Year 5 & 7 Theme Park 2013

Once again Year 7 and Year 5 took part in a competition to design the best theme park that they possibly could.

With many of year 7 having recently been to Paulton's park as their rewards trip for the year, they knew what would make a good day out.  This was their chance to put that into practice.

With a budget of £500,000 teams (in houses) had to choose how many of different sorts of rides, as well as the more mundane car parking, and toilet blocks; all important in a theme park.

As you can see, there was a lot to think about!

Here, from top to bottom, is the order of teams.  Well done to everybody, espeically to our Year 5 visitors who did stunningly well (and at one point looked like they were going to win the day!).  When you join year 7 you have every chance of winning the day outright!

This was also a house competition, and to make it fair we are taking the mean of every house team. Results for this are...

Shelburne	80,627.71
Fitzmaurice	74,631.89
Kerry	72,074.50
Lansdowne	66,640.20

Well done to everyone that took part.

Design a Theme Park

Today was the Year 7 Economic Well Being "Design a Theme Park" day.  As well as teams from John Bentley we welcomed Y5 teams from many of our feeder primaries.

This was a house competition, and so here are the preliminary results....

In the J half of the year...

100 Points go to Lansdowne for an average profit of £76 756
80 Points go to Shelbourne for an average profit of £74 717
60 points to Kerry for their average profit of £71 236
and 40 points to Fitzmaurice for their profit of £66 254


In the B half...

Kerry get 100  for their £80320 profit
Fitzmaurice get 80for their £72 713
Lansdowne get 60with an average £63 932 profit
and Shelbourne get 40 for their £63 696.


A special mention to the overall winning team of Reckless Resort from Lansdowne, who made an overall profit of £91 891.


In the primary competition, there was an impressive average of £65 179 (beating some of our year 7!), and a special mention to the Hilmarton team of BubbleGum, who made an impressive £84 637.

Congratulations to all, and well done.

Year 8 PSHEE Stock Exchange

Congratulations to Year 8 for their wonderful efforts on the PSHEE day today.  Points were awarded to teams for two things...

Firstly how well they kept their accounts.  Perfect accuracy meant a score of 200, with 3 points lost for each pound difference between their actual money, and how much their accounts said they should have had!

Secondly was the quality of their presentations, how well they sold their products, again .with a top score of 200.

Here are how the teams did...

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This was also a House competition, and here are the house results...


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Well done to everyone!

Y10 Do the Apprentice

Congratulations to Year 10 for a fabulous Business and Enterprise PSHEE day based on The Apprentice.

As well as learning about about personal and business finance options, Year 10 planned an event, designing tickets, room layout, and catering (including cupcakes!) and  entertainment options.

They came dressed to do business, as you can see from the pictures below.

Year 7 PSHEE Day - Design a theme park

Year 7 have been very busy today, designing their very own theme parks, and seeing who could make the most money.

Hre are some of the facts and figures they were given... (and yes that is me and my family in the first picture!)

Competition was fierce, with students desperately trying to keep within the £500,000 build

budget, and keeping their daily running costs down.

After an early 3 day press viewing to test numbers, designs were tweaked, car parks improved, and rides added. Team also scored each others designs in a trade fair to increase advertising and therefor getting more paying customers through the door.

In the afternoon gates opened at the parks, with the number of visitors dependent on numbers of rides, cost, car park size, and how visually fabulous the designs were!

Congratulations to the following teams for winning in their respective houses...

Kerry B - Pure Adrenelin - £80630

Kerry J - Cheeky Monkeys - £71414

Shelbourne B - Treasure Tower - £80150

Shelbourne J - Awesome Land - £70541

Lansdowne B - A step in time - £83845

Lansdowne J - Spotty Fish 31 - £83577

Fitzmaurice B - MCL - 79894

Fitzmaurice J - CTF 75795

The Winning Design

Kerry B Average - £50426

Kerry J average - £61428

Kerry Overall Average - £55927

Shelbourne B - £57825

Shelbourne J - £61320

Shelbourne Average - £59573

Lansdowne B - £58142

Lansdowne J - £57375

Lansdowne Average - £57758

Fitzmaurice B - £57026

Fitzmaurice J - £58932

Fitzmaurice Average - £57979

The overall winning team was A Step in Time with £83,845 profit over 7 days.

The winning house was Shelbourne with an average profit per team of £59,573

Well done to all who took part, espcially our winning teams.

If you are in Y7 we would love to get feedback - what was the best bit of the day, what did you enjoy the most. Which bit of the day would you change - feel free to leave comments below.

Here are some pics - a random few. We'll add more over the next couple of days.