{"id":1653,"date":"2023-01-06T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:24:35","slug":"ready-to-haul-anchor-and-set-sail-towards-new-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/2023\/01\/06\/ready-to-haul-anchor-and-set-sail-towards-new-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to haul anchor and set sail towards new horizons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the fun and festivities of the Christmas period it has been lovely to see the children again and return to our regular school-week routines. We have been very impressed with the way in which they have all seamlessly re-engaged with their learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/01\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2015_12_newly-restored-photos-ernest-shackleton-antarctica-expedition-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1656 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/01\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2015_12_newly-restored-photos-ernest-shackleton-antarctica-expedition-6-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/01\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2015_12_newly-restored-photos-ernest-shackleton-antarctica-expedition-6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/01\/https___hypebeast.com_image_2015_12_newly-restored-photos-ernest-shackleton-antarctica-expedition-6-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the Spring Term, our English unit will focus on a range of writing outcomes linked to the endeavours of Ernest Shackleton &#8211; the great polar explorer. The children will be: crafting a Job advertisement to recruit crew; writing a speech to rouse the men when at their lowest ebb; narrating the scene when the ship Endurance finally began to be taken by the sea; writing as Shackleton a letter home to his dear wife Emily. They are already showing great engagement with this new topic so we are very much looking forward to reading these pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Have a relaxing weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Year 6 Team<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the fun and festivities of the Christmas period it has been lovely to see the children again and return to our regular school-week routines. We have been very impressed with the way in which they have all seamlessly re-engaged with their learning. For the Spring Term, our English unit will focus on a range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}