We really enjoyed planning, predicting and conducting a fair test this afternoon. Our investigation was to find out which ramp would slow a car down.
Please comment with the answers to the below questions,
What is a fair test?
Do you remember which surface caused the most friction?
Why is friction useful?
Here are photos from our informative and fun assembly this afternoon.
Next week we will be testing the boys on their 3 and 4 times tables in the same test. So boys, no new table to learn but revise and revisit the 3 and 4 times tables.
Thank you
Thursday 2nd March is world book day!
The boys will not be having P.E on this day due to a visit from an author.
Many thanks,
Mrs Alton
As part of our on going topic work on the Caribbean we would like your son to bring in some Caribbean themed/inspired food on the morning of Wednesday 1st March. It can be bought from a supermarket from the world food aisle or you are welcome to make a dish! Please ensure that all the ingredients used are listed and sent into school.
We are going to be having a taster session to determine what the boys like or dislike!
Many thanks for your continued support,
Mrs Alton
Our boys had such fun making nests and creating tree rubbings.
Enjoy the photos taken by Miss Bailey.
Our maths topic this week is handing data and bar graphs.
Please clink on the below link to access a truly incredible and flexible resource for studying both vertical and horizontal bar charts. It even has questions about each graph and different levels of difficulty. Highly recommended!
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=barchartv2
Take part in the 2Quiz Maths Competition
February 20th to March 31st 2017
2Quiz is the latest addition to the Purple Mash suite of tools. It allows teachers and children to create and share their own digital quizzes.
To celebrate the release, Purple Mash are running the ‘2Quiz Maths Competition‘. Boys can enter by creating their own themed maths quiz. The winning child will receive a hamper of great maths themed prizes, plus our school will get £100 to spend on maths resources.
As an existing Purple Mash subscriber, it’s totally free to enter!
Login and get started.
www.purplemash.com
Creative quizzes
There are lots of ways to be creative with your quizzes. For example, you could:
There are videos inside Purple Mash showing you how to use each question type, plus some example quizzes to help stimulate your own ideas.
Staying safe online
The competition Display Board will be visible to the public, so it’s important not to include personal information in your entries. Don’t use names or other personal information as part of the designs. Any entries that include personal information won’t be accepted or displayed on the board. The only information visible on the board will be the school name.
The Astronaughty School Trip
Once upon a time there was a school. It was a big school. There were 30 children in class 3. They were excited because they were going on a trip to the moon on this very day. Their teacher Mrs Smile said that class 3 were going on a flying train to the moon.
The clock was ticking, tick tock, tick tock… Everyone was waiting for the train. It finally came! It took an hour to get to the moon. Everybody was having fun playing hide and seek in the moon craters until they heard a roar behind Sally Moon. It was the Moon Monster! His eyes looked like terrible pools of fire, his skin was super shiny and sparkly and spikey and his legs looked like electric wire. Everybody ran as fast as they could back to the train and the train took off but there were three children left behind – Sally Moon, Simon Star and Bruce Rocket. They hid in the craters. The Moon Monster said “I can see you” and he did a big roar and his eyes flashed. Everybody on earth looked up at the sky and saw dreadful thunder and lightning. The Moon Monster stomped towards the crater that the children were hiding in. The children were scared. But Sally Moon was more of a fearless child than the others and so she jumped out of the crater and said “why don’t you try being nice Moon Monster? Being nice is kind and lovely and you’ll have more friends than you do now”. The Moon Monster thought about it and said “Ok, I’ll try being nice, what do I do?”
Sally Moon said “First, you have to stop being angry and turn that frown upside down. Second when you see people you should smile and say hello. You could ask them to play”.
The Moon Monster tried a big smile. His eyes turned yellow and on earth the sun came out.
Simon Star and Bruce Rocket climbed out of the crater. “Hello” said the Moon Monster “would you like to play with me?”.
“Yeah we’ll play” they said. “Let’s play ‘it’”. And they showed the Moon Monster how to play – they had an amazing time playing on the moon with their new friend.
It was getting late and Bruce Rocket said “how are we going to get home, the train’s gone?”
“I can help you” said the Moon Monster. And he started to cry happy tears! On earth the sun was shining and it started raining. All of a sudden the Moon Monster’s eyes turned red,orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. “It’s a rainbow!” shouted Simon Star. “We can use it as a slide to get back to earth” said Sally Moon. So the three children jumped on and slid all the way down to earth! “This slide is better than the one at The Galleria soft play” shouted Bruce Rocket as they whizzed back down to earth.
A DAY OF ADVENTURE WITH SPIDERMAN AND JAKE
Once there was a boy called Jake and he lived with his mum in a cottage near a forest. One day he asked his mum if could go outside to play. His mum said it was okay for him to go outside to play but he shouldn’t go past the gate that separates their house and the forest. Outside he went past the gate. Then he got lost in a spooky underwater forest. Then Jake turned into super boy! Then he met the evil jellyfish. Super boy was trapped! A few days later he saw Spider-man and
Called out “hey Spider-man I need help can you help me?” ‘‘Sure”, said Spiderman. Super boy and Spider-man fought the jellyfish. They went into New York City “Spider-man thank you for saving me.’’ Then there was even more trouble when they saw Dr Octopus invading the city. Jake and spider-man came together to plan how they were going to defeat him. They decided the best plan is to throw a box of TNT at him, while hiding behind a dustbin in an alleyway.
They waited patiently for Dr Octopus to come near and when he was close enough they threw the box at him. The box went BOOM!, and exploded. This made Dr Octopus jumped but it was too late. The TNT exploded right in his face and he splattered into a hundred pieces. Jake and spider-man was pleased with themselves because their plan had worked. Now that Dr. Octopus was destroyed there will be peace and quiet in the city they hoped. On the way home ‘’I’m hungry’’ said Spider-man me too said Jake. The both went into a restaurant and order two large peperoni pizzas. After their dinner Jake went back home and Spider-man went back to the city centre to make sure everywhere was safe and calm.