Sport With Our Partner Primaries Football
And Netball Tournament
All of our partner primary schools took part in a tournament
hosted by KA. Bruton and Templecombe schools played an excellent
final with Bruton winning. The standard of play in the netball
games was excellent : Upton Noble school was the overall winner.
Our PE GCSE students acted as referees and umpires for the
younger pupils.
Maths Quest
In March, Years 5 & 6 from our partner primary schools
joined our Y7 for a mathematical quiz on the theme of King Arthur.
Y9 Youth Award Group
This group has worked with Terry Wilton from the West Country Ambulance
Services to achieve their survival section of the Bronze Award.
The course has included safety awareness, recognising emergency
situations, emergency action and life saving skills. The work
culminated in a visit to the 999 Life Skills Day at the Bath
& West Showground where the students encountered demonstrations
of the work of all the emergency services. |
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Extension Afternoon
On Monday 16th June 27 young scientists from primary schools
around Wincanton visited KA. Things got off to a bang (and a
flash!) as the youngsters were asked 'how fast are you travelling'?
After some discussion it was concluded that we were travelling
at 66659 miles per hour, roughly 18.5 miles a second, about
the distance from KA to Yeovil, every second. Who else is
travelling at this speed ? - All of us are, on the earth around
the sun.
Next, balloons were blown up, (a neat trick as they were
already knotted), water was boiled without warming it, solid
steel cans were crushed using only the weight of air above
our heads (the equivalent weight of thirteen cars!) and we
sent balloon rockets across the lab. The theme of the afternoon
was '7 miles per second' which is the minimum speed at which
an object must travel to leave the surface of the earth, quite
fast when you consider the size of a Saturn V rocket!
All the prospective scientists had an entertaining time,
and left to solve the mystery of the glider with no wings
- any answers yet ? |
