The wind howled, the owls hooted, the trees shook as if they had a curse on them! All of a sudden there was silence, not even the sound of the breeze swiftly crossing through the branches of the trees. Then, a scream broke through the night waking everyone up! What attacked their village? Was it a Griffin? Or the many headed Hydra? No-one knew but what ever it was but it only came out at night...
The next day was a bright one and Danny and his sister Zara were walking along the cobbled path on their way to the park. Danny was 10 and Zara was 13 and they always were on their way to the park. Ben always wore a orange shirt with camouflage shorts. Zara wore a sparkly dress with a ribbon in her hair. They would normally stay at the park for about half an hour but today was different because today was the day when their friend, James was having his birthday! There were all sorts going on like trampoline jumping and line tag and even an obstacle course! As soon as it got dark, everyone raced to the cafe  except Danny, Zara and James who didn't know the tale of the darkness monster. Instead of the wind howling, a gale started to blow and this time a wolf howled and the trees tumbled over! Then a huge, oily, hand reached for Danny, Zara and James...
As soon as the........ thing put them down, their feet were stuck to the spot because of all the oil. They gazed around, all three of them were quite shocked to see a picture of a different hairy monster. That...... thing looked as if it were a human that had no flesh but there was an oily layer on him and he had no mouth or nose! All of a sudden, the huge hairy monster strolled  across the room not even noticing the trio. It seemed as if he were blind but then there was a flash of lightning and a giant beanstalk grew high into the clouds. A crackle of thunder then a giant peach grew as tall as both monsters! In a shower of rain a tree grew ice cream. Zara thought for a second, "We're in a different dimension! That book we read was correct, it said that there are loads of different dimensions like this one called mythical planet!" She cried but she did it quietly so the monsters couldn't hear. The thing under them is heated blood with a sprinkle of the secret ingredient, tsud cigam (read it backwards). "Could we do something to GET US FREE!" Screamed the other two as loud as possible!... "But how do..." "Quit young lady, that is quite enough talking" boomed the hairy monster. "Fifteen seconds to escape." yelled the fleshless monster, "fifteen seconds to escape!" Echoed the trio. "Is there an echo in here?" Asked both monsters at the same time. "1....2.....3...4.....5...6....7....." "Just run till you find the edge of the dimension!" Screamed Danny. "8......9...10...11...12......13....14....15!" James could hear big foot steps behind him, but they were strange noises like a dog barking at a cat. Brark, brerk, brark. It was the fleshless monster.

Year Three had the best school trip at Winmarleigh Hall and that was because of all the activities with all our friends!  One of my most favourite activities was the Giant Swing. It was basically a giant swing where you hang from a bar from a harness then goes really high… once you go as high as you wanted you would pull a string behind and that one second is when the calm breeze turns into a strong wind.  I enjoyed it so much that I though I would have gone higher!
Another activity I enjoyed was Jacob’s Ladder.  I really want to know why the ladder is named after Jacob? I went first and got up to the fifth log.  You could think it was easy but the steps got wider!  Jessica went last and was the only one to climb up to the sixth and top log.  She sped up the ladder like a squirrel climbing a tree.
One more climbing activity, this time it’s rock climbing.   There were nine numbers starting at one and ending at nine.  As you got closer to the number nine (which was at the top) the gaps got bigger.  There were only three people (including me) to get to number nine.
Now about the rooms.  We all shared a room with our friends.  I shared a room with Hugo, Jack, Oliver, Samuel and Josh.  We all slept on bunk beds but three people got to sleep at the top.  The best part about us sleeping together was the midnight feast (which wasn’t at midnight, but it was late).
Last but not my least favourite was Problem Solving.  You could guess what you have to do by its name.  One of the things we had to do was create a path to our instructors without stepping on the ‘bomb’ which makes it hard if you don’t know where it is!
I can’t wait till next year because in Year Four we go on a two night trip! I wonder how the Year Two's will like Winmarleigh next year?

A mix of year four and year three do Green Club. It's on a Friday at lunch time and over the past few weeks we've been trying to earn the Love My Beach award. You have to do the five things on a list you get and if you complete it, you get a certificate. The five things we had to do were, make posters that said flush the three Ps (pee, poo and toilet paper,) we had to get a water butt, we had to show we didn't throw away fat, we made a list of things that you shouldn't do and I think we had to put stickers on the bins in the bathroom. A lady called Emma came from Love My Beach to give us the certificate and she gave us some stickers to stick around school. We stuck them in the toilets around school. (not the staff toilets!) Now we're going to try to get a flag and that would mean we would have no litter around school.

The Monster
Its hair was flowing,
His eyes were glowing!
A tail flashed around,
What a strange monster to be found.
With a body of a human, and legs of a horse,
OH! It's a centaur of course!

by Jonah

In the morning, before went to Windermere yesterday, I built a radio that connects to the FM radios from my hot wires set. I could of made a normal one but I wanted to change the volume. I used the VR (short for variable resistor) to change the volume before the sound came out of the speaker. You may think making it was hard work but really, it was quite easy. Now I get to choose what's on the radio!