Author: Miss Prankard
Launching our Wildlife Documentary Project
Class 6 launched their brand new English project this week:
writing and creating a wildlife documentary!
We began by jumping into research, trawling through a huge selection of books to find fascinating facts about an animal of our choice. During this lesson, we pondered what makes planet…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 11 March 2021
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: English
Interpreting Data for Safer Internet Day
In Maths, Year 6 looked at interpreting data about online usage and social media users. We had some fantastic discussion on how these statistics can impact our lives and what we need to be cautious of as users of the internet as part of Safer Internet Day. Miss Prankard was very impressed to hear…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 9 February 2021
Category: Class of 2014
Learning about how the Christingle symbolises Advent
We had a really lovely afternoon today learning about the Christingle and how is symbolises some very important values during the period of Advent. We at Bramham were donated brilliant kits which taught us all about the parts of a Christingle and the things we needed to make our own one to take…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 3 December 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: RE
Reflectivity investigation
As part of their Science topic 'Light', Class 6 investigated the reflectivity of a range of objects. They used black-out boxes to block out all as much light as possible and then tested what they could see with and without a light source. We had a brilliant afternoon and also made some interesting…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 2 December 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: Science
WW2 Morning: Learning about rationing!
Class Six had a very exciting morning. We had a special history lesson learning all about rationing in the Second World War. We did this lesson in two parts; one part consisted of the children participating in a cooking lesson baking carrot cookies using a rationed recipe (we used carrots from our…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 18 November 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: Class 6 Design Technology History
Digging up our victory carrots!
Class six spent some of their morning digging up the carrots from their victory garden. This was something we planted up in the Summer during a transitional moving up afternoon. We learnt about the Dig for Victory campaign in Britain, then planted up carrots in our outdoor classroom. This week, we…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 16 November 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Exploring wartime newspapers
To start their new writing project (creating a news article on the Dambuster mission of 1943) class 6 used some wartime newspapers to explore key genre features of a newspaper. We really enjoyed using historical artefacts to develop our English knowledge!
Posted by Miss Prankard on 11 November 2020
Dambusters Learning Logs
Over half-term Class 6 were set the task of researching the mission of Squadron 617, more famously known as the Dambusters, as part of their learning log. Today they shared their efforts with eachother and we were tremendously impressed with the amount of time and effort that went into these…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 3 November 2020
Category: Class of 2014
'Spider and Fly' poet earns Blue Peter badge!
We are absolutely bursting with pride at Grace’s achievement of a Blue Peter badge for her incredible ‘Spider and the Fly’ poem that she wrote during her home learning in the Summer!
Posted by Miss Prankard on 3 November 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: English
Managing your screen time!
The children in Class 6 learnt about the importance of managing their screen time last week. The children discussed some 2019 usage statistics for children in the UK and were surprised that on average children of their age spent 13.5 hours in front of a screen per week! This increased to 21 hours…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 21 October 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Year 6: Time Travel Extraordinaires!
Class Six had an afternoon travelling through time as part of their History lesson. The children created their tophat time-machines then explored the past; visiting various periods of history they had previously studied. They then focused their exploration on the key events of WW2, researching the…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 13 October 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Music Lesson: 'Livin' on a Prayer'
Class 6 absolutely loved their learning Bon Jovi's 'Livin' On A Prayer' on the xylophone last week. We have been learning about the Rock genre this half term, and we have thoroughly enjoyed listening and appraising a variety of Rock songs!
Posted by Miss Prankard on 5 October 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Tags: Music