Orienteering experts
Year 6 used instructions with directional vocabulary to move their sightless teammates to a chosen location.
Christmas Jumper Day
Year 6 dressed up in their most wintery, Christmas-style attire to celebrate Christmas Jumper Day!
Paired editing
Year 6 spent some time editing their independent writes this week. The children had been writing a discursive argument whether animals should be used in the war. We decided that there were elements of our writes which we could improve upon, so we practiced our editing skills in pairs on Miss…
Budding artists
Year 6 have been creating a basis for their activist art over the past few weeks. They have layered different pieces of wallpaper to create a textured surface before painting it white. Over the coming weeks, they will add important messages and images to their art to convey powerful messages.
Debating in Year 6
Year 6 have taken part in a debate to consider whether animals should be used in the war.
Musical maestros
Year 6 used music technology to practice composing four bar melodies. We experimented with pitch by using a piano keyboard, seeing how the notes move on the musical stave.
Sporting superstars
Year 6 have started a new topic of ‘Outdoor Activities’. We are learning about using keys when orienteering around the school grounds. The class completed a warm up around our new running track before doing an obstacle course, finding symbols and their word counterparts!
Active or passive voice
Year 6 have learnt about active and passive voice, and the skill of being able to recognise the object, verb and subject in a sentence.
Climate Change presentation
Year six have completed their Geography topic by presenting everything they have learnt to the class, including how we can help slow down climate change!
Order of operations
Year 6 have been learning about order of operations in Maths. We have learnt that any calculations in brackets must be completed first!
Listen to your conscience
Year 6 showed their understanding of Isabella’s thoughts as she breaks a promise made to her best friend, inspired by our class text ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’.
Finding evidence in Reading
In our Reading lessons, we have been learning how to agree or disagree with statements finding evidence from the text through skimming and scanning.