6A
Christmas Jumper Day
We took part in Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day on 12th December and raised money for a very worthy charity! This has got us in the festive spirit!
Children in Need
In support of the charity, we helped raise money by coming to school in pyjamas and bringing our teddies.
Shadow Investigation
We spent time exploring with torches to find out how shadows change as torches move closer and further from the light. We then linked this to real life and thought about the sun being a light source and how our shadows would change across the course of a day.
Periscopes
We used periscopes to experiment looking over items to investigate how we can see around corners as light travels in a straight line but sometimes we need to see at different angles.
Reflecting Light
We experimented with mirrors to try to make light travel in different directions as we know it travels in straight lines but mirrors can redirect its path.
Performance Poetry
For Black History Month, we have been studying poems from The Caribbean and looking at emotions and language used within them to convey the feelings through poetry. Here are some still images of our performance poetry of 'Who will save the dying man?' which we have been working on.
Body Percussion in the round
Here you can see our music lesson where we were singing in different parts still using the street scene as a stimulus. We used body percussion for keeping the rhythm and focused on varying beats and rhythms of lyrics to sounds.
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For the second part of our music lesson we used a street scene as a stimulus to invent rhythmical mimed actions to music; demonstrate and interpret mimed actions; conduct a performance to music of increasing texture and evaluate. See our individual group videos and our whole class scene setting for this.
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As part of our music lessons, we have been studying a piece of music called Bolero. We have found the music's texture, beat and followed a graphic score to perform a repeating rhythm on body percussion with music. See our video for this.
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Art Sculptures
We have been studying Alberto Giacometti and his art work and how it changed over his life time. As part of this, we made our own sculptures inspired by his work out of modroc and then painted in his style colours, you can see them here.
We have taken part in our first science experiment where we were investigating blood vessels. We had plastic cups with different sized holes in them which were representing arteries, veins, capillaries and a blocked artery. We explored the speed at which water could leave the cup which was representing how blood can flow through our blood vessels at different speeds.
We have voted for our school council representatives!
Mohammed and Rachel will be representing 6A, whilst Max and Lisa are on standby as deputy coucillors if needed.