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.

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.