Year 6
The Mayor of Burton Cllr Geoff Morrison and his wife visited us at school recently. Here are some the photos that we took.
Y6 Children have been working on PowerPoint presentations here is an example of their work.
Click on the link below to see our tour. Edge Hill Junior School Virtual Tour
The Virtual tour and website is officially run by the Edge Hill production team which consists of:
Team leaders:
- Mrs. Fisher
- Mrs. Jarvis
Members of Team:
- Katie Ferguson
- Jack Smith
- Antonia Jolley
- Adam Batkin
- Joe Brelsford
- Danielle Hudson
If any part of the website/Virtual tour goes wrong or needs updating please contact school or see any of the production staff!
Thank you for your Co-operation.
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
In Year 6 we have been studying The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
We have been to The Derby Assembly Rooms to see a production of the Tempest performed by Shakespeare 4 Kidz.We have also watched an animated version of the story and produced our own character studies.
Here is some of the work that we have produced.
Character Studies by 6R & 6Fi
For homework we drew and wrote about how we imagined the characters would look
and behave. Here is some of our work.
By Oliver 6R
By Hannah 6R
By Amy 6R
Racing Buggies
Click here to see the Racing Buggies built in Year 6
As part of our Design & Technology Lessons we have also been making cars for our Crash Vehicles Project.
Click on the links below to see some of the cars we built.
CRASH VEHICLES
The Crash Vehicle Project takes places over a few months. The children build three cars altogether from a cardboard template.
Each vehicle is then crashed under the same set of conditions and the damage is assessed. The children then discuss how they can strenghten their vehicles and build and crash a second car. The damage is again assessed and a final vehicle is built with further strengthening added. This time it is crashed under the same conditions again, but with the addition of an egg! Most of the eggs survive!
The first set of vehicles before the crash
Being Crashed
And after OUCH!
The second set of vehicles after the crash
The damage done to one of the cars can clearly be seen.
6Fi also took some videos of their crashes, click on the links below to watch what happened.
Year 6 History
As part of their studies Year 6 lookes at the develoment of transport through the ages in Burton-on-Trent. They researched an incident in which a tram crashed at the bottom of Bearwood Hill Road in Winshill in 1919.
Click on the links below to see the newspaper reports and diary entries the children have written.
Here is some more of the childrens work
By Lauren Smith 6R
TRAM CRASH TWOSOME DEAD
BY EVAN PRITCHARD 6R
Of the 29 tram passengers that day, just two had their very lives stripped of them at 11:30am on the 8th October 1919.
The disaster unfolded when the Burton to Ashby tram could not take a sharp turn when running backwards.
Conductress Lilian Parker and another woman passenger died and a further 16 were treated in hospital.
The tram was running up a hill, then stopped and started rolling backwards 200 yards down it.
It could not negotiate the turn backwards and just overturned.
Some passengers jumped from the open top before the crash and survived, one woman died instantly and at least 20 were injured. Miss Parker had a leg amputated but unfortunately died of her injuries.
The Ferry Bridge
The Ferry Bridge was also very important to the changes in Burton's transport infrastructure, here are two paintings by children from 6G.
Poems
Linked into this project was the childrens own version of a poem called City Jungle by Pie Corbett. Click below to see an example of their work.
