Year 6 2021-22

It's St Paul's Carnival this weekend! To mark the occasion, children and staff at school participated in our own Cabot Carnival. This year's theme is journeys, so every class took a different type of transport and learned a different poem to perform after we had processed to the Courts (in our transport-themed costumes). Year 6 learned 'Windrush Child' by John Agard, who was one of the poets we studied earlier in the year (we love the way he performs his works). Our transport was cars, so we carefully studied and drew car manufacturers' logos and attached them to t-shits, masks and hats. We had a great time! There was such a lot of partnership taking place in our class in order to get ready for Carnival in time. Don't we look spectacular? Happy Carnival!

Years 5 and 6 visited Ashton Court today - we had an amazing time! On arrival, Michael (who visited us last week) and Tony (one of the archaeologists there) spoke to us about the site. Then, we split into groups. Some of us started off by helping out with the dig. We needed hi-vis vests, protective gloves, knee-rests, buckets, trowels and shovels. We found lots of bits of pottery, some tiles, 17th Century glass and a clay pipe! Perhaps the next school to visit will find the lost treasure? Meanwhile, a group of children were trying to find all the different windows and hidden features of Ashton Court. This trough was donated by the RSPCA in memory of the horses who died in the Boer War in South Africa! We weren't impressed by all the horse poo around the stables! There were so many different types of windows. We had to look up all the time!  We explores some of the grounds, too, but there was so much we didn't see - perhaps some...

We had an unplugged ICT lesson last week, and explored using the Bee Bots. We programmed them with algorithms to draw different numbers! This involved a lot of debugging, as it wasn't as easy as it looked...