Hi everyone

I have just got back from a very special conference in Leicester. It was for people from all over Europe and me! Here are three of my new friends. I think I am going to visit them some time. Their names are Petra, Siobhan and Anne. We had a good time together.

Everyone was talking about science and mathematics inquiry at the conference but they didn’t seem to all agree about what science and mathematics inquiry is. Is it just fair testing or is it more than that? Is inquiry the same in maths and science? What do you think?
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Hi Ricky,

We’re so excited to tell you all about our new discovery!

We’ve been learning all about frogs and how they lay eggs that change into tadpoles. It’s been amazing watching them grow from eggs in jelly into little tadpoles. We can’t wait to see them every morning and see how they have changed. You really need to find some to see this for yourself!

Good Luck!

The Owlet Class (Reception)
Titchmarsh C of E Primary School

Hi Everyone,

Everyone at Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School must be very busy investigating. I have just had another letter from them!

This time they have been investigating one of the problems from Antarctica. Can you remember how cold it was there? It was really really difficult to keep things warm. Especially my cup of tea in the morning!
Lucky for me, year 3 and 4 have found an answer. Check out the letter they sent…

A big hello from Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School. We have been working hard for you in our national Science and Engineering week after reading about your Antartica adventures. We have been investigating the best way to keep your hot drinks warm in the freezing conditions.
We set up an experiment using tin foil, paper towels and polystyrene wrapping to wrap up cups of warm water. We then used a thermometer to check the temperature every 10 minutes. We kept our test fair by using the same amounts of water, temperature, thermometer and same amount of material.
We presented our results in a chart and drew a bar chart. We discovered that the material that kept the drinks warm for the longest time was the polythene wrapping and recommend you wrap your hot drinks cup with polystyrene wrapping when you visit cold places.
We hope you are having a good time wherever you are.

Yours Sincerely
Years 3 and 4
Titchmarsh C of E Primary School

They even sent me a photo of their investigation. I can’t wait to tell the next team of teachers who go to Antarctica. They will be so pleased to have a cup of tea to warm them up! Thank you for all of your help Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School!

Bye for now,
Ricky

Hi Ricky

Everyone at Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School is very excited to be helping you with your sport and fitness problems. Some of our classes have written you letters with answers and pictures of us investigating.

Year 2 in Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School were excited about this photo of you in the race car! They wanted to do some research for you about cars. This is what they have discovered……

Big wheeled cars go further than small wheeled cars. I found out this after I rolled cars of different sizes down a ramp. I measured how far it went. The furthest distance was 79cm (by the car with the biggest wheels). Big wheeled cars are the fastest on all sorts of surfaces, from concrete to carpet. Cars move quicker on shiny surfaces. The toy cars with loose wheels move quicker!
Yours Sincerely
Year 2
Titchmarsh C of E Primary School

Year 1 in Titchmarsh Church of England Primary School were inspired by the photo of you and the Scottish bobsledder, Gillian Cooke. We wanted to do a sporty investigation and decided to see if there is a link between the size of our feet and how far we can jump.

We had great fun making footprints for a pictogram, measuring our feet and jumping as far as we could. We found out from our pictogram that most of us has size 12 feet and found out from our scatter graph that although there is a slight trend that children with bigger feet jump the furthest this was not always the case as many of the best jumpers had small feet. The record jump in the class was 179cm by Alexander who has size 12 feet.
Yours Sincerely
Year 1
Titchmarsh C of E Primary School

Hi Every one!

It’s fitness week. I found some Concept Cartoons about sport and fitness on a website so I have been talking about them with my friends.

This one is about heatbeats. We’ve been arguing about what a heartbeat is but we can’t agree. What do you think?

Ricky

Did you see the story about Turing Sunflowers on the One Show last night? Lots of people are going to grow sunflowers, not just to see how high they grow, but to see if there is a pattern in the number of seeds. How exciting is that!

I wonder if there are patterns in other flowers too? Maybe you can find out. Let me know how you get on.

Ricky