1. Year 6 Transition Project
Beach Combing

2. 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?

3. 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

4. Geography
• How beaches are formed
• Analyse different bays in
Jersey
• Dune systems

5. English
• Poetry/creative writing
inspired by objects found on
the beach
• John Masefield etc
• Writing on driftwood/pebbles

6. Art
• Beach sculptures
• Assemblages of found
objects
• Archiving
• Paintings of microscope
images

7. Design Technology
• Inspired furniture/bridges/
jewellery from shell structure
• Inspired by famous sculptors
• Learning design process
from organic material to final
design.

12. 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