Year 6 News

Year 6 showed some amazing talent when taking part in a session with hoopstars!  

This week is anti-bullying week. A week used to raise awareness of bullying. When we are bullied, we are denied of our rights. Article 2 which is about discrimination and how we have this right regardless of our age, gender, religion, language, abilities, family background but often bullies recognise our differences and use this to be unkind to us. Article …

Year 6 visited Seaham Park Cenotaph to pay their respects today. They read the poem by John Mcrae, “In Flanders Field’ followed by bidding prayers and a final poem dedicated to the unknown soldier. We will remember them …  

Year 6 together as a class have finally reached over 1 million words in 9 weeks with a total of 369 combos! This is a fantastic effort! Check out our recent leaderboard: Since coming back after half term Year 6 have read 156683 words in total and collected 42 combos! Keep it up 🙂

Year 6 showed a great knowledge and understanding of fire safety and now understand the risks of fire and how to check their house is safe. They also looked at fire safety from the point of view of the firefighters who risk their lives to save others and how they might feel as November 5th approaches. They wrote some of …

We enjoyed a spooky and socially distanced buddy time to see what our buddies were dressed as on our spooky day. We all agreed they looked great! We did some socially distanced halloween dancing before saying goodbye!  

Year 6 looked fantastic today in their halloween costumes. A day filled with spooky activities from art in the local graveyard, to finishing off our spooky Alma stories, re-creating famous halloween songs on the boomwhackers and learning about the history of halloween.

What could be more scary during our spooky week than having to attempt long division. Little did year 6 know, Mrs Prest performed some sort of witchcraft which made long division seem easy! Mathishan and William must have had a double dose of magic because after one lesson they were almost as good as Mrs Prest. Then today, the magic …

We have really enjoyed celebrating our successes in year 6. It is nice to see what each child is proud of. They choose their own work to go onto the wall. This week we have had a few new entries to our #WeAreWonderful wall. Reece, Devon, Lily and Freyja were keen to share their amazing vocabulary choices which they will …

Year 6 have kicked off their spooky week with the short animation of Alma. If curiosity and creepy dolls appeals to you then you will love this! They have produced some amazing 12 word stories which capture each scene of the animation using only one powerful word per scene. Then to make their 12 word story even more ominous, they …

We are in a our final week before half term. So far we have read 726819 words and have a target of 1000000 before half term. Can we do it? We have already exceeded our combo target of 250 as we are currently on 270 combos. Check our last week’s Reading Plus leaderboard:

October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, so right now is a great time to explore Article 27. During the pandemic child poverty has increased by 15% globally, with almost 1.2 million children worldwide living below the poverty line – 4 million of these children live in the UK. Leading up to this important day in …

We have been so lucky to receive a signed copy of Jeanne Willis’ story, Mayfly day. Although this book is aimed at a younger audience, we have been captivated by the life the Mayfly and how Jeanne uses such rich language and imagery to take us on a journey of life of that little Mayfly. To find out more about …

We have really enjoyed celebrating our successes in year 6. It is nice to see what each child is proud of. They choose their own work to go onto the wall. This week we have had a few new entries to our #WeAreWonderful wall. First we had Reece who was really proud of his non-chronological report about Mayflies. Then we …

Year 6 have enjoyed a morning revising their short multiplication method by using a dice to roll their own calculations. They found this was a good way of finding out which multiplication facts they are confident with and which ones they need to keep practising.  

Year 6 are enjoying learning about Frida Kahlo and have worked well using different mediums to recreate some of her famous self portraits. We will soon be moving onto exploring portraits in more detail and eventually  we should be able to recreate a full portrait of Frida as well as ourselves once we have practised working on our proportions. We …

Year 6 have been working really hard to make progress on reading plus, reading carefully, using the re-read button to check their answers when carrying out comprehensions, learning new vocabulary in the vocabulary section and have recently started producing short pieces of writing linked to texts they have read. Our word count is unstoppable and the combos keep rising. Well …