Last week, the children made a long list of activities they would like to do for their club. 1st on their list was an eating challenge which included eating a lime, eating a donut without licking your lips, eating as many crackers as you can in 2 minutes without having a drink and manoeuvring an after 8 from your forehead
Author: Carly Appleton
One of our sports relief challenges last week was a netball match between the teachers and some of the year 6 children. Height was definitely an advantage for the teachers who were very pleased (and very relieved) with their 12-3 win. A big congratulations to the children who played for giving 100{0201daeace5a455cf0d74487a2cb9fe131c98ac97240a3f1203d7e130a7ca948} effort and not giving up.
6M and 6A were very pleased with their hot chocolate treat for being the best behaved classes last half term. Well done children!
This week we had a lot of fun exploring the world of AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality). We think this will be an excellent learning tool: it’s exciting, realistic and excellent at igniting our imaginations.
This week, 6A have been using a variety of sentences to improve our writing. We watched an exciting short clip called Ruin for inspiration and the children have produced some wonderful, imaginative pieces of written work from it.
Over the past few weeks the Adventurous Explorers Club have made their own volcanoes. Although our experiment didn’t go exactly to plan, we enjoyed researching about volcanoes using our new app ‘Expeditions’ which allowed us to view them in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.
We started at the top of the pyramid and individually wrote down (in secret) what we thought the five most important features a setting description needed to include. We then shared our ideas with our friends on our tables and as a group chose the three most important features and wrote down some examples. One person from each group then
Using wall paper to write down our ideas allowed us to gather an abundance of words and phrases to use in our setting descriptions. We were able to challenge one another and extend each others learning.
Finding links between photos of different settings and key words and links between short passages helped us to recognise some of the key features of a setting description. This week we will be writing our own setting description of our villain’s lair and this activity helped to spark our imaginations and learn some new vocabulary.
Last week, we brought comprehension to life by using plasticine to model what we could visualise. We found this technique very useful when we were then asked the next day to recall sentences and phrases from the passage – The Cave.