Half a Pound

Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic

• Transum,
• Sunday, March 05, 2006
• "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!"
• Greg Stewart (student teacher), SW Scotland
• Thursday, February 22, 2007
• "I have found the words faint, too, vein, vine, seam, neat, duet, open, doze, fight, scared for the lesson starter on 5th March."
• Ruth Towler, York
• Saturday, February 24, 2007
• "Low = 50p"
• Year 5, West Sussex
• Tuesday, February 27, 2007
• "We have found LION"
• Connie, Chatsmore, Worthing
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "Connie found lion."

 

• Frank and Alisha, year 7 set 1, Chatsmore, Worthing
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "We found that Frank and Alisha are worth 50p."
• Kingsdown School, Swindon
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "We have found joy, apple , fest? , open , yet , "
• P Austin, Withins school Bolton
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "first word found TOO"
• Dixons CA, Mrs Bates Y9 maths class
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "Other words that we found are:
  apple, animal, sold"
• Year 7, Highfields, Wolverhampton
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "We found that easy and snake total 50p"
• Class 8 Ma4, Preston School
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "Apple, Snap, Colt, Naps, Span, Tye, Too, Yet, Pans"
• Kingsdown, yr 8
• Friday, March 02, 2007
• "We tried again and found some good ones
  
  bloat swag fight paul"
• Ye Won, Year 10, British International School, Jakarta
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• ""MANGO" = 50p"
• Yr 8 Set 1, English College
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "Ever, tomb, joy, chose, snap and numb."
• 8 set 3 St John Bosco, Liverpool
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found 'Clarke'"
• Year 7 Maths class, St Julian's School Portugal
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found the words shin, too, and vine."
• Hayley Bairstow, Year 11, Dixons C.A.
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• ""Wind" adds up to 50!
  
  Stephannie found her name "STEF" is also 50!"
• David Griffiths, Year 11, Dixons C.A.
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "I found "LIMP"!"
• Rianna Fuller Yr 7, Eastbourne
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "Result is DIGGER"
• Mrs Humphreys's maths group Year 6, Nevill Road, Bramhall, Stockport
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We also found circle and flicked, as well as lots of the ones already mentioned."
• Yr 8 set2a, Upholland High School
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found the words goon, oval, too and joy."
• Drew Shorrock Year 10, Exmouth Community College
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "Drew"
• Bishop's Stortford College Junior School, Bishop's Stortford
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found ANIMAL and JOY"
• B.Hastie, Maths Department, Lourdes Sec. School ,Glasgow.Scotland
• 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."
• Mr Khaira, Letchworth
• 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."

 

• Thandi and Emily, Preston School, Yeovil
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found 'when' and 'chart'"
• Mr Smith, 7Z1 Tiverton High School
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "'Snob' Thomas Palmer
  'Joy' Amber Gannon
  'Tomb' Mr Smith
  'Nobs' Elliot Wright"
• Jodie, Carleton High, Pontefract
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found ACUTE, TOO, YET, LEARN."
• year 7, Crawfordsburn primary school, Bangor N.Ireland
• 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."
• Kayleigh Byrne, Romsey Primary School Year 6
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "I tried and found APPLE,WIND,JOY,GOON,SHIN,FIGHT and YET!"
• Luke S, 7Ma4 The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "Luke found 'Apple'"
• 7a3, The Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "We found Graph, Frank, apple, lion, low, joy and open"
• 7Ma4, The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "Jordan and Kotchakorn found Joy and Animal respectively"
• Amy, Bramhall
• Monday, March 05, 2007
• "i found circle,melt,flicked,apple,too,open snake,when,learn,chart,wind and vine."
• May, BIS in Jakarta
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "May found pinch as she is such a clever girl."
• Mr Gropper, Year 10 DixonsCA, March 6th 2007
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "Dane thought of FORK, Najda thought of OWL"
• Conner Anderson, Class 1M1 at Lochend Community High School in Easterhouse, Glasgow
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "I found that PERCH is worth 50p."
• 10Ma4, The Albany school, Hornchurch, Essex
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "Terri, Janis & Luke found Melt, Joy and animal "
• Jo-Jo Thompson, Year 7, Dixons C.A.
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "My name is Jo-Jo Thompson... Jo-Jo adds up to 50p!!"
• JOE, BALSHAWS
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "Joe Haydock Year11 eventually found the word LION !!!!
  Well done Joe"
• class 9x1, St Andrews Boys, Worthing
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "We found open, hers, and heart <3"
• year 7 set 1 , Chatsmore, Worthing
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "Second attempt we found:
  bush, chose, june, snob and nope."
• Form 8e3, Neale-wade college, March
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "We found snake, feeding, when, pink and digger"
• Marlon Bannister Y8, Springhill High, Rochdale
• Tuesday, March 06, 2007
• "I found SNAKE and a boy (Anthony Birch) in my class also foumd AWAY."
• Phate, Digital Universe
• 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."
• British International School, Jakarta, Year 8 Set 1
• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• "JUNE - Amanda Tan, COLT & DUET - Andrew Dallamore, JACKET & ANIMAL - Ji Soo Shin, KOREA - Kyung Seok Woo, WHEN - Bhagas Dermawan, LILLE - Filbert Goetomo"
• Nick Takeshima, Sunderland
• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• "we are going to try and find the most expensive word, is it the longest?"
• Year 6 , St John's Knaresborough
• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• "Class 6M/C found including; 'after', 'bells', 'pink', 'low', 'lion', 'males' and finally 'disco'"
• Class 2.1, Millburn Academy, Inverness
• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• "Class 2.1 came up with chart, snake, nope, smoke, away, too, joy, jojo, apple, mairi"
• 8set5, Lord Lawson
• Wednesday, March 07, 2007
• "Beth found that Bethan was worth 50p!"

 

• Natalie Dyas, Cannock Chase High School
• Thursday, March 08, 2007
• "Natalie was victorious and certainly not 'defeated'"
• Emily Harris, CCHS
• Thursday, March 08, 2007
• "Emily is no coward and came out with 'fight'."
• Year 9, Dixons CA
• Friday, March 09, 2007
• "Ammar found 'Dunk'"
• Kirstie-Marie Swann, Cannock Chase High School
• Friday, March 09, 2007
• "I found "audio""
• 8c3 maths set, Cams Hill School, Fareham
• Thursday, March 15, 2007
• "We found Batman, Joy and too"
• 9s3 class, Cams Hill school, Fareham
• Thursday, March 15, 2007
• "Lion and yet and too"
• R. Hamilton, Mrs Hamilton's class
• Thursday, March 15, 2007
• "Year 10X1 found 'Bethan' = 50p love from monmouth comprehensive school x x x x x x"
• Year 10, Brookfield School, Southampton
• Monday, March 19, 2007
• "We found joy (again!), Paul and Perk..."
• Mrs J Earnshaw, Archbishop McGrath Bridgend
• Tuesday, March 20, 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'."
• Jamie Notman, 4th year Chryston High School, Glasgow
• Friday, March 23, 2007
• "I found the sentence "I am fat" = 50p"
• Josephine, Oakington Manor Wembley
• Saturday, March 24, 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."
• Hayley Adkin, Chatsmore 7sm
• Wednesday, May 16, 2007
• "I have found joy and thumb. This site was well thought up, who thought of it?"
• Darrick Wood, Year 7 y set 1
• Tuesday, June 05, 2007
• "We have found goth as well as lots of the others!"
• St Johns, Bishop Auckland
• Wednesday, June 13, 2007
• "9Y1 from St Johns Bishop Auckland found the word AMAZED"
• St Johns RC School, Bishop Auckland Co Durham
• Thursday, June 14, 2007
• "8y2 (Miss Devlin's class) have found that some of their names add up to 50 - Marco,Paul and Calum"
• 7Y1, Hadleigh High School
• Tuesday, June 26, 2007
• "For 50p:
  apple
  Mrs"
• Vinesh Chauhan, 10SJH Queensbury School
• Monday, July 09, 2007
• "I found the word 'SHELF'"
• 7Y2, Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot
• Tuesday, September 18, 2007
• "CLUCK"
• Mrs Penman, Linwood High School
• Thursday, September 20, 2007
• "Class 2A had a lot of fun after their test finding that DIGGER, YET, TOO, PAUL, POP, JUNE and PINK all make 50p."
• Mr Hardy, Wales
• Sunday, September 30, 2007
• "Yet=50p"
• All of Mr. Paxton's 7X3, Gosford Hill School
• Thursday, October 04, 2007
• "We found TOO, MRS, HAMISH, BETHAN, RHIAN, JOY, ANIMAL, WHEN and TOMB."
• P. davies, Highfield , Blackpool
• Tuesday, October 16, 2007
• "Chart, fork and too!"
• Helsby High School, 9o1
• Wednesday, October 17, 2007
• "Animal, babycake, joy, janet, low, lion, numb, pink, stu, too, tomb, when, yet"
• Helsby High School, Year 10
• Thursday, October 18, 2007
• "Apple, Mango, Lion, Cheetah, Snake and Baines."
• Rachel, Neale Wade
• Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• "I found "tease""
• Mr Davies, St Joseph's, Swindon
• Monday, November 19, 2007
• "Cooper found role, plus about 40 others."
• A Bougara & M Sones, Sheffield Springs Academy
• Thursday, November 29, 2007
• "Class year 11 foundation found Moog, Easy, Fight, Graph, Lion, Yet."
• Year 9, Sweyne Park School Essex
• Tuesday, January 29, 2008
• "We Found Circle"
• Abbie Smith, St Kents
• Thursday, January 31, 2008
• "We found that apple makes 50p."
• Zara, Belmont Academy
• Friday, February 22, 2008
• "Donald, cluck, shin and nope are all worth 50p"
• Joe Charlie, Huddersfield
• Tuesday, March 04, 2008
• "We found DRUG"
• First year, Auchmuty High School, Glenrothes
• Tuesday, March 04, 2008
• "We found oot, too, yet, baths, lion, open, nope, jacky, yip.
  
  So we are the best!"
• Class 1E, BELMONT ACADEMY
• Tuesday, March 04, 2008
• "1st year class enjoyed this starter - found BOXED also worked. More of the same please!"
• KSHS, Year 8 Top Set, Sleaford, Lincs
• Tuesday, March 04, 2008
• "We found braces, davies, any, animal, time, owl, yet."
• Mr Gray, Oldmachar Acad, Aberdeen
• Tuesday, March 04, 2008
• "Dominic got BRING, Katrina got APPLE and Bradley got DIGGER (224).
  
  All worth 50 pence each."
• RH, Royal Alexandra and Albert School
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "We are a Year 8 group and have found the following words:
  Yet, Jiggle, Graph, Cubes, Circle, Chart and Meals"
• Mr Marshall, Clough Hall
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "8-2 found WHEN, JOBN and WBY. They aren't very good at words."
• Miss McPeake's year 7 , Crosby, Liverpool
• 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" :)"
• Year 8, Hartford High School
• 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'!!"
• Class 6B, Farsley farfield Primary School
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "We found Haven, Mrs , Alisha and apple."
• Mrs Goodman, St Michaels
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "We found "corn" and "Eliza" year 10 set 4"
• Erik Burgess, Philips High, Whitefield
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "Erik found NATO for 50p"
• Mr Gray, Oldmachar Acad, Aberdeen
• 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 Price, TCHS
• 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!!!"
• Hilden Grange, Tonbridge, Year 4
• Wednesday, March 05, 2008
• "We have found lots of the words that are already mentioned as well as:
  BETHAN
  BELLS
  WILF
  OWL
  LOW"
• Mr Adam + Maths Set 1, Purbrook Junior School
• Thursday, March 06, 2008
• "Children in my maths group discovered my name added up to 50 pence - Mr Adam! They also discovered 'animal'."
• Greg, South Africa
• Thursday, March 06, 2008
• "We found "NUMERACY" which costs £1"
• 8F, Freebrough College
• Thursday, March 06, 2008
• "The Middlesbrough supporters in our class found the word "Boro"."
• Class 9Y, Le Rocquier school, Jersey
• Thursday, March 06, 2008
• "My class found "Nope, when, learn and graph""
• Mrs Edge, Salford City Academy
• 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"
• Glenealy Class 6S, Hong Kong
• Monday, March 10, 2008
• "Animal, too, jacket, zig-zag, biblical, joy, clot, colt and alley"
• Miss Wilton's Year 7 Class, Hartford High School
• Monday, March 10, 2008
• "Year 7 found APPLE, TOO, SHIN, SNAKE, PANS."
• Charlotte Smith , 7 holmes
• Wednesday, March 12, 2008
• "I found: mango, lion, low, joy, open, snake"
• Zara, Belmont Academy
• Wednesday, March 19, 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!"
• Patrick Kelly, Sperrin College
• Thursday, June 12, 2008
• "Hi my name is Patrick and I love, LOVE Maths. I got an answer its 'GRAPH'. Thank you for putting my comments up. I love maths."
• Miss Chittock's Maths Class, Oxford School
• Friday, July 11, 2008
• "9Ma8 found...
  Apple, Digger, Pink, When, Gears, America, Wind, June, Mango, Away, Jacky."
• Mr Toby, Dixons City Academy 7B
• Wednesday, October 01, 2008
• "Zain found Zain"
• Olu, England
• Tuesday, January 13, 2009
• "YET"
• 7a2, Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls 2008-9
• Wednesday, January 14, 2009
• "We got TOMB, ANIMAL AND YET!!!!"
• Class BD (Y5/6), Ingatestone Junior School
• Thursday, January 15, 2009
• "We tried hard for about 20 minutes and found these words:
  June, too, lion, apple, wind, nope, yet, Samie C (Samuel Croker is in our class), America, numb"
• Karan.P,
• Wednesday, January 21, 2009
• "A good game for children from ages 7-8"
• Mrs Smith, Casterton Business and Enterprise College. Year 9 Star Group.
• Thursday, January 29, 2009
• "Sophie Batkin found 'PINK' and Vicky Boddington found 'MRS' both for 50p."
• Mrs Smith, Casterton Business & Enterprise College
• Friday, January 30, 2009
• "Year 7A2 found the following:
  Tim found 'TOMB'
  Frankie found that 'FRANK' costs 50p
  Kirsty and Tom found 'APPLE'
  Jack found 'LOW'"
• Mr Matthews, Canggu Community School
• Monday, February 23, 2009
• "Ludvig (year 9) says BUGMAF (kind of like the Bug mafia). Thanks for your awsesome starter,
  Mr Matthews."
• James Burnitt, Beverley Grammar School
• Monday, March 02, 2009
• "I found "Gears"."
• Elliot Constable, Beverley Grammar School
• Monday, March 02, 2009
• "I found "sold"."
• Mrs Davis, Alcester High School
• Monday, March 02, 2009
• "Yr 7 top set enjoyed this starter and came up with
  ANIMAL, WIND, LION, APPLE, PAUL, TOMB, YET, MANGO, TABBY, TOO, JOY, JACKY, LOCKED."
• Mrs Davis + Class, Alcester High School
• Monday, March 02, 2009
• "We love this game, 'year 9 set 2, and found these words...
  LOIN
  LEARN
  GARLIC
  MARIAH
  TOO
  JOY
  LION
  SPAN
  AMERICA
  PINK
  APPLE .. in two minutes!"
• Mr Hartley's Outstanding Y11 Class, KLB, Gloucestershire, UK
• Wednesday, March 04, 2009
• "Excellent starter! Alex came up with 'Jacket' and Emma found 'Circle'."
• Natalie Lucas, Elm Park School
• Wednesday, March 04, 2009
• "L. found 'Snap'
  Room 20
  Elm Park School
  Auckland, New Zealand."
• Mr Carter, Hethersett Junior School
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Charlotte in Mr Carter's Maths Group found OWL - what a wise old bird she is!!!"
• 7H3, Helenswood School
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "We found low, open, Jacky and fork."
• Mrs Tuer, Shropshire
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Great starter,
  8O1 at Bridgnorth Endowed loved it!
  TOO
  OWL
  SAT
  JOY
  OPEN
  APPLE
  BUSH
  YET
  FEEDING."
• Miss Wilson's Genius Maths Set, Our Lady Of The Missions Primary
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Joy, yet, open. Our best attempt was 4 50p words in two minutes!"
• Mr P Smith, Albion High School
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Marcus Scott, Joe Donaldson, David Moran and Dylan Wood came up with
  Lion
  Bits
  Too
  Snake
  7x2 Albion High School."
• The Best Maths Group Ever, King Alfred's College
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "We found: too,yet and joy."
• 7X1 And 8Y1, Hadleigh High School, Suffolk
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Lauren in 7X1 found UNO (card game)
  8Y1 found MISHA, KENT, LENS, MASHED, BENNIF (a surname) and GO MAN!"
• 8w/Ma1, Macclesfield High School
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "8w/1 from macclesfield high school found the following words;
  Rhys found TOO
  Tom found TOMB
  Becky found YET
  Olivia found LOW
  Shannon found OWL
  Sam found NOPE."
• Beth, Amy, Dom, Hannah, 8E Harrytown Catholic High School
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "We found animal, graph, circle, acute, apple, bells."
• Mrs Smith, Casterton Business & Enterprise College
• Thursday, March 05, 2009
• "Class 8B1/Ma
  Hannah Clapinson found TOO
  Sammy Jones found OPEN
  Jack Bradshaw-Lamb found JOY and JACKY!"
• Year 9 Set 1 Maths, Archbishop Blanch School
• Friday, March 06, 2009
• "We got CAVES, ASKS, APPLE, TOO, LION."
• 7a6, The Whitby High School
• Friday, March 06, 2009
• "Catty has found her favourite colour "pink", others found the whole thing really "easy". Apple, Barns, Type."
• J Sandilands, Calderglen High
• Monday, March 09, 2009
• "We found YET, APPLE, NOPE, JOY, ALLY, BETHAN, JIGGLE, SNOB and DRUG
  1P7 Calderglen High School
  Miss Sandilands Maths class!"
• Year 8 St James Middle.,
• Monday, March 09, 2009
• "We have found Apple and Paddy to be 50p"
• UV Class, Kew, London
• Thursday, March 12, 2009
• "We found too, joy, shin, bush and America!"
• Connie Mansfield, Alabama Homeschooled
• Saturday, March 21, 2009
• "Well. I ain't no big city girl, but my maths grades are higher than a pigeon on a plane-wing, I couldn't make up one cleverer than that... But did I mention my writin'? No.
  Anyway, I found;
  bush,
  america,
  numb,
  faint,
  too,
  vain and vine.
  I'd put my cell phone number on here but I ain't got much time for speakeratin', not to boyz anyway... my daddy wouldn't be a happy bunny.
  Thanks for readin' ya'll, not many people have time to listen to me, a humble country girl from sweet america. I am however home-schooled, does that make this comment a problem. I hope not. I'd love for people to read something that I wrote on the internet, publicly. It would make a change from being ignored as usual. Well, this has taken up a lot of my math time, and I need a daily 10 minutes. To keep up my high grade of D average."
• Mary Kate, Parker, CO
• Saturday, April 25, 2009
• "I found two, mango and baths. I am in 3 grade."
• Mr Toby And 7P3, Brentside High School
• Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• "Isobel Found Apple
  Annoying Deen found Too
  Amandeep found Tomb
  Karima found Boxed."
• Zareen, Golden Hillock Birmingham
• Thursday, October 22, 2009
• "I found a word LEARN that adds up to 50."
• Mr Toby And 7Q2, Brentside High School
• Thursday, October 22, 2009
• "Simran found NOPE
  Martin found TOO
  Oliver found PANS and JOY
  Ajanthan found JOJO."
• Mr Toby And 8P4, Brentside High School
• Thursday, October 22, 2009
• "Sahan found TOO
  Zain found APPLE and ZAIN."
• Year 6, Kadimah College
• Tuesday, February 23, 2010
• "Lydia found JIGGLE."
• Mackenzie Rowles, Harrytown High School
• Monday, March 01, 2010
• "Mackenzie found the word "yet"."
• Mr Way, Highcliffe School Dorset
• Monday, March 01, 2010
• "Tom Wilkins found 'Korea' :)
  Jake Southcombe found 'Wind'
  Ruth Coomber found 'lion'
  Holly Finlay found 'apple'
  We liked it :)."
• Mr Way, 9.3 Highcliffe School, Dorset
• Wednesday, March 03, 2010
• "Tom found 'FREAKED' and Bradley found 'CARDIO'
  Smaller words found were too, apple, joy, away, pone, nope, open and yet."
• Alex, Bridge Water Middle School Y7 Set4
• Thursday, March 04, 2010
• "I found this soooooo diffcult and I could not fid any words at all I am amazed how many words there acctually are."
• Miss Gilleece, Boldon School
• Thursday, March 04, 2010
• "My 9A1 found:
  Katie found APPLE
  Peter found JOY
  and Alex found CLARKE! :)."
• Mrs Hemmings 8t1, Brentwood County High School
• Thursday, March 04, 2010
• "Class 8t1 from Brentwood County High School found - SNAKE, YET, JOY, TOO."
• LIIIC, The Abbey Junior School
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "We found snap!"
• Sycamore Class, Maidstone, England
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "Gary was very cheeky and found aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
  William found SHIN
  Sophie B found TOO
  Phoebe found SNEAK."
• Mr Blackhall's S3, Lornshill Academy
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "We found, nope, animal, Calum, too, goon, low and cluck."
• Mrs O'Hagan's First Year Class, Holyrood Sec School Glasgow
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "PINK!!!!"
• Year 4/5 Sarum St Paul's, Year 4/5
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "We found Arghhhh (Lewis T) and Animal (Becca L) in Year 4/5..."
• Class 8cd1, Swakeleys School Hillingdon
• Friday, March 05, 2010
• "Too, joy, June, Janet, Ilhaam, Jo-Jo, low."
• 7H4, Hindley In Wigan
• Thursday, March 11, 2010
• "Our class found two that total 50p. PINK and WIND."
• Jessie Rose, Stoneferry Primary
• Thursday, March 11, 2010
• "TOO, WIND, OPEN, PANS, NAPS, SNAP, BUSH, AMERICA, NUMB, FAINT, VEIN, VINE, SEAM, NEAT, DUET, DOZE, FIGHT, SCARED, LOW, LION, FRANK, ALISHA, JOY, APPLE, FEST, YET, EVER, TOMB, SHELF, LIMB, DIGGER, CAT, TYE, PAUL, SANG, MANGO, DREW, ANIMAL, CHART,
  LERN, ACUTE, PINK, LERN, WHEN, CORN, SNOB, HOPE, ROLE, GRIP, GOON, SHIN, MELT, PINCH, FORK, PERCH, JOJO, HERS, HEART, JUNR, AWAY, BELLS, SMOKE, DISCO, BETHAN, MRS, POP, GOTH."
• Nemesia Symonds, Martham
• Thursday, March 18, 2010
• "I have found :
  lion
  sneak
  pink."
• Miss K, Barking Abbey School
• Monday, April 19, 2010
• "Javed found Joy
  Ryan found Lion
  Billy found Pink
  From 7b3 at Barking Abbey School."
• A Govender, The Connaught School
• Monday, May 17, 2010
• "Nathan Wheller from the Connaught school found "CHEETAH" Well Done!!!"
• Mr A Govender, The Connaught School
• Tuesday, May 18, 2010
• "Ezra Daley from the Connaught School tried his first name.
  E Z R A amounts to 50p. Thanks Ezra. Well Done!!"
• Miss Barnfords Class (4), Emran Juniors
• Saturday, September 18, 2010
• "We found 'Bethan' and 'vine' = 50p."
• Year 5H, Garswood
• Friday, February 11, 2011
• "We found the words Garlic and disco."
• Mr Parke, BTH
• Wednesday, February 23, 2011
• "My Year 9 found MASH."
• , CASTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
• Tuesday, March 01, 2011
• "Year 6 found
  TOO LION JOY ZAIN PAUL MADINAH CHOSE CHART."
• Mrs Forsyths Class, Welshpool High School
• Wednesday, March 02, 2011
• "Year 8 Set 4 Found Graph, Apple and Acute!! We are amazing!!!"
• Gregor Reynolds, Lornshill Academy, Alloa
• Thursday, March 03, 2011
• "I found CAREER."
• Mrs Grant, Peterhead Academy
• Thursday, March 03, 2011
• "YET
  NOPE
  OPEN
  PAUL
  JOY
  TOO
  AWAY
  FEART
  SCARED
  MRS
  APPLE
  MELT."
• 8 Ma4, Lostock Hall
• Thursday, March 03, 2011
• "Our Class have WIND."
• Ms Chittock, Cheney School
• Thursday, March 03, 2011
• "We are Cheney School, Oxford!
  We found: too, joy, yet, low, nope, hannah f, june
  And for £1 - mathematical,
  Our class rocks!"
• 10 Set 2, Sturminster Newton High School
• Friday, March 04, 2011
• "We found joy, circle and pink."
• Zain, Hillside Junior School - Y4
• Saturday, March 05, 2011
• "I found my own name!!!!! ZAIN."
• Lauren, Priory
• Sunday, March 06, 2011
• "Great starter of the day we got
  bells,
  wilf,
  owl,
  low,
  digger,
  yet,
  too,
  paul,
  june,
  pink,
  mrs,
  bethan,
  when,
  tomb,
  rhian,
  joy,
  animal,
  can I just note that hamish and pop are not 50p as some of you have put that.
  y6 loved it."
• Cara, Dahlonega
• Monday, March 07, 2011
• "It took me foever, but I found dong, which no one else did."
• Mr J Saye, JS
• Monday, March 07, 2011
• "Lucy a Year 8 student got Yip = 50p. Plus the others ones including Open, Apple, Joy and too."
• Year 8 Maths, Le Rocquier, Jersey
• Tuesday, March 08, 2011
• "JACKET, SHELF."
• B Woods, HVAC
• Tuesday, March 08, 2011
• "Nichola Needham in my wonderful year 9 class came up with JUNE and Needham."
• 9X4, Garth Hill College, Bracknell
• Friday, March 25, 2011
• "9X4 Garth Hill College found "TOO", "AFTER" and "TEET"."

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