Blood Heart - Summer 2

Our Learning

We have enjoyed our topic this term, learning about the circulatory system and how our blood becomes oxygenated.  We also learnt why it's important to look after your heart and how to ensure we try to keep our heart healthy by our lifestyle.  We also designed and made a game in Design and Technology  based on the board game favourite - 'Operation'!!  We made the electrical circuit to put behind the front of the game and watched the bulb light up or the buzzer sound as we tried to retrieve the items in the game!  Take a look at our photos below.

Project Homework

There have been some excellent projects this term, from facts about the heart, presented in creative ways: excellent drawings of the heart including a 3-D picture, artwork and how to keep your heart healthy as well as an exercise plan from Zoe that we all tried! There were also some well presented and informative PowerPoints and presentations from Laura, Monty, Fatima and Bella.  Take a look below at our work.

WOW!

We started our topic off by finding out what components our blood consists of: red and white blood cells, platelets and plasma.  We made a representation of this using water, 'Cheerios', red food dye, yoghurt coated fruit, yellow food dye and 'Rice Crispies'!  We also put together a jigsaw of our human heart and tried to cut out and make a 3-D circulatory system.  No-one was hurt in these activities!!  Take a look at our photos below.

Gallery Rebels - Summer 1

Our Learning 

In spite of preparing and taking the Y6 SATs tests this term, we learnt a lot about light in Science.  We discovered how we could 'bend' light using mirrors to reflect and conducted an investigation to find out what happens to the length of shadows during the day - remember, the sun only appears to move across the sky!

We also honed our hatching skills in art to reproduce a drawing in the style of our class novel - The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  We took a photos and zoomed in each time, just like the drawings in the book. Take a look at some of our photos below.

Project Homework

We had lots of amazing project homework for our topic Gallery Rebels.  Research about  famous artists, including a local artist, lots of sketching of pictures and paintings showing off great skills and facts and diagrams about light and how we see. Well done to all - lots of time taken and hard work shown. Take a look at some of the projects below.  

Wow!

We launched our topic based around our class novel: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.  We looked at the amazing pencil drawings that tell the opening of the story about a boy in Paris who hid behind a clock at a railway station.  We tried to copy one of his drawing ourselves before going on a Virtual Reality journey to Paris!  We saw the sights of the Eiffel Tower, the River Seine and the Louvre!  While we were there, we experienced the 'typical' French cafe scene by having the opportunity to paint the view and be entertained by the mime artists! It was an amazing trip - all from the comfort of school!  

We also introduced the Science topic of Light by making our own periscope.  We enjoyed using it to 'spy' on others!!