Week of 16.12.2024

So, here we are, the final week of term and it’s almost Christmas!! So exciting but we’ve continued with some work with a sprinkle of Christmas Cheer!

A festive start to the week with the KS1 nativity:amazing and a visit from an elf: slay!! 
 

We wrote our Highwayman poetry and they are absolutely brilliant-have a look at the new display. We also created some amazing art, it’s already on display too.

In maths, we worked some more on our fraction/decimal equivalents, we’re saving percentages for 2025! We also cracked some Christmas maths challenges. 
 

Lots of Christmas art too, some lovely decorations.

All that’s left is for us to wish you all a happy Christmas snd best wishes for a healthy 2025,

see you next year!! 

Week of 9.12.24

Our final piece of work in our Conflict, Crime and Punishment has been based on the famous poem by Alfred Noyes: The Highwayman. We read and annotated the poem and created some fabulous freeze frames of all of the verses. We then started to plan some fantastic vocabulary for our own poems. We examined what the highwayman would see if he looked in the mirror - physical characteristics as well as innermost thoughts. We will write our poems next week and write them up in best for a new display in January.

Maths work has continued with decimals and understanding how we get from a fraction to a decimal - we will add to this next week by looking at percentages also.

In Science, we did the post assessment for our topic: Electricity. The scores were fabulous and showcase the progress we have all made.

Some Christmas art has begun too - our calendars are made and Christmas cards started - to be completed next week.
 

Wow, just 1 week of school left!!

Week of 2.12.24

It’s December and this week was assessment week-another round of tests to see and enjoy how much progress the children have made. We followed the same routine of GPS, Reading and Maths 1,2 and 3.

We will look through all the papers next week and see what we could do to improve the scaled scores.

Along with tests, we managed plenty of practice sessions for our carol service and it’s all sounding better and better.  
 

Towards the end of the week, we enjoyed the Santa Dash, lots of laps with our Santa hats! 
 

Enjoy the weekend everyone and see you next week. 

Week of 25.11.24

Great fun this week with No Pens Day and Pyjama Day!

On No Pens Day, we had loads of Maths fun with Leapfrog as well as using the PE agility ladders to test ourselves on negative numbers. In English, we did some drama, acting out a scene from Macbeth. We had great fun and there are some great acting skills in Year 6; this bodes well for our Year 6 Production!

The rest of the week saw continued focus on fractions: adding and subtracting and in Reading, we have focused on the 3 mark questions. We practised our PPE skills, answering the questions with 2 clear points (P) and evidence for one (E). 

In Science, we carried out an investigation, looking at whether more cells in a circuit cause a bulb to be brighter or a buzzer to be louder. Enjoy the photos. 
 

Next week is assessment week so we will get a chance to try out all this new learning.

Have a great weekend everyone and see you next week. 

Week of 18.11.2024

Another busy week and my, hasn't it felt colder? We still manage our Daily Mile, in spite of the frost but it is so important that the children have their winter coats in school every day.

We have been busy with fractions this week, ordering and comparing them as well as converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers - fantastic fluency all round this week. This prepares us well for adding and subtracting fractions next week.

In English, we have been looking at the features of a persuasive letter, ready to write a letter as Lady Macbeth! We have stepped into her shoes in order to convince Macbeth to murder King Duncan...gruesome indeed!

We had great fun in Science: we tinkered with the electricity components and built some fantastic circuits. Again, this prepares us for next week's investigation. Enjoy the photos.

We have been singing our Christmas songs and getting ready for our Carol Concert on December 10th - plenty of time for more practice needed but we are getting there!

The week ended with Crazy Hair Day today (Friday), some amazing hair in Year 6! Great fun!

Have a great weekend and see you again next week.

Week of 11.11.2024

This week started in a very sombre way with Remembrance. We had a very moving Assembly and then the whole school took part in the 2 minute silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, to mark the end of WW1 and our respect for all who have died in conflicts since then.

This week has also been Anti-Bullying Week and we had a great workshop on Tuesday, in which we talked about the various forms that bullying can take: bullying based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, skin colour, disability etc. The children were very mature and sensitive and we discussed being an Upstander and standing up to bullying and inappropriate language.

We've covered so much in Maths this week! How do we avoid confusion on Maths when it comes to different operations in one number sentence, why BODMAS of course! We also looked at divisibility rules and how we know if a particular number is divisible by say 3. We ended the week by investigating this and conducting divisibility tests.

Having completed our monologues last week, we did a reading comprehension on The Battle of Hastings this week and the children flew through it. It really is amazing just how helpful prior knowledge can be when it comes to learning. We have moved on to looking at conflict in terms of literature and are focusing on The Scottish Play (sssh, Macbeth) by of course, William Shakespeare. Again, Year 6 had some knowledge from the Year 6 production last year and a theatre performance of Macbeth on World Book Day two years ago. Wow though, the trickery and treachery of the story is fantastic and all of the children were hooked!

After PE this afternoon (Friday), we had our Library visit and enjoyed some OTTER time in there.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone and see you again next week.

Week of 4.11.2024

First week back and we’ve kept ourselves as busy as ever! In Maths, we have looked at prime numbers and square and cube numbers too. We had a super maths session on Outdoor Learning Day-a challenging loop game around the playground…enjoy the photos.

In English, our Conflict topic continues, this week looking at The Battle of Hastings and that eventful year of 1066. We will be writing monologues as one of the contenders to the throne. We’ve started planning and we look forward to writing next week.

In preparation for Remembrance next week, we have made our poppies and made a lovely wreath for the minute silence on Monday. 
 

We hope everyone has a great weekend and see you next week. 

Week of 21.10.2024

Well, here we are: the end of our first half term in Year 6! Another busy week to round off a super busy 8 weeks. 

Parent Consultations were very successful on Monday, it was lovely to meet so many of you.

Then, on Tuesday, we had a special Black History Month session where we met Nira Chamberlain, a famous mathematician and he told us about his path into a Maths career. He also shared some great mental maths strategies and we all had a go at posing some questions for him. A question from Thomas Willingale was put to him - very exciting!!

In Maths this week we have continued to focus on long division because, as Nira said, we only master something through practice, practice and more practice!

In English, we looked at The Windrush and learned the history of this post-war event and looked at the geography of where the Windrush generation came from. We then wrote very emotive poems as Windrush children.

As if the week couldn't be any busier, we had an amazing Rock Steady assembly yesterday - we saw Ross play the drums, electric keyboard, electric guitar and bass guitar - it was all amazing and some of the children even got to have a go ...Rock On!!!

We hope everyone has a lovely half term break and we look forward to seeing you all again next month.

Week of 14.10.2024

Well, the excitement has been building in Maths this week towards long division - we finally got to get started on it on Thursday and by the end of Friday's lesson, the progress from everyone was fantastic. What started out as being quite tough, quickly became very achievable through grit, determination and hard work. We look forward to more practice next week and some tricky word problems too - we love a challenge in Year 6!

If you thought Maths was busy, well, we got to writing our gladiator stories in English. Spurred on by some stirring music, we enjoyed putting all our planning together and bringing our ideas to life. Art tied in with English and History this week and we sketched the Colosseum - some amazing artwork has been created.

We had a fantastic Online Safety Workshop on Tuesday. We watched actors play out a scenario where one was going to meet up with someone that they had been gaming with online. The Y6 children got involved and were able to tell the characters how they wanted the story to unfold and end. Thankfully, the character chose not to go and meet this stranger but the reality of this was brought home to us with Break's story. A boy, from Essex who sadly did go and meet a stranger (a 'friend' from his online gaming world) and Breck was tragically murdered. Y6 were extremely mature in how they received this shocking story, we hope that they shared this experience with you.

Well, that's it for now, time for the weekend and enjoy it, a long one for you and us Teachers are looking forward to meeting with parents on Monday!

Week of 7.10.2024

Here we are, into October and the weather has certainly turned colder. We kept our brains warm though this week with some tests in our first Assessment Week in Year 6. Everyone tried very hard, used their growth mindsets and tried their best. We will now spend time looking at the papers and seeing how we can learn from our mistakes. This will prepare for us for our next round testing (before Christmas) and focus us on our scaled scores.

As a break from testing, it was great to get started on planning our gladiator stories. We have been filling in our 5 point plan and using the story mountain to guide through our planning. Lots of great ideas and the children cannot wait to get writing next week.

We started division in Maths this week and are looking forward to long division next week - more new learning in Year 6.

Congratulations to the mixed football team who came 2nd today, out of 20 teams - fantastic!

Have a great weekend everyone and see you next week.

Week of 30.09.2024

In maths this week we have been busy revising short and long multiplication. We got through short, very quickly and then spent more time focusing on fluency and accuracy when it comes to long multiplication. Once again, our times tables are the cornerstone to ensure accuracy. We’re looking forward to some problem solving next week and then onto division! 
 

In English, we have continued our history focus by looking at Roman Gladiators, learning about the different types and their weaponry. We wrote some character descriptions, in preparation for some story writing next week.

Our work on the heart in science continued with us making some clay sculptures. Have a look at the photos, we think they look great and we will be painting them next week.

We had an excellent Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday, learning all about both Houses in Westminster. We got the opportunity to see how a Bill gets debated and voted on and through both The House of Commons and The House of Lords, it was very informative.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Week of 23.09.24

Are we the only ones thinking how quickly the weeks are going?!

In English, this week, we continued to write our chronological reports about The Battle of Marathon. The children wrote some very detailed reports, with lots of historical information. The legacy of this battle is certainly something that everyone has really understood. Our focus now is on our grammar, punctuation and spelling and how we can make our writing even better.

Maths fun continued this week with addition and subtraction and really perfecting our accuracy as well as looking as missing number questions. We will move on next week to multiplication and then division - long division is a Year 6 treat.

The best fun of the week was in Science - we dissected lambs' hearts! There was great excitement mixed with trepidation but what fun we had. The children cut through and were able to look at the 2 atria and 2 ventricles as well as arteries, veins and the heartstrings - have a look at the photos, if you dare!

Have a great weekend everyone and see you next week  - October already!

Week of 16.09.2024

Another busy, but a lovely sunny week in Year 6. In Maths, we have been learning to round as well as looking at negative numbers - so much great effort from everyone. We will consolidate our learning on negative numbers next week, look at Roman numerals and get cracking on addition and subtraction.

This week in English, we planned and began writing our chronological reports about The Battle of Marathon. We know you will learn so much from the children, they have loved learning about this very famous battle.

Science proved exciting in that we have looked at the heart and learned about the 4 chambers. We will be looking at real (animal) hearts next week so that we can actually see the chambers. 

Some of the children in Year 6 had the opportunity to attend a cricket event with Mrs Evans. As a school, we came second and the children were very proud of their medals.

Our topic in Music this term is called Happy and so far we have been listening to and appraising Happy by Pharell Williams and Top of the World by The Carpenters. Wonder what next week's song will be?

On that note, have a great weekend and enjoy this sun while it lasts!

Week of 9.09.2024

Here we are at the end of Week 2 already! In Maths we got to work on Place Value, looking at each digit up to 1 million. We then compared and ordered numbers in ascending and descending order and ended the week rounding numbers. This rounding work will continue next week as we improve our accuracy and look at rounding in real-life contexts.

In English, we concentrated on our topic and as historians we looked at Conflict, Crime and Punishment through the ages: The Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Tudors and Victorians. We have also started learning about The Battle of Marathon and we are looking forward to writing chronological reports about it next week.

In PSHE, we looked at British Values and Christmas came to Year 6 as we made Christmas cards for publication.

PE was fun in the sun today, more tag rugby skills on the field.

We promised you our fantastic Transition Day art displays last week, well, they're up and here for you to have a look at and enjoy.

Have a great weekend everyone and see you again next week.

Here's the powerpoint that was shared at the parent information evening.

Week of 2.09.2023

Well here we are, a new school year and a new Year 6 crew! Our first week done and all have settled so very well. We've spent the week getting to know each other, setting rules and expectations, finding out what's ahead and having some fun! Many of the children have put themselves forward for the many jobs available to them in Y6 - it has been great to see such enthusiasm and dedication.

Following on from our Transition Day, we completed some lovely art that will be our first Year 6 displays - watch out for those next week.

We have created some fantastic posters about our new topic: Conflict, Crime and Punishment and the children have generated lots of questions which will fuel our curiosity as we work through the term. We also have a new Connections Display with all of these questions and we will build connections in our learning, as we go.

We finished the week with some PE on the field, refreshing our tag rugby skills and managed some class photos for you to see too!

Well done everyone for a fabulous first week, have a super weekend and see you all next week.