Year 6

🚯 Geography Field Trip - How does litter affect our local area? 🚮

Our geaography learning has focused on marine environments and how humnas have been affecting these environments. As our only local water is the canal, we took ourselves there to conduct our fieldwork study.

To complete this we had to:

create a class risk assessment to keep everyone safe around water - and litter!
collect our equipment: litter pickers, bin bags and clipboards.
carry out a litter pick in different areas on the canal.
record it in a tally chart.
Weigh our bags of rubbish! Mr Sangha's group collected the most.

We made many observations including the fact that most of the litter was related to food packaging and most bits had broken down into small scraps. We found lots of cans!

Once back at school, we analysed our findings and used software to present them into pie charts!.

We so much enjoyed using the litter pickers that we are thinking of carrying out some active citizenship by starting regular litter picks on the road outside our school. Watch this space!

Tiverton's Ten Word Tiny Tales - inspired by Joseph Coello and Friends

Year 6's First Tiny Tales

Earlier this year, we launched our whole school writing for pleasure challenge: can you write a tiny story that is just ten words long?

Each class has its own illustration to inspire them and strips which help them to make out their ten words.

A challenge indeed! Some people found it tricky to squeeze all they wanted to say into ten words, whereas others found that they couldn't stop writing them!

🐟🐠Sea Life Centre Visit🐟🐠

To enhance their understanding of what they have been learning about in geography - marine environments and the threats they face - Year 6 took a trip to the Sea Life Centre to find out more.

We are so lucky to have this venue on our doorstep. The children got to see precious coral reef habitats up close and learn about the important work that the sea life centres are doing to help raise awareness of plastic pollution.

Most importantly, they got to see a whole range of creatures that live in a totally different environment to our own - up close! Some struggled to believe that what they were seeing wasn't Ai!

"No...they are real penguins!" 🐧🐧🐧

Year 6 Visit the Courtauld Gallery in London

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At the end of last term, Year 6 travelled to London to experience a series of mini art workshops at the world-renowned Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House.

Upon arrival, the students explored a vast range of works, from medieval religious paintings to the masterpieces of Impressionists like Paul Cézanne and Pointillists such as Georges Seurat. At each stop, they sat on the gallery floor to immerse themselves in the artists' styles before creating their own mini artworks.

It was a truly memorable experience for the children. Although the journey was long, it was a fantastic way to round off a successful term of collaboration with the Barber Institute at the University of Birmingham.

Come Dine with Me -Tiverton Academy style!

As part of their design and technology project, Y6 learned about "Farm to Fork" and designed their own menus using three hero ingredients: bell pepper, salmon and pineapple.

They then had to prepare the ingredients, assemble the dishes and then cook them.

The best bit? Taste-testing of course!

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