Refugee Songs from Year 6
This term, Mrs Baker has once again worked her magic and Year 6 have achieved fantastic results! After learning to sing a traditional Native American piece, we then used the music from this to inspire our own lyrics. As we…
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 is magic, and magic is for everyone” – Cressida Cowell
This week has been the "Reading is Magic Festival", organised by Bath Festivals who normally organise the Bath Children’s Literature Festival. Due to the current situation, they created a special week of online events (accessible online until the end of the…
Our new book – Clockwork by Philip Pullman – The learning continues…
So another term starts and we are still in our virtual classroom, but that is not stopping Year 6! We have just been introduced to our new book, so our first task was to interrogate the first few pages to…