In science, Chestnuts current topic is “Electricity”.
This week we have investigated how to make a complete circuit. We have been explaining why circuits sometimes do not work.
Look at our pictures showing the bulb lighting and the work in our books.
This week we began planning our summer enterprise. From Monday we will be selling delicious ice lollies outside of Oaks classroom at breaktimes (Monday-Thursday) to raise funds for rewards and to provide some equipment for our school.
We have started writing an advertising campaign and are in the process of recording some examples to advertise online, on dojo and in/around the school.
Here is a sample of all of our hard work, written by Jake in Oaks:
Introducing our new, fantastic summer enterprise: Frozen Flavours! Are you hot and bothered on a summer’s day? Do you crave a flavourful, refreshing treat at break time? If so, Frozen Flavours is here to help! Boring break times will be a thing of the past! We guarantee we will put a big grin on your face. Hello summer!
Imagine this, you’re enjoying a refreshing, mouth-watering frozen treat on a sweltering summer day. Every week, we switch up the frozen treat selection. One week rocket lollies, the next fruit twisters and many more… We will have something for all children to enjoy. Don’t worry parents, at the annual summer fair, we’ll be there!
Some of the money raised will go to Fellgate Primary School’s clubs, music equipment, playground equipment, art and school supplies. Also, it will help the students’ learning here at Fellgate Primary School. You can find us at Oaks’ classroom door. Some of the funds raised will be used for trip and rewards. The summer enterprise is a fun tradition for the Year 6 children, which gives them lots of responsibility.
Parents, if your child has any allergies, get in touch. We will make arrangements so your child can enjoy our brrr-illiant frozen treats.
Frozen Flavours is perfect to cool down on a hot summers day. Hello summer!
As you can tell, we were all extremely proud of our hard work!
We even had someone take the time to create an amazing logo for our enterprise using a laptop.
Chestnuts have had lots of coronation fun! 🇬🇧
We made royal crowns and Union Jack flags, before eating cucumber sandwiches and jam cream scones. Then, we played games on the field 🌞
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As part of our art topic, Chestnuts have been looking at statues and statuettes from throughout history.
We we have used clay to create our our figures of people. It was quite hard to shape the clay carefully and add intricate details.
Don’t they look amazing?
Chestnuts have had a fantastic day at The Great North Museum (Hancock) in Newcastle.
We have learned lots about Ancient Egypt and were wowed by the real artefacts, especially the mummified bodies on display! We will follow up this learning over the next few weeks in class.
The children’s behaviour was perfect! We even received an email to school from a Metro passenger, saying how polite and well-behaved the children had been whilst travelling. All staff and children feel very proud! ☺️
To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III Willows had some fun with their friends in Cherries, making crowns, flags and designing a robe for display.
The children enjoyed a special coronation lunch too- Buckingham bangers and Coronation roast chicken! For pudding there were some yummy biscuits and cupcakes.
Looking very regal in their crowns!
Our art topic this half term is ‘Beautiful Botanicals’. To explore this theme, Willows went out into the school grounds to search for plants and flowers.
Once they returned to the classroom they set to work examining their samples and got straight on with sketching them.
Take a look at them at work!
As part of our Science work, Blossoms took part in an online workshop called Chemistry 4 Change. They had the opportunity to speak with two real life Scientists who talked about their jobs within Chemistry and found out things like how long they’d been in their jobs for, how they trained for their jobs and what caused them to want to be Scientists. The children then had to think about world environmental issues that can be impacted by Science and how they can be changed/prevented (for example, reducing the amount of plastic in the ocean or climate change). Blossoms had to draw themselves as Chemists along with the environmental issue they were trying to solve. Great work everyone!
In Art this week, Blossoms have been learning about traditional techniques that use paper. We have been practising quilling where you need to cut paper into strips, coil it and then glue it down into a pattern. We have also been working on paper folding (origami) and for this we used paper squares and folded them into butterflies. Super work Blossoms!
This term, our RE topic is ‘How do Hindus worship at home and at the Mandir’?
To start off this topic, Willows learnt all about Hindu shrines. They focussed on how Hindus use them to worship in their homes as well as recognising the features and what they symbolise.
