the circus is in town

yesterday someone called tom came in and taught us circus skills.He showed us plate spinning which is hard to start off with but our class got their.juggling which was hard but fun to watch him do it.devil sticks which are really hard.But I liked the diabolo best of all.

instructions to plate spinning:

1.put your hand in the air

2.bend your arm at a 90 degree angle

3.hold the stick[have your finger in the air on the hand your holding]

4.put your plate on the stick and start spinning as if you were whisking.

5.stop spinning

6.try some tricks like spinning the plate on your finger

by Luke Mansfield

Keen To Be Green!

This term we are learning about Keen To Be Green, which is about reduce, reuse, recycle! We have learnt a lot of very interesting facts about our topic. Soon we are going to a recycle centre in Hempsted, Gloucester, We are excited and know we are going to learn even more than we know now. 

Reduce- 

Reduce means making less rubbish to put into the landfill sites!

Fun Facts-

1. The average person creates 4.7 pounds of waste every single day.
2. Newspapers can be reused as wrapping paper for gift.
3. Empty tissue boxes can provide easy and handy storage for plastic grocery bag.

Reuse-

Reusing, e.g you have an old pair of tights you can make them into socks!

1. Buy products that don't have a lot of packaging. Some products are wrapped in many layers of plastic and paperboard even though they don't need to be. You can also look for things that are packed in materials that don't require a lot of energy or resources to produce. Some products will put that information right on their labels.
2. Save energy by turning off lights that you are not using.
3. Save water by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth.

Recycle-

Recycling is when you but certain stuff in the recycle bin!

1. Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees!
2. Every year in the UK we use 13 billion steel cans which if you placed them end to end, would stretch to the moon - three times!
3. Every year the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television!
4. On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks!
5. In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall!
6. Over Christmas as much as 83 km2 of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey!
7. The average person gets through around 38kg of newspapers each year!

!By Elysse Brown!

My sister and I going sledding

This is me and my sister when we went sledging. We were really excited to see the snow, as we thought that it would never come! Me and my friend Izzy made a film about the snow a day after this photo was taken.

By Olivia Hood



Our trip to skillzone was amazing! For the first

fifteen mintues we sat in a room and we had these objets called eggs or pebbles, which we used

to answer some improtant questions about safety.

 

After we were split into 7 groups and sent off to different places where we had to tell our guide all

the things that were dangerous in the surroundings. We went to all different places that you would come across in a real situation in life, there were models of everything and they were a danger to us! We had to stand next to all the things that were wrong and explain why.

 

What the tasks were!!

There was a train station, at the train station we had to watch a video of silly people who decided to disobey the rules of safty. every so often we saw a mobile phone with messages that said things like are you ok? and i'm worried about you!! There were people who tried to cross when the lights were red and there was a man who lost his shoe because the train caught the end of his foot. We saw the front off a train which was a replicar and there was a mobile phone who somebody lost and our guide told us that even if it was a really expencive phone to leave it.  After that we went to the front of the replicar and there was a screen and red lights that flashed telling you not to cross, on the screen the front of a trian appered then the lights went green so that you could cross and the picture disappered.

 

We went into a replicar of a  park, and again we had to stand by the dangers and explain them, there was a pile of rubish that contained polution to the earth. There was doogy doody and cans that where half full (which was just liquid). We learnt about if a stranger came up to you and said "give me your phone!" to give it over and tell an adult strait away!!!

 

We went into a house and we had to stand by all the dangers again and there were things eg: a knife in the toaster; a gass fire still on; etc. After that we went up stairs to a bedroom and there were things like to many extention cables plugged in and hair straightners on the bed! (we also got told advice about it if there was a fire in the room). After that we went to this room which had been...BURNT! He asked about if we could still smell the burnning, and we could, (it was really bad). Then he told us that the room had actually been burnt 6 months ago! It only took 4 minutes for the room to be destroyed, but that is why we need smoke detectors! 

 

Afterwards we went into a room full of computers and watched a video about a boy who was tricked by internet contact and was hurt badly. He found a website called THINK YOU  KNOW, then reported the person and he got arrested for child abuse.

 Last but not least we went into a car, (but it was stable and safe) it had a big screen which played a video about a man called Steve who died in a car crash. The video told us how steve didn't die from the crash he died from his ribs which berst his lungs because he wasnt wearing a seat-belt and thats what killed Steve!

 

At the end we were sad because we had to leave, but before we left we went into the room with all the eggs or pebbles in and answerd the questions, (we think we got the correct!) we were walking out the door when they gave us all GOODY BAGS to remember our amazing time at skillzone!!!!!!! 

 By Louise and Francesca!

Keen To Be Green !

 KEEN TO BE GREEN!

We are glad to be green,

We are definitely keen.

Remember the recycle bin,

squish your tins,

It will make a great big grin,

You will win.

It only takes one second, 

So just reduce,reuse and recycle!

I hurt myself!

I fell over and hurt my knee, elbow and hands. I was running and then I slipped on an icy patch. Ouch!

Snow Film!

Here is a film about the snow made by me and my friend. I did the bit at the end! We all want to go and play in the snow or on the playground. Unfortunately, due to health and safety precautions, (I`m confused!) we`re not allowed because of ice.:( But on the bright side when we go home we can play in it as much as we like! If it melts Mr Coles might let us go out! :) 

 

Last Term we learnt about World War Two !!!!

This Term we are learning about recycling!!!!












And Next Term wew are learning about COOL STUFF
woohoo!!!!

Netball Match tomorrow!

Tomorrow there is a netball match! It`s against Barnwood Primary and it was cancelled last time because of cold weather. Well, snow and ice is a little harder to play netball in than wind!

Eco Council

Mrs Penman is in charge of the eco council. We try to make the whole school reduce, reuse and recycle. There are representatives from each class as well as a chair-person. (Me!) The only classes that don`t have a member of their class in the council are Reception and Y1.

At Heron we hold club called Enterprise club. Last week we set a challenge which is to raise more money than the other team. The teams have two adults as their leaders.We discussed our ideas and came up with lots of great ones. We are raising money for mini ipads for the school! We all can't wait till our next Enterprise club on Thursday!!!

Welcome to our new blog!

Last year the year 6 class had a blog. We need one! It wouldn't be fair if we didn't.

We are allowed to put anything on the blog that we think is interesting.

Watch out - it's going to be good!

This was interesting because it shows Bug Club.

We are a bit sad though because Amy left and went back to her old school. Never mind, we will still have fun.