Y6 are now percentage wizards!
This dice revision game really helped to improve our skills when finding percentages of amounts.
The Maths Mansion video also helped us to secure our understanding.
Thank you very much to all of the children and families who have sent in such wonderful and interesting artefacts for us to study.
We have examined a range of WW1 and WW2 memorabilia including newspapers, war diaries, identity cards, gas masks, photographs, letters to the front line and even a beautiful wedding dress from 1941.
These amazing artefacts have really brought our war time topic to life!
Last week in Science, we had the job of helping Planet Express design a new landing module for their ‘space eggs’, as their usual method of delivery was out of order.
We were designated groups and had to show lots of teamwork skills to create a new prototype for a landing module, which would keep the eggs safe. Each group only had access to the following:
1 bin liner
3 sheets of newspaper
1 A3 sheet of paper
1 metre of sellotape
we then judged each other’s designs on build quality, design and practicality, with each design having its own unique style!
We then dropped each landing module from 3 metres and discovered our messy results! Then judging its landing module on its overall effectiveness. Out of 6 eggs, 4 survived!
we then discussed why parachute style designs would be good on a planet like Earth, which has a thick atmosphere and why a different approach would be needed on a planet like mercury, which las very little atmosphere.