Our Mosque designs using Sketchup CAD

Following our trip to Birmingham to visit a Mosque, Class 4 looked at the design and architecture of Mosques from around the world. We used Google Sketchup to create our designs - Here are the completed mosque designs.


Peter and Ari



Vicky and Ollie



Hope and Emma



Phoebe, Tia and Phoebe




Oscar and Audrey




Harley, Ben and Xavier



Here is where it all started...

Ollie Cooke's 100 word Challenge

Clever cloud leaves capital clueless

On Thursday there was an unexpected sight as a cloud that had travelled up the Thames, was spotted gliding around London's streets, people reported that it had a mind of it's own and that it wasn't effected by the strong winds either. Scientists are also baffled by this strange event and can't work out why it has happened. Mr alien from HSBC said "I was in my office looking out of my window when a cloud flew past and surrounded the traffic lights." Surprisingly it has also been awarded a medal for putting out a fire in a toilet roll factory.

Ollie Cooke's 500 word story

Ollie Cooke's 500 word story

The fire monster

I remember the fire roaring up devouring the wood and throwing fireballs as it went. I leapt to the side as a burning plank of wood skimmed my ear before crashing into the wall and swallowing up the painting in seconds.

“RUN!” shouted my sister whilst dodging the monster of fire lashing out at her. I grabbed my water and threw it at the burning wreck of the painting but it made no difference. By now my brain was telling me the only thing that felt natural, run. I found myself slamming against the window, the glass smashing around me letting me fall out onto the damp cold grass below.

Within seconds I was up and flying over our garden gate on to the road. Where could I go? The fire monster would be swallowing up the house soon then it would progress through London destroying anything in its path.

It seemed that I’d been running for hours, but I made it to the fire station. I explained and they immediately were off, speeding through the city closer to the fire which had become three times the size and had incinerated the nearby houses and it was spreading fast. Suddenly the fire-fighters clicked into action and sprayed the monster of orange with water but once again it didn’t do anything.

At once the fire fighters backed off and everyone started to panic. I still think about those questions in my mind like, Would we survive?  Would the fire monster destroy everything or would a miracle happen? Gradually the fire gained on us spreading throughout the houses and the dreadful truth became apparent, we could not do this alone.

I remember the thoughts speeding round my head. How could this fire be alive? it was trying to kill people. What was going on? Then a thought came to me, what if the fire was being controlled by some sort of monster?

The fire-fighters had been attempting to put out the fire for an hour but water didn’t seem to do anything to it. I was scared, my family had died in the fire and I would too if we didn’t do something. By that time I knew that if the world was going to survive, a miracle needed to happen and it needed to happen quick.

All of a sudden camera crews turned up on the scene so the news had spread, and then on live TV it happened. The sky opened in a fury of light and flames, then a blue shimmering haze attacked the roaring fire, battering it before rejoining in the sky and battering it again. Finally after many attacks the blue shimmering mystery was victorious. Everyone started celebrating and leaping about.  We had survived.

Even now I think about that day and about what that blue monster was and where it is now. Even  now, 10 years on,  I wonder about my family who died that night and all that happened on that dark, dark, scary night.

Ollie Cooke's 100 word challenge

Yesterday I came out of my room already dressed and suddenly I started running down the stairs faster than I’d ever done before and THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! something was coming after me. Taller than a giraffe and it’s hair as wild as a lion’s mane, it chased after me, out the door and down the street. I didn’t dare look back in fear that the sight might paralyse me forever. Petrified, exhausted, breathless I ran as fast as humanly possible for dread that this might be the end. The previous day I’d stolen my sister’s iphone and she wasn’t happy…

ollie cookes 100 word challenge

The massive paintbrush paints away
So the man does not stay
He walks a road so white
All the way through the dark, dark night

On and on the man does walk

Until he comes to a divided fork

‘Left or right’ thinks the man

How can he come to a plan?

He sees the paintbrush coming back

Going down another track

So he walks to the right

Paintbrush gladly out of sight

Still not free the man screams out

“Where do I go I’m in doubt?”

Suddenly the painting stops

And out of the scene the man just hops

Ollie Cooke's monster

Here my monster on scratch

Ollie Cooke's 100 word challenge

“What’s that through the trees, over there” Dave said nervously. As they got closer Steve realised what it was. “It‘s a pig” he exclaimed, and as it shivered they realised it was cold and hungry. It must have been abandoned. Who could abandon a pig? Scared, alarmed and shattered, the pig let out a squeal as if to say ‘take me home’. So that’s what they did they did. Dave and Steve got the pig into the car and it became their pet. They decided to call him Bob. After their incident with the pig, Dave and Steve became vegetarians!

ollie cookes 100 word challenge

One day Bob was walking along Downing Street and he noticed a phone on the floor. No one was looking so Bob picked it up but as soon as he touched it, the phone switched on and showed pictures of the people who it had sucked in to its evil memory and suddenly he recognised someone. THE PRIME MINISTER the more people it showed the more his arm shrank. Within 30 seconds the phone had sucked him up. Bob and everyone else who got gobbled up are still living in the phone but nobody knows what has happened to them.

ollie cookes 100 word challenge

If I wasn't so good at talking to animals, if the crocodile wasn't so nice, if I wasn't so lucky, then I wouldn't be alive right now. I was on holiday when I saw a rope swing across a river. I thought “what fun!”  and without thinking I swung on it. The rope snapped! I fell into the river. I hadn't realized it was a crocodile infested river so I started to panic. The crocodile silently sneaked towards me and  was just about to eat me when I begged him not to ruin my holiday. Amazingly he let me escape.

Malvern Masterminds

 Congratulations to our Year 6 team from Malvern Wells who won the King's School Junior Quiz qualifying round.

They certainly did it in style, breaking a nine year record with an unprecedented score of 89! 

To put their achievement in perspective their nearest rivals amassed a total of 45! 

Well done to John, Phoebe, Ari and Ollie and bring on the grand final on Tuesday 21st October 

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

Mr. Something (yes that’s his real name) was angry, very angry. Nobody had come to school. Tomorrow he would cane them all one by one. But for now he would just have to teach the chairs about drawing apples. “You there why have you not drawn your apple”, the chair did not reply. “GET HERE TO BE CANED” screamed Mr. Something. He walked over to the chair and started hitting it with his cane. By the end of the day Mr. Something was so furious that he had pulled out most of his hair. His chairs were being very naughty.

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

Baseball, which is an American game, is not played very much in the UK. But I’d been playing it for years and was representing Great Britain in the Olympics. Unfortunately not many people watch baseball but I didn’t mind and as I hit the ball, everyone in the stadium knew where it was destined except me who hadn’t realised the pigeon above me.
THWACK! I’d hit the pigeon. Luckily the pigeon survived but the next day I had to go to the RSPCA and explain what had happened, but I was allowed to carry on playing baseball for Great Britain.

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

“Ugh… I don't like that” said Bob, whilst squishing a giant ant with his size 12 boot.  “I’m happy I’m not in Brazil, you get loads of them there” Bob said. “It must have come over on a plane from Rio with one of those crazy football supporters.”
There could have been more of course; good job England is terrible at football: they got knocked out in the group stage.
Oh no, thought Bob, I’m working in Germany next month, there could be more there from those crazy German football supporters. Bob didn’t like ants, or football for that matter.    

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

Bob liked crocodiles. He wanted to be an explorer to look for them. Instead he was bus driver. In Florida. One day he decided to try and see some crocodiles, so he drove the school bus through a swamp. Unfortunately this didn’t work as well as he thought and they didn’t see any crocodiles. The school bus was a sea monster from the deep. It also no longer worked and everyone was soaked. After this Bob was sacked, which was a good thing for him as he never liked the job anyway. So he went off to be an explorer!

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

Mr Warne was marking reading tests. He didn’t like marking reading tests because they took forever to mark and were very stressful, but he had to do it as his class were doing SAT’s next week. But suddenly, Mr Warne turned a deeper shade of red and steam could be seen from his ears, he had come to a test with NO NAME and Mr Warne realised a tick one question where someone had ticked two. The more he marked the more steam poured from his ears. But finally after 5 stressful hours he had finished now he could relax

ollie and Ari's Brazil powerpoint

Ollie Cooke's 100 word challenge

Bob was going to PGL, he was excited. But first he had a three hour journey ahead of him. Finally after what seemed like years they arrived.  At a half destroyed castle with no on the edge of a ‘small’ cliff plummeting down 200M! This was not what Bob or anyone else was thinking of. To make matters worse Bob had forgotten his suitcase, there were no dorms, the only activities were climbing up the cliff or searching the forest for food and the coach had broken down. This was going to be a long couple of days for Bob!

Ollie and Finns 100 word challenge

I was exhausted: I had been in my garage creating an awesome time machine!  I  wanted to go back to the time of the dinosaurs. My epic machine was done. So Bob and I jumped in and travelled back to the dinosaurs. POP! We were there. Look up! Can you see that huge flying thing! Above us there was a pterodactyl. We thought it was going to eat us so we ran and ran but as we ran we fell over, I bellowed Bob get up. But it was too late the giant pterodactyl had captured us! I don’t want to die Bob whispered nervously….

ollie cooke's 100 word challenge

Imagine a place where there is a sea. Where there are seagulls, and a lighthouse: this place is Fish Fluke Point, Ross Island, Canada. Here an old rotten lighthouse stands. But it is supposed to be like this. Why? Because Bob and Bill had built it to try and win the Worst Building of the Year contest. Bob and Bill had constructed it, entered it and were waiting at the ceremony anxiously like all the other builders. “It’s time to award the winners; the winners are” Bills heart pounded in his chest like a drum. “Bob and Bill.” They’d won!!