Year 6
Welcome to Year Six!
Welcome to year six 2023-2024 with Mrs McCann
What we are learning
Design Technology
As part of our design and technology curriculum year 6 completed a build topic! The children were challenged to water walls for Reception! They started at the design stage thinking about form, function and aesthetics and testing out some ideas with our reception class. They then moved on to making their designs, learning how to measure accurately, choose the right materials, cut and join materials. Finally they evaluated their makes against their planned designs and tested them with some young helpers!
Science Investigations
In year six we have been completing a number of scientific investigations. We investigated osmosis using different liquids and gummy bears. Look how the gummy bears changed when we left them overnight in liquids!
As part of our learning about the circulatory system we dissected hearts and investigated how blood flows through different blood vessels in a very wet investigation! We wanted to find out what might affect how well blood flows around our bodies.
On National poetry Day we read a palindrome poem by Brian Bilston called ‘Refugees’. Reading it forward gives a very negative view, but reading it from the bottom to the top gives a much more caring and compassionate view which we all preferred! We performed the poem and then wrote our own palindrome poems on the same topic. We hope you enjoy them!
