Abbotswood Primary School
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Year 6 Falcons and Kingfishers
Year 6
Welcome to our class page for Falcon and Kingfisher classes! Here you'll find all the information for homework, newsletters and all of the other amazing things we have been doing in class. Keep a look out for the latest information and keep up to date with any exciting events that have happened at school! You will also find lots of updates on the Abbotswood social media pages too!
Please do not hesitate to get in contact with any of us if there is anything you need to discuss.
Charity Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Year 6 cake sale to raise money for Lizzie's Soup Run! It'll be taking place across the final week of term 3, in Falcon class, at the end of the day. All cakes are 50p each and sweet cones are £1.
The cake sale is the start of a handful of fundraising events across Year 6, including a KS2 football match tomorrow lunchtime and a Year 6 fun-run after half term. We've been so impressed with the children's innovative ideas and enthusiasm for helping others!
Term 3 Enquiry: Where does our food really come from?
Take a look at a snapshot of just some of the learning we have been doing as part of this term's enquiry - there is plenty more to see on the school's social media pages!
We've absolutely loved becoming Geographers to learn all about the reasons behind importing and exporting as well as discovering the country of origin for many commonly used pizza ingredients. Our term began with an exciting visit to Morrisons, where we were given a tour of the store and a chance to explore the food miles of some of the produce. During the term, we developed our Geographical understanding of the main human and physical features of the world, as well as discussing climate zones and the impact that our food choices have on our environment. We had great fun becoming Engineers, designing and making our own pizzas, as well as our challenge of producing an informative pizza box.
Term 2 Enquiry: Who were the greater engineers - the Ancient Britons or Victorians?
This term, we have become engineers and historians to explore how designs and resources for common structures, such as bridges, have developed over time. We have greatly enjoyed learning about how innovative people were during the Stone Age to Iron Age period with their very limited resources: we put ourselves in their shoes and made our own items using similar resources to them! We also learned all about the Victorian era and the impact of the industrial revolution on today's world. We studied local engineer, Sarah Guppy, and discovered how she had great influence over the design of the Clifton suspension bridge.
Our challenge for this term was our favourite yet: design and make a bridge using a given criteria! We took on the role of engineers, from the initial design and review process to making and evaluating our structures.
Term 1: How are lives saved?
Our year has got off to a very busy start! We began our enquiry with a trip to the Lifeskills centre in Bristol, where we learned all about how to keep ourselves safe. We had such a great time: the session was so informative, really engaging and taught us invaluable skills for life. We have also had a visit from Jane, a cardiographer from the RUH in Bath, who told us all about her role and what inspired her to help in saving lives every day.
As scientists, we have focused our learning around the circulatory system and even had a go at making our own blood, which included the main components of red and white blood cells, platelets and plasma! We have also been studying Leonardo di Vinci - the scientist and artist - to explore how his findings and theories have influenced our understanding of the human body. We recreated some of his most famous pieces by making some anatomical sketches of our own.
Our challenge at the end of term was to research an invention which can save lives and produce a presentation to share with the class. We had such a range of ideas, from the Lifestraw and defibrillators to vaccines and insulin, we taught each other about a whole host of medical and scientific marvels!
