DT and Science

Cool Stuff!
Designing and making our own Christmas decorations

Getting into the Christmas spirit we decided our classroom needed some 'cool stuff' to
give it some festive cheer.  We investigated making series circuits lighting up bulbs and using symbols to represent circuit designs.
We then designed the front of our decorations and draw the circuit diagrams we would be using.
Our classroom is certainly brighter and more festive now!

DT and ICT

Cool Stuff!
Designing and making computer games

As part of our Cool Stuff topic we decided that computer games were pretty cool.
After reviewing a range of games evaluating their purpose, ease to play and their aesthetics we thought about designing some simple games of our own to help children in Year 1 with their learning.
Bath Base carried out surveys with Year 1 finding out about whatthe children liked and were learning about to make sure their product design suited the intended market.
After that we developed skills in linking pages within a slide show to make our games.
Here are the photos of testing out the finished games with Year 1.  We think Year 1 enjoyed them and we met our design brief well!

Work to do at home

Hello Bath Base,

Here are some things to keep you working at home whilst we're unable to get to school.
I look forward to seeing how you've got on with this on Monday.

Literacy –

Use BBC news website, television and newspapers to research and develop ideas for your own news report on the cold weather.  Please write your own newspaper report. 

Consider –   The headline, what will grab attention but also give information about the story?

-          Make sure you answer all the ‘w’ questions in the article (who, what, where, when, why)

_     Use 3rd person and formal writing

_ If you can you might like to take photographs to add to your newspaper report!

Numeracy

Can you order these fractions?

a) 8/12,  5/6,  3/4                   b) 7/15, 1/2, 4/5                c) 7/12, 19/24, 5/6

TIPS -

Think about how to convert the fractions so that they have the same denominator or simplify them to make it easier to work with them.

Remember – You MUST do the same to the numerator as you do to the denominator.

                        Find a common multiple which all the denominators have in common, for example

                        Multiples of 8 – 8, 16, 24, 32, 40

                         Multiples of 12 – 12, 24, 36, 48

Have a go at these online!

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/fractions.swf

http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/fswitch.html

Topic Work

1.       Finish making your game.

2.       Test all the links to check each page is connected correctly.

3.       Get someone at home to test your game.

4.       Create a feedback and evaluation form for people to complete after playing your game to  

          give you feedback on it.  (this might include questions about how easy it was to play,  

          what the player thought of it, whether they’d like to play it again)

Journalistic Writing

Our new literacy unit is all about journalistic writing.
We're going to spend time becoming news hounds.
To help you here is a link to the BBC news page where you
can read, listen to and watch news reports.
Which stories do you find interesting?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk

Your Wonderful Writing!

Hello Year 6 (and some of year 5)!

I have converted your stories to an electronic book - what do you think?

Mr L

Numeracy links

Here are some links to websites we might be using this week in our numeracy lessons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/e3/numbers/measuresshapespace/capacity/index.shtml

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/jugs/index.htm

As you can see we're going to spend a few days looking at capacity.  You might like to

remind yourself about what capacity is measured in.  Have a look around at home to see

the capacity of different containers.  What's the largest and smallest capacity you can find?

Olympic Games!

In Year 6 this week we have gone back in time to the orginal Olympic Games.

Luckily a truce was made to allow use to travel to Olympia where there is a temple to Zeus.  The Olympic Games were held in honour of Zeus.
We took part in activities from the pentathlon such as discus, running and javelin.
The winners didn't get medals but a wreath instead (orginally olive branches picked from a sacred tree by a boy whose parents are alive and using a golden sickle!)

This shows some amazing things that the Ancient Greeks created that are still important today in the modern world.

Numeracy

Gathering and Handling Data

This week we have been looking at how to gather, organise and present data.

We needed to answer the question - what is the most common car colour in Blandford?

So we created frequency tables and carried a survey.

Once we had collected data we then thought about how to present this data.
There are different ways that graphs can be created.  Across the class pie charts,

pictograms and bar charts were made.

After this we could then interpret the graphs to answer the question.

Our Maths Trip

On tuesday we went to bourmouth road to find out what colour car is most popular in Blandford. Most of our results where that the silver cars where the most popular but some of us got different results that black or other car as there most popular car colour

Then on wednesday one group made picture gram, one group made bar graphs and my group made pie charts all on the graphs we did.

On thursday we finished the pie charts, picture grams and bar graphs.And that's the end of my blog

By Scott

Combining history, art and RE!

Greek Temples
After finding out about Greek Gods we wondered about how and why people in Ancient Greece worshipped their gods. 
In Ancient Greece people worshipped different gods for different purposes. They would offer gifts and sacrifices in order to please the Gods.

The Ancient Greeks liked to have everything balanced and mathematically proportioned.
All columns were equally spaced, temples were rectangular and had many mathematical patterns.

This is a model of Zeus.  Huge statues of him were built in some temples.  You can tell it's Zeus from the lightening bolt in his hand.

Ancient Greek Gods

There were many Greek Gods when the Ancient Greeks where around here are some Zeus, Ares, Poseidon and Athena. I will tell you about most of the gods but not all them there's to many.I will start with Zeus

Zeus is the king of the gods and is the god of lightning anyone who annoys him will be struke by his fearful lighting bolt his symbols are a eagle, oak tree and a lighting bolt

Ares: Ares is the god of war he really enjoys wars he had a blooded spear he's also Zeus son also his thrown was covered in skin

Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty.She was married to Hephitosthe. Her symbols are roses, doves and sparrows. Her son is called Eros

And finally I will do Artemis. Artemis was goddess of the moon. She lived with the other gods and goddess on top of Mount Olympus. She was a hunter and carried a Bow and Arrows. Her symbol was deers,dogs and Cypress trees. She often had wild animals with her.

That's the end of my report

By Scott

TOPIC - The Ancient Greeks

In year 6 we have been busy learning about the Ancient Greeks using the questions asked at the start of our topic.
Here are the questions which have been leading our learning:
When did the Ancient Greeks live?
Where did the Ancient Greeks live?
What armies did they have?
What tactics did they use to win wars?
Why did they invent the olympic games?
What else did the Ancient Greeks invent?
What Gods did they have in Ancient Greece?

Coming soon on our blog will be information about what we've been doing, perhaps
you'll be able to answer some of the questions!

To All of Year 6 from Mr Willson - Parent Governor for Year 6

To all of Year 6.  I hope you all had a great Summer Holiday!


I have had a look on your class blog and see that you've already been very busy. I have read your Class Charter on your Rights and Responsibilities and it looks as though you have put a lot of thought in to this and the design!


I hope your all enjoying your new school year.  keep up the hard work and i'll see you all soon.


Have a good week.


Mr Willson

Creating conflict!
To help us understand what peace is ready for world peace day Year 6 worked on
how conflicts can occur. In our literacy lesson we took images of conflict and made them come
alive thinking about the lanuage that is spoken as well as our body language.
Here are some images of our drama work.  We'll be using these to think about ways to diffuse or

resolve conflict.

Class Charter

After much work on what would make a dream school where all children are safe, happy and able to learn Bath Base have created their Class Charter.

By keeping to our rights and responsibilities we're certain we'll have a dream team of a class!