Branching Data Bases. Tuesday 24th January 2016

In year 6 we have been looking at creating spreadsheets in Excel . Today's lesson we are making branching data bases ( classification keys) which we are using to sort out animals. It links to our Science topic of classification where we are also creating classification keys but not digitally.

Today we are using a website www.j2e.com/j2data where we are creating our own branching databases on the laptops classifying animals or minibeasts.

Here is some of our work!

Here is Iona, Olivia and Phoebe's work in the progress.

Here is the finished piece!

Here is some more branching databases.

Maths and Computing Meet

In Miss Roffey's maths set, the children participated in a cross curricular lesson. Using the I-Pads, the children created and edited their own educational video. They were encouraged to create a video that would teach some of the younger children, within the school, how to divide decimals using the written method of long division. The children thought carefully about their target audience and what the most suitable digital device and app would be to use in order to reach the intended outcome.

Data Handling

We went on Microsoft excel and put data into a spread sheet. We learnt that a spreadsheet is built up of rows, columns and cells. We worked in pairs and the first person inputted data on the distance a car travels on different surfaces and then the other person inputted data on people's favourite colours. We then turned this data on the spreadsheet into a bar graph.  Written by Billy Dean class Jupiter.

Writing Fun!

In literacy we have been reading 'The Other Side of Truth' and are now writing our own story about fleeing our homes because of some kind of disaster such as: a lab explosion or a gang hunting you. We have to be ambitious in our language choices, we must include: relative clauses and subordinate clauses (in different parts of a sentence), adverbs, expanded noun phrases, parenthesis, commas for clarity and prepositional phrases.                                                                                                               Written by Will Sharpe  Class: Jupiter

On the 14th June, we invited some of our parents into class to learn about E safety. During our session, we responded to different scenarios of bad things that could happen to us whilst we are online. We looked at what we could do, what we should do and why we should do it.

 For example, If someone you didn't  know had sent you a message, what would you do?

a: ignore it and hope that the person would stop texting you.
b: call the police immediately
c: see if anyone from your class/someone you know had texted you the other day and if they didn't block the user.

Hopefully, you chose c.

Afterwards, we did a quiz online asking us questions about what we would do if we were getting cyber bullied, inappropriate messages or if we were getting texts from strangers. Fortunately, the whole class got over 8/10!

Remember that if you are in any of these situations, you should always tell a trusted adult because they will make things better.

By Katie Neicho
Class Jupiter

Internet Safety Workshop

During our Internet safety session in year 6, we looked at scenarios (with parents), having to think of what we should do,what we could do and what we will do. We worked in groups of fours and some children had their parents come in. Each group chose a person to read out a scenario to the class and the class had to answer the scenario with their own answers. We used the scenarios so that if we ever got stuck in this situation online, we would know what to do. We would use this: if we ever had to help a friend; if we didn't want to do something we had to do; or, if we got a text from somebody you didn't know. Most of the problems were about social media, however one included making sure we protected our computers from viruses and other dangers like that. 

Most importantly, we learned that if you were in any of these situations, you should support friends to help protect themselves and make good decisions, and especially tell your parents/a teacher/or other responsible adult you know, 

By Flora Bean

Class Saturn

Swimming Gala 2016

     Setting off at 9 o'clock, we walked through the damp streets of Bexleyheath as a year group. Around quarter past, we arrived at Crook Log Leisure Centure. Splitting up into two lines, the competitors and reserves set off to get changed. Walking past reception, we all took our shoes off before entering the changing rooms. As soon as we were ready, we lined-up to go and sit down. Parents were coming in as they started to tell us about the rules of the gala.

The first race was the three-person relay for boys. As the whistle blew, Josh Crabb sped off but unluckily we came in third place. The front-crawl race was the first time we got first place in the swimming gala: this continued for the next few races.  

Phenomenal cheering was coming from the stands by Upland Primary School as they cheered on their peers. At half-time, we were in the lead by just 1 point. Another race was the mixed relay with boys and girls, in which you swim breastroke, front-crawl and backstroke; we came first. 

Max Driscoll was in the mixed medley race: he was in first place but, as he didn't know he had to do 2 other lengths, we came in third place.

 Given great motivation by Mr Lynch, the 8 children: Josh, Charlie; Maddie, Demi, Talia; Flora, Max and Jason tried their best to win the final race but - however hard they tried - they came in 2nd place.

Overall the class of 2015-16 came in second place by only one point! They may have been disappointed but they still congratulated the winning team which was Crook Log Primary School. Mr Lynch was extremely proud of us as we had tried our very best and been on our best behaviour all morning - a credit to the school. Of course, though, we carried on with our heads held high on the walk back to school.

By Demi Kolarin

Class Saturn