Happy 4th of July

In cookery today (Thursday 4th July 2013) we made sweet potato pie because it was American independence day. This is the recipe :

approximately 4 small sweet potatoes

1/2 cup butter (115)

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 table spoon flour (only needed if the mixture is a bit like liquid.

I hope you enjoy making them but enjoy EATING them too.

Sweet potato pie

India eating sweet potato pie 

by Chloe and India

Soluble or Insoluble

On Monday the 17th we did an exciting experiment  we were doing dissolving.My group did sand,baby powder,fruit tea,coffee,rice and pepper.First we put 250ml of  water in a glass cup,in my group was India Thomas and me.We had to put the same amount of everything in the different cups first thing we used was the pepper and we were seeing if it was soluble or insoluble.1 out of 6 things were soluble and 5 were in soluble which means they don't dissolve in water and soluble means they do dissolve in water. We also stirred it for 10 seconds and then left it for 1 hour but because we started some a little late we left it over night but if you stayed for after school club you got to finish it I was the only one who finished all on Monday .I really enjoyed it it was very very fun.

By Chloe

Open day

Today is our open day at St. Hilda's school. Were going to leave school at 12:00 and then come back at 3:30 till 7:30 pm. All are welcome to come to see the sight of our school. All classrooms are open and the hall. In the hall we have a display of artwork from the lower school to the senior school. In year 3&4 we are making Tudor roses because in history we are learning about the Tudors. In year 5&6 they are doing electronic discoveries and year 1&2 are doing nature crafts. ICT room is doing robots. Science rooms are doing try your hand at being a scientist. The entertainment is down below
3:30 lower school are performing there poems in the hall.
4:00 music will be played in the hall.
4:15 tea on the lawn if the weather is sunny.
5:00 French and German plays year 8&9  in the hall.
5:30 Fashion show by years 7-9 in playground if weather is not raining.
6:00 Inter-house netball matches played from pupils from year 7-10.
Hope you come.

By Millie

My stamp collection

These are my post stamps.These are here for representing each country. I want to be a stamp collector.

I got these from the post office. My favourite is Doctor Who.

Some of my stamps in my collection

By Xavier

My Time Machine project

For my project at school we have been doing time machines (time travel.) I have been pretending to be a mad scientists, building my very own cool time machine. I have had loads of fun so far learning about time machines and here is some of the things I have been doing.


Fun facts about time travel!!

.No object can escape time travels gravitational pull.
.Wormholes are the most popular "time machine" option for astrophysicists.
.Time Travel has been a popular theme in film and fiction
.Many scientists believe that time travel to the future can be achieved
.Time travel to future is called precognition
.Time travel to the past is called retrocognition
.Time travel to the future is much more common than time travel to the past
.Time travel is usually not fun (in reality.)
.The possibility of time travel in general relativity has been known at least since 1949
.Time travel paradoxes arise from the fact that departure occurs after arrival according to one observer and before arrival according to another

By Mariska

Smelly the spider-shape poem

We looked at shape poems today and I wrote about a spider named Smelly.

Smelly the Spider shape poem

By Thomas

Ants like acting

We have written a poem using alliteration and have based it around the alphabet and animals!

Ants like acting and eating apple.
Bears like bragging and winning battle.
Cats like coughing and catching colds.
Elephants like exercising and eating eggs,
Fish like fighting and furry legs.
Gorillas like grounding baby gaters and playing guitar.
Hippos like having huge hairy legs.
Insets like identifying idiots.
Jackdaws like jugging and jumping.
Kangaroos like canoeing and using a kit.
Leopards like luminous lions.
Monkeys like mimicking Millie and mooing.
Gnus like being knickerless.
Octopus' like overtaking oranges.
Penguins like being president while being pregnant.
Quagga like being queen.
Rabbits like roller skating.
Snakes like slithering.
Turtles like torturing teachers.
Unicorns like playing the ukulele.
Voles likes playing the violin.

By India and Evie