Class Blog for Year 6

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Welcome to Year Six!

Welcome to the Year Six Page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

We will update this page on a regular basis with information about our learning.

If you would like to contact us, please email secretary@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk and your email will be forwarded to us.

Home Learning: Weekly homework will be sent home with children every Friday. It will alternate between SPaG and arithmetic tasks. Answers to these questions will be posted weekly on this blog page. 

Optional home learning grids will also be provided every term. These activities will relate to their wider curriculum learning. Any work completed will be shown and celebrated in class. 

Reading Records: Reading records will be checked every Thursday. Children that are reading regularly at home will receive golden tickets. They are expected to read at least 3 times a week at home. These 'reads' need to confirmed by parent/carer signatures. 

PE Days: Monday

Miss Johnston
6B Class Teacher

Mrs Harris
6B Class TA

Mrs Reeve
6W Class Teacher

Mrs Young 
6W Class TA

 


 

Spring 2 - Week 4 - In the Navy!

On Wednesday, Year 6 were visited by two members of the Royal Navy. We learned about the purpose of the Navy which includes protecting our waters and shipping lanes around the world. They also provide aid and assistance to people who have experienced natural disasters. We completed two activities with them. The first, challenged the children to make a flare and the second to make a tower that had to be: taller that 6 foot, free standing and able to bear the weight of a ‘satellite’. The children demonstrated great team-work, resilience and perseverance when completing these challenges.

English
This week, the children have been applying the skills they have learned over the past unit of writing to write an ending to our class story ‘Darwin’s Dragons’. This includes using a variety of sentence types to keep their writing interesting and using parenthesis to add extra detail. Next week, they will be drawing upon the book to write their own fantasy fiction stories.

Maths
We have spent the past couple of weeks learning about statistics. The children have learned to interpret and draw: line graphs, dual bar charts and pie charts. We finished the unit by learning how to find the mean and how to find the total when given the mean. We’re now moving onto our next unit of learning which is Shape.

Geography
In our wider curriculum learning, we have been Geographers! We have compared and contrasted the physical features of Great Britain and the Galapagos Islands. We have also considered the impact that human activity is having on physical geography. We looked at the impact globally and then more specifically on the Galapagos Islands. We carried out an experiment with ice cubes that demonstrated that ice melting will cause sea temperatures to rise. We have also considered our carbon footprint and what we can do to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Reminders
For homework this week, children need to complete: Punctuating Speech (pages 56 & 57) in their SPaG books and Statistics (pages 82-87 ) in their maths books.

Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


 

Spring 2 - Week 1 - Back with a bang! 

On Wednesday, the girls were out of school taking part in ‘Our Girls Can’. They had a full day of sports, including archery, dance and laser tag. The boys stayed in school and completed a number of STEM challenges. They carried out a test of reactions and recoded the data. They were then challenged to complete the ‘egg drop’ where they engineered a carrier that would protect an egg when dropped from a height.

English
We’ve started a new unit of learning in English focusing on the book ‘Darwin’s Dragons’. This book links to our wider curriculum learning: evolution and inheritance. So far, we’ve made predictions and inferences and written a setting description of the Galápagos Islands.

Maths
This week, we’ve been learning how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages. It’d great to bring all their knowledge together and we’re super impressed with their work ethic.

Art
We’ve continued with our Lino prints – the children have finished carving their designs and have begun to experiment with printing. Tt’s been great to see the children challenging themselves to complete two colour prints.

PE
Our PE day is now Thursday so please ensure children come to school in their PE kit on that day. This half term, the children will be doing Fitness with Mrs Reeve and Hockey with Miss Johnston.

Reminders
For homework this week, children need to complete: Homophone (pages 96 & 97 in their SPaG books and Equivalent Fractions and Decimals and Fractions, Decimals and Percentages (pages 37, 38 & 39) in their maths books. Please encourage your children to bring their completed homework books back into school as every Friday we talk through the correct answers and give out the next week's sections to be completed. 

Next Wednesday is the Boys Active day!

Enjoy you weekend!
Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


 

Spring 1 - Week 6 - feeling artistic! 

English
Over the past week, we have completed a small unit of learning focused on performance poetry. We watched a selection of brilliant performance poets and developed our own success criteria to answer the question ‘What makes good performance poetry?’. We got into small groups and rehearsed a poem, considering our success criteria. We then performed our poems to our friends down in Year 2 – a big thank you to them for being such a great audience.

Maths
We flew through the decimal unit and we’re now linking our learning about fractions and decimals. Soon, we will learn to understand and work out percentages. 

Art
We looked at the work of Mark Hearld and Angela Harding. These two artists create beautiful prints that are inspired by nature. Taking inspiration from their work, the children sketched out their own designs. These designs had to include animals or plants or both! The children then picked their favourite design and traced this onto a linoleum block. They then began to, carefully, carve out their designs. After half term, we will use these blocks to create prints.

PE
We had our final session with Mrs Ball up at Wadebridge School’s sports hall which involved the children taking part in two circuits: a skills circuit and a fitness circuit. The children showed great enthusiasm and determination and they finished their lesson with a huge game of dodgeball which was great fun!

Reminders
For homework this week, children need to complete: Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs (pages 4, 5, 6 & 7) in their SPaG books and Written Adding and Subtracting (pages 10, 11 & 12) in their maths books. If you haven’t already – please return the permission slip for the ‘our girls can’ day on the first Monday back after half term.

Have a fantastic half term.
Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


 

Spring 1 - Week 3 - Snow much fun!

The children were absolutely delighted to see snow falling in school on Thursday morning. Seeing as we very rarely get to see snow, it was only appropriate that they all got an early playtime!

 

English

We’ve written our non-chronological reports on the yellow-spotted lizard. The children have done a great job. They’ve managed to write using a formal tone and have included plenty of tier 3 vocabulary. We can’t wait to get these copied up.

 

Maths

We’re still working through our unit of work on ratio. They children are confident in the use of the ratio symbol and have applied their understanding to some very tricky problem solving questions.

 

Science

We’ve continued to learn about evolution by looking at inherited traits and fossils. We ended the week by reviewing how to classify different animals.

 

PE

We’ve been given the opportunity to walk up to Wadebridge School for a number of PE lessons. The children thoroughly enjoyed their bench ball lesson with Mrs Ball this week. She commented on how kind the children were to each other which was lovely to hear.

 

For homework this week, children need to complete: Its and It’s (page 54) in their SPaG books and Ratio, proportion and unequal sharing (pages 42 and 43) in their maths books.

 

Enjoy the weekend!

Best wishes,

The Year 6 Team

 


 

Spring 1 - Week 1 - Happy New Year!

We've had a brilliant start to 2024 in Year 6. We've discussed goal setting in PSHE and the children have set themselves some achievable goals for the year ahead. 

English
We have started a new book which is proving to be very popular: Holes by Louis Sachar. So far, we have used this text to write setting descriptions and a narrative about an encounter with a dangerous animal! We have also planned a non-chronological report about the yellow-spotted lizard and will begin writing these next week.

Maths
We started the term by learning how to convert between different units of measure and we were impressed with the level of confidence the children demonstrated when doing this. Now, we have moved onto a new unit: Ratio. The children have been trying hard to use tier three vocabulary such as ‘additive’ and ‘multiplicative’ to describe the relationships between numbers.

Science
We have started to learn about evolution and inheritance in our science lessons. It’s a fantastic topic which we’re all enjoying. So far, the children have learned about adaptations in both plants and animals and how these adaptations increase the living thing’s chance of survival in their natural environment. We have looked at Darwin’s work and have looked at examples of evolution such as the peppered moths and the Galapagos finches.

For homework this week, children need to complete the Formal and Informal language section in their SPaG books and Units and Conversion in their maths books.

Have a great weekend!
Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team 

 


 

Autumn 2 - Week 7 - Scene 1, Take 1, Action! 

What a fun-filled, 'Christmassy' week we’ve had! On Wednesday, the children visited Egloshayle church and sang Christmas carols. They sang beautifully and it definitely got everyone feeling much more festive! Well done to the children that did readings. On Friday, we went to Wadebridge Cinema to watch Arthur Christmas. We've enjoyed an 'End of 2023 Christmas Quiz' and had our classroom parties! On top of all of this,  we also managed to get a bit of learning done!

Maths
We finished our second fractions units earlier this week by finding fractions of amounts and using the fractions of amounts to find the whole.

English
We finished writing our balanced arguments: ‘Should children have been evacuated during WW2?’ and copied up a piece of writing into our Star Writer books.

DT and Computing
The children have designed and made models of houses and Anderson shelters. They’ve also used electrical circuits to light their model houses and moulded people from plasticine. Using stop motion animation, they have then created animations, recreating the Blitz during WW2! Hopefully we’ll be able to upload some of their animations to this blog post soon!

Reminders
Next week is a short one! School ends on Tuesday 19th December at 1.15pm for KS2 - ready for the Christmas break!

Have a very merry weekend!
Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


 

Autumn2 - Week 6 - Bodmin Airfield 

As part of their WW2 topic, earlier this week, our Year 6 children visited Bodmin Airfield. The children got to tour the airfield, learn how an aircraft flies and how they’re made. They also got to sit in a number of aircrafts. Some very similar to the planes flown during WW2. They also got to learn about WW2 aviation history in the South West. Thank you to the brilliant staff and volunteers at the Airfield and to the parent helpers and volunteers that made these trips possible.

 


 

Autumn 2 - Week 6 - Bodmin Keep: Cornwall's Army Museum

Our Year 6 children have had a wonderful time visiting Bodmin Keep earlier this week! Bodmin Keep is Cornwall’s army museum so the visit tied in perfectly with their current WW2 topic. Children got to learn about the history of the Keep, try on uniforms, look at artifacts and take part in military style team training. All of the children thoroughly enjoyed the immersive, hands on learning experience.

Thank you to the incredible, knowledgeable staff at the museum and to the parent helpers and volunteers that made these trips possible. A huge thanks must also go to the Cornish Heritage Trust who provided us with a transport grant to help cover the cost of the coach hire over the 2 days.

 


 
















Autumn 2 - Week 4  

Apologies for the lack of posts over the past couple of weeks! It’s been incredibly busy and the blog team haven’t managed to all get together so us teachers will be stepping in again temporarily.

Maths
We’re continuing our learning about Fractions. This week, we have been converting, adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.

English
We finished writing our diary entries last week and began our next unit of writing: balanced arguments. The children had debates on Tuesday and we’ve got some very skilled debaters! The children argued for and against the questions: ‘Should children wear school uniform to school?’ and ‘Should school children be expected to do homework?’ The arguments they came up with were well thought out and some passionate views were expressed on both sides.

History
The children are continuing to show great enthusiasm and interest in our current History topic. We’ve learned about many events that took place during WW2 including: the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.

On Thursday, Year 6 were fortunate enough to be visited by the Ocean Conservation Trust. This hands-on, immersive workshop allowed children to learn about climate change in an engaging and interesting way.

We started by reviewing how electricity is produced and discussed what happens when fossil fuels are burnt to release energy. The children carried out an investigation to look at the acidity of different liquids. It turns out, when carbon dioxide is absorbed by water, the pH changes from neutral to acidic. We then carried out an explosive investigation to see what happens when an acid comes into contact with calcium carbonate. This demonstrated the erosive effect a more acidic ocean is having on coral reefs.

With the use of VR, every child had the opportunity to experience a scuba dive in the UK’s only National Marine Park in Plymouth. We got to see the incredible sea grass meadows and the diverse marine life that inhabits it. Thank you again to the Ocean Conservation Trust for a very memorable day of learning!

On Tuesday, nine Year 6 boys ventured over to the Clay Country to play a football game. Thank you to St Stephen Churchtown Academy for being such great hosts. Unfortunately, the team suffered a 4 -1 loss. The gaffer, Mrs Reeve, said that all the boys did us proud. They worked hard as a team, created many chances and they displayed excellent sportsmanship. Despite the loss, they enjoyed the opportunity to play an away game and they’re looking forward to the next opportunity to play together and represent WPA.

As always, thank you to parents/carers for continuing to support the children with their home learning. We will be going through the previous week’s homework on a Friday and also let them know what pages to complete next.

Enjoy your weekend!

Best wishes,
The Year 6 Team

 


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