5/6's new mantle and what we had done so far

Hi Blog

We have started a new mantle and we are Underwater Archaeologists.
Underwater Archaeologists are people who find out artifacts about shipwrecks and other
things that have been underwater for years and years.

I am in the analysis and conservation team alongside with Sian, Duncan and Mr Carpentar.
The analysis and conservation team are people who get the artifacts and clean them up
and analysis the artifacts to identify their age and use.

To start of our new mantle we did a little bit of drama. We pretended to be on a ship and we
were doing our usual jobs, then we were heading towards an ice burg. Courtney and Dylan were
guard dogs, Sian, Bethan and Hannah.P were cleaners and I was the captain and their were
more characters, but I can't remember the rest of the characters.

Next we had a conference call from our boss, Mr Parks and he said to us: "Our money has
started to go down, so I would like you to get into groups and do a display. On the display I
would like you to put on a model of a ship, two diagrams, a 3D drawn or not picture, some
headings, a few paragraphs of writing, and if you want you could add some facts or something
like that. And thats what I would like youto do. So bye,bye."

As soon as we got this phone call we got into our groups and started straight away. In my group I had Sian and Hannnah.C. We had to deiced who was doing which job. So I was doing the headings and diagrams, Sian was doing the 3D picture, and Hannah.C was doing the paragraphs of writing.


From Alex (Ella)xxx

The story so far

The story so far is that we've have started our new mantle of the expert on underwater archaeologists. We are having a great time exploring the underwater mysteries. We have been discovering new ways of doing our job and discovering new mysteries; such as the Titanic.

We had our manager, Mr Parks, call in about our sponsor. Our task was to create 6 display boards about our company. We split up into 6 groups, and we got on with our display boards. We had 3 days to do these displays, and we had to reach our goal.

On the last day everybody had just about finished. Then Mr Parks came into our office with the sponsor. They picked one of the displays that was the best. Once they've did that they had to decide if they were going to be our sponsor. In the end they said "Yes".

Now we have now got the money, we planing to get more equipment, and hopely we can get a submarine.

By Pavita and Alexis jumbo

Underwater Archaeology update

This is our new Mantle where we are the Underwater Archaeology Team

We have chosen our jobs some of us are researchers, some are on the technical team, some are publishing our findings and some are on the conservation team. We have been working in role but we have had our first task from manager Mr Parks we have to put on a display to impress our sponsors. However, we only have until Friday to get it finished - we will have to work as a team to complete it in time.

Here are some pictures of about our work:

Our Conservation Team do a great job!St Anne's Revenge which was said to be the pirate

Blackbeard's ship. We recovered this boat last Summer after much excitement and media

attention. Here is a picture taken on our side scan sonar.

We got into groups of about five or six. ವೀ drew a layout of a ship that what we could for diving to look at shipwrecks trying to see what would be the best transport for caring items we said a crane after that we started talking about what jobs we would have on the boat : captain,divers,and lots more. On Tuesday we put writing in order of the titanic when it was sinking what time they got the life boats ready to get of the titanic how many people survied after? In the hall we made some drama about a robber that came on the ship. We created emotion comma sentences so that we could impagine what it was like to on a sinking ship.

The truth

We have found bubba but he is dead.We found him outside the hostal where he stayed when he was gone.We found him on the 23rd of october 2008 but i expect he died before that.

Interveiw with Kathy O'Sullivan

This is the interveiw that we had with Kathy O'Sullivan.

Detective Rai: Welcome to T.V.D Mrs Sullivan. We are now going to ask you some questions.

Detective Young: How do you feel about Matthew's disapearance?

Kathy: Well i think he'll be better off away from here, I don't really care because its nice to get a little freedom and i've got a boyfreind now because he's gone. I really think that Matthew was holding me back.

Detective Macker: What do you know about the water tower?

Kathy: All I know is that its a waste of space and is recking the landscape. Its been there for several years and everyone is sick of seeing it there.

Detective Sweeny: Did Matthew take any belongings with him?

Kathy: No. At first I thought he did but a week later I found the things underneath the stairs. So no.

Detective Harrison: Do you go into Matthew's bedroom often?

Kathy: Maybe once in 2 months but not daily.

Detective Moir: Thank you for your time and goodbye.

spike and the evidence

We have recently been to matthews house when he was an 11 year old and we found loads of evidence; there was a lizard under the sofa, hairs on the pillow(because there was a sofa bed instead of matthew's mum didn't have a room). We think that its only a bungalow because there was a door locked that we think might of been bubba's room, we obviously didn't break in because it isn't our property to ruin. We also found cat and dog baskets on the fire place with cat food all over the house. There was a cellar door in the utility room, and also a wallet left on a shelf with a passport aswell (bubba's passport).

The story so far on our latest mantle

On our latest case we are trying to find a missing boy called Matthew 0'Sullivan ,he went missing when he was 16.Which was five years ago,so he will be 21 now.His closest friend,spike mulders, has requested us to solve this problem so we decided to take on the case.Spike mulders was devastated when bubba went missing because he was an old school friend of his.When bubba and spike were 12 years old bubba fell down a water tower an spike left him there on his own.When bubba came back he was agressive and disrespectful.Bubba dissapeared on his 16th birthday just before his birthday party.Matthew lived in Perth, Australia and took $250.00 with him which he was saving for a scooter/bike.

Welcome to the New Mantle where we are going to be Private detectives! Watch this space....

Question for Mrs Shaw

Q1 Can you carry your own equipment?
A Yes and I don't like it when people underestimate me as I am fit, like adventure and I my other senses are excellent.
Q2 Do you have any phobias?
A No as when I lost my eyesight I thought I'm not going to be scared of life anymore.
Q3 How did you become blind?
A I was involved in a tragic bombing incident when I worked as a journalist in war zones and a bomb exploded on the opposite side of the road. Obviously I haven't always been blind and I can remember colours and pictures.
Q4 Do you have a guide dog?
A Yes but I haven't taken him abroad yet. I just stck to days around Britain.
Q5 Why do you want to go to a volcano?
A I always wanted to experience the wonders of volcanoes and I was about to go on a trip ten years ago when the accident occured. Now is the right time for me.

Watch the amazing volcano film

Volcano Package

Recently in mantle we have had a man in the travel agency called Mr Southgate who wanted us to make a volcano package.So have been making a volcano package which includes: a model volcano.The volcanoes were made out of mode rock, the base was made out of an empty bottle, the first layer is paper and the second is mode rock. After we had done that and they had dried we panted them, the colours were different textures of brown, orange, red and dark green for some grass growing up the side. We added detail and left them to dry. When they were fully dry we made them erupt by using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar and we also added red food colouring to make the eruption look like lava. Also in the package instructions on how to use the volcano and how to make one.

By Sam

yesterday we had a client called Mr Southgate who wanted us to create a children's volcano adventure pack. We teamed up into mixed groups of four.Each of us were given a job one was a scribe one checker one had the ideas and the other improves the work.
He is coming in on Thursday to see what we have done for him.

by hannah

this week

This week we have been busy booking holidays for people that have come in .We have also been updating our travel agency.
We have made lots more deals and it is attracting a lot more customers! We also would like you to drop in too !!!





by alexis and hannah koo

Volcano Presentation

This week in mantel we ....

This week in matel we went to a real life volcano called st. helens and it was supose to be dormant ...But it landed a lava bomb out of the blue every one was running for there lifes and then after that it actually looked like it was going to erupt properly but the best thing was that we got back safe and sound and live to tell the tale.

All the excitement packed into one day that was amazing we got to see what it looked like inside a real volcano the rocky lava the big crater as well as the LAVA bomb.


By Daisy.c

Trip to St Helens

Yesterday travel world went to St Helens to see what its like to be in a real volcano, we discovered lots of unknown facts and went to a huge lava lake. As we were watching the unstoppable lava a huge volcanic bomb exploded out of nowhere. As we neared the crusts of the volcano Ashley Brookes caught her foot in the melted rock therefore we all had to wait while she was rescued. We soon neared the end so Dos Santos Cruz vidioed the incedent to take back to our offices. Alltogether it was a great experience and we all enjoyed the action packed trip.

In travel world we learn by having experience of what we are trying to acomplish and what we would like to acheive at the end of the school term.

by Stephen and Alex

Titus Grey Visit

Titus Grey from Eco Tourism visited us yesterday (tuesday 29th april).We had to freeze frame on what jobs we were doing like: looking at complaints, being on the phone talking to costumers, etc.
Then we had to think of questions to ask him such as: do you think we are profesinal enough? or do you get the right impresion on travel world?
Also we had to look at the success criteria, and we all picked one thing that we could be responsable for.

By Sam

titus grey

titus grey is comeing in today, he wants talk about a holiday for him and his family. He wants it not to be hot but to be warm because his wife has skin conditions and needs an umbrella; the perfect place would be turkey because it's not to hot and not to cold. We would like to make a good deal with him today and if it goes all well, he go well on his hoilday.this hoilday is good because you don't need to bring an umbella because there are some at the pool or ready.

How to impress Titus Grey

How to impress Titus Grey

1. Send itinerary.

2. Make hotels Eco friendly.

3. Give him info on the project.

4. Invite him around.

5. Build away from locals.

6. Send copy's of hotel plans.

Itinerary Order

1. Flight details/How to get there.

2.Car cost/flight costs.

3.Hotel/costs.

4.Hotel/extra's.

5.Exscertions/entertainment.

6.Family info.

7.Insurance/health and safety.

8.Total costs

By Connor M

mantle today

We have got a new deal on which is if you buy a holiday you get 2 free meals at pizza hut, but if
you don't like pizza you can have an Indian or chinese.
If you spend over £380, you can go on a Cruse to Hawaii or Spain you can go any where in the world. if you go to Hawaii for 2 weeks it will cost £899 or if you want to go to Spain it will cost
999 for 2 weeks.




from Alexis and


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Finshed volcanos powerpoints

Yesterday we FINNALLY finshed our volcano powerpoint. Today we should be viewing the powerpoint. Also yesterday we had a visit by a man who is called Bryan. He told us about Safaris and how they atract tourists. He gave us a booklet about animals and plants that we had to fill in, a bit like a test. After that we watched a short video about plants and animals. finally after that we went home.

By Pavita

Are Mantle So Far

Our travel companey (travel the world) have started a power point on volcanos such as Stromboli, mount Edtna and white island. We used skills such as research skills and relevant information. We found out information on the volcanos like the base to the rim or base to base. We found that volcanos arn't just sluge and lava but they allso spurt beutiful fountin like shapes. Volcanos have a beutiful lanscape from a far away distence.

travel worlds mystery customer

The mystery customer was george roberts and he wanted to go on holiday to a sunny place but he had a wife with a heat allergy so it couldn't be to hot. We had to use all our skills of team work and perswasion in the end he decided to go to canada we dont know whats coming next!
see you soon
hannah f
travel advisor

10/04/08

We are now using and getting to know our roles in the company so we are working better together as a company. Today there is going to be a un-named visitor coming into our company whom we do not know. We are learning all sorts of new skills like being able to talk about a subject and selling a holiday with lots of persuasive language. The presentation of how we present the holiday to our costomers and how we deal with the matters at hand.


By Annabelle

In our mantle we are a travel agency together we sort out holiday's for other people. Everyone has a role and we all work as a team, for the last couple of days we have been designing holiday brochures for our favorite holiday destinations. Some include country's like: America,Australia and Spain followed by many more. Everybody has jobs which include: manager, holiday manager, finacial officer and travel advisor. We have done a number of mantle's and so far everyone thinks this one is best.

by alex

Today we have been continuing with our brochures for hotels, we are hoping it will bring more business. We have also created posters for hotels and beaches and have made application forms for booking flights. Today our company have been busy sorting out guests problems and helping them get the dream holiday they want.
Annabel and Sarah

So far in our travel agencey we have been writing brochures about hotels. We have also been drawing posters of where we would like to go around the world, we have had loads of phone calls for people to go on holiday so people want nice whether but not over 25 degrees - they 're crazy and some people want it to not cost too much we will keep you posted till next time.

In Travel World today, we looked through different brochures to find good describing words which would give us and idea for when we wrote for our own brochure. we all wrote a paragraph about one hotel in our brochures to persuade people to go there themselves. All of them where pretty persuasive! we all worked hard, and it was very fun!! The Brochures really helped us start our paragraphs off!!!!
by Sophie

Our mantle so far

So far we have had many tasks to do book flights, hire cars and book the hotels or whatever they are staying in. We have got our company name we are called Travel world (travel agency) where as we each have a role each, there are finace officers, directors, team leaders and many more roles. We all have fun and love to join in with mantle, it is a great way of involving every one in our class and we are all enjoying working in our travel agency.

This is our travel agency

EPISODE 1

1. Establish Travel Company: ID logo, ethics, name, roles, history of company, headed note paper, biographies, advert to identify selves as the Travel Company.

What have we done?

What have we learned?

What is our story so far?

How do I feel about my learnning?

How will we assess the skills learned together

Metacognition:

(talking and thinking about your own learning and thinking – successful strategies employed and how to move on)
· Teach action planning process & team-work skills.
· Student summative learning evaluation sheet to inform next Mantle of the Expert unit.
· Daily group planning & evaluation of progress.

Assessment:
‘seeing the bigger picture’

Teacher:
· Key skills evidenced in anecdotal observations “Sparkly moments” board”, notes written & end product.
· Evidence of children’s understanding of the process (evidenced in ICT)
· Evidence of ability to work collaboratively, organising skills, resources & time (action plan outcomes, drama, photo evidence)

Pupil:
· Student summative learning evaluation sheet to inform teaching.
· Daily group planning & evaluation of progress (construct company values achievement as a photograph)
· Quality of product & fit or purpose.
· Self & group evaluation abilities (oral & notated pupil comments on effect, quality of product and team-work)

Skills we are learning

Learning Skills :

Information processing locate and collect info, sort, classify, sequence, compare and contrast, analyse part/whole relationships

Reasoning give reasons for opinions/actions, draw inferences, use precise language to explain what they think, make informed judgements and decisions

Enquiry ask relevant questions, pose problems, plan what to do and how to research, predict outcomes, anticipate consequences, test conclusions, improve ideas.

Creative thinking generate and extend ideas, suggest hypotheses, apply imagination, look for alternative innovative outcomes.
Evaluate judge the value of what they read, hear and do, develop the criteria for judging their own and others work or ideas, to have confidence in their own judgements

Planning

Challenging Questions:

These questions can be used to extend the thinking of more able groups, ready for further challenge.

More able can form a planning committee.

Is their a demand for Volcano experience?

What are our company values?

What are the environmental costs to tourism in developing nations?

Why should we minimise risk?

What do we need to understand in order to take on the commission?

What resources will be needed?

Reflections on learning with a Travel Company

Worldwide Travel

Egypt Expedition!

Earlier this week Top Toy Town flew to Egypt to see the new Egyption exibit in the Cairo museum. We are staying at a hotel called The Marriot Hotel.

Recent events

Our recent events are that we've had a letter from Nicola Winters saying that she wants some egyptian toys made for the gift shop at the British Museum. Top Toy Town have desined them and there adverts for them and next week we will be making them. But today Nicola is coming to see our progress we are very excited but nervous its all a big event since she came earlier in the week and she told us lots of efeciant things.We have also made our radio braodcast for our toys aswell its very cool.We've been very busy and it's all a blur but we will get there in the end.

By Zoe leslie and Connor Mulholland

Nicola Winters

today we have had Nicola Winters in to see our presentation, and she thought it was good but a couple of improvements needed in the presentation. Meanwhile Nicola Winters thought that some of our toys are great and kids that have been going to the museum can't wait. They want them as son as pssible.

By

Jack Dorey

Osris and Isis

Today we have been drawing pictures of Osisris, Isis and Seth then most of us coloured them in with pastels or with paint and after that we took pictures of them and we are putting them on a power point to send to Nicola Winters from the British museum.

Our new mantle for this term is about Ancient Egypt. We have a company set up and we design toys to engage children with history. Read this blog to find out more about our learning.

We have now finished our mantle project. Trevor was thrilled that his farm was saved. We still don't know who let the chickens out.
Thanks for reading our blog.