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.

Open Evening 2013

Huge thanks to everyone that came to open evening last night!

We were very impressed by the number of our year 5 students who were able to answer our "Golden Question" from the year 5 lesson on Tuesday.

The question we asked them was...
What is 2 divided by 7 (mod12)
An amazing number of students were able to give us the correct answer; with the correct reasons.

To see the results of our Boys vs Girls competitions, and to see if people really could tell the differecne between value chocolate and Dairy Milk, or two different brands of orange squash, go to our Open Evening minisite here...
https://sites.google.com/site/jbsmathsopenevening/

10BB Assembly - How children get to school around the world.

We decided that too many of us don't fully appreciate the fantastic education that we get.

This assembly shows how much some children appreciate their education, and how determined they are to get to school.  If in a few years we are competing for jobs against these people, how much harder will they have worked than us?

This assembly was inspired by a post on Google+ by +Ali Adelstein.  You can see the source material, and find out a lot more about all of the pictures at https://plus.google.com/117520666412794415990/posts/eATMjyKdd93

Year 11 and 13 Study Leave.

From Friday 24th May year 11 and 13 are on study leave.

Despite this, the exams are not until mid June.  Exact dates are...

Year 11 Linear exams are 11th and 14th of June
Year 11 Unit 3 is Monday 17th June

For Y13, C3 is on the 13th of June
C4 is on the 18th of June.

Lessons will continue right up until the exams.  For year 11 this is whenever you have maths on your timetable.  You will be able to come in and get help with your maths revision.

For Year 13, you are more than welcome to come in at any time, but there are certain times when we will be most available; when either group would have maths.  Those times are...

Exams 2013 - what you need to get

With exams approaching fast, it is crucial you have an idea of what marks you will need in the exams to achieve the grade you want.

(If any of these calculators or resources stop working, can you please let me know by following this link).

Year 10:

You are doing GCSE Statistics this year.  Once you have your Controlled Assessment mark you can use This Calculator to work out what mark you need in the exam, for your target grade.

[If you are in Mr Smy's S1 class, use the A level links below...]

Year 11:

Your Unit 2 resits marks arrive in school on Thursday 18th April.  Once you know all of that you can use This Calculator to work out what you need in the final exam.

[If you are also doing Linear GCSE, then you can find the grade boundaries for Higher Tier here, and for Foundation tier here].

Year 12 and 13:

The grade boundaries, UMS converters, and AS/ A level calculators are all still on this site here.

Year 8 Item Exchange PSHEE

Another frantic PSHEE day from the Economic well being team has seen students buying and selling resources, before producing an advertising campaign for products as diverse as Mr Men Biscuits, Mouthwash and Hair Gel!

With points available in equal measure for both the creativity of the pitch, and the accuracy of the account keeping there were a range of skills being learnt and tested.

Here are the team scores!
This was also a house competition, and the house scores are...

Massive congratulations all round, for a fantastic day. If you took part in the day, why not leave a comment saying which bit you enjoyed the most? If you won, what do you think the key strategy was?

Year 9 Guided choices

Thursday 21st February is the Y9 guided choices evening.

Here is our presentation about GCSE Maths, Statistics, and Functional Maths.

Questions?  Talk to Mr Smy, Mr Darton, or your Maths teacher.