Year 6 Home Learning Awards

By Miss S STAINTON14th March 2021

Wow, what a fantastic awards assembly Year 6 had to celebrate all of their hard work during the lockdown period!

It was fabulous to see all of our dedicated pupils united once again in celebration of each other’s successes as we shared hundreds of certificates which they have worked so hard to earn over the past 2 months!

There were countless Purple Mash, Reading Plus, and TT Rockstars certificates handed out to both children who have worked on their learning from home and to those who have been in school. Weals celebrated and gave special recognition to individuals who had shown outstanding effort across different home learning platforms.

 

Our top 3 ‘Purple Mash Reward Earners’ – Thomas, Charlie and Chloe earned over 100 individual rewards each for their amazing home learning work which they submitted!

Our Top 3 TT Rockstars Coin Earners

Our Top 3 Reading Plus Achievers

We would like to congratulate all children for showing resilience and determination during a very difficult time in their learning, and of course a huge thank you to parents for all of your continued support!

British Science Week 2021!

By Miss S STAINTON14th March 2021

Year 6 have taken part in many weird and wonderful science experiments this week in support of ‘British Science Week 2021’!

It was a brilliant way to celebrate all children being back in school and participate in hands-on, fun activities.

We have experimented with cress, candles, and balloons to name just a few!

Here are a selection of photographs showing some of the fun we got up to!

World Book Day 2021!

By Miss S STAINTON5th March 2021

Year 6 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day 2021! Lots of children, both in school and at home, took part in various activities across the day.

The highlight was tuning in to ‘The Masked Reader’ and trying to guess the teachers who were reading extracts from their favourite books. Leila did fantastic, scoring 8/9, and was one of our prize winners of the day.

We also loved crafting and creating our potato book characters! Here are just some of the ones our talented children have made, can you guess who any of them are?

 

Y5 Safer Internet Day

By Bethany Callow12th February 2021

Today, the Year 5 children in school created a banner for safer internet use to showcase what they have been learning about throughout the week.

Year 5 Newspaper Reports

By Miss J STAINES12th February 2021

The Year 5 children, both at home and at school, have produced some fantastic newspaper reports based on our guided reading text – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. They have reported that a young boy, called Michael, has fallen off his family’s yacht while they were sailing around the world and he is now missing. Their reports were brilliant and included all of our Year. 5 grammatical features, including relative clauses, parenthesis and modal verbs.

Oliver E

Gracie J

Year 5 – Safer Internet Day

By Miss J STAINES12th February 2021

This week, both in school and at home, the Year 5 children have been completing activities centred around staying safe online.

For their first task, they created posters informing children of the SMART rules for staying safe online.

Freddie F

Ella C                                        Jamie C

For their second task, they looked at advertising and how people use social media to advertise and promote products.

Ava-May S

For their final task, they discussed a range of activities and actions that people can undertake online and decided how risky these actions and activities are and why.

Jay H

Crime and Punishment!

By Miss S STAINTON12th February 2021

Year 6 have got off to a great start this half term with their topic ‘Crime and Punishment’. We have loved looking back at how life would have been very different during the Anglo-Saxon and Viking period, and started to explore what life during the Tudor times would have been like this week. We learned it was classed as a crime to be homeless and the Tudor vagrants would often be whipped, or even sentenced to death, if they were found on the streets!

In this lesson, we studied a woodcutting primary source of evidence which illustrated a Tudor village scene with a vagrant being whipped and lead through the streets on a leash. We then made reasonable judgements and used our inference skills to explore what we could see happening in the woodcutting.

Year 5 PSHE and Child Mental Health Week

By Miss J STAINES6th February 2021

Throughout the week, the Year 5 children – both at home and at school – have been completing a range of PSHE activities.

The children started the week by thinking about their dreams and goals for their futures and then completed dream clouds on which they wrote about what they would like their lives to be lie when they are older.

Grace H

Ruby L

The children then thought about what their dream job would be. They researched their jobs and came up with three steps they would need to take in order to achieve their dream career.

Ella C

Next, the children discussed different professions and their salaries. We talked about which professions earned the most money and whether we thought other professions should earn more money because of their contributions to society. Look at these incredible written answers from Cody and Oliver.

Cody M

Oliver E

Finally, the children completed various activities for Child Mental Health Week. Some children sent in images of themselves expressing themselves in different ways and doing things that they enjoy and some children created jars containing things that they are looking forward to.

Ruby L enjoys colouring and does this to expresses herself .

Ella C enjoys doing anything related to Harry Potter, whether it is reading the books, watching the films or playing Harry Potter board games.

Chloe C, Gracie OE, Gracie J and Oliver E have plenty to look forward to!

PSHE Year 6

By Mrs D WILKINSON5th February 2021

As part of Mental Health Week Year 6 have been expressing their thoughts and feelings through art.

In an ideal world, emotions create feelings that flow naturally. But often they get dammed up. Whatever you’re feeling these days, it can be a lot to carry. Expressing emotion through art is an incredible way to release those feelings before they get too deep and begin to create other problems.

Each child has produced a piece of work which reflects their uniqueness and individuality.

We think you will agree we have some very talented children in Year 6 !!!

Year 6 Science – Electricity

By Miss S JONES1st February 2021

Year 6 have loved learning all about electricity in science this half term!

We began the unit by looking at everyday life before electricity. The children had some quite interesting ideas as to what they thought items from the past were used for, before electrical items were even dreamed of.

Next, we learned about the discoveries of Michael Faraday, who invented the electric motor, and how his invention dramatically changed the world.

We looked at different electrical components and what their function is before looking at their corresponding symbols and using these to draw circuit diagrams.

We really enjoyed working scientifically to investigate circuits and predict what would happen if any of the components were changed.