Come to Australia!!! We are making brochures about  Australia to tell you about the different landmarks and creatures including the Sydney Opera House, Great barrier reef , Shark bay , Uluru and Whitsunday island, q1 towers and swan bell and horizontal falls.  We have been researching prices, show times at the Sydney Opera House and making sure our brochures are eye-catching and persuasive!

For our school trip we went to Diversity Day and we did lots of things.  We did athletics and we learnt about the diffrent cultures. We did bollywood dancing and we did a mug competition. They have not said who won yet but people have worked very hard so we all have a chance.  The dances we did were bollywood dancing and israeli dancing.  We tried out dressing as a diffrent religion, it was very fun and we would do it again.  The fun didn’t stop because we had a very fun trip home!

In Science, we have done an amazing experiment on friction. The car went so far (to Emily !!!)  We tested on the carpet, laminate and concrerete.  Here are our results.

For Art we have been learning about self portraits and how to draw realistically – the eyes on our portraits look great so far it is very fun.

For Maths week, we had a teacher carousel with Miss Hillhouse on symmentry and we did special symmetry patterns that are multi coloured and symmetrical.  That was amazing!!! It was a shape of a star and a circle.  Mrs O’Malley also came in to talk to us about her job as an accountant – she uses maths and numeracy a lot!

What have you enjoyed at school in the past few weeks?

Written by Eva and Katie

The highlights of the first few weeks in P6 have been amazing!
In Maths we have learned about how to write, order and add decimals and we’ve been practising our multiplication and division.  In Literacy we were learning about singular and plural words and we wrote an imaginative story about ‘The Storm’.On Fridays we do computing, in computing we have been doing coding.  We made our own Google logo and we were all very good at it!  On a Monday we have Drama and we really like the ‘Park Bench’ game that we play to help us with improvisation. In Art, we have started self-portraits and are focussing on sketching and making our portraits as realistic as we can.

In Science, we have been learning about Friction.  We did an experiment to test which surface was best for a toy car to move on.  We also used our measuring skills to calculate how far the car went each time.  We know that Friction causes things to move slower because two surfaces are rubbing together.  The laminate was the best surface because it was smooth and the concrete was worst because it was rough.
We are excited to learn more about Australasia, which is our topic.  We have already learned about Aborigines (the first people to live in Australia) and listened to the sound of a digeridoo.  We used atlases to identify the continents in the world and locate them on a map.  We would like to learn about The Great Barrier Reef and some of the landmarks in Australasia.

In P.E. our favourite thing has been the bleep test which tested our stamina.

Let’s see where this year takes us, we think it’s going to be great!

Written by Kitty and Henry