History of Themeparks!

Create an online timeline using http://www.dipity.com/create/timeline recording all the key events throughout time and then summarise in a paragraph how the park has developed over time. What has changed? What has stayed the same? What do you predict will happen in the future? Click on the links below to take you to important information.

Drayton Manor
http://www.draytonmanor60th.co.uk/history-of-the-park.php

Alton Towers
http://old.towerstimes.co.uk/history/history/index.htm

Thorpe Park
http://www.totalthorpepark.co.uk/features/history.shtml

Legoland, Windsor
http://www.cllw.co.uk/history.php

Homework

Numeracy
www.mymaths.co.uk

• To convert units of measurement (length)
• To solve capacity problems

Due Wednesday 28th November

Anti-Bullying Week

Year 6 have explored Cyber-bullying and the impact this can have on people. We used the Ipads to generate a popplet based on Cyber-bullying. Here are just a few of them!

Cyberbullying

http://www.kidscape.org.uk/childrenteens/cyberbullying.shtml

History of Rides

History of rollercoasters, Carousels and Ferris Wheel http://library.thinkquest.org/C002926/history/carousel1.html

History of Dodgems
http://www.lusseautoscooters.com/html/legend_history.html
http://www.fairground-heritage.org.uk/newsite/learn/learn-ridesummary.html

Should mobile phones be used in the classroom?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358331/Mobile-phones-boost-school-standards.html

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/09/don’t-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools-let-students-use-them-all-the-time/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/sep/10/mobile-phones-classroom-teaching?INTCMP=SRCH

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2011/10/26/teachers-use-cell-phones-in-the-classroom

Persuasive features