Mr Harvey has been working with some of our gifted and talented readers in Year 6 since September. They have been reading a range of poetry texts and learning to recite and perform poetry. Today they performed some of their poems to the rest of the class. We were very impressed!
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The whole school worked hard to raise money for Children In Need today. We were asked to dress a vegetable as a superhero and bring it into school - paying 50p to enter the competition. In our class Ellen won! Here are some of our entries: We also raised money in our class by selling cupcakes (thanks to Matt, Isabella and Olivia who made them at home) and playing Guess how many Smarties are in the jar.
Altogether Mandela class made: £38.69 This afternoon we invited our parents to come into school so we could teach them the 4 calculation methods we are currently using in Y6. It made us realise how we good we are at using the different methods already!
Thank you to the Mums and Dads who came along. Today in Computing we have continued our work using 'App Inventor'. We have all created a calculator App which we can use on our class tablets and even download onto our own android phones or tablets! The cool thing is we can press clear to do a new calculation or we can shake our device to clear the screen!
This is getting us ready for eventually creating our own unique Apps later on in the year. This half term our topic is Staying Alive and we are learning all about the life processes that are internal to the body, including all about the circulatory system. The circulatory system is made up of the heart, the lungs, blood and the vessels it travels through. Its function is to transport nutrients, gases and wastes between the cells of the body and the digestive system, respiratory system and excretory system. It also carries hormones for internal communication and co-ordination, and white blood cells for fighting disease, as well as assisting in maintaining body temperature. Today we were learning about the heart. The heart is a huge muscle that never appears to rest. In fact it does rest – between each heart beat! It beats rhythmically, contracting two sets of chambers to act as a double pump to move blood around the body. It is about the size of a closed fist, and is protected by the ribs. The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated (‘used’) blood through the pulmonary circuit to the lungs, where it picks up oxygen and where carbon dioxide is released. The blood is then returned to the left side of the heart, which is sufficiently muscular and powerful to pump the blood through the systemic circuit to all tissues of the body, including the kidneys for waste removal, and the liver for blood sugar regulation. We drew a scientific diagram of how the heart works. Miss Clarke was able to get a pig's heart for us to look at. We compared it to our diagrams and tried to identfy the different parts of the heart. It was very interesting and great fun! Thank you Miss Clarke!
Y6 Students demonstrated Robotics at the Lions Club Model Railway Exhibition event at the Leisure Centre Felixstowe on Sunday 11th October 2015 It was a busy day for four of our Y6 students on Sunday. In fact they were representing our after-school Robotics Club at this annual Lions Club event and were tasked with running several robotics demonstrations. Their main item on show comprised running a Lego Mindstorms table-top robot, programmed by themselves over several club sessions, to tackle a number of missions in succession. Along with this demonstration, the students also ran a robotic Rubiks Cube solver, a mini Segway (two-wheeled self-balancing) robot, and a much larger autonomous and remote controlled robot. Some visiting children were also given the opportunity to remote-control the larger robot after being given some training by our students. A steady flow of visitors through the day witnessed these activities and our students fielded many questions on programming and the operating principles of the robots. Several visitors commented on how impressed they were by the knowledge and ability of our students, and also in their self-confidence and clear explanations. Did you miss this event? Then watch out for us again next year! We are learning about the Vikings and last year (in Year 5) the class learnt about the Anglo Saxons, so today we went to visit Sutton Hoo. The day started with us visiting the Burial Mounds. Jim, our tour guide, was fantastic and explained what an important archeological discovery took place and just how unique Sutton Hoo is as primary historical evidence. After a quick snack, we went into the exhibition centre to watch an informative film, look at all the exhibits and get dressed up. Can you spot us through our disguises? After lunch we had a go at being archaeologists ourselves! Searching for artefacts, excavating them and working out where they were positioned and then ordering them from oldest to most recent. It was an exhausting, but great day out!
Here we are in a life size replica of the hollow the burial ship would have rested in! Today we worked in groups to create our own E Safety boards, reminding children of the care they need to take when using devices and going on line.
Today Mandela yet again worked hard for team TSM! In the morning the Y6s helped with Key Stage One's Sports Day helping it to run smoothly. Everyone did such a great job. Well done! After a great picnic lunch on the field with our families, in the afternoon it was Mandela's turn as they took part in Key Stage Two's Sports Day. There were lots of winners, but most importantly lots of great sportsmen and women cheering each other on. A special mention goes to Archie L and Molly who won the Y6 awards for good conduct and sportsmanship. More Sports Day Pictures!Today was an important day in Mandela Class, as well as receiving our SATs results we had our ESB exam. We have all been working hard on this exam since the Spring Term. The exam itself is decided into 3 parts.
1. A 4 min presentation on a subject of our choice. We are encouraged to ask questions about other peoples presentations and answer questions about our own. Many of us based our presentations on our Independent Study focus for this year. 2. Recite a poem of merit of by heart, explaining why we chose it. Mr Harvey helped us work on this. 3. Read 2 pages (selected by the examiner) from 10 pages we have selected from a book of our choice. Explaining why we have chosen the book and what has happened so far. All of this has ben hard work, especially when we are busy learning our lines for our production of Aladdin (which is next week!!) Despite the difficulty of the task, everyone passed with Merit or Merit Plus :-) |
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