RE - Salisbury Cathedral Service - 2012

On Friday the 15th June our Year 6 class was lucky enough to be invited to a leavers' service at Salisbury Cathedral. 

In the morning we took part in a range of Olympic themed activities. Here we are creating an Olympic dance:

We also worked together to create the five Olympic Rings which represent each continent. 

Art - Olympic Drawings - 2012

We looked at some of the different sporting events that will take place during London 2012. Here are some of our drawings:

Science - Micro-organisms - 2012

We carried out an experiment to answer the question 'What makes yeast work the quickest?' We got busy making dough and made sure that we conducted a fair test by keeping factors the same such as the amount of yeast, the same ingredients, adding the same amount and temperature of water. Our interdependent variable was the temperature of the place where we left the bread to prove. We left some in a cold temperature (the fridge), some in room temperature (the classroom) and some in a hot temperature (an oven that had been heated but then turned off). We checked the bread every fifteen minutes.


It was easy to see that the room temperature worked best as each time we checked the dough was the largest. This was because the yeast cells are most active at room temperature. They cause sugars to ferment and generate carbon dioxide which causes the bread to rise.


With the rest of our day we baked some delicious rolls and when we cut them in half we could see the tiny holes formed by the carbon dioxide. Finally, we ate them. Yum!

History - Victorians - 2012

Towards the end of our Victorians topic we had a school day to discover what it was like to go to a Victorian school room. 

We sat in rows and had to do a lot of chanting! We also had to write on to slates. Some people didn't do a very good job. They wore the dunce's hat!

We wrote out some well known proverbs such as 'children should be seen and not heard, silence is golden and manner maketh the man'. To experience what it would have been like to be left handed in Victorian times we all had to write with our opposite hand. This wasn't easy, two children even got the cane from Mrs Dolman.

We got to do some exercise drills but we weren't very good with our left and rights.

Eventually we got to have our Victorian lunch which consisted of jam sandwiches and a delicious Victoria sponge cake baked by Mrs Dolman.