Three interesting pieces of work, almost all involving charts!

Mr Brown asked 4B to survey the form to find the popularity of a certain item of their choice - ice-cream flavour, animal, etc. They then produced a chart, by hand (that is, not on Excel!) showing their results. Here are two particularly good ones:

J Felt (11.02)

H Pervez (10.09)

After doing the mandatory ten minutes on the typing tutor, the 5th Form were told to produce a chart showing the different populations of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, after finding the information on the web. They did this quickly, and so I then asked them to make the bars 'apprpriate' for the country. Here is L Wright's - note that the flag of Ulster IS correct, though it looks very like England at this size!

L Wright (12.00)

All of that work was done today. And coming up, there is also the Music, Art & Technology Exhibition for the Junior School this evening. Here is a picture by J Rogers (11.06) of just one of the areas ready:

Once more Jenkins are the winners for the week. Just a pity that they didn't quite get to 200, despite waiting an extra hour!

Well done to the U9 team. who raced at Horris Hill yesterday. They were 1st in their age-group. The picture below was taken by Mrs Anderson (Head of the Junior School), and shows her husband (obviously Mr Anderson! - Head of Classics, and in charge of Cross Country).

The picture at the bottom is M Du Toit's winner's medal.

Mr Anderson with  the team: M Du Toit, F Heffer, G Green, C Sellers, W Hobbs

The winners' medal

Mr Smith took Assembly this morning, as the Headmaster had taken some Scholarship candidates to Wellington.

Before the regular awards, he congratulated T Ren on his Academic Scholarship to the City of London School. We had actually heard about this last Thursday, but it was received just too late for that assembly. Well done to him and our other two successful candidates so far, and best wishes to the others.

What do these mean? If a Superstar is awarded for really special work, the recipient shakes the Headmaster's (or Mr Smith's, today!) hand in Assembly and receives three pluses, and of course a round of applause from the staff and boys. If it is a Highly Commended - still extremely good work - those recipients remain seated, but get a round of applause and two pluses.

After the awards Mr Smith told everyone how lucky we are at Caldicott. We have fantastic pitches, and have had almost a full games season so far this month, when many other schools have had hardly any because their pitches have been waterlogged. A week ago several of ours were under water - but just a few days later they are among the best in the country. The ground staff do a fantastic job here, and he reminded the boys to thank them.

To conclude with pitches, Mr Chapman (Geography) sent the picture below, showing the final of the Terrington Hall Rugby Sevens tournament, where we won the shield. Their pitch looks good, but ours may be even better! In case you can't recognise the boys, thanks to him for identifying the players from such a distance!

Caldicott are in the foreground
E Rowell is on the right, taking a conversion on our way to a 12-7 victory over Durham Chorister School.
Pictured from right to left are E Rowell, M Arzt-Jones, O Parsons, E Taylor, A Clayton, L Stalder & N Kim

Not long to go now! You no doubt have heard from your son, and probably in the news as well, about World Maths Day. It is an international competition, where players register for a unique identity and then play online against people from anywhere in the world. You have a minute to answer as many calculation questions as possible. Here is one that AGP did earlier this morning:

You can see the number of seconds to go on the right, and that I am playing two opponents from a school in Malaysia. The boxes on the right of my name are the answers which were incorrect. Three strikes and you're out! At the end of the minute, the one with most answers correct obviously wins.

The Junior School also did a maths activity, devised by Mrs Anderson:

A lot of enjoyable work to do

And here are three boys hard at work:

Friday - finished now. Below are some of the 6th Form competing across the world.

Thanks to Ma'am Bisschop, who teaches him English, for agreeing that this poem - written by F Sasada (10.03) - should be published.

The Pigeon

There’s a pigeon in my garden,
I don’t know what to do.
Shall I throw a stone at it,
Or let it fly away?

Its pecking at my plants,
My effort is destroyed.
It has to go away,
Or suffer the consequences

A stone sounds too cruel,
I could just chase it away,
I’ll have to do that
For it is worth the effort.

I’m getting ready to chase it,
Flapping there will be.
I can wear either trainers,
Or some durable boots.

I’ll wear the trainers,
Quick it shall be.
The bird will be flapping,
Like it never has before.

I started dashing,
The bird turned around,
It began to beat its wings,
And began to take off.

The bird is gone,
I am victorious.
The bird will never come,
To my vast realm again.

You may also have read his previous poem, on the ICT section. Well done - and keep up the good work!