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
Pointless contraptions
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!
Building!
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
learning
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
Maths
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.
Rube Goldberg – Amazing Inventions
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.
Art
Last big Thursday we were doing art with Miss Pattie. In art we are doing different things like Koi fish and the Northern lights.
Each week we are doing something different from a different country or place, its pretty fun actually. We`re using chalk pastels right now for all the pieces of art. We also did chameleons on the first week, we had to use very very bright colours. My one was neon yellow,neon orange and neon green. We also put big patterns on them; mine was bright and stripey. By Josie
Percy Fawcett
Hi all, Caspian is back.
Today I have done some spelling and also continued with some science on magnetic force. Today’s “Main Project” is the one in the title. I have read the story of Percy Fawcett and have written 20 things for an explorer to pack for an adventure:
- Med kit
- A good team of men
- Water
- Food (Marmalade, sandwiches, fruit)
- Compass
- Harpoon (for defence)
- Map
- Clothes
- Ball of yarn (Used like in the story of the Minotaur)
- Inhaler (In case one of your team is an asthmatic)
- Flint and steel
- Note pad and pen
- Tents and camp beds
- Penknife
- Gold for trading
- Washing materials
- Book about nature
- Parrot (Every good explorer needs one with a jolly name)
- Vine sword
- Ukulele
That is all for now, bye!!!!
Whale Day
Hello,
Today I have been learning a lot about whales like where they live, what the different types are, and what they eat. I hope you like my drawing.
I have also worked through a Horrible Histories game online about the Vile Victorians. It was good fun but I learned lots about the Victorians and Charles Darwin.
Smile every day, love from Tanith xxx
Exploring
Hi all, Caspian is back!
I started today by working on my spellings – I like finding new and difficult words as I write a lot of my own stories and don’t want them to sound like every other writer. My latest story is top secret until I have finished it and agreed for it to be published.
I had some maths which were a refresher on decimal partitions, long multiplication and correctly identifying numbers in the millions which mum called out to me so I could write them down in words.
I watched Newsround – the top stories were about the Covid vaccine (phew), a Brazilian emu family, and the free style kite event, also in Brazil.
I started reading The Explorer by Jacqueline Wilson. I read up to the chapter titled The River. I thought it well written in places, detailed and very dramatic in terms of the story but the character did not seem well described which actually confused the story line.
Mum spoke to our new teacher today and we are starting our virtual lessons on Wednesday.
huuguughghg huuguughghg! (Goodbye in Wookie)
