World Cup computing

This week in computing, we have presented World Cup data and statistics on bar and line graphs. We had to analyse the data, and decide whether we would use a bar or line graph to present it. If the data was measuring change over time, then we used a line graph.

English inspired Art

This term, we have been reading How to Train Your Dragon and it has led to some fantastic writing. However, we haven't just used this book to inspire our English lesson, but also our Art lessons.

Last week, Vivienne showed us a huge collection of beautiful and highly decorated eggs. We then used different grades of pencils to sketch our own egg design.

Here are some examples:

Reading buddies with Storey class

Today, all the classes from Key Stage 2 went downstairs to work with Key Stage 1. We listened to Storey class read, asked them questions and read to them too. We were so excited and had a great time.

Whole School Write

This week, we begin our whole school write. It is based on the picture below:

We spent our first lesson discussing the picture, and deciding what we thought was happening. We had lots of interesting ideas, and talked about the importance for buildings and housing, but also the importance of countryside and farms.

We also spent some time talking about conservation and the areas in the UK which you can't build on.

We all agreed that countryside is important.

Whodunnit?

This term, we have been looking at Data in Computing. So far, we have made lots of different types of graphs, but we also spoke about the branching databases we made last year about Bexley, and this year in Science.

A database is a place that keeps data in one safe place, like a telephone book or diary. Today we used a database full of people's names, ages, genders, heights etc. We were detectives and had to solve the cases, by inputting the most significant data and choosing from those suspects. It was quite tricky to make sure we worded everything carefully and specifically enough, to narrow down the suspects.

The game we played can be found here.

Rounding games

In maths, we love to play games which test and apply our skills and knowledge.

This week, we played two games all to do with rounding.  This helped us apply our fluency, reasoning and problem solving from throughout the week.

The first game, which can be found here: https://nrich.maths.org/10945 involved rolling two a 0-9 dice and rounding to the nearest 10.

The other game, which can be found here: https://nrich.maths.org/10438 involved rolling two dice and making a decimal number to round.

We had lots of fun!

We’re gymtastic!

A huge thank you to the PA and to Athena for putting on our gymtastic fundraiser. We had such a fun time, and all did so well.