Here is P6R’s class blog this week:

In maths next week, we’ll be developing our skills for data handling through creating and interpreting different types of charts and graphs.

We will continue to work on the Mock Court project as part of our topic work. We will begin to look further into our roles as part of this, considering what our responsibilities and tasks will be over the course of the project.

Here it what we have been doing in P6R this week:

We started our Scottish Parliament topic this week, and learned that as part of it we will be participating in a Mock Court project. We will find out more about this over the course of our topic.

Next week, we will continue to consolidate and build upon our understandings of place value in maths.

On Wednesday, as part of our topic on space, we carried out an experiment to investigate what happens when a meteor collides into a planet.

We tried dropping a marble into flour from different heights, measuring the width of the crater which it made.

At first, we thought that the crater would be smaller if we dropped the marble from a greater height, but we found that the crater became bigger the higher the marble fell from, as it fell at a greater speed and made more of an impact, like a meteor.

Here is our class blog for this week:

Next week, we will finish off our work on space to begin a new topic.

In maths, we continue to build on our work on place value.

Today, we were given the challenge to work in pairs to see who could create the longest paper chain using only one sheet of paper.

We had to work cooperatively with each other, using our problem solving skills to decide how we could best use our limited paper to make our paper chain as long as possible, discussing our ideas before we began to cut up our paper.

We realised that, though thicker, shorter pieces of paper made stronger chains, to make our chains long it was necessary to use long, thin pieces of paper to link together.

When our time was up, we stretched our our paper chains next to each other to compare them.

The results were really impressive, and the end results were really close, but here is the winning chain…

We were able to identify that this challenge helped us to practise a lot of different skills, including teamwork, problem solving, and creativity, which we all were able to use successfully.

Well done P6R!

Here’s a flavour of what we’ve been getting up to in P6R this week:

Next week, we will be recapping place value in maths.

We will also be linking our prior learning in maths to our science topic, calculating and measuring the scale of planets and the distances between them.