As you can seeon our left here there is the mumbai rich school. As you can see the children are playing on their big playing field,inside the teachers are studeing for the next lesson.Some people pay for their children to go to the best school because the rich schools have good equipment and the classrooms are clean and big. People would love to goto this school.
                                                         By Katie

Facts About India!!!!!!!!!!

22% of land use in India is used for forests!

India's population is over 1 billion people!

The capital city is New Delhi!

The island off India is called Sri Lanka!

57% of land is for arable and perminant crops!

India is the seventh largest country in the world!

India is the second most populous countr in the world after china!

By Alanah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Climate in India

The best time for you to go would be between December and Febuary,that is when they have fresh mornings and sunny days and it is not to hot or dusty.From March to May they have their hot and dry season and,there rivers dry up and it is all hot and dusty.Then they have there wet season,huge monsoons and rain covering all over the country.

by Tom

Well known board games made in India

In India there are two well known games that have been invented there.These are chess and snakes & ladders!As you probobly know snakes & laddersis a very popular childrens game.Chess is not as popular to children but is still a popular game.

                By Jamie

The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a famous Indian landmark both for tourists and people who live there. It was built in 1653 because Emporer Shah Jahan's wife died while giving birth to his fourteenth child. His wife at the time was his third wife!Construction started in 1632 and the main building was finshed in 1648 but the actully whole building was finished in 1653.

This is how thge Emporer discribed it.

''Should guilty seek asylum here,
like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sinsare to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion create sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
in this world edifice has been made;
to display thereby the creaters glory.''

by Luke

India

In India they have symbols like we do. They have four main symbols which are the traditional flllower (Lotus) the traditional animal (Indian tiger) also the traditional sport is hockey and the traditional bird is a peacock.

The dress they wear in India is called a sari. These saris are usally purple orange or blue.  These saris are decorated with little jewls and jems.

by Emily

Indian Flag

Have you ever wanted to know about the magnificent flag of India? Well now is your chance. Each colour of the Indian Flag represents something different.

• The white stands for peace and truth.
• The saffron represents courage and sacrifice.
• Green stands for faith and fertility.
• Blue represents the sky and ocean.

India's flag was adopted on the 22nd of July 1947 after India became independant from Great Britain.

By Olivia

Fantastic costumes

In year6 we have been designing costumes for our play,first we made a plan of what we could do for awere costumes.Then we dsigen them by drawing what we did in our plan. Then Mrs Gibson came in (a TA at the school)to help us by giving us more ideas for our work after that we made them with boxs,straps and lots of other stuff.

Brilliant DT

In Komodo Dragon base on DT we have been looking at the W.W.Fwebsite because in a few weeks we,kstage2 are doing the fantastic production One Planet Future and we were looking at some of the characters ,however it was very hard work ,so Mrs Gibson helped us by us asking her what we should do
and she answered our questions.

Also we looked at some poems like the Hungry school and as we where learning about the planet and pollution so we typed up a poem called the Hungry giant (he eats all the things on the planet )and also weve been on 2simple and learning how to type better .

                                            Watson

Tag Ruby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have being learning how to play tag ruby which as been excellent as every one has come out of their

comfort zone which is brilliant for the chilldren and teatchers . His name is is Mr Johnson he has made us a stronger class the girls have had a go and most of us love it now wew have been working on our friend ship.
some people even went  to go to a touernment they were Tom,Emily,Bree,Billy ,scoot ,Dylan ,Callam B and
jaime and Mr Lavies was verey proud of us we lost but he was still proud of us. But we left with dignity .

By Bree

One Planet Furter Costumes

We have been designing costumes for our school play in 2 weeks. Each table has a character to make. We have not been doing all ofthe caracters costumes only 6 here are the names:

Cash

Drip

Googel boxs

LT250

Carry also

Flaty!!!

However we still need to make them,after half term. First we are going to measure them then start to make them.

One of the T.A, Miss Gibson came in to help us with are costumes because she is realy good a making costumes!! So we asked her questons about what we should do so she answered them.

By Alisha

Tag Rugby

This half turm we have learnt a lot of tag rugby we learnt tag rugby in extra Friday we have been doing it with Mr Jonson he has taught us a lot of skills and we play some practice rounds.On Wednesday we gone to a tourment we lost 2 and drawn 1 and won 1 we came 4th. 

                                                  By Ethan

Dance!

In year 6 we have been learning line dancing for our school play-One planet future.Meny would say that this school play is on a dump but its  showing you what your doing to the earth.

Back to dancing,we have been exploring loads of line dancing steps,and each of us made a group and used the line dancing steps to make are own dance.We just need to learn the rest and when and when we put it all together it will look amazing. And thats what we been doing in year 6.

                                                        By

                                                          Brooke.

                                 

                                   

Laptops!

Earlier this year we got our laptops and we started using them one between two.After a while we got are own.We have been using them ever since we got them.We think they're brilliant but we have had are ups and downs like :not the able to get on the internet, not turning on and not turning off. Despite all those problems we think the laptops are amazing.

Last night we took them for a trial.In the future we are hoping to get them full time.
By William

The production in year 6

In year 6 we have learnt about a brilliant production called One Planet Future also the name of our topic.

In our production we have all types of junk like an oil can,a plastic bag and even a trolly! All of this junk is trying to get a mesage across, whats the mesage -Well you will have to find out! Also in the production    year 6 we are making costumes for the characters, we think that they look great, but will the audiance think the same? Well we hope they do. To make costumes was what we enjoyed. For the production we also had to learn a dance( line dance)! If you want to know more just ask someone-Or even betterWATCH IT!!!

                                 By Christopher

Brilliant rugby team

Dear people of Blandford St Mary,I am talking to you about our rugby tourniment.On wednesday the 21st october year 6 pupiles went off to the blandford school to represent our school on however when we got there one team did not turn up and that was spetsbury.So that was a shame.

When we got there we had 11 people these are some of them Bree, Emily,scott,Billy,domimic and faisal and some more.And these are some of the teams we played Mildown, Pimperne and Derweston.

We got unlucky that time so maybe next time we might win.but we only came 4th but we can improve and Mildown won so a big congatulations to Mildown.
                                                                        By
                                                                              Scott

Football with FA Skills

From September until now, we, in year 6, have been doing brilliant football sessions with John, an FA Skills Coach.

We had a perfect time with him, but he has gone to another school, but yet he told us "Have a great weekend and a superb half term and I hope to see you around."

Here are some pictures of when John was here:

I hope you have seen how much fun we had with him.

Thank you for reading this.

By Dylan

LAPTOPS !!!!!!!!!

This week in year 6 we have got our new mini LAPTOPS to help us with our education at home,we have all got strict rules what we can do,and what we cant do.

We have all been waiting all terrm for this spectacular moment but now the time has come,every pupil of year6 are hugely excited for this opportunity which only year 6 have.All thanks to miss king and of corse Mr lavis for telling us about the laptops.


By Callum.L

This week in Komodo dragon Base, we have been really busy with our production! We had our dress rehursal on Wednesday and the result was great!  Everyone knew their lines and words and parents, pre-school and KS1 all came to watch and it made us all ready and rearing to go for Thursday and Fridays performance!  Thursdays performance was amazing to!  The hall was PACKED full of people who had come to watch!  It was a sucess to be proud of and afterwards, everyone was buzzing with the all the excitement!  Mr Lavis gave thanks to the teachers, performers and the G.R.O.T.S chorus!  Cakes were sold to rase money and two children came round with buckets to collect money also for the WWF fund who let us perform One Planet Future!  

By Alanah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

Drama Club

In Drama Club we have been getting ready for our school production, One Planet Future...

All of us are really excited about doing it. Some of us have speaking parts also some singing parts and we are doing some great acting . The characters are all different and we are all happy with what parts we got. All of us have learnt our lines and song words and now can't wait to perform.

This years play is going to be performed by years 3,4,5 and 6 and every one

is doing a bit to help.

By Emily

Year 6 laptops!

Some weeks ago year 6 were given laptops!!! We have been using them in school and we have been doing really hard work on them. Thursday 22nd of October mr Lavis came in and told us the rules with our laptops and we had a trial run with them  and we got to take them home. We have been taking good care of them We have been given rules for them we are not allowed to go on anything rude or inapropriate that are on images. We are not allowed to go on anything like:

Moshi monsters.

Msn.

Facebook.

Yahoo.

My space.

My yearbook or

Shooting games.

by Abigail

What a mess!

Maths and Measuring in DT!

There has been non stop creativity in our classroom this week ... and  alot of creative mess as well!

We started by measuring the people playing the characters. We had to measure their head, their height, their length of leg as well as the width of their chest. We also had to convert the measurements into mm, m and even inches!

Then we got creating - measuring as we went of course!