French week January 2017

This week has been French Week.  The theme this year was ‘fetsivals’.  In year 6 we learned about ‘La Fête des Rois’.  This festival is a celebration in France that takes place on the first Sunday after New Year ’s Day.

In 2017, it was on 8th January. The galette des rois is a cake made from puff pastry with almond paste inside and is eaten on this day.

A little plastic or china charm is placed inside the cake before serving it.  Originally a bean was placed inside the cake, which is a “fève” in French, and the word is now used for the charm.

During the cutting of the cake, the youngest member of the family goes under the table.

The person cutting the galette asks for every slice “Pour qui?” (= Whom for?).  The child under the table chooses the order in which people should be given a slice. Everyone has a piece of the cake, eats it and hopes to have the fève in it. Whoever finds the fève becomes the king or the queen !

Our lucky Kings and Queens!

2.12.16 Viking workshop day

To round off the work we have been completing on Vikings, we had a visit from ‘Ulf’ today.  We spent a brilliant day finding out more about the Vikings.  The activities included: a Viking quiz, learning a Viking board game, Listening to the Viking creations story of 'Ragnarok', touching replica artefacts and battle re-enactments!  What an amazing day it was!

30.11.16 RSPB

Today we had a visit form the RSPB.  They talked to us about the habitats that could be found on our school grounds.  After that, we went for a habitat hunt.  When we had finished, we realised that our school grounds had the potential to support the natural environment well.  We are looking forward to doing more, particularly in our science area, to attract nature.

28.11.16 Terrariums

In literacy, we are learning about explanation texts.  To help us understand more about how the water cycle works we made our own terrariums:  

End of Term one DT

Over term one, year 6 have designed and made their own 'operation' style viking themed games.  Using our knowledge of electronics, from the work we have been doing in science, we we able to construct a circuit that would cause a buzzer to sound if the player touched the edge of a hole when trying to pick up an object.
Here are our finished games!