Living and Learning: hydration
This week during Living and Learning, we’ve learnt about the importance of hydration.
Our body is nearly two-thirds water, so drinking enough fluid to stay hydrated is important. Water is essential for life, and it is important to get the right amount of fluid to be healthy.
We can get fluids from many different liquids:
- Water is a great choice because it hydrates us without adding sugar or potentially damaging teeth.
- Milk is a useful source of nutrients like protein, B vitamins and calcium, as well as being a source of water.
- Fruit/vegetable juices and smoothies provide water plus some vitamins, minerals, fibre and natural plant substances from the fruit. However, they are also high in sugars!
Hydration is especially important this time of year because of the warmerweather (which we’ve been very lucky with lately!) We’ve been bringing our water bottles out with us during lunch times for this reason.
We then did a Kahoot quiz to test our knowledge…
See how you get on with these questions!
Help at home by tracking how much water you have in a day. Children should have around 1 litre of water!
Living and learning: healthy eating
This week, we’ve looked at what makes a healthy diet, an unhealthy diet and the associated risks of poor choices.
First, we had fun creating a meal plan full of unhealthy choices. We discussed how skipping meals, high fats and sugars and not eating a balance of the food groups across the day is bad for you. We also discussed the importance of drinking enough water.
Next, we discussed risks associated with poor diets.
Finally, we created a much better, healthy meal plan for the day. We wanted to include a balance of the food groups, based around fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and some proteins.
Maths: Line Graphs
This week in Maths, we have moved on from perimeter and area and are now looking at statistics. Last lesson, we drew line graphs. Lots of children find this very hard but we broke it down into 4 easy steps to remember.
- Draw and label the horizontal axis. (Remember the horizon is a horizontal line!)
- Draw and label the vertical axis. (Think about the intervals!)
- Plot the points.
- Draw a line to join the points USING A RULER!
Help at home: Draw a line graph and plot these points.
Reading: Class Novel
This term our class novel is ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll.
This book is about Olive and her brother, Cliff, and her sister, Sukie, who goes missing in an air raid bombing. Olive and Cliff are sent away as evacuees to live on the Devonshire coast to keep them safe. Olive must try to solve the mystery of her missing sister using a coded note she found.
We have really enjoyed this book so far and have loved being sat outside whilst we read!
Help at home: Have a discussion about with your child about what they like/dislike about the book so far. Can they summarise the text? What impression do they get of Olive/Cliff/Sukie?
Herd Farm adventures
One of the reasons we take the children on a residential visit is to find out more about the children outside of school as well as the obvious opportunity to experience the adventurous activities. This year was no different – we see a whole different side of the children and even found out that some move around in the splits!
It was an amazing visit and the children were fabulous. There were hesitations and nerves about some activities but nobody refused to do anything and a lot of them surprised themselves. This is what they got up to..
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A huge thank you to Miss Newman and Mrs Charlesworth for giving up their time (and sleep!).
Until next year!
Grammar Games 2025
This week, Y6 have been embroiled in the hotly anticipated Grammar Games 2025. Each day has seen the children take part in a variety of tasks all related to grammar.
We’ve looked at punctuation such as apostrophes, commas and hyphens and we’ve recapped grammatical terms such as conjunctions, tenses and Standard English.
Each round, they totalled their points and worked out their table’s mean average to add to the leaderboard.
As we know, punctuation saves lives…
By the end of the week, we could crown our winners!
Help at home by asking your child which areas of grammar they’re confident with and which they need help with.
VE Day
Yesterday was VE Day which means that WWII ended in Europe 80 years ago.
Y6 took part in a webinar that was all about VE Day, why we should celebrate peace and our British Values.
You can remember the British Values (Individual Liberty, Rule of Law, Democracy and Mutual Respect and Tolerance) with the following memory aid: I Really Do Matter.
The British Values link to VE Day because people had fewer choices for food due to rationing and shortages, people were fighting to have our voices heard, people were sadly treated extremely badly and weren’t following laws.
Help at home by matching the four reasons above to each of the four British Values.
Latin: Roman Numerals
In each of our Latin lessons, we have a section called ‘Living Latin’. In this part of the session, we look at how Latin has impacted our lives today (for example, the derivatives of words).
Take a look at some of the way it has affected us:
Help at home: Take a look at the slides above, can you think of any other words that derive from ‘port’ or ‘form’?
The children have LOVED when we learnt about Roman numerals. Whilst they know each of these numbers would not be commonly represented like this, they have really enjoy trying to create different ways to make the numbers.
Help at home: Can you represent the numbers 301, 482, 792, and 148 in Roman numerals?
Summer 1: Week 3
Literacy
We’ve been reading Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome.
This repeating story was great for retelling. We talked about what a verb is and looked for them in the story: walking, running, leaping, swinging, creeping and wading.
Help at home: Can you retell the story to an adult or sibling at home?
We had a go at writing our own sentences.
Phonics
This week, we focused on reading and writing longer words and compound words. We learnt 4 new tricky words: were, here, little, says.
Help at home: Go on a tricky word hunt around your house. Ask an adult to write some tricky words on scrap pieces of paper and stick them up around your house. How many tricky words can you find and read?
Maths
This week, we consolidated our understanding of the composition of 5 and practised recalling the parts of 5 when 1 part is not visible. We used our fingers on 1 hand to help with the composition of 5. We looked at how many fingers are ‘up’ and and how many are ‘folded down’. We used a rhyme about 5 kittens jumping ‘down’ from the bed to help us with this.
Help at home: Play a game the kittens game with an adult. You need 5 objects (kittens) and a piece of material or paper (bed) Take turns to hide some kittens under the bed. Use the below stem sentence to explain what you can see.
5 is made up of…
… and … makes 5
Poetry Picnic
This week the poem was the classic nursery rhyme, Sing a song of sixpence. We have been watching this video to help us remember it. Click here to watch us.
Living & Learning
Yesterday, we talked about the importance of a healthy diet. We worked with a partner to design a healthy plate. We thought of lots of different healthy foods.
Diary dates
- Monday 23 May – School closed: training day
- Monday 26 May – Friday 30 June – Half-term holiday
- Thursday 19 June – Class photos
- Summer learning journey drop in dates
Tuesday 08 July – 8.45m – 9.15am & 3.15pm-3.45pm
Thursday 10 July – 8.45m – 9.15am & 3.15pm-3.45pm
A sign up letter will be sent out nearer the time.
Topic: Heroes
Our topic this half term, Heroes, focuses on significant people throigh history that have made a difference to others and inspired people. We have been looking real life heroes in particular-Nelson Mandela and Leonora Cohen.
The children are learning about their lives and beliefs.
They have been using vocabulary such as apartheid and suffragette to describe what these two historic people stood up for and the difference they made to others.
Last week, it was wonderful to see the children dress up as their real-life heroes. From footballers and teachers to members of the emergency services and soldiers, the variety was fantastic. Some children also chose to honour historical figures who have made a lasting impact, including Florence Nightingale, Alan Turing, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, and a suffragette.
