Welcome to Brooklands Farm Primary School

5th October 2014Mrs c Hern
Welcome to Brooklands Farm Primary School.
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It is with great pleasure that we welcome you at our new and expanding school. The first building on the block of the Brooklands community development serving Broughton Gate and Brooklands.
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Our school building is predominantly glass emphasising our ambition to be connected to the world around us.  We believe in transparency and accountability and again the ability to look inside our school from every direction emphasises our leadership ambition for excellence.  Our school believes in ‘anytime’, ‘anywhere’ ‘everyone’ learning, we have created spaces to learn in our school that recognises learning in groups, as an individual or within a whole class setting.
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As we begin our learning journey we have no idea who will come to learn with us!!  This is extremely exciting and we will leave space to accommodate and weave in all talents and skills.  For this reason our vision statement is – Weaving a Learning Journey.
We believe we will achieve excellence during that learning journey if we –
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OPEN – hearts, minds, eyes, ears and dialogue.
GROW – talents, mindsets, skills, knowledge, relationships.
BELIEVE – I can…., we can ………….. and you can…………..
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We are all leaders of learning on this journey and please come and join us to share your learning as we will only have a great school if we all run in the same direction.
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Maxine Low – Head Teacher
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See some of our latest learning below

Elmer is no ordinary elephant!

28th October 2014

Over the past two weeks we have been looking at Elmer and have been very involved in our learning. Our favourite thing has been to create pictures and models of Elmer’s patchwork. We have been working hard together to create our models and we are very proud of the work that we have produced, have a look below.

Class 2b learn how to sell a car!

28th October 2014admin
This afternoon, Class 2b have learnt how to be effective salespeople. Three members of the VW team kindly gave up their time to work with the children in our very own showroom! The children learnt how to meet and greet a customer and how to assist them in buying one of the vehicles on display in the Brooklands Farm showroom. They mastered confident handshakes and maintained a confident manner throughout each sale. The VW team were amazing, and they all commented on how much they enjoyed working with the children. We can’t thank them enough for their help!

The Ancient Greeks- Gorgon Medusa!

28th October 2014admin

Year 3 have really enjoyed their project ‘The Greeks’ so far this half term. They have become fully immersed in this and have produced some excellent work both in school and at home. So far, they have learnt a range of Greek myths including ‘The Snake Haired Gorgon’. Children used drama to explore this myth where they took on the role of different characters. This then helped children to write parts of this myth as a class and finally write their own version of a myth. Valuable skills have been learnt along the way such as becoming a ‘magpie’ to steal ‘wow’ vocabulary to up level our writing. Keep up the good work 3c! 🙂

Year 3 Ignite Day!

28th October 2014D Gray

A few weeks ago we had a fantastic visit from History off the Page and we watched as Oddyseus voyaged through peril and difficulty to eventually come home to his wife, over 10 years later. He was part of the battle in Troy, warred with a Cyclops and met the dreaded Hydra!

Year 3 used this day as an engaging hook into their new topic of the Ancient Greeks!

Volkswagen dealership visit

28th October 2014Mrs L Odell

This week Year 2 had the opportunity to visit the Volkswagen dealership in Kingston to find out what it takes to be a successful car sales person. We walked all the way there and back!

We were allowed to sit in the brand news cars, speak to staff and even walk through the workshop and see the master technicans at work!

We found out what questions we need to ask customers when they come into a dealership to buy a car and even practised on a VW salesman! Isaac even did a deal on a shiny new Beetle!

After all the viewing and the selling, we were taken upstairs to enjoy some juice in the conference room. Many thanks to all the staff at the dealership for making us feel so welcome and to the parents who came along to help.

Miss Jeffs’ maths group October half term homework

28th October 2014admin

We have been focusing on place value and the four operations in our group.

For the October half term holiday homework, I would like you to use your knowledge of the four operations to answer some worded problems. Please follow the success criteria at the top to help you. If you have forgotten the method, please use the website and look in the curriculum tea pack.

This homework is due in on Tuesday 4th November.

6b Real Science Day at MK Discovery Centre!

28th October 2014admin

6b had a break from VW week to join the Real Science event at the Milton Keynes Discovery Centre.

We started the day by learning about the dangerous dust Asbestos. We learnt that while it can be highly dangerous it can also be used to sound proof, add strength to or control the heat of buildings. 

Our next session involved us getting up close and personal to Tinkerbell… the pony! We learnt the history of horses and their uses over the years. We also learnt that ponies are becoming increasingly endangered. We ended our session by getting to stroke Tinkerbell and some of us even fed our left over apples to her!
Following this, we had a session on Design Press, printing anywhere! We learnt the process of printing images, pictures and drawings onto various cups and t-shirts. We then took part in a competition to design a bookmark! The winning design will be printed onto a bookmark and sent into school after half term!
After a quick break we were back to learning! Our next session involved learning about the ‘flight or fight’ response in our body. The children really enjoyed the expert’s enthusiasm for the topic and learnt a lot about the hormones involved in our responses and reactions.
Following this, we had a session on Gel making! The children had a talk from a representative from the global company P&G. They even had a go making their own gel!
We then had a break for lunch! We had so much fun running around the grounds of the Discovery Centre.
After lunch, we were back to more exciting learning. Our next session was one of the children’s best sessions. It was about bee hives! We learnt loads about bees, including pollination and the threats to bees in the wild. We even got to try some honey!
Following our bees session, we then had an amazing session which again was one the children’s highlights of the day, with the Canal River Trust. We looked at different types of bridges and the uses of bridges. We then looked more at the structure and then had some team work problem solving activities to make our own bridges!
Our last session of the day was about water and soil. We learnt about the properties of different types of soil and we now know an experiment to test them out. Watch out parents, children will be testing your soil in your gardens! We looked at the different soils under the microscopes and noticed lots of important characteristic of soil and how it helps us to live.
Thank you to all the parents for their support in dropping their children at the Discovery Centre. Thank you to all the experts for giving us the most brilliant science day out and for inspiring the children to be scientists in the future! Also, thank you to Mr Atkins for joining us and helping us out all day!
I think you can agree, it was a jammed packed and exciting day for us all in 6b!

Year 3 VW Trip

28th October 2014admin

Well, what a day! Year 3 have had an amazing trip to VW Training Centre where they got to see some amazing cars, such as an Audi R8, a Hulk car from the Fast and Furious Toyko Drift, An XL1 worth £80,000-£100,000, the E-Up electric car and even a bullet resistant car worth £400,000, Wow! The children asked great questions and received some great answers. They were keen to gather as much information inside the garage as possible. They even got the opportunity to have first hand training on the E-Up electric car inside one of the training centres conference room.The VW staff commented on the good behaviour and outstanding knowledge of the year 3 team and we couldn’t be more proud of their efforts and successes today!

Forcasts and targets lesson in Year 2!

28th October 2014Mrs L Odell

This morning the children enjoyed a fantastic lesson led by Joseph Cooper from the VW group. Joseph is a Sales Planning and Reporting Analyst and taught us all about his job. We thought it sounded like good fun so we spent some time allocating a selection of new cars to different dealerships. We had to choose from affluent Chelsea, busy Birmingham and the Scottish highlands and had to justify why particular cars would be more likely to sell in those areas. The children were fantastic at explaining their reasons. Well done everybody and a huge thank you to Joseph for such a fun and interesting lesson!

Here are a couple of snaps from today’s lesson.

Volkswagen Week

28th October 2014V Holloway

It has been an amazing week in year 5, the children have been buzzing about Volkswagen week.

Yesterday, we worked in groups to research and create a timeline for the Volkswagen Beetle. We then presented our timelines to Andrew, who is a Manager at Volkswagen! He even told us some more information about the Beetle which we didn’t know already. Here are some pictures of us sharing our learning with him:

Today, we learnt that the Volkswagen Beetle was the most popular in the 1960’s! To investigate why it was so popular we compared it to the Ford Cortina, which was another family car produced in the 60’s. We soon realised how different and quirky the Beetle was and also how cheap it was compared to the other cars at the time. Finally, we looked at some Beetle adverts from the 60’s to explore how Volkswagen persuaded people to buy the Beetle, some of the adverts were quite funny!
Year 5 have had a fantastic week with some amazing learning taking place, I think it is safe to say that everyone (including the teachers) have grown in their learning this week. We hope you all have a lovely half term, but please don’t forget to do your homework! If you have lost or misplaced your homework sheets please look at the year 5 homework page on the website which will give you the details!