As part of their PE Dance topic, P6M will be learning a variety of dances from other cultures. First on the list was the New Zealand ‘HAKA’.
Traditionally, the Māori people of New Zealand performed haka to display a tribe’s pride, strength and unity. The haka is commonly known as a war dance used to fire up warriors on the battlefield, but it’s also a customary way to celebrate, entertain, welcome, and challenge visiting tribes. (www.experienceallblacks.com)
Well done P6M!
It was amazing to see the results of the hard work that P6M put into this topic.
The class looked at how light travels in straight lines and then they used mirrors to change the direction of the light from a torch.
The pupils then designed and built Lego mazes putting mirrors at the corners, to reflect the light as far as they could.
The next challenge was to look at different materials and how reflected or absorbed light. P6M showed fantastic imagination and creativity when producing their shadow puppets. They used different methods to add dramatic effects to their puppets such as coloured light lenses and playing around with opaque and translucent features. The pupils were also about to alter the size of their projected shadow by changing the distance to the light source.
Then the ultimate challenge was to split white light into the 7 colours of the visible spectrum. Guess what, they did it!!
P6M took their knowledge of simple circuits to the next level when they were challenged to create a parallel circuit to power Christmas tree lights.
The number of fingers shown by the groups represents how many lights they were able to light up in their parallel circuit.
The pupils then drew Christmas trees and attached their lighting circuits!
Incredible results P6M…well done!!
P6M made string telephones and carried out a range of tests to find out which resources carried the sound most effectively.
We talked about investigations in Science, how they are carried out, the importance of a fair test and variables.
The things that the pupils changed/tested were:
A huge well done to P6M on their effective paired and group work to create a chain reaction using forces.
What is a Chain Reaction?
A Chain Reaction is a sequence of little events where one object hits another object to create a reaction. We can say that the force we show one thing is going to pass onto the next thing. The energy is passed on from one object to the next.
The pupils used their subject knowledge of forces to build multi-level chain reactions using a number of different elements to showcase gravity using a zipline or downward ball roll/steps, a push using the see-saw method or a beebot, a pull using string attached to a beebot.
The pupils had to build, trial and amend their chain reactions to make sure that enough energy was created to keep the chain reaction going. There was lots of purposeful talk, problem solving and resilience required in this challenge!
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