Yew - Year 6

Welcome to Year 6 2024- 2025!

In Computing we learnt about networks and how they are made up of lots of computers joined together. To make a successful network they have to be able to reach each other to send messages. We learnt about IP addresses and how they tell packets (small messages) where the messages are from, where they are going to and the message to send. We practised being a network ourselves and tried to get messages from our friends on the opposite side of the room. Some of us forgot to include our to/from address and our messages were lost in the network.

The children enjoyed experiencing sport as if they were hearing impaired this week. To recreate this the children were not allowed to speak, make noise or whisper to each other. We started our session by playing tig, nobody knew who was on. Then, the children had to find a way to communicate an instruction to their team in order to get them in a certain order. The children came up with lots of different methods of communication and it was fascinating to see their choices.

In science we created periscopes to understand how mirrors reflect light. We began our learning by trying to see a picture our friends had stuck on our backs. We soon discovered that by using two mirrors we could reflect the image from one to the other and see the drawing. We used this knowledge to create periscopes to enable us to see around corners. We had to ensure our mirrors were placed on an angle so the light could reflect between them and to our eyes.

We really enjoyed working collaboratively with Willow Class to compare descriptive sentences used to create imagery. We were writing sentences to describe Tom’s Midnight Garden and had a great time listening to each other’s ideas and developing our sentences together. 

We enjoyed starting our learning about light and discovering how we see things. We used string to represent light beams and showed how we see objects. We discussed different light sources and how light can only travel in straight lines.