We started our musical learning journey this week by listening to and appraising a piece of music by composer Gustav Holst, that was created to represent the character of the planet Mars. We discussed the instruments used, the tempo and dynamics of the piece before thinking about how Holst used all these elements to portray the characteristics of war usually associated with Mars.
Crew MI have really been thinking about their handwriting and presentation and we are all working really hard to reflect on every piece of work, challenging ourselves to improve. Here you can see our beautiful work display with some great examples of the writing and arithmetic work we have produced.
MI have worked so hard to produce their own video on how the earth moves around the sun. They all thought about facts that could be used within the video to explain the different elements and used scientific vocabulary that they had learnt within the lesson. All children showed a great deal of respect for each other, listening to each other and giving one other the confidence to speak. Great work MI 🙂 Scan the QR code to have a look!
Y5 and Y6 were able to visit the National Space Centre on Wednesday where we had time to explore all the different interactive galleries and the UKs largest planetarium. The children had the opportunity to see shuttles, rockets, space suits and even a real piece of the moon.
During the day, they were able to read lots of information which then allowed them to answer some questions around our second case study for this expedition focusing on forces.
We also took part in a workshop all about the Sun, Earth and Moon. We took part in a quiz then took part in a practical activity around how we get day and night and seasons. Afterwards, they explored the phases of the moon and then produced a turn wheel to help them remember each phase.
Every child displayed awesome HoWLs and they really did themselves and school proud. This fieldwork has really hooked us in to our learning and we cannot wait to get started learning even more about our expedition!
Hope you are all having a lovely break!
Next week year 6 will have PE on just the Thursday, this is due to our very exciting trip to the National Space Centre on Wednesday😄 (details are all on parent pay incase you need a reminder of the times for this as children will need to be in school no later than 8am).
Then on a normal week our usual PE slots will be a Wednesday and a Friday.
Thank you,
Year 6 Crew.
