Spelling bee

Ascot sent some super spellers to a Bangkok Spelling Bee yesterday to compete against the best spellers around!
The stage was huge and made the team a bit nervous!

         
  In each category there were over 50 children! But our brilliant representatives battled hard, with everyone getting through to round two, Mind so narrowly missed the final, reaching the top 15 and missing out by just 1 letter! TangTang and Latte managed to reach the finals in their categories, both getting into the top 5!! WELL DONE EVERYONE!! We did ourselves, our teachers and our families proud. Great job!!

Getting some last-minute practice in!

 

 

 

 

3 Judges; a bit like X factor!

 

 

 

A well deserved lunch break...

 

Then Year 4 and 5 took to the stage!

 

 

 

 

 

The finalists!

...so close!!

Measuring our bones.

On Thursday we were set a challenge by our class skeleton, Dr Travis Skelly. He claimed that ALL the bones of the skeleton are bigger in taller people. We were not so sure so we set out to investigate. We measured the height of all the people in our group and then measured their arm, skull, leg and hand bones.

We made sure our test was fair and reliable and our conclusion was… Dr. Travis Skelly is wrong!

Rice bucket challenge

Dear Parents, 

The Student Council has asked Primary children to graciously donate some rice to charity. If you wish your child to participate then please bring some rice to school before Friday.

Many thanks

KS2

Mystery Skype

On Friday we took part in our first 'Mystery Skype'. This is a game played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other class by asking each other questions. First, we got out our world map, clipboards, paper, pens and cameras. Next, we discussed how we were going to collect information. Each child was given a sheet with the questions we were planning to ask. We waited excitedly for the Skype call to come through...

Our first 'Mystery Skype' came through at 9.15am from Ms MacLean's class. We introduced ourselves and we discussed how the call would be conducted – we were very impressed by their professionalism and organisation of questions.

Here we are engrossed in our Skype conversation.