Welcome to the webpage for Hockney Class!

Our teacher is Mrs Wright. Our TAs are: Mr Woods & Miss Kiely!

      

Fit For Life - The Heart

William Harvey

We researched William Harvey because of his importance to our area (most of us were born in the hospital!) and because of his amazing research on the heart. We found that William Harvey was an English doctor in the 1600s who discovered that the heart acts as a pump to send blood in a circle all around the body, instead of the blood being used up and created by the liver as was previously thought. What an aspirational ant!

Our Blood

 To tell the tale further, we took a microscopic look at blood and exactly what is in it. We constructed some blood (using sweets) and researched its different parts. We were all adventurous aardvarks in this!

 

We found out that blood is a red liquid in your body that delivers oxygen and nutrients, removes waste, and helps fight infections and stop bleeding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Heart

     

Summoning all of our open-minded octopus spirit, we researched the heart further with real lambs hearts (donated by a local farmer). How else could we possibly understand the heart and all of its valves and chambers without delving into the real thing! Our reward was a real understanding of our knowledge so far and a massive appreciation of our hearts! Well done to everyone.

How can we keep our heart healthy - Exercise

Having learnt about the heart we wanted to test our heartbeat (or pulse) and how it is affected by exercise. Funnily enough, our standing heart rate was less than Mrs Wright’s which means we are fitter and have better hearts. This was a happy hippo experiment!

How can we keep our heart healthy - Food

Year 6 felt that all this research made us feel responsible for the health of our hearts and our bodies as a whole. Luckily, we were allowed to design, make and test healthy fruit smoothies. We explored how different groups of foods affect our bodies.

Did you know that eating turmeric (mainly curries) is really good for a healthy brain!

  

  

Superfoods

Our hard work on superfoods led us to a wealth of information on how to eat healthily and get good amounts of all our food groups. We shall be responsible racoons in living a healthy lifestyle in order to have healthy blood, hearts and bodies. However, as a result of our healthy fruit smoothies, many of us may avoid chia seeds and kiwi fruit smoothies – a bit gritty!!

We are all looking forward to making a healthy pasta meal in our learning landing – what shall we include that is healthy?!