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

6b Gold Badge Achieved!

16th October 2014admin

Well done to our new Brooklands boy, who has earned his Open, Grow, Believe gold pin!

You have clearly shown that you know how to open your heart, ears, eyes and mind: grow your learning, talents, skills and relationships: and believe in yourself and others!

Thank you for his parents for coming and joining us to celebrate his achievement.

We are very proud of you in 6b! Well done!

The Curse of the Egyptian Tomb

16th October 2014admin

Year 4 today shared their incredible learning with their parents as they invited them into their living tomb. The children first had the problem of trying to entice their parents into the tomb and began by reading their persuasions to them. Some parents seemed hard to win over but the children managed to wow them with their vocabulary and their ideas.

 

After this, the parents were able to look at some of the Egyptian artefacts that the children had created across the project and were able to meet two embalmers giving a demonstration of mummification as one of our children became a real life mummy.

 

The tomb and persuasions were well received and the children created a fantastic show, explaining all of their knowledge that they had learnt over the last 4 and a half weeks.

 

Future lunch box designers in Year 2!

15th October 2014Mrs L Odell

Class 2a had a great time this afternoon in their science lesson! They were given a dilemma and had to carry out an investigation to find a solution.

I bring a sandwich to school for my lunch but my water bottle leaks and I end up with a soggy sandwich! Can you find out which material will protect my sandwich best from water and from being squashed?

The children had great fun finding out what happens when a sandwich is submerged in water! The children recorded their findings and were using fantastic scientific vocabulary including the words absorbant, transparent and… soggy! They then used heavy objects to find out what materials helped protect the sandwiches from being squashed!

Here is a picture of the children exploring with tissue paper, tin foil and bread!

We found lots of heavy objects to squash the bread!