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Week 38 - This week we covered why charity is important to Hindu's in RE, Basketball and team sports in PE and drawing anime faces in Art!
Week 37 - Year 6 welcomed the upcoming Owls into the classroom for their transition week!
Sports Day! Just a few pics for now - many more to come!
KPS by the sea! The children enjoyed our beach and the big bounce as well as learn about the RNLI and wrote non-chronological reports about their favourite UK seaside.
Car Wash!
Week 35
Reading
This week, year 6 have continued to answer mixed VIPER questions based on our class text 'Wonder'. To support their writing topic, the children have dived deep into the emotions and feelings of the main characters.
Writing
This week, year 6 have continued their next writing style: emotive speech. They have been writing from the perspective of many different characters in the book on their opinions and viewpoints of Auggie, as well as coming up with some of their own. This will contribute towards their final speech about Auggie's best friend - Daisy.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been consolidating their four calculations knowledge by speed answering fluency questions.
Afternoons
Year 6 are enjoying their Stone Age Topic and have learnt all about the word 'pre-historic' and how it relates to the kind of writing found in this time period. In PE ,the children showed great sportsmanship in Badminton and teamwork in their Athletics, practising skipping for their Sports day next week! In music, they have been learning the main song from the film 'Brave' based on Scottish Folk music. In Spanish, the children have been continuing their learning of the names of different types of animals. In RE, they continued their topic 'what is it like to be a Muslim in Britain today?'. In Science, the children completed an investigation about raising our heart rate, BPM and what our pulse is.
Week 34
Reading
This week, year 6 have continued to answer mixed VIPER questions based on our class text 'Wonder'. To support their writing topic, the children have dived deep into the emotions and feelings of the main characters.
Writing
This week, year 6 have began their next writing style: emotive speech. They have been exploring the themes within the book, specifically around the precept given on Auggie's first day at school 'when given the choice between being kind or being right, always choose kind'.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been consolidating their four calculations knowledge by speed answering fluency questions.
Afternoons
Year 6 are enjoying their Stone Age Topic and have learnt all about ancestors and hunter-gatherers . In Geography, year 6 learnt about the great barrier reef and the problems it is facing. In PE the children showed great sportsmanship in Badminton and teamwork in their Athletics. In music, they have been learning the main song from the film 'Brave' based on Scottish Folk music. In Spanish, the children had a stand alone lesson consolidating colours. In RE, they continued their topic 'what is it like to be a Muslim in Britain today?'. In Science, the children learnt about the heart and labelled the different chambers, veins, arteries and vena cava.
Week 33
Reading
This week, year 6 have continued to answer mixed VIPER questions based on our class text 'Wonder'. To support their writing topic, the children have dived deep into the emotions and feelings of the main characters.
Writing
This week, year 6 have finished their internal monologue from the point of view of Jack Will from the story Wonder and have ensured that it is edited and improved to the best of their ability. The children have used similar skills to their diary entry such as informality, first person and lots of thoughts and feelings.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been consolidating their four calculations knowledge by speed answering fluency questions.
Afternoons
Year 6 are enjoying their Stone Age Topic and have learnt all about Doggerland. In Geography, year 6 began their Ocean's topic by learning the names and locations of the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern and Indian ocean. In PE the children showed great sportsmanship in Badminton and teamwork in their Athletics. In music, they have been learning the main song from the film 'Brave' based on Scottish Folk music. In Spanish, the children had a stand alone lesson consolidating colours. In RE, they began their topic 'what is it like to be a Muslim in Britain today?'. In Science, the children learnt about the circulatory system, labelling parts of it in their books.
Week 32
Reading
This week, year 6 have continued to answer mixed VIPER questions based on our class text 'Wonder'. They have watched part of the film as well and read the book everyday as well as homing in on a chapter a day using our VIPERS. They have become so engaged with Auggie's story and have loved having class discussions about his relationships with other people.
Writing
This week, we have planned, written and edited an internal monologue about Auggie and Jack's friendship. They added SPaG skills from their SPaG lessons such as informal language, complex sentences, semi-colons and parenthesis.
Maths
This week, year 6 have looked deeper at pie charts by drawing and creating their own based on information that they collected from the class.
Week 31
Reading
This week, year 6 have continued to answer mixed VIPER questions based on our class text 'Wonder'. They have watched part of the film as well and read the book everyday as well as homing in on a chapter a day using our VIPERS. They have become so engaged with Auggie's story and have loved having class discussions about his relationships with other people.
Writing
This week, we have planned, written and edited a diary entry from Auggie about his first day at school. Year 6 ensured that they used genre features such as salutation, informal language, first person, past tense and thoughts/feelings to meet the success criteria. They also added SPaG skills from their SPaG lessons such as complex sentences, semi-colons and parenthesis.
Maths
This week, year 6 are catching up with parts of the curriculum that we weren't sure about and have consolidated their understanding of statistics by answering fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions about line graphs, duel bar charts and pie charts. In arithmetic, we have practised and maintained a series of skills across the four calculations, fractions, decimals and percentages.
In the afternoons, Year 6 have enjoyed learning about coastlines, continuing their Crime and Punishment topic by looking at the Tudors, and investigating chemical reactions by planning and performing an experiment to show irreversible change!
Week 30 - SATS - Year 6 enjoyed pulling all the paper that covers the displays down in celebration of all their hard work!
Week 29
Reading
This week, year 6 have looking at the meaning behind the song 'old red eyes', by analysing the lyrics using our Explain, Inference, Vocab, Predict, Summarise and Retrieval VIPERS.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been continuing their shape unit by finding angles within rectilinear shapes, triangles, circles and quadrilaterals.
Week 28
Reading
This week, year 6 have read a biography about Rosa Parks, which they have found extremely interesting and has sparked some brilliant conversations about our value of EQUALITY.
Leon - 'it is so unfair about how people were treated'
Mya - 'I'm glad segregation doesn't happen anymore'
https://www.ducksters.com/biography/women_leaders/rosa_parks.php
Writing
This week, Year 6 have been continuing to sentence stack a non-chronological report based on the book 'On and Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin. The children love this topic and have been fascinated by all the facts that they have learnt along the way. They have used skills such as relative clauses, fronted adverbials, semi-colon lists and composed complex sentences.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been finding area and perimeter and rectilinear shapes and triangles in their revisit of the topic. They have worked so hard to understand when they can use the formulas and the steps they need to take when working out the area of rectilinear shapes or find the missing sides. They just need to remember to always use the unit of measurement!!!
Pictures from our cricket PE lesson this week (week 28)
Week 27
Reading
This week, year 6 have read the first chapter of the book 'The London Eye Mystery', which is written from the point of view of an autistic boy. This supported Autism Awareness Month and we had some great conversations around the many aspects of ASD.
Mika 'I wondered why the text says 'my brain works differently to other people'
Writing
This week, Year 6 have continued their new writing topic based on the thriller novel 'The Graveyard Book'. We have been sentence stacking our narrative bildungsroman text. We have used subjunctive form, past progressive tense, relative clauses, speech punctuation and passive voice. They have also begun to plan out their independent writes and it is brilliant to see all the individual and independent Bildungsroman stories they have come up with!
Maths
This week, year 6 have been finding area and perimeter and rectilinear shapes and triangles in their revisit of the topic. They have worked so hard to understand when they can use the formulas and the steps they need to take when working out the area of rectilinear shapes or find the missing sides. They just need to remember to always use the unit of measurement!!!
We had a special visit this week for our last police cadets session, where the children used their call signs to speak to each other over the radio and report stolen cars. The PCSO's were impressed with how well they knew the phonetic alphabet as we know they have been practising at home!
In the afternoons, Miss Wetton has debuted her PE teaching career with a great game of cricket! With the support of the students, we have had a brilliant game and have gotten our heads around the rules of play. Our following PE lesson was orienteering outside, where the children worked as teams to find key points in the school grounds.
Jacob - 'This is my favourite lesson now'
Leon - 'We all joined together as separate teams to help each other find the trickier points.
Week 26
Reading
This week, year 6 have read the poem 'Invictus' by William Ernest Henry. We spent a lot of time on inference as we thought about the meaning behind the words and the poem itself. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers. We finished the week with a practise assessment to support their SATs boosters.
Jacob - 'This has made me realise how much I actually like poems'
Josh - 'I like that it is called Invictus because it means undefeatable'
Writing
This week, Year 6 have continued using the novel 'The Graveyard Book' to write a poem based on the character Silas. We used the poem 'The Highwayman' as inspiration for the structure. We used features such as rhyming patterns, repetition, semi-colons and figurative language to build the poems.
Mya ' I have liked playing about with words to find the ones that match'
Lucas 'I like the story of the highway man and really enjoyed Silas in the book'
Maths
This week, year 6 have had lessons based on what topics they need to practise based on the assessments that they did last week. We have looked at worded questions and inverse operations, concentrating on the types of vocabulary used in the questions to ensure we are doing the correct calculations.
Week 25
This week, the children have been working incredibly hard on their assessments - which are all marked and ready to share with you on parents evening next week! We are so proud of the progress they have made, which is all due to their improved attitudes and determination to succeed. Well done Owls!
Week 24
Reading
This week, year 6 have read the poem 'The Tyger' by William Blake. We spent a lot of time on inference as we thought about the meaning behind the words and the poem itself. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers. We finished the week with a practise assessment to support their SATs boosters.
Writing
This week, Year 6 have continued their new writing topic based on the thriller novel 'The Graveyard Book'. We have been sentence stacking our narrative bildungsroman text. We have used subjunctive form, past progressive tense, relative clauses, speech punctuation and passive voice. They have also begun to plan out their independent writes and it is brilliant to see all the individual and independent Bildungsroman stories they have come up with!
Maths
This week, year 6 have been finding area and perimeter and rectilinear shapes and triangles in their revisit of the topic. They have worked so hard to understand when they can use the formulas and the steps they need to take when working out the area of rectilinear shapes or find the missing sides. They just need to remember to always use the unit of measurement!!!
We had a special visit this week for our last police cadets session, where the children used their call signs to speak to each other over the radio and report stolen cars. The PCSO's were impressed with how well they knew the phonetic alphabet as we know they have been practising at home!
On Friday afternoon, Mrs Boyson supported the children with making their mother's day cards, which are absolutely beautiful and we love how they have all made their own designs! We also looked at Comic Relief and discussed the feelings and emotions that some of the children and young people who benefit from the charity might feel.
Week 23
Reading
This week, year 6 have read a chapter from the book 'Phoenix' by SF Said. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers. We finished the week with a practise assessment to support their SATs boosters.
Writing
This week, Year 6 have began their new writing topic based on the thriller novel 'The Graveyard Book'. We have been sentence stacking our narrative bildugsroman text. We have used grammar skills such as complex sentences, relative clauses, semi-colons and passive voice.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been revisiting measurement to support what we found they needed to develop more based on their last set of assessments. Their perseverance with this topic has been brilliant as they have practised converting metric measurements and answering word problems by calculating different metric measurements.
We had a special visit this week for our third police cadets session, where the children learnt about forensics and had a go at taking fingerprints.
In PE, we practised our dribbling, passing and shooting skills with basketball before a friendly game!
Week 22
Reading
This week, year 6 have read a biography about John Brodie. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers. We finished the week with a practise assessment to support their SATs boosters.
Writing
This week, Year 6 have began their new writing topic based on the thriller novel 'The Graveyard Book'. We have looked at different types of grave stones, estimating their time eras and made notes on the chapters we are going to be re-writing.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been revisiting percentages to support what we found they needed to develop more based on their last set of assessments. Their perseverance with this topic has been brilliant as they have found equivalent FDP, ordered and compared FDP and found percentages of amounts using various multiples.
World Book Day Celebrations
Week 21
This week the children were extremely busy completing their assessments. We are so proud of the progress they have made through their improving determination and resilience.
A game of battleships to support our learning of Position and Direction
Week 20
Reading
This week, year 6 have loved reading 'Wild Boy'. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers. We finished the week with a practise assessment, which the children are progressing in at an amazing rate!
Writing
This week, Year 6 have continued sentence stacking their narrative write of 'Paper Man' by Disney. We have had five sentence stacking lessons, where the children have been using lots of BOOMTASTICS such as repetition, alliteration simile, pathetic fallacy and metaphor. They have been practising grammar skills such as adverbial phrases, imperative verbs, passive and active voice and a variety of punctuation. They are prepped and ready to begin their independent writing sequence next week.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been revisiting decimals to support their number and place value knowledge as well as their numbers within 1. They have been brilliant at remembering skills such as subtracting decimals from whole numbers and multiply and dividing them by whole numbers. The children also had a one of session revisiting area and perimeter of compound shapes.
Afternoon curriculum
In Science, the children wrote about the different types of micro-organisms. In Geography, the children looked at the energy sources in the United States. In History, the children continued to learn about crime and punishment in Anglo Saxon times by learning all about the vocab used in this time era. In Spanish, we practised numbers to 20 before learning the days of the week and days of the month. They also had a visit from our local PCSO to continue their Police Cadet training, with a session on bullying and anti-social behaviour. In PSHE, we began planning our projects for our chosen charities as part of our dreams and goals unit. In computing, we celebrated 'Safer Internet Day' by creating posters, taking part in a class quiz, word searches and crosswords. In PE, the children created routines based on the skills that they have learnt in their sessions this term and performed in front of the class. We have also celebrated Children's Mental Health week by collecting ideas about what we like to see, smell, hear, touch and taste, that makes us feel better; this helps us to feel grounded and calm down when emotions are heightened.
Week 19
Reading
This week, year 6 have loved reading 'Who let the Gods out'. They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers.
Writing
This week, Year 6 have continued sentence stacking their narrative write of 'Paper Man' by Disney. We have had two experience days using the VR headsets and making paper aeroplanes to get into the mindset of Malcolm. The children have been practising using lots of different styles of verbs and adverbial phrases to enhance their writing. We have also given out two pen licences to children who have been consistently showing beautiful presentation and handwriting!
Maths
This week, year 6 have been revisiting decimals to support their number and place value knowledge as well as their numbers within 1. They have been brilliant at remembering skills such as rounding and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. In addition to this, we celebrated number day on Friday by playing countdown and Sudoku.
Afternoon curriculum
In Science, the children have experimented to see whether yeast is a living thing. In Geography, the children completed their comparisons of the benefits and drawbacks of different types of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. In History, the children continued to learn about crime and punishment in Roman Britain by matching vocabulary and using maps to chose the fate of different people from within that time era. They also had a visit from our local PCSO to begin their Police Cadet training, starting with learning the phonetic alphabet to prepare them for working on the radios! In Spanish, the children practised their numbers to 20. In PSHE, we talked about our worries about high school and how we can overcome them - creating a worry box to use for the rest of the school year. In computing, the children designed their video games using variables to change scores. In Music, the class were introduced to P Buzzes. In PE was - 7 work stations to navigate - they were quite inventive. Some: walked backwards, clung to the underside of the benches, shuffled on their stomachs, big jumps, cartwheels, 360 spins and careful landings. Team work shone through so that everyone completed all of the stations.
Week 18
Reading
This week, year 6 have loved reading all about Malala Yousafzai and her story. They have even requested that we read her book as the next class text! They have answered PREDICT, VOCABULARY, INFERENCE, EXPLAIN, RETRIEVAL and SEQUENCING questions to support their VIPERS question answers.
Writing
This week, Year 6 have finished their Newspaper Report by editing it for mistakes and improving areas that could be better. They have done incredible on this independent write and are getting much better at looking for where improvements can be made. They have begun their new write based on the short black and white animation 'Paperman' by Disney. They loved learning all about black and white films in their experience lesson and even made their own class sketch show! In the sentence stacking lessons, they have been practising grammar skills such as similes, question tags, adverbial phrases and complex sentences.
Maths
This week, year 6 have completed their algebra unit and have come so far with it! They are doing brilliantly and using the inverse to work out algebraic equations, supported with connected arithmetic by finding missing numbers in calculations. They have also done brilliantly at supporting one another in their work and challenging themselves to do the best they can do!
Afternoon curriculum
In Science, the children learnt how to classify plants based on different features. In Geography, the children compared the benefits and drawbacks of different types of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. In History, the children learnt all about crime and punishment in Roman Britain and acted in the role of a judge during those times, choosing the punishments for different people and their crimes.
Week 17
Reading
This week, owls have been reading 'Silverfin' - a mysterious thriller set in Scotland. They have been answering Inference and Explain questions to support their reading comprehension skills as well as practicing the fluency of reading through their reading plus homework.
Writing
This week, the children finished sentence stacking a newspaper report and have planned and written their own independent report based on a fairy tale of their choice. They are done and ready to edit in next weeks lessons before moving on to a piece of romance writing based on the black and white animation 'paperman'.
Maths
This week, year 6 have been introduced to the basics of algebra; focusing on substitution and the difference between formula and expressions. They have done really well with getting to grips with substituting numbers for letters. In rainbow arithmetic, they have been practising their speediness when answering fluency questions on the four calculations and times tables.
Afternoon curriculum
In Science, the children began their topic about categorising animals using the latin terms. In Geography, the children deepened their knowledge in their topic on different energy sources and where we can find and trade the natural ones that are available. In History, the children continued their crime and punishment topic by acting out different crimes and punishments from the Roman Empire all the way up to the Victorians.
Week 16
Reading
This week, owls have been reading 'How To Be Awesome', a brilliant self-help book for children with the topic of resilience. They have been answering Inference and Explain questions to support their reading comprehension skills as well as practicing the fluency of reading through their reading plus homework.
Writing
This week, we have been sentence stacking a newspaper report using modelled text and grammar skills that are relevant for this type of non-fiction genre. We have been practising writing it based on the crimes committed in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Pupils will be picking their own traditional tale to report on next week so that they can practise all of these writing skills.
Maths
This week, the children have been answering problem solving and reasoning questions on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. We also played bingo to help with our practise of equivalent FDP - which the children loved when they won their prizes! In rainbow arithmetic, they have been practising their speediness when answering fluency questions on the four calculations and times tables.
Afternoon curriculum
In Science, the children began their topic about categorising animals using the latin terms. In Geography, the children began their topic on different energy sources and where we can find and trade the natural ones that are available. In History, the children began their crime and punishment topic by discussing and writing about the different types of crime throughout the years.
Week 15
The children have come back from their Christmas break more eager to learn than ever! They have been working so hard in all of their learning; getting ready for all of their progress towards their SATs.
Reading
With a focus on Explain and Inference, we have listened to and read the lyrics in the song 'defying gravity' from Wicked. The children found some really interesting vocab and phrases that we discussed the meanings of.
Writing
We have began our new unit with a non-fiction piece; the children are writing a newspaper report about Goldilocks and her despicable crimes! We have spent this week pulling apart the features of newspaper reports and ensuring that we know the story inside out. We also used drama to come up with our interview questions and answers between the reporter and the victims (mummy bear and daddy bear).
Maths
We have been recapping some tricky skills from last term this week around find percentages of amounts - we have got the basics nailed but are continuing to strive for that greater depth!
Afternoons
This week, we have had an assembly from the NSPCC discussing how to keep ourselves safe and how to deal with our worries. The children got really involved with this and offered lots of ideas for why their 'worry bags' might fill up. The children also had PE where they practised their gymnastics skills and Art. They have also been lucky enough to have a special visitor come in to teach them the basics of chess! The children loved this and were really engaged with learning the rules of the game.
Week 14 - We had a special visitor in school!
Week 13
We have had a very hard working week getting all of our assessments completed - our Owls have made us truly proud with their incredible progress across the curriculum! Their attitudes to assessment has greatly improved as they are getting prepared to be SATS ready!
In between the assessments, the children have been busy preparing for the Christmas play and doing some Christmas crafts with our amazing Mrs Boyson - who has kindly planned and prepared and Y6 have absolutely loved!
We have also enjoyed our Christmas jumper days and yummy Christmas dinner, prepared by our incredibly hardworking kitchen staff!
Week 12
This week, year 6 have continued to deepen their learning of the Year 6 curriculum.
In reading, we have been using the text 'there's a boy in the girls bathroom' by Louis Sachar for this weeks questions. Owls have been practising their Explain, Infer and Retrieval VIPERS to answer with lots of evidence and quotes from the text. They have loved this story and connected it straight away to one of their favourite novels by Louis Sachar - 'holes'.
In writing, Year 6 have continued sentence stacking using FANTASTIC lenses, GRAMMARTASTIC skills and BOOMTASTIC effects to independently write their stories. They have built a success criteria, planned their own plot points and edited their work independently! I am so impressed with how the children have transferred the skills that they have learnt in the sentence stacking lessons, magpied ideas from these lessons and stuck to the success criteria to do a big write that is all their own ideas! We have got some very lively imaginations in this class!
In maths, we have finished our fractions, decimals and percentages topic by finding the percentage of amounts, equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages and using the four calculation in FDP questions. The children have concentrated and tried really hard to understand this concept by answering a multitude of reasoning and problem solving to consolidate their understanding. The children have also been practising long division again in their rainbow arithmetic slots, ready to tackle any questions on their arithmetic papers next week!
Afternoon Learning:
The children have continued their Geography topic by creating information posters about the human geography of Stoke-on-Trent.
They have loved this topic and related it brilliantly to their history topic of The Industrial Revolution. We have also been learning the skills of basketball with some Key Stage PE sessions and friendly matches. The children also planned a science experiment to investigate the effects of water resistance by creating different plasticine shapes. In between our busy afternoon lessons, the children have been busy using their singing voices to practise their songs for the Christmas Concert! They are so excited and ready to WOW you all!
Week 11
This week, year 6 have continued to work incredibly hard within the Year 6 curriculum - with a wide range of amazing achievements throughout!
In reading, we have been using a non-fiction text for this weeks questions. The children have read thoroughly though the NHS website on how to prevent coronary heart disease and considered in depth why the information is fact and not opinion. Owls have been practising their Explain, Infer and Retrieval VIPERS to answer with lots of evidence and quotes from the text.
In writing, Year 6 have continued sentence stacking using FANTASTIC lenses, GRAMMARTASTIC skills and BOOMTASTIC effects to improve their sentences. Based on the book 'Kensuke's Kingdom', by Michael Morpurgo, the children are building up their knowledge ready for an independent write of an adventure narrative.
In maths, we continued to deepen the learning of decimals by multiplying and dividing decimals by integers and answering lots of reasoning and problem solving questions! Some of the children have been using Polypad - a virtual manipulatives website to support their growing understanding of place value. They have also been using division to answer problem solving and reasoning questions by breaking down the question to find the calculation that they need to do.
Afternoon Learning:
In Geography and History, we have been looking at transport and inventions during the industrial revolution and in Stoke-on-Trent.
In Spanish, we practised our greetings using greetings songs and conversations with one another.
In Music, we have practised our Christmas Concert songs!
In Science, we used jelly soaked in oil to investigate what friction is.
In PSHE, the children discussed and considered what it is to be 'normal' and looked at how the idea of 'normal' is different for everyone. We also continued to deepen our understanding of the British Values as we are considering how we relate them to the World Cup.
Week 10
This week, year 6 have deepened their Autumn learning in true acorn style, beginning some new topics and exciting new stories! Well done for yet another week full of hard work and achievements!
In reading, we have looked at 'the real story of the three little pigs' - an interesting text and picture book about the Wolf's version of events in the story. Owls have been practising their Explain, Infer and Retrieval VIPERS to answer with lots of evidence and quotes from the text.
(pictures to be uploaded shortly)
In writing, Year 6 have begun sentence stacking using FANTASTIC lenses, GRAMMARTASTIC skills and BOOMTASTIC effects to improve their sentences. Based on the book 'Kensuke's Kingdom', by Michael Morpurgo, the children are building up their knowledge ready for an independent write of an adventure narrative.
(pictures to be uploaded shortly)
In maths, we have finished working with fractions and are now answering questions and problems with digits with up to three decimal places. Next week, we will continue to deepen this learning.
Afternoon Learning:
In Computing, we looked at different scenarios and decided whether they were representing copyright or copyWRONG.
In Geography and History, we have been looking at transport and inventions during the industrial revolution and in Stoke-on-Trent.
In Spanish, we practised our greetings using greetings songs and conversations with one another.
In Music, we continued listening to contemporary jazz, learning about new artists and the instruments that are used in this genre, before practising their own jazz tunes using the GarageBand app.
In Science, we made our own pulleys and levers, whilst considering how forces have an impact on these.
In PSHE, the children discussed different types of projects that children in need run. They also read through some real-life case scenarios before coming up with ideas on how charities such as children in need can help improve the lives of disadvantaged children, young people and their families.
Week 9
This week, year 6 have been continuing their Autumn learning in true acorn style. Well done for another week full of hard work and achievements!
In reading, we have been using the text 'Can you see me?' - a lovely text about a girl with Autism, helping raise awareness and bringing out lots of questions. Owls have been practising their Explain, Infer and Retrieval VIPERS to answer with lots of evidence and quotes from the text.
In writing, year 6 have completed their unit based on the short animation 'ruin' using the flashback from last week to produce an exciting and suspense filled chase scene. To do this we used lots of short, snappy sentences, rhetorical questions and rule of three.
In maths, we have been adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions with the introduction of BODMAS. The children caught onto this really well and the progress in their understanding of fractions has been amazing!
Afternoon Learning:
In computing, we planned our websites on paper after considering the purposes of different webpages.
'I am going to make a website all about Kidsgrove Primary School because there is so much information that parents might want to know'
Y6 also enjoyed a trip across at the high school to complete a transition lesson in English and Science! Lots more photos to follow,
In Geography and History, we have been looking at industry and different trade links during the industrial revolution and in Stoke-on-Trent.
Week 8
This week has flown by as the children have worked incredibly hard! I am so proud of how well they have settled straight back into school and are going above and beyond to improve and practise their learning. They have listened closely to Mrs Johnson's 'Power of Yet' message on Monday's assembly and this has helped them to shine throughout the week as resilience and confidence in this class has strengthened massively.
In reading, the children have read 'The Graveyard Book' and continue to expand on all of their answers by explaining and evidencing using quotes from the text to support their points. They have particularly enjoyed working with inference skills in this story, as they have made their own opinions on what has happened in this mystery thriller novel.
In writing, the children have worked with the animation 'ruin' to create a character flashback. They have created character profiles and used lots of figurative language alongside the five senses and DADWAVERS to support their sentence structures.
In maths, the children have done an amazing job of practising adding and subtracting fraction skills including with mixed numbers, different denominators, improper fractions and ensuring they answer in the simplest form. On Friday, they consolidated their hard work and understanding through a variety of multistep problems.
In the afternoon, the children began their science topic of forces by creating their own scenarios representing how forces manipulate an object including gravity, friction, air resistance and resistance.
In Geography and History, the children have been answering the question 'What is the difference between the type of settlements we have in Stoke-on-Trent now compared to in the revolution?' using google maps and historical sources.
In Spanish, we began our new topic by researching all about Spain and considering the cultural differences, ready to begin mastering our greetings next week.
In Computing, we looked at how a website works and what the different features are.
In PSHE we talked about the hazards of bonfire night and fireworks; with consideration on how we can keep ourselves safe from this. In RE the children have talked about how Jesus' mission statement and quotes from the bible are shown in today's Christian values.
In Music, then they began a new music topic learning a new classroom Jazz tune on garageband.
Week 7
This week, the children have been so busy with their assessments, writing, First Aid and Design and Technology project - not to mention all the Halloween excitement! The progress they have made this term is brilliant, they have been working really hard in Year 6 and it has shown. See the pictures below for all of the exciting things that we have been doing!
The children all published their writing to an incredible standard after working so hard on their non-chronological reports. I am so proud of how much they are working on independently improving their writing through editing and improving; self-assessment and peer assessment.
Year 6 have also been learning how to safely assess a situation where there is a casualty using their DRSABC primary survey, ring emergency services using LIONEL, put a patient into the recovery position if they are breathing and have learnt how to perform CPR to the beat of staying alive if the casualty isn't breathing!
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For their Design and Technology project, Year 6 have been researching, planning and preparing a roller coaster! After constructing them, they have tested them and made changes to make them even better. I am so impressed with their teamwork during this!
Some of our SPOOKY and SCARY Halloween costumes!
Week 6
We have had a really hard working week, working on those skills to make us true Year 6 role models! The children are learning their strengths and areas for improvement as they take ownership of their SATs journeys. We started off with celebrating #HelloYellow and having some brilliant class discussions about mental health, the challenges we could face with it and how we can help other people.
Reading
This week we have been making inferences from the story 'The Dot' and explaining how our school values of resilience and determination are a huge part of the moral of the story. The intonation and quality of the reading in this class has blown me away; the children are brilliant at putting lots of expression into their class reads!
Writing
We have begun our non-chronological reports based on the Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The children used skills such as retrieving facts and writing them in their own words, grouping information to make sub-headings and have written their own success criteria to ensure that they produce good quality reports. They have used lots of grammar skills to turn their short facts into sophisticated sentences such as relative clauses, fronted adverbials, embedded clauses and parenthesis.
Maths
In maths, we have been using the skill of simplifying fractions and finding equivalent fractions to answer questions using number lines; comparing and ordering; and adding and subtracting. In Rainbow Arithmetic, the pupils have used a range of skills including long multiplication, short division and finding the square or cubed roots to recap and refresh their previous learning. We have also been concentrating on the speediness of our times tables with daily quizzes and personal time challenges!
Afternoon Learning
We have had some brilliant, knowledge-filled Geography and History lessons this week. The pupils have answered key questions such as 'Why was Stoke-on-Trent ideal for the Pottery industry?' and 'What were the features of Victorian Life during the Industrial Revolution?'. ​​​​​
We finished off the week with an exciting Science lesson as a whole Key Stage, courtesy of Otters Class!
Week 1
Mrs Boyson and I have had the best time welcoming the children back into school as our new Year 6 cohort! They have gotten used to being the role models of the school and are doing a brilliant job of it, with lots of praise from Mrs Johnson and other staff at how smart they look in their wonderful new school uniforms.
We are ready and eager to learn after completing some tests this week, ready to practise all those skills we need to improve on. Alongside this, the children have been practising note-taking on their iPads, giving lots of information about the Victorians and have being doing lots of writing wonderful short stories plucked right out of their imaginations!
