St James' School Report – 3

This is the third and last part of an end-of-term school report written by the St James School Roving Reporters team.

Diamond Class (Year 5/6)

At Robin Wood they had lots of fun on the Trapeze, obstacle course, piranha pool and other fun activates. Many people enjoyed it especially the giant swing, they also said that the group leaders were fun and made the trip even better for all the children that went. All the children thought it was really good fun and didn`t want to go home.
For their topic they did fairgrounds .This included making and your own Carousel or Ferris wheel. In addition to this they had to make a fairground in maths by budgeting all the rides and facilities. They even had to work out how much profit they would make a day if they opened it for real.
In literacy they have been focusing on Roald Dahl and writing a story based on George`s Marvellous Medicine from granny`s view point. With this they did their own play scripts and then did writing with a partner and acted it out.

Our Science Day

Oliver
Hari and I went to a science day where we learnt a lot about science. This is one of my favourite activities: If you put oil water bubble bath together it won't mix and if put tea powder in it will go fast through the oil then slower through the water then very slow through the bubble bath .We also had to come up with our own investigation with wind-up toys. Ours was how far it went.

Hari
In the afternoon, an animal expert called Mike came in. He brought in an axolotl, a grey corn snake, a millipede (which me and Ollie got to hold), and a cockroach. We held a young stag's antler and a sawfish jaw. The millipede felt like a nettle sting and hurt when it crawled over my arm, and cockroaches breed like there is no tomorrow.
I also made snow out of polymer and put jelly balls in it they go all lumpy. We put some extra absorbent crystals in it and they grew 5x their normal size!
We found out that white chocolate melts fastest between dark and milk chocolates.
We loved it we would want to do it again.

By Oliver Lowe and Hari Satchithananda.

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