iSing Pop!

What a wonderful musical week we have had!

At the end of last week, some of our year 6 stepped up in front of the class and spoke beautifully about why they would like to become a house captain. Mrs. Sibley was super impressed with the public speaking talent we had in class! House Captain decisions will be announced next week.

In English we have completed our unit on descriptive writing, and all managed to make improvements in our descriptions of our criminal masterminds. We also started investigating our first spelling rule - looking at 'ough' spellings.

In maths we also completed our unit on place value, and we are now thinking of the different mental methods that we use to help us add and subtract ready for next week.

In topic we concluded our look at crime and punishment in the Roman period by making our own Roman curse tablets. We had to choose a crime that had been made against us, a God to appeal to and an appropriate (and in a lot of cases quite silly) curses to put upon that person. We then etched our curse onto a strip of silver-looking plastic (a safer replica to the lead sheeting that they used in Roman times!)

In science year 6 discovered how the eyes help us to see things, and that our eyes see things upside down! To prove this we made our own pinhole cameras, and were amazed to see how they worked!

We did an experiment to see how our pupils change size according to the light

We quickly discovered that if we hid in the dark our pinhole cameras worked much better...

... and the jumper-wearing craze soon took hold!

We also realised poking out of the dark cupboard worked too!

Of course the major highlight of this week was learning 7 songs, recording an album and taking part in 2 performances with iSing Pop! Here are some photos of us in rehearsals, reminders of a great week!

Just a reminder that homework this week will be due in on Thursday 29^th September instead of the usual 30^th, as we will be enjoying our taster day at Stanway on that day!

Mrs Crawley