Year 6 Blog

 This week, the children were given a question to answer’ How are natural disasters caused and what effect do they have?  There were some great discussions in the classrooms and everybody was able to discuss how the Tectonic Plates move and how this causes natural disasters, 

 Year 6 revised school vocabulary and the use of voici. They then learnt the difference between le/la and un/une, and changed words from the to a which they then used to write a paragraph about their school. 

 Year 6 learnt the names of different areas found in a school. They listened to a video of a little boy in Martinique showing them around  his school. We discussed the differences between his school and ours. They then labelled pictures using Voici. 

 Actually, there is no difference between them except for where they appear.  Hurricanes  are tropical storms that form over the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific. Cyclones  are formed over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. Typhoons  are formed over the Northwest Pacific Ocean. If you want to find out more, use this link.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24879162 Once the children had identified how these tropical storms formed and where, they then researched why the storms in the Northern Hemisphere rotate anti-clockwise and the storm in the Southern Hemisphere rotate clockwise. This led onto a practical activity where the children made storms in a bottle.