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.

Chernoff Faces

Chernoff faces are an unusual way of looking at data.  Instead of putting data into a bar chart or pie chart, you turn the data into facial features.  Here is an example from Wikipedia. (Click on the picture to see a larger version!).There are lots of ways of decorating a face, you can change the face shape, nose size, even how far apart the eyes are!

Here is a graphic showing what you can do...

We decided to find out a bit more about our visiting year 5, and so got them to draw Chernoff faces using these rules...

Having learnt a little more about each other we sorted our faces into groups using Venn Diagrams.

At open evening, we also asked many of our visiting students to do new Chernoff Faces with these new rules

Can you spot the staff faces?  Can you spot yours?

Fynamore Y4 & 5

Today I visited Fynamore School, and did my first session with some Year 4 and 5 mathematicians.  I'm looking forward to working with this group once a fortnight.  Here is the problem we worked on today...

Here is our summary of what we did (click to hear what the students are saying)...

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Year 7 Data Collection

We're also looking forward to
challenging you on
World Maths day 2012!

Please help my 7B2 maths class.

We are hoping  to collect data from as many Year 5, Year 6 and Year 7 as we can, from around the world.


For international visitors, this is students born between 1st September 1999 and 31st August 2002

The links below are to each group of students questionnaires. Please please complete as many of them as you feel able to do, and pass the link of this blog around your classmates  / friends / family.

We will publish the results of our data collection through this blog also. We are going to leave the forms open for a while to allow schools on holiday in January (I'm looking at you Australia!) to contribute.


Many many thanks in advance.

Year 5 Open Evening

Welcome to open evening.

One of the activities we are doing is a data collection exercise, creating live pictograms.

We are also collecting data online, using a Google Form.

Keep refreshing this page (press F5) to update the chart below to the most up to date information.

Year 5 Caeser Shifts...

Congratulations to Y5 for making such fantastic code wheels today, and decrytping such wonderful work.

Don't forget to bring your code wheels with you to open evening.

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See you Thursday!