Monthly Archives: November 2018

Historical weather data in Excel

During today’s Computing with Mr Baddhan, Kestrels have been learning about Microsoft Excel and how it can do alot of Maths work for you.

The children worked through some historical weather data and added it into Excel. The date they were focusing on was the average rainfall for a specific year. They then were shown how to get the average, sum and create a bar chart.

Using email

During Computing today, Year 5 Kestrels learned about emails and how they work. They learned that an email always has the ‘@'(at) symbol.

Every email address looks like this:

Kestrels then discussed the following points:
– Why do people use emails?
– Which are the advantages of using emails?
– Are there any disadvantages?
– Do you have an email account at home?

The class then discussed the risks of having email. They all agreeed that keeping passwords safe was important to ensure that no one can check your emails. And they added that hacking was another big risk in having your email.

The children then were given their own email address, which they will keep until they leave school. They will be able to use and explore email. Kestrels were so excited having their own emails and looked at the various types of folders Inbox, Drafts and Sent Items.

Children can access their emails from school and outside of school. The accounts are restricted so they cannot receive email from outside of school. And they are not able to send emails outside of the school domain. All emails are monitored.

Click here to login to your email account.

Counting in Roman Numerals

Kestrels continued with their understanding of variables in Scratch with Mr Baddhan today.

Today they were shown how to get their sprites to count in Roman Numerals. The children were asked to work out an algorithm to get two of their sprites to count upto ten, one sprite in English counting and the other sprite in Roman Numerals.

The Kestrels were asked to use the variable blocks, repeat and if, else functions in today’s task.

Here are some examples of completed work:

Sneha

Miah

Ewan

Removing nail polish experiment

Year 5 have had a fabulous afternoon testing which solvents are most effective at removing nail polish. They tested a range of chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and ethanol. They had to be very sensible and use the correct equipment carefully. Working together, they recorded their results in a table and discussed their findings. It was interesting to see whether their findings supported their predictions.