Our new Science topic for this half term is light. Today we started off the new topic with an investigation – Compare a range of materials to find out which will let light pass through. We discussed what we needed to do to ensure that the investigation was a fair test, made our predictions and the children worked in pairs to carry it out. We found that glass let the most light through and tin Read more
During English lessons this term, we are looking at Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Today we tasted different chocolates and collected adjectives to describe the taste. We then created designs for our own chocolate bars ready for writing our own Chocolate stories next week.
Year 6 were lucky to have the first of their 6 sports journalism workshops with professional sports journalist, Gareth Walker from Literacy Kicks. Their first report was based on reporting on a major sporting event. Over the next three weeks, they will look at producing opinion pieces, editing a report for publishing and how to tackle challenging topics.
We had lots of fun using the stencils to create our Christmas cards. We used a sponge to create a colourful background.
For our final piece, Year created a double-page spread about the famous artist, Banksy. We took all of the skills we have acquired throughout the unit, looking at the techniques and meanings behind different artwork, and recreated Banksy’s most famous pieces on the styles we have looked at.
This half term we are focusing on two new skills builders. Creativity and problem solving. During our lesson this morning we first started with a problem solving activity which we worked together on in our pairs. Then we thought about the variety of jobs there are. First of all we thought of firefighters and discussed how they are always solving problems within their daily jobs. We then discussed other jobs which always need to problem Read more
We have had a brilliant day today in class! Today we enjoyed our Christmas party day. We enjoyed colouring in and watching a film with our friends. In the afternoon, we enjoyed party games in the hall and some delicious party food! We also had a visit from Santa! 🎅
This half term we have been learning about healthy eating in Science and Design and Technology. We have been learning about the healthy food plate and how we need a balanced diet. We became chef’s in DT and we practiced preparing food using knives, spoons and a grater. We then tried different combinations of food making sure we had some protein, vegetables and dairy. Afterwards, we designed our own wraps including food from the different Read more
Year 6 have been thinking about the role of a chef. We followed the sam steps of a chef such as looking at costing, tasting food combinations and designer our meal leading upto this lesson. We split off into groups, with each grouping prepping and preparing one course each, before playing up and serving.
Year 6 completed their hour of code by creating a tennis game in Scratch. They had to crest backgrounds, sprites that move and sense and create a scoring system.