Lynn Grove Open Evening 26/09/13

Lynn Grove Open Evening 2013


At the open evening I thought the school was brilliant. Although it was massive.

At the start of the evening the head teacher gave a speech.

Then I got a CIA quiz which had questions about the school. The answers to the questions were on the walls in two rooms.

These are the departments I went in.

Science


I went in two science rooms...

1)The first science room that I went in was a biology room. In this room a teacher was explaining how the top half of the body works while a child was using a bike pump to pump air into the lungs.

2)In the second science room some children were showing guests how to identify chemicals.      Here's how they did it:

The children gave you a wooden rod and asked you to dip it into some chemical powder. Then you had to put the rod onto the bunson burner (the flame) and the fire changed colour. Finally there was a sheet of paper with chemicals, e.g. calcium and lithium, and you had to guess which chemical it was according to the colour.




Maths

I went in two maths rooms...

1)In this maths room there was lots of puzzles to do with logic, they were matchstick puzzles.




Here is a picture of a logical matchstick puzzle. In the puzzle you have to move two matchsticks to make the dog face the other way. 





















2)Next we walked to another maths room and there was a few computers with maths games on them like times tables , decimals , adding , subtracting , multiplying and dividing.



Library


In Lynn Grove there is two floors to the library but I only got to go to the downstairs part.
On both floors there was a quiz where you had to find books and look on a certain page number and find specific information. If you completed either challenge you could get a bookmark. I got a bookmark that said "NO BRAIN     NO GAIN     READ".



Media


In the media part there was a camera with words scrolling up from it. The words were called autocues. You had to keep up with the words quite a bit.
I guess this is how a newsreader feels then.




Materials and Electronics



In the materials and electronics room some people were building circuit boards and other kinds of electrical objects.



Sports


Outside near the dining room there were three sports parts...

1)The first sports part was an area where there was some rugby posts.

2)The next part was the sports hall. Unfortunately I didn't get time to go in there.

3)The final sports area was an all weather pitch.




Overall out of all of the rooms that I went in I thought that the school was great.



I can't wait until September 2014!!