The Big Race

After days of discussion and planning throughout our Race Track Project Class One's eagerly anticipated 'Big Race' took place on Monday afternoon. The children thought that the hall was the safest and best place for the race because they were worried their cardboard models would be spoilt in the garden. They had already decided the best and fastest way to transport the vehicles and time the race as well as making flags, start signs and finish signs.The next job was to design and build the new race track for the hall. After lots of ideas and a good look at the resources available everyone started to build.

There were lots of brilliant ideas and some imaginative use signs and symbols on the track, which were designed to help the racers during the race.
Andrew was in charge of his traffic lights to help everyone get started.

The crowd waved their flags and cheered as the races began and then everyone counted how many seconds it took each person to negotiate the track.

When everyone had raced we looked at the time it had taken them to get round the track. Eleanor knew that the smallest number was the fastest. However, we didn't have an outright winner because five of had the fastest time of six seconds.

After further discussion the children considered sharing the first place honour before deciding to race again the next day (because we only had one medal!).

The crowd cheered again but this time they didn't have to count because everyone raced together.

Erika won the race and was presented with the winners medal by Harriet.

We were all very proud of our winner and Mrs Colling and I were very proud of everyone because no one complained or boasted. Everyone was a great sport and showed a fantastic attitude to the whole event.

I'm not sure if this is the end of the Race Track Project. Keep an eye on our planning and ideas board to see what else the children want to do.