What an exciting treat!

21st October 2014jenniferhover

Year 1c have really enjoyed learning more about cars this week.

We had the chance to look around lots of VW cars that were brought onto the playground for the day. What an amazing opportunity!

The children enjoyed pretending to drive the cars, investigating how big the boot of the cars were and even had the chance to go into the ‘roof’ of a camper van to pretend to sleep in the bed!

Mrs Hover enjoyed driving one of the vans back of the playground ready to put it back onto the car transporter!

VW project launched in Year 2!

21st October 2014Mrs L Odell

What an amazing day we have had! Our Volkswagen project began this morning with a whole school assembly and special visitors from Volkswagen.  Our playground was then taken oven by a huge selection of shiny new cars which we were later allowed to explore! In the meantime we were learning about the five brands in the VW group and the purpose of advertisement.

Here are a few photos from today’s adventures!

Look out for more photos tomorrow as we Ignite our project further with trips to local car garages to find out what it takes to be a sales person!

6b and 6c market Research

21st October 2014admin

Carrying on from yesterday’s exciting Volkswagen launch, this morning the children came in bright and early ready to ask the parents of Brooklands Farm about their needs in a car.

In the pouring rain, year 6 were polite and approached parents as they came into school. They asked them questions from a questionnaire they had devised yesterday afternoon about including questions about what type of car they drive, what is important to them in car and what colours they like.

After this session, Year 6 came back into school and are currently sitting in their groups going though the data looking at what the needs and wants of the parents are!

Igniting Volkswagen!

21st October 2014V Holloway

WOW

What an exciting start to our Volkswagen project. Yesterday we had the privilege of becoming part of the Volkswagen group as the company set each year group a project question to answer!

In year 5 our project is:

How can we rebrand the Volkswagen Beetle to make it popular in 2014?

To ignite our project we have had several exciting activities going on. First of all, the playground became a car park when Volkswagen kindly bought along some of their cars and vans for us to look at! This included an electric Golf, Audi’s, VW Scirocco, campervans and most excitingly a 1970’s VW Beetle! We enjoyed climbing over the cars, playing the stereos really loud and beeping the horns! The most popular car was definitely the campervan which even had a bed in it!

Today the excitement continued as Year 5 were visited by an experienced member of the Volkswagen team. We looked at the history of Volkswagen and the history of the Beetle, we asked our expert lots of interesting questions to grow our learning and understanding of the Beetle, how and why it began being produced and why it was such a popular car. The knowledge and expertise we have gathered today will be extremely useful as we plan our re-branding of the beetle.

And finally, we also got the opportunity to explore breakdown vehicles as we were visited by the AA and VW roadside assistance! We spoke to the engineers about the calls they respond to and how they fix some of the cars.

We will now be working hard on our project so we are ready to share our findings and ideas with Volkswagen in November. We look forward to sharing our projects with you too!

Year 6 AA Breakdown Exhibition

21st October 2014admin

Another exciting morning here at Brooklands Farm Primary school for VW week!

Year 6 had an amazing opportunity to look at, get inside and learn about the AA break down service and how they link to the Volkswagen group.

A huge thank you to the AA men who stood out in the pouring rain but kept the children really excited and inspired.

Year 6- What a fantastic day!

20th October 2014Mrs c Hern

Wow! 

Today has just been incredible!

After our introduction to our project, the children got to explore a range of cars from the VW group. The children gathered notes as they were going around and focused on the features of each car. Learning zones were very high and children had huge gotcha smiles on their faces! A fantastic way to ignite our project.

The children will be outside the front of school over the next two days, to carry out some market research, by asking parents ‘What would make the perfect Brooklands car?’

Thank you Mike, Anthony, Jonathan and Joe for making the day such a success.

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WOW Writing

20th October 2014V Holloway

For the end of our talk for writing sequence, based on the book The Snow Leopard, 5c have been writing their own short stories.

Their success criteria included:

  • Setting- frozen, cold
  • Characters- a spirit animal and a child
  • Dilemma- something or someone must enter the village
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Alliteration
  • Connective
  • Variety of sentence openers

Everyone made excellent starts on their writing. They magpied some of the vocabulary from the Snow Leopard to use in their own writing.

We would like to share some of the amazing writing with you:

Anya:

Billy:

Emily:

Year 6 VW presentation

20th October 2014Mrs c Hern

Year 6 are currently sitting in a VW presentation with Mike, Anthony and Jonathan.

The children have been asked to design ‘The Brooklands Car’, by carrying out market research over the next couple of days. The children will be interviewing parents before school to see exactly what the families at Brooklands Farm need.

After the children have interpreted their data they will be designing their car, by creating a 3d image on paper and  on digital image software.  When they are happy with their design they will be creating their car out of clay to present to VW on Friday.

 

The children have been asking Mike, Anthony and Jonathan some very challenging questions to help grow their knowledge and understanding

We can’t wait to get started on our challenge!

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VW have arrived!

20th October 2014Mrs c Hern

Years 2-6 are currently sitting in an assembly presented by Laura and  Lara, from VW.

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The atmosphere in school is amazing! We  are all looking forward to working together on our exciting whole school project.

All of the children are especially looking forward to working with the VW staff and welcome them to our school.