Blakedown Broadcasting Corporation

The Blakedown Broadcasting Group's video is now complete! Click here to take you directly to it, or visit our Learning for Life Academy Blog and see what else we've up to in LFLA.

Love in a Box - Operation Christmas Child Video

Website Review: Speedtest - how fast are you?

Are you up to the typing challenge? Take this test to see how fast you are at typing. Can you beat the teachers? I don't think you'll be able to beat Mrs Burgess's time! Click here to take you to the website.

Can you beat Mr Marshall's typing speed? Can you beat each other?

Check the comments for our typing times.

Class 3 Science - Rocks and Soils

In Class 3 this half term we have been learning about rocks and soils. We have learned about how different types of rocks are formed and how there is always rock underneath our feet, wherever you are on Earth! We have also made a tasty example of how sedimentary rocks are formed (using chocolate!)

Look at this link to study the anatomy of a volcano!

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/nature/0003/volcano/frameset.exclude.html

5000th visitor to the Blog!

Over the last few months we've been monitoring our blog traffic. Since we started counting (unfortunately not from when we started blogging) we've had over 5000 hits or visits.

We use three utilities to monitor our traffic: Sitemeter, ClusterMaps & Google Analytics.

Sitemeter: This is our counter - it makes it easy to see how many visits we get

ClustrMaps: This shows us in a picture where each visitor comes from.

Google Analytics: This gives us lots of details on how people found our site.

According to Google in the last month we've had 1268 visits from 38 different countries.

Pupil Talents: Nadiya's Motor Cross

What is Motor Cross?
Motorcross is a sport. I ride an 85cc, small wheel bike across all kinds ground. It's quite popular. Every two weeks I race against other people around this area. I race with my brother Raees, but I usually beat him.

When did you start racing?
I started racing when I was five, but I wasn't supposed to. You have to me six to race officially though.

What do you like about it?
I like getting muddy and wet. I also like it when I win. I have got lots of trophies. I also like it when I go fast.

Would you recommend it to anyone else?
Yes! It's great.

Operation Christmas Child

We where collecting the boxes from our school and got ready to take them to the ware house, which is a massive building where all the boxes go. We collected 63 boxes but we did not quite reach last years total. We'll have to try harder next year. Thanks.

Tag Rugby Festival

A few questions for the Bloggers in Brisbane, Aus.

What's you school like?

What's it like where you live?

What subjects do you learn about?

How many kids are in your class?

What's the weather like?

Class 4 DT Homework: Evaluation

Thank you class 4 for completing some great looking bridges, very aesthetically pleasing. It was very clear that a lot of work was done, and that you used a lot of the knowledge taught at school to help you. It also gave you the opportunity to talk to your parents about what we've been doing.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Delicious Christmas Recipes.

Visit our LFLA blog

We've just posted some posts with pictures on from our second round of Learning For Life Academy (LFLA). Click here to take you to it or use the link on the righ hand side.

Rememberance

Remembrance

It is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
The guns have long stopped. Silence still haunts the battle fields.
An old man stands silently, wearing his war medals with pride.
He remembers……

Young men stumble. Falling. Life is over for them.
The bombs are a disease that’s spreads sadness, killing on its way.
Only the soldiers keep there silence, some of them cowering on the floor
Dead.

Things are different now, things have changed
Memories lurk around his head,
He has fought them time and time again.
But the most important war he won.

Thank you to Amy Morely who brought this brass tin in (it was her great, great grandads). These tins were given to the soldiers with either chocolate or tobacco in as a gift from the King and Queen.

Blakedown Primary School Open Day!

We hope you have had an interesting time looking around our school. Please leave your comments here. If you're not sure how to do it, please ask!

Guerre

War is over
Both sides wonder
What just happened.

Much time later
Old men gather
Wearing medals

They remember,
The bullets, bombs
shells ,gas and cries.

One long battle
Sealed in his head:
In his scared mind

Soldiers like bucks:
Charging, ready,
running, roaming.

Fellow comrades
Mown down like grass.
Only one left.

Few are alive
Others have died.
They have met doom.

One strange nightfall
It stopped. Rest.
They woke to peace

It's all over.
Soldiers go home
To their families

At the Cenotaph
They lay a wreath.
They remember.


Thank you Ellie for bringing in the medals - these were sent in the post to Ellie's great, great grandad. The envelope is still with the medals and is actually worth more than both medals put together.

Class 4 Remembrance poem

Remembrance

It is the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. An old man stands wearing his medals with pride. He remembers …

The bombs banging like a firework display but rapidly. Dead bodies lying on the ground with blood all over them. Blood red as ruby.

The tanks driving around slowly. The soldiers shooting at the enemy. Air raid planes flying around dropping bombs as if dropping stones.

The ashes of burnt bodies as black as charcoal. Two years of ferocious killing killed many people.

The old man stands silently at the cenotaph at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, wearing his golden war medals with pride.

By Dharani.y

He Remembers

It is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
Remembrance day
He remembers.......

Thinking of his comrades on the 11th of November
Sad thoughts.
Respect.The people who made us proud
Around the cenataph

He remembers........

The first poppies blowing in the wind
Between the graves
The black of the poppy is a pupil watching him
colours.Red,green and black

He remembers......

War.A fire storm of death
Fighting. For his country
Reletives waiting for him to come home
We won....

Testing, Testing, classes 1, 2 and 3 (and anyone else)

This is a test post for classes 1, 2 and 3. Please leave feedback as a comment - remember all comments will be moderated!

Operation Christmas Child

Are you able to support Operation Christmas Child this year? This morning we watched the DVD which showed us images of children receiving their shoe boxes. It was quite sad to see some of the children, but we were really pleased to see that our efforts really make a difference.
Already we have about 20 boxes in school. Last year we took 67 shoe boxes to the warehouse -can we beat that this year?
Please bring your boxes into school by Friday 23rd November.

2-D shapes

Class 1 has been investigating light and dark. Here they are exploring shapes on a light-box

Recorder club

We are all enjoying going to recorder club.We are playing the bells in the Tuesday group after school.

Class 3 Learning Connections

This half term, Class 3's learning connections topic is the Romans. Any reading around this subject at home would be a great idea! Why don't you start with finding out how the Roman Army was organised. Down to the library we go...

Blakedown Poppers: We pop it, you scoff it!

What a Friday! Well done! We sold over 100 servings of popcorn in 10 minutes - for how we got to the stage of selling the popcorn see our LFLA blog.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Print Christmas Coloring Pages.

Activity Club

Great news. Activity club has startd once again. It is on a Thursday lunch time open to what ever age we say in assembly. Eleanor James Calum and Isabelle will run it. All you need to do is meet in the library at 12.30. Activity club will consist of games compotitons, colouring and ofcourse you will get prizes. It's great fun but we have some rules which are all very important however if you break the rules 3 or more times you will not be aloud to come to activity club that term. The rules are: No bullying other activity clubbers;No going in to the judging area;no temper if you don't win and no rudeness to the activity club leaders.We hope you can come. See you there!
BubbleShare: Share photos - Here comes Halloween!

Pumpkin Party

These are a selection of our Pumpkins for our Pumpkin Party.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Here comes Halloween!

Football Match: Blakedown Vs. Bayton

The series of matches didn't begin well with a 5 - 2 loss, but we quickly came back to draw the next match (0-0) and then finish with two wins, (2-1 & 3-0). Well done Blakedown and Bayton for playing fairly. Congratulations Blakedown for coming overall winner!!!!!

BubbleShare: Share photos - Here comes Halloween!