Today we had our parent workshop. We were given a challenge where we had to use a variety of materials to create a 'boat' that not only floated on water, but held different amounts of weight.
We used card, plastic, paper, tape, glue, corks, lollipop sticks, straws and many other materials to make our creations.
After we began testing them, we soon realised the larger the surface area of the boat the more weight it would hold: this is because the weight was distributed more evenly! 
We then had to use our maths knowledge to total the weight that the boats held before they began to sink!
We also observed that the boats with more cardboard sank quicker as they absorbed the water and dragged the boat down. The ones with plastic on the bottom were able to float a lot longer as they were water resistant.

We had a wonderful World Book Day in Year 6. It was amazing to see the effort put in to the different outfits the children had on - from Harry Potter inspired outfits to the real Gangsta Granny herself - it was truly wonderful to see! We enjoyed taking part in our final World Book Day parade at High View too!

Later on in the day, we had the opportunity to share our favourite books with another year group. 6SH visited Year 3 and 6JB were visited by Year 2. Again, everyone had a fantastic time whether it was reading to another, listening to another read, doing the silly voices or listening to an adult, the children enjoyed sharing their books - check out our pictures below!

We had an amazing day!

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Today in maths we took part in revision stations. Each station was set up with different activities involving 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We worked in small groups as a carousel and supported each other in completeing the actitvities, we worked hard to remember all we had learnt about shape throughout key stage 2 and also learnt some new, interesting facts about shapes. We are looking forward to building on our knowledge and applying this to lots of different problems and investigations!

This week we have celebrated the progress made by the children in reading, writing and maths. We have worked really hard this term and are now looking forward to the holidays!
Well done Year 6!

This week in Science we have been learning about light and the way in which it travels. After discovering that light travels in straight lines we played a shadow game where we had to choose different objects and create a shadow using a torch and see if someone could guess what the object was. We had great fun but also learnt a lot about light, how it travels and how/why shadows are created. Can you identify any of the objects we used to make different shadows? 

This week we kick-started our electricity topic with a visit to Magna! We took part in a 'Big Circuits' workshop where we had to construct a complete circuit with various components. We then explored the museum and discovered some new and interesting facts about the four elements. It was a great day and we can't wait to continue our learning!

Look how much fun we had at our last ever Christmas Party at High View!

Today we did some grammar revision before our literacy lesson, we played Heads Up! The children chose a card, held it to their head and the other members of their team had to describe what the grammatical term was without saying the word on the card. It really tested our knowledge but we had fun at the same time! 

Today we used Purple Mash to write codes for our own, personal computer games. We learnt how to make objects repeat actions - both on a timer and forever! We then edited our games to make them personal to us. We can't wait to finish them next week!

Today we had a Viking visitor - Wayland - who came to visit us in school and teach us all about how the Vikings used to live. We had an awesome day experiencing different Viking crafts and activities. We made clay oil burners, made and played a viking game, and trained to be viking warriors with shields and spears! We also got to handle a variety of viking artifacts. Examining the way they were built, the materials that were used and the skill and craftmanship that was required to make the objects. Did you know many words we use today come from words used during viking times? Our favourite part was learning how to make a real fire without using matches (safely of course)!
​We had a fantastic day and learnt so much - what a fab way to continue our topic this term!