Enterprise week . The final day.

Today was the last day of our exciting Enterprise week. It started with an assembly with every class pitching and advertising their products.
Then Mr Galloway came to tell us about his job in thermal management. He explained that he works for Aerospace in the design of heating, cooling and ventilation systems for both passengers and engines. We know from our topic work 'Making Connections' that fans are very imporatant for keeping systems cool and safe but we had never seen fans as powerful as these!!
Just like Mr Hall, Mr Galloway needs his strong background in science, maths and engineering. He agrees that  listening to his customer's requirements enables him to design the correct heating and cooling solutions.

Thank you very much for spending time with us and answering all our questions, and we loved our jet pens!!



Later we finished our product,

Set up our stall......

 And sold, sold, sold  for comic Relief!
We were glad we listened to the opinions in our market research because we sold out very quickly and hads lots of happy customers!

Enterprise week. Visiting speaker.

Mr Hall, Jamie's Dad, came to speak to us today about his job. He designs lorries to meet the specific needs of customers. These can be as varied as transporting expensive sports cars, to beer barrels, from refrigerated supermarket products to whole orchestras of instruments!

He described the skills he uses everyday; speaking, problem solving, product knowledge, maths and numeracy, but most impoortantly listening to the client's needs. He explained how the company continuously looks to the future and evolves according to new invention particularly in respect of care for the environment.

Mr Hall also reminded us of the importance of presenting oneself correctly, being punctual, smart and polite,

 Thank you very much Mr Hall for our glimpse into the world of work ......and your lorries are amazing!!!!!

Follow up work..........
 Here we are analysing our market research, designing and making our product. As our part in looking to the future we are promoting Fair trade by including the logo to remind people to buy Fair trade.

Enterprise week

For enterprise week we are making cushions to promote fair trade. Yesterday we conducted our market research we wanted to find out what colours the children liked. The choice was red, blue and green. We went to each class and recorded the results on a tally chart.We then asked if children  would prefer lavender or plain  cushions.

From our results we found out that red was the most popular colour and most children would prefer lavender.

By Sebastian and Lewis

Science - Using switches.

This week we are learning how switches are used to control circuits, bulbs and motors.

Click HERE to see a demonstration of the use of switches and microprocessors to control traffic lights. 

Click HERE for an activity to extend your explorations of different types of circuits.

Science - Conductors and Insulators

These clips and activities will be used in our Science investigations this week.

Circuits Revision

 

 

Identifying electrical conductors and insulators - Click HERE

Now apply your learning in the following challenges.

 

Science Making Connections

This week we started our 'Making Connections' topic with some research into how electricity is made and how it travels to our homes.
This video clip helps explain this process.



In our science we have been exploring different circuits and using our literacy skills to explain why certain circuits won't work.

We have also been learning the symbols that are used to represent electrical components.

 In our topic we have researched the different jobs that robots do including factory work, assembling machines and packing, car washing,  sheep shearing, exploration and searching out danger.



We have learnt about the different components that are needed to make a simple robot.

How many components can YOU identify?

Can you explain how it works?

Spring term 2013

Happy New Year to you all!
When we return to school we are going to start out new topic - ROBOTS, but before we can do this, you need to decide what you want to find out about them. Here is a video clip of an amazing, entertaining robot called Titan. When you watch the clip, think about how he moves and speaks. What other features does he have that you might want to find out about? What about other robots that are used every day? What do you know and what would you like to know?