For Science day, Class 6 investigated which biscuit was the best for dunking. They created their own investigation and recorded their experiment in groups. They the created clear scatter graphs to record their results and feedback what they had found out How fast is your resting heart rate? How does this …
Category: year6
Jul 05
Heart Rate parent activity
We invited our parents into school to complete a science activity with us. We were investigating how exercise affects our bodies, specifically our heart rate. To make it a fair test, we could choose one variable to change, either the type of exercise completed or how long the exercise is completed for. Once the exercise …
Jun 27
OAA Week
During Outdoor and Adventurous week (OAA week) 2022, we enjoyed taking part in many different activities which challenged our problem solving, creative thinking, fine and gross motor and teamwork skills. Some of our favourite activities from the week included: perspective photography den building campfire cooking nature sculptures fire lighting making our own Tudor potpourri bags …
Jun 15
Animation Nation
One of our favourite workshops this year was the opportunity to create stop motion animations. This process took a number of different steps to complete. Stage 1) Planning our animation on a storyboard template. In our groups, we thought carefully about the short animation story we wanted to create. We then planned …
Dec 01
Design and Technology – Gingerbread Houses
This term in design and technology, we have made gingerbread houses. We began the unit by learning about the origin of gingerbread and decorated gingerbread from the Tudors. We researched and created our own designs, before using templates to create a prototype. We then worked collaboratively and safely to follow a recipe, carefully measuring our …
Oct 11
Bikeability
In the Autumn term, Mrs Ramsdale (the chair of governors) came to school over 2 separate weeks and completed our bikeability training with us. The first week was spent on the playground, learning how to check our bikes, use hand signals as well as other skills including changing speed and direction. The second week, she …
Oct 09
Camp Out
As we missed out on our residential trip to York in Year 5 due to Covid-19, we had a camp out on the school field. This was great fun for us as we could spend time with our friends outside of school hours. We played games in the dark, had dinner round the campfire with …
Mar 24
World Book Day Potatoes
Here at the Ryde School, we celebrated World Book day on the 22nd March with children bringing in potato book characters from their favourite stories. The children created an array of characters from well-known stories, and these were displayed for everyone in school to see. We are constantly encouraging a love of books in school. Did you …
Jan 23
Fossil Workshop
On 23rd January, Class 6 took part in a rocks and fossils workshop with Dr Helen a palaeontologist (a scientist who studies fossils). This is because we are learning about fossils and evolution in our science topic. We started the morning by looking at a variety of fossils from different eras and thinking about which …
Jan 08
Mission to Mars
On 8th January 2020, Year 6 participated in a Lego Robotics workshop with Setpoint. In this workshop we had to creatively construct and code a robot which could complete a variety of missions and dodge obstacles. For example, push two magnets together; save astronauts; climb over a crater and knock off a dust solar panel. …