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Year 6 Transition Project Beach Combing

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Year 6 Transition Project

Beach Combing

The problem with transition...

• Students hungry to be challenged

• Staff put on because Y11 time

• Herding from room to room

• What impression do they get?

• Teacher talk

• Summer holidays?

Science

• How big is big? How small is small? Physics/Maths

• Using microscopes to analyse sand, seaweed

• Detecting what kinds of rocks/shells

• Marine biology scope

Geography• How beaches are formed

• Analyse different bays in Jersey

• Dune systems

English

• Poetry/creative writing inspired by objects found on the beach

• John Masefield etc

• Writing on driftwood/pebbles

Art

• Beach sculptures

• Assemblages of found objects

• Archiving

• Paintings of microscope images

Design Technology• Inspired furniture/bridges/

jewellery from shell structure

• Inspired by famous sculptors

• Learning design process from organic material to final design.

Setting the standard• Specifically designed

• Work back at primary schools and over summer

• Exhibition evening in September

• Instil value: challenge, authentic, collaboration

• Learning pack to take away