Today we had plenty of Food Tasting Fun!!!

We were given the challenge of analysing a range of existing products.
We described the appearance and taste of the fruits we tasted.
We then gave them a score for each and converted this to an overall score, using our NUMBER skills.

Next we decided how the product could be used in our fruit salad or smoothie.

We then used I.C.T. to analyse a range of existing recipes and obtain information to help with our future recipe writing.
















We certainly had our FIVE A DAY today!

Mrs Davies almost chopped her fingers off peeling this pineapple.

There is a family history about disasters with pineapples! If you are good maybe I will tell you one day.


At least it was easier to prepare than the coconut!!

We found out a lot about recipes and methods on the Internet.

On Thursday in Science we had to describe the main function of the human heart.


We used COMMUNICATION skills to describe blood flow to our talking partners.

We drew a diagram of the human heart.

We then used our NUMBER skills to measure our :
a)resting pulse rate
b) pulse rate after jogging on the spot for 1 minute
c) pulse rate after twenty press ups



We also used our I.C.T. skills to research healthy hearts on the Internet.

Our final activity was to explain the flow of the blood through the heart.

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, P.C. Daniels paid her final visit to Year 6.


For our last task of the S.A.F.E. campaign we had to discuss what we knew about drugs.

In our groups we had to write down drug names, talk about who uses drugs, investigate why people use drugs and think about the dangers of drug use.

We also had to name legal drugs, illegal drugs and drugs we might use for medication.

At the end of the session P.C. Daniels choose six pupils who she thought had contributed the most to the lessons. It was a difficult choice, but here they are, pictured with their prizes.

Well done to all of Y6. We hope you remember how to keep yourselves S.A.F.E.

A big thank you to P.C. Daniels and all of the community police team for their input.

On Thursday we continued with our power point presentations about children's lives during World War Two.

We watched Mahrooshay's power point which she completed at home as she will not be here for our evaluation. It was an informative and well organised presentation. Well done Mahrooshay!



We have spent a great deal of time researching the lives of children during WW2, while also trying to improve our ICT skills.

Once our presentations are finished they will be posted to the Blog.

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PLEASE PHONE TO CHECK IF YOU ARE NOT SURE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OR PERHAPS FAX YOUR FORM THROUGH.

Please phone

Janice Stuckey
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In History this afternoon we discussed who else was affected when children were evacuated.

We were given a list of people who might have been affected.

These included the children themselves, their parents, foster parents, relatives, new teachers, old teachers, old community, new community, old friends, new friends, old school, new school and pets.

We the discussed, in pairs, the degree of effect on each category. We then put our answers in a ripple diagram, with the people we thought were the most affected in the middle, leading out to the people we thought would be the least affected.

OPERATION PIED PIPER

This morning we were set the task to find out all we could about Operation Pied piper.

We had to read a text to gain information, and understand about important events.

We used paired reading, discussed our responses and checked each other's written answers.

We had to examine the text to discover what Operation Pied Piper was all about.
We also had to look at pictures and infer what was taking place and why. We also discussed the emotions involved and try to explain the feelings and experiences of different children.

To find out more about Operation Pied Piper, watch the two videos found on the sites below.