Micro-organisms

This week we have been looking at micro-organisms and understanding that there are three main types: bacteria, fungi and viruses. We created a poster, defining these words, explaining where they could be found and providing examples of them being helpful or harmful.  

Judaism Week

We were very lucky to have Mrs Elijah visit us, partaking in a Q & A session where we asked lots of interesting questions. We have spent time learning about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Here are some of our pieces of work on Yom Kippur.

Young Shakespeare Company – Twelfth Night Performance

Year 6 took part in a brilliant interactive performance of Twelfth Night today. Through helping to build the atmosphere, making predications about the plot and thinking deeply about the feelings and motivations of the characters, they have gained a good understanding of Shakespeare’s play. They are now looking forward to applying this learning in their History and English lessons later in the half term.

Classifying Invertebrates

Today, we used the Linnaean system – created by Carl Linnaeus - to classify living things. This is a hierarchy and living things are classified based on observable characteristics. We used a classification key to classify the invertebrates we found.

Classification

Year 6 have started their new Science topic – Living Things. We learnt about how living things can be classified (put into groups) based on what they look like. We were given a selection of animals and sorted them into groups and then created a branching database.

October, Month of the Holy Rosary

We worked collaboratively in pairs to create posters which could be used to help other children pray the Rosary. Each pair focused on one of the Mysteries of Light – writing down the story, illustrating and posing reflection questions to aid someone who wished to pray the Rosary and consider each Mystery.

Making Simple Circuits

Year 6 have been creating simple series circuits by experimenting how to make a bulb light, how to make a motor spin and a buzzer make a sound. We also looked at adding more than one bulb and only using one cell.