Welcome to the Year 6 Blog - The Home of Apple and Juniper: June 2015

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Art Week with artist James Meiklejohn

James is showing us how to build up layers of paint on to the sketch.

Art Week with artist James Meiklejohn

James shows us some of his wonderful paintings.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Fairtrade Stall

Each class had an opportunity to buy Fair-trade items. Here is Mr Simmonds (from Shaftesbury's Fairtrade Group) serving Edward. Well done also to all the school for achieving the Level 1 in the Rights Respecting School's Award! (RRS).

Part of Article 24 states that, with respect to the health of children, "richer countries must help poorer countries with this". Fairtrade helps towards this.

Monday, 22 June 2015

DT

22.06.15 DT prototype skills practise.

22.06.15 Prototype skills practise!

We have made mini models, practising folding, strengthening and joining paper.

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Magic Square investigation

Monday, 15 June 2015

James Dyson's revolutionary fan!

Can you think of 5 reasons why this fan is an improvement on the older style with blades and a safety grill?

15.06.15 We are becoming...DESIGN ENGINEERS!

James Dyson uses PMI to evaluate existing designs before improving them: Plus points, Minus points and Interesting things that could be developed further.

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Y6 girls cricket tournament

We had a great day and everyone made good improvements in the four games. We won one and lost three so came fourth out of five teams. Well done to everyone. If I was forced to name a girl of the tournament it would be Jodie!