ARCHIVED Year 6 Blog 2024/25

Last week, the children were introduced to contour lines, which are used to show the height of a mountain.    Today, the children made 3D contour maps of different mountains so they could physically see how contour lines clearly show the height ( relief) of a mountain. 

 Year 6 started a new topic: At the theme park. They looked at 3 different theme parks in France,and revised multiples of 10 to 100. They were also introduced to theme  park vocabulary and learnt the names of different rides. They also learnt how to ask for ticket prices.  This last week they started planning the rides they’d include in their own theme Parks and how to say  the minimum age and height for rides 

 During this lesson, the children looked at the vocabulary: relief and topography.  They were then introduced to three ways the land can be measured. Then the children focussed on what contour lines are and their measurements as the lined dictate the height and elevation of a mountain.  The children then used all the taught elements and had a go at drawing contour lines from a drawing, 

 This term, year 6 are focussing on their map skills. Today they recapped how to use their 4 and 6 grid references as well as scale on a map and their compass points. As they will be visiting London in the next few weeks, they used all their skills on a treasure hunt.   Fantastic effort to all. 

 Year 6 found out about French Easter traditions and how the French celebrate Easter. They learnt some Easter vocabulary which they then used to complete a crossword puzzle. 

  Spring B Unit: Resurrection Religion: Christianity Key Question:  Why is resurrection important to Christians? We enjoyed a really thoughtful and deep-thinking discussion involving the importance of resurrection to Christians and how Jesus is the only prophet to come back to life. 

Today we learnt about the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi that commemorates the origins of the religion. To celebrate Vaisakhi, Sikhs will visit places of worship called Gurdwaras. Many people enjoy parades and special processions through the streets called Nagar Kirtans. Many Sikhs also choose Vaisakhi as the day to be baptised in to the Khalsa brotherhood. Often flags will be raised around the country displaying the Sikh symbol. We used the quilling method to decorate our own Sikh symbol, it took a lot of concentration as it was very fiddly!