Watch the Horrible Histories video about the changes to transport during the industrial revolution.
What was the main mode of transport before these new inventions?
What do you know about Stephenson’s Rocket?
Who is Isambard Kingdom Brunel? What did he do?
On Wednesday, Miss Walton took Y6 down to our fabulous wildlife area and challenged them to find and classify different species of plants.
Everyone enjoyed using their scientific skills and completing some fieldwork linked to our ‘Evolution and Inheritance’ topic.
Luckily Mr Worthington was on hand to provide advice and his valuable expertise about the different plants growing in our very own school grounds.
What did you find down there? Which part of the wildlife area did you enjoy the most?
This week Y6 have been working very hard to develop their persuasive writing skills.
We have learnt how to use many persuasive devices:
Now try to use these new skills and write a few sentences to persuade tourists to visit this fantastic haunted house location.
Good luck and don’t forget your good punctuation choices.
For some extra revision work over the Easter holidays you could access the Maths Mansion videos on youtube. They would be a fun way to revise some tricky concepts.
Why not try these ones to get you started:
Don’t forget to sing along to the theme tune.
What did you think of our new class novel?
Would you be friends with August?
What do you want to find out about?
What do you think? Think about what we have been learning about through ‘Eye of the Wolf’, do you think wild animals like Blue Wolf should be caged in zoos?
Give your arguments below, ready for our debate in class next week.
We had an amazing afternoon.
Tell me about your favourite part!
Who has enjoyed our new class book so far?
What do you think will happen next to Blue Wolf and Shiny Straw? Make your predictions below and we will discuss them in class on Tuesday.
What a fantastic afternoon we had!
Lots of mess, lots of fun and our volcanoes are beginning to take shape.
