Year 6
Autumn 1
Greek Day
To immerse ourselves in our History learning about Ancient Greece, we had a Greek Day. We had a workshop with One Day Creative who taught us all about the Ancient Greek Olympics. As well as this, we tried a variety of Greek foods and rated them according to their taste, appearance, texture and overall enjoyment. In the afternoon, we had our own Greek Olympics and worked our way through various ancient Greek Olympic sports, that are still used today!
Art
We have also had the chance to make our own clay pots. We have been studying Ancient Greece as part of our History Topic and within Art, have studied Ancient Greek pots, their hidden messages and their designs, in order to inspire our own. We also compared them to more contemporary designs such as pots created by the artist Grayson Perry, who had a similar structural design to Ancient Greek pots, but was covered in their favourite things. We used the coiling method to create our own pots, then carved in repeated patterns to show inspiration from Ancient Greek design. We will then be combining and decoupaging our own favourite things on the pots too, to show the combination of the two styles.
PGL Residential
We went to Marchant's Hill PGL for our Year 6 residential and it was AMAZING! We had a great time and were kept very busy with all the activities we completed. We had a mixture of rope/harness activities, ground activities and water activities.
History
We have had a brilliant start to the year already, kicking it off strong with our History unit on Ancient Greece. In only 3 weeks, the children have already learnt about Greek Gods, the ancient city states of Athens, Sparta, Delphi, Corinth and Thebes when they completed the Greek Gauntlet.
Skills Day
We have enjoyed lots of games in our skills day this week!
Spring 2
Geography
We have been learning about North America, focusing on it's geographical features as well as identifying key areas and locations with Atlases.
In one lesson, we focused on the Grand Canyon and learnt that it was formed with a combination of seismic activity as well as the erosion caused by the Colorado River.
We then created our own canyons and observed how water can affect the ground. We filled milk bottles with soil and then poured water into them and noticed how the ground was affected and changed due to water's impact.
Spring 1
Science
We started this half-term by doing some experiments in Science.
We have been looking at light and how it travels. We explored reflection and refraction and tried to prove how both of these work.
We were also lucky enough to go to the church and participate in a presentation from Pete, who discussed Epiphany and the science behind the star in the sky above Bethlehem. It was incredibly interesting, and we loved seeing the proven facts behind the story we know so well.
Autumn 2
Science
As part of our Science topic on Space, we did a practical experiment on why the sun and the moon appear to be the same size in the sky.
We achieved this through perspective and experimenting with the size difference and distance of two square pieces of paper.
Winchester Science Museum
As part of our Space Topic, we got to visit Winchester Science Museum where we entered the planetarium and learnt all about our solar system. We also had workshops with their scientists as well as looking around the interactive science exhibits and activities.
Children in Need
For BBC Children In Need, the Sports Ambassadors arranged and organised a sports course for all children in the school to participate in. As well as this, we dressed in spots, Pudsey, yellow and pyjamas! We could also donate and receive a Pudsey themed iced biscuit too!
Autumn 1
We have had a really exciting start to Year 6.
Tile Barn
We had a wonderful residential trip to Tile Barn. There was such a wide variety of activities and we all got to face some fears and show great perseverance and teamwork. Further photos are on Google Classroom, but here's a taster of some of the things we got up to!
Art
We have also had the chance to make our own clay pots. We have been studying Ancient Greece as part of our History Topic and within Art, have studied Ancient Greek pots, their hidden messages and their designs, in order to inspire our own. We also compared them to more contemporary designs such as pots created by the artist Grayson Perry, who had a similar structural design to Ancient Greek pots, but was covered in their favourite things. We used the coiling method to create our own pots, then carved in repeated patterns to show inspiration from Ancient Greek design. We will then be combining and decoupaging our own favourite things on the pots too, to show the combination of the two styles.
History
We've also had the chance to vote for our new school councillors just like they did in Ancient Greece! The candidates gave speeches and through the power of democracy and ballot boxes, we got to submit our votes at the polling station.
Greek Day
To immerse ourselves in our History learning about Ancient Greece, we had a Greek Day. In the morning, we had a workshop with Open Box Theatre Company who taught us all about the Ancient Greek Olympics. As well as this, we tried a variety of Greek foods and rated them according to their taste, appearance, texture and overall enjoyment. In the afternoon, we had our own Greek Olympics and worked our way through various ancient Greek Olympic sports, that are still used today!
Relax Kids
This half-term, we have been lucky enough to have a Relax Kids practitioner come in each week and work with us. She has taught us a variety of calming techniques that we can use in every day life that enable us to calm ourselves and regulate our emotions.
