What a jam-packed, fast-paced Summer Term 1 we’ve had in Year 6! The children have worked incredibly hard in all curriculum lessons and are now more than ready for their well-earned break. Despite the weather and the mud, we have been able to do PE outside and the children have been really enthusiastic to play rounders and to coach each other with batting techniques and practice. The headmaster of the Hemel Hempstead School came to visit us for a morning of Literacy, as part of our Year 6 to Year 7 transition, and was really impressed with ...
The final week of term has been a busy one and the children have continued to work hard in Maths and Literacy, as well as enjoying Art Week. In Literacy, I have been impressed with the children’s focus and enthusiasm when creating a mixed genre short piece of writing whilst thinking carefully about their audience and purpose. Art Week has given the children the opportunity to improve their skills in perspective when sketching landscape, street scenes and the Titanic at sea.
Have a wonderful Easter holidays everyone.
Mrs Chassebi
It has been such a pleasure being back in class and the past two weeks have flown by! The children’s interest in everything ‘Titanic’ has been infectious and it has been wonderful to see so many of them coming in with extra facts and opinions from home. In Literacy we have been really focusing upon our sentence structure and our use of well-selected vocabulary when writing descriptive paragraphs across a range of genres, while in Maths we have been busy learning about the perimeters and areas of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles. Next week we will continue with ...
