Year 6- Eagles: Blog items

Home Achievements

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:37am

This morning, children from a Eagles class shared their home achievements with each other. We had trampolining, dancing, martial arts, swimming and ‘guiding’.

Fieldwork Maths

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:36am

After our Geography fieldwork trip, children got to do some very exciting maths today!

Using the ‘straight forward’ formula: Discharge (m3/s) = Cross Sectional Area (m2) x Velocity (m/s)

Children were able to use their knowledge of mean, measures, place value, multiplication and division to calculate the amount of water flowing through the river per second at the point we measured.

Splashing in a river

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:26am

This week, Eagles class carried out some Geography fieldwork for Bolton Council at a nearby river. We took a number of measurements whilst we were there in order to work out the amount of water that flowed through the river (total discharge) per cubic meter per second. The council had asked us to monitor this due to the rising number of floods recently.

Finding the rhythm

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:25am

In Music, we continued to learn the song ‘Make you feel my love’. We learnt about the terms: pulse, rhythm and pitch and found these by clapping the rhythm and copying the riffs on the Glockenspiel.

River Systems

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:23am

Eagles Class braved the cold and created their own river systems in Geography this week. They gathered resources to use on their slope and predicted the route that their river would take. Children were able to describe observations using key vocabulary such as erosion, deposition, meander, delta, source, levee, mouth and even spotted some potential oxbow lakes in their systems!

Well done!

Science – Soluble or Insoluble?

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:19am

Eagles spent this afternoon trying to identify whether a range of materials were soluble (they dissolve in liquid) or insoluble (they don’t dissolve in liquid). The children were really sensible and they were great at predicting which materials would be soluble or insoluble, though they were surprised to discover that all of our experiments this afternoon produced changes that were reversible. Next week we will discuss this concept further as we talk about filtering and evaporation as a means of separating solutions and mixtures.

The Water Cycle

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:17am

In topic, we started our unit, ‘what happens to a raindrop?’. To help us answer this question, we learnt all about the features of a water cycle, learning specific technical vocabulary before applying this when creating our own water cycle in a bag.

PE

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:16am

Eagles were put through their paces in PE today! Great effort guys!

Titanic PE

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:16am

This afternoon, Year 6 continued with their problem based learning in PE and made a giant Art Attack of the Titanic using only their bodies. Team leaders made decisions and organised the other children with no help from an adult! One or two of the children did a little too good of a Mr Simpson impersonation at times!

Titanic Museum!

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 9:15am

Eagles enjoyed a great day at the Titanic Museum today! Children were able to build on their already impressive knowledge and left museum staff very impressed! The children really enjoyed the workshop and we had a great debate over who we would save from the Titanic – amazingly, Mrs Pal survived!

Home Achievements!

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 8:58am

This week in Big Question we celebrated our achievements outside of school.

We had swimming, dancing, football, Brownies and martial arts!

Check out some of the achievements below:

Titanic Homework

Date: 12th Mar 2020 @ 8:47am

We have received lots of topic homework so far this half term in Eagles!

Have a look at some of our brilliant pieces below!

Fire Service Visit

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 4:00pm

Today we were lucky enough to have the Fire Service visit us. They came to discuss how to stay safe on Halloween and Bonfire night.

Passengers of the Titanic

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:59pm

Today, we became the passengers on board the RMS Titanic. We each received a boarding pass with the name of a real life passenger and their class. We watched video clips showing us the the difference between an evening in 1st class compared to 3rd class whilst learning about their use of facilities and their living conditions.

Through the use of drama and role play we experienced the different attitudes between classes, learning that the needs of the 1st class were always catered for.

Watching a sporting event

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:57pm

As part of our UKS2 curriculum bingo, Eagle Class watched parts of the The Rugby World Cup game between England and USA.

School Council Elections

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:56pm

Well done to those who prepared and confidently delivered a speech on why they should represent the children at The Gates at school councillor. The teachers were super impressed with the hard work that went into all the speeches.

The Day the Crayons Returned!

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:51pm

This morning, Swallows Class and Eagles Class enjoyed exchanging their persuasive letters with each other. There was some great expression used when children were reading aloud and some very convincing arguments were made for the crayons to return! The Year 6’s really enjoyed working with the Year 3’s and were even able to support with some editing.

First Post!

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:51pm

Welcome back! It’s been lovely getting to know the children this week and I already know we’re going to have a very good year!

This morning, Eagles enjoyed teaming up with Swallows class to read ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’.

And despite the age gap, both classes seemed to laugh loudest when listening to pink crayon’s letter!

Mr S

Welcome to our blog

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 3:50pm

Our new blog will be updated regularly with information about school events, examples of children’s learning and also additional work and support for children at home.
Our class blogs provide our children with a real audience and purpose for writing.

Please feel free to comment and give us feedback on any of our posts.
Your comments will be monitored before going live and then will  be shared with the children.

The day the crayons returned

Date: 10th Mar 2020 @ 3:59pm

This morning, Swallows Class and Eagles Class enjoyed exchanging their persuasive letters with each other. There was some great expression used when children were reading aloud and some very convincing arguments were made for the crayons to return! The Year 6’s were really impressed with some of our children’s letters and the Y3’s enjoyed performing them.

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