We have had an energetic week in Year 6 this week! As part of our Science unit we have been learning about how the circulatory system works. This week, we investigated what happened to our heart rate when we exercised and made a graph. We also designed a work out that exercised different muscle groups.
Well done to the children who took part in the cross-country run this week – you were very brave and determined to run your best, with some very good results!
For the end of our History learning this half term about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for ...
In Computing this week we talked about how much screen time we should be having. We discussed the importance of having a healthy balance between online and offline activities in our lives. We made a list of activities we like to do offline, such as: playing football, bike riding, drawing and reading.
We decided on some rules for screen time to be shared at home:
What’s the advice?
Don’t use phones and mobile devices at the dinner table – they say talking as a family is very important for development
Keep screens out of the bedroom at bedtime
Talking as a family about keeping ...
We have had a busy week this week in Year 6! Today, we celebrated our Reception buddies in a special asssembly. The Year 6 children all wrote lovely speeches about their buddies. We hope they enjoy reading them with their parents and carers again at home. All the Year 6 children have been so kind and caring to our youngest children at Two Waters and have made a great contribution to the Reception children’s start to their journey through school.
In Science, we carried out a dissection of a pig’s heart this week in order to find out how the heart ...
In Literacy, we have had a busy week writing a diary entry from the zookeeper’s point of view from our book “And Tango Makes Three”. We also researched penguins and wrote a report about them. Now we are planning our own story, inspired by the book.
We are continuing our work in Science learning about healthy bodies, and have been finding out about how the circulatory system transports nutrients, water and oxygen around the body. We have started drawing life-sized circulatory systems in groups (see photo).
We are nearing the end of our music unit based on “Happy” by Pharrel Williams. This ...
Year 6 have had a fantastic week looking after their Reception buddies at lunchtimes. They have all been kind, caring role models, playing with their buddies and helping them with their lunches. Congratulations to Melissa, Mia, Ruby and Lola for being voted House Captains; and congratulations to Jessica, Sam, Maxwell and Joey for being voted Vice Captains. Well done to all those children who were brave enough to stand up and give speeches. There will be plenty more opportunities in Year 6 for other responsibilities. Here are some photos of the class developing their balance as part of our PE ...
We have had a great start to the year in Year 6. We began by reminding ourselves about the Zones of Regulation and the importance of having a Growth Mindset to help motivate ourselves to be the best we can be and to make good progress in our learning. To support this “can do” message, we have been learning the song “Happy”, by Pharrell Williams in music and have practised moving to the beat (see photos).
We have really enjoyed reading our first book in Literacy, which is part of a whole-school project based on “And Tango Makes Three”, which invites ...
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 ...
