Year 6 Blog

 Our last session about South America and the children did themselves proud using all their knowledge and skills to describe what they knew aboutSouth America.  Well done year 6, enjoy. Your Easter break. 

Learning objective: I can work out problems relating to missing values This week the children have been working really hard on angles within triangles, quadrilaterals and on a point. The children worked hard embedding their known facts: 180 degrees on a straight line, 360 degrees around a point among many other facts. Having embedded their known facts they worked out missing values on angles within triangles, quadrilaterals and in circles. The children worked really hard independently on these challenges and impressed with their knowledge. 

 What an interesting lesson learning about the Uros people who live on Lake Titicaca in South America.  These interesting people live on islands made of reeds: Totora reeds. They have to be replaced every two to three weeks as they decompose. These communities have televisions, mobile phones as well as radios which are all charged by solar panels. They mainly eat fish and totora reeds as well as quinoa.  They make their houses out of the reeds as well as their boats and they rely on tourists to supplement their income. The children then discussed if the Uros people were much different to us. 

 

 Today was RE Day.  to start the day, Year 6 had to decide what they thought Resurrection means. We had some thoughtful responses such as: become alive again; bring back from the dead; to reform, relive, revive and reborn, as well as a discussion between the difference of resurrection and reincarnation.  We then watched a short clip from the film Narnia, when Aslan is resurrected after dying on the stone table. From this, children had to design a symbol to remind the people of Narnia about Aslan overcoming death.  Following this, children were asked to think about the type of cross Christians would associate more with Resurrection. They then had to draw and explain this in their own words. Using a clip from The Miracle Maker, we discussed reasons why we think believing in the resurrection is important to Christians.  Year 6 had some great ideas about what happens after we die and some of the signs that people might believe in (e.g. rainbows, white feathers, robins etc…).  We also had s