Make do and mend

We are taking a plain t-shirt and turning it into a magnificent piece of clothing.All of us are 

enjoying are selves hence these clothing items will be out standing.All 30 of us have amazing cloths.

From short sleves tops to warm gloves.

Anne Frank Homework

Wonderful piece of homework from Matthew. Re-telling the story of Anne Frank using lego!!

As a class we give it 10/10! 

Cricket

Today in PE we have been practising and refining our cricket skills. In small teams of four we have been working on our underarm bowling, defensive batting and fielding skills before taking part in some small games of kwick cricket! We discovered Sade and Tom were master batters! Let's sign them up for the England team!

Wesak Day

To celebrate the Buddhist festival of Wesak, we have been making Wesak lanterns. The light is to symbolise the Enlightment of Buddha. 

Free the Children - Year 6 can change the world!

Two Tear 6 children from Newham! Make a big change one day at a time! WeDay UK

Spencer West

What an inspirational man! Really made us think of the 'Hows'. How we can change the world! WeDay UK! 

shocking science

In year 6 we have been learning about micro-organisms so we decided to do an experiment.The experiment was to see wich places micro-organisms prefer out of : warm ,warm and damp,cold and cold and damp. After a week we went to check to see what happend we discorved that the best place to put bread so mould wouldn't go on it is to put it in the fridge and the worst place to put bread is in a warm damp place because lots of micro-organisms would go on it

This week in science

 Today in science we did a little experiment to see 'which is the best condition for yeast to grow and reproduce?' 

Method:

First of all we put the chosen ingredients in the desinated tubes, then we attached the same size balloons to the top of each test tubes. After this all we could do is wait for the results.

Ingredients:

Test tube 1: Just yeast.

Test tube 2: Yeast and a pinch of sugar.

Test tube 3: Yeast and 10ml of cold/tap water.

Test tube 4: Yeast, pinch of sugar and 10ml of warm water.

Test tube 5: Yeast, pinch of sugar and 10ml of boiling water.

Test tube 6:  Yeast, pinch of sugar and 10ml of cold/tap water.

Fair test:

Same amount of water.

Same amount of yeast.

Same size/type balloons.

Same size test tubes.

Same place.

Conclusion: 

We found out that the micro-organisms need sugar and warm water to survive.

This ment that more carbon dioxide gas bubbles were created which made the balloon on test tube 4 rise and inflate the most.

 

Experiment madness

Last week year 6 Jupiter done a very fun science experiment. We put four types of bread in driffent places. The types of bread were cold cold and damp warm and warm and damp the places were cold in the fridge and warm in the cupboard. The warm and damp got the most mold. The cold and the cold and damp got no mold at all!!!!!so this proves that cold places stop microorganisms getting on your food.down below are the bread altogether and in the places. Also check out shocking science for a driffent point of view and this week in science for are outher experiment.

Time tables

Today in year6 we have been looking at reading time tables in maths

Firstly we drew our line to count on,next we wrote our starting and finishing times and then counted on to work out the time difference

Here is a picture of my work                                           By Alex

Converting measurements

In our maths work we did the 7 column method. I did challenge 3 and completed it,I found this easier with the 7 coulom method.                By Alfie

Maths

Today in maths we have been learning to convert between km,m,cm,mm using a seven colloumn table

We had to choose between challenges 1,2and 3 and I chose number 2. 

Here is a picture of my work

By Jacob 

Thread to successes!

During the time we had to sow, I produced a top with a pink bow in the bottom left and a heart on the top right. The top was originally a beige top with no decoration. It had no hemming involved just plain. It took a lot of thinking through, in total it took 3 times that I had to restart, but finally I got the perfect model in the end.

Penguins in Reception!

Lately, in reception, they have been learning about penguins and created booklets. They have achieved a lot in so little time for their age. Their hand writing is absolutely exceptional and their knowledge is somewhat sensational. They researched at home and some even went to extremes by visiting local zoos and creating posters. Also, they created penguins out of cardboard tubes and coloured paper. 

Run, there are penguins in reception!

My new bag

In year 6 Saturn and Jupiter we have been doing some sewing and we are really enjoying it. Our teachers have asked us to bring in some of our old clothes that don't fit us anymore or Maybe some of your parents clothes but don't bring them without your parents permission. So I went through my wardrobe and I found some old shorts that don't fit me any more and I thought I could make a bag out of them. So I brought them to school the next day and started making a bag. First of all I had to sew the bottom of the leg bits and then I could add some things to it. Then I got some pink felt and cut out an L shape and sewed it on. I also brought in an old jumpsuit and made a handle out of it and sewed It on so I told my teacher and she put it on the wall.

Sewing for Make Do and Mend

For the past few weeks we have been sewing because we want to know what it felt like to be in war times when they had to make do and mend.originally i had my baby brothers t shirt and turned it into a fabulous little hand bag.

Jupiter's Sewing

In Year 6 Jupiter, for our make do and mend project we have been using sewing to turn one piece of 

clothing into another. Obviously you can't go mad and turn some socks into a hat, but within reason, you can do anything. Myself, I turned a T-Shirt into a vest, and then I sewed a red stripe across the new vest. I'm giving my hard worked gift to my generous dad. He did give the shirt to me in first place. 

We have been working on this project for nearly two half terms now and it has come along really well for everyone. The strangest I've seen is my friend Billy has turned a pair of shorts into a hat. He then sewed a black bit of felt across it to make it look different colours on each side. It looks great!

The other year six class, Saturn have also been doing the same project for the same amount of time and they have been doing just as well. Also there has been some pretty mad projects as well. 

Though the reason we have all done so well, is because we had such great teachers, and they are Miss Hemmings and Miss Smiles. Even though Miss Smiles admits that she cannot sew, she was still a great teacher. Also we have had a great helper that has been coming in every single week and helping us, and that person is my nan, Christine. 

By Conor

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Mr Lynch's Trousers

During sewing we have been learning about 'Make do & Mend' in WW2. I turned my little brothers trouser's ( aged 2) into a dainty little pair of shorts. Using my expert sewing skills I have managed to cut neatly, hem and sew buttons to decorate his name on the back pocket. My teacher, Miss Smiles, was impressed with my work and knowledge, she proclaimed "Go to Mr Lynch's class and tell him you've made him a brand new pair of shorts!" . Listening  to my teacher, as I always do... Me and my friend set off to the devils lair ( cue spooky music.) 

By his facial expressions; he loves them! 

Maths Cake!

In maths we are learning to use conversion graphs. For our homework we had a recipe and we had to convert the grams to ounces. My friend Samantha and I went a step further and baked the cake! It was a fruit cake with almonds, Cherries, treacle, sugar, flour, cinnamon, mixed spice, marmalade and dried fruit. When we handed our homework in we gave the cake to our teachers, our teachers were pleased with us and they let us eat it during our lesson! I ate a piece of Samantha's and it was absolutely delicious! I wish all maths lessons were like this...*sigh

Dig For Victory

As part of our WW2 project we are designing a poster for the Dig for Victory campaign to persuade young children to eat vegetables and fruit. We are using watercolours to give our posters an authentic washed-out effect.