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Hook week has been a blast in Crew Ramsay! We made predictions about our new expedition throughout the week before the big reveal on Friday. We went on a woodland animal hunt, had a peaceful protest to protect endangered local wildlife, engaged with our key text ‘The Hungry Hedgehog’ and watched documentaries about extinct animals. What a fun week we have had!
In life skills the children made chicken pasta salad. They really enjoyed having to prepare the ingredients.
In P.E they were learning skills on how to play cricket.They had to remember that they could not throw the ball under arm and that they had to throw it over arm.
Over the Easter holidays, Year 6 were challenged to complete 10 sessions of home learning in an area of learning that had been chosen for them. For some children, they were battling with fractions, decimals and percentages. For others, it was modal verbs that were on the Easter menu.
We were amazed at the hard work and effort shown by Year 6 over the holidays with the vast majority of children bringing back their completed learning and their record logs. To celebrate, and reward them for their work, this afternoon we enjoyed some fresh fruit and a cup of popcorn along with a movie session. Well done Year 6!
This week, during Hook Week in Crew White, we have stepped back in time to learn about the ancient Egyptian ritual of mummification. Of course, we were unable to get our hands on recently deceased pharaohs so we had to make do with all the tomatoes available at the local supermarket.
We learnt about the embalming process and preparing the ‘body’ for the afterlife. We cut off the top of the tomato, scooped out its insides and covered it with salt. We will observe the tomatoes over the next few weeks and see what happens.
Crew Gray have been learning all about web crawlers today and how search engines create index pages of all of the websites using web crawlers and hyperlinks. We explored how web crawlers work using non-fiction books to find information from the index and contents pages, and realised that this can take a long time for a human to complete, especially if you have to look through more than one book to find the correct information. We then looked further into how Google uses web crawlers and found that these are not actual people, so can get the job done much faster! After that, we became web crawlers around the classroom and rated our classroom objects using a table. We included the quantity of the object, the quality and the distance from where we were. These numbers then totalled up and we were able to rank the resources from highest to lowest. From this, we were able to see how search engines rank different websites using the quantity of times a key word is used and the quality of the information on the page, and how this affects the order that websites appear within search engines.
