Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
’Diolch’ to Larry who came in on Monday to do some baking with some Year 6 pupils. The cakes were gluten-free, and dairy-free or vegan. They had to do some problem-solving when they realised an ingredient was missing but handled the situation very well! The cakes have been very much enjoyed, particularly the apple loaf cake!
Year 6 studied a scene depicting a very busy every-day scene. They had to look for rights being enjoyed, being requested and being denied. We later looked through all of the human rights and had to choose some to diamond rank. Our concluding thoughts were that the type of life someone has lived will affect which human rights they consider to be the most important. They also queried whether soldiers were free… .
Our Christmas products are coming along nicely but how much should we sell them for…?
Excel was the chosen software to help us decide. The formulas are often difficult to remember, even for adults, but some remembered the work they completed with Miss Jeakings earlier in the term.
Mrs Rimmer started the day with Christmas songs in assembly and our very own Christmas Elf (Miss Bunn) has been in to help us make products for the Christmas Fayre! 2 weeks to go…!
We’re almost ready to design our skyscrapers but first we need to know what types of structures there are. They’re all quite wordy and full of technical descriptions so we’ve had a go at building little models that represent the different types of structures, for example; braced frame, rigid frame, wall-frame, shear wall, core and outrigger, infilled frame, flat plate & flat slab, tube and coupled.
Today our School Council decided we would celebrate Children in Need. Pupils and staff made donations to wear non-uniform.
Barcud Coch have been working hard on a Friday afternoon to complete an extended write! Last week they completed a cold write (no help at all) to recount an investigation they carried out. We then studied recount texts and looked for the features they need. Following on from this, we looked at specific sentence structures and time connective we could use to develop our writing!
We wanted to establish which shape base was the strongest for skyscrapers. We decided to build models of skyscrapers using LEGO and K’nex and then use LEGO We Do to create an earthquake simulator. We placed the models on the simulator to test how robust they were. Unfortunately the models were either too heavy for the simulator to move or too tall to stand upright on the simulator! We tried it on the table and carpet in the hope that the amount of friction would help, it didn’t. One of our class members thought to attach a LEGO plate as a base for the models to stand on, this didn’t work either!
