Spring 1 Week 2

Stars of the week: Deborah and Alphie

This week in Class 6 we have be looking at the reasons why the River Nile was so important to Ancient Egypt, and how it still plays a massive role in the country’s economy. We discussed the importance of some of these factors, and began to write a job advert to hire more farmers / merchants to come and work around the Nile.

Spring 1 Week 1 – History

Stars of the Week: Amine and Morraya

This week in Class 6 we started our new History topic – Ancient Egypt! We looked at the different roles in Ancient Egyptian life and create a hierarchy of them in society. We moved on to looking at how important each role was to the Emperor and started to create a fact-file about each of them.

In Art, we began to look at Ancient Egyptian artefacts and had a go at sketching them. We will move onto making our own versions of some artefacts along with some self-portraits made from mosaic.

 

 

Song Tracks

These are the two songs which are good audition songs. You can also choose any song from any of the musicals we have done.

When you sing, you will have to use a backing track (no voices in the background) so make sure you are prepared for this!

Let it go!

With voices:

Without voices:

Annie (from 2 minutes 05 seconds)

With voices: (please ignore the dog joining in! There’s lots of versions online without this!)

Without voices:

Autumn 2 Week 7 – DT

Stars of the Week: Shia and Shambhavi

This week, Class 6 finally finished off their Bee-Bot tracks, and were able to have a go at completing the different puzzles from different tables. Look at how brilliant they all look! Well done for working so hard on them and sticking to the design brief so carefully.

 

 

Autumn 2 Week 5 – Geography

Stars of the Week: Martha and Isaac

In Geography this week we have been learning about maps, with a focus towards the Mercator projection. We looked at how inaccurate this style of map can be, and how some countries are actually smaller/bigger that their representation on maps. To explore this further, we started our own investigation. We created models of the world (with a balloon) and started the mark them with circles, just like land. We observed how these circles changed when we deflate the balloon and then stretch it out just like a map. The circles at the top and bottom became longer and the circles in the middle remained the same.

 

 

Autumn 2 Week 4 – DT

Stars of the week: Rileigh and Bea

This week in Class 6 we have been finishing off our designs for the Bee-Bot tracks. The children worked hard to ensure each track was completed within the time limit. Next week we are going to be creating lots of obstacles for our track…

Please learn these songs below:

Silent night

Gabriel’s message

Autumn 2 Week 3

Stars of the week: Funmi and Fintan

This week in Class 6 we have been looking at fossils! We started by considering how fossils are created, and how they can be used as ‘scientific windows’ into the world millions of years ago. We looked at some pictures of fossils and tried to work out the animal by asking lots of questions – Did it live in water or on land? How many legs did it have? What does the head look like?

We moved on to looking at some dinosaur fossils and matched them to the coloured pictures of the dinosaurs.

 

 

Autumn 2 Week 2

Stars of the Week: Alphie and Parker

This week in Class 6 we started constructing our Bee-Bot tracks! The children carefully planned out and created the different obstacles and considered the different materials that would be required. Next week we are going to continue our designs, and use different materials (cardboard, foil, card) to help create more robust obstacles.

Class 6 have also been completed some SATs past papers this week, to give them some practice on how an assessment is completed. Well done to all of Class 6 for completing them so sensibly, it is clear to see just how much you have learnt and also any gaps that we can fill before next year.

Autumn 2 Week 1 – DT

Stars of the Week: Nifemi and Terrence

This week in Class 6 we have been starting to design their Bee-Bot tracks! The children created their initial sketches and worked hard to incorporate everyone’s ideas. They had to stick to the clear design brief which explained that the track must have a clear design, maintain some clear rules and also include some obstacles. Next week we will start putting the designs onto large pieces of paper and start testing the tracks.

In English this week, we have started our new class text – The Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery. The children have been completing some reading comprehensions for each chapter and started to think about who the main characters are in the story.