For our last session before Christmas, and before the stress of practising continues, we enjoyed an after school movie night, celebrating our win at the regional competition.The Puzzlers were comfy on cushions with popcorn and warm chocolates with marshmallows and whipped cream while they watched the Muppets Christmas Carol.
The Harton SOLE Club is Harton’s Self Organised Learning Environment
Today the ‘Hart-on-SOLE’ club started with one big question- Why can’t penguins fly?
The children came up with their own groups, shared facts with each other and recorded their ideas in their own way.
Do you know why penguins can’t fly?
Ask one of the ‘Hart-on-SOLE’ members why!
Well done to all members of the club ( Even Miss Smith found out something new)
Choosing our recording method
Using the IPADs
“Take a look at this!”
The ‘big question’
Great facts!
Using diagrams to help!
This year’s skipping club have worked extremely hard to develop various individual skills such as:
They have managed to do some of these, and other skills too, forwards and backwards. They have also developed skills with a partner and in a group. Some particular favourites included butterfly, face to face, baby fox, run jump out and Texas star.
For the past 6 weeks, 15 children in year 5 have been working hard every Tuesday after-school to use maths to compete in a Grand Prix race against each other using the program ‘Maths In Motion’ from Jaguar cars, showing how maths in used to prepare and race Grand Prix cars.
Many areas of the curriculum are addressed by taking part in ‘Maths in Motion’ have included:
After hours of measuring and multiplying corners and speeds, completing copious amounts of practise laps, on Thursday lunchtime we were ready to race our 50 lap Monaco Grand Prix!
During those 50 laps, we had:
Bronze medal, for running out of fuel on lap 25: Katie
Silver medal, running out of fuel on the last lap: Kira
Gold medal, only car to complete all laps: Libby
Despite not winning, all the children enjoyed this club (especially the competition) and have used their maths in a practical way. We definitely have some budding engineers within this group!
