The Garbage King

In Class 6C, we have started our new class novel, The Garbage King.  

We are investigating the different characters and how they feel.

Here is a group exploring the Zone of Relevance for Dani's character.  

The most important characteristics are in the middle and the least important ones are round the side. We had a lot of interesting discussion deciding what we thought he was like and justifying our decisions from the text.

The Bigfoot Mountain Debate in Year 6

Today, Year 6 hosted a debate about whether Bigfoot Mountain should be developed for tourism.

Children were put into groups such as environmentalist, skier, developer, farmers, Indians and local people and they had to argue whether they were for or against the proposed development.

Here is the agenda...

The discussion was heated with strong debate, but when it came to vote for "Should Bigfoot Mountain Ski Resort be granted planning permission?" "yes" gained 10 votes but "no" gained 18 votes, so the motion failed.  

However, Mrs Carrington said that the best debaters were really those for the Ski resorts.

How do you think you would vote?

World Water Day 2016

Today Shirley Warren Primary School helped to celebrate the 23rd United Nations World Water Day.

We started off with a very interesting assembly from Ashleigh from Southern Water who challenged us to think about where we could save water.

We then heard from Stella Typhoon (Mrs Bullas) and Aqua Lakes (Mrs Williams) who were hosting Shirley Warren News, about water around the world.  But they kept getting crackly screens! There were no reports!  So every year group found out about an aspect of water during the day. Here are some games from Year 3.

From Environmental Health correspondents to Weather Reports via songs and lots of practical activities, Shirley Warren News was finally aired at the end of the day.

Then we saw some photos of our link school, Tukela, in Zambia.  They need to raise money for flushing toilets.  Maybe you can just about see "boys" on the left and "girls" on the right on the corrugated doors in the picture. Can you see any water nearby?

As we have just had Sports Relief we are going to fund raise next term but we need your ideas for interesting ways we can raise money.  Please tell your Green Council rep any ideas you have.

Mrs Williams

Year 6 Dragon's Den

Last week, Year 6 performed a fake Dragon's Den.  All of the companies got invested because their creations were really good.  This is an example of one of the company powerpoints - the SSS.  SSS was short for Secret Silver Services.  The creator of the ring of vision is JB himself, The script creator was DM, The powerpoint creator was KAT and I am the one writing the blog!

Before the day, we prepared everything ready for the Dragons.  The ring of vision was made out of bronze and silver/cardboard and coloured pen!  We took pictures of the ring of vision for the powerpoint.

This slide describes how to activate the Ring Of Vision.

Would you buy the ring of vision? It's helpful for anyone anywhere.

Year 6 Dragons Den!

By EB

Puppet pals in Year 6

In Year 6 today we have been researching types of genre in order to enter the BBC 500 words competition.

First we thought about genres of writing, including comedy, adventure, science fiction and historical. Then we thought about these pointers to create scenes for the rest of the class to guess.

Can you guess which genre this Puppet Pals video is from?

Year 6 and the Winchester Students create amazing documentaries!

Today was the final culmination of this year's project between Winchester students and Shirley Warren Primary school.  Over the last few weeks, pupils from year 6 have been involved in working together to create news reports about their chosen animals. fIrst they worked on Google Docs to create a collaborative fact file.  Then the group designed their reports, using blue screen, music and other media techniques.

This group produced a report about turtles, including some very amusing turtle impressions!

We would like to thank the students and wish them well in their future teaching.

Zoo lab

This morning Year 6 had a visit from Heather and Zoolab.  She brought many different animals and talked about them, classifying and describing their attributes.  Here are some of our favourite animals, which we were very careful to handle.

  

It was amazing how Heather had so many exciting creatures in her special animal suitcase!  We couldn't hold Maud, the Bearded Dragon, because her claws might scratch.

Thank you Heather for bringing in you animals.  

Can you remember what we had to do after we had handled the animals?

Starting The Year Safely with Hampshire Fire and Rescue!

Today Hampshire Fire and Rescue came to years 5 and 6 to remind us all about staying safe when we are walking (pedestrians) and cycling.  These photos show some children finding out what was wrong with the bikes before fixing them.

 

One pupil in year 6 said, "Today we are learning to solve problems that are found in bikes. We found out that the brakes were too loose. The tyre wasn't pumped up properly. It needs a new tyre, maybe an inner tube." 

Can you remember which letter we used to check?

We also tried on some cycling clothes.

Can you spot which items we have added to make us more visible?