Celebrating who we are
As part of our topic of Ancient Greece, we hosted our very own Berger Potato Olympics! We created potato athletes with Ancient Greek names and national anthems to sing when they won events.
The events included: Synchronised Swimming, Bowling and Curling.
We have been learning about street artists this term and thinking how art can make a difference to the world we live in. The children evaluated work by Keith Haring and used elements of his distinctive style to create their own pieces of street art. A few year 6 children even created their own Kashink inspired display in the corridor!
We love reading! Sycamore class dressed up as their favourite book characters to celebrate the day!
As part of our art project, the children in year 6 are making a tapestry! Each child created symbols that represent them! Take a look at some of these beautiful designs! 🎨
Sycamore love having the opportunity to walk to Hackney Marshes and explore nature! This term we built shelters, climbed trees and had a hot chocolate and biscuit to end the trip!
Year 6 were lucky to take part in a workshop at Hackney Youth Centre this term. The children met with police officers, transport officers, road safety experts and even fire fighters to help build their independence.
The focus on transport was really helpful preparation for September as many children will be travelling to their new secondary schools independently.
Sycamore are having a great time investigating circuits in our electricity lessons. We began by drawing some circuits and have got simple circuits working including: bulbs, fans and buzzers. Some of us even included a switch! Now we are busy investigating the effect adding additional wires has on the brightness of the bulb.
Sycamore Class had a fabulous time on our trip to the RAF museum in Hendon. It was a great day, even if it did take a long time to get there! We saw many different aircrafts used during WW2 and the children spotted a rescue helicopter called Sycamore! We took part in a brilliant workshop which allowed us to experience the festive period during wartime. Sycamore class were fantastic throughout the whole day!
As part of our WW2 topic, we researched, designed and built Anderson Shelters in DT. When they were completed, we tested them against a set criteria and evaluated how well they stood up to the tests!
In music, the children have been learning WW2 songs to support our topic. Sycamore learnt 'Pack up your troubles' and Chestnut 'It's a long way to Tipperary'. We then joined together and sang them in the round. 👏 🎶
Sycamore Class looked at refugees and immigration for Local History Week. We discussed what it means to be an immigrant or a refugee. We looked at how our current media is unfortunately creating quite a toxic and negative view of refugees while forgetting their humanity and the fact they have their own rich life stories just the same as anyone else. We decided to take photos of refugees and reinvent their portraits in a positive light to show our support for those fleeing their homes to stay safe.
Sycamore Class participated in a fantastic music workshop linked to our WW2 topic this term. We listened to Jewish folk songs during the workshop and discussed the mood of the pieces. Inspired by the poem ‘The Butterfly’ we wrote lyrics and composed a piece of music to accompany our writing. Take a look at the finished Klezmar…
Year 6 were very lucky to be joined by Jo, from the Hackney Music Development Trust, who is working with us on our World War 2 topic. She did a number of roleplays, freeze frames, reflections and sound-scapes to consider what different situations might have been like in WW2
We began learning about WW2 and to kick our topic off to a great start the children in Year 6 packed a suitcase with all their formal documents and some personal items too. We thought about what items would remind us of home if we were evacuated to the countryside for safety. We used the drama technique of freeze frames to recreate stages of the evacuation process and understand the emotions of this time. Throughout our wow day, sirens would go off during our lessons and we had to climb under our tables to be safe!
As an introduction to our Ancient Greece topic, Year 6 held the Potato Olympics!
The first known Olympics were held in the summer of 776 B.C. at Olympia, a site in southern Greece where people went to worship their gods. In fact, the Olympics were created in honor of ancient Greece’s most famous god: Zeus, king of the gods. Athletes prayed to Zeus for victory and left gifts to thank him for their successes.
Scroll through our photos below to meet the athletes and see how they got on!
The Year 6 children at Berger Primary School engaged in an exciting Computing project last half-term. As a group, they had to design a new app for young people that aimed to solve an existing (social) problem.
To arrive at this point, the groups had to work collaboratively to research existing apps, brainstorm existing problems young people face, design the home and other landing pages for their apps, formulate a PowerPoint presentation to explain the app and design an app logo.
Finally, they had to pitch their app idea to a panel of young people.
We researched, designed and built Anderson Shelters in DT. When they were completed, we tested them against set criteria and evaluate how well they stood up to the tests!
Here are our finished art pieces. Look how amazingly talented we are!
We created a Blitz skyline using watercolours. We were experimenting with watercolours and blending different shades together. To put our piece together, we painted a sky at dusk using the skills we learned and made a silhouette from black card to represent the buildings in London during the war.
We had our first Year 6 trip to forest school! We built shelters to emulate those built during WW2. What do you think?
