Year 6 Foxes
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Miss Coleman
Bike Ability: Please ensure you come to school, everyday, in P.E kit, socks and trainers.
PE days: Wednesday (Dodgeball) & Friday (Football)
Tuesday 22nd October is our first Swimming session, this will replace Wednesday's P.E session.
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: Adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in -fer.
Maths: Complete 'Rounding Whole Numbers' in your CGP book. Mark answers with an adult once finished. If you find it tricky, remember I am happy to help and explain at school.
Class Reader:
Blooms question: What clues gave away that Ellie was the Vessel?
A taste of our learning
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? 
