Archive for the 'Year 5/6' Category

03 Mar

Planning our virtual museum

This morning the G&T year 5 and 6’s have been planning what they want to include in Silverstone’s virtual museum. They have used both mind mapping software on the Internet and the traditional pen and paper approach to plan their topic. From the history of crashes here at Silverstone and a biography of Lewis Hamilton [...]

24 Feb

Gifted and Talented Explore Silverstone

The gifted and talented pupils from the Sponne cluster arrived this morning to start their virtual museum project. Having explored the circuit and learnt about some of the history of Silverstone, the pupils are now being challenged to start generating ideas for a museum. Take a look at the Animoto below to see what they [...]

24 Feb

Sponne Cluster’s First Day at Silverstone

Today we are expecting year five and six gifted and talented pupils from the Sponne Cluster. They are coming to start their new virtual museum project based around the history of Silverstone. I wonder what they’ll be like?! We’ve got many activities in store for them today, I hope they enjoy it.

12 Feb

Year 5 & 6 have their say!

Year 5 & 6 were quite inspirational in their views concerning bullying where they overwhelmingly felt that you should ’speak out’ if you feel you are being bullied.

12 Nov

Year 5/6 Intro

30 Apr

G&T Maths – Y5/6 Class of 2008

The Year Five and Six G&T Maths students from the Sponne Cluster Primary Schools were presented with their medals and prizes today. They fully deserved the awards after demonstrating not only great maths ability but also effective communication and collaboration skills. Congratulations!

30 Apr

Track Trigonometry

Let’s pull the trigger!

Image credit: coolmath.com
3pm Update:
We had a brilliant and very wet time today. Exploring the tangent function to find the height of buildings around the track, we quickly got to grips with our clinometers to measure the necessary angle. We also made sure that we measured the adjacent distance from the structure to [...]

19 Mar

Coordinates

Coordinates are an important part of games design. Knowing where you want your objects to appear on a screen can be pinpointed using coordinates.

19 Mar

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

What does a two pound coin have to do with standing on the shoulders of giants? How does it relate to the activities that the Year 5/6 mathematicians are going to complete today? So many questions – so little time as usual

27 Feb

Shanghai, Melbourne, Barcelona!

Research and plan the finances for the team’s trip from Silverstone to one of the above Grand Prix venues. You need to update the figures from the Indianapolis Challenge brief. Use the Day Two links to help get the up-to-date prices.

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