Year 6 continues to be a hub of activity and a hive of learning! This week, the children completed their hot write in English, describing a World War I soldier 'going over the top' and facing the terrifying reality that was The Somme. After having been immersed in images, film clips, diaries and letters the children set to the task with real enthusiasm and zeal. We have been blown away by the outstanding writing the children have produced - emotive, full of rich vocabulary and show casing an excellent command of figurative language and sentence structure. We look forward to sharing it with you.
In PSHE, we managed to board the 'Life Bus' with the help of zoom and the Immersion Room. Year 6 all enjoyed a helpful session on the importance of looking after their physical and mental well-being, and came up with some unique and creative solutions to help them stay happy and healthy in these strange, lockdown times.
Our Maths lessons have focussed on that all important life skill...working out percentages. The children will all be very well-equipped to make the most of any sales that are up and coming, as they have shown an impressive grasp of how to work out both percentages of amounts - and fraction, decimal and percentage equivalents.
Science has been an experimental time this week! We have been looking at how we can get a beam of light from A to B...and in the process, proved that light travels in straight lines. We also discussed how we need a light source to be able to see, so even if we think a room is pitch black - if we can see anything inside, there must be a light source bouncing off the object and entering our eyes!
We rounded off our week with a live zoom with the World Wildlife Foundation on how we can help save our planet, which ties in with our work in RE on how different religions view Earth. The children shared some wonderful ideas on changes they could make - or changes we could make as a class and school- to help make a positive impact on the world we live in.
We look forward to sharing more of our learning adventures with you this week.
The Year 6 Team.
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