Year Six Blog

As part of our Big Question we invited Helga the Viking to come into year 6 and speak to us about what Viking life was like.

We had a great day, which involved singing, imaginaging we were Viking Warriors and writing our own runes.

Over the next few months we will be preparing for the SATs exams during May. We have put in different links below to help you revise.

Coxhoe

BBC

Woodlands

Good Luck!

During this term we will be answering the BIG question:

 ’How do we know the Vikings came to Britain?’

Here is a link which is full of useful information to get you started!

Today Chorlton Park’s huge choir went on a long but fun walk to a care home in Walley Range where they sang carols. The choir is made up of children from years 2 to 6, and currently has nearly 70 members. The choir did a fantastic job today, singing beautifully despite technical faults!

Well done to Maeve too – not only a great singer, but a talented photographer!

We started our Big Question on the Lake District before all the flooding happened. We looked at these amazing images of the floods on Stridingedge.net and plotted some of the locations on Umapper. if you click on the markers you will see photos taken at these places. This is Harry’s map.

This map was made by Billie.

Ella used http://www.umapper.com and written instructions in html to link to the webistes

Year 6 have been using Quikmaps to annotate a digital map. We are learning how to add hyperlinks and images to maps using some simple html tags. This map is Mr Sutton’s example. We will be putting up the children’s maps over the next couple of weeks.

By combining data from different sources (maps from Google, images from Flickr, and our own text and hyperlinks) we have created a “mashup”. Mashups are really useful because we can take data such as a digital map and edit it for our own purposes. For example, we could create themed maps for tourism showing popular tourist spots (remember last week’s lesson where we used Twitter to get suggestions for favourite Lake District tourist spots). We could also try and map the impact of the Lake District floods using news sites to find places that had been affected. perhaps we could use this to highlight the problems that the area is facing and do a bit of fundraising. Ideas please.

ghyll head was the best thing i have ever been. you go conoeing, the rope asult cause, absailing, mounting climbing and lots of really fun stuff like that.
the ghyll head house is great because the staff and instructors are really, really nice the food is nice it has a games room, adinning room, its got really nice rooms and a nice lounge.there is a lot of very nice views.

Gyll head was the best it was better then the rest. At gyll head we did lots of amazing activities, like itreresting walks,conoeing and ab-sailing.The interesting walks were fun and I learnt lot’s of stuff.Conoeing was fun because we did fun games like who can get the duck first that the instrutor threw. The residential is the best part of primary school. I HAD SO MUCH FUN!