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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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.

A range of cars are currently arriving in the car park as I type.1413793064066

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Year 6 VW week important information

17th October 2014admin

On Monday we have an exciting opportunity to view a range of vehicles from the VW group.

Children will be outside for at least an hour and a half looking at the vehicles and understanding the specification of each car as part of their learning for next week. We will be going out even if it rains!

Please ensure that your child has a waterproof coat to wear on Monday and is wearing their normal school shoes and uniforms. If your child would like to bring an umbrella, then please do so. Please note: that these umbrellas should only be used on Monday to view the cars not for break or lunch time. The umbrellas will be stored in the PE boxes after these sessions.

Thank you for your support

The Year 6 Team

Internet Safety!

15th October 2014Miss Rebecca Snowdon

Year 6 had a great Internet Safety session on Monday with our visitors from Hazard Alley. We learnt about the risks that are involved with using the internet, how to identify these risks and how to protect ourselves.

Take a look at our pictures.

On-line Safety Sessions in Year 6

15th October 2014admin

We had an excellent Online Safety session with the people from the Safety Centre yesterday!

The children talked through their use of social media and internet access both at home and at school and discussed the pros and cons of different experiences and scenarios that either they themselves or other people have faced.

We learnt that children’s brains are still developing therefore they need to protect themselves with the images, games and other materials they are seeing. We also learnt that children need to switch off their electronic games an hour before their bedtimes to ensure a quality night’s sleep! This shocked the children!

We also discussed our privacy settings on our social media, phones, the internet and games. The passwords we have were referred to as a toothbrush; it is personal to you and you wouldn’t share it with anyone!

Finally, the children learnt how to protect themselves from cyber bullying. The learnt that by keeping texts, emails and any other written content they have is an evidence trail which might be useful. We also learnt that any messages sent by any phones, emails, game consoles or social media leave a digital footprint. The children now know the saying ‘zip it, block it, flag it’ which will ensure they can keep themselves safe online.

The children have developed some next steps which they can follow up at home to  make themselves safe. These are:

  • Children need to look at their ‘friends’ on their social media sites or games and ask themselves; are these really friends that I know and trust? If not, delete them!

  • Children need to check their security settings on their social media or any other electronic equipment they use and make sure they are set to private which only your friends can see. Parents, please check your children’s security settings on social media if you are allowing them to be on there.

  • Please visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk with your child for information, games and more about the CEOP advice button- which can be used to report abuse online.

Here are some of our photos:

Cracking Code breaking day out!

5th October 2014admin

Year 6 had an inspirational and exciting trip where they went to visit ‘Station X’, now a museum, at the famous Bletchley Park (home of the World War Two Code Breakers).

The children had a tour of the museum and were able to see ‘The Bombe’, the machine which contributed to deciphering German codes sent by the Enigma machine, in full action as well as seeing all the other parts of the museum.

Children also had the amazing opportunity of having specialists from Bletchley Park talk to them about toys and the development and change of toys through World War Two, the development and change of communication, where we even got to communicate, using radio signals, to Russia, Austria and Spain! Finally, the children learnt how to be agents and learnt how to crack different types of codes. The children were exceptionally fortunate to have a go at sending and deciphering codes on the famous German code making machine ‘The Engima’.

We had a brilliant day! Here are some of our photos: