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  • Holby's Stained Glass Design

    Published 06/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    What a great design. Thanks for sharing this Holby. 

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  • Monday Challenge: 6th July

    Published 06/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Three Ball Line Up

    Two children are playing with three balls, one blue, one red and one green.

    They toss up the balls, which run down a slope so that they land in a row of three.

    In how many different ways could the balls land?

    Can you use and apply a systematic way of working to ensure that you find all the possible solutions?

     

    If you want to explore this challenge using an interactive activity, please follow this link.

     

    Extension: What would happen if you added a Yellow ball as well?

    Would this increase or decrease the number of possible ball arrangements? Prove it!

    How many more/less? Prove it!

     

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  • Olivia's Stained Glass Design

    Published 03/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Olivia we love this Anglo-Saxon inspired stained glass window design. 

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  • Adeline's Writing

    Published 03/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Thanks for sharing this writing Adeline. We really enjoyed reading it. 

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  • Holby's Jumping Activity

    Published 03/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    What a fantastic investigation Holby. 

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  • Hollie's Nature Garden

    Published 02/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Hollie. We love your nature garden design. 

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  • Friday Challenge: 3rd July

    Published 02/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Cups Cups Cups

     

    For this challenge, you will need lots of different cups. 

     

     

    Which might you choose if you wanted a lot to drink?  Why?

     

    Which one would you choose if you did not want a lot to drink?  Why?

     

    Make a prediction. Try to arrange the cups in a line from the one that holds the most liquid to the one that holds the least liquid.

     

    Design a way of finding out if you were right or not.

     

    Did you get the order right? How do you know for sure?

     

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  • Holby's Living Diagram

    Published 02/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Holby, we love this living diagram. 

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  • Thursday Challenge: 2nd July

    Published 01/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Rank these events from least to most naughty to create a naughtyometer!

     

     

    Use the following questions to help you make up your mind.

     

    Not doing any homework for a whole week

    Is school like a job? Are there more excuses for not doing homework than schoolwork? What counts as a good excuse? Could there be good reasons for not doing any work?

     

    Stealing from the school canteen / Stealing someone's lunch

    Is stealing always wrong? Is it worse to steal from a person or an organisation? Who are you stealing from if you steal from a school?

     

    Calling another pupil a bad name - Calling a teacher a bad name

    Is calling someone names worse than hitting someone? Would a child feel worse than a teacher? Would you get punished worse for insulting a teacher than a child? Should you?

    Hitting someone / Seeing someone hitting someone, and doing nothing about it / Hitting someone back

    Can two wrongs make a right? Can you do something to someone that’s done it to you without it being bad?

    Is watching someone get hit worse than watching someone fall over?

     

     

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  • Adeline's Tuesday Challenge

    Published 01/07/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    What a fantastic story. We love the way you have started sentences in order to build tension. 

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  • Wednesday Challenge: 1st July

    Published 30/06/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Make a Living Diagram

     

    Equipment

    • A recycled piece of card such as a panel from a cereal box
    • Double-sided sticky tape
    • Pencils
    • An area with a variety of wild plants

     

    Create your own labelled diagram of a plant including the following:

    Roots – 

    Stem – 

    Leaf – 

    Flower – 

    Bud – 

    Explain what each of these parts of the plant does. 

    Flowers are an important food source for pollinating insects. Look closely at the flower. Can you extract some pollen on a cotton bud? What is the job of this pollen?

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  • Tuesday Challenge

    Published 29/06/20, by Charlie Mackinnon

    Write a short story with these as the opening sentences:

     

    I woke up suddenly, there was something in my room. It burst out of the wardrobe.

     

    Think about:

    What was in your wardrobe?

    How did it get there?

    Was it evil or good?

     

    Check:

    Capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks?

    Does every sentence make sense?

    Have you written it in the first person?

    Have you described the thing inside the wardrobe in detail?

    Have you used any direct speech? 

    How will you end your writing in an interesting way?

     

    Don’t forget to send your writing into dailychallenge@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk so we can read it and post it on the blog.

     

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