Blakedown on tour: PGL 2008 #1

"We're off to see the...."

What shall we call our summer production? That's the question that Blakedown Primary Producations is asking. We're in a dilemma, we've written our script and cast the show but we're still not sure what to call it.

We put a poll on the right hand side of the blog - you can vote on which one you would prefer.

If you have any other suggestions, you can leave them as a comment on this post.

Mould!

Class 4 have been growing mould! It's a bit gross, but we've been doing it for a reason. We were testing to see which area of the class room provided the best place for bread to stay fresh. Our results were slightly unexpected, so we're designing a new test to backup or disprove our previous results.

Faberge Eggs

As part of our Another Culture Topic we researched, designed and made our own Faberge Eggs.

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Hello Joya!

Hi Joya how is your holiday going?Have you ridden an elephant yet? Also what food have you tasted ? We are missing you lots and we have almost finished our Faberge eggs. Your egg is coming on really well. Have you done anything else interesting if so tell us. KEEP in touch , send some photos. We have finished our base lines you are very lucky! See you soon after Easter.

Eleanor.B and Ella and the rest of class 4 icluding Mr M and Mrs S .

Football/Netball Tournament

On Saturday, Class 4 entered a team into the football and netball tournament at Haybridge. Both teams did really well, getting to the semifinals respectively. The teams that knocked us out, went on to win the tournament too!
Both teams put in 100% effort and made all the staff and parents who were watching very proud.
Well done teams!
Here are some pictures of the football (netball coming soon!):

Micro-organisms at work

How cool is this?

Small Act = Big Impact Day!

So, what are you up to today? What small things can you do that will have a big impact?

Shared Reading In Class 1

Last week class 1 were really lucky to have a visit from several children from classes 3 and 4. They had come to share books with the younger children. First the older children chose a book, and then it was the turn of the younger children to choose. Everyone agreed it had been a great success, so we are hoping to make shared reading a regular feature in class 1 in the coming weeks. A big thank you to all the children from Key Stage 2 who took part.

Mrs Rowe

Small Act - Big Impact

This is the final version of Small Act-Big Impact. A group of children put this together over two days. They filmed, edited and produced this on their own.

World Maths Day!

Maths Challenge time!

Which two digit number has the highest number of factors?

Which three digit number has the highest number of factors?

36 has 9 factors (including 1 and 36) the sum of 3 and 6 is 9. Is this a patern or just a coincidence?

Making the World a Better Place

In class 4 four people were chosen to enter a competition: Joya, Amelia, Jonathan and Calum. This was sponsered by "apple" the topic was based around "Making the world a better place". We Blakedown were also chosen to host the competition. What we had to do was make a video. We were lent 1 apple mac and some iBooks from apple. We had three other schools come to us: Bayton, Wolverly and Upper Arley. We planned our video really well and were ahead of the other schools. We decided to call our video "Small act Big impact". We acted our scenes well too. What we had to face now was the editing stage this was crucial and we didn't do very well. We were given another half day to finish it and finally we got our heads down and got on with it. Then we were invited to the Digital awards ceromony. We put together a presentation and showed our video and everybody thought it was really good.

After School Tennis

After school every Wednesday, a group of children from year 3 , 4 and 5 go to the hall and play tennis. So-far we have done forehand, backhand and volley. Each session there is a player of the week and they play the instructor!

Class 4 Maths and Literacy

In class 4 we have been doing symmetry in maths, we have learnt to do it in Horrizontal, verticall, and diagnally also how to plot points in eather 1 or 4 quadrants, witch is in co-

ordinates. We have found it really cool, we have all been moved into silver which if you don't know its great!!!



In Literacy we have been analysing stories, so far we have been through War of the Worlds, The demon Headmaster and Room 13, we have gone through and looked for V.C.O.P witch means Vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation, and what makes it a type of genre.

Class 4 News!

Lots of things have been happening in Class 4 recently or will be happening very soon:

1) Our Learning for Life Academy is about to start again - We have our largest selection of choices which are: "Think Quest", "Knitwits", "No Dice", "Pop Art & Riveting Reads", "It's A Mystery", "Creative Crafts Part 2", "Making the World a Better Place" and "Carry on Camping". If you want to know more about these cryptic titles visit our LFLA blog.

2) We have announced the winners of the website design competition. The winners will now take part in the ThinkQuest Challenge. It was decided that the a piece of homework would be the fairest way to decide on who would be on the team. Mr Marshall "blind" marked them, and narrowed it down to 9 possible contenders. He then spent time interviewing and managed to narrow it down to 6, with the 3 remaining finalists as reserves.

The winners are: Oliver, Harry, Angus, Joya, Eleanor and Ellie.
The runnersup: Ella, Grace and Dharani.
Honorable Mentions: Hannah, Eleanor, Ashley, Harvey, Megan, Daniel, Jonathan and Matthew.

Mr Marshall said that it was very, very hard to come to a decision and he wished that he could have a 34 person team.

3) We have a new assistant in Class 4. Mr Beck will be working in the class until the end of the summer term.

Stay tuned to more of what's going on in class 4.

Are you depressed?

Today is, apparently, the most depressing day of the year. Here's an article from CBBC Newsround:

If you found it hard to get out of bed on Monday and you're feeling grumpy you're not alone - it is officially the most depressing day of the year!

Experts used some complicated maths to work out that Monday 21 January is the day when people are most unhappy.

It's because Christmas is over, the weather is miserable and lots of people have broken their New Year Resolutions.

All this means the time of year makes people more gloomy than they might be at other times.

Top tips to get help you through the day include smiling at everyone you meet and doing some exercise.

And if you've messed up your New Year's resolutions, put it down to a mistake, and then start them again.

Do you feel depressed? What do you do to make yourself feel happy?

School Council

In our school we have a school council. The elected members of the school council are: Chloe, Holly, Megan, Harry, Arran, Eleanor, Eleanor, Ellie, Joya and Megan. The age range is between 5 and 11.

A school councillors job is to take ideas from children and take them on board if they like the idea they might use it.

School council help out with loads of fundraisers.

There are 3 key jobs: they are the Secretary, Chair person, Treasurer and Vice Chair Person.

If you are in our school and you have a problem and no one else can help, or a suggestion please don't be afraid to tell one of the members 0f school council, as that is their job!

Activity Club Info

Activity club has started once again after the christmas term (hope you all had a really nice christmas) it was a big hit. But this time we have changed it a bit we are now only doing three weeks for key stage 1 and then three weeks for key stage 2 and then we start all over again we are also at the start of every term we are going to send out a form so we know who is coming. Please tell your class teacher if you want to go.

LEGO CLUB

LEGO club has started up again. After the christmas term. It has been a big hit this time but I haven't beaten the record which is 32. So I will try to beat it this term.

I am going to do keystage 1 LEGO club on the 23rd of January which is a wednesday.

Think Quest Homework

Last week Class 4 started a piece of homework that they actually wanted to do!

Their task was to design a website - Mr Marshall would then choose the 6 best designs. The winning designers would then form the Blakedown Think Quest Team. They would then have to build a website and enter it into the Think Quest Competition.

Think Quest is an international Web Site Design competition for children from ages 9 - 19. The top prizes involve an all expenses paid trip to the Think Quest show in SAN FRANSISCO, USA!

Mr Marshall said he'll put the winning homework designs on the blog.

You can visit the thinkquest website by clicking here, once there go to the library to look at the different winners from last year.