ColneChrist ChurchChurch of England Primary School

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Year Six

After the Meet the Teacher chat, here is my email address as promised.

d.marsh@christchurch-pri.lancs.sch.uk

Any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch. Mrs Marsh

Big Picture - Find out more about our learning this half term

Year 6 Big Picture Autumn II 2024.pdf

In Science, we are learning about evolution. The peppered moth (in the early 1800s) were light with speckled wings. The dark form, spotted for the first time in 1848, was very rare. But 50 years later, during the Industrial Revolution, a huge increase in air pollution from factories coated trees with a layer of soot. The peppered moths with dark wings could camouflage and became more likely to survive long enough to lay eggs, passing on their dark wings to their offspring.

Through natural selection, the population of moths became better adapted to their new environment. The same process can also lead to evolution.

Can you spot which of our moths could be hidden from the greedy bird?

INTRODUCING THE YEAR 6 RAPS ABOUT RESPECT - ANTI BULLYING WEEK!

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We visited the Museum of Lancashire and took part in four workshops all to do with WW2. We had a fantastic time and learnt lots of new things.

Science

During this half term, we have been learning about Charles Darwen and his Finches. We conducted an experiment to see which beak would be the best to pick up seeds and raisins. We used chopsticks, tweezers and a stopwatch to record how many we managed to pick up in sixty seconds. We repeated this three times and worked out the average for each. We found the tweezers were much easier than the chopsticks!

ENGLISH - THE HIGHWAYMAN BY ALFRED NOYES

We have been looking at Alfred Noyes's thrilling poem, charged with drama and tension, we ride with the highwayman and recoil from the terrible fate that befalls him and his sweetheart Bess, the landlord's daughter.

'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night,

But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;

Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,

Then look for me by moonlight.

Watch for me by moonlight,

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.'