Year 6 Foxes
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Miss Coleman
PE days: Wednesday (swimming - please ensure swimming costume, hat and goggles are brought to school in a small bag) & Thursday (Hockey and Indoor Athletics)
Remembrance Assembly: Friday 7th November (parents invited to join)
Home learning:
English: 20-30 minutes reading daily. Remember to complete a Blooms question when you finish the book; make sure it is different to the last and consists of more than one sentence!
Spelling: Spelling Shed: Practise the spelling rules you found tricky from the spelling test. Lists of rules taken home & can be found on spelling shed.
Maths: CGP book: Make sure you have completed all the lessons in section one - including mixed practice & section two mixed practice.
Picture News
Class Reader:
Blooms question: Why did Finn get rid of Hargrath?
A taste of our learning
Brilliant BikeAbility
Earlier this month, Year 6 took part in their BikeAbility award. Despite the weather, Year 6 powered through their Level 1 on the first day and came back eager for Level 2 the following Monday, where they got out on the road. Their instructors taught them to start and stop with more confidence, pass stationary vehicles parked on a road, understand the road: signals, signs and road markings and negotiate the road: including quiet junctions, crossroads and roundabouts. It was a lot of learning but also a lot of fun and Year 6 now feel confident to get out and about on their bikes more!
Exceptional English
Our current English unit follows a book called 'Lost Words'. We have used our exemplar poem of 'Willow' to create our own acrositc, free verse poetry. We have learnt the skills of assonance, consonance, repetition for effect and personification. Here is an example of just one of our exceptional pieces. We will then use these learnt skills for our war poems that you will be able to hear in our Remembrance Assembly.
Why was Alexander 'Great'? – History
Smart Phone Free Workshop
This week we took part in a Smart Phone Free workshop.
We started by thinking about what people actually did before the internet, then we thought about the positive and negative impacts of the internet. By the end of our session we were able to decide three good habits we wanted to put into practice in our own lives, to minimise the amount of time we are spending on our phones/screens!
Key questions to ask at home:
How long will you spend on a screen in your life if you have a screen time of 2-3 hours a day?
Levelling up our Level 1 and 2 balances - P.E
Our P.E unit this term develops our prior learning of balances and skills from previous years. We have been creating routines that incorporate these skills and will develop this to use equipment in our routines too!
Key questions to ask at home:
How can I strengthen my core?
What makes a good routine?
Working Collaboratively - P.S.H.E
In PSHE this week, our challenge was to create a 30cm bridge that could hold a chosen object. We had to work as a team, have active participants, listen to all ideas as well as create an eye-catching, unique design!
Key questions to ask at home:
What does working collaboratively mean?
How can I be an active learner?
Edward Hopper - Art
Our second lesson from our art unit taught us how to use form to draw 3D shapes effectively. We focused on depth and length to make them pop from the page before we added shadow and texture to symbolise light coming from the left.
Key questions to ask at home:
Who was Edward Hopper?
What type of art did he create?
Year 6's Learning Behaviours and Rights Respecting Charter
During our first few days back, we created our Learning Behaviours display and our Rights Respecting Class Charter. We focused on ideas that would ensure we were acting as good role models around the school, whilst still growing in our own independence and learning journey.
