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Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
Here you will find out all about what we have been learning in school. You will also find some useful links that can be used at home as well as your homework tasks, which are uploaded weekly.
Please check back regularly for updates.
Miss Ledbury and Miss Nasar (Class teachers)
We started off Anti Bullying week by sharing compliments with each other. We wanted to make everyone feel special and know that they are not alone if they are a victim of bullying. Children were made aware of who they can go to for help and support.
We learnt about the importance of standing united against bullying.
Friday 13th November
Today for Children In Need, we came into school wearing our pyjamas. This years theme is all about wellbeing and 5 to thrive. Our sessions this morning have all linked to these.
Here are some pictures of our morning.
Wednesday 11th November
We were visited by King Edwards to have a Wellbeing session. We learnt about the 5 key things to ensure good wellbeing. These were:
be active
take notice
connect
give
keep learning
Here are some photos of us doing these activities.
Wednesday 11th November
For Armistice Day we made poppies and wrote words of remembrance on them before putting in the ground to create our own little rememberance garden.
Wednesday 11th November 2020 (11am) Today we did a 2 minute silence to commemorate and show respect to our armed forces .
We are so proud of our writing! We can't wait to share more with you! What do you think of our work?
Maths Week (10.11.20) Can you complete the problems?
Monday 9th November 2020 (Maths Week)
Tuesday 20th October 2020
Today we had portals to the past visit us for our Victorian Day.
Here are a few photos and what we learnt from the day, which was very informative.
We learnt that schools and school uniform were invented during the Victorian Era. Here is a hat from Eaton, a very prestigious school where people have to pay to attend.
If you made a mistake at school during Victorian Times, children were made to wear the dunce hat and stand in the corner. You would have to face the wall all day, including missing your lunchtime.
We then had to recite our arithmetic, if we got it wrong for the school inspector, then our teacher would not get paid for that term.
If you missed behaved, you would get hit. (No child was hit or hurt during today’s session, we were just acting.)
We learnt how the Victorians sent messages through wires and they could send messages to America, India and Australia. The messages were a series of beeps which translated to letters. A messenger would then write the note and take it to the recipient who would then pay them.
Another job which Victorian children may have had were being a chimney sweep. Children would be squeezed up the chimney to clean it and they would light the fire beneath them so they did not fall down.
We then acted out stories putting movement to the words of the story.
This afternoon we looked at a range of artefacts and played with some Victorian toys.
Tuesday 20th October 2020
It is 'Victorian Day' today in Y6.
Our pupils are very excited about what they will be learning today!
Click the links below for safe website for your Great White Shark research.
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/sea-life/great-white-sharks/
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/fish/great-white-shark/
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/great-white-shark/602043
Here is some of our Art work on display from poetry day last week.
Today Year 6 had a live session all about Internet Safety!
We really enjoyed it.
On Friday it is Big Write. This week we will be writing a non-chronological report on the Great White Shark. You may want to start thinking about this in advance and researching some interesting facts.
For the lesson we will be watching the following two videos which will also provide some information and facts.
Shark Teeth.mp4
In Year 6 we have been reading holes as our class novel and using this as our writing stimulus in English as well. We have also been working really hard to follow our new handwriting scheme of letterjoin. Here is our display of some of our final published pieces of description writing all about the yellow spotted lizard as well as some focused art work on some of its distinguishable features. We are all really proud of our work!
Thursday 1st October 2020
Today is ‘National Poetry Day’. We will be exploring a poem titled, ‘The Kingfisher’ from the book ‘ The Lost Words’. We will post some photos of our work linked with this.
Check out some of the beautiful music linked with this below.
Today we had a special letter delivered into class.
First we read the poem before acting out the poem, bring the words alive. Then we recreated the Kingfisher picture using a range of art techniques.
We had a go at using feathers and ink to write our poems.
Here are some examples of our finished artwork.
Take a look at some of our fantastic pieces of artwork. We used tea bags to create the background and used water colours to paint the kingfisher.
Thursday 1st October 2020
Today we used the ipads to practise our letter join handwriting. It was much harder than writing in our books but we were able but it was fun!
Wednesday 30th September 2020
Who is the fastest kid in town? You guessed it...
Can you beat his time?
Good Luck!
Wednesday 30th September 2020
Who is the fastest kid in town? You guessed it.... one of our lovely Year 6 pupils! Keep it up!
Wednesday 30th September 2020
Instead of Miss ORourke giving us our ‘normal questions’ in guided understanding, we got to work with our partner to make our own retrieval questions. We used question stems to support us and then we answered each other’s questions. It was lots of fun!
Wednesday 30th September 2020
Today in English we used 2B and 4H pencils to draw and shade our own pictures of the Yellow-Spotted Lizard from our class novel ‘holes’. We were bringing the words from the text to life!
