On Friday, the whole school had a great day fundraising for Comic Relief – where children came to school dressed in something red.
Just after lunch, we held a KS1 and KS2 joke competition – where 20 children’s jokes were shortlisted. These children then shared their joke with the rest school, and an eventual winner was chosen for each by means of the volume of applause.
In KS1, our winning pupil was Joey. KS2 was a little harder to judge with it first being impossible to choose between Ted, Libby, Will S and Edward . After a retelling of their jokes and a remeasure of their applause, Ted was chosen as our KS2 winning joke.
Our two winners of each key stage then went to head-to-head as the “whole-school best joke”. After a very close applause volume, Joey was declared the winner.
Check out the shortlisted jokes below:
Joey (whole-school and KS1 winner): “What’s the best present to receive? …. A broken drum… You just can’t beat it!”
Ted (KS2 winner): “Knock, knock.” … “Who’s there?” … “Boo” … “Boo who?” … “It’s only a joke. There’s no need to cry!”
Libby (KS2 finalist): “What do you call a flying monkey? … A hot-air baboon.”
Edward (KS2 finalist): “What’s the best thing about Switzerland? … I don’t know, but the flag’s a big plus!”
Will S (KS2 finalist): “Why couldn’t the pony sing? … Because it was a little horse!”
Penny: “What did one eye say to the other? … Something between us smells!”
Isabelle T: “What do you call a potato wearing glasses? … A spec-tata!”
Grace: “What do you call a witch at the beach? … A sand-witch!”
Robin: “How do apes open a door? … Using a mon-key!”
Jayden: “What did one plate say to another? … Dinner’s on me!”
Isabelle J: “Someone in this audience is a owl…” ——— “Who?”
Sam R: “I’ve been practising woodwork for ages … I think I’ve finally nailed it!”
Jorge: “I have a joke about paper … I can’t share it though: it’s tearable!”
Harry A: “I phoned up to book a pizza … When I’d finished, I asked if it would be long … They said, “No, it’ll probably be round.”
Ellie: “Is your fridge running?” … “Yes” … “You better go catch it then!”
Abigail: “What do you call an elephant that doesn’t matter? … An irrelephant!”
Stan: “What do you call a dinosaur that’s asleep? … A dino-snore!”
Isabel Y: “What did the horse say when he tripped over? … Help! I’ve fallen over, and I can’t giddy up!”
Zac: “What time did the boy go to the dentist? … Tooth-hurty”
George B: “What the penguin get from the genie in the lamp? … Three fishes!”
Archie R: “There’s two cows in a field … One says to the other: “Have you heard about this mad cow’s disease that’s going around?” … The other replies: ” Yeah, I know. It makes me grateful that I’m a penguin!””
Well done to all of those that submitted jokes – including those that weren’t unfortunately shortlisted! And thank you for all your kind donations for Comic Relief – we raised £145.80 in total!