Half a Pound

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"We have found "Bush", "America" and "Numb". Can you find any more? If you can please click on the link below to share your findings with the rest of the world!"

Transum,
Sunday, March 05, 2006

 

"I have found the words faint, too, vein, vine, seam, neat, duet, open, doze, fight, scared for the lesson starter on 5th March."

Greg Stewart (student teacher), SW Scotland
Thursday, February 22, 2007

 

"Low = 50p"

Ruth Towler, York
Saturday, February 24, 2007

 

"We have found LION"

Year 5, West Sussex
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

 

"Connie found lion."

Connie, Chatsmore, Worthing
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"We found that Frank and Alisha are worth 50p."

Frank and Alisha, year 7 set 1, Chatsmore, Worthing
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"We have found joy, apple , fest? , open , yet , "

Kingsdown School, Swindon
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"first word found TOO"

P Austin, Withins school Bolton
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"Other words that we found are:
apple, animal, sold"

Dixons CA, Mrs Bates Y9 maths class
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"We found that easy and snake total 50p"

Year 7, Highfields, Wolverhampton
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"Apple, Snap, Colt, Naps, Span, Tye, Too, Yet, Pans"

Class 8 Ma4, Preston School
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

"We tried again and found some good ones

bloat swag fight paul"

Kingsdown, yr 8
Friday, March 02, 2007

 

""MANGO" = 50p"

Ye Won, Year 10, British International School, Jakarta
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Ever, tomb, joy, chose, snap and numb."

Yr 8 Set 1, English College
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found 'Clarke'"

8 set 3 St John Bosco, Liverpool
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found the words shin, too, and vine."

Year 7 Maths class, St Julian's School Portugal
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

""Wind" adds up to 50!

Stephannie found her name "STEF" is also 50!"

Hayley Bairstow, Year 11, Dixons C.A.
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"I found "LIMP"!"

David Griffiths, Year 11, Dixons C.A.
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Result is DIGGER"

Rianna Fuller Yr 7, Eastbourne
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We also found circle and flicked, as well as lots of the ones already mentioned."

Mrs Humphreys's maths group Year 6, Nevill Road, Bramhall, Stockport
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found the words goon, oval, too and joy."

Yr 8 set2a, Upholland High School
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Drew"

Drew Shorrock Year 10, Exmouth Community College
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found ANIMAL and JOY"

Bishop's Stortford College Junior School, Bishop's Stortford
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Our S1 class enjoyed this and got some good answers. They went on to look for words worth one pound e.g. ELEPHANTS."

B.Hastie, Maths Department, Lourdes Sec. School ,Glasgow.Scotland
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Found the following words that cost 50p.
When, Joy, Too, Low, Yet, Bendy and Easy.
We are currently looking for a sentence with only 50p words."

Mr Khaira, Letchworth
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found 'when' and 'chart'"

Thandi and Emily, Preston School, Yeovil
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"'Snob' Thomas Palmer
'Joy' Amber Gannon
'Tomb' Mr Smith
'Nobs' Elliot Wright"

Mr Smith, 7Z1 Tiverton High School
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found ACUTE, TOO, YET, LEARN."

Jodie, Carleton High, Pontefract
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We too have found some great words ----

pink, when, coals, oval, corn, snob, grip, role, nope.

Mostly found by Catherine but the rest of the class had fun trying to find words which had not yet been submitted."

year 7, Crawfordsburn primary school, Bangor N.Ireland
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"I tried and found APPLE,WIND,JOY,GOON,SHIN,FIGHT and YET!"

Kayleigh Byrne, Romsey Primary School Year 6
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Luke found 'Apple'"

Luke S, 7Ma4 The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"We found Graph, Frank, apple, lion, low, joy and open"

7a3, The Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"Jordan and Kotchakorn found Joy and Animal respectively"

7Ma4, The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"i found circle,melt,flicked,apple,too,open snake,when,learn,chart,wind and vine."

Amy, Bramhall
Monday, March 05, 2007

 

"May found pinch as she is such a clever girl."

May, BIS in Jakarta
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"Dane thought of FORK, Najda thought of OWL"

Mr Gropper, Year 10 DixonsCA, March 6th 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"I found that PERCH is worth 50p."

Conner Anderson, Class 1M1 at Lochend Community High School in Easterhouse, Glasgow
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"Terri, Janis & Luke found Melt, Joy and animal "

10Ma4, The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"My name is Jo-Jo Thompson... Jo-Jo adds up to 50p!!"

Jo-Jo Thompson, Year 7, Dixons C.A.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"Joe Haydock Year11 eventually found the word LION !!!!
Well done Joe"

JOE, BALSHAWS
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"We found open, hers, and heart <3"

class 9x1, St Andrews Boys, Worthing
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"Second attempt we found:
bush, chose, june, snob and nope."

year 7 set 1 , Chatsmore, Worthing
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"We found snake, feeding, when, pink and digger"

Form 8e3, Neale-wade college, March
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"I found SNAKE and a boy (Anthony Birch) in my class also foumd AWAY."

Marlon Bannister Y8, Springhill High, Rochdale
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"I have found a rather unorthidox word that even though a little unusual I think should still be displayed as free speech and the fact that you should think about all the possible outcomes before starting something like this."

Phate, Digital Universe
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

"JUNE - Amanda Tan, COLT & DUET - Andrew Dallamore, JACKET & ANIMAL - Ji Soo Shin, KOREA - Kyung Seok Woo, WHEN - Bhagas Dermawan, LILLE - Filbert Goetomo"

British International School, Jakarta, Year 8 Set 1
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

 

"we are going to try and find the most expensive word, is it the longest?"

Nick Takeshima, Sunderland
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

 

"Class 6M/C found including; 'after', 'bells', 'pink', 'low', 'lion', 'males' and finally 'disco'"

Year 6 , St John's Knaresborough
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

 

"Class 2.1 came up with chart, snake, nope, smoke, away, too, joy, jojo, apple, mairi"

Class 2.1, Millburn Academy, Inverness
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

 

"Beth found that Bethan was worth 50p!"

8set5, Lord Lawson
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

 

"Natalie was victorious and certainly not 'defeated'"

Natalie Dyas, Cannock Chase High School
Thursday, March 08, 2007

 

"Emily is no coward and came out with 'fight'."

Emily Harris, CCHS
Thursday, March 08, 2007

 

"Ammar found 'Dunk'"

Year 9, Dixons CA
Friday, March 09, 2007

 

"I found "audio""

Kirstie-Marie Swann, Cannock Chase High School
Friday, March 09, 2007

 

"We found Batman, Joy and too"

8c3 maths set, Cams Hill School, Fareham
Thursday, March 15, 2007

 

"Lion and yet and too"

9s3 class, Cams Hill school, Fareham
Thursday, March 15, 2007

 

"Year 10X1 found 'Bethan' = 50p love from monmouth comprehensive school x x x x x x"

R. Hamilton, Mrs Hamilton's class
Thursday, March 15, 2007

 

"We found joy (again!), Paul and Perk..."

Year 10, Brookfield School, Southampton
Monday, March 19, 2007

 

"Thomas Jury Y7 tried his name (Tom) but was 2 short so put a 'b' on the end to make 'tomb'. Also Caitlin Price also from Y7 found 'lion'."

Mrs J Earnshaw, Archbishop McGrath Bridgend
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

 

"I found the sentence "I am fat" = 50p"

Jamie Notman, 4th year Chryston High School, Glasgow
Friday, March 23, 2007

 

"I was really excited to try this out and guess what I found: yet,low,corn and digger! Anyway I love this site very much and its a great opportunity to learn to figure out problems!-I really enjoyed this very much."

Josephine, Oakington Manor Wembley
Saturday, March 24, 2007

 

"I have found joy and thumb. This site was well thought up, who thought of it?"

Hayley Adkin, Chatsmore 7sm
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

 

"We have found goth as well as lots of the others!"

Darrick Wood, Year 7 y set 1
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

 

"9Y1 from St Johns Bishop Auckland found the word AMAZED"

St Johns, Bishop Auckland
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

 

"8y2 (Miss Devlin's class) have found that some of their names add up to 50 - Marco,Paul and Calum"

St Johns RC School, Bishop Auckland Co Durham
Thursday, June 14, 2007

 

"For 50p:
apple
Mrs"

7Y1, Hadleigh High School
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

 

"I found the word 'SHELF'"

Vinesh Chauhan, 10SJH Queensbury School
Monday, July 09, 2007

 

"CLUCK"

7Y2, Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

 

"Class 2A had a lot of fun after their test finding that DIGGER, YET, TOO, PAUL, POP, JUNE and PINK all make 50p."

Mrs Penman, Linwood High School
Thursday, September 20, 2007

 

"Yet=50p"

Mr Hardy, Wales
Sunday, September 30, 2007

 

"We found TOO, MRS, HAMISH, BETHAN, RHIAN, JOY, ANIMAL, WHEN and TOMB."

All of Mr. Paxton's 7X3, Gosford Hill School
Thursday, October 04, 2007

 

"Chart, fork and too!"

P. davies, Highfield , Blackpool
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

 

"Animal, babycake, joy, janet, low, lion, numb, pink, stu, too, tomb, when, yet"

Helsby High School, 9o1
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

 

"Apple, Mango, Lion, Cheetah, Snake and Baines."

Helsby High School, Year 10
Thursday, October 18, 2007

 

"I found "tease""

Rachel, Neale Wade
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

 

"Cooper found role, plus about 40 others."

Mr Davies, St Joseph's, Swindon
Monday, November 19, 2007

 

"Class year 11 foundation found Moog, Easy, Fight, Graph, Lion, Yet."

A Bougara & M Sones, Sheffield Springs Academy
Thursday, November 29, 2007

 

"We Found Circle"

Year 9, Sweyne Park School Essex
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

 

"We found that apple makes 50p."

Abbie Smith, St Kents
Thursday, January 31, 2008

 

"Donald, cluck, shin and nope are all worth 50p"

Zara, Belmont Academy
Friday, February 22, 2008

 

"We found DRUG"

Joe Charlie, Huddersfield
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

 

"We found oot, too, yet, baths, lion, open, nope, jacky, yip.

So we are the best!"

First year, Auchmuty High School, Glenrothes
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

 

"1st year class enjoyed this starter - found BOXED also worked. More of the same please!"

Class 1E, BELMONT ACADEMY
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

 

"We found braces, davies, any, animal, time, owl, yet."

KSHS, Year 8 Top Set, Sleaford, Lincs
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

 

"Dominic got BRING, Katrina got APPLE and Bradley got DIGGER (224).

All worth 50 pence each."

Mr Gray, Oldmachar Acad, Aberdeen
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

 

"We are a Year 8 group and have found the following words:
Yet, Jiggle, Graph, Cubes, Circle, Chart and Meals"

RH, Royal Alexandra and Albert School
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"8-2 found WHEN, JOBN and WBY. They aren't very good at words."

Mr Marshall, Clough Hall
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"We worked very hard at this task and we managed to find a word which is very relevant to our school, SACRED HEART CATHOLIC COLLEGE....."SACRED" :)"

Miss McPeake's year 7 , Crosby, Liverpool
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"We found Joy, Tomb, America, Snake and When. The year 8's would also like names but I don't think they should be allowed. One pupil wanted 'A bad banana dad'!!"

Year 8, Hartford High School
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"We found Haven, Mrs , Alisha and apple."

Class 6B, Farsley farfield Primary School
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"We found "corn" and "Eliza" year 10 set 4"

Mrs Goodman, St Michaels
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"Erik found NATO for 50p"

Erik Burgess, Philips High, Whitefield
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"213 got a few more for 50p!

"Paul", "Joy", "Cubes", "June", "Vine", "Doze" and "Apple".

My first year class, 111, got "Lino" and "Too" on top of those!"

Mr Gray, Oldmachar Acad, Aberdeen
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"Mr Price's Year 10, Tarporley High School found Frank, Joy, Lin, Too, owl, open just before the end of the lesson!!!"

Mr Price, TCHS
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"We have found lots of the words that are already mentioned as well as:
BETHAN
BELLS
WILF
OWL
LOW"

Hilden Grange, Tonbridge, Year 4
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 

"Children in my maths group discovered my name added up to 50 pence - Mr Adam! They also discovered 'animal'."

Mr Adam + Maths Set 1, Purbrook Junior School
Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

"We found "NUMERACY" which costs £1"

Greg, South Africa
Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

"The Middlesbrough supporters in our class found the word "Boro"."

8F, Freebrough College
Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

"My class found "Nope, when, learn and graph""

Class 9Y, Le Rocquier school, Jersey
Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

"8x1 found several words including Jacky, Blonde, Lions, Vein, learn, circle, Paul, nope, naveh. Well done year 8 some good words"

Mrs Edge, Salford City Academy
Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

"Animal, too, jacket, zig-zag, biblical, joy, clot, colt and alley"

Glenealy Class 6S, Hong Kong
Monday, March 10, 2008

 

"Year 7 found APPLE, TOO, SHIN, SNAKE, PANS."

Miss Wilton's Year 7 Class, Hartford High School
Monday, March 10, 2008

 

"I found: mango, lion, low, joy, open, snake"

Charlotte Smith , 7 holmes
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

 

"Well, I found...
oot,too,yet,baths,lion,open,nope,jacky,yip,donald,boxed,braces,any,
animal,time,owl,yet,bring,apple,digger,jiggle,graph,cubes,circle,chart,meals,when,joy,tomb,america,snake,low,learn,sold,clot,lands...
Wow, that took some time. Good starter though!"

Zara, Belmont Academy
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

 

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