Parachutes week 2

Having created prototypes last week, groups fine tuned their designs prior to testing their parachutes.

careful measuring

parachute strings carefully attached

checking everything is the same

the finished chutes

Testing followed with the children drawing conclusions based on their results.

Pumpkin decorating for the village competition.

Mrs Ballaam bought pumpkins for groups in class 3 to decorate and turn them into snails, cup cakes, rabbits ...to name a few ideas.

smail shell cois being fitted

rabbits ears

The cup cake ready for the competition

the rabbit is ready

The witch

After the weekend the girls team found out they had come 1st.

The rabbit also won a prize and a certificate.

Everybody was given a "spider"lolly made especially for them.

Science- forces and experimenting with parachutes.

As part of our science topic about forces children have been asked to design , make and test a parachute to find out which material, canopy size , string length will produce the best results.

Lego men provided the weight on the end of the strings.

prototypes being tested.

More next week.

House Captains

Today the votes were all counted and the results of the whole school vote for new House Captains was announced. With 14 year 6's there were bound to be some disappointed children as well as some very happy ones.Every year 6 was presented with a badge- either House Captain, Vice Captain or a colour button badge as everyone received votes from their peers and staff.

Green Woodpeckers with Arthur as Captain and Tillie as Vice Captain.

Kingfishers with Ben as Captain and Alex as Vice Captain.

Robins with George as Captain and Joshua as Vice.

Goldfinches with Alice as Captain and James as Vice.

Our hymn- Come On And Celebrate.

Our 4 proud new House Captains.

                                                         House and Vice Captains.

Over to you now- you made your promises and pledges- now you have to follow them up!

House Captain speeches and Peer marking in English.

Its that time of year when new house captains are to be selected by the school. On Tuesday all Y6 gave their speeches to the school stating why they should be house captain.They really had made an excellent effort and they made an excellent job of presenting to the school.

Robins ...

Green Woodpeckers

Kingfishers

Gold finches

All year 6 .

Votes are now being taken from everyone in school.Results will be announced next week.

In English we have been writing about a film we saw.The film had no speech at all so we have been writing our own. Here Y5 paired up with a Y6 to help them edit and peer assess their work. Everybody took their roles seriously with Y5 benefiting from Y6's experience. 

Thank you Y6- you were excellent with Y5 passing on your knowledge .