Friday 21st March – Ralph Sadleir School

A belated hello from this(last) week’s Blog. Unfortunately I was out at the National Middle School’s Conference on Friday, it was an interesting day where lots of plans for the future were discussed.

Last week saw lots of activities organised by Mrs Bingham for National Science Week, culminating with the House Quiz. As part of the week our Year 6 team went over to GSK for an afternoon of experiments. Joshua G. from S6 wrote a short report – ‘While we were there, we were introduced to three very smart scientists. They focused on the topic of solids, liquids and gases. Two students were picked to go up and hold a block of ice and watch it melt. As the ice was melting, they asked us at what temperature we thought it was and it was exactly 0 degrees Celsius!I really enjoyed the experiment of blowing up a glove and balloon with CO2. The scientists put a flame near the balloon to see its reaction. It was exciting to see the bomb with CO2 being fired above heads and across the room. The trip to GlaxoSmithKline was really interesting, fun and educational’ – certainly sounds like they had a lot of fun.

Not to be outdone Mrs Brown took four Year 8’s (Ryan W, Ben G, Kira B & Holly R) to a Maths Challenge event at Sheredes, Ryan W (SAB) had this to say ‘There were four rounds of events, the first was a table challenge where you had to answer lots of questions. In the second round we had to work in pairs on a memory game where your partner had to draw what you described. For the third round we had to estimate how many 1cm3 cubes would fit in a box and how far London was away from Sochi. In the final round we had another table challenge but with different questions.’ I know Mrs Brown was really proud of how they worked as a team.

On Thursday we had children from the local First Schools here for a Tag Rugby Festival, the weather was good, the rugby was frantic and the children all enjoyed themselves. A huge thank you to the Sports Leaders from Freman for refereeing and our Year 8’s for keeping the younger children entertained.

To round off the week Mrs Davey gave us an assembly all about empathy and there was the Inter-House Science Quiz.