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Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!!

Mr Moore's Class

Ms Tipping's Class

YEAR 6 REWARDS

We are rewarded differently in Year 6. Using dots, we build our rewards for great work, attitude, commitment, perseverance and a positive learning approach by receiving 'dots'. When we have received 10 dots, we get to place our individually designed EMOJI. Three EMOJI's and we are presented with our special Year 6 Red Tie! The 'Special Red Tie' is presented to the hardworking and positive learner by Miss Tipping or Mr Moore at Celebration Assembly on Fridays. The proud recipient then wears their tie with pride for the whole of the week! It's a great way to show our family of learners that we are positive role models!!

RED TIE RECIPIENTS' PHOTO SHOOT!

Alive and Processing!

The seven life processes all living things do.

Life Processes

A video explaining the 7 life processes - MRS GREN. Covers the meaning of each life process along with the life processes shared by all plants and all animals.

The Unknown Soldier

by Stelios and Heidi

As part of our history project we will be considering the question - 'Is it ever right to fight?'

Today in Mr Moore's class, we have started to explore this through art. Each of us was given a photograph of an unknown solider from World War I. Firstly, we tore around the edges of the photograph and coloured the outer edge using black marker. This gave the appearance of an old photograph.

We stuck the photograph into our Art Journal. Our task was to draw our own picture using pencil. In order to get the perspective correct, we drew an outer box measuring 15cm x 18cm. After that, we accurately split our box into quarters. This helped us to size our drawing as precise as possible. We then began to draw, studying the photograph carefully to make sure we copied the facial features and size correctly.

We will be continuing this artwork so, watch out for updates on the progress appearing here soon!

The British Unknown Soldier / Warrior - Lest We Forget.

The British tomb of The Unknown Warrior holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both tombs the first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War.

Tuesday, 1st October

We enjoyed a great English lesson with Mr Moore and Ms Tipping today exploring our text 'Toothie and Cat'. In Mr Moore's class, we focused on character description, developing sentences to use in our character descrptions. In Ms Tipping's class we have read and discussed the text, exploring character, setting and feelings. Great words were also explored, unpicked and scrutinised to use in our writing.

Operation Ouch - The Heart | Amazing Body Facts for Kids

In Science, we are studying about the heart. We have been focusing on key vocabulary and how the heart functions in our body and the effect of different stimuli on the heart.
Here's a bit of a light-hearted (get the pun?) video that explains more.

Year 6 Bikeability

7th October

Ms Tipping's class have started day 1 of their Bikeability course today.

The trainers are teaching proficiency and safety. Just look at some of the careful manouvering being demonstrated already!

Well done everyone!

War Art

Year 6 are studying the work of the war artist Paul Nash, whose chosen medium is water colour. Not quite finished yet, but look at the amazing interpretations so far!

ART WEEK

14th October - 18th October

Art Week this year is focussed around positive self-esteem. We decided that in order to show our unique individualism, we would create our own positive mood board.

On Monday, we discussed self-esteem and ways in which we could reflect in a positive way about ourselves.

Firstly, we watched a few clips that we thought encompassed what self-esteem was all about. This was one of our favourites...

Self esteem cartoon

As part of our Art Week focus of self-esteem, we were encouraged to be creative and focus on positivity through a range of media. Here is a fantastic cartoon that depicts courage, strength and being the bigger person.

We started by using ink as a colour-wash for the background of our mood boards. We chose colours that reflected ourselves as individuals. We discussed why we had chosen those particular colours.

While we were waiting for our background to dry, we used laptops, dictionaries and thesauruses to find words and synonyms that described ourselves as individuals.

We came up with some great words to celebrate our own uniqueness...

Our creative writing was in full flow as we considered and wrote about the happiest day of our lives. We wrote these memories onto clear laminated sheets and stuck them onto our mood boards.

We took time to read each others and it really made us feel warm and fuzzy inside!

Gene Kemp - author of Toothie and Cat - a biography We are using the story 'Toothie and Cat' to inspire our writing in English. Here is a brief biography about the author which we thought was quite interesting.