Science - Crest Investigations

The last few days of Crest have arrived! Everyone is stressing, trying to get everything on their presentation boards. There is a lot of buzz, excitement, many sighs of relief and a proud feeling of achievement.

In Year 7 Science everyone has to do a Crest Project over 7 weeks of Term 2. Our success criteria has been:

♦ Ask a testable question

♦ Research the topic

♦ Make a hypothesis about the outcome based on the research or their

own knowledge

♦ Design the investigation

♦ Conduct the investigation – hands on experiment

♦ Collect Data

♦ Make sense of the data and write a conclusion

♦ Present your findings to be judged

An example of a testable question is, ‘Which brand of dishwashing liquid makes the biggest yeast reaction?’

At Selwyn House Crest is very important and it builds up our skills for Year 8, which is the year that we have to do personal projects.

Swimming Sports

Coraline:

Coraline is a 12 - year old girl who shows a lot of courage trying to save her mum and dad. It is an adventurous and freaky story. We rate this book 8/10 because some of the parts were a bit disturbing and creepy. Not a bedtime read! 

  

Smile:

Smile is about an 11-year-old girl called Riana. Riana gets into a lot of trouble even though she doesn’t mean to.  There are lots of embarrassing and funny moments but all Riana wants, is to be normal. We think this is a 10/10 because there is lots of humour and drama. We didn't want to put it down.

                      







The Baby Sitters Club:
Kirsty Thomas is a quirky teenager. Kirsty has to cope with her mum’s boyfriend whilst she is trying to figure out plans with her new best friends about her new club idea. She and her friends struggle with the Babysitting Club but they perserve and their friendship survives. We rate this book 7/10 because we found after awhile it started to become predictable.

Have you got a great graphic novel you can recommend?