think they really like their new home!
The new fish going in!
Are you looking forward to going back to school? The holidays seem to have gone amazingly quickly, and I can’t believe they’re over already! But it’ll be nice to get back to school and see all my friends, and find out what everyone’s been doing over the Summer!
Do you know anyone who got their GCSE or A-level results this Summer? If so, I hope they’re really proud of themselves and pleased with their results! My friend Dean has an older brother who got his A-level results recently – he didn’t do quite as well as he’d hoped on his Maths exam, so he’s going to do a slightly different University course than he originally planned – he’s going to do a degree in Engineering, and he’s really excited about it! Dean’s Mum is a bit worried that she’ll miss him loads when he moves away from home, but he’s going to come back to visit every few weeks, so it won’t be too bad!
And Verity’s younger sister Vanessa got her GCSE results last week – she did really well, and is going to go and do A-levels at Bury College this year. She’s going to do Art, English, Sociology and Photography – I think the Photography course sounds brilliant, and really interesting. She’s really excited about starting her new courses, and Verity is very proud of her for doing so well!
Everyone in the HF4U office is looking forward to the start of the new year too – I’m going in tomorrow to give them a hand getting lots of resource bags ready for the new schools that will be starting Higher Futures this term. After the recent competitions to design new website pages, Ana has been having meetings with John, who made the HF4U website, to start putting the new features into action – she wouldn’t tell me exactly what they are going to be, but said they’re going to be really really cool! They’ll be ready soon, and I can’t wait to hear what you all think of them!
Have Fun!
Sam