Important Dates

^1st July - Year 6 to Elevate

2^nd July - Year 6 to London 

3rd, 4^th and 5^th July - Year 6 transition days (dates vary depending on school they are transitioning to)

5^th July - 3.15-5pm Summer Fair

10^th July - Sports day KS2 9-11.30 and Year R/KS1 1.45-3

11^th July - Year 6 assembly at 9am 

11^th July - Music evening with Mr Redwood

11^th July - Thanet Games Triathlon year 5 and 6

12^th July - School reports out to parents

15th, 16th, 17^th July - Transition days (children to spend these days with their new teachers)

18^th July - Inflatable fun day and year 6 leavers party 3.30-6

19^th July - Year 6 graduation

19^th July - School finishes at 2pm

The week's activities

This week, we challenged ourselves with our visualising skills: during maths, we played Mastermind, where we created a sequence of coloured pegs and our partner had to solve the order of the colours, using clues given to us.  

    

    

We also learned the importance of our digital footprint: after a fun activity of creating a paint trail with our own feet, we discussed what online cookies were and how we can protect ourselves when online: what we post, share and view online stays online.  Afterwards, we were introduced to Tinkercad, which is a computer-assisted design program, which we hope to use more of next week.  We explored the program's features and experimented with how designers create using the Internet as a tool. 

    

    

Thematic

In small groups, we designed a steady hand game, carefully considering the design specifications: will there be a theme? Who is our target audience?  How will you make it appealing?  How will we make it safe?  We drew our the circuit using scientific symbols before creating the game itself.  We had lots of making them and we evaluated their success by talking to our friends after they played them.

     

    

    

Love to Learn

There will be no Love to Learn task this week however, as we have Elev8 on Monday and London on Tuesday, we would like you to prepare what you will need yourself: get involved with the organisation (with your parents' help if needed) to get ready for our trips.  This includes spare clothes (if needed), lunch, water and anything else that you may need.  After a fun trip to Boonies on Friday (photos to come), rest well ready for another Play Hard Week next week.