Ben's Blog

I completely forgot until today, that back in February, I took Ben and Aaron to the cinema for the first time! Dear me…my memory! haha

Coby was at a party with Mummy so I took the opportunity to take the other two into the Reel cinema in the centre of town to watch the Lego Batman Movie.  I hadn’t been in that cinema for nearly 20 years and found it to be very rundown now unfortunately. The material on the seats was all ripped and the paint was coming off the cinema walls but it did bring back good memories from when I was growing up that I wanted to try and share with Ben and Aaron.

Before the film started, they stocked up on sweets and went to the toilet a couple of times. We had already booked the tickets online so we didn’t have to buy them there and they were much cheaper than the Vue Cinema! We then sat down in an ideal place and watched the film, which we all enjoyed.

Of course, Aaron ate all of his sweets too quickly and started to feel sick about half way through the film, and was asking when the film was ending! Tut! I knew Aaron was going to do that! 😉 Anyway, he wasn’t sick (thank goodness) and Ben was fine throughout. 

When the film had finished, we met Mummy and Coby at McDonalds for some dinner, so it was a great morning and the boys enjoyed their first visit to the cinema. 😉

1st Cinema Trip

Yesterday morning was Ben’s year 3 assembly where he had to read out a fairly long couple of paragraphs on what they did when they visited Tesco a few weeks ago, to learn about produce, etc. He did very well reading, though we could hardly hear him at the back and he had a slight lisp due to him missing his front teeth! hahaha

3H Assembly

Before this, he was presented with his Swimming Stage 4 Certificate, which he was very proud to receive.

Stage 4 Swimming Award

On Monday, Ben passed his Stage 4 swimming and now moves up to Stage 5 when a space becomes available! Well done Ben! For someone who used to hate the water with a vengeance, he has done really well and should be very proud of himself. We just need to wait for the Stage 4 certificates to arrive at Meadowlands before Ben can have one and be presented with it during school assembly. 😉

Last Friday, Ben was awarded the Man of the Match trophy by their coach Jordi. He was very pleased about it and took it in to school on Wednesday to have it presented to him during the morning assembly.

This week, Ben got his 3rd Head Teacher’s award, so we went to assembly and saw him get presented with it by Mrs Conday. Well done Ben! X

3rd Headteachers Award

3rd Headteachers Award