Year 5- Mathletics Champions!

CONGRATULATIONS Year 5- you wiped out all other competition in the school and came first!

You will now hold the Mathletics trophy until Maths Week next year.

A special mention and well done to Ahmed who spent A LOT of time on Mathletics this week helping us get points for our class (and of course improving his own maths).

Aleena's Bridge

Today we got to witness a bridge designed and made by Aleena, hold 5kg of weight before breaking! If you think back to engineering day the success criteria we were aiming to meet was a bridge holding 6kg and one which could span 30cm. 

A fantastic job Aleena- I'm really impressed that you took and applied the skills you learnt at school and recreated your own design at home.

Video to be loaded when I learn how....

Miss H

Golden ticket- third win this term!

Well done Year 5, the third golden ticket win this term!

Very impressive, we MIGHT have a chance to win the class trip to the SS Great Britain. Keep up the hard work and focus.

Class football down on the courts.

Crows nest fun,the girls spent more time spinning in circles than playing on the equipment!

Engineering day-maths week 2016

 Engineering day was a huge success and we had a lot of fun.

The children in years 5 and 6 were lucky enough to be taught by a civil engineer for the day, Mrs George, who helped the children understand the different types of engineering and what jobs an engineer might do to help us.

We started the day by creating bridges made from blocks before looking at designs and shapes that were 'strong'. We used this knowledge to create and make our own bridges out of lollipop sticks, the criteria for our bridges is that they must span 30cm and hold up to 6kg of weight. We have not had an opportunity to test them yet, we will post images to let you know who the winning team was once the competition is over.

These images show the jobs that civil engineers might do.

Testing bridges make from blocks.

Looking at 'strong' shapes.

Bristol Zoo-educational trip

The 9th of January was the first educational trip of 2016 to introduce the children life cycles of animals. We took part in a a education workshop where we learnt about the gestation period of different animals and discussed the way that animals grow. We also got to have a closer look at eggs and exoskeletons.
The photos below show what we we saw and how much enjoyment was had.