It's been a busy term for Year 6, but finally the SATs are over and summer is here! To celebrate, this week half the class went on a residential visit to the Forest of Dean, where they took part in a variety of team-building and outdoors challenges, and the other half of the class stayed at school. The children who stayed at school spent the week thinking creatively to solve Maths problems, celebrated writing week by creating interviews around the theme "If I were famous it would be because..." and completed lots of mini-projects. One popular project involved creating our own planets, bringing together our science learning with some art skills. The children used primary and secondary coloured pens to design a planet on a coffee filter, before taking the coffee filters outside. There, we sprayed the filters with water, and watched the colours mixing to create new secondary and tertiary colours. The children then named their planets, and have started to describe