As part of maths week, we have thought about how technology helps us in Maths. We were learning about how people have told the time in the past and how we do it nowadays. In the olden times, people used sundials to tell the time. We made our own sundials and we took them out to watch where the shadows fell on the dial. It was quite tricky for some of us to line up our dial with the correct time. The other problem we thought about was how people might have told the time if it was cloudy.
In modern times we can use phones, timers, laptops, tablets, cuckoo clocks, ipods, the sky, watches, the news, analogue and digital clocks, alarm clocks, the speaking clock. We even asked Siri what the time was!
We have also thought about and acted out some of our school values of respect, fairness, trust and passion. The hardest one to think about was passion but we all know that passion is a strong emotion and we know that when we are passionate about something we can show it, so it might be that we love everyone’s individuality, we love Maths or science, artclub, drama, breakfast club, drawing, multisports and we can show our passion about all of these by doing them enthusiastically and sharing our passion about them with others.
Table of the week – the table of the week competition was REALLY close this week with the Friday tables test influencing the winning table massively with just 20 points between first and third. However the winning table this week was………
ORANGE with 390 points!
We were really proud of Artjom for winning out mathemagician award this week and of Elena who was awarded P4as very first certificate for demonstrating school values.