Little Canada!

What a success!!

Little Canada was a brilliant weekend and the children should be very proud of themselves! Here are a few photos to show a snapshot of our weekend....

Drawing Regular Polygons!

We are completing a maths challenge that all the year 6 classes across the Blandford Forum are also taking part in!

By the end of the week we will be using a compass and protractor to draw regular polygons! We have already practised accurately using a ruler and protractor to 1 degree and 1mm.

This work will lead into their initial work in September at The Blandford School!

Arts Week!!

The Grand Canyon

 

 

 

 

Arts week this year is focused on the 7 natural wonders of the world! In year 6 we will be looking at the Grand Canyon!!

 

We will be linking our numeracy and literacy to the topic! We are going to focus our art work on the Native Americans!

 

Here are a few websites to get our week started!

 

Grand Canyon Facts!

dream catchers

Native American Masks

 

Throughout the week are going to make dream catchers and Native American masks and discuss the importance of both!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revision Help!

For our final week leading up to SATs we are going to be revisiting different areas of numeracy!

Here are some websites to help you:

Shapes:
quadrilaterals
perimeter
area
polygons

Decimals:
decimals, fractions, percentages
ordering decimals
decimals to percentages
decimals to fractions

Lead up to SATs week...

We still have another two weeks before SATs so take the time now to fit in some extra work!

Here are useful websites to use to help you over the next couple of weeks...

Numeracy:

Bitesize

IXL

Maths Help - some useful worksheets and online quizzes

Literacy:

Bitesize

SPAG - This one is particulary useful for the SPAG test!

Drugs and Bugs!

 

Our new topic this half term is Drugs and Bugs! We will be linking this topic to science, PSHE, art and literacy!

 

 

Video

 

 

Easter...

We are going to look further into the Easter story this week!

Research now to remind yourselves...

The Easter Story

The Human Body!

To end a very busy Spring Term, we are going to look at the human body!

We are going to make life size human bodies and investigate how the body works...

To start off, we are going to look at the circulatory system!

We are then going to look at the skeletal system!

 

 

We are going to think about how the body work and how it is designed to help us move around! Our life size diagrams will show our progression throughout the week!

 

 

World Book Day!

 

World Book Day was a success!

Some of year 6 spent the morning creating their own superhero/villian on a large scale using a range of materials! They created some excellent and imaginative ideas!!

The rest of us spent the morning making videos of our favourite stories and writing arguments for why OUR villian was the WICKEDEST!

During our starters in literacy we have been writing descriptions for settings.

Here is Emma's description for a lake in a woodland...

'In the luscious wood the trees were as tall as the highest mountain (rustling in the gentle breeze) and sparkling in the sunlight, in the middle of the wood, was a glistening deep blue lake. Softly, the autumn leaves floated onto the ground. In the bushes, a faint sound of animals echoed.'

Well done Emma!

 

We have looked into the life of Queen Victoria and researched significant events througout her life and reign as Queen.

We used this information to write short biographies.

Victorians

 

This half term we are going to focus on the topic Victorians!

 

 

We are going to continue to read the story 'Street Child' and link this in with our topic as we have all enjoyed reading it! This is very excting topic and we will touch on many areas on the curriculum including art, history, literacy and many others!

 

 

 

Sold Out!

 

Enterprise market a success! We sold all of our boxes!

Year 6 helped out on the Reception and Year 1 stalls, setting up and collecting the money!

Making a Profit!

We linked Enterprise Week with our numeracy! Before we could find out our profit, we had to add up all of our costs! Firstly, we totalled up the cost for one box, we then used this to find the cost of all 4 boxes per pair.

 

Once we knew how much it was going to cost to make, we added on 10% to the cost to get our final price!

 

We then worked out how much profit we would make as a whole class if all boxes were sold!

 

We finally agreed on a sales price of 80p!

Advertising our Trinket Boxes!

 

We spent the day yesterday advertising our product! The first part of the morning we watched a clip from dragons dens and had a go and writing our own pitch! We then concentrated on writing up our advert! We looked at script writing and other adverts from the television to inspire our own ideas! We also linked it to our literacy work from last week and included our persuasive and rhetorical devices, like rhetorical questions, alliteration and the rule of '3', to help make our adverts as persuasive as possible!

 

Emma and Chloe's advert:

 

Chloe: It's magical

Emma: It's marvellous

Chloe and Emma: It's a miracle!

 

Emma: How badly do you need some more storage in your bedroom? Well we have the most magical memory boxes just for you.

 

Chloe: Have you decided what to get your marvellous mother for mothers day? Well worry no more, we have the perfect gift!

 

Emma: Can you remember ALL of your holidays, special days out and Birthdays? Well now you can, with its luxury padded lining you can rest assure that through think and thin all of your precious memories will stay safe! They're funky! They're fun! They're fabulous!

 

Chloe: Buy one now while stocks last for an amazing 80p! What a bargain for these magical, hand crafted boxes!

 

 

 

 



Enterprise Week - The Final Stage!



On Wednesday, we spent the whole day making our Trinket Boxes! The first stage was to use our plans of our nets to make our templates. Once the boxes were stuck together, we decorated them using tissue paper mache! We then followed out plans to add on our designs, this ensured each box is completely unique and the childrens own work!

It was a tough and challenging day but the work that was produced was of a very high standard!