St Johns Primary School, Hampshire



Thank you for all these e-mails,

Love Sebastian Swan.
February 2004


Dear Sebastian,
We have a buddy called Rebecca who is in Reception. We are in Yr 5 and 6 and we look after her. Our names are Jessamy, Emma and Matt.

We went on your website to look at the books. Rebecca was not interested until we showed her 'The Lost Cygnet.' She liked counting the baby animals :) She was a bit shy, sucking her 2 fingers, but we all enjoyed it. Rebecca started to do tiger impressions when she saw all the animals. We all had fun asking her questions and we will come back to your website soon. !!!!!

Yours sincerely,
Emma, Matt and Jessamy



Dear Sebastian,
My name is Jordan and buddy is Billie.My buddy partner is Carl My buddy
found it difficult and a bit boring but he liked the game Guess Who. I am sure we will visit your website again and we will enjoy it. Buddies are
younger kids that we look after and play with.


from Jordan Carl and Billie

 


Dear Sebastian,
In our school we have a buddy scheme and Year five/six get paired up with a reception child. Our buddy is called Lucy. We have been on the program and this is what we thought of it.
Lucy thought the books were very amusing and she learnt a lot of things for
eg. A caddisfly Nymph eats the water weed.We even learnt a bit ourselves!Lucy especially liked Sebastians Ryhmes and thought the swan story was very good.We had great fun and we hope to write to you again!

Your Sincerely
Faye,Kathy and Lucy

 


Dear Sebastian,
My buddy Jack loved your website especialy when we read the books.His favorite one was the rhyming one.I thought it was really child friendly. My buddy was thrilled with the message you left at the end of the book.

When you are year 5/6 you have reception kids to look after.You take a small amount of responsibility over them.
It makes us take care of little kids.

I like your website and hope to visit it again!

Yours sincerely

Bethany

 


Dear Sebastian,
My buddy Jack loved your website. His favourite book was the rhyming book,I liked it too. Jack also liked "Guess How". It was hard sometimes. We liked counting to six and we liked all your books.

Your websit is childfriendly and great fun. We look forward to more books in the future.

From Kathy W.

P.S I liked the pin board.

 


Dear Sebastian,
We pair up with reception children that are called buddies.
Our buddy is called Lewis. He liked the book Who Is This? He also liked the book on pond animals.

I thought the books were really good for his age and was exciting for him.

we really enjoyed the ourselves.

your sincerely
Amy,Alex and Lewis

 


Dear Sebastian,
In our school we have buddies. Our buddy is Harry.He is so funny.On Monday we met up with our buddies and went on to your website and looked at your books and read The Swan Story to him. He enjoyed the book and we enjoyed them to.

We enjoyed the website loads and hope to go on your website some time soon..

from

Connor and Charlotte

 


Dear Sebastian,
My name is Joe. My buddy, Emily, and my buddy partner is
Mari-Lisa. We liked your website and Emily enjoyed it. She answered most of the questions with a little help from us.
Buddies are younger kids that we look after and play with. We really liked
your website and hope to go on it again.


from Joe, Mari-Lisa and Emily

 


Dear Sebastian,
In our school we have buddy groups.These help us to look
after the younger children. In year 5 and 6 we pair up with a reception
child.Our buddy is Abigail and she really enjoyed the website.

She liked the big books especially Guess Who, but some of the questions were pretty hard and we had trouble answering some of them ourselves!! Abi also liked the maths activity when you had to order the numbers from 1-20. We did several of these and she would have liked to have done more if we had the time.:)

We all found the website exciting and interesting and in the future would like to see even more games and big books.

Yours sincerely
Rosie,Richard and Abigail.

 


Dear Sebastian,
In our school we have buddy groups. This is when Years 5 &
6 get together with a child from Reception. We meet together occasionally and look out for them through the school. Our last time together was going on your website.

Our buddy, James thinks that your website is great fun. He especially liked
the big books and maths activities. We looked at lots of books including Guess Who.

We thought that the website was at the level of our buddies. It had great
questions and our buddy liked the pictures. We liked the maths activities as
well.
Our only criticism was that some of the books were a little confusing. Even for us!

We would really like you to put some more big books on your website because our buddy really enjoyed them.Thank you for reading our letter.

From
:D Naomi, Matt and James :D

 


Dear Sebastian,
In my school we have a buddy scheme. The children in year 5 and 6 look after the small children sometimes. Our last activity together was going on your website.

We enjoyed Sebastian Swan's website because it helped my 5 year old buddy to learn from this website. We all enjoyed finding out about Swan's. The best part of the website was definately the books!

Yours Sincerely,
Izzy

 


Dear Sebastian,
At are school we have a buddy program. The year 5 and 6 children look after and sometimes do activities with the reception children.Our buddy is called Henry.
With Henry we went on your web site. We thought that the games were good for his age group. The books he liked the most because he wanted to go on them all the time!!! The guess who game was good for Henry because he was able to try and guess what animal is hiding.
We did the colouring in, he found it quite hard but in the end he did it. His
favorite book was The Lost Sygnet.He thought it was a really great book.
We thought that the site could be improved by using more pictures and stories and having a colouring competition.

Your Sincerely,
Andrew
Emily