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.

Junior Maths Challenge Results

Congratulations again to everyone of the 130 students that took part in last month’s Junior Maths Challenge.  Congratulations also to the many people who had a go at some of the questions though this blog.  The questions are still there so if you want to see how you would do on some of these challenging questions aimed at year 7 and 8 you still can!

The results came in last week, and so here are our most notable individual results...

Best In School: - Joe Packer (Year 8 Lansdown), who achieved a Gold award.

Also in Year 8, Gold certificates go to Megan Luschover (Shelbourne) and Mitchell Perrett (Lansdown).

Silver certificates in Year 8 go to Will Baguley (Lansdown), Oliver Bashford (Shelbourne), and Caleb Golding (Fitzmaurice).

Bronze certificates in year 8 go to ... 

Tom	Dean		Shelbourne
Jacob	Hurst		Fitzmaurice
Ned	Fellenor		Shelbourne
Katie	Reed		Lansdown
Emily	Bradfield		Fitzmaurice
Eloise	Holmes		Fitzmaurice
Harvey	Austin		Kerry
Tia	Reeves		Kerry
Charlotte	Davies		Shelbourne
Jack	Warren		Lansdown
George	Bowman		Kerry
Olivia	Cooper		Shelbourne
Emma	Reed		Lansdown
Callum	Glen		Lansdown

In Year 7 Jack Broadhead (Fitzmaurice) won best in year, and a silver certificate.  Rhys Brennan (Lansdown), and Harley House (Fitzmaurice) also achieved Silvers.  

Bronze certificates go to

Molly	Boswell	Shelbourne
Jesse	Bryant	Lansdown

As well as the individual successes above, this is a house competition, with every single student contributing to house points.  Here are the overall house scores.

Congratulations all around!

Junior Maths Challenge

Congratulations to the 130 Year 7 and Year 8 students who took part in today's Junior Maths Challenge from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT).

Like the Intermediate Challenge earlier this year, the Junior challenge poses a wide range of questions, designed to test mathematical thinking, rather than simply remembering facts or techniques.

Whilst the challenge is an opportunity for students to shine individually (and we will let you know results as soon as they are in), this is also a House competition, and will contribute towards house points at the end of the year.

All questions are multiple choice, but for the harder questions guessing is very much discouraged by the unusual method of marks being taken away for wrong answers!  It is also entirely non-calculator, and although paper working is allowed (essential), apart from a pencil and rubber no other equipment is allowed.

Headline results will of course be published here and in the newsletter, but until they are here are a few questions from this year's paper to think about...

3.  Which of the following has exactly one factor other than 1 and itself?

     A 6       B 8     C 13     D 19      E 25




7.  A small ink cartridge has enough ink to print 600 pages.  Three small cartridges can print as many as two medium cartridges.  Three medium cartridges can print as many pages as two large cartridges.  How many pages can be printed using a large cartridge?


    A  1200       B 1350      C 1800     D  2400    E 5400

13.  In the multiplication grid on the right the input factors (in the first row and the first column) are all missing and only some of the products within the table have been given.  What is the value of A + B + C + D + E?


   A  132      B 145      C 161     D 178    E 193




20.  Aroon says that he is 50 years, 50 months, 50 weeks and 50 days old.  What age will he be on his next birthday?


   A 56     B  55         C  54          D 53      E 52




25.  The interior angles of a triangle are (5x+3y), (3x+20) and (10y+30), where x and y are positive integers.
What is the value of x+y?


A  15       B 14        C 13      D 12      E 11








If you want to have a go at these, feel free to submit your answers on the form below, and we'll let you know in due course how you've scored!









Good luck!

Y7 Challenge Day

Well done to the 8 year sevens who went to St Mary's for a maths challenge day.  Here is what they did...

World Education Games...

The World Education Games are here!  You have all been registered, and you will have your logins and passwords before half term.  Can anyone beat Kayliegh's magnificent 72 questions correct in 60 seconds?  Can we be the highest totalling school in Wiltshire?  Will your tutor group be victorious.

Get Practising now

www.worldspellingday.com

 www.worldmathsday.com

www.worldscienceday.com

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 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.