Yr 6 Newsletter   Week 4 and 5   Written by Yr 6 students. 

At the moment in Yr 6 we have been talking about school camp. We will be flying there the first week of Term 4.  We will be doing fun activities like building rafts, night spotting, giant Jenga and lots more.  We saw the final design of our t-shirt, with all the colours and our names on it. It looks amazing!  

Last week we started working with the WeDo Lego kids in Digital Technology.  The kit connects to the APP on the ipad, you connect the battery to the motor and then programme the motor to spin and move in different ways.  With these kits we will build trains, robots and all sorts of motor powered things.  You can also program a lever, it tells you the degrees of the surface and you have to put in the code to make it work. It is all about coding and following instructions. 

In Religion we have been researching Mary McKillop and learnt about all the helpful things she did for her community and family. We have some beautiful artwork that we designed as part of Catholic Education Week depicting “A Spirited Tomorrow”…. Our Second steps lessons have been looking at how our brain reacts in conflict situations and how this effects our bodies and recognising some of these signs.  The importance of pausing and thinking first before acting was really interesting. 

We have been changing different variables in our circuit work to see what effects the brightness of the light bulb.  We have made different circuits and changed the amount of bulbs used, how many batteries and wires etc to see what happens. It was really fun and we enjoyed experimenting and learning why the brightness changed. We can’t wait for more fun things to experiment with. 

For reward time we did the Jellybean challenge.  This is where you pull a jellybean out of the bucket and if you get the right flavour you get a go at the jellybean target. You have to throw a marble into the bucket from a distance, you get different points for where it lands. It is all about aiming and judging distances as well as getting to eat jellybeans!