YEAR 5/6 WOW DAY!

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Today was the Year 5/6 Topic WOW day! Each teacher prepared a workshop based around a different influential person. Each class then visited the workshops throughout the day. The 5 influential people who were the focus of our topic day were: David Attenborough, Isaac Newton, Ada Lovelace, Malala Yousafzai and Shakespeare. Continue reading to find out what we did in each workshop.

In the Isaac Newton workshop, children learned about gravity - one of Isaac Newton’s most crucial discoveries - and then attempted to defy gravity while creating a marble run containing steep slopes, loop the loops and corners. 

In the David Attenborough workshop, children learned about his work on our underwater world and how pollution affects marine life. Children were then tasked with creating a video as a team to share the effect of pollution on marine life.

In the Ada Lovelace workshop, the children learned facts about this leading 19th Century mathematician and feminist. They learned how Ada was one of the first people to develop the concept behind computers and how she also believed that one day, computers would be able to create music. Then they had to work in teams to solve a range of problems. Each solution allowed them to receive part of a well-known tune to play on a glockenspiel. If they solved all the problems, this would give them the complete tune.

In the Shakespeare workshop, children learned about how he has influenced modern day life, from famous phrases, well-used names and well-loved plays (which are the 3rd most translated texts in the world, ever!) to insults! The children then had some fun with old fashioned language and were asked to create some light-hearted insults using a list of Shakespearean insults.

In the Malala Yousafzai workshop, children learned about the brave Pakistani girl - who was shot by the Taliban when she was 14 on her way home from school - because she dared to stand up for her rights, particularly girls’ rights to an education. Malala was lucky enough to survive this terrible attack, even though her friends didn’t. Following this, she became an activist for female rights, receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The children then continued to research Malala to discover more about this amazing individual.

Tomorrow, children will vote on which famous person they believe has been the most influential. What a fantastic day to kick-off our new topic!