Year 6 have politely asked if, as a class, we can do Secret Santa this year.

They all assure me they have asked you, as their parents, if the limit of £3 would be okay. If you do not want your child to take part, please let me know.

If your child is taking part, they will receive a piece of paper with a name on – this name should be kept a secret! Mrs Elkins and I are in on it too!

Children then have to go out with that person in mind and buy a gift for them using every penny of the £3.00 limit and not a penny more!

Please then wrap the present and write the name of the person it is for on the front. Do not write who it is from – that is the secret!

Please bring into school before the last day!

Any questions, please ask!

Thank you!

Year 6 are looking forward to showing you how hard they have been working so far this year.

Your child’s books will be available in their classroom for you to look through. There is no need to make an appointment, just turn up any time between 3.30pm and 5pm on Wednesday 2nd December.

This is the question Year 6 have been exploring this week in Science. Ask them what they found out…

They also had a little refresher from Year 5 to remind them that the moon is not a source of light.

It has been a busy week in Year 6. Here is a quick overview of what we have been up to:

We began the week with a whole school assembly, where we took out seats upon the mighty benches. In Literacy, we reviewed our knowledge of sentence structures and promised to start using a variety of them in our writing. We then had ICT with Mr Youson and found out that this term we are going to be exploring digital media! In Numeracy, we got to grips with our Place Value and ended the day with an introduction to our Confirmation unit. We had the opportunity to ask lots of questions and wrote out our Confirmation prayer in our special Confirmation books.

On Tuesday, we had our first lesson with Mrs Ellis, where we had to really use our ears to listen out for particular instruments and beats within songs. We are really excited that we are going to write our ow song this term! We also had our first dance lesson with Mrs Cooke, which was good fun!

Our knowledge of the UK, Great Britain and the British Isles was put to the test on Wednesday as we completed some map work. In RE we explored the meaning behind some of the prayers we say regularly. Berri, Keon and Louis went to Bishop Ullathorne on our behalf to help plan the liturgy for our Untiy Mass on Friday. In the afternoon, we ‘interrogated’ our literacy book ‘Tuesday’ and had a lot of laughs making up the story to match the pictures. Our imaginations ran wild. We also played a fun game in Numeracy that involved reaching targets and beating our partners to secure our understanding of place value.

Our preparations for our farewell to Miss Kelleher took place on Thursday as we were given the task of singing Dancing Queen by Abba. We also made her a lovely card, ready to present to her on Friday. In the afternoon, we put our writing skills to the test as we wrote our own blurb to entice readers into our book, Tuesday.

We began Friday with our weekly Spanish lesson, where we practised our greetings and placed some games. Then came the dreaded spelling test. Most of us were pleased with our scores and felt like they reflected the amount of practice we put into them. Superstars assembly announced this week’s winners of the award as Issy, Hector and Ciaran for showing enthusiasm and commitment to All Souls’ life by applying for the various job opportunities on offer to Year 6. We then said our sad goodbyes and wished Miss Kelleher good luck in her new job as we sang our own rendition of Dancing Queen! After lunch, we went to St. Thomas More’s Church with lots of other primary schools and the Year 7’s of Bishop Ullathorne. Berri read her bidding prayer superbly and Drew and Luke carried our school banner with pride as we all joined together in unity.

Back at school, we all congratulated Joe as he became the second person to win Mrs Hartwell’s weekly raffle draw!

After school, most of last year’s Year 6’s come back to join us for pizza and chips. The plan was to provide an opportunity for everyone to find out how each other were getting on, ask any questions and generally catch up with each other, whilst filling our tummies with food. It ended up slightly more excitable than planned but we all had great fun!

Have a lovely weekend!

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It has been a busy three-day-week filled with getting-to-know-you activities, team building games, role play and other bits and bobs!

We began the week by reviewing the class rules, that we put together on transition day, to help us become cool classmates, perfect pupils and make sure Mrs Hartwell and Mrs Elkins strive to be terrific teachers.

After catching up with what we had been up to over the summer holidays, and taking part in some getting to know you games, we thought long and hard about the year ahead. We completed our hopes and inspirations on a hand print to remind us that we are responsible for achieving these.

Over the holidays, we were asked to design and create a mathematical board game which demonstrated the knowledge we already had. We had the opportunity to get them out, play with them and share our creations with our classmates. Everyone had put so much effort into them – it was fantastic! Take a look at our gallery to see us all playing our new games.

We also tested our computer skills out as we each created a wordle to sum up our personality, likes and hobbies. These were then displayed with pictures of ourselves, that we were responsible for drawing half of. You can see the finished creations on the wall leading to our classroom.

On Friday, we kick-started our Spanish lessons for the year and surprisingly hadn’t forgotten much of what we had already been taught.

Finally, to end the week, we visited the prayer garden where we spent time reflecting on the year we have had, the year we were going to have and asking God to support us in many aspects of our final year  at All Souls.

Throughout the week, we had all been rewarded with raffle tickets for various things. We were all very excited to have our first raffle draw and very happy for Kayden who won himself a super-large pencil case. Well done Kayden!

Winners were also announced for other competitions and homework set by Mrs Hartwell. Well done to everybody for taking part, and congratulations for the following people:

The Postcard Competition

1st: Ryan

2nd: Owen

3rd: Berri

Maths Board Game Challenge

1st: Issy

2nd: Dylan

3rd: Andy

4th: Charlotte

Book Review Competition

1st: Nathalie

2nd: Charlotte

3rd: Libby