PSHCE YEAR 6

 

What are British Values?

Fundamental British Values underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain valuing our community and celebrating diversity of the UK. These values are Democracy, Rule of Law, Respect and Tolerance, Individual Liberty.

Why are the 5 British Values important?
We see British Values as underpinning what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Britain. They allow us to create environments free from discrimination, intolerance and hate. They help us to challenge prejudice and stereotyping, whilst strengthening relationships within the community.
As part of our PSHCE/JIGSAW Lesson Year 6 discussed how
these values are clearly evident throughout our school.
Then the children were given a scenario of an event that could happen…
Once the children had read the the news report  they took on the roles of the adults who were directly involved.
These included: a police officer, a fireman, the headmaster of the school, the class teacher and the parents of some of the children involved.
They had to  listen carefully to the views and opinions of  all members of the group.The right to free speech – individual liberty . It was necessary to show respect and tolerance eventhough their views and opinions differed greatly. 
They had to abide by the rule of law when it came to important decision making…
Finally, as part of tte democratic process , they had  to decide what steps needed to be taken so that every member of the group was happy with the final outcome .

Year 5 Creative and Performing Arts Day – Sirius

By Mr J SUTTON20th January 2023

Today the year 5’s visited Sirius Academy to partake in an amazing day of Creative and Performing Arts. The children loved watching the performance ‘The Adam’s Family’ before being part of the crew. Children were given workshops to enhance their drama skills and become an undead cast member before practicing and performing a dance routine. They also got the chance to add to the set of the final show through creating props that will be used on the actual performance nights!

Year 5 database computing

By Mr J SUTTON17th January 2023

Year 5 have really been enjoying comparing different databases today. They were very knowledgeable whilst identifying differences and similarities between computer based databases and paper ones. They could identify the different fields and could sort them using a range or information.

Year 5 Music codebreakers

By Mr J SUTTON17th January 2023

In todays lesson year 5’s really enjoyed looking at the music notes and breaking the codes using letter notations to find words. The children really loved refreshing their memory on how to read the treble base notes using the acronyms FACE for the SPACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Foottball when looking at notes on a line.

Blast off!

By Olivia Mead15th January 2023

Over the year so far, Year 5 have been extremely lucky to be taught to play the clarinet by Mrs Hall. This week, the children were learning to play a piece called Blast Off. We ended the performance by raising out clarinets to the music. We are doing amazingly!!!

To know about a range of jobs and careers

By Olivia Mead15th January 2023

In PSHCE this week, Year 5 were learning about a range of jobs careers. The children began by ordering a list of jobs from most important to least important; we then discussed their thoughts and ideas as to why they had position the cards in their places. Some of the points that were raised were salary, importance to the community and enjoyment. After this, the children worked in groups to come up with the salary of each job/career and they then decided whether the career was underpaid, overpaid or respectfully paid.

This week’s lesson was very important to understand job roles and their benefits and disadvantages.

Well done Y5MEA!

Year 6 Art Banksy Style

By Mrs D WILKINSON15th January 2023

Year 6 have been learning about one of Britain’s most influential modern –  day artists,  the graffiti famous Banksy. His artwork appears in public places as if by magic.  Eventhough his identity has never been revealed his work is instantly recognisable as he has a particular style.

We looked at lots of examples of Banksy’s work which encouraged the children to think deeply about the hidden meanings in pieces of art.

There is a common misconception that graffiti is something that has only appeared in modern day culture. However, this is not the case as forms of graffiti can be traced back to ancient times in places such as Rome and Greece.

To build confidence the children created pencil sketches…

Then the drawings were outlined in fine black marker pen to add detail…

Then permanent marker was added to add blocks of colour – creating a stencil effect – just like Banksy…

Some of our children preferred to remain anonymous…just like Banksy…

 

Then we linked the artwork to our history topic, Crime and Punishment…

 

 

And finally ….in true Banksy style…

                                              Eva

 

Learning about varied forms of art work will inspire children to think about what artistic style they would like to adopt themselves.

 

 

 

 

Year 5 – Faith in action – Who do we listen to?

By Mr J SUTTON13th January 2023

In todays lesson, Year 5 discussed the different people who they listen to and follow advice from in their lives. We discussed why we listen to certain people and maybe not listen to others. Whilst comparing our answers, we thought about if people of faith would have similar people that they listened to and were able to justify why they might have similar thoughts to others. Within the lesson, we looked at who would also inspire us. By looking at some well known inspirational people and looking at some less known we talked about if some deeds were better than others. The children came up with the conclusion that not everyone who inspires us has to be in the public eye and that everyone can be an inspiration no matter their beliefs or faith.

Viking Shields

By Olivia Mead9th January 2023

Over the past three afternoons, Year 5 have been learning all about our new topic for the term: Anglo Saxons and Vikings. The main subject we have been discussing is the Anglo Saxon and Viking shields: analysing genuine and replica images of shields and gathering conclusions about what the Vikings were like, based on the fact they had shields.

The children participated in a craft activity then designed their own shields and used paper mache to create a boss in the centre of their shields. They then painted their chosen design onto their templates. Here are some photographs of our designs.

Identifying grammatical and structural features of a formal letter

By Olivia Mead9th January 2023

In today’s English lesson, Year 5 studied a range of letters of complaint. We analysed the grammatical and structural features of a letter and then worked in partners to identify these features. We worked together amazingly and are now much more confident when finding features of a letter.