Art & Design
Art – Portraying self
Year 6 looked at how to use a range of materials to create a 3D image to represent themselves.
Careers Related Learning
Literacy Kicks – Final Session
After 6 weeks of working with sports journalist, Gareth Walker, Year 6 produced their own opinion pieces are the importance of winning. We were also able to have a Q&A with Gareth around his role and a career in writing and journalism.
English
Literacy Kicks – Editing
During session four of our Literacy Kicks workshops, we looked at the role of a sub editor and how they edit submitted news reports before publishing. We edited a news article about the growth of E-sports. Each session, we focus on a different Paralympian. Today’s was an Iranian sitting volleyball Read more
Careers Related Learning
Science Show
On Wednesday afternoon, Years 5 and 6 were visited by the scientist Adrian Bowden for an Electricity Science Show. The show started with static electricity and demonstrated some amazing experiments the children could carry out at home. There a was a particular focus on cells, bulbs, buzzers, switches and whole Read more
Careers Related Learning
Sports Journalist Workshop
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 Read more
Art & Design
Artist Study – Banksy
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.
Careers Related Learning
Cooking our 3 course meal
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 Read more
Computing
Hour of Code
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.
Art & Design
‘Gassed’
Year 6 looked at recreating the painting ‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent. We looked at elements of the painting and then tried to recreate parts of the scene.
Breakfast & After school club
The Dreadful Menace
Year 6 explored the language used within the Dreadful Menace poem, looking at clarifying the meaning of the language used as well as looking for synonyms to create a bank of vocabulary to use within our writing.