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Welcome to Year 6 Please remember to bring your bookbag each day, with your reading book inside, we have the opportunity to change our library books every week - our designated day is a Thursday. Please bring a healthy snack for playtime and please also remember a named water bottle. PE days are Wednesday and Fridays. Remember to come into school already wearing your P.E. kit.
Parent Workshop presentation - Key information Year 6 parent information presentation Mrs Rixon-Fox, Mr. Wicks, Mrs Stephenson, Mrs Pathania |
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Our Learning: Week Commencing 11.3.25 For our oracy Friday this week, we focused our attention on debating. The children were debating the topic of should junk food be banned for children. It was a priority for them to consider how to disagree politely and structuring our ideas in response to others. The children used the fishbowl technique during the debate to promote good listening alongside effective talk. Continuing with the theme of science, the children learnt how periscopes work - through mirrors! They found out abot the practicality of them, where they can be useful and then we made our very own periscopes! The children loved being hands on and having a physical outcome!   
  
 Week Commencing 3.3.25 In science, we are leanring about light. We conducted an experiment to see which materials reflected light the best. We had to make a light catcher with a torch. To keep it fair, we put the materials 15 cm away from the light source. Ask us what we found out!    Week Commencing 24.2.25 This week saw us going to Warning Zone in Leicester. The children are taken around differemt scenarios that they may encounter as the grow up and are shown how to deal with these situations. It is always a fun trip and the children learn so much from it!    Week Commencing 6.1.25 and 13.1.25 A busy start to the New Year! We hope all families enjoyed their 2 week holidays and managed to get some deserved R&R. To crack off the New Year, we braved the cold in our hockey sessions and practised our dribbling skills around objects as well as shooting at a goal using the push shot.   In our topic, we have been reflecting on all the learning we have done during the Ancient Greeks unit to create a double page spread. The children were asked to present this however they wished. Lots of fabulous outcomes have been created!
Year 6 were tasked with producing items for 'Cafe Rénz'. We made fruit cake, gingerbread and hot chocolate reindeer. The children got to practise grating, chopping, peeling, mixing, cutting as well as a lot of patience! We have had a lot of fun making the items for the Christmas fair.  
 
  Week Commencing 9.12.24 This week, we channeled our inner artists. We were given pictures of Greek landscapes and were asked to use these as inpiration for our own landscape watercolour painting. We spent a session practising skills - this included using different brush types to give different effects. The next session involved putting these to the test. Here are some examples.  
  Our Learning: Week Commencing 2.12.24 This week in our Greeks topic we have utilised our computing skills and created powerpoints about what life was like in Ancient Greece. Below are some examples from different children's powerpoint presentations. Week commencing 25.11.24 We channeled our inner geographer this week. We were tasked with 'making' Alexander the Great's empire just from looking at a picture to see how accurate we could get it. We then 'made' the map on top of the existing one to make it as accurate as possible and to see how well we did previously. Additionally, we used 'flags' to show some of the countries he conquered, grooved out rivers he would have come across and made mountains he would have seen. Lastly, we commented on the landscape of his empire.  
 Week commencing 18.11.24 In History, we have been looking more deeply at significant events and individuals that are part of Ancient Greek History. We have begun by looking at the Battle of Marathon and the key figure that is Alexander the Great.  In our English unit we have been working on understanding the characters and the relationships between them. Over the last few English sessions we have focused on persuasion and how to adopt devices that will generate persuasion within a written letter. The children have been writing as Barney to one of the soldiers trying to persuade them to change their behaviours and opinion. The Year 6 pupils have also worked really hard to embed some of the new structures that we have been teaching them such as using colons and semi-colons.      Week commencing 11.11.24 We are delving into our topic of the Greeks. This week we looked at the physical features of Greece and spoke about how they may differ to the UK. We also placed the different time periods of Ancient Greece on a timeline.   UNICEF - week commencing 28.10.24 Year 6 were tasked with researching and gaining knowledge surrounding displacement. The children learnt what it was, the causes of it, the risks involved with it, where displaced people went as well as the rights of a child during the process. We used atlases to find the countries most affected by displacement; we empathised with people who were displaced by imaginging the banks of the Loughborough canal had burst forcing us to leave our home; finally, we were tasked with designing a mitten for a displaced child. The mitten had to be warm and make the child smile. We practised the running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, blanket stitch and over stitch before sewing our mittens together.
     Week Commencing 14.10.24 A busy last week before the half-term in Year 6. In our history lessons, we looked at a variety of primary and secondary sources surrounding the Dunkirk evacuation and sorted them. This led to our historical enquiry session where we thought like historians. The question we had to answer was 'Who was victorious during the Dunkirk evacuation'. We had to use the sources of evidence to help us. During science, we started our new electricity unit and looked at the key components. In R.E., we finished our unit and showed how we are committed to our chosen focus.  
 
  Week Commencing 07.10.24  Week Commencing 30.09.24 In our PE sessions, we have been working on improving our physical fitness during the functional fitness sessions on a Friday. The children have been enthusiatically taking part in circuit training and we are noticing improvements in their stamina for the activities. Our circuits have included exercises such as squats, burpees, mountain climbers, squat taps, ladder runs and sit-ups amongst others. In our science lesson this week, we looked at osmosis in a simplified form. The movement of water from a high concentration to a low concentration. We have conducted an experiment to see this in action. The children measured 4 gummy bears before they went into their solutions. The solutions consisted of: coca cola, sugar water, salt water and water. The children made their hypothesis based on the fact that the gummy bear has a low concentration of water in it.  
  Week commencing 16.09.24 This week we have been learning about the impact of propaganda during our WWII topic. Here are some of our brilliant examples:      Week commencing 09.09.24 A busy week in year 6! In science, conducted a fair test showing how a blocked artery can affect blood flow. The children had to time how long it took water to flow through a hole (artery). They did this 3 times and with the same amount of water (blood). We learnt that the bigger the artery(healthy and not blocked) the quicker the blood can flow. In our topic session, we created our very own sculptures based on the sculptor Antony Gormley. We used a variety of techniques whilst manipulating clay.      
   Week commencing 2.9.24 A busy first full week in year 6! We started our novel approach book 'Rose Blance' where we have tried to make predictions and infereces. In maths, we have recapped placve value knowledge. Continuing on from our trip to the victory show, we learnt about 5 reasons that led to WW2 and the importance of each. This then led to listening to Neville Chamberlain's speech declaring war on Germany. We recreated our own version of this and recorded it on the IPads. In P.E., we started our multi-sports unit and completed an assessment to see where we sit in terms of fitness, control and stability. Well done year 6! Victory Show Trip 2024
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