Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Exploring gender stereotypes, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:46pm
Today we were lucky enough to take part in a primary futures webinar about gender stereotypes in jobs.
We talked about the types of jobs people can do and played a game with 2 mystery people. We had to ask them questions about their job to see if we could work out what they did. We were only able to ask questions which would have a yes or no answer.
We were really excited when the organiser asked them some of the questions we had sent in the chat.
We then had to guess what we thought their job was. It was really hard. You’ll have to wait to find out. Evie and Noah are going to tell you all about it later this week.
Police dogs, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:39pm
We were very exited to see a police dog because we had lots of questions and we thought it would be cool. There were 2 dogs, a German Shepard and a springer spaniel and they were both very clever. It was great to stroke the springer spaniel and it licked some of us.The 2 dogs, were called Goose and Maverick they were so cute. It took 6 weeks to train Goose and 13 weeks to train Maverick. Maverick is 4 years old and Goose was 6 years old.Maverick is the German Shepard and Goose was the springer spaniel,Goose was older than Maverick by 4years. We had so Much fun stroking the dog.
The dogs live with the police officer and have very important jobs to help keep us safe. Goose was able to find a mobile hidden hidden in a box in the car park.
Science - digestion, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Feb 2022 @ 9:33pm
Before half term we explored our digestive system by modelling what happens to our food.
The children all took part and had great fun, as you can see it was a messy and gooey job. Luckily this happens inside our bodies!
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 3:07pm
Today in assembly on Tuesday we talked about, animals and how they are the same and if they work well together. The animals we saw were penguins, dolphins and whales, zebras and ostriches and a crocodile and a bird. We also talked about when it’s important to work together.
Our Thursday picture news assembly asked the question ‘What type of events do you think deserve a celebration?’ This question came about as the Queen announced a special competition ahead of her Platinum Jubilee later this year. On the 6th February Queen Elizabeth will have reigned for 70 years!
The competition is to design a pudding. There will also be a 4 day bank holiday in June and other events too. We all like celebrating birthdays and weddings and fireworks.
Harry Potter book night, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:54pm
Thank you to the children who came to our Harry Potter night. We enjoyed lots of activities to celebrate 25 years of Harry Potter!
Brickcroft bird spotting LPS+, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:48pm
Art work, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 2:45pm
Science - where do our organs go?, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Feb 2022 @ 7:09am
We started our lesson by thinking about how our organs are arranged, what they are called and what function they have as part of our digestive system.
After some research and explanations we were able to create a model of our digestive system and label it.
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2022 @ 10:48pm
In our assembly on Tuesday, we talked about a picture and how old it was and how we knew it was old then Mrs Catterall told us a story about the boy in the old picture. Next, we saw a picture of a light bulb, then an old film projector, after we saw a picture of a phonograph and a gramophone. We then discovered that the boy in the first picture was Thomas Edison and he invented all of the other items in the pictures. We discussed how he would have needed to work hard, that there would have been failures along the way but he kept going. We reflected on when we have had to be like Thomas Edison today and how if we come across something which is tricky or hard work we shouldn’t give up.
In our assembly on Thursday we talked about Rose off strictly come dancing and how well she did because she is part deaf. We also talked how many people want to learn sign language. This is in the news because people were voting for it to be recognised as an official language in law. We also asked if anyone knew any parts of sign language, year 3 and year 4 performed the rainbow song to the school, they have been learning it during their LPS+ lessons. We also talked about which is more important touch, sound, smell, taste, hear or sight.
Lucie and Evie
Musical talent, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2022 @ 10:38pm
We have really enjoyed our musical performances this week.
videos to follow.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2022 @ 10:36pm
Thank you to all those people who brought in a project.
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 30th Jan 2022 @ 10:34pm
We looked at the teeth of different animals and then used what we knew about the function of different teeth to decide whether an animal was a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
We were unsure where to place the frog. Evie did a bit of research and discovered a frog is a carnivore but a tadpole is a herbivore.
