Class of 2018-2025 - Year 6

Welcome back to Forest School Year 6. 

We have made some human pyramids, showing team work skills. Children learned to read flow charts and to identify leaves of plants in our area. Some children chose tool work with saws, others built dens, they loved flowing water down the mound and Jayden…

In term 3, Year 6 designed and made sculptures depicting the human figure in motion. To begin the project, pupils explored the proportions of the human figure and drew from wooden mannequins. They then sketched from movement on film (running, dance, skipping etc).

 As a class, we studied the…

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Throughout this project, Year 6 have: learnt about strong shapes and forces; explored materials, techniques, joins and structures; made initial designs inspired by influential designers; made prototypes and modified designs as appropriate;…

We have appointed Year 6 Art Leaders. This is a new role that will evolve throughout the year but the aim is to give children at Bridge ownership and ‘a voice’; an opportunity to be actively involved with planning and leading art projects; to act as coaches, advocates and ambassadors for the Arts…

Before beginning to construct their final chairs, Year 6 were privileged to be visited by an architecture lecturer! Robert Nice, one of our parents, works at UCA in Canterbury teaching architecture; he generously gave up his time to come into school and chat with pupils about their chair designs…

Our focus this term is Design Technology. Our DT projects consist of four steps – explore, design, make and evaluate.

Year 6 are designing chairs (Action man sized) for John Lewis this term. To begin, the pupils explored strong shapes within structures. We looked at the work of architects and…

Year 6 have been very busy in Forest School this term - see what we have been up to. 

Day 1 after the summer holidays started straight away with wand - making workshops in small groups. We used secateurs to cut fresh branches to the correct size - mainly cherry and hazel wood. Children used…

Welcome back to Covert Woods Year 6. After remembering the rules for the boundaries and staying safe, we listened to the noises around us. It was a little windy and we could hear the trees but no birds this time. Most of the woodland trees in this area are beech trees, which some of the children…

Over the last two weeks, each Year 5 class have visited Canterbury Mosque as part of their RE unit on Islam. We were greeted by the Muslim volunteers who talked about the rules and expectations of the Mosque. These included removing our shoes and keeping a calm quiet as we moved around the…

This morning, we were visited by 'Steve The Gardener' from The Pig for the third and final collaboration as part of this year's 'Adopt a School Programme'. Unlike previous visits where our children have attended The Pig and learnt about food seasonality in the beautiful gardens, this time Steve…

On Friday, Year 5 were visited by local MP, Rosie Duffield! The main aim of her visit was to award the winners of her anti-littering poster competition their prizes. Imogen and May were runners up and Leo was the overall winner, each creating striking posters to encourage people to take better…

Throughout last term, Year 5 studied ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman. The children designed and made their own shadow-puppets inspired by the book; in groups they wrote a script and used them within a performance in front of the class. They explored the traditional shadow puppets from South East…