Children in Need

 We had a fun filled morning wearing our pyjamas- all in a good cause for Children in Need.

We did character profiles of Pudsey in English

Some created a new friend for Pudsey.

 

 

 As well as paying a £1 to wear our P.J's, we brought in pennies and 2 p pieces to make a copper trail around school. Each class put their coins down . We tried to get all round the school and we did! A grand total of 55.5m of coins.

Class 3 putting their coins down.

Can we get all round the school?

 

 

...joining class 2's coins...

...up the steps into the practical room...

...round to class 3...

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...almost done...

Isaac had the idea to  measure the total length of the trail.

 

Now we knew the length of the trail and the width of 1p and 2 p coins we estimated how much money we would collect. We estimated £55.50.

We then collected the coins in ready to count them.

Class 3 counting and bagging up the coins.

Only £31.79-why? We tried to answer this. Was it because the coins were not touching each other? Did we measure the exact trail -on top of the actual coins? Do the 1p coins measure exactly 1cm?

Wow the coins were heavy! How heavy?We all had a go at lifting the tray with them all in. Some thought 20kg, others thought more. Mrs Padgett thought about 10kg. She was the closest-it was 12kg

In total we raised £111.79 and have lots of data ready for our maths lessons next week. Perfect as we are learning about Data Handling!