Year 6

Year 6 Summer letter

Various video clips from the last few weeks

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Our final day!

Our leavers’ performance

Kitchen helpers!

Summer Fair - the class raised nearly £400 !

Art in the garden

Sailing

Heading home. It’s been fantastic!

Thursday afternoon and evening

Last night and this morning

We’re here!!

A great first afternoon has been had. Zip wire and assault course has been successfully completed and swimming pool activities are to come.

'All aboard' the Summer term!

Welcome back to school and our brand new theme - the rise of the British seaside holiday.

We will be learning all about the rapid changes that took place during Victorian times and how the Industrial Revolution helped to transform our country and wider world with the invention of the steam engine.

During our first few weeks, we will concentrate on revising for our SATs, which take place the week after the King's coronation. Please see the dates below and some informaiton in the curriculum letter which is attached above.

The dates for SATs

Tuesday 9th May Spelling and Grammar

Wednesday 10th May Reading

Thursday 11th May Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic)

Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning and Problem solving)

Friday 12th May Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning and Problem solving)

Please ensure children are in school by 8.50 on all of these days. The classroom WILL be open from 8.30 and breakfast items will be provided for them too.

We aim to start each paper as early as possible in the day so a prompt arrival helps a great deal. Many thanks.

Happy New Year

"The Winds of Change"

"Who were our ancestors and what can we learn from them?"

Welcome back to the Spring term. The class are very excitied about our new theme and have already undertaken some super research about the Shang Dynasty. Have a look at some of their presentations below.

The children worked in teams and researched information for a particular aspect of life during the

Shang Dynasty (1600BC to 1000BC)

Bamboo Art: Continuing our traditional Chinese themed artwork, Year 6 have recent produced some stunning monochrome bamboo illustrations using tones of either blue or black ink, creating a sense of depth and light source. These were also accompanied by Chinese calligraphy to convey traditional proverbs.

Music: Recently Year 6 have explored BandLab digital music technology to compose authentic Chinese relaxation anthems to accompany their Tai-Chi sequences - listen to a selection below:

CP Chinese composition.mp3

JA Chinese composition.mp3

JJ & DJ Chinese composition.mp3

JP Chinese composition.mp3

RV Chinese composition.mp3

Our letters of love and devotion based on the Willow Pattern story.

Winds of Change artwork: Linked to our Literacy study of 'The Willow Pattern Story', our children have been perfecting their sketching and watercolour skills to recreate authentic blue and white Chinese plate patterns to recreate key aspects of of the storyline. See the finished results below!

Art: View this wonderful selection from the talented Year 6's take on an authentic Chinese 'Willow Pattern' plate, using primarily tones of blue with watercolours.

Happy Lunar New Year

The children have been celebrating Chinese New Year as part of our Winds of Change theme. We created lanterns and prepared, cooked and ate some tasty noodles.

Clean our patch

The class have had an inspirational talk about litter picking and keeping their community tidy.

What an amazing first 2 weeks of term - and this is just the tip of the iceberg!

Onstage and backstage at the Theatre Royal!

Behind the scenes!

Thank you letters to the Theatre Royal

MUSIC: Year 6 this term have been using BandLab digital music technology to compose their very own space journey or planet anthems inspired by Holst's Planet Suite or the soundtracks of John Williams - below is a selection of Year 6's masterpieces:

JASON planet anthem (1).mp3

LIAM planet anthem (1).mp3

HOLLY planet anthem (1).mp3

MAKEDA planet anthem (1).mp3

Rowing challenge

The fastest pair!!

Love letters

The Willow Pattern story book has inspired the class to write some amazing letters. They are between Chang and Koong-shee, the two protagonists long to be together, but are separated because of the controlling mandarin.

What makes us wonder and marvel?

The class wrote some fantastic pieces about what has been awesome and awe-inpsiring in their lives. They used the Chromebooks to write and edit their work on Google Doc's Here are some examples.