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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

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Transition idea

  • 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.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11.
  • 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