Boys from the senior school have been in Northern France and Belgium this week to visit cemeteries from WW1 and WW2 and to lay a wreath in honour of the fallen on behalf of Keble Prep. They have learned much about the wars and the conditions the soldiers had to endure.
We have a new club . Toby from Sam Labs is leading a club up until half term. We have worked closely with Sam now for a year and this collaboration has helped to shape the new software Sam have released.
The boys have benefitted, seeing iterative design up close working with the Sam team of designers and coders and seeing many of their suggestions being included in the product development. We hope to continue our work together this year and look forward to the new Sam app for the iPad.
If you would like to find out more about Sam Labs click on the link
Mrs Fleming
Director of Digital Learning
This week saw the eagerly awaited first meeting of Keble’s Cheese Appreciation Club. Boys from Year 7 enjoyed a range of supermarket own-label mature cheddar cheeses. In a blind taste test, the cheeses were scored according to a range of criteria- colour, smell, texture, strength and mouth appeal- to find the tastiest. Indeed, Mrs Brace was amazed to see exactly how much cheese could be consumed by the boys, even after a hearty lunch.
In a close result in joint first place, and so taking the Keble ‘Cheese of the Week’ title, were the mature cheddars from Morrisons and Marks and Spencer.
Next week the boys will be tasting a range of Geographical Cheeses!
Mrs Brace
Head of Geography
Last Thursday we all had a fantastic day here at Keble for World Book Day.
Our theme for this year was “Bedtime Stories”. All boys from Reception through to Year 8 were invited to come to school in their favourite, snuggly bedtime clothing. Junior School boys (Reception to Year 4) were asked to bring a favourite ‘Bedtime’ storybook and their favourite bedtime cuddly toy; which were used as part of the literacy based activities taking place during the day.
As part of the day we were visited by a local author called Alex Weintroub who took an assembly for the whole school and talked about his journey and experiences of being an author and publishing a book. His book, called “Tilly the Tiger” is aimed at the age range 3 to 5 years. It was a fun day during which we all embraced books and found out lots of fascinating information from Mr Weintroub.
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about a Y6 pupil Xavier who had entered a 3D design competition. The competition was to design, in CAD software, a sweet for production. The winner would receive a 3D sweet printer worth 30,000 pounds.
Xavier was the only child who entered the competition, the rest all being adults. I am pleased to write a follow up on his progress. Xavier has made it through to the next round of the competition and we are all very excited for him
Congratulations and welcome to your new realsmart-enabled website
The cloud website gives seamless integration to Google Apps, the realsmart learning portfolio and loads of other great apps from the web – we have added a selection of these to widget menu on the right, you will see these when you log in.
To read about the vision behind your new school website read more here
Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. There is a range of views among mathematicians and philosophers as to the exact scope and definition of mathematics.
Mathematicians seek out patterns[9][10] and use them to formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures bymathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written recordsexist. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid‘s Elements. Since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), David Hilbert (1862–1943), and others on axiomatic systems in the late 19th century, it has become customary to view mathematical research as establishing truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. Mathematics developed at a relatively slow pace until theRenaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that has continued to the present day.[11]
This year’s science fair will take place on the 19th July and will include volcanoes and flux capacitors.
