The children of Year 6 have worked incredibly hard throughout their gymnastics unit and this week they were able to combine all of their skills in their final springboard jump.
Across the unit, the children have learnt a range of jumps (including pike and straddle) and they also learnt how to use the springboard safely and correctly. Despite some of the children feeling quite daunted, they have persevered and worked hard to improve.
In science this week we have been continuing our work on electricity by learning to draw circuit diagrams. We can now use internationally recognised symbols to represent the components in a circuit, so that any electrical engineer could view our work and build our designs. We found out that circuits are always drawn as rectangles, using straight lines. Finally, we put our learning into practice by building our own circuits and drawing them as circuit diagrams. We have also been busy this week showing what we know with some assessment papers, learning to use a springboard in gymnastics and plotting coordinates in the first quadrant.
This week Year 6 visited Holly Lodge Centre in Richmond Park to take part in the Junior Citizenship programme.
The citizen days are an opportunity for pupils to learn how to deal with different types of dangers, as well as get to know their local police officers and firefighters. They learn top safety tips first hand from emergency service workers, including council officers and electricity company representatives.
The programme involves 10 interactive sessions with the different organisations, which let the children ask questions and play out scenarios they could realistically come into contact with.
The children were given the opportunity to telephone emergency services to report a fire. They discussed safe routes in the event of a fire and the importance of fire alarms.
Year 6 have enjoyed the start of our new geography topic: Europe! The children started their learning by looking at a range of maps which broaden our understanding of politics, topography, population density and history. It was interesting to see the range of countries that make up the second-smallest continent (Europe) and just how much has changed over time in terms of border changes and new countries.
This week, the children in Year 6 completed area and perimeter investigations as a part of their measurement topic. They thoroughly enjoyed working in pairs and the teachers were very impressed with the mathematical vocabulary the children used. Have a look at the attached question, that the pictured children are solving. You can see that some children chose to solve this problem by using squared paper; other children calculated the area of each square and then found possible factors of the area of the rectangle.
