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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
In our topic this half term we are going to be learning about the United Kingdom. Today we have been talking about Heywood where we live and what is good about it. We went on Google maps and had a tour around Heywood where we visited lots of different things Read more
This half term we are learning about Greece, we used Google Earth to locate Greece and explore some of Greece’s Ancient landmarks! We have still got lots to learn!
We have been creating presentations including lots of facts about The Victorians using PowerPoint, we used the Internet and books to research Queen Victoria, Victorian Schools, toys and homes. We have learnt to create slides including subheadings, bullet points, images and animations! We then presented them to the rest if Read more
After learning all term about electricity and reading our class book ‘The Iron Man’. We worked together as a class to create a robot – ‘The Iron Cat’. It was tricky to find all the pieces of Lego to make the robot but we were determined to complete it and Read more