We have had great fun this week dissecting the role of an Intelligence Officer within MI6 through analysing their website and job adverts to identify the qualities required to help keep our country safe and secure. Funnily enough, it seems that it is your everyday Joe who is the employable one!

With this knowledge, the children applied to become spies in another writing outcome from our Stormbreaker unit.

Enjoy these two examples:

Enjoy your weekend.

The Year 6 Team

To finish off the week, Year 6 children attended a STEM morning at Oaklands where BAE Systems presented a roadshow about magnets and electromagnetism – great fun! A little sneaky peek into secondary school science and future careers.

We are all very proud of the way the children committed themselves to their tasks this week – they should feel proud too.

There are no Golden Keys for Year 6 this week as it is too difficult to nominate any one person – they have all used the gifts God has given them.

Auditions for Oliver! will take place on Tuesday.

Enjoy your weekend.

The Year 6 Team

A great end to a solid week of revision came today when the Year 6 children took the opportunity to put themselves forward for the NEW ROLE of HOUSE CAPTAIN.

The children in the photo below gave their speeches to their peers in St Mary Elizabeth and St John Paul II houses. Just like the local elections – votes are being counted! Good luck to all.

Welcome back!

Following their two-week break, the Year 6 children fell straight back into their excellent learning behaviours and applied themselves to putting the finishing touches to their English and Maths skills. We have been impressed with the dedication shown, particularly of those children who completed and returned their Easter Maths booklet as well as making the most of the SATsBootcamp website to keep up with their reading and grammar skills. They have well and truly earned a three-day weekend!

HOMEWORK

The SATs are almost here and the children have all worked extremely hard up to this point.

For homework, we would like ALL children to use the SATsBootcamp website to keep their knowledge and skills in tip-top condition. The children will know specific areas of learning that they would like to feel more confident with – it is these topics that should be the focus for their home learning at this point in time.

Daily practice – little and often –  is best.

If you have any of the CGP books, these can also be used to ‘focus-in’ on weaker areas.

Wishing everyone a wonderful bank holiday weekend!

The Year 6 Team

The Year 6 children enjoyed a fantastic STEM day this week, employing all of their scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical skills to design and build a device capable of cleaning their classroom following a party. We are sure you will agree that we have some future ‘Dyson’s’ on our hands!

The design phase.

Sharing our thinking to help others.

Working it out.

Success!

A finished product!

We wish you all a very Happy Easter! Please encourage your children to complete their Easter Maths booklets, keep visiting SATSBootcamp on yearsix.co.uk  and keep pushing through the CGP booklets. They have worked incredibly hard over this term and doing this will keep their knowledge and skills ticking over – two weeks and three weekends is a long time to not be doing anything at this juncture.

For our first STEM day of the year, the children have problem to solve. Please read on…

You have just celebrated a fantastic end of mock-SATs party in your classroom. Unfortunately, confetti was used and the room is a mess. The cleaner is on holiday and has taken all the cleaning equipment. There is no dust pan or brush and cleaning-up looks like it will take a long time. You have found some motors, electrical wires, batteries and paper in the science cupboard. You have also found lots of empty plastic drinks bottles from the party. One of the children suggested using a hairdryer to blow all the confetti away, however this would only result in more mess!

Can you become an electrical engineer to design, make and test a suitable device that will suck up all of the mess and enable you to go home before it gets too late?

Year 6 have been set a homework task to think around how their device could work and what materials, and the size of them, would benefit its effectiveness. We are looking forward to some innovative ideas.

We are proud of the children’s efforts and commitment this week with their final mock SATs. They have made great strides and will continue to do so.

Diary Notes

Passion plays  – have you booked your seats?

6P Seals Performance – Weds 6th April

6L Penguins – Friday 8th April

Have a good weekend!

The Year 6 Team

A central part of our week is our library time each Friday afternoon, where the children are read to by Mrs Porter – the school librarian. It is great for the children to hear her intonation, expression and rhythm through a varied range of texts that she selects on their behalf.

Please keep the Reading Passport ticking over – it is great to have some handed in already. The final day for delivery is April 1st.

The children know that they have their final mock-SATs week from Monday to Thursday next week. A restful and recuperative weekend could be in order for them as they have been working hard these past five days.

Have a great weekend. Enjoy the weather!

The Year 6 Team

Singing is well and truly back on the menu after a two-year hiatus! This week the children enjoyed their second session with Mrs Richardson, a music specialist from Oaklands, where they practised their part-harmonies. We also finished the week with our first upper-school singing practice for quite some time.

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 Team

The year 6 children have had a fantastically productive and creative last week of this spring term, particularly within their history topic of Baghdad.

Using clues gleaned from ancient scripts, the children had to visualise what a bird’s-eye view of Baghdad might have looked like. They included all of the features and then the actual view was revealed to the children so that they could compare. Below you will find a range of examples of their thinking.

In addition to this work, the children have also produced their third piece of writing within our Shackleton unit – this time a narrative recount of the moment at which The Endurance succumbed to the pressure of the ice. Some superb, suspenseful writing has come from this.

Over half-term, we would like the children to continue to use SATsBootcamp to work on their known areas of need in Reading, Writing and Maths – while also having a great and well-deserved rest.

Have a lovely break,

The Year 6 Team