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Over the last two weeks, we have learned all about the circulatory system and what it is made up of: blood, blood vessels and the heart. In today’s science lesson, we learned more about the three different blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) and what our blood is made up of! Did you…

This week in History, we have learned all about the awful life that children had working in factories during the Industrial Revolution. We discussed the Factory Act of 1833 then wrote a diary entry from the point of view from a child worker in a mill in 1833 after studying some historical sources.…

To enable our writing to have appropriate vocabulary within, we looked at how to use suspense and tension within narrative writing. We used skills such as show not tell, figurative language and a range of clause structures to build appropriate suspense and tension up within our writing. 

We took our learning outside today as we started our new DT topic, Programming Adventures. We learned how to programme and control floor robots and even became robots ourselves! We used floor robot programming cards to ‘programme’ our friends to travel across the playground! We really enjoyed…

What a fantastic Art lesson we have had learning all about the messages behind Banksy’s art. We created our own whole class message and completed our own art work based on that, they were phenomenal!

We used freeze-frames to practise our acting skills and we put those to use to bring the banquet for Macbeth to life! We had some brilliant, budding actors and actresses who shone throughout their roleplay. Well done Whales, your confidence increased throughout the lesson. We are so proud of you…

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…

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.…

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.

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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…

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…

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…