Year 6 News Spring Term 1 Earth, Wind, Fire and Water Our topic this half term is brand new to Y6! Before the holidays, you came up with lots of fabulous questions which you wanted us to try to answer in this topic, including: How do waves begin? What causes a volcano? Why do we have different weather? What is thunder? Where did the earth come from? As we work through this topic, we hope to answer some of these questions and more. We will be linking all sorts of literacy, ICT, art, PE and DT work to help us answer them.
and will introduce lots more exciting things as we move through. Maybe you have some great ideas of things you’d like to do?
We are planning to become weather forecasters and create a weekly online weather blog to share with people at home; spend some time studying fossils and creating detailed drawings of them; painting waterscapes in the style of Claude Monet using acrylic paints and pastel; discover what causes earthquakes and volcanoes and use maps and atlases to find out where in the world they occur. We are very excited about this new topic
As part of this topic we will be visiting Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham to find out about each of the 5 elements. Unfortunately, due to the stormy weather in December, the roof was damaged at Magna and our trip has been delayed until February 18th. We’ll be sending information letters shortly.
Monteney Primary School January– February 2014
Special points of interest: Shine Assembly—Friday at 8.55am. We will to let you know if your child is in Praise Assembly. RE/Arts Week 17th February Trip to Magna— 18th February. 6JF’s class assembly— Wednesday 5th February
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