Able Writers Day!

9th December 2014Mr J Peters

A selection of year 5 and 6 children took part in a writers day where they were lucky enough to spend the day with the author Colin Parsons! The children participated in workshops and produced amazing WWI inspired stories. The children then read the stories aloud and impressed Colin with their efforts!

They had a brilliant day and everyone is enjoying reading Colin’s stories they have brought back to school!

Year 6’s Silverstone (Home of British Motor Sport) ignite trip!

7th November 2014admin

Over the past two days, year 6 have been visiting Silverstone, home of British motor sport! This was to ignite our learning for our next project ‘Aerodynamics’, which coincides with our last project for VW.

The children had a tour of the Silverstone grounds, including looking at a map of the different areas of the track and the history relating to those different areas, a tour of the pit lanes, the control centre and we even got to stand on the podium!

We has an exciting tour of the Porsche Centre and even got to sit in some Aston Martins, Ferraris and single seater race cars! We finished the morning by having a tour round a working garage.

After lunch, we had an exciting workshop afternoon making balloon powered cars and improving our cars to make our cars the fastest! We even had a race at the end!

What a fantastic day! A special thank you to the two parents for helping us on this day, it is very much appreciated. Another thank you to Victoria at Silverstone for a well run and fun day out out. After this exciting start, we can’t wait to see where our next project takes us…

6C Holiday Homework Awards

5th November 2014Mrs c Hern

Over the holidays, Year 6 have been busy investigating. The children have written explanation texts about electricity. The quality has been absolutely fantastic! Well done year 6! The year 6 extreme reading challenge has been a big hit! Children have been reading in all kinds of weird and wonderful places. More photos will be shared later in the week.

The winner of our science homework award goes to…

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The winner of our extreme reading challenge this week goes to…

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What type of extreme reading will we see next?

 

6C Real Science

23rd October 2014Mrs c Hern

Today, 6C had the pleasure of attending a Real Science event at the Discovery Centre.

During our sessions the children got to learn about compost, poisons, the immune system, solar panels, magnetism, how horses have evolved into ponies, the chemical process in printing inks and copper cables. Our subject knowledge has really extended today and the children have come away with lots of interesting facts.

The children especially enjoyed holding worms and stroking Tincher Stryder, the pony!

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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!

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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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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