Snapshot of P6B’s learning!

Over the last couple of weeks some maths groups have been conducting surveys and recording the information in different charts and graphs such as line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts. Mr Atkinson then linked this to our ICT sessions which have involved investigating the different ways in which Excel spreadsheets can be used to record and generate data. Mr Atkinson gave all the pupils a challenge to research and present the growth of China’s populations over the last 50 years. This required the class to apply their prior knowledge of excel formulas and functions to generate a range of graphs and charts. During this exercise we debated what a reliable source of information is and how data can be misinterpreted. After selecting the years that we were going to analyse, we then worked in pairs to record and input the information into excel spreadsheets. Following this, we then shared our results with our peers.

This week we were issued our new group novels which we were all very excited about! Some groups will also carry out comparison tasks related to their novel. This will involve pupils carefully analysing and noting key features of clips and segments from the films based on their books.

We have been learning about China’s one child policy and we investigated the effects it had on the country’s population, economy and social structure. The class also made links to the UNCRC Rights of the Child during this exercise. Next week we will finish off our China topic by exploring how the country developed from the ancient Chinese dynasties to modern day China. After than our new topic will be the fitness and body topic which will involve the class creating healthy recipes for smoothies, tracking our fitness in P.E through the use of diaries/logs and some outdoor art.

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done to everyone who has been completing their Sumdog homework and taking part in the competitions – keep it up! I would like to thank all the parents, guardians, volunteers and Mrs Norman for assisting with Bikeability. All of P6B have been participating in this and I have heard that some pupils have also been practising at home – well done! Thank you to all our guest speakers for coming in for Skills to School week. All of the presentations were thoroughly interesting and the pupils have been raving about how enjoyable they were.