Transition idea
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Year 6 Transition Project Beach Combing
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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
English
• Poetry/creative writing inspired by objects found on the beach
• John Masefield etc
• Writing on driftwood/pebbles
Design Technology• Inspired furniture/bridges/
jewellery from shell structure
• Inspired by famous sculptors
• Learning design process from organic material to final design.