This week, Year 6 have been investigating light and proving light cannot travel around corners. The children set up an investigation and then wrote about their findings.
Investigating Light
Year 6 Archive
World War II Entry Point
Year 6 made a great start to their history topic on World War II. After discussing what we already knew and wanted to find out, the children went on to crack codes using Morse Code, imagine what it was like to be an evacuee and then think about how food was rationed.
Star of the Week!
Thomas has made a super start to the new term and has shown a strong interest in our new topic of WW2. Well done!
Value Award: Community
Stevie received our values award this week for continually showing great community spirit within the class – amazing work!
St. Barnabas Award:
Neil always has a positive attitude towards his learning, which encourages his peers.
Eva often reads up to, and sometimes over, 6 times a week! Super efforts Eva – keep it up!
Welcome to Term 2!
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely half term break.
We have another busy term ahead of us, please see the attached topic overview to find out what we will be learning about.
Here are the KIRFs (key instant recall facts) that we will be focusing on this term. Please do encourage your child to practise these at home.
Tudor Roses
Year 6 had great fun making Tudor Roses out of clay. We learned how the rose represented the start of the Tudor period and the end of ‘the War of the Roses’ with the marriage of Henry VII of Lancaster and Elizabeth of York.
We look forward to sharing the finished products!
Maths Week
We had great fun completing challenges set by ‘The Happy Puzzle Company’.
We raised money for these workshops by holding a sponsored bounce.
We also dressed up as something or someone with a maths theme.
The children also took part in online challenges, cracking codes and investigating how they could save money while helping the environment.
Year 6 were also the winners of the Times Table Rock Stars battle!
Star of the Week
Zack is the ‘Star of the Week’ for always contributing to discussions actively.
Value Award: Ambition
Elm: Alfie received the ambition award for his efforts in TTRS – well done!
St. Barnabas Award:
Oak: Ethan received our encourager award for encouraging friends when things weren’t going to plan.
Well done to Cadence for reading every day this week.
Damien won the book raffle for reading 4 times or more on several occasions this term.
Sophie managed 110 bounces on the bouncy castle in Elm class and Eva managed 100 in Oak class!
Finally, year 6 were the overall winners in the Times Table Rock Stars Battle of the Bands.
Well done everyone!
Coding
The children have really enjoyed learning to code. Through using Turtle and Trinket, the children have experimented with different codes to reveal different outcomes.
Creation
Year 6 have been learning about the different beliefs and opinions concerning the creation of the world. They have compared theories linked to the ‘Big Bang’ (cosmology), evolution and Genesis 1. We have held some interesting discussions.
The children were also invited to share ideas about what makes them go ‘wow!’ about our world. Examples included storms and sunrises.
The Tudors
The children have really enjoyed learning about the Tudors this term.
We started by exploring evidence and linking this to the Tudor period.
The children then went on to learn about how the Tudor period started by re-enacting the Battle of Bosworth. We then went on to learn about the reign of Henry VIII and his 6 wives, followed by looking at Tudor clothing and diets. Tudor crime and punishment provided a topical debate regarding whether or not the punishments were fair or unfair. The children were able to link this to our class book ‘Treason’ by Berlie Doherty.
The children enjoyed learning about the Spanish Armada and writing newspaper reports.
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