Saving the Butterfly – final edit!
The final edit is here! Year 6's interpretation of the story "Saving the Butterfly".
🐣🐣Y6 Easter Egg Decoration Competition 2024🐣🐣
Wow! Look at this year’s entries! I wonder who will win for Y6. 🤔 Update: Everyone won a prize! We couldn't choose between them! 🐰🐥
Learning to relief print (and writing backwards!)
As the next stage of our collaborative art project, we began to think about the imagery we wanted to include on our piece. We began by mind-mapping words and images that could be used to respond to the theme of…
DT – refugee shelter prototypes – freestanding structures
After exploring how to join paper to create freestanding structures, Year 6 set about realising their prototype shelters. They used flaps, folds and joins to create stable structures. As they were just exploring prototype designs, they used masking tape…
Stan’s Cafe Project – Saving the Butterfly
This term, Year 6 have been lucky to have worked with Jack from Stan's Cafe. They are exploring the themes in the book, Saving the Butterfly: A story about refugees by Helen Cooper. They explored the story, the themes of…
📙📘📗📕World Book Day 2024 📙📘📗📕
This year, Year 6 had a busy world book day. They had the important job of inspiring the younger children to love reading. Year 6 role models visited Reception and Year 1 to join in their reading parties. Both sets…
Birmingham Royal Ballet Workshop Fun
Today, Year 6 had a fantastic opportunity to explore ‘Still Life at the Penguin Cafe’ when a dance artist and pianist from Birmingham Royal Ballet came to lead a workshop. After a fascinating look at the endangered or extinct animals…
Collaborative Art – the start of a new ‘Texture’ focus inspired by Robert Rauschenberg
Inspired by the multi-layered prints and collages of Robert Rauschenberg, today Year 6 started creating a neutral textured collage which will be the background to their latest project. Watch this space!
DT – focused practical tasks and design ideas – refugee shelters
Last term, Year 6 started to explore existing shelters. They used the Kagan structure, Round Table, to discuss the different features of shelters such as bus stops, phone boxes ("What are they?"), bird houses, tents and umbrellas. Next, they sketched…
Y6 Art – revealing our transfer prints
Today, Year 6 got to see if the transfer medium prints that they produced last week had been successful. Had they put enough medium on? Had they pressed down hard enough? To reveal the results, they had to apply water…