World Book Day in Year Six

Every year, World Book Day promotes the power of reading. There are so many ways to enjoy reading and it is important that you find your way to read:

  • Take books home to read.
  • Listen to books being read aloud (or listen to audiobooks)
  • Choose the books you want to read.
  • Ask for ideas on what to read next.
  • Make time to read.
  • Find ways to make reading fun!

To celebrate their birthdays, children are encouraged to donate a book to our class library. The reward for doing this is to come to school in a favourite outfit.  You can view our class wish-list on Amazon.

It was great to see Year Six getting into the spirit of the event, sharing their joy of reading through their costumes and pairing up with children in Year Two to read stories to the younger children. We are currently writing our own stories for our friends in this class and we are looking forward to meeting up again in a few weeks to share these special stories.

Year Six get programming

This week, we have started our new computing topic: programming.

Although we have written programs before using scratch, this was our first lesson in programming for the Microb:t computers, using an emulator before downloading our algorithms to the microb:t computers. We are looking forward to extending our skills and knowledge further next week.

Read All About It with Year Six!

Over the past few weeks, we have been fascinated to learn about the fight for women’s suffrage in David Roberts’ excellent book, ‘Suffragette – The Battle for Equality’.

The children have hotseated key figures, watched the Epsom Derby, cheered on their favourite horse – even watched Eliza Doolittle encouraging Dover to come home – to help immerse them in the events of the 1913 Epsom Derby and write their own newspaper report of the fate of Emily Wilding Davison. This was great writing that the children enjoyed publishing as their own front page.

Wednesday marked the beginning of the Church season of Lent and we joined the parish community at St Bart’s for the Ash Wednesday service. This penitential season calls us to live closer to God through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Our Lenten promises set out our private intentions for the season ahead.

On the move with Year 6

This has been another busy and exciting week as we have looked for ways to care for our well being, including keeping ourselves safe online. We have learnt about the positive and negative affects of influencers, enjoyed a taster of street dance and found a moment of calm through yoga. As we have gone along, we have taken time to reflect on the golden moments in our day too.

As we have thought about ourselves, we have also thought of our place in the global family and learnt about the pushes and pulls of migration. Our posters bring together our personal views, together with what we have learnt about the benefits and disadvantages to source and host countries from migration and our persuasive writing skills.

NSPCC Number Day in Year 6

We are enjoying learning algebra at the moment, but the children were insistent that there are more dynamic things to share as part of NSPCC Number Day.

Ironically, in support of the NSPCC, we have been squashing children by making human pyramids: Our maths challenge is to calculate how much mass each person in the pyramid is supporting? Can this amount be expressed as an equation?

Year 6

After another busy week, Year 6 are looking forward to the long weekend: the school is closed on Monday for children for a staff INSET day. I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday!

Year Six Designers

After a busy week, getting a feel for the year six sats and performing at the O2, we ended the week sharing ideas about our playground equipment and proposing new designs. At the end of the lesson, we all had the chance to share our ideas.

Happy New Year from Year Six!

It was great to see all of the children back in school for the start of the new term.

On Tuesday, we celebrated the feast of St Adrian of Canterbury, the patron of our school. The children used their research skills to learn more about this inspirational character. Here is Beth’s account:

St.Adrian’s life
St.Adrian was born around 630-37.He was born in Africa and travelled to Italy as a young refugee.

St.Adrian’s work life
He became a trusted counsellor of the pope ,he also turned down the archbishop of canterbury,instead he offered the job to his friend Thedore who became the arch bishop.St.Adrian lived and worked at canterbury.He became a teacher at a school he found in Canterbury where he taught greek and latin for 40 years.

St.Adrians death
St.Adrian died in c.710 and was buried in a tomb and his tomb became famous for miracles, mainly people who are struggling with work and tests would go and visit.His body was found hundreds of years ago when work was being done on the monasteries. 

St.Adrian inspires 
The life of St.Adrian was an inspiration to many migrants who often arrive in britain every year.St.Adrian made changes to the religious structure and literature that still remain today. 

Why is St.Adrian the patron saint of our school?
St.Adrian inspires us to learn because he was a keen learner and educator.He taught us to love because he wanted to help people and he cared for them in every way and so we help others and love others like he did.St.Adrian taught us to love and learn but he teaches us to live and be a follower of jesus we do things without trying to sin. St.Adrian became a Saint because he loved others, was a follower of God and learnt new things and shared them with the people.   

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year!

Merry Christmas, Year Six!

Many thanks to you all for the kind words, cards and gifts. I hope that you and your families enjoy a peaceful and blessed Christmas.

To end the autumn term, I’d like to share with you all out DT work, where the children have been busy learning different sewing stitches and designing felt Christmas decorations – You can see the results are really impressive and have been much admired by everyone who has visited our classroom. I hope that they will grace your Christmas trees for many years to come.