Children in Need – Friday 14th November

10th November 2014
This year we are being ‘Baking Heroes’ to raise money for Children in Need.
We are asking children to donate £1 to come to school in non-school uniform and an apron on Friday.
We are also hosting a cultural bake sale on Friday at 3.30pm around the school.
Please can you bake a cake from your culture with your child to donate to our bake sale.
Thank You for your support!

The Final Push

10th November 2014V Holloway

As the Volkswagen deadline draws nearer (Wednesday 12th November!) year 5 have been working extremely hard to ensure their final product is of the highest quality, ready to be shown in Volkswagen headquarters this week!

Today, we identified Volkswagen factories around the world. Andrew, a manager from the Volkswagen group, came in to explain how Volkswagen decide where to produce their vehicles and parts. We looked at the graphs which showed us how expensive it was to build in each country, how many cars are sold in each country and also the quality of living in each country. All of this information will help us to decide where we would like to build our car!

We have also been car designers today. We have been peer and self assessing our designs so that we can edit and improve them. Many of us have completed our final designs, there have been some excellent innovative ideas from voice control to roof mounted cameras to take photos!
We can’t wait to share our designs and ideas with Volkswagen!

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?

 

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!

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.

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!