We learned about contemporary dance and how it has been inspired by many different styles. We are focusing on the Horton style which includes lunges, elongated limbs and straight backs.
Geography-natural Disasters
To finish our unit on Natural disasters we looked at how tsunamis are caused and their impact on the land and people. Year 6 sequenced the steps and then re-created the different fault lines that can cause earthquakes using Oreos
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English Unit 1
Year 6 have started off the year by doing some beautiful genre studies of journalistic writing
Value for Money
Today in PSHE we looked at what constitutes value for money
DT: skills lesson
Year 6 demonstrated excellent drilling and joining skills. Using the hammers proved a challenge but with practice a lot of progress was made.
French: comparing people
Today we continued with our French topic and practiced saying comparison words such as petit- small, jueune- young and grand- big. Mr Morgan was a great teacher recapping the vocabulary.
DT: bird boxes
This morning we made an excellent start to our bird boxes. We practiced the skills of sawing, sanding and drilling.
Hockey
We started our Hockey unit by learning how to hold the stick correctly and dribble.
Mining Museum
As part of our history topic on The Collieries, we enjoyed a visit to Astley Mining Museum.
Jubilee Party Day
Today, we celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
