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Year 6 are currently working on individual projects. Each member of the class has taken responsibility for a different country from North or South America. Once our projects are finished, we will look at each others to learn some key human and physical geography facts about each country.

Today, we have taken part in our Y3/4 Intra sports. We played bench ball and had to work as a team to score points. We used tactics and spatial awareness to outwit our opponents.

This afternoon we were visited by Louise, who came to talk to us about water. We learnt about  the water cycle, how we use water in our homes and what United Utilities do to make sure we have a constant supply of clean water to use. We also learnt how they treat our dirty water before it goes back…

We have been learning about magnetism in science and today we tested the strength of different sized and different shaped magnets. We predicted which magnets would be strongest and measured their strength by counting how many objects were attracted to them.
 

Today four children from Year 3 and 4 attended a writer's workshop at Bowerham School led by the writer David Webb.  They had a really great day and learnt some great writing techniques.

We have been learning and researching all about the Stone Age and today we looked at a picture which had some historical mistakes (anachronisms) in them.  We had to try to find all 20 mistakes.  It was hard but we managed it!

This week we have been practising counting in 8s and have really enjoyed the 8x table song.

This afternoon, we have been looking at the portrait work by the British artist Julian Opie (you might remember his artwork on the Best of Blur album). We used photographs to trace our faces with simple features onto plastic wallets. They are displayed on our classroom windows.

We have discussed how switches work and why electrical appliances have them, as well as looking at different types of switches. We were then given paper, tin foil, paper clips, split pins and other resources to have a go at making different types of switches.

Today we used the plans we had created to make our final bread pieces in DT. 
Once the pieces were kneaded, shaped and baked we decorated them. 
Mrs Walsh was the judge. She chose 3 winners. 

Bread that was the most creative - Teddy D

Bread that was most like the plan - Amy L

Bread that…

What a great afternoon tasting all of the delicious cakes. We have chosen a winner.

Wednesday was our bake off competition. What a lot of entries and judges! Thanks to all the parents who helped in any way.

We had so many cakes we managed two cake sales. Look out for the total raised towards our children’s kitchen.