What an egg-stra-ordinary start to the new term in Year 6! Inspired by a dragon's egg that was sited on our own school field, we have been honing our reporter skills in English to produce newspaper reports on this egg-u-cational event. It has also been a great opportunity to learn about reported speech and passive voice. Watch out for some pun-tastic articles that will be coming your way!
In Science, we have been absolutely fascinated to learn about Charles Darwin and the concept of Evolution. We have been bursting with many questions whilst reading 'On The Origin of Species' by Sabina Radeva, though not all of use approve of the idea of 'Survival of the Fittest' which seems slightly counter intuitive to our desire for equality! Our minds were blown further to think of the ground acting as a time capsule for fossils, capturing the evolution of life since the beginning of life on Earth!
In maths, we have been collecting and analysing data, learning how to calculate averages in the form of 'mean'. Did you know that the mean shoe size in Year 6 is 4.8? In reading, we have been diving deep into our dystopian novel, "Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho Yen. There are some fascinating parallels with the current pandemic which has helped us to empathise with characters and to spark our interest in reading on.
We have also found time to get stuck into this term's topic, Ancient Greece. As well as learning about the location and chronogy of Ancient Greece, we have started on a DT project linked to Ancient Greece in the form of creating sculptures inspired by the Ancient Greek Olympics, as depicted on pottery at the time. In our first lesson, we used mannequins to understand the proportions of the human form and explored various poses that we might wish to use for our models. Make sure you dip into the blog to see our progress over the coming weeks!
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