On Friday morning John Fewings (the memory man) came in to help us improve our memory skills.

Firstly, he showed us how good our memory skills are by playing a game with us. He put several animals on a projector and kept adding two on each time.

Then, we had to guess which he had included. After that, John remembered pi to a hundred decimal places (WOW)!

When he had performed this incredible act he taught us the memory technique he had used. What we had to do was to think of a list of twenty different nouns. He taught us how to put each noun to a different part of the body.

Here is an example: number four was a horse, the action was putting four fingers on to your left shoulder with your right hand, (this represents the horses four legs.) We did this wit h great success and we can still remember them today:

We thought John was really cool! Quotes from people " The memory technique he used was very good, it worked very wellvery funny!" Miss Griffiths replied. Joanne Bennett said: "Quite funny & an easy . He was also way to learnanswered " He was very funny. "Mr. Pinchbeck said" He was very entertaining & ." Chloe Gibson funny. "

Soon later, we learnt how to count in Japanese: