Month: November 2017

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1.      Pencil sharpeners cost 45 pence and rulers cost 20 pence. How much to buy 2 pencil sharpeners and 3 rulers?

2.      In a game of skittles there are 10 skittles. Paul knocked down 4 of these skittles. Then Mary knocked down 3 more. How many skittles are left standing?

3.      There are 27 children in the class. They go on a trip to the farm. The coach holds 50 people. 13 helpers go. How many empty seats are there in the coach?

4.      There are 18 ducks on a pond. 3 ducks fly away and 7 ducks land on the pond. How many ducks are now on the pond?

5.      Tom, the sheep dog, was rounding up his sheep. He caught 32 sheep and then 5 more. On the way back to the farm 13 ran away. How many sheep did he have left?

6.      The school fete entrance fee was 55p. How much does it cost for 4 people to go in?

7.      Harry liked to collect football cards. He already had 30 at home. Today he bought 80 at the sweet shop and another 60 at the newsagent. How many cards did he collect that day?

Please comment with your stories. We can’t wait to read them. Thank you.

Our Christmas Giving Tree will be set up in the theatre foyer this week. The idea is that instead of writing individual Christmas cards to all their friends the boys make a card or decoration out of recycled materials and address it to whoever they wish and place it on the Giving Tree. This year, however, instead of asking for a donation to charity we are asking the boys to undertake a kind action. So for example, giving Dad help cooking dinner, giving the dog a lovely walk, giving help to a sibling with their reading, giving the hamster cage a really good clean…

The Giving Pledge is written on a card and added to their decoration. The pledge cards were sent out with the letter to parents, but will also be available in a basket under the tree.

In this way we hope to encourage everyone to think about practical acts of kindness and not just financial generosity.

This links with the words of Rev Newstead who spoke a week ago about giving that has a ‘cost’ in terms of discretionary effort, a call on our time or a shift from our own immediate agenda or priority. Of course such acts of kindness become their own reward because of the way they make us feel about ourselves and the blessing they become upon the relationships involved.

Electricity travels easily through electrical conductors, like metals.

Materials that do not let electricity pass through them easily are called electrical insulators. Plastic, wood, glass and rubber are good electrical insulators.

Find out more on the BBC – KS2 Bitesize website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/circuits_conductors/read/1/

Please comment to let us how well you did in the quiz. Thank you.

Yesterday during one of the boys presentation of his grid homework he mentioned the word ‘bifocal’. After many attempts by his classmates to explain what bifocal meant we hit a dead end!

So we have set a challenge:

What are ‘bifocals?’

Good luck boys, we look forward to your answers

Below are photos of the boys measuring the length, width and diagonals of the Astro Turf pitch. They really enjoyed taking turns to measure and count the clicks on the trundle wheels. It was tricky to walk in a straight line and we had varied results.

 

 

 

Can you estimate and weigh the following items at home? A pen, bunch of keys, bag of sugar, book, carrot, orange, bottle of milk, teddy and pair of shoes.

Please comment with your estimations and measurements. Thank you.

 

On Friday evening Jai attended the prize giving for the 21^st National Open Art Exhibition competition. He won 1^st prize in the Children’s category. Jai’s work is exhibited in the Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf. He won an iPad Air and a £2000 bursary for our school to go towards creativity.  

Here is a photo of Jai’s Artwork. The piece is called ‘Save them’. It represents the deforestation of the rainforest which is causing the frogs to die out, Jai wants to save the frogs.

We are all so proud of Jai!

 

 

2WA visited the Senior School Science Laboratories this afternoon to create circuits using different components. The boys enjoyed using cells, switches, buzzers, motors and bulbs.

Here is a link to a brilliant activity that you can access at home,

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20170712124904/http://sustainability.sellafieldsites.com/wp-content/themes/sellafield_sustainability/assets/php/test.php?gameid=343

Our Maths lesson today involved comparing whether objects were,

• shorter than 1 metre
• about 1 metre or
• longer than 1 metre

We also estimated before we measured the classroom width and length.

All the boys worked really well in small teams. Well done.