Red Nose Day
What a busy but fantastic day we have had today for Red Nose Day!
1. We bought Red Noses to support a really good cause and designed our own Red Noses and our theme for future Red Nose Day's.
2. We carried out a Red Nose Day quiz in different teams. The three different categories were -…
Festive Fun
Monday
Today, we made our whole class WW2 time line. Also we went on active learn (Maths flex) it wasn’t everyone’s favourite, but we all did it and did well. In the afternoon we had our film afternoon and watched Christmas Chronicles 2.
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Scrooge
Monday
On Monday, we learnt about simple and compound leaves in science. We went on a hunt in the school grounds looking for leaves to classify. Also in PE we had an obstacle course in the hall which included: star jumps, skipping, press ups and walking across the ladders.
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Our Week
This week our blog has been written by Emily Jones, our Deputy Head Girl, who has volunteered to write some of our blogs. Have a read of Emily's first blog of the year, below:
Monday
On Monday, we learnt about percentages and formal and…
Classifying Creatures
- In Science this week we created our own classifying diagrams/branching diagrams. We first created diagrams for a range of ‘Flanimals’ (nonsense creatures) before also classifying a range of well-known biscuits too. This task will set us up nicely for classifying a range of animals and plants in…
Remembrance
- On Wednesday we remembered all those who have given their lives for us in various conflicts throughout the years. We created our own poems of remembrance and war and then read performed these to the class. We also created our own war themed silhouettes. Look out for these in our gallery…
Autumn Term 2
This week in year 6 we have continued our learning about Pompeii. This week, our task was to create a newspaper article that details the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii. In the build up to typing out our own report we covered a few useful topics:
- How to use eye witness…
The Fires of Pompeii
We have started our new English topic about Pompeii which is a topic that the children have found incredibly excited. Below is a run down of the activities we have carried out so far in this unit:
- This week in English we carried out research in what happened in Italy in 79AD. We learnt that…
The Top Moments of Week 2
- Head Hunters. This week we created our own set of Head Hunters cards to find around the school grounds. Each of the sets had to be linked together but the theme of the cards was up to us.
- Clay Painting. We started the week by painting our clay mythical creatures that we had created last week.…
A Warm Welcome Back!
After what has felt like forever, it was fantastic to see so many happy and smiling faces this week. I have certainly missed you all in the last six months. As most of you will know by now, I am lucky enough to be teaching the class again this year, with continued support from Mrs Gibson. Mr Price…
SATs practice and bouncy castles in Gold class
Still going with the SAT’s practice.
In Gold class this week we have been working on our Maths and English. This is so we are as ready for SAT’s as we can be.
In English we have been working on our ‘Give Blood’ campaign. We looked at books, posters, websites and TV adverts to see which…
A fun week including WBD 2020 in Gold class
Full steam ahead in Gold class.
In English this week we have been working on a fictional recount. We looked at Vampire bats and Mosquitos. These 2 creatures drink blood from humans to survive. We wrote a recount of our ‘fictional’ encounter of one of these.
This week’s Maths started with…