EU referendum
Whilst the real referendum takes place across the country today, we held our own mini-referendum in Year 6 yesterday. Combining learning from the previous day with learning from last week’s homework, the children took part in a debate against each other.
There were three debates in total, all focusing on five key areas of the debate: immigration; the economy; pay and taxes; the cost of being in the EU; and terrorism and security.
All of the debates were of a high quality; we definitely have some budding politicians in our class. It was great to see how children could articulate their responses whilst remaining respectful to the opposite side.
Here are some action shots:
Afterwards, we voted. The results were:
Remain – 22
Leave – 7
So, according to Year 6, Britain should remain a member of the European Union.
Homework Review 22.06.16
As always, our responses to our creative homework (I can show what I know about the EU referendum) were brilliant this week. Who knew they had such an interest in politics? We had quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, persuasive letters, information leaflets and even a home-made ballot box with voting slips. It was great to see how proud the children were to show off their homework and it was obvious that efforts had been made to impress each other – keep it up – I love homework!
Here are some of our favourites:
PS Some children might notice the variety of the punctuation in this post; it is one of our new writing targets. I’ve managed to use a colon, a semi colon, a dash, a comma, a question mark and even a few full stops! (And an exclamation mark.)
Leeds United Football Training
This afternoon, the Y6 children have enjoyed an amazing lesson by Leeds United. Starting with the amusing warm up and then followed by an immensely enjoyable lesson.
Clearly having fun!
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Researching Ancient Egypt
Today, using key word searches and our scanning and skimming skills, we have been researching some different areas of Ancient Egyptian life.
World History topic
This week marks the beginning of our latest topic: World History. In this topic, children will be learning about one of three civilisations: Benin, Ancient Islamic and Maya.
Today, we had a ‘taster’ session of each civilisation and found out lots of things we never knew:
- Did you know that the Mayans may have invented basketball?
- Or, did you know that the Ancient Islamic Civilisation were inventing machines that may have helped humans to fly thousands of years before the Wright brothers?
Children will now complete an independent research task to create a fact-filled project board about a civilisation of their choice whilst focusing on skills related to the foundation subject age-related expectations for Year 5 and Year 6.
It might look something like this:
You could help at home by:
- asking your child to think about the pros and cons for researching each civilisation
- spending time researching their chosen civilisation with them (using a range of reliable sources – not just Google!)
- encouraging them to carry out independent research
- discussing the importance of using reliable (and appropriate) sources when researching
School Saving Accounts
Our next paying in session for children with School Saving Accounts is this week.
- Wednesday 22 June 3.15pm
You’re welcome to accompany your child to pay in their money. If you can’t come, or maybe your child is at an after-school club, you can bring money to the office in a sealed envelope marked ‘School Saving Account’ with your child’s paying in card and this will be deposited into their account.
Also, it’s not too late to open an account. Please ask at the office for an application form.
The next paying in session this term is Wednesday 20 July 3.15pm.
Money Matters Homework
We tried to choose a few pieces of homework to show off on our class news but we ended up choosing all of these.
Homework review
Our reponses to the recent creative homework relating to Money Week were amazing!
It was clear that many of us had spent lots of time responding to the task and the results were impressive.
In class, we looked at other people’s before giving each other some verbal ‘stars and steps’. We then voted on our favourites:
Creative Money Homeworks
There were some brilliant Money Week homeworks on show today. Well done on your hard work. Here are some of our favourites:
We’ve bin archaeologists!
Today in class, we time travelled to the future and discovered some strange black objects full of unusual artefacts. We had to decide what these strange things were and what they showed us about the past.
This was a chance for us to practise our interpreting evidence skills and will come in handy when we start investigating Ancient Egypt.