Children’s Mental Health Week
This week is a special week: Children's Mental Health Week. However, every day in Year 6 we are taking the time to consider our mental health and the way in which we can support others. One of the daily ways…
Year 6 Self-Portrait Explorations
Year 6 are thinking about the idea of "self", and exploring self-portraits. First, we learned about proportion by drawing generic faces. We then took a more focussed approach using a scaled grid to test our observation skills. It was…
Moving Storybooks – The Final Books!
This week, Year 6 completed their storybooks with moving mechanisms! Each table worked as a team; creating pages individually then putting it all together to make their myths and legend storybook. All ready to share!
Christmas Countdown Begins in Year 6
Year 6 were in festive spirits this week; the classroom Christmas tree arrived and so did our annual tradition of creating decorations for our hoop. This is year we combined our maths knowledge with our creative skills to produce festive…
Aboriginal Art – Research, media experimentation and final outcomes
As part of the topic, Myths and Legends, Year 6 have been exploring aboriginal art. In our sketchbooks, they researched the art form; making notes about colours, patterns and the meaning behind the Dreamtime imagery. We were creative in the…
Year 5 & 6 – Myths and Legends Workshop Fun
As they are now midway through their immersion in the world of myths and legends, Year 5 and 6 had the opportunity to take part in a fully interactive workshop this week. After some extremely enjoyable warm-up activities, they went…
Year 6 – DT Project – Moving Story Books – Exploring fonts
As the next stage in our development of our story books, we experimented with creating different fonts to use in our designs. We used line, tone and different materials to create as many as possible. When it comes to our…
Year 6 – DT project – Moving Story Books – Focused Practical Tasks
After looking at various existing pop-up cards and books, we started experimenting with different types of mechanisms: levers, rotation, linkages, pop-ups, flaps and pivots. We used straws, split pins and various other materials to explore different types that could be…
Reading Role Models – Year 6 are spreading the love of reading!
As part of reading for pleasure, Year 6 are spending 30 minutes of each day sharing story sacks and being ‘Reading Role Models’ during KS1 lunchtimes. We are gradually turning the solar dome into The Book Bubble - a special…