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

On Monday the Year 6 children were treated to an audience with Polly Ho Yen, author of ‘Boy in the Tower’ – a novel that they have studied in Year 5.

They learned about her journey to becoming a novelist and Polly really conveyed the message to the children that, ‘Yes you can!’ do anything in life. She pursued her passion for writing stories that interested her and this was her epiphany – ‘This is what I want to do, so I will!’

The children will be able to deploy her wisdom into some story writing next week, where they will write a narrative about when Shackleton’s Endurance succumbs to the forces of the Weddell Sea and the pack ice.

Have a wonderful weekend.

The Year 6 team.

Please find the link to a pdf version of our recent SATs information evening.

YEAR SIX SATs EVENING year 6 2022

The Year 6 Team

A great week’s maths learning has been had by all in Year 6 this week, where we have become familiar with the language of ratio and a range of strategies that can be applied to solve this type of problem. See below for a series of photos that demonstrate a part of this learning journey. Look out for the pupil explanations of their thinking which is an example of metacognition in action.

Have a great weekend.

The Year 6 Team

Our first writing outcome from our Shackleton unit has been completed. Take a look below. The children have done well to visualise and get into role as Shackleton looking to recruit a Captain. More pieces to follow soon…

Have a great weekend everyone.

The Year 6 Team

In Year 6 this week, we have kick-started our Evolution and Adaptation unit, where the children began to develop their understanding of evolution through the lens of the peppered moth and the impact of the Industrial Revolution.

Why not ask your child about it!?

Here is a sample of some of the outcomes:

Have a great weekend!

Look forward to seeing you online on Monday at 4:30pm for our virtual SATs meeting.

The Year 6 Team

The Year 6 children have made great efforts in their Maths learning this week, thinking deeply and using pictorial representations to make sense of the information given in problems involving fractions.

Here is a lovely example of this in action from Jaqueline.

Please keep checking your Parentmail for a link to the Year 6 SATs information presentation, taking place via Teams on Monday 24th January at 4:30.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 6 Team