Photostory

To explore the photstory software, we recreated our amazing adventures at Robinwood Activity Centre.

By Jamie

Classroom Olympics

As part of our Olympic themed week, we held our own 'Classroom Olympics'  maths lesson. The events included:

• Straw javelin
• Cotton ball shot put
• Paper plate discus throw
• High Jump
• Giant step
• Side Step

 Side Step



Straw Javelin



 Accurately measuring the distance thrown

High Jump

Cotton Ball Shot Put

The results were collated and the children designed their own databases to work out the overall results.

Well done Jamie. Overall winner with 4 gold medals and 4 medals over all. Closely followed by Robbie, with 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, another super 4 medal haul and a fantastic effort!

Water Filters

As part of our Geography topic on water, following our visit to the water treatment works,  we made our own water filters.  

When we compared the dirty water with our filtered water, we found out that each of the filters had some success at cleaning water.  

Which filter would you choose as being the most efficient?

Clay Containers

As promised, here are a selection of our finished clay containers. 

Athletics

The year 6 sports leaders taught us athletics in PE this week, to prepare for our 'Olympic' themed sports week next week.  Good luck everybody, I hope to see some of you in the 'sports champions' events on Friday. 

100 metres sprint

100 metres sprint

Year 6 exlain the format of the session and organise a warm up

A very happy sprinter

Standing long jump - bend your knees and swing your arms - a good technique

accurate measurements must be taken

A big thank you to Miss Jury and the year 6 sports leaders for organising this for us.

West Burton Visit

Today we had our annual visit to our partner school in the Yorkshire Dales, West Burton C of E Primary School.  Look at the photos to compare their school with ours.  What similarities and differences can you spot?

The school

The hall

Library and resource room (pic 1)

Library and resource room (pic 2)

KS2 classroom (pic 1)

KS2 classroom (pic 2)

KS2 group room

Yorkshire Water

 As part of our Geography topic, we visited the Water Treatment Works at Headingley to discover how water is treated to make it safe for us to drink.  We also visited the Esholt Waste Water Treatment works to discover how water from the sewers is treated to make it safe to return to the environment.

The huge pipe which brings in water to be treated from Eccup reservoir.

'floc' beginning to form on top of the water

one of ten rapid gravity filter tanks

the 'Ozone Tank'