Sunday, June 7, 2015

Enterprise week money,maths and wheel chairs...

Following our enterprise event we counted our money and worked out how much profit we had made.
Each group had to deduct expenditure, present receipts and work out exactly how much profit they had made. Next steps will be to decide where exactly the money is going-some groups planned to send their money to charity, others wanted to buy items for school such as an out-door white board.

Maths-La Sagrada Familia




In Maths we have been looking at Magic Squares-no ordinary squares for class 3-the one carved on the wall of the cathedral in Barcelona-La Sagrada Familia .Here the square has a magic number of 33-why? The number of years it is believed that Jesus was alive on earth for. Why is the number 12 missing? We related this to the 12 disciples and Judas. We believe there are 33 separate facts within the square all relating to 33-we have not found them all yet!

each row, coulumn and diaganal total 33

there are 5 mini squares all totalling 33

consecutive numbers but No12!

add up all the numbers and divide by 4=33

What patterns can you find?
If you have visited the cathedral and seen the magic square please let us know-we'd love to hear about it first hand.


Wheel Chair PE training.
Angus our trainer talked us through how to use the chairs safely, what to do and what not to do.We didn't realise we had them for the rest of the term-we thought it was just today! 
how to move and steer

how to turn and stop

how to build up speed safely

time for stuck-in-the-mud

great fun now we feel confident using the chairs

taking turns

getting competent at catching and freeing each other

we have a book with lots of ideas and games we can use for the rest of the term

any final questions ? 


we also learned how to dismantle the chairs and stack them in the trailer 

10 chairs packed away until next session.

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