Today the children have been working to give a supported answer to the question. ‘Is Oliver Cromwell a hero or villain?’ They enjoyed looking at primary and secondary sources and sorting them to show positive views of Cromwell , or negative ones. I was particularly impressed with how the children considered the time the evidence was written and if that changed how useful it was. They are thinking like true historians. Well done Class 6 !

Here are some examples of amazing work from today.

On Thursday 26^th November 2015, Class 6 visited Northumbria University to take part in a higher education experience. We played dodge ball, solved crimes and had a campus tour. We also spoke to many students about life at university. It has certainly inspired us to aim high in our learning. Well done Class 6 – you really let your light shine on our trip.

Here are some photographs of us solving crimes, walking round campus, and with our certificates from when we graduated at the end of the day.

Today we went outdoors to plan our rainforest stories.

First of all we built shelters for our rainforest animals and then we worked together to create stories, using our animal characters and our rainforest shelters as settings.

This week we are looking closely at the Amazon rainforest and the animals that live in the different layers.

We have been busy sorting a variety of animals into the 4 forest layers: the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory layer and the forest floor.

Today we delved further into the works of Kandinsky and created our own abstract pictures.

We listened to a variety of songs and used the different sounds to help us “feel” the colours and shapes we wanted to use.

We created a picture that portrays us blowing out our creative thoughts.

Mrs Ferguson was very impressed with our artwork!

This afternoon children wrote a letter to Santa, in French! They enjoyed using phrases from a different language to create a Christmas list. We added in some of our key learning, for example our name, how old we were and where we lived. We also used the phrases I like or I do not like.

Here are some examples of our wonderful work today.

Now we just need to send the letters off to reach Santa for Christmas!

In October we went to St Bede’s to work in the science labs. We had a great time making our own universal indicator solution. We looked at different acids and alkalies. All children took part in scientific experiments. We even made our own circuit boards, using our knowledge of electricity.

Our finished art work…

Concentric Circles in the style of Kandinsky!

As part of our topic this half term we are learning about ‘hot and cold’ countries. This week we have been looking at the continent of South America, with a focus on the countries making up South America and the climate and weather of the continent.

This morning we worked in our teams to create a weather map showing the different types of weather across the countries of South America. We then became Weather Forecasters and shared our weather warnings with the class.

We have had a great day supporting Children In Need today.
The children came to school dressed in all kinds of wonderful clothes and we have had fun designing new outfits and bandanas for Pudsey bear.

Thank you to everyone for their support

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