On behalf of Year 6, Jordan, Orla O and Ju-Eun say…

Wow… We are now at the end of the third week of our Year 6 journey – time is flying! Like usual, this week was jam-packed full of many interesting and exciting activities!

We started the week looking pretty like this…

 

… And ended the week all crazy like this…!!

Back in our classroom, we are really enjoying reading Dear Olly by Michael Morpurgo as a class in Literacy, making predictions and discussing if we were right! In Numeracy, we have continued improving our learning of place value and now feel confident in multiplying and dividing decimals by tens, hundreds and thousands! We had a really good lesson learning about the United Kingdom and the difference between the UK, Great Britain and the British Isles in Geography. It was interesting to hear each-others views about Scotland and the vote for independence too! We are going to be focusing more on Wales next week, to prepare us for Dol-Y-Moch, which we are all so excited about (Dol-Y-Moch not Geography) ! We found out today that Mrs Hartwell, Mrs Elkins, Mr Cooke and Mrs Quinn are all coming with us, which made us happy! One more week to go!

On Wednesday, we went to Saint Thomas Mores Church for our joint celebration mass with our fellow faith schools where we were reunited with some of our old Year 6’s. When we came back to school, we were allowed a 10 minute run around because we were so exhausted after working hard all day.

Then … Mr Cooke arrived on the field clutching some important paperwork which caught our eyes!

Reference requests and invites to interviews have been coming in all week! Here are just a few of the happy faces …

(Sorry they are sideways. We need Mr Youson – Get better soon!)

Today we had our superstars assembly, weekly class awards and most importantly the raffle! Congratulations to Cecelia and Callum M, our stars of the week this week. Cecelia won hers for her lovely reading of a bidding prayer at our unity mass. Callum received his for a detailed biography about ‘The life of Callum Manley’. Well done Cecelia and Callum!

Also, well done to Joseph who won the outstanding work award for his excellent effort in Geography and Kelsey who won the outstanding homework work award for her accurate use of third person in her biography and effort in numeracy. Well done Joseph and Kelsey.

This week ended with an announcement about an upcoming competition. Three Year 6 children will be chosen to represent the school in a primary school debate challenge in the Spring Term. To be in it to win it we have to prepare for a debate which will take place on Monday where half the class will be arguing for and the other against our trip to Dol-Y-Moch! Stay tuned for more information!

By Orla O’Shea, Jordan Chatland and Ju-Eun Kang.

 

A note from Mrs Hartwell to parents/guardians:

I am already so proud of Year 6, who they are as a family and as individuals. They truly are a wonderful group of individuals with a huge range of talents and personality traits, that make me smile every day.

I particularly enjoy watching groups of children take pride in planning and leading our class collective worships on a Friday afternoon. Sophie, Joseph and Amie began out special class prayer time last week and Cecelia, Michael and Kelsey continued it with the same reverence and thought this week.

I look forward to meeting you all at the open evening on Wednesday 8th October. Please fill out the attached slip on this weeks newsletter and return to me as soon as possible, no later than 25th September, so that I can arrange appointments.

Secondary school applications also need to be completed online by 31st October.

Please also note, as highlighted on the newsletter, the Year 5 and 6 class due to take place this week is being rearranged.

Finally, I am incredibly excited about our adventure to Dol-Y-Moch next week and hope everyone has a memorable and enjoyable time!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your continuing support.