Stibbard went red, white and blue today to celebrate our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Seventy years of reigning as our monarch. We paraded in our costumes in our Friday Celebration Assembly and sang The National Anthem. It was lovely to have the whole school together singing again!
Year 6
Investigating the effect of increasing the number of cells in an electrical circuit
Year Six were working extremely hard in science again this afternoon. They had to measure the brightness of a bulb using data logging equipment and investigate how the brightness changed as they added extra cells to the circuit. It took lots of teamwork and concentration! They found out that the bulb got significantly brighter each time they increased the number of cells; The greater the number of cells, the brighter the bulb will be. We discussed what might happen to the bulb if we continued adding more cells and concluded that the bulb would eventually break- so we didn’t try it! Great teamwork Year Six.
Year 6 Impossible Things Poetry
Year 6 have been reading Wonderland: Alice in Poetry, an anthology of poems edited by Michaela Morgan. Roger McGough wrote a poem entitled Six Impossible Things to do before Breakfast inspired by the conversation between Alice and the White Queen who stated ‘ sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast’. Year 6 created some of their own.
Year 6 Writing Odes
An ode is a poem written as a tribute to a person, place, experience, idea or thing. They can be short or long, rhyming or non rhyming but they use exaggerated language known as hyperbole. Spot the similes, metaphors and alliteration and the clever layout Stephen used for his Ode to a Marble. Wonderful writing!