Microbes

This month we have been examining the positives and negatives associated with micro-organisms.
To examine their prevalence in the environment, including our school, we took samples from around the school using swabs and agar plates.
We hope this will inform us as to the necessity of keeping hands and surfaces clean, as well as keeping food covered (and our noses when we sneeze!)

Thanks to Padraic Caffrey and Catherine Fox for providing us with agar plates

Within a week we had some startling results

 

Festive Art

This week the class have been working on some Christmas art. They've made Christmas tree decorations from clay and some bespoke Christmas wrapping paper from newspaper print, paint and Christmas themed stencils.

Art Project

The girls were tasked with recreating the works of famous artists as photographs. So impressed were the staff with the results that Mrs.Bradley, our resident artist, has secured an exhibition space for us in the county library.
We hope to have everything ready to go for the new year.

Christmas Decorations

The girls are working on their own decorations, cutting them out of clay with cookie cutters

Geography Projects

The girls have been studying European and Asian countries, of their choice. As well as producing fine work in their Atlas Hunt workbooks they have recreated them as PowerPoints which allows them a different and more engaging medium with which to present their work.

Friday Maths Assessment

On Friday's Mr.Arkins assesses our knowledge of what we've done in maths during the week.
To accommodate this we work in small groups. While one group is being assessed the three other groups partake in maths games and logic puzzles, ranging from chess to rock/paper/scissors. Here are today's logic puzzles;

Lateral thinking problems that are based on fact.

1. A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink of water. The bartender gives the man a drink of water, but the man says the water is no good. The bartender thinks for a minute, pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks out.

2. There was once a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then, one storm winter night when an icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights and went to bed. Next morning, he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?

3. Many shops have prices set just under a round figure, e.g. $9.99 instead of $10.00 or $99.95 instead of $100.00 . It is assumed that this is done because the price seems lower to the consumer. But this is not the reason the practice started. What was the original reason for this pricing method?