27 March 2023

27.03.2023

Writing

This week in writing we moved on to our new genre of narrative writing. We discussed features which make narrative writing engaging, before discussing the features of ‘building suspense and tension’ in more detail, we discussed how ‘show not tell’ can make our writing more engaging and…

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20 March 2023

20.03.2023

Maths 

To start our maths lessons this week Year 6 answered a range of fraction questions to help prepare them for their SATs Arithmetic paper. We looked at adding and subtracting fractions, before moving on to multiplying and dividing fractions using the KFC (keep, flip and change) method.…

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13 March 2023

13.03.2023

Writing

This week in writing we immersed ourselves in our class text ‘Wonder’ and answered a range of VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval, summarise) questions showing our understanding of the text and to help us prepare for our new genre of writing.

Year 6…

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6 March 2023

06.03.2023

English

This week in English Year 6 have  written a formal letter to persuade, using formal, letter writing features such as; formal language, perfect form and subjunctive form aswell as general letter writing features such as the salutation, name and address of the recipient, the date and a…

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13 February 2023

13.02.2023

Grammar 

This week in grammar we recapped our knowledge on different word classes. We began by defining the different word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs), and then went on to identify them in a chapter of our class text. Please see below examples of our fantastic…

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6 February 2023

06.02.2023

Geography 

This week in Geography we studied the west coast of Wales. We explained how the Green Bridge of Wales was created by strong winds and powerful storms causing cracks between headlands and after forming caves, arches and stacks. Having described the coastal habitats of the west coast…

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16 January 2023

16.01.2023

Art

This week in Art Year 6 had fun creating symbols which represented important aspects of themselves, such as an object which is important to them, their funniest memories,  what they enjoy doing after school and an amazing person they would take on their favourite holiday.

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9 January 2023

09.01.2023

English

This week in English, Year 6 Whales have been practicing writing a first person retell as Auggie from our text, Wonder. The children have used key Year 6 skills such as show not tell, a wide range of clause structures including adverbials in varied positions and prepositional phrases to…

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12 December 2022

12.12.22

We have enjoyed many Winter and Christmas activities this week alongside our learning. 

On Monday, we were lucky enough to watch the rehearsal of KS1’s nativity performance. It made us feel immense pride for our fellow school mates (and it was lovely for some of us to see our younger siblings…

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5 December 2022

05.12.22

This week, in Maths, we have been learning about converting fractions into decimals. We have also been using our knowledge of decimals to solve reasoning and problem solving questions. 

Umar says ‘we have also learnt how to round decimals this week. When you round decimals, you use the place…

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28 November 2022

28.11.22

In English, we’ve been working on war poetry. Specifically, we have been studying Dulce et decorum est. First, we had to understand the events and conditions of WW1 so we gathered information about the war. We created mini factfiles about the war and Wilfred Owen (our poet). 

We were all…

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21 November 2022

21.11.22

This week, we have had a number of visitors into our class. 

In Science, we welcomed Zoolab into school to link to our Evolution and Inheritance topic. Dominique, our wonderful host, showed us a number of different animals and explained how they have adapted to their environment. She even…

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