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Blog for Friday 15^th November 2024

Year 6 returned refreshed and eager to begin the new learning involved in this half term’s theme - “Lest we forget” – which focuses on the importance of remembering the past, recognising how such events have shaped our world and lives today.

They began by reflecting upon the events that led to the outbreak of WW2 and ultimately, Britain’s decision to go to war, discussing which causes were most significant to the outbreak.

This theme of War has also been the stimulus within English sessions, which centres around the book ‘Rose Blanche’ - a moving story of war, conflict, and the Holocaust, told through the eyes of a child.

Since searchlights were used extensively in defence against night-time bombing raids during WW2, Science lessons will cover the topic of ‘Light’ this half-term. Children recalled facts about how shadows are formed, using the terms opaque, transparent and translucent in their discussions. They had great fun creating shadow puppets to demonstrate this principle.

The class have got their groove on in music recently, composing syncopated rhythms that tie in with the underlying pulse of their current focus song ‘World Unite’, doing so through a cup passing activity. They will soon consider the melodic shape of the song, recognising how pitch shape can be represented in body movements, before collaboratively working out how to play different melodies on glockenspiels, following music notation.