Class 6 Blog

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  26

  Mar

  Biography

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been researching all about their chosen subject for writing their biographies. They have also been touching upon some skills such as the reliability and validity of spoke news resources and filtering through data to extract necessary information for their topics.
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  26

  Mar

  Science - Seeing colour

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been conducting an experiment all about how we see colour. They have been testing Isaac Newton’s discovery of light with coloured filters and counters.they have been learning all about the visible spectrum and have been making some great predictions and discoveries for themselves!
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  22

  Mar

  History

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been learning all about the importance of music and storytelling in Benin culture. We had a go at making our own musical bow and string!
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  22

  Mar

  History

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have also been looking at how Benin Bronzes were made and the meaning behind the symbolic figures. We had a go at modelling ours from clay!
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  15

  Mar

  Geography

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been analysing data from the Census and applying this to decide what facilities they would add to their town. We then fast forward 10 years and had to decide what impact the new data would have on our decisions.
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  15

  Mar

  Biography

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Y6 have been learning all about the features of a biography from layout to language choices with an example of Olympic diver Tom Daley.
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  08

  Mar

  History

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  We have been looking at how Benin houses were constructed. We looked at the structure of city and village houses and re-created them using clay, twigs, grass and leaves from the woods. We have been discussing the uses of the courtyards and the materials they used.
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  03

  Mar

  DT

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been designing their own hotel and/or hotel room that would feature in our class text Nevermoor. There have been some very creative ways of designs. Check out some of these designs made from Lego from our key worker children in school!
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  03

  Mar

  Science

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Making a link to World Book Day and our science topic around light. Year 6 have been creating shadow frames by designing and making their own creature based around the Hunt of Smoke and Shadow featured in Nevermoor. Check out this amazing work!
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  03

  Mar

  Units of Measure

  Posted by Miss L Bruford

  Year 6 have been working hard this week by converting between units of measurement and time. We have found a lot of our times table and place value knowledge comes in handy here! We have been applying our knowledge into a variety of concepts and problem solving contexts.