Strand on the Green Junior School

Strand on the Green Junior School

Year 6

Autumn Term

Carrying Precious Water
Year 6 have one of the busiest yet most exciting years at Strand. The year begins with celebration at the annual Harvest Supper which raises money for Water Aid. Year 6 put themselves in the shoes of African children who walk for miles in order to collect water. After carrying buckets of water around the playground the children find it easier to imagine how they would feel if this was thier everyday routine. They soon realise how lucky we are to have clean water whenever we turn on a tap. The learning in the Autumn term is around Africa and each child researches a different African country and prepares a report. The science focus is Microorganisms - prefect knowledge for preparing all that soup! To prepare for Harvest Supper, Year 6 make soup and bread for families to enjoy. They also provide entertainment for singing songs and performing a number of traditional pieces on African drums.
“The Harvest Supper was great! I loved the drumming and all the singing. The soups we all made were delicious.” Rawan 6T

 

Spring Term

Evacuation Time
The Britain Since 1930 topic is launched by turning Year 6 into a WW2 museum . Children investigate a range of WW2 artefacts as well as looking at the Strand on the Green Junior School log books from the time!They find out many interesting facts including that the Children at Strand were evacuated during the war and the building was used as a warehouse! The focus of this topic to learn all about journalistic writing and having worked hard in literacy groups the children create their own WW2 newspapers.
In addition to this children wrote some war poetry, using evocative and powerful langauage.
 
Drama work brings the opportunity to dress up as evacuees.

Waiting for a train

Freeze frame photographs in role are then edited using PhotoStudio to look like they dated back to World War 2.
Having learnt about life in the 1930’s the ICT focus for this term is to create a presentation about a chosen decade since 1930 . Children research the songs, fashions, news events and technological advances of the decade - they soon become experts!

 

Habitats

The Habitats topic is launched by a visit to the Wetlands Centre in Barnes. The children attend a workshop about pond dipping, exploring a wide range of animals that live in ponds. Some of them are so tiny they could only be seen under a microscope!

 

Summer Term

Surf School
After the stressful week of SATs the children and the Year 6 staff plus a few other willing volunteers head off to Devon to spend the week at Knapp House, our residential journey for Year 6. Each day the children participate in a range of activities including surfing, canoeing and abseiling!  After the summer half-term the children launch into their preparations for the Mini-Fair, creating business plans, risk assessments and budgets for the stalls they run. There are always a wide range of imaginative and creative stalls on show. Needless to say some of the Year 6’s end up quite wet and messy! The fair raises money for the School Trips Fund and also
provides the Year 2’s with a glimpse of life in the Juniors! 
It is a core part of our Economic Awareness Curriculum.

The Show!

The T Birds
To finish their time off at Strand, the Year 6 children put on a performance of a classic musical. Over the years Strand has become famous throughout West London for its performances of Grease, Fame, Mamma Mia, Blues Brothers and School of Rock among others. Following the auditions, four weeks of hard work begin with the children singing, dancing and acting during any spare moment. With the help of lots of staff the children put on an amazing performance which has the parents on their feet signing and dancing with them! It is the perfect way to say goodbye to Strand.