Month: November 2020

When we do big Thursday we do science,Lego  wedo,art and P.E. in PE we play a lot of fun games like disco tig, Caterpillar tig, and more. We run round the playground twice every  Thursday. In art we have been drawing really cool stuff like the northern lights, Koi fish and chameleons. In science we made our own games it was really fun we used bendy wires. In Lego wedo we make fun projects with the lego its really fun.

In class we have been doing useless contraptions that we don’t need at all  for our topic.

We have been making most of them with dominos and marbles.

Me and Alexa are making one with dominos marbles and a little toy car to make a pencil draw on a piece of normal paper.

We haven’t finished ours yet but we hope we will be done soon.

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BY Tumaini

 

At our school we have Big Woodland Break for an hour at the end of every Friday. I was making a bridge out of sticks and logs with my friends  across a really big puddle. The bridge is still very unstable, the puddle is up to my knees with mud, just about. Favourite subject. My favourite thing to do is build dens.

 

 

 

 

In class, we are building  contraptions.  Ours is  just to get a drink of water. It is pointless!  We are building them for fun, so at the moment we are in the process  of building them and Miss Dale  still thinks it is pointless.

Bailey

 

( No, she doesn’t – pupils are having to apply their forces skills and knowledge!!) – Miss Dale

Hey everyone and today we are talking about learning at Holywood. On Wednesday we usually do a spelling quiz with only 10 questions but tomorrow, 25/11/2020 is when we do a spelling quiz with 30 questions, so we have added 20 questions the the normal 10. Yesterday 23/11/2020 we did an hour on either our diagramma, pointless contraptions, or our 2 meature tower. Most of the 2 meature tower group came out and thats what i did for the first hour, the next hour i did my pointless contraptions with my partner and a little help from my friend.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      thats all                                                                                                                             Oliver               

Hi everyone, for the last week or so in class we have been making complicated little contraptions. They do very, very simple things you could just do your self, like turning a page or sharpening a pencil. My pointless contraption poked someone on the back. It’s been a lot of fun doing these machines. These machines were based on Rube Goldberg’s amazing contraptions.

See you Joe!

We’ve been doing some building. We are building some towers. I’m building two .One of them is really big but we had to break it because  it was too big. The other tower is a good size and we are working really well on it. They might be bridges only if it’s safe. Some people have put pulleys on them .We haven’t but we could.

By Sarah

Hello, in school we have been doing lots of stuff. In maths we are making a home office; it has been a lot of fun. We have to go on the internet and pick what furniture we want.

In spelling tomorrow we have to have 30 questions on our spelling quiz and if the whole class  does well on it, we don’t have to do spelling for the rest of the year.

P6/7 have made useless contraptions; it has been lots of fun. It has to start with one push then no more.My one has a marble that starts a domino, smash, then the domino ,smash, hits a car, then the toy car hits a leg kind of thing that hits a marble into a goal.

By Rhys

Today we were doing a sheet involving area and perimeter.  The sheet is about designing an office for Miss Stapelton. It has to be an area of sixteen meters squared. Today me and Cleo had to calculate how much the wallpaper costs and find furniture for the outdoor office.  We also had to go file our assessments and did some harder percentages.

I have tasked P6/7 to use their forces knowledge and skills to design and build a pointless contraption with a point.

Rube Goldberg was famous for his cartoons and contraptions which used elaborate components and ridiculous elements to make a simple thing happen.

With the push of just one finger the machine would be started…

I have asked the pupils to design a machine to move a pencil along, into a sharpener and then get it sharpened.

Of course, being Holywood some pupils have decided to invent Goal Scoring machines, the Thirst Quenching machine and other creations of their own.

Some designs include electric circuits and fans, dominoes and moving cars or marbles, one even has  boat moved by a tidal wave…

We will share photos when the working models are completed.