The children participated in some role play in RE last week to explore differences and how we create unity and harmony within a community.
In RE, the children have been focusing on the disposition ‘Living by Rules’. In their last lesson they were required to look at the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus in the Bible and the Ten Conditions of Bai’at from the Ahmadiyya faith. With these rules the children had to decide if they could group any together based on similarities between faiths or if any needed to be alone because they were different to all the others.
In PSHE, the children in year 6 have been recapping the PANTS rules which help keep us all safe.
The children remembered the rules from their previous learning really well and could talk about how they helped to keep people safe.
As part of this lesson, we looked at a number of different scenarios in small groups. For each scenario the children had to discuss which PANTS rule was being broken, and what the character could say or do next.
The children were all very sensible and gave very good advice to each of the characters and knew exactly what should be done to help them in each scenario.
We have been learning about light in science and so far have explored shadows and how they are formed and materials of different transparencies.
Eagles have been through the process of designing and making the exterior of their night lights, today Eagles worked carefully to understand and use electrical systems in their products . To make their night lights work they first connected up their Crumble Microcontrollers
They then had to apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.
They did this buy writing their own code using the Crumble software and loading it onto the Micro-Controller. Notice their use of repetition, careful sequencing of instructions and inputting the correct variable.
To ensure their product was working as desired they tested it in a dark room.
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Year 6 finished their music and me projects and performed them to the rest of the class. The outcomes were great. The children worked so hard on them and really worked well together in small groups.