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.
The History of Staffordshire
Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed our History topic, learning about the history of the town we live in. This week, we learnt about the Georgian era and all that Wedgwood did for The Potteries!
Mental maths
Year 6 have been practicing their times tables when learning about factors, multiples and prime numbers.
Skittles in Science
As part of our topic learning about the circulatory system, Year 6 used skittles and water to investigate how nutrients pass into our bloodstream from our digestive organs.
Learning Latin
We practiced using ‘sum’ to introduce ourselves, remembering that male names end in -us and female names in -a.
Exploring synonyms!
In our Reading lessons this week, we have read a non-fiction text all about rainforests! Y6 have engaged really well with this text and have enjoyed delving deeper into the reasons as to why our rainforests are at risk. As part of our Reading learning, we have focused on developing our…
Marvellous Modal Verbs!
In Grammar this week, Y6 have learnt all about modal verbs and how they can be used in different ways. We explored how modal verbs can be used to indicate possibility, ability, permission or obligation. Y6 did amazing in this lesson and even completed some tricky SATS questions all about modal…
Terrific teapot designs!
This week in History we learnt all about the famous local potter Thomas Whieldon. As part of our lesson we looked at his ‘Tortoiseshell Ware’ and then used this to create our own teapot design that would be fit for tea drinkers during the Georgian period! I’m sure you’ll agree that these designs…