Student News

7B: Food & Fibre

Making a cinnamon tea-cake last Friday.

Sporty Science

with Ms Bellingham

Students have completed their hoodies and they look fantastic.  

Build your own guitar

with Mr Redmond

Practical Maths - A Scale model of our school

with Mr Greenhalgh

For the last two weeks our 'Practical Maths' class has been investigating scale modelling - creating models that are smaller replicas of actual, much larger objects. 

This is done for a variety of reasons including:

1. To reduce costs (and mistakes) by running tests and simulations on smaller, cheaper to build models before committing to actual size prototypes (eg testing model planes in wind-tunnels before spending millions of dollars on a new plane design).
    
2. To give potential investors a visual representation of a proposed design for a building, estate layout or infrastructure they are being encouraged to commit money to.
3. For fun.

In small groups, class members were asked to take measurements of specific school buildings, school grounds and sports facilities. As a class we decided on an appropriate (and workable) scale to effectively display our school, accurately, on a table-top. 1:100 was chosen (ie 1cm:100cm or 1cm represents 1m), and groups set about building a scale model of their area out of cardboard. On completion, each model was place in it's appropriate location on a scale model on the school grounds and . . . Wallar !!!