Welcome back Year 6!

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon8th June 2015

Year 6 have been reunited today after the residential trip to New Barn in Dorset.  We had an absolutely fantastic time and wish we could do it all over again!

It is lovely to be all back together though and the children have enjoyed thinking about how we ‘belong’ with our Brooklands community and the ‘UN Rights of the Child’.  We are going to apply this thinking into a piece of persuasion where we advertise other people to join our Brooklands Farm family!

This afternoon, Matt, the project manager of the new building came in to tell us all about the different design stages of a new building.  We are looking forward to applying this learning later in our building project!

 

Year 6 Brain week so far…

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon20th May 2015

Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed the brain week so far!

We have carried out some interesting research about the brain and had a visit from ‘The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust’ to hear a first-hand account of what it is like to live with a brain injury.

We then applied all of the knowledge we acquired into models of the brain, which we labelled and wrote accompanying paragraphs describing each section and its role within the body.

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Thank you to Mrs McCarville and the other visitors from The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust –  we learnt so much from you!

Year 6 transition to Oakgrove Secondary School

27th February 2015admin

Today, year 6 visited Oakgrove Secondary School for their first taster of secondary style lesson and learning.

After a long walk, the children settled into maths problem solving activity completing lots of hand on tasks. The children’s learning zones were exceptionally high and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

Here’s some pictures of our day!

 

Year 6 Ignite Nelson Mandela Project!

24th February 2015admin

Year 6 have been welcomed back with an ignite for our new project ‘Nelson Mandela- Prison or Freedom’.

The children have spent the morning completing three different activities:

Firstly, the children have been spending the morning researching the countries of Africa, looking in particular at one of the countries and the physical and human features of that country using globes, atlas’ and websites.

They have also been learning about rotation, symmetry and transformation and using this knowledge and understanding about this to create their own African art!

Lastly, the children have been researching Nelson Mandela’s most famous quotes and creating posters using these quotes, which we hope to display down our year 6 corridor!

Have a look at some of our pictures:

  

Year 6- website developers

13th February 2015Mrs c Hern

This half term, Year 6 have been working on developing a website, which shows all of their knowledge about different worlds.

The websites have been amazing! Well done year 6!

Check out the websites using the link below, to find out lots of interesting facts!

http://charlottehern.simpl.com/

Day two of Lake Town Construction in 6b

6th January 2015admin

After a morning of reading, maths and writing, year 6 were given an hour to carry on with their ignite ‘Lake Town’ building which they started yesterday.

The buildings, which they are making from wood, straws, paper and card , are being constructed at this moment. The children are deep in conversation about how to join their materials together and how to make their structure stronger so that they can continue to assemble the buildings as they had designed in their specifications.

Look at how they are coming along…

 

6b Ignite ‘Different Worlds’ by being architects

6th January 2015admin

Welcome back 6b! I have really enjoyed hearing all about your Christmas and Christmas presents in our circle this morning!

Today we have been igniting our new project called ‘Different Worlds’.

Before Christmas we watched part of the first Hobbit film. In the second film, a new setting is introduced called Lake Town. For our ignite today, we have been designing and making Lake Town our own miniature, class Lake Town!