Headmaster’s Photography Competition Christmas 2011

There will be an opportunity, over the Christmas holiday, for pupils to practise their photographic skills and those lucky enough to be judged winners will see their efforts framed and mounted and on show in the school. Read on!

This year there will be three categories:

  1. ‘Winter in the City’
  2. ‘Norfolk nature in the winter’
  3. ‘Abroad’

Please stipulate in which category the photograph should be judged

Photographs will be judged in two age groups:

 Senior Competition – Years 6,7,8

 Junior Competition – Years 3,4,& 5

 The photograph you enter must have been taken by you.

Photographs should be the standard 6 x 4 size (15cm x 10 cm) and can be either portrait or landscape forma.t

Any subject matter can be entered: landscape, still life, portrait, abstract but it should be entered into one of the three categories above.

Photographs can be colour or black and white.

Your name, class and House, along with the title of the photograph must be clearly written on the back of the photograph.

Only one entry per person

Entries to submitted to Mr Crossley on or before Monday January 23rd 2012.

 The winner in each age group will have their photograph enlarged, mounted and framed. First, second and third placed entries will also earn points towards the House Competition.

There will be a special ‘Open’ competition for parents with no category required but a caption for the photo required.  

 

Taverham Hall School – Independent Schools Norfolk

 

Christmas Card House Competition

Please click on the following link to view details of this year’s Christmas Card House Competition – deadline for entries is 6th November.

A perfect chance to have your own design printed on a card – in addition, the winner will have their design printed as the school’s Christmas card!

Make Your Face Famous!

As part of a follow up on Year 7′s recent trip to the National Portrait Gallery, our year 7 pupils are encouraged to take part in the following national arts competition:

Everyone in the UK aged 4-16 years is invited to produce a self-portrait in the spirit of celebration for 2012.

The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts is working with a range of organisations including OCR, The National Portrait Gallery and the National Archives in providing links to online teaching resources and have teamed up with BBC World Class 2012 in producing a Face Britain Assembly Pack.

Once created, every self-portrait can be uploaded onto the Face Britain online gallery between September 2011 and March 2012.

To find out how to take part visit www.facebritain.org.uk

ICT Animation12 National Competition

Animation12 is a National Competition open to school children aged 7-19. You have to design an animation about a topic that you are learning / have learnt at school.  Winners receive prizes such as laptops.

There are a number of programmes that you can use to make your animation:

  • Alice
  • Blender
  • Flash
  • Koolmoves
  • Scratch
  • Serifs
  • Swish Max 4 

Our Head of ICT, Mr Pengilley, strongly suggests that you use Scratch – it is something which you have experience in!

There are also a number of rules, which can be found on this website http://bit.ly/okkdUpplease make sure you read them all.

 A brief summary of the most important rules;

  • YOU or your GROUP (no more than 4 people) must make this animation. Not your ICT teacher or your parents.
  • Your animation must not be interactive (Think movie, not game).
  • Your animation must be no more than 1 minute long.
  • It must be about a topic you are / have studied at school

Your entries for the competition must be submitted before midnight on 23rd March 2012.

Mr Pengilley will be running a weekly break time club on Wednesdays for those of you who have entered this exciting competition.

More Maths Puzzles

Print out and have a go at these puzzles and give your brain a little workout!

Please hand in completed puzzles to Mr Wood.

Hidato Puzzle 1

Hidato Puzzle 2

Hidato Puzzle 3

Hidato Puzzle 4

The T Problem

House Art Summer Competition

This academic year the Headmaster’s Photography Competition will take place over the Christmas holiday instead of during the summer break. 

Instead we will be running a House Art Competition over the summer which all year groups can enter.

Summer 2011 HOUSE ART COMPETITION

Make a mobile or hanging sculpture over the summer holidays to win points for your house. All entries to be brought to the Outer Hall on our first day back in September.

In addition,  pupils could enter the RSPCA Young Photographer’s Competition instead if they are interested in photographing their pets – the closing date is 8th September and additional information can be found on www.rspca.org.uk/ypa.

Reds will be awarded to any pupils how decide to take part in  the RSPCA photo competition.

MATHS Website for Homework and Revision

The following website may be used by pupils for their homework and revision:

www.mymaths.co.uk

All pupils will have been provided with a password but if in doubt please contact Mr Wood.

ENGLISH

This is a great website for those competitive learners.

You can challenge people at spelling from all over the world! :

http://www.tutpup.com/

Below is the link to an American website but with words added by Miss Chapman (so they are English spellings). Search for Miss Chapman and then you can have fun independently learning spellings, playing spelling games and having spelling tests.

These are spelling lists suitable for pupils in Year 3 to Year 8, especially chosen for Taverham Hall School pupils. You can even print out certificates/reports so you know how well you are doing:

www.spellingcity.com

MATHS PUZZLES

Print out and have a go at these puzzles and give your brain a little workout!

Please hand in completed puzzles to Mr Wood.

Click here for puzzle No. 1.

Click here for puzzle No. 2.

Click here for puzzle No. 3.

Music Research – Be a Detective!

To support your class work have a go at some of the tasks outlined below for Years 4 to 8 plus there is also something for everyone!

click here for details