Computing
A trip to the seaside
Our new topic is ‘Beachcombers’ so we took a trip to the seaside and completed the FANTASTICS. This will help us with our class story ‘Winnie at the seaside’ and all our topic work.
Art & Design
Topic fun
We have worked really hard this week so on Thursday afternoon we had lots of fun with flowers. We made some gift tags for some lavender bags, drew pictures of flowers on purple mash, wrote acrostic poems, watched a video on how to draw a flower and we completed an Read more
Computing
Challenge 4- Apps
We have been working hard this half term to research different educational apps. We asked children in school which different apps they like to use. From this we then downloaded 3 different ones. We practising using these apps then we held a lunch time club where we asked different children Read more
Computing
Tour of the Galapagos Islands!
To retrace Darwin’s footsteps, Year 6 went on a virtual journey around the Galapagos Islands. We used Google Streetview to move around the islands, looking for plant and animal life to observe. We noted the living things we came across and drew conclusions from our observations, such as why certain Read more
Computing
Beat, band, boogie
This week we have been making music using purple mash and we have been on a sound hunt around school. We went on a walk around school and around the school grounds. We loved working outside in the lovely weather this week.
Computing
A trip to the African jungle
We went on an adventure to help to complete our ‘FANTASTICS’ to describe different things we could see, hear and feel. We will then be able to use this experience to help write a setting description for our new class story The Leopards drum.
Art & Design
Arts Week – The Creation Story
For Arts week, Year 6 looked at the 7th day…the day God rested. To help with this, we created images of peaceful settings such as waterfalls, beaches and Space, and used these to inspire our own guided meditations, which included the use of imperative verbs and symbolism. We wrote Read more
British Values
The Blitz – Immersive Room
During our English lessons, we have been writing newspaper reports about air raids in London. We focused our reports on The Blitz bombings on London and spent a morning immersing ourselves in 1940s London. We came up with some thoughtful questions and gained lots of understanding of the events we Read more
Computing
Fantastic coding in computing
We have been playing games by setting algorithms to make the planes take off. We then had to debug by fixing the mistakes that had been made.
Computing
Magnificent muscles!
In English we have been writing explanation text about muscles and we have been researching lots of information about them. Finding out about what they are made from, what types of muscles there are and how they work! We have learnt lots of interesting facts!