FISHING TRIP!

Last Thursday we were fortunate enough to go on a fishing excursion.

We began our excursion by taking the bus down to our local beach, which is about a 20 minute bus ride.
When we arrived we had two men introduce themselves and talk to us about sun safety and fishing safety.

We then spent a couple of hours fishing. Some of us caught some fish and one of us even caught an octopus. That was very exciting! Some of us only managed to catch seaweed, but we all had such a fun time having a go!

At the end of the clinic we had a quiz about the safety messages from earlier in the morning and some of us won some cool prizes.

Here are some photos of us enjoying our day. We would love to go again next year!

From Six-Sational & Miss A

A busy start to Term 2

In Maths last week were busy learning about different types of lines and angles. We were also able to use our protractors to measure different angles.


Did you know....
- Right angles are 90 degrees (Zac)
- An angle between 0 degrees and 90 degrees is called an acute angle (Conor)
- An angle between 90 degrees and 180 degrees is called an obtuse angle (Christine)
- A straight angle is exactly 180 degrees (Jock)
- A reflex angle is between 180 degrees and 360 degrees (Chelsey)
- There are 360 degrees in a circle, which is called a revolution (Alisha)


From Six-Sational and Miss A

Matilda

Hello from the Year 6 classroom,

We have been reading our class book 'Matilda'.
Here are some of our thoughts....

Chelsey - I think it is really interesting and makes me want to hear more.

Tesshara - It makes me want to be able to do what she can do.

Stanley - I like all the characters in the story. I really like Mr Wormwood

because he is cheeky and funny to hear about.

Alisha - It is an intriguing story and makes me want to hear more.

Josh - It is interesting to read because the characters are cool. Mr Wormwood is my favourite because he is funny and greedy.

Christine - When you first hear a bit of the story you don't want to stop reading. Every time Miss A puts the book down the whole class says 'aaaaw'.  

Emma - I think Matilda is very clever and exciting to read about.

Zac - It is good, interesting and fun to see Matilda pull pranks on her Dad.

Amber-Rose - I liked it when Matilda bleached Mr Wormwood's hair!

From Six-Sational and Miss A

S&E - T&E

This term in Society & Environment lessons we have been learning about exploration.

To begin the unit we looked at Ptolemy's map. Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He was a Greek-Roman from Egypt. He created an atlas around 150 C.E. This map is how he thought the world was.

We have done lots of research on famous explorers in the classroom and in library lessons. At the moment we have all chosen our own famous explorer to research and complete a project task on. It is very interesting learning about the history of the world.

We have also looked at navigational devices used by early explorers.
In particular we have looked at the Astrolabe. We have even made our own. We use these to measure the altitude of different objects.

Want to know how to make an Astrolabe?

Our Technology task was to design and create a ship to set sail that can catch wind from all directions. We found this very exciting. We each came up with different plans and designs and chose our best ones to create at school.

We had so much fun testing them out and having races. We have learnt that some materials are more appropriate than others. Especially if you do not want them to sink like the Titanic.

MATHEMATICAL MINDS

We have been working extremely hard in Maths this term.

During our Math lessons we practise mental computations strategies - there are so many to learn. We love playing Math Bingo to help us with our timetables.

We have also been doing activities using the smart board. We really like this!

Sometimes after that we get to do an activity with a partner where we can share what we know and help each other. This can help if we don't quite understand something.

We then complete a task that has to do with our focus for the lesson. We have had different focuses this term. We have looked at numbers and place value, patterns, reading graphs, creating graphs and a few more.

We have really enjoyed the problems solving and the investigations that we get to do using all the skills we learn in our focus lessons.
Some of us have made games and learning things for other students to practise with. We can't wait to have a go and see how they work.

Next term we are going to work towards getting better at mental computation and the speed of our timetables. Feel free to let us know how you think we could get better at these. We will keep you updated on our progress next term!!

Magnificent Music

This term in Music with Mrs W our class has been learning about African drumming and African dancing.

We have been working in groups to make our own music. We play instruments such as drums, tap sticks, bells and shakers as well as clapping our hands. We were able to record our music and listen to it. It was fun!

ICT

This term in ICT lessons with Mrs S we have been learning about creating a montage of London and the Olympics. A montage is about 20 pictures that you change the size and angle of and fit them all onto one page. We also created a PowerPoint presentation about what we did over our Christmas holidays. That was very fun! We have been learning important computer skills like cut, copy and paste. Did you know you can cut, copy and paste words and pictures? We are going to be looking at changing the colours of pictures soon. That should be interesting.

We get to use the computers for other subjects too. At the moment we are busy publishing newspaper articles we have been working on as well as researching famous explorers. We also use them for Mathematics and English games like Mathletics and Spellodrome. There is so much we can use computers for including THIS BLOG! :)