Sinking Ships!
We’ve continued to investigate the idea of density this week in Science. The children were asked to design a boat that would hold the most weight without sinking. They were only given plasticine and tin foil. They got their creative hats on and built some great boat designs. They had to think about the weight of their boat – they knew their boat had to be less dense than water density. Some groups increased the surface area of their boats too as they realised this helped with buoyancy. First we tested which boats floated – some boats were eliminated straight away as they promptly sank. I won’t be booking a cruise on any of those boats!
The successful boats went onto the next round where we added cubes to test how much weight they held before sinking. The majority of boats held between 3 and 9 cubes. The winner held 110 before sinking! This was amazing. I think there is a career in boat building on the cards for the winning group!
Living and learning: I know what consent is
As part of our living and learning this week, we have been discussing body image and body confidence. We began by looking at the definition of body image – our idea of how our body looks and how we think it looks to others. This can include feelings and thoughts. Body confidence is about how we feel about the way we look. Our society tells us that there is an ideal way to look. This is called an ‘appearance ideal.’ With that in mind, we need to remember that these ideals are:
- impossible to achieve
- always changing
- unrealistic
We talked about how the media leads to detrimental ways in which we look at our bodies – we make comparisons We need to remember that the majority of images we see through the media have been ‘touched up’ and edited in some way.
The children had to think about how they personally feel about body image and what their confidence levels are like. The task in the lesson was each person had to think about positive things about themselves and which body parts they liked and why?
Where can you go for help?
Talk to your teacher or another trusted adult, in or out of school.
Put your worry in the class worry box.
Talk to your friends.
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Books, Glorious Books
We are very lucky at our school to have a library full of wonderful books to borrow and enjoy. Over the past few weeks, we have been re-stocking our library with some lovely new books. We now have 300 new books on the shelves in the library. Every child has a library session each week where they can select any book they want to borrow and enjoy at home. Happy reading!
5/6M Certificate Winners
For great learning…
Marley – What a fantastic first week back. You have been focussed and determined to succeed.
For sport and physical activity…
Olivia – you worked hard on improving your throwing and catching in our cricket games.
For living and learning…
Abigail – you are a fantastic role model. You always do the right thing.
We don’t like cricket…we love it!
We have Yorkshire Cricket coach, Jamie Sykes, coming into school over the next half term. All classes from Year 1 to Year 6 will receive some cricket coaching over the next 6 weeks. He set some very important ‘homework’…to watch some cricket, if you can! #chancetoshine #yorkshirecricket
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Abi – you showed enthusiasm and resourcefulness in Design Technology this week. You discussed your ideas well with others.
For sport and physical activity…
James – you have worked hard to improve your rounders skills this week. Well done for persevering.
For living and learning…
Lleyton – You contributed well during the body image lesson and you showed a really responsible and mature attitude. Thank you.
Well done everyone!
Designing ‘Egg’xperts!
Year 5 and 6 have begun our final topic of the year – design and technology! Our mission is to design, create and test a small buggy, fit for saving our good friend, Eggy.
This week, the children have been heavily engaged in analysing some existing products, to help generate ideas for our own designs next week.
Here are some examples of our work:
Design and Technology: Eggy needs help!
To kick off this last half term, Y5/6 are beginning a design and technology journey!
We had an urgent message from someone asking for our help…
We took a look at our new vocabulary and decided how confident we felt as a class.
- red = I’ve never heard this term before and have no clue what it means!
- amber = I’ve heard of it but wouldn’t be able to fully explain.
- green = I’m super confident about this word in a DT context!
Here are the definitions! Get practising!
Floating and sinking
This week, Year 5/6 have been investigating objects that float and sink. They were building on their existing knowledge from previous years. They began by predicting if an orange would float or sink. Once they’d tested this, they found that it floated. However, when they peeled the orange, it sank – this is to do with density of the object. They then created other comparative investigations to explore the idea of density using tin foil, candles and plasticine. Ask your child about the investigation and what they found out.
Science
Our Science learning this half term is all about scientific enquiry. The children will use their science and link it to an historical event in context;the sinking of the Titanic. This topic is based around applying working scientifically skills that they have learned so far in their Science lessons, to explore some of the scientific concepts behind the Titanic, e.g. floating and sinking. They will apply skills, such as asking questions, making observations and predicting. Below is a list of vocabulary the children will be learning over the next few weeks. Can you help your child learn these words? Could you play some games to help your child memorise the definitions? Maybe a game of Pictionary!
