Month: September 2019

Thank you to Doctor Patel for your wonderful talk this morning. The boys are absolutely fascinated about how the body works and they relished having all their questions answered.

Create 2D shapes and 3D shapes using toothpicks or straws and small marshmallows or playdough.

Shape Ideas

2D shapes – equilateral triangle, square, octagon etc.

3D shapes – triangular prism, cube, square-based pyramid etc.

Photograph and print out the images of your shapes to create an attractive and brightly coloured A4 or A3 poster entry. Feel, touch and count the number of faces, edges and vertices each shape has. Include all the information that you have discovered.

Don’t forget that,

• A face is a flat surface of a solid shape.

• The edge of a shape is where two faces meet.

• A vertex is a point at which two or more lines meet in a shape.

Competition entries to be handed in by Friday 11th October 2019

The boys in 2WA are learning about the heart and how to locate the pulse. They have also found out how to keep the heart healthy.

Did you know?

Your heart is really a muscle. It’s located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and it’s about the size of your fist. There are lots of muscles all over your body — in your arms, in your legs and in your back.

The heart muscle is special because of what it does. The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries away waste e.g carbon dioxide.

Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body.

We enjoyed trying different exercises to make our hearts beat faster. These included clapping, jumping, hopping, touching our toes, catching and running on the spot.

Welcome back to all our wonderful 2WA boys and families.

We have had a marvellous start to the new term. Every boy has demonstrated a superb attitude to learning and produced high quality work. 

Your bright and colourful postcards have arrived and will be displayed with pointers to where each boy visited in the World this summer.