Welcome to the section of the website where we will be posting some of the work we have been doing in class!
We’d love to read your comments on our work!
Thanks!
5H :-)
Mar
07
2012
We have had a good first day at Kingswood and the children have enjoyed a wide range of activities. The children particularly liked this evening’s entertainment, which saw our group leader, Ben, get water bombed!!
Zip wire, laser quest, nightline and caving were also firm favourites.
The children are all in bed, and are looking forward to another fun filled day tomorrow.
Below are a couple of photos from today, more on our return to school!
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Oct
27
2011
Hi,
I know how much you all love sweet things and how most of you love baking and cooking!
So I thought for this half term challenge I’d give you a good excuse to have some fun in the kitchen 
I’ve put some recipes below which you could try and make- but I’ve somehow manage to get my units of measure all in a muddle! You’ll need to convert some of the measurements into units that you can use (ever tried weighing out flour in mg? As an example if it asked for 0.2KG of sugar, you would convert that into 200g of sugar!)
As well as being excellent fun (as cooking always is!) this is a really good reminder ready for the work we’ll be doing in Maths in the first few weeks of the new half term on measures, and converting units. You may need to do a search on-line to remind yourself how many of each unit is equal to each other! [A few of you may not have come across mg - mg = milligram- there are 1000 milligrams in one gram (1000mg=1g) ] Just cooking in itself is a really great way to practice the key skills of measuring, reading scales and estimating weights! [and we'll be doing some cooking in maths next half term!]
If you can provide some form of ‘proof’ (maybe a photo ) that you’ve used one of the recipes below then you’ll gain a 2 merits and 5 HP. Make sure you comment to let me know if you are planning to try some cooking!
For an extra challenge (or instead of using one of the recipes below)- do you have a favourite recipe that you love making? Share it in the comments below with ‘mixed up’ units and you’ll gain a 1TC and 5HP (and who knows, if something sounds really yummy I may try and make it myself )
Make sure you ALWAYS get an adult to help you when you are cooking- I want you all back, burn and injury free on Monday 
Have fun Cooking!
So here are the recipes!
Number 1- Chocolate Heaven ! (One of my favourite things to make, and 5H/6W’s favourite too!)
This is very naughty and contains lots of chocolate- but I think it tastes great! It’s really easy to make as it doens’t involve putting anything in the oven! [And just to prove I'm being fair and doing some of the challenges too- a picture of my attempt of this one is below Writing club members will get to sample this recipe on Tuesday (hopefully!)]
You will need:-
For the base:-
For the topping
What to do:-
Add the margarine, syrup and chocolate to a big saucepan and with an adults help melt margarine and syrup and chocolate over heat on a hob.
When it’s all melted, take off the heat and and add in the crushed biscuits and maltesers- it’s really important to make sure it’s mixed really well!
Line a tin (a shallow tin, like one you would make Swiss rolls, or flatjack in works best!) with either grease proof paper or foil and grease the tin.
Spread the yummy mixture into the tin.
Leave to settle for about 600 seconds. Whilst you are waiting you can start melting the chocolate for the topping- either over the hob or in the microwave.
Spread the chocolate out over the top of the mixture. Add the whole malteasers and any other sweet things you have brought to the top.
Chill in the fridge (will take at least 180 minutes) then cut up into small squares. Keep in the fridge!
Number 2- Butterfly Cakes
I used to love making these when I was your age! I’m sure lots of you have made these or atleast eaten them before- but here is one easy way to make them!
You will need:-
For the cakes
2 medium eggs
0.11KG / 4oz self-raising flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
110g / 4oz butter (soft)
110,000mg / 4oz sugar
For the Butter Icing:-
170,000mg Icing Sugar.
0.085kg / 3oz butter (soft)
3 drops of vanilla extract (optional)
1 tablespoon of milk
What to do:-
- Pour all the ingredients for the cakes (not the Butter Icing ingredients) into a bowl and start mixing!
- Preheat the oven to 170 C / 325 F / Gas Mark 3.
- Place the cake cases in a cake tray.
-Continue mixing until all the ingredients are well mixed together.
Use a spoon to fill each cake case about half to two thirds full with cake mixture.
Get an adult to place the baking tray in the pre-heated oven (170 C / 325 F / Gas Mark 3). and ask them to put it in the middle of the oven and cook for 30 minutes.
Do not open the oven door for at least 20 minutes. If you do, the cakes may well collapse. They are cooked when golden brown.
Leave the cakes to cool slighlty
Ask an adult to help you cut of the top of each cake. Cut the bit you have sliced off into 2 (you’ll use these later!)
Place all the ingredients for the butter icing in a large bowl and stir for about five minutes until all the ingredients are mixed well together.
Place about a teaspoon full of the butter icing on top of each cake. Then push the “wings” that you made earlier from the top of the cake into the butter icing.
More decorations can be placed on the cake depending on what you have!
Recpie 3- Yummy Chocolate Flapjack!
You will need:-
80g / 3oz soft brown sugar
0.11Kg cooking margarine (like Stork)
1 quarter of a KG of oats (e.g. porridge)
110,000 mg / 4oz dark chocolate
3 tablespoons of golden syrup
a pinch of salt
What to do:-
Get an adult to help you put the margarine in a pan over a low heat and stir until it’s melted.
Add the sugar and golden syrup to the pan (be careful- the pan will be hot!) and stir until it is all dissolved (can you remember what that word means?) into a sticky liquid.
Pre-heat the oven to 200°C / 400°F / Gas Mark 6
Take the pan off the heat and add the oats, stirring them in with a spoon. It’s easier to add the oats bit by bit.
If the mixture thickens too much ask an adult to heat the mixture a bit more.
Add the salt and give a final stir. Spoon the mixture into a non-stick tray and spread it out evenly.
Place the baking trays in the pre-heated oven. Remove after 18 minutes (check after 12 minutes) when the flapjacks have turned a light golden brown.
Leave to cool for 5 minutes then cut into slices, but leave the slices in the tray.
Cover the flapjacks and place in the fridge for an hour.
Melt the chocolate (eithier in the microwave or in a bowl placed over water on the hob)
Pour the chocolate over the flapjacks as evenly as possible and place them in the fridge for an hour.
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Have fun cooking 4H! Writing these out has made me feel very hungry, and it’s only early in the morning! I think I’m going to have to go and bake something else yummy now!
Don’t forget to share your own ‘mixed up measures’ recipes!
Mr H
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Sep
26
2011
4H are really excited about our Quad Blogging project and have enjoyed visiting our quad blogging schools sites and seeing all the super work and learning about other schools 
Some of 4H decided to make a video tour of our school for our Quad Blogging partners! Halle, Oscar, Ashleigh and Finlay made the video below in a (short) breaktime
We hope you enjoy getting a sneak peak of some of our school
[The video/computer managed to squish as all a bit 
]
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Sep
25
2011
4H have continued to have lots of fun and have tried lots of new things over the past couple of weeks.
Here is a sneak peek into our classroom
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Sep
25
2011
One sunny, exiting, calm day I was in my house playing.Then my Mum called my for a lunch.
Then after lunch I went out to play out.I went on everything at the park esept the swing.
So I got on a swing and I swang really high.But then I thout I was going to high.I could not
touch the floor.So I kept on going higher and higher until………….I WENT FLYING OF.
I was getting closer and closer to the ground until I felt a furry smooth yellow coat.When I
looked it was a LION!!! Then I said thank you to the lion for saving me.I said would you like
to come and stay in my garage to live with and the lion said yes.So I made a bed for the
lion in the garage I kept the lion as a pet.My Mum and Dad never goes in the garage.
THE STORY THE LION AND ME.
THE END
BY BAYLEIGH .
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Aug
21
2011
Hi 4H/5H,
Wow- when you read this you’ll be entering the 5th week of your summer break! I hope you have all been having a good time and having fun, resting etc! It’s not long now till we get back to school and 4H start the super year we have planned, and 5H finally become 6W (boo 
– but I’m sure you’ll have a super year too!).
Each week during term time, Mrs Skinner (who is an retired head teacher who visits our website (and lots of others too) lots and comments on your super work) runs something called the 100 Word Challenge which challenges children across the country to write a piece of creative writing that has exactly 100 words in it. 5H enjoyed taking part in the challenges last year, and I hope 4H will take part next year too!
I thought we could have our own mini- 100 word challenge this week. So your challenge this week is to write a piece of creative writing that contain all of the following words somewhere within it…
boiling, castle, sparkling, purple
These words can be anywhere in your writing- they do not have to be together! You have exactly 100 words!
The piece of writing should be creative- so think very carefully about the words you are using as well as the usual things like punctuation etc..
Before you post, try and check you have included:-
* Correct spellings! * A range of vocabulary (words) used
and if you can… *Paragraphs, commas and a wide range of other punctuation
Post your writing in the comments below, and I’ll add them to the ‘our work’ section of the website.
Take part in this challenge to earn yourself a merit and 10 HP! (and a TC too for 4H!)
I can’t wait to read your super writing!
Mr H
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Aug
09
2011
Hi 4H/5H,
Last week, we had 3 amazing entries into our second summer challenge- ‘Summer Poetry’, including one by Oscar.
Oscar wrote a poem all about his time at Diggerland (which sounds like a great place!).
Now, by the wonders of the internet, the poem was found the next day by the team at Diggerland UK, who sent me a nice message saying how great they thought the poem was. I suggested that they might like to comment on Oscar’s poem (which they did- you can see their comments on his original poem) and then thought that’d be the end of it.
But today, I got another message saying that I should check out the blog/news section of Diggerlands website… and found that Oscar has received a very big mention, including a massive thankyou (and a link to his poem) on Diggerlands own website (which I can tell already has led to quite a few people reading his poem). You can see Oscar’s mention here.
This, for me illustrates how great it can be to share some of our work etc 
I hope Oscar is proud that his work has been noticed by Diggerland themselves
Diggerland said (amongst other things)
Thanks a lot, Oscar. Your teacher Mr Handley should feel very lucky to have you in his class.
And I have to say, I am feeling very lucky at the moment- not just to have Oscar, but to have a fantastic set of 22 young people next year (that’s you lot, 4H 
)- some of whom have already shown me how great they can be [and I've just been looking at your levels, assessment data and the things you did for me on transfer day, and trying to decide where you are sitting/who will be in who's learning teams etc...which backs up my ''lucky' feeling- I can tell we are going to have a SUPER year!]
So well done Oscar, and everyone else who has written poems, taken part on the Sumdog competitions etc
Mr H
PS- Want to write a poem (or write another one?) feel free- you can take part in any of our summer challenges at any point during the summer holidays
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Aug
06
2011
Hey!
Hope you are having a great break so far! What have you been up to?
After a poetry inspired challenge this week, I thought we’d go ‘arty’ for this weeks challenge!
4H, as you may have picked up by now (and as 5H know)- I like to use lots of great on-line tools and websites with you to help us show our learning in different ways (and to have some fun too!)- and this 2 part challenge uses 2 websites which I think are super!
1. Digital art- using SUMOPAINT
Your first challenge is to create a piece of art on the computer, using a website called sumopaint.
To get started, just click on the big ‘open sumopaint’ button at the top. You don’t need to create an account. Once it loads you should see lots of super tools and options available to you- have an explore!
Your piece of art should be ‘summer’ inspired/based in some way.
I’m not going to restrict you as to what type of art you can produce- simply explore sumopaint and have fun seeing what you can make.
A few different types of art that 5H produced using sumopaint last year can be found here, and here, and here and here.
If you would like to create a piece of art that uses a picture as it’s base (like a lot of the examples above- in the menus in sumopaint, especially effects and filters, you can do some super things to a picture) you can find some instructions I wrote for 5H within this post to help you.
To share your piece of art you’ll need to download it (go ti file–>save to computer in sumo paint) and then e-mail it to me (or get a parent to e-mail it) at either mrh@mrhandley.co.uk or thandley2jrq@nsix.org.uk. (5H, if you can rememebr how you can add it to a post yourself by logging in.) I’ll then upload them to the website for you to share with everyone else.
Create a piece of digital art and you’ll get 1 merit and 8HP
If you have any questions about sumopaint, post them in the comments below, and either I or one of 5H will try and help!
2. Toondo
Another great website is Toondo, which lets you create your own comic strips online. Some examples of what can be made can be found here.
Your challenge is to simply create a cartoon strip about anything you want.
Toondo requires an account (but it’s easy to create) and might look a bit complicated to start of with, but trust me, it is easy to use! I wrote a guide for 5H last Christmas here, which should help you get started and talk you though how to create an account.
To share your toondo, click on save, and select ‘share with friends’ and enter mrh@mrhandley.co.uk when it asks you for your ‘friends’ e-mail address. I’ll then get e-mailed the cartoon which I’ll add to the website for you.
Create and share atleast one toondo, and you’ll get 2merits and 10HP!
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Have fun creating some art and cartoons!
Mr H
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Jul
27
2011
Hey!
Hope you are all enjoying the start of your summer break! (shame the weather isn’t that summery isn’t it!)
As some of you know (well, all of 5H at least!) last November we ran the super Writing Challenge- which challenged you to write a novel in 30 days (the people who took part were only allowed to write their novel on November). We had lots of super novels written, which were then professionally published (and are in the school library). I was AMAZED at what everyone wrote- the novels are truly fantastic.
The writing challenge will be returning next year- starting towards the end of September (planning etc)- and will be open to all of year 5 and 6 (and some year 4′s if we have space!).
BUT…
I’ve just got an e-mail about a mini-writing challenge which is being run by NaNoWriMo – the people who run the ‘big’ challenge in November. It has a very short closing date - but there are some super prizes on offer- including a chat with an author to help with your novel in November! I thought it would be great if some of you could have a go at it. Here is what you have to do…
Where you take your story from there is completely up to you. NaNoWriMo say they will be looking for intriguing (interesting) description, characters, and plot. And ask you to make sure you’re pack a lot into a short word count!
The closing date is 31st July (This Sunday)- so it’s only a short-run competition- but I do hope some of you will be super and give it a go! I will try and edit (spell and grammar check) your work before I submit it for you- but it’s important you try your best with this yourself as well! As well as a chat with an author, you can also win some cool NaNoWriMo goodies, and the chance for your story to be published on the NaNoWriMo website, which has thousands of visitors a day!
I really hope you give this a fo!
5H- to enter you can either log-in to the website and write your story as a post or put it in the comments.
4H- to enter, you should write your story in word (or another word processor) and cut and paste it into the comments- I’ll then add it to the website for you.
I will then submit it for you.
Please comment to let me know you are giving it a go too- I can’t wait to read some of your amazing short stories.
4H- If you take part in the challenge, you’ll have first call on any remaining places (after year 5+ 6 have signed up) on the main challenge next year- I know I have some super writers in 4H- so why not give it a go!
If you give it a go (4H or 5H) I’ll give you 2 merits and 10 HP when you return in September!
Have fun writing- I can’t wait to see what you write!
Mr H
pssst- If you head to http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/7852350546 and scroll down, you can see some of the stories that have been written already- most of these are from people much older than you (16/17 year olds) and there are prizes for different age groups- in fact, I’ve only counted 4 entries so far that are from people in the same age group as you- so the chance of you winning may be higher than you think! Plus, all the entries at the moment are from people in the USA… now we must show them how amazing UK children are at writing
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Jul
24
2011
Hi 5H,
I’ve finally managed to get your SUPER animations that we showed you on Friday off the DVD to upload for you to show your parents etc…
These animations are really great- I’m really impressed with what you managed to do with some polystyrene and Plasticine!
I hope you enjoy watching them below- these are as we showed you on the last day of term- any last minute changes you made with Matthew will be on the DVD which you will get in September The animations start after footage of your ‘dream extraction’
5h Dream Tours 2011 from mrhandley on Vimeo.
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I’ve also uploaded the abstract dream film we made too (it takes a few seconds to start)
Dream abstract film from mrhandley on Vimeo.
Hope you enjoy sharing these with people at home!
Mr H
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