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IPC - The Mysterious Maya

IPC - The Mysterious Maya

This term the children have started their new IPC topic 'The Mysterious Maya '. This topic focuses on the Maya civilisation and the children will be learning about what these people were like. In particular, the children will be learning about the Maya number system, the writing system they used, Maya society and some of the reasons why the Maya civilisation mysteriously disappeared.

As part of our Entry Point, both 6T & 6T learnt about when and where the Maya lived and we also made hot chocolate in the style of the Maya by adding chilli and cinnamon to it. In addition, we then went outside and played the Maya game 'Pok a Tok' which the children loved doing.

IPC - The Mysterious Maya

Over the summer holidays the children in year 6 were set homework and had to find out about the Maya civilisation. Some produced information booklets and some created some fantastic models. The children worked extremely hard researching about the Maya civilisation. Take a look below at some of the brilliant work.

Maths

During maths this half term Year 6 will be focusing on the following areas: consolidating our understanding of mental and written methods of the four operations, estimating, measuring and converting different units of measurement including scales on maps, exploring the structure of different buildings in relation to 2D and 3D shapes and will be investigating the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages. For our maths display we focused on Roman Numerals and the children chose a year from history where something historical had happened and then had to convert the year into Roman Numerals. Below are some examples of the work that they produced.

English - Skellig

During this term Year 6 will be focusing on the Power of Reading text ‘Skellig’ by the author David Almond. The text is about a character called Michael who moves house and discovers a garage with a mysterious creature living inside. This term we will be focusing on writing newspapers, character descriptions and diary entries based around this fantastic book. Why not read the blurb below.

Skellig

When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes for ever . . .

Science - Light

Our science topic this half term is 'Light'. As part of this topic, we will be learning about the different sources of light, how we see things, the different parts of the eye and what refraction is. We will be carrying out a science investigation based on if the distance of a light source affects the size of a shadow.

Headboy & Headgirl Elections

Headboy & Headgirl

Year 6 have been very busy preparing for the Head Boy & Head Girl elections that are due to take place on the 18th September. So far in class, we have been focusing on what makes a good election speech and what techniques are used in order to write an effective speech. We will be writing our own speeches detailing what we would change in the school and make better if we were elected as Head Boy or Head Girl.