Year 6 Foxes
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Miss Coleman
PE days: Wednesday & Friday (Indoor athletics and Street Dance taster)
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: short vowel sound /i/ spelling y.
Maths: MangaHigh: Understand order of operations.
Class Reader:
Blooms question: What do you think the books of forgotten myths and legends will tell the characters about Seth?
A taste of our learning
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? 
