We are officially working towards our Live Simply Award!
We are very proud to be working on this journey together and look forwards to joining with our parish community and all our families to achieve this award together.
As the sun was shining today we took the opportunity to enjoy our end of day story outside and play some team games together. We taught Mrs Corkerry how to play our favourite game from Year 2 ‘Sharks and Fishes’.
We are currently reading the BFG by Roald Dahl and find the BFG’s made up words very funny!
Well done to the children who received a certificate today for Numbots or Timestables Rockstars! You were either the child who was the most active online in your year group, got the most answers correct or the person with the quickest speed on the pupil leaderboard!
Could it be you next week?
Log on to TTRS/Numbots to be in it to win it! Good luck!
This week Year 5 have been on the move as refugees fleeing the UK amidst the recent protest and riots. Each child had only 10 minutes to strategically choose 6 essential items to take with them to trade with truck drivers and fishermen on their journey to a safe haven. They lost several of their items to bad weather or unexpected circumstances on the way and even had to decide which family members to leave behind at the shore, as the boats reached full capacity!
It gave the children a great insight into the current plight of the millions who are displaced around the world and they produced some wonderful diaries of their ‘day in the life of a refugee.’ Thank you to #CAFOD for the inspiring simulation activity and for helping us to understand the plight of all those who seek shelter and safety.
We have now had a taster of what a full week in Year 6 looks like and to be honest, it isn’t that bad! We have learnt lots and had lots of fun too! 🙂
Roles and Responsibilities – from Head Boy and Head Girl, to Prefects and PAs, Chaplaincy Team and House Captains, and a whole lot more, we are ready and raring to give this final year at our school our all and step up the being the oldest in the school… we’ve been practically running the school this week whilst Mr Cooke has put his feet up and sipped tea all day (and coke!).
English – In our first writing unit, we have been learning what it takes to write a procedural text such as a recipe. So Mrs Hartwell let us loose with the most revolting ingredients to create our Revolting Recipes (some of which made her gag!). Come back to check out our final pieces for some appetising suggestions of what to eat and drink! Mrs McGrath has had her SPaG crown on, teaching us about syllables and expanded noun phrases too! We also learnt about arachnophobia in this week’s reading comp session.
Maths – We have been getting to grip with all things number and place value this week. Mrs Hartwell and Mrs McGrath have really put our brains, memories and work ethic to the test! On top of our daily lessons, we have been trying to get to grips with LBQ (Learning by Questions) and climb the leaderboard in TTRS for those all important certificates… well done Evie and Phoebe for being some of this week’s whole school well-deserved winners!
RE – The Story of the People of God unit has got us thinking more deeply about the Bible. Did you know the Bible is actually more like a library of books than one book? 73 to be precise (46 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament!). It tells us and reminds us about how much God loves us – our theme in this week’s class collective worship!
We also had our first whole school mass of the year where Veronica, Olivia, Daniel, Sophie, Jessica, Zachary, and us two (Grace and Ross) had the privilege of reading this week’s scripture and offering up our prayers of intercession.
Geography – Where does all our stuff come from? Good question…Most people think that is is mainly from China but in fact it comes from countries all around the world: Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
Science – We have been SOOO busy between Mrs Hartwell and Mrs McGrath’s hard and challenging lessons that we have had no time to have a proper Science lesson YET but we can’t wait for next week to find out more about our first Science topic.
Computing – Mr Youson taught us how to code by using different coding techniques. We are trying to hopefully create a full working game of ‘Pong’ (not ping pong – this is a game with a moving paddle and ball.) The aim of the game is to score points and NOT GO INTO THE – ZONE!
PE – Netball – In netball, Mrs Kerry showed us her moves as she taught us all of the proper throws; chest pass, bounce pass and shoulder pass which completes all of the passes that we can learn.
PE- Street Dance – Mrs Cooke attempted to teach us a little part of a new dance which was a little tricky in our opinion but maybe next week we will find it a little easier…
Music – Our focus this half term is ‘Listening’. We began the lesson with a show of hands of who have listened to live music – by the end of the lesson we could all put our hands up because Clara and Abbie kindly gave us a rendition (supported by me – Ross – the guitarist) of an original number! Mrs Cooke was telling us all about music through the ages. Did you know she is from a time when there was no digital music and instead they had a ‘ifi’ system in one room where you had to take it in turns to listen to your choice of music – by tape, radio or records or mini discs…. how ancient!
Picture News – We are really enjoying our weekly Picture News session every Friday where we spend some time exploring a current news story and discuss a related thought-provoking question… This week we learnt about Sunita and Barry who are two astronauts that went on a space mission for 8 days but now, thanks to encountering a problem on the way there, are stranded until February next year! Can you imagine? We discussed how life is full of unexpected events and how, often, things happen in life that are beyond our control. What is in our control is how we respond to them and we should try to always remain calm and positive during these difficult times.
Trips/Events – We were super excited to find out that we will be taking part in this year’s Into Film’s 10th festival, and attending one of their free screenings of IF on the 28th November (further details to follow!).
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BIG NEWS: Even more exciting than all of this… after days and days of nagging and questioning, today, we finally found out who are prayer friends in Reception are! We were given the chance to introduce ourselves and enjoy a little play time together. We can’t wait to get to know them even more and support their in their faith journey this year whilst also helping them to settle into life here at All Souls.
That’s all for now… Have a lovely weekend!
From Grace B, Ross and the Year 6 team 🙂
Thank you so much to all our parents who were able to attend our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session this evening. It was great to see you all!
For those who couldn’t make it, we have uploaded the slides for reference – any questions please ask.
Remember, VIP reader volunteers VERY welcome 🙂
Thanks,
Mrs Hartwell and Mrs McGrath
Year 3 have been exploring our new text ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ by Michelle Robinson this week. We all loved the part where the little girl tickles the mammoth’s tummy!
We have also explored our new text type of procedural texts including instructions. We had a go at spotting and labelling the key features.
In computing today Year 2 were learning to be photographers. They first talked about where we can find cameras and what they are useful for. They then discussed about permissions and safety when using cameras. Finally they used iPad’s and digital cameras to play photograph bingo. All the photos below were taken by the children.
Welcome to our Year 6 Class Blog!
Here, we hope to keep you up to date with what is happening in Year 6 this academic year via our blog posts, photos and exciting details of what we have been up to including any exciting things we have planned…
Please check in on us regularly and even leave comments for us to read!
Mrs Hartwell, Mrs McGrath, Mrs Kerry & the Year 6 children 🙂
Year 2 have came back to school brilliantly and I am very proud of them all. It sounds like you have all had a wonderful holiday.
