Totemic Visit

On Wednesday class 3 were invited to Totemic in Grantham .We were collected and when we arrived, after waiting in reception for the rest of the group to arrive( allowing time to read the Financial Times! )we were given a tour of the building( we had to listen carefully as there was a quiz later in the day!).
                                          
              Boys did this without prompting and seemed quite at ease with the papers.


After that we split into 4 groups and completed different activities. 1 group made chocolate chip and mini marshmallow muffins .

This was followed by being taught about food allergens and how to look closely at the ingredients in order to find this information out.

Another group went to the document handling department. Here they found out about ( and did!)opening all the mail the company receives, processing the data on the computer and scanning it to Lisbon,storing it ,packing and sealing the new post.

entering data into the computer

getting envelopes ready

learning about the sorting and sealing machine( so quick)

ready to feed the paper in for the post

packing the envelopes

real post!

an amazing machine

doing a quiz to check they had listened and understood

Next baking group

ready to mix and make

now for the food allergens

How to answer the phones and deal with customers.

Holding music played in the background whilst children took other calls.

It department-computer repairs.

 Time to take the computer apart and find and fix the problem-under supervision this was keenly done.

Next job please...

Customer relations -Marston style.

Hello, how may I help you?

Hard at work.

Lunch time

We were treated to burgers and chips, juice, ice cream with chocolate and wafers. Yummy!

Time to see how to get down from floor 4 without using the lift in case of fire using the Evac-Chair! Unfortunately it had to be an adult in the chair!

holding on-just incase the chair tipped!

the view down with class 3 watching!

and down very smoothly

why was I worried?

Group photo

Back in school looking at our Freebies-

what's inside the bag?

Post-it pads. Now what can we do with these ( apart from the obvious of course?)

A game-who am I? Yes or no answers only please.

A good day.

Now we know a little bit about real life jobs and what is involved.

Thank you Totemic - we had a great day, learnt lots and were treated like royalty.

English,RE,Totemic and Inspire+ bike challenge.

In English we are learning about Journalistic writing so what better way to start than by analysing and deconstructing newspapers!

looking at tabloid and broadsheet papers

                                                       discussing common features in layout

starting to think about language features

Getting ready to write our own from point of view of the Anglo Saxon first arrival in East Anglia

RE-

What does God look like? Where does he live? How could we represent this?

sharing our work after everyone had shared their ideas

explaining what their work represented and giving reasons

comparing ideas

everyone was keen to share and discuss

3 children shared their work with the whole class...

fascinating work- all very creative and individual

some were double sided as God has 2 forms- a human form and a spiritual one too.

Totemic-Dragons' Den 

Update-we have been presented with our money! £260- seed money that we now need to make grow.

Earlier in the week it was our turn to host the Legacy Tour handover. St Sebastians came to us together with Chris Graves ( Inspire+ ) to hand over the oar that will be presented to sarah Outen when she completes her London to London via the world adventure later in the year. The oar contains messages for Sarah from each of the Legacy Tour schools visited. Bronze Ambassadors handed the oar to us together with the challenge of completing as many miles on the tour bike in 24 hours. ( challenge set by Sarah herself).

Children took this challenge very seriously and arrived at breakfast club the next day to start cycling. They continued through lessons, break, lunch, collective worship( Rev.Lillian was happy for this to continue),after school until the last child left at 5.30!

Chris sharing slides and videos of Saarh on her journey.

getting ready for a live satellite phone call to sarah

Jess and Amy ( our Bronze Ambassadors) asking Sarah questions about things that we were curious about-do you take lots of different currencies,what is the scariest thing so far,if you had to have another bike , what would you call it? We asked 3 questions then the signal failed-not bad as Sarah is in North America !

Chris then announced the winner of the flag competition -Tasha drew her flag last summer and it was chosen to represent Marston on the Inspire+ flag.

Amy and Jess receiving the oar ready to write our own message on it

Early in the morning and the challenge has begun..

breakfast club started the challenge

                                       class 3 then cycled in pairs for 20 minutes throughout the day

through lunchtime

                                                           through collective worship

through the afternoon

still time to smile

after school

                                      some children asked if they could stay behind after 3.30

checking how far

The after school group. we completed 151.5 miles! Fabulous effort.

writing our message to Sarah

We then visited Caythorpe school to hand over the oar and set them the challenge.

                                     standing in front at Caythorpe delivering the tour pledge.

well done-scary speaking to an audience let alone one where we did not

                                  know anyone!