Community Awards Presentation

Chloe attended the Grantham Journals Annual Community Award ceremony last week after being short listed for an award. She was a runner up in the Caring Neighbour category. Chloe helps elderly neighbours with their shopping,helps with their meals and takes their dogs for walks.
                                                       Well done Chloe-a fantastic achievement.

Science -electricity

In science we investigated how we could alter the brightness of a bulb. Some groups chose to alter the number of batteries added to their circuits, others altered the number of bulbs,some changed the thickness of wires and others investigated the length of wires.
One or two thought the bulbs would blow as they were getting so bright and were surprised when they did not.In fact the bulbs dimmed and this meant they had to reason why this had happened. Lots of good investigating and questioning .

adding more bulbs...

what will happen if?

does the bulb work?

working together

using a kit from home-proved very popular-easy to use to show the effect of wire lengths

will it blow?

adding batteries...

Vincent's kit.Look like he is pleased with the results.

A successful afternoon-now we know how the brightness of a bulb can be altered and what the different results are due to.

Maths in class 3

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. At the start we did not know how many nets of cubes there were. We know know there are 11 and we know some top tips to help us recognise them.
We put our knowledge to the test using an interactive game, taking turns in groups of 11 we had to click on the correct nets out of a selection on the smart board. Each time we played the game the nets were in different places so we had to look carefully.

taking turns 

looking carefully

remembering our top tips

all 11 found in 22 seconds!

Success!

Our next unit is measures and data handling so in readiness  for our work next week Y 6 measured the length of the copper coin trail we made during Children in Need day.

remembering to count!

 will we get the same measurement?

collecting the coins in

our trail went all round the school

lots of coins-

Next week we will be estimating, measuring, weighing, converting, counting...real data, real money -using and applying our maths skills of measures and data handling.

English in class 3

Our Tunnel stories are all finished and on display -some fantastic ideas for all to read.Our display looks good -I hope you agree.

Our instruction writing took on a whole new level with our recipes-truly revolting recipes.Again they are on display as well as in a book of recipes.Well it was October 31st when we wrote them!

Our new unit is poetry. On 11.11.13 we wrote our own Acrostic style remembrance poems. They  are on display in the foyer and are soon to be added to the school blog as they are thought provoking and really capture the theme and feelings evoked by war.

We added some poppy poems to our wonderful writing about Bonfire night too. Please look when you are in school as we are proud of our work.

Dojo certificate winners

We have dojo points in class 3 ( as well as house points and raffle tickets) .
Using dojos was at the request of the children following a successful trial in the summer term.
Children can earn these for good work, being ready, good thinking, perseverance, special homework and many other things. Mrs Chadwick did the totals the dojos from last term and the top 10 places are awarded to...

the top 5 places were awarded to...

                                               The top 5 children.

Congratulation to all these children. Other rewards that the class voted for were: to choose their own dojo characters( for those who got above half the class average dojos), to get a  raffle ticket per 10 dojos, to have a cushion for a day and for the top 5, to come in non uniform for a day.
Everyone was rewarded by Mrs Chadwick with a  chocolate treat.

Maths

We have been investigating number sequences and patterns. We learned about the square and triangular number sequences, As well as looking at the numbers we explored different ways to represent these using a range of resources.

 

uni fix cubes and peg boards 

cubes

elastic bands

square and triangular sequences using bands

peg boards

peg boards-  building up the sequences

adjusting and counting to check the sequences are correct

drawing using dotty paper

group work

sharing ideas

exploring together.

We found lots of patterns and made links between the 2 sequences. We were able to show and explain these to the rest of the class.

English -The Tunnel

In English we have been generating ideas based on images from A. Browne's book The Tunnel. We have used the images to come up with our own ideas  for a story. First we split into groups and wrote a class story,then we wrote our own. We are in the process of typing them up and making a class book of our own short stories.

Our collaborative story on display.

typing up our stories

in the classroom

and in the ICT suite.

More Newton Manor Photos and videos

Our guide told us all about the famous apple tree. What type it was, how old it was and how part of the tree was being held up by support posts.Isaac lived in the house over looking the orchard.

Groups designing their rockets.

cutting out the templates

colouring their designs

more careful cutting-avoiding cutting off the tail fins

Getting ready to launch our rockets.

discussing how to make them fly further

What happens if we change the angle of  the launcher ?

watching them fly

another being launched

waiting in turn

Watch the videos of our rockets being launched.

Our rockets were very successful.We learnt how to improve the designs of some to make them fly

 further e.g. by altering the shape of the nose cone. 

We applied our knowledge of forces throughout the day and enjoyed a good trip to Woolsthorpe Manor..