{"id":570,"date":"2019-03-29T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/?p=570"},"modified":"2019-03-29T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T17:09:19","slug":"south-of-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/2019\/03\/29\/south-of-the-equator\/","title":{"rendered":"South of the Equator&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good week of learning ended on a high with the whole of Year 6 taking a closer look at the country of Brazil. Having identified similarities and differences between Southsea and Waterlooville (there are quite a few!), children moved on to do the same with Waterlooville and Rocinha (in Brazil). We also located Brazil within the world, creating &#8216;clue&#8217;maps to identify where the country sits. This will help develop the children&#8217;s prior knowledge of Brazil which is one of our topics for the Summer Term.<\/p>\n<p>We are now well into writing monologues and letters from the viewpoint of Ernest Shackleton; we have been impressed with the children&#8217;s ability to empathise with his situation and communicate a certain &#8216;feeling&#8217; towards the reader.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to taking part in &#8216;Stations of the Cross&#8217; which will be held in the chapel at Oaklands next Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Year 6 Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good week of learning ended on a high with the whole of Year 6 taking a closer look at the country of Brazil. Having identified similarities and differences between Southsea and Waterlooville (there are quite a few!), children moved on to do the same with Waterlooville and Rocinha (in Brazil). We also located Brazil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}