Term 1 we read Pig Heart Boy as a text to support our learning.

  

 

We are Scientists in term 1. We studied the circulatory system.

Our Question: How do diagrams of the human heart compare to a real-life pig’s heart?

As part of our learning for ‘Animals including humans’, we have been learning about the functions of different parts of the Circulatory System, including the HEART.  After learning about how it works, we drew and labelled a diagram of the human heart.  However, we wanted to compare it to an anatomically close match, a pig’s heart, and see if we could identify all of it’s parts in real life: Which was the left hand side? Was the aorta visible? Could we identify the veins and arteries? When dissected, would the ventricles and atriums be visible?

             

Our fabulous writing stimulated by Pig Heart Boy 

We have been writing book reviews after reading our book for reading for pleasure. Here are the amazing entries we’ve had in our Reading Journals so far this year ❤️ The children are powering through their books to be the next person to take them home. 

  

   

We are performers. In term 1 we held an assembly for our parents and carers. This was based on our learning in science. 

In term 2 we read Treason by Berlie Doherty. 

   We learn about the Tudors. We are Historians.

 

We have been lucky to have the opportunity to be part of BIKEability scheme. Children could borrow school bikes and learn how to be safer on the roads.

 We are scientists 

In science year 6, electrical circuits. The children investigate circuits and represent them in diagrams. They learn the effects of conductors and insulators. They also explore how to change components in the circuit eg make bulbs brighter.  

Term 3 In science, we investigate how light travels and use tubes to understand how it only travels in straight lines - we are only able to illuminate the object we were lighting when the tube was straight. When we curve it, the light couldn't travel around the bend and so the object was not illuminated.

   

We are mathematicians. 

We have been working really hard on rapid recall, fluency and the 4 operations. We moved on to fractions, where we realised that we needed to know our multiplication facts. 

  

 

We are artists. 

Making your voice heard was the topic for the art.  The children looked at Mayan symbols to modern day street  art. They considered how artists convey messages, imagery, symbols, mark-making  and 'Chiaroscuro' (light and dark).  The classes created their own powerful messages/ art to make their voices heard.