Year 6 Foxes
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Miss Coleman
Thank you for working so hard this term, have a lovely Easter, get a good rest and see you in two weeks!
PE days: Wednesday (Rounders and Quidditch) & Friday (Cricket)
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!
Grammar: Complete Set D Grammar tests. Bring this in marked for house points after Easter.
Spelling: Spelling Shed: Work your way through the spelling rules you found tricky in the test. These have been set for you until May. The more games you complete each week the more house points you will receive!
Maths: CGP books: You have taken home post-it notes with key areas you need to practise - revise these in the corresponding pages of the CGP books - if you find it tricky, bring them in to practise in our maths sessions after Easter.
Class Reader:
Blooms question: Why does Bruno think Mother is selfish?
A taste of our learning
Mock elections
This week in PHSE we worked in groups to come up with our policies, write a manifesto and design campaign leaflets. Then, we listened to the nominated candidates for each party before deciding who we wanted to vote for. Finally, we held an election to determine the winning party for our constituency. The winning party made pledges to add 10,000 bins around Hampshire, fund research into robots that can clean our seas and for stores to use reusable bags and packaging! A certain winner in our eyes!
Creative circuits
To support our understanding of resistance and how all parts of a circuit offer resistance to electrical current, we became a human circuit! By running around the netball lines (wires), we were able to see that the more devices (us) we added to a circuit the greater the resistance. This means less current flows around the circuit (we ran slower!)
Key questions to discuss at home:
What is current?
What is resistance?
Graceful gymnastics routines
In Year 6 our final gymnastics unit incorporates all the learning from over the years in gym. We draw on known positions and skills and create beautiful routines using the trickiest of equipment. The wall bars and ropes add a new challenge to the skills, tensing our core and showing off all our gymnastics talents!
Key questions to discuss at home:
How long should I hold a position for?
What exercises are good for core strength?
What makes a routine look finalised and polished?
A Great Athlete in our midst
Luke Delahunty visited Langrish this week. After serving 8 years in the RAF as a Senior Aircraftman, Luke's life took a dramatic turn in 1996 due to a motorbike crash that left him paralysed from the chest down. Undeterred, he found new purpose in sports, specialising in rowing and hand-cycling.
Luke took us through 4 different exercises to raise our
heartbeat and get us inspired to take part and enjoy sport! Later in the day, Luke held a whole school assembly where he talked about his life, from being in the military, to travelling the world discovering new sports and competing in the Invictus Games!
Key questions to discuss at home:
What sports inspire you?
How can you make a difference in a sport you love?
World Book Day 2025
The theme of World Book Day 2025 is Read Your Way! Read Your Way encourages everyone to let go of reading pressures and expectations, and empowers children and young people to have fun discovering reading on their own terms. We came dressed up as our favourite character from our favourite book, ready to battle about why they are the 'champion of characters'. We discussed their strengths, as well as their weaknesses to create a compelling argument! Whilst we took part in our battle, we wore our top hats that were created with our favourite character and book in mind, helping to bring the characters and setting to life!
A terrific trading time!
Our new geography unit focusses on Fair Trade.
In our first lesson, we looked at what the UK trades; both imports and exports. Then we solidified our understanding of trade by playing the trading game. Each team became a country, with a different amount of resources, all with the aim to create shapes to sell for money. However, some groups did not have all the necessary resources needed and therefore trading commenced!
Take One Picture Week 2025
This year for Take One Picture Week, each class focused on a
different era of art. Our chosen era was the Renaissance Period, focusing specifically on Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. We had the option to choose how we explored this painting, recreating our own, creating artwork in a different style or using the painting as a half and half image to practise our skills!
Key questions to discuss at home:
What techniques were used during the renaissance period?
Who were the most famous artists during this era?
What is your opinion of the artwork?
Going for Goals
This week, SCARF came to visit us to discuss our
goals after primary school. Caroline spoke to us about how little steps are important to achieving our bigger goals. We took part in an activity to decide what things are important in our lives now and what things are important for the future. We then looked at the impact little things can have on our week and how we can manage this, not by going back and changing, but looking to the future to improve what is next!
Biodiversity workshop & bean bags!
We were lucky enough this week to have PECAN (Petersfield Climate Action Network) come and lead us in a biodiversity workshop. We learnt what biodiversity means and the about the ecosystems that surround our school. They taught us the importance of hedgerows and the variety of wildlife they support. We then explored the hedgerows in our school, completing a worksheet to see what species we have and what species we would like to plant in our school grounds. Also, this week, bean bags arrived in Year 6! We are so excited to have a new comfortable area to relax and work!
Ancient Egyptian trip
This week we visited Haslemere Museum to enhance our history curriculum. We took part in multiple workshops that helped us understand who the Ancient Egyptians were and what they did. We learnt about the process of mummification and put this into practice later on in the day when we mummified our own teddies!!
Key questions to discuss at home:
How long were the Ancient Egyptians
around for?
How many canopic jars are used during mummification?
What is the name of the mummy in Haslemere Museum?
Keeping ourselves safe - a PCSO visit
This week we were visited by our two local PCSOs.
As part of our Keeping Safe PSHE unit, they spoke to us about knife crime. Despite the fact they said that the crime levels in our area are very low, it is important that we know what to do should we meet different groups of people in our lives! They spoke to us about the age of criminality and who we can speak to when we see someone doing something unsafe.
Key questions to discuss at home:
What is the age of criminality?
What is the maximum prison sentence for carrying a knife?
What are the two numbers you can call to contact the police?
All things Christmas
What a wonderful end to our term! Year 6 enjoyed the Christmas Fair, hosting marshmallow kebabs and a lot of snowball fun, and a festive Christmas lunch, all whilst wearing fabulous Christmas jumpers in aid of Save the Children!
Fabulous Fairgrounds
Our DT project concluded this week through the creation of our fairground prototypes. We ensured that they were created with a target audience in mind and thought carefully about what that group of children would enjoy. Having spent previous lessons understanding the necessary components of a circuit, we were extremely successful! All the fairground rides were a great spinning success!
Swimming: Personal Survival
At the end of Year 6's block of swimming, they get to take part in personal survival. This teaches fundamental skills to stay safe in and around water. Their swimming coaches taught them safe entry into the water; how to conserve energy whilst keeping your head above the water and how to use milk cartons as life buoys!
Key questions to discuss at home:
What happens to a full milk carton with only a little bit of trapped air?
Marvellous maths mysteries 
This week we have pulled on all the learning from our topics so far to explore some further problem solving. In different groups, we have focussed on fractions, converting units and solving mathematical puzzles. By collaborating together, we were able to find the solutions, no matter how much persevering it took to get there!
Key questions to discuss at home:
What strategies can I use to help me?
Where can I find resources to help me recall prior learning?
Royal Navy STEM day
This week, Year 6 were visited by the Royal Navy. They completed three different STEM activities: learning how to make pistons with wires, making flying saucers with an electrical circuit and finally, playing with mechanical robots, using coding to move them across the school hall. It was a great opportunity to explore their own STEM knowledge and apply it in a way that the Royal Navy use daily in their jobs. Thank you very much for coming to visit us.
Anti-Bullying Week 2024
The theme of this year's anti-bullying week is 'Choose Respect'. Our EARA group chose our focus protected characteristic: sexual identity. The most important part of this protected characteristic is that people love who they love (or don't love if someone is asexual). It is not a choice, and it is different for everyone. We chose to celebrate this understanding through colourful posters full of age-appropriate books to help others' understanding too!
Year 6 Remembrance Day Assembly
Every year, Year 6 lead our school remembrance service. We began by reminding the school why it is so important to remember those who have and continue to fight for their country. Then we shared our poems that we created before half term. We focussed on using personification and creating rhythm through the use of repetition of both sounds and key words or phrases. We were then challenged to use our new skills to create poems like John McCrae’s that would be suitable for the assembly.
Amazing Ancient Greek group work
Fantastic French speaking
Before we finish our first French unit, we wanted to utilise all of our learning and practise our speaking skills. Using the knowledge and phrases we have learnt, we wrote an email to a friend about our favourite lessons, the times we have these lessons and why we like or dislike them! We then shared this through a speaking activity. It was very impressive to hear such successful pieces of writing and beautiful pronunciation.
Key questions to discuss at home:
Est-ce que tu aimes?
Our brilliant Bike Ability cyclists
This week, Year 6 have taken part in their Bike Ability course. Over the past five days, they have learnt and mastered skills that enable them to ride proficiently on the road, whilst keeping themselves safe and seen.
"I enjoyed going on the A272 on the final day, because we used all the skills we have learnt on a busier road!"
"I enjoyed Bike Ability, because we learnt new skills we can use when we start to go out on the road ourselves."
"I felt happy and safe and it was an enjoyable way to learn how to ride a bike and overall it was a great experience, thank you Andy, Tom and Cliff!"
Cezanne: Still Life Composition
Our Art unit this term focusses on form. We have looked at Edward Hopper's composition choices and, to support this, began to explore still life composition, like that used by Cezanne. We practised our 3D sketches on apples and oranges that incorporated a range of shading, depth and form.
Key questions to discuss at home:
What is composition in art?
Who is Edward Hopper?
A Haunted Castle Project
We have been developing our skills in Scratch, animating three sprites. This week we incorporated the broadcast block into our algorithms to control the sprites in succession. We focused on structuring the timings to match the other animations. After that, we used our new skills to animate further characters in our project.
Key questions to discuss at home:
What is a sprite?
What is a broadcast?
Shadows in Science
When light is emitted from a light source, it travels in straight lines until it hits an object. Shadows form when light hits an opaque object. We used these key ideas and applied them to an experiment involving overlapping trees and whether this would make a darker or lighter shadow or not affect the density of the shadow at all.
Key questions to discuss at home:
Why is the area behind an opaque object in darkness?
What shape do shadows make?
Outstanding Orphans of the Tide writing
Our first English unit is driven by Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray. Having begun to read the first few chapters, we have started to delve deeper into the perspectives of the main characters. Through discussion and the idea of mimicking Struan Murray, we wrote a diary entry describing the events in Chapters 1 and 2. We have already created some beautiful and engaging pieces. Take a look:
Key questions to discuss at home:
How can I match the description with a state of mind?
How can I show the perspective of a character?
Learning Behaviours & Rights Respecting Charter
Welcome back and welcome to Year 6! We started the year by creating our learning behaviour display and Rights Respecting class charter. We spoke at length, discussing which learning behaviours we would want to have in Year 6, as well as which rights are the most applicable in our classroom to create the focussed, yet nurturing environment we want to learn in! (Our Rights Respecting Charter is attached below as a PDF).
Key questions to discuss at home:
What can I do to be a successful learner this year?
What Rights will children and adults be focussing on in Year 6? 
