Blog by Tag: year 6
Hawks admire the snow!
Hawks admired the snow out of our window this week!
They also got to enjoy playing in the snow at lunchtime.
Describe what you saw! Did you enjoy going outside with your friends to enjoy the snow? Explain.
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The Titanic disaster continues
We are loving learning about the Titanic!
This week we have created newspaper articles, written the day after the disaster and have begun to write menus for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers.
Have a look at our work so far. We have not only written articles and menus but we have…
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art writing hawks display English big write year5 year 6 disaster strikes titanic
Counter balances in gymnastics
In gymnastics this week, we have been learning how to create counter balances in a pair and then created them in a group. We will be using these in the sequences we create.
Who did you work with? What did you find challenging? What did you learn?
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Taking our pulse rate in Tag-Rugby
In tag-rugby, we tested our pulse rate during different stages of activity: sitting, jogging, running and cooling down. We collected our data in a table and used this to create a line graph in maths.
What did you learn in tag-rugby? What happened to your pulse rate during…
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maths KS2 PE science data handling statistics year5 year 6 tag-rugby
Titanic
In Hawks, we have started learning about the disaster of the Titanic. What do you know so far?
What do you want to find?
If you have any non-fiction books about the Titanic or any other disasters, please bring them into school.
In art we created images of the Titanic sinking using a range…
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Music inspired Kandinsky
As part of our topic we have been learning about the artist Wassily Kandinsky who produced abstracted pieces of art which where inspired by listening to music. In Hawks we created one of his pieces using CDs and wool by weaving.
What can you find out about this piece of art we…
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Hawks understand feelings
Hawks went outside to understand how to make someone feel good about themselves. We understand how victims feel inside and outside when people say or do negative things.
What did you learn from this session? What positive thing could you say to someone?
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Biographies
Last week we researched our favourite British musicians and artists.
Who is your favourite musician? Why? What was the most interesting fact you found out about your musician/artist?
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music writing hawks English History year5 year 6
Original songs and covers
Last week we explored and explained our feelings when listening to songs. We used colour and musical elements to do this.
Research at home some more songs. Have a look to see if anyone has covered them.
Which version do you prefer? Explain your reasons for why.
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Solving Eagles' Riddles in OAA
Hawks had a fantastic session in OAA trying to solve the riddles set by Eagles to find out their word given by clues.
How did find solving the problems? Where did your clues take you? What did you enjoy most about the OAA session?
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hawks KS2 PE problem solving OAA year5 year 6 riddles
Democracy in English
In English we are currently reading Kensuke's Kingdom. In our English lesson, we voted if we were for or against sailing around the world with our family for 6 months.
I would love to sail around the world with my family. I love to go travelling and have been to many places around the…
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