Friday, October 31, 2014
Basic facts...
Not quite what I had in mind when I said to the students of my maths class to use the provided resources to show me 8 x 4...Good laugh though!
Monday, October 20, 2014
Syndicate Assembly Week 2
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This term our focus will be
on the following values: Integrity and
Resilience
Boys and Girls writing classes
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This week (Monday, Tuesday
& Wednesday, 11.30am-12.30pm) we will be having ‘Boys and Girls’ writing
sessions.
Rm 14 & 15 girls with Mr. Chadwick
Rm 13 & 16 girls with Mrs. Borgonje
Rm 13 & 16 boys with Mr. McMillan
Rm 14 & 15 boys with Mr. McKay (Mrs. Niak)
Syndicate SPARKS
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We continue with our ‘Syndicate
SPARKS’ on Thursday. It was great to see
the enthusiasm and passion last week!
Testing
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We start testing this
week. Make sure you give it your best
effort!
Visitors
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This term we will be having a
lot of visitors to enhance your learning e.g. Richie Hackney, Pedal Ready,
Rapunzel show, Constable Julie etc. Make
sure you are ‘being the best you can be’ when they are here.
Jellies dance crew
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Dance practice days and times
are as follows: Monday and Wednesday at lunchtime in the hall.
MiSfiTS Tri-Squad (Y6-8)
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Training days are Tuesday and
Thursday lunchtimes. Meet in Room 16 at
12.30pm
Art Club
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Art Club (Year 6’s) continues
today. Bring your lunch to Room 14 at
12.30pm
W.O.W (World of Waste)
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The W.O.W trip last week was
fantastic.
SPARKS Term 1
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The Science SPARK group from
Term 1 will get an opportunity to use their solar ovens next week.
Active Post Cricket
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Training on Wednesday at
lunchtime
Tennis
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Y5/6 interschool tennis
championship on Tuesday
Production DVD
·
A notice will be coming home
soon regarding the purchasing of a ‘Tall Tales’ DVD.
Library
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The school library will only be
open for the next 3 weeks. If you are
working on your library award you need to make sure you are getting everything
sorted before it closes.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Launching to success
After our exploration of forces we then looked at the different types of forces we could use to launch a rubber or pencil across the room using common classroom items and a bit of experimentation.
Using a force...
This term our inquiry is The Physics of War. We started with a famous quote:
We then started to look at Physics, particularly forces.
A Force is a push, pull or twist. It affects objects by pushing them up, pulling them down, pushing them to a side, or by changing their motion or shape in some other way.
We looked at the different types of forces and chose to display a few of them:
Applied Force
A force that is applied to an object by a person or another object. e.g. a person pushing a desk across the room.
Tension Force
A force that is transmitted through a string, rope, cable or wire when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends e.g.
Spring Force
The force exerted by a compressed or stretched spring upon any item that is attached to it.
Like your ears...
A ruler...
The projector screen...
A stapler...
A shirt
"War is the mother of invention"
this led to heated debates on whether war is a catalyst for invention and also whether war is indeed necessary in order to speed up the creation of inventions and technologies.
We then started to look at Physics, particularly forces.
A Force is a push, pull or twist. It affects objects by pushing them up, pulling them down, pushing them to a side, or by changing their motion or shape in some other way.
We looked at the different types of forces and chose to display a few of them:
Applied Force
A force that is applied to an object by a person or another object. e.g. a person pushing a desk across the room.
A force that is transmitted through a string, rope, cable or wire when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends e.g.
Spring Force
The force exerted by a compressed or stretched spring upon any item that is attached to it.
Like your ears...
The projector screen...
A stapler...
A shirt
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