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!

Enterprise Week! - Making our Boxes!

Earlier in the week, we began to design our nets! Of course, our first attempts did not quite work. We therefore experimented with the dimensions until we reached the perfect net for our Tinket Boxes!

They worked hard in their project pairs, sharing their ideas! We have made all different shapes from a cude to a pentagonal prism! Here are a few pictures of the children hard at work...

Fairtrade!

Making chocolate!

Click here to find out the journey from the bean to the bar!

Another website to help you!

More information for you!

Enterprise week- Fairtrade

This week Y6 have been talking about fair trade.On Monday we all watched a  video clip about fairtrade and how it effects people in poverty.
These are some of the facts we found and wrote in our new project booklets:

Over 1,000,000,000 people live in poverty
There are over 3,000 fair trade products in the UK
Fairtrade products are a better deal for 3rd world producers
In the process the farmers make under 2 cents if fairtrade doesn't happen

Later on we started to design our products 'Trinket boxes'. By choosing who we are going to sell it to and the materials we are going to use.

On Tuesday Y6 started to plot their results onto a graph of what colour and design we would want.
After we tried to draw a 3D cube to help us with our nets to make trinket boxes.Then we tried the shapes
we were going to use for our nets, then after we measured the perimeter, area and volume.

                                           By Ben and Matt

Enterprise Week

To start off enterprise week, we will be looking at fair trade!

Click here to find out a little about fair trade!   

Go bananas fair trade!

This promises to be a very exciting week! We will post and keep you up to date with all of our adventures and activities throughout the week!

Argument Writing...

To finish off our topic on 'argument writing' in literacy, we started our own research into the environment. We came up with many different ideas, for example, deforestation, poaching, recycling and many more.

We explored many different ways to be persuasive.

Here are a few examples of our work...

Ben's argument on poaching

Emma's argument on Polar Bears

Beth's argument on Polar Bears

Georgie's argument on poaching

Charlie's argument on the rainforest