School Fair

Only 8 days to go until our SCHOOL FAIR!!  Saturday 5th November 11 - 2pm.  Fingers crossed or great weather!

Books, toys, clothing, white elephant, chocolate wheel, food, class stalls (plants, tie-dyed t-shirts, artwork), raffles, 'silent auction', paper plane throwing competition, bouncy castles, SMASH a car!

It'll be great, come and join in the fun!

Art Gallery Visit

A great class visit to the Art Gallery this morning.  We were looking at innovation/inventions and John, the gallery educator, took us around an excellent selection of artworks.  We are so lucky to have this fabulous resource just down the hill from school.....a mere 10 min walk!
In the gallery classroom we made our own inventions using cut outs......a machine that fluffs up a wolf's fur, headlamp for a horse, a model T Ford spray painter machine, a machine that lets a panda play a musical instrument amongst others!  Great fun!

Wait!!

Success with the science today.........after pondering about what went wrong with the rubber balls we were experimenting with making a change in the pva was a suggestion.....and yes!  We managed to get most groups with a pretty great replica of a bouncy ball (would by no means stand up to the rigours of centre court but impressive none-the-less!

Try and try again!

Sometimes even following the best set of instructions means an experiment may not work out.  In our Science workshop today our bouncing ball using borax and pva didn't end up at all like a ball!  More along the lines of Silly Putty (adults - do you remember getting Silly Putty as a present?!).

Did you know how Silly Putty came about?  Check this out

http://blog.retroplanet.com/silly-putty/

S.T.A.R

This is a great way to tackle a problem, it could be specifically used for a maths problem.
The important thing is you have a bit of a ponder yourself to try to work it out then work through the steps below.

Swimming!

Swimming tomorrow, don't forget your togs!

perhaps leave the breathing apparatus at home though!

Term 4 is nearly here!!!

I hope you all had a most fabulous holiday....pity the weather wasn't so flash!
Make sure you have all that you need for the term, it's going to be a busy one so make sure you know when things are due, what you need to be handing in and make sure all notices get home!
Remember it's a sunhat term.