Workshops in Year 6

Year 6 had some slightly different lessons last week as we learnt about kettle drums and Caribbean music before the Watford Schools Trust came in to offer advice about transitioning to secondary school. The photo below shows children in 6F learning that working together to overcome a challenge is the best route forward.

5G Take One Picture week

As part of 'Take One Picture' week, we looked at the painting 'Mr and Mrs Andrews' by Thomas Gainsborough. In Literacy, we imagined walking through the picture and described what we would be able to see, hear and feel. Below is Alex's description of walking through the painting. We hope you enjoy it!

As you slowly start to slowly stroll down the forest,you will see the birds tweeting and singing whilst they soar lazily through the sky.

Green grass lies limply on the floor as you step on it. Screaming with anguish, it becomes a flattened carpet of life. Protecting bugs, ants, beatles and many more, the long, lush, emerald fronds sway side to side gracefully as the warm breeze rustles through it. Emerald green trees and bushes surround you as you take another step closer to the end. Leaves fall off trees as the wind blows. The smell of nature brings you delight and joy in the moments you are there.

The sky, azure blue like the ocean, lovingly watches every movement of yours as clouds try to block it's view. A princess stands here. A prince stands here. Both leaning against a tree to speak but as you pause beside them them they stop and look at you. As you start to stroll once more, you can hear her heart speed up as she gets more nervous. She is wearing a long beautiful blue dress with a pair of white shoes. Her cheeks blush as the prince talks. Her hair is long and lush.

5E's primary colour pointillism experimentation

Prior to visiting Whipsnade Zoo, 5E experimented with pointillism techniques in order to learn about what techniques worked most effectively. After the visit, the children used their knowledge to create pointillism art of their favourite animal at the zoo.

Below are stages in their learning. We began by creating secondary and tertiary colours using our colour wheel knowledge. We followed this by experimenting with cotton buts, cocktail sticks, pencils and paintbrushes in order to create different pointillism effects. We finished our experimentation by creating our animals in a collage of their natural habitat.

Below you can find Chanel and Yeganeh's colour wheels, Daneel and Malakai's pointillism tool experimentation and finally Leo and Daneel's animals.

5E's story retelling through dance

This week in 5E we retold the beginning of the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece using creative dance routines. The children worked in pairs, playing the parts of Jason and his wicked uncle, practising a movement routine in time to classical music to demonstrate the argument between the two characters. The whole class really endeavoured to move in time to the music and use their gestures to tell the story.

Animal Poetry by 5G

This week in Year 5 we have started our new theme, 'Endangered Animals'. We have been writing a range of different poems based on various species of endangered animals including riddles, haikus and shape poems. Below is our class poem from our acrostic session. We hope you enjoy it!

Enormous elephants plod wearily,
Like great, grey blundering boulders.
Extremely inept, they trample bushes and grass underfoot.
Peacefully, they halt and rest, finding a 
Home underneath the starry sky.
Arising sleepily, they prepare again to march,
Never pausing in their onwards journey,
Trying desperately to avoid deadly dangers.