Year 6

Winter Sleep Poetry

These children have worked hard creating their poems based on the text Winter Sleep – A Hibernation Story by Sean Taylor and Alex Morss. Both girls enjoy reading and writing at home, too. Well done!

Celebrating Difference: Paralympians

We are following on from differences we can and can’t see with celebrating people who have achieved greatness in sport – the paralympians!

Kennings and a Cyclops!

Year 6 had some fun today writing a Kenning for the cyclops character from our class text – Odysseus. And … some wonderful sketches to accompany it too !

Computer technology to make music

We are learning how to use a software programme to compose music to suit a film soundtrack / scene.

An Incantation

After reading about Odysseus’ encounter with the Cyclops, we wrote in character of Polythemus (the cyclops) to ask Poseidon to seek revenge on our behalf.

PE: Circuits

Year 6 have been working on fitness through circuit training. So many tired children after each session – getting fitter and stronger!

Science: Classification Keys

Following on from last week, we tried our hands at sorting animals using classification keys.

PSHEe: Celebrating Difference

We are looking at the ways in which everyone is different – that some differences we can see and some we can’t see.

Science: Classification of animals ( vertebrates)

We have started our new unit in Science – and we began by understanding that living things are classified according to their features. We began with the animal group of ‘vertebrates.’

A Speech To Save The Earth

With our whole school text, ‘Here We Are’ Year 6 had the task of writing a speech. We combined knowledge gained from our recent Geography topic to help us do just this. We have also been performing them for our class, working on our intonation and expression to gain and retain audience attention.

History: Scaled timelines

Beginning our new unit of Ancient Greece, we produced scaled timelines to place key periods of history in the correct place in time.

Fitness Session: Circuits

We had our first circuit session today, lots of cardio and strength work AND lots of tired children at the end of it !

Dual Narratives in Y6

Christmas Crafts with parents

Year 6 had a lovely morning today,  making  Christmas Crafts with our parents.

Year 6 Computer Aided Design

This term, Year 6 have been exploring computer-aided design (CAD) as part of their Design and Technology curriculum. Building on last year’s wooden train set project, pupils are now designing and creating their own model cars. They have been learning how to use digital design tools to plan, test, and refine their ideas before bringing them to life.

Sustainability: Planning and designing a Green City

As a grand finale to our Geography unit, we worked together to plant and design a Green City. We thought about elements: renewable energy, living walls, cycle  lanes, allotments, green spaces ….. to name a few!

A Dual Narrative this week in Y6

We have been working on writing our own dual narrative this week. We have done lots of pre-writing work, now we have begun writing our own stories using two characters from Hansel and Gretel.

Mary Anning revisited

We learnt about Mary Anning in Y3, so as we are currently learning about fossils in Year 6 as part of our Evolution and Inheritance unit, today we revisited our learning with a view to presenting our information to Year 3 to help them in their learning journey.

Preparing for writing

Year 6 spent some time yesterday finding out what a dual narrative is: we read an example and identified language and organisational features of the text, We then used our oracy skills to hot seat characters to gain a deeper understanding of emotions, actions and motivation. During our role on the wall work, we came up with some truly mind-blowing words!

Being a Global Citizen

After learning about the rights of a child, we found out about children working in parts of the world without these rights and how they lived their lives, in particular children who work on cocoa plantations. We also refreshed our learning about Fair Trade and what it means for farmers and cocoa producers.

Writing a persuasive letter of support

Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed this writing activity linked to Hansel and Gretel. We wrote a persuasive letter / a letter of support telling our friends Hansel and Gretel reasons why they should not go into the old woman’s cottage.

Fossils

What a stunning piece of work in Science today –  finding out all about fossils.

Cinderella, you will go to the ball 💫

Wow! What a performance! The children absolutely loved watching Cinderella ⭐️ 🎃 ✨

PSHE The Rights of a Child

We discussed each of the rights presented and talked about if we would prioritize them, what would our list of importance look like.

Poppy Art

A couple of samples of the poppy art we created in Y6 for Remembrance Day.

Remembrance Day work

After learning about life in the trenches for the soldiers in WWI, we wrote (in role) letters home to our loved ones  …

Writing in role

Year 6 really enjoyed writing in the role of a character today, we could use some some words we would never normally say as they are not polite! Writing is based on the woodcutter’s wife’s reaction to the children finding their way home after her husband took them deep into the forest to lose them! She is not a happy lady!

Why are the oceans so important?

What a lovely piece of work explaining why the oceans are vital to life.

Ways to reduce your carbon footprint…

We have been finding out about ways in which everyone can reduce their carbon footprint by sometimes, small simple actions which can help our planet.

Years 5 and 6 Play Leaders

After receiving coaching from Coach Craig from LSSP, some of our Year 5&6 children have qualified in PALS – Leading physical activities during break times. They really enjoyed the course and can’t wait to get started!