Marshmallow Challenge Year Six

 Year 7 and 8 go to technology so Year 6 had a challenge to build a tower with bamboo sticks and marshmallows

Task    

Some of us did not do very well with our planning and had to begin more than once.

Some people found it hard to communicate, combine their plan, work as a team and discuss things as they went. The people who did this managed to get a successful tower that had the mass evenly distributed which allowed them to build it higher.

In the end, everyone was given a plastic bag to name and halve the marshmallows to eat. We were very careful about washing our hands and sanitising ourselves and the desk before we started work. We all had the same number or marshmallows per group so it was very fair.

RED NOSE DAY

 

With origins dating back to 1989, Red Nose Day has grown to become one of our country’s most recognised appeals, symbolised by red noses and remembered by the catchy theme song ‘You make the whole world smile’ and, more recently, ‘Feel Inside (and stuff like that). 

This Red Nose appeal is to help raise funds for more research into a wide range of child health conditions including childhood cancers, inherited heart conditions, epilepsy, infectious diseases, cystic fibrosis, sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI), stillbirth, burns as well as child and adolescent mental health – and many, many other areas of research.

WIG DAY - Bad Hair Day

 

We raised many for child cancer by having a wig day. We had the choice of wearing a wig, painting our hair, doing a crazy hairstyle of having a decorated hat.

 Even the staff took part so it was very amusing. Some of them painted their hair and others wore wigs. Wig day raises money for child cancer

Leaf and Bark Rubbings

 For Art this term we are doing Printmaking. The first thing we did was leaf and bark rubbings. We 

turned these into art pieces by adding

a dye background and a NZ bird in the forefront.

ST JOHNS

 We had Catherine from St John come to teach us CPR. Unfortunately due to COVID 19we were unable to do the breathing but we could do the compressions.  

                                           

We had to be very careful sanitising each time we moved mannequins, which was every 3 minutes. One of the mannequins was synced to the phone to help us see how we went. One of the others lite up as we managed to get blood to the brain, this really helped us see how much pressure was needed. We were all surprised how hard it was and some of us were very red in the face when the time was up. We all got given a small pencil case sized first aid kit.

STATES OF MATTER CHOCOLATE

 We have been looking at Sates of Matter one of our experiments was to look at solids and liquids using chocolate. We used white, milk and dark chocolate.

We had to work out how to transform it from solid to liquid. We had to make a plan and hypothesis and then do the experiment. 

We had to work out how to transform it from solid to liquid. We had to make a plan and hypothesis and then do the experiment.

We also had to read the ingredients on the labels and take into consideration what the chocolate contained. We had to use our hands only. 

There were lots of things to be considered like temperature, the heat of our hands and the time each chocolate took to turn into a liquid.  There was a bucket of ice available and some of used this to turn our chocolate back to solid by putting our hands in it. We were able to eat/lick our chocolate when we were finished. Each of us did a presentation with our results for our individual blogs.

WE LEARNT that objects move through different phases of matter and that this usually happens through temperature change.

Live Stream Assembly 3

We spent a lot of time writing scripts, filming skits (which didn't make it in as we ran out of time) for our Third Assembly. We are getting much more professional at putting the presentation together, filming and live streaming it. Here is the link WE ARE PROUD OF OUR PROGRESS Blaketown Assembly June 2020