What a fantastic day we had on Thursday, where we exploed the lego computing resources and learnt loads about friction, speed and aerodynamics!
The winning car!
Racing our cars!
Coding the car to move
Pulling robots
Well done to everyone for working really hard this term!
Here’s some home learning to keep your brain topped up:
Brooklands Farm Primary School Choir did a FANTASTIC performance on Friday evening at Holiday Inn in CMK. They performed at ‘A Taste For Music’ concert, alongside other school and adult choirs, to raise money for Willen Hospice. It was definitely the biggest audience they have performed to with hundreds of people watching as they sang!
They performed 4 songs and performed Super Trooper from the hotel balconies along with the other singers taking part!
Every child grew their talents, opened their ears and hearts and most of all believed in themselves and each other! Miss Holloway and Mrs Odell are incredibly proud of every single one of them. Whilst there was a lot of excitement (and a late night!), they sang beautifully, shared GOTCHA smiles and were proud ambassadors for Brooklands Farm.
MKFM were supporting the event by taking photos and videos, please take a look at their website!
http://www.mkfm.com/photos/charity-events/80932-a-taste-for-music-2016.html
And it does not stop there!
Brooklands Farm Choir will be performing at the Big Lunch at Broughton Fields School on Sunday 5th June from 12.30pm. It would be lovely to see as many of you there as possible to support our choir and local community.
Year 1 have started the create and communicate stage of their project this week. Our question is:
Can I create a Sea Life Centre ‘style’ tank and evaluate it?
The children have the option to create a tank for either a sea turtle, jellyfish or octopus. They will need to use all of their knowledge from the collect and connect stages of our project, including our ignite trip to create a suitable environment for their chosen sea creature.
We have started by creating success criterias for the different animal habitats, as well as a whole class success criteria for what a good Sea Life Centre tank needs to include. We watched a clip called ‘Austins Butterfly’ which showed the importance of peer marking, having clear, manageable next steps and making lots of drafts to grow our learning. Year 1 discussed how this will need lots of determination and a growth mindset in order to grow their tank design several times.
Here are some photos of us working on our 1st drafts:
We hope to eventually turn our designs into models and will discuss what we have included and explain why!
Have a look at the photos from the Year 6 trip to Bletchley Park today. We did an ‘Interception to Intelligence’ workshop and even had a guided tour! We can’t wait to use all of our new knowledge in our learning this week.
We had a great time last week making a den with Miss Broome in our outside area!
We weaved branches of willow in and out of a wooden structure to make a safe and secure den that we can read stories in and transform for each of our projects.
Thank you Miss Broome for helping us create this! We really enjoyed making it with you.
It was lovely to see how the resources from the writing early years hub encouraged the children to write an make marks in our setting. Have they worked in your settings?
It was fantastic to have such a brilliant turn out from a range of practitioners in our local area. We had a fantastic discussion on writing in the foundation stage, specifically boys writing and looked at a range of activities to support their development.
Well done Jellyfish Class!
You are attendance superstars AGAIN!
