Merry Christmas

A Very Merry Christmas to all Salterford House children, parents and friends.

A few websites to visit over the holiday.
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/
You can track Santa on Christmas Eve on google maps!

 http://emailsanta.com
If you haven't written to Santa yet, you can email him and get a reply.

 http://www.santagames.net/
Fun and games at the North Pole

Movies to watch.
Elf
The Muppet's Christmas Carol (Mr Britten's favourite Christmas Movie)
The Santa Clause
A Miracle on 34th Street
The Snowman

Things to do
Attend a Christingle Service at your local church
Make some reindeer food
Clumber Park, NottinghamshireTinsel Trek29 December 10am-12pm - Walk off all that turkey!
Attempt the Christmas Cryptic Quiz (See below)


Christmas Quiz
Can you identify these Christmas Tunes
(You can probably find the answers to these using Google.  Just think how much more satisfying it will be when you work them out without it!)

1. Small city of Judea
2. Colorless Yuletime
3. Singular yearning for twin anterior incisors
4. Loyal followers advance
5. Righteous darkness
6. Weather: cloudless; Arrival time: 2400 hours
7. Far off in a feeder
8. Array the corridors
9. Bantam percussionist
10. Monarchial triad
11. Nocturnal noiselessness
12. Father Christmas en route to borough
13. Initial Christmas
14. Frozen precipitation commence
15. Proceed and enlighten on the pinnacle
16. The quaduped with the vermillion proboscis
17. Delight for this planet
18. Give attention to the melodious celestial beings
19. Hence arriveth Kris Kringle
20. To descry matriarchal osculation of yuletide anthropomorphism
21. Endocarps vesicated in a conflagration
22. Jehovah duleify blithe chevallers

Week Beginning 5th December

On Wednesday afternoon, Year 1-4 and pre-prep are off to the panto! Jack and the Beanstalk at Mansfield Theatre. Former Dr Who Colin Baker stars as the Giant's henchman Fleshcreep in a traditional pantomime which also features Chris Pizzey as Simple Simon, Emma Nowell as Jack and Stephen David as Dame Trott.

Jack is a young lad living with his widowed mother. Their only means of income is a cow. When this cow stops giving milk one morning, Jack is sent to the market to sell it. On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him "magic" beans in exchange for the cow. Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home with no money, his mother gets angry and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. As Jack sleeps, the beans grow into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack climbs the bean stalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a house, which is the home of an ogre. He enters the house and asks the ogre's wife for food. She gives him food, but the ogre returns and senses that a human is nearby: Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman? Be he 'live, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. However, Jack is hidden by the ogre's wife and overhears the ogre counting his money. Jack steals a bag of gold coins as he makes his escape down the beanstalk. Jack repeats his journey up the beanstalk two more times, each time he is helped by the increasingly suspicious wife of the ogre and narrowly escapes with one of the ogre's treasures. The second time he steals a hen which laid golden eggs and the third time a magical harp that played by itself. This time he is almost caught by the ogre who follows him down the beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for an axe and chops the beanstalk down, killing the ogre. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches.


The Actors
Colin Baker
Colin Baker was the 6th Doctor Who

Christopher Pizzey
Worked with Basil Brush as Mr Stephen

Emma Nowell
Hi-5 Star

Jokes of the week

Do giants eat Englishmen with their fingers? No, they eat their fingers separately!
How did Jack know how many beans his cow was worth? He used a cowculator!
Jack stole a golden harp from the giant. Why couldn't he play it? Because it took a lot of pluck!
Jack was always a grubby boy. You know what they say? You can lead a boy to water but you can't make him wash!
Knock, knock. Who's there? Fifi. Fifi who? Fifi fiefie fofo fum I smell the blood of an Englishman!
Knock, knock. Who's there? Sarah. Sarah who? Sarah giant living here?
Knock, knock. Who's there? Boo. Boo who? There there ... giants don't cry!

Puzzle of the week
Ram divided 15 pennies among four small bags.
He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to
15p, without opening any bag.
How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?