ARCHIVED 2022-24 Year 6 Blog

 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. 

 

 

 

 A Tsunami is typically caused by large, undersea earthquake at tectonic plate boundaries. When the ocean floor at a plate boundary rises or falls suddenly, it displaces the water above it and launches the fast waves, which slow down as they reach the shore. They slow down but they then begin to grow taller and taller until they hit the land. Once the first wave hits the water might retract but there is always another wave behind this, waiting to do more damage.  This lesson introduced the Boxing Day tsunami of 2014 (the worst tsunami ever) and how it started and the effects it had on the people, countries, jobs, health and many other factors. 

 The European day of languages is celebrated every year on the 26 September. Year 6 found out about Poland, the Polish culture and learnt some Polish greetings and numbers. They then created a visual fact file about what they had  learnt. 

 Year 6 sang a number song and revised telling the time to the nearest hour. They then learnt how to tell the time to the nearest half hour, quarter to the hour and quarter past. They then drew in the hands on