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 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:
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/
Year 6 have had a fabulous, hour hands on maths session with ‘Explore Learning’.
Creating our own ‘Xbox’, got us really thinking and being creative with the nets of shapes.
We loved the session and can’t wait for another one!
This morning, 6C have been busy designing and building their very own lake town, based on the book ‘The Hobbit’ by Tolkien.
To start off with, the children read the setting description of lake town from the novel. Following this, we watched the trailer of the Desolation of Smaug and a short video about how Lake Town was designed.
Using these ideas, we sketched and designed our own Lake Town house. We had to carefully select our materials and make sure that the measurements would be accurate, to ensure that the house would be stable.
After designing our house, we started to create our houses. We stopped for feedback throughout the design making process to adapt and improve our design.
Year 6 are loving tree week!
After an RE day yesterday looking at the Bodhi tree, today year 6’s are being scientists!
At the moment they are observing the effects of and links between temperature and the rate in which a plant grows.
Later they will be looking at exceptions to the rule- how certain plants have adapted and changed to suit their environments linking back specifically to the Bodhi Tree!
This will all come together for our end product of our tree week display!
This morning, year 6 have been busy using reliable resources to find out where the bodhi tree originated from and other countries in the world where it grows.
The children have been using an atlas to find the grid reference for these countries.
The learning zones and buzz in the classroom has been amazing!
This week, the children have been busy completing their assessments!
We have been incredibly proud of all of the children and think that they are definitely showing that they are strong and powerful learners.
This afternoon, the children have been busy creating their final aerodynamic car design. The learning zones have been high and the dialogue between pupils have been fantastic.
Within the space of a week, we have awarded 4 Strong and Powerful badges and one gold pin. Some of these children gained their pin a few weeks ago, so thank you to those parents for making it in 🙂
It has been fantastic to be able to have the children’s families in to celebrate their achievements. All of these children have shown that they have opened, grown and believed.
The whole of 6C are very proud of you!
Keep up the good work year 6!
Over the holidays, Year 6 have been busy investigating. The children have written explanation texts about electricity. The quality has been absolutely fantastic! Well done year 6! The year 6 extreme reading challenge has been a big hit! Children have been reading in all kinds of weird and wonderful places. More photos will be shared later in the week.
The winner of our science homework award goes to…
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The winner of our extreme reading challenge this week goes to…
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What type of extreme reading will we see next?
